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Sonic Racing CrossWorlds open beta network test is over…

I played for about 22hours…

That's way more then the closed test in February… which was 7h…

This game is better then last time…

I edited Wave The Swallow from some Sonic Archie comic cover, I think…


#MyLastGame was this game.

Why is there not any CrossWorlds videos here on GameJolt? I took a lot of videos…

It might take you 10 to 15 minutes to read all this… I say so much, I know… hopefully you like reading…

I played on ps5.

It was crossplay (cross-platform)! There were a lot of people playing this!

I always race late, so i never got to race the people I wanted… the YouTube people…

Not all the races were online, so the number of online races is different. Still a lot though…

I did everything I could do in this test. Basically 100 percenting it. All red rings in grand prix and all 1st place, S ranked all 3 available time trials, all the quests/missions I could do and some other stuff.

I got up to A- rank! Last time I got B.

I tried image quality once and the frames dropped…

stay on performance mode.

I used extreme gear (boost type) the most and speed type 2nd. Only played Wave The Swallow the most, Miles Tails Prower a lot, & Shadow The Hedgehog a little

I turned on motion control tricks. Tricks don't actually move you like other Sonic Racing games. I want to be in full control when I'm moving the Left stick.

I got all S ranks on time trial!

The first track was A rank at first… but i couldn't just leave it that way when the last 2 were S… so i looked at the fastest time trial and chose the same gadgets and i got better the first try with them… I couldn't believe it… i got S rank the 2nd try. they be playing like it's Mario Kart DS or something… it should automatically upload it your time, i don't know why you wouldn't want to upload it to the leaderboard…

I made up most of the gadgets myself, except the last one.

Most of the gadgets I thought of was because of the Joker Festival event.

Miku's birthday was right there… you know how many more people would've joined the network test if she was playable instead of Joker? Can't believe the festival was on Miku's birthday… I found out after… I don't know much about Miku, except that Saga has the rights to her and she does music. I was wondering what took them so long to add her into a sega game. Sonic's not popular in Japan…

they say that the DLC characters can't have voices because it would be a lot of work to have everyone talk to each other… but that doesn't mean they can't still speak during races… they don't have to talk to others… I feel like that was an easy solution…

In the Joker Festival, I liked the get rings ring grab event the most because it's more skill based. The tap boost by bumping into your teammates is dumb… you're not really together most of the time…and the land lots of air tricks was dumb too… everyone goes the same way… just make sure to have the faster tricks badge…

I don't like that the rental gadgets automatically equip itself, having to change it back to mine every time it happens when you leave the online then back is annoying…

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Unintentional… this post has 22 pictures, just like how many hours I played…

I was going to put 20. I was going to put the last 3 pictures into a gif, but then that gif was being stupid and acting weird, so I just decided to have them as separate pictures instead.

I think i did good with cutting and editing Wave off the original picture, just some issues… I think her finger looks weird, and you can see some white edges from the cut all around her.

The random Miku picture i found by searching Miku's birthday on the internet.

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I don't need to say some stuff because i mentioned them in my closed test post…

Post from closed beta PS5 network test from February 2025

https://gamejolt.com/p/with-sonic-racing-crossworlds-network-test-over-i-just-want-to-ta-qhvvyqcc

I wish I took more screenshots last time… I only thought about it this time… there was no grand prix or time trials last time, so it would've just been a screenshot from the online rankings.

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Things I've noticed

The boat feels a lot better and not as slippery this time. I didn't need to use my trick as much.

I think they added invisibility frames? I haven't been getting hit as much.

The monster truck doesn't last very long…

Sand Hill is slippery in the sand… I don't like that stage… and in Apotos i keep getting pushed into the wall with those small corridors when I want to go somewhere else…

I like most of the new tracks and CrossWorlds they showed. Except Sand Hill… I go in the water path on the 3rd lap every time.

I like the Mystic Jungle track originally from Sonic Forces, the song they used is from Sonic's stage in Forces, Luminous Forest in Mystic Jungle, even though this track is mostly inspired by the Avatar stage Aqua Road in Mystic Jungle by the 2 pathways at the start and the water slide… it didn't have the snake though. But it's supposed to be black… not blue… It should've been the avatar's stage song… I like the avatar's stage song over the Sonic one to be honest… I heard there might be a jukebox in this game like Sonic Frontiers' update. Hopefully the Aqua Road song is in it…

I like Metal Harbor from Sonic Adventure 2, & Water Palace from Sonic Rush with the not rush music.

I win races even though they are slightly in front of me… I prefer this over Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, I'm obviously in front of them, but then I lose… I'm upset when this happens… It feels better when it's the opposite.

I hit someone 3 times in a row and it didn't effect them… even though it said I hit them…

Drafting doesn't feel like it's doing anything… I'm just behind them not gaining speed…

Some issues, but not that much of problem. It disconnects sometimes.

I raced against myself one time…

I like the end music from the track being from where the game they came from.

You can now use your horn during the race. You couldn't do that last network test.

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Things I want

Like I said last time, I hope the custom avatar is a playable character but with more options. I see the little website thing you did… and the custom characters everywhere in the game… also I've seen some cool looking custom looking characters in the IDW comics. Have options like that.

I'd like the old menu for the gadgets better then this version, I could see all of them at the same time the last time.

I hope some IDW comic characters show up. I know they haven't revealed every playable character in the base game yet, and they said that those comics are cannon.

I want to see Tails Doll & Kitsunami. Kitsunami and Serge are always together, you can't have one without the other. Same with Whisper & Tangle. At least as a reference…

I want to see some modern versions of classic characters.

Sticks exist in this cannon apparently… Where is she? In Sonic Frontiers, Amy mentions her at the end…

Will there be Boom outfits? Riders outfits? Other outfits? I know they exist in this game…

I wish they had more voice lines for doing tricks. All I'm hearing is, easy breezy, easy breezy, easy, easy, easy breezy skyfly! Skywalk? Skyflock?

I think they should get rid of the red punching bag. The green one is just enough, it can home in on other players if you aim it correctly. The red one is just an easier version, you don't have to aim.

I wish they said their unique dialog to characters more often. I barely hear them say them… like in grand prix, they say something when you choose the 2nd route. I think they shoud always say that, and when you hit someone sometimes, at least 3ish times during a race.

I want the rival system from the Grand Prix to be online. Your rival will be the one person closes to your rank. Like if you're the top one, then your rival will be the second one, 3 to 4, 5 to 6, 7 to 8, 9 to 10, 11 to 12. Like that. You get more points for beating them. Nothing happens when you lose. Maybe something, I don't know…

I think the tricks should be faster by default, it feels awkward… I know there's a gadget for that but it just feel like that's a waste of a slot…

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Like last time i said, for the people who actually read all this and not just liked it for no reason, is there something that you want to say that I haven't said or forgot? I hope I didn't forget anything... I might've mentioned it in the closed beta post I did if you didn't see it here. Only if you want though…

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#GJAsks what's my favorite platformer?

It's Sonic! (and Mario…)

also for no reason, here's my reaction in one word to the 1 hour Nintendo direct on September 12, 2025…

"oh…" my brother was, "wow…" emphasis on the dotdotdot…

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