Hyper Racers

In this unique racing game, players collect power-ups to gain abilities while racing against others! Try to stay ahead of your opponents and be the first over the finish line!

**Hyper Racers** is the fifth minigame on Galaxite, released as part of the Season 3 launch on February 23, 2021. It's a racing game where players collect Power-Ups and abilities while trying to stay ahead of their opponents. A game can last anywhere from 2-4 minutes. Hyper Racers also has  Achievements, covering multiple aspects of the game.

## How to Play

A minimum of 4 players are required to start a match. Up to 8 players spawn riding their Karts on the start line. You can only accelerate your Kart straight or backwards, looking side to side will steer the Kart accordingly.

### Power-Ups

Power-Up Boxes can be found all around the track. Collecting one will give you an item that can be used to gain an advantage over opponents! You can only carry one Power-Up at a time. The list of all Power-Ups can be found below:

### Movement Pads

There are two types of Movement Pads: Blue Pads and Red Pads. Red Pads slow you down while Blue Pads speed you up.

Most Movement Pads switch between Blue and Red, usually coming in pairs with opposite effects from each other. Time it right to take the boost! Additionally, some individual pads don't change at all.

### How to Win

Finish all laps before everyone else to win the game! Use power-ups in order to speed yourself up and slow the others while timing your progression with the blue pads to move even faster! All the maps take 3 laps in order to win, except Golden Plaza, which takes 4 instead.

## Engines

Unlock and equip Hyper Racers engine upgrades using Hyper Racers Coins which are earned by racing in Hyper Racers! Coins can be found by winning, collecting Power-Ups, and they can be found around the maps as well! The list of all Engines can be found below:

Top Speed
 Power Engine
 Jet Engine

Handling
 Muscle Engine
 Tank Engine

## Mechanics

### Drifting

Drifting is the technique of skidding the tires to go over a curve without spinning the car. People who haven't driven an actual car might find this difficult to understand, but imagine you are driving in 60 km/h and turn the 90 degrees curve in a moment. That would be like this. The technique to avoid the kart from spinning is the drifting, and in Hyper Racers every kart does this without any actions when players turn the curve.

The Kart's speed will slow down when you drift. When you drift, the kart does not immediately turn if you move the viewpoint, but slowly curves while continuing forwarding to the original direction of viewpoint. The degree of slowdown is determined by how long it takes to turn the angle and how many degrees you tried to turn. If you suddenly try to turn 90 degrees in 0.2 seconds, the kart will almost stop for a moment.

If you want to complain about the difficulty of handling, don't worry. There is a tree of the engine called "2. Handling" and the higher the handling value of the engine, the easier it will be to turn. But you will lose your top speed if you use the better handling engine.

### Checkpoints

There are checkpoints around all available maps to ensure that you won't skip parts of the map due to a glitch or a bug. To see your progression in checkpoints, take a look at the top-middle bar on your screen, the more it is filled the closer you are to finishing a lap.

## Hyper Racers Shop

The Hyper Racers Shop can be accessed in the hub and is located under the Engines menu button. Players can purchase vanity items using Hyper Racers coins and convert coins to experience or gems.

**Hyper Racers Vanity Shop**

Players can spend Hyper Racers coins to gain experience.

**5 XP = 1 Hyper Racers coins**

Players can also Convert Hyper Racers Coins into Gems.

**1 Gem = 4 Hyper Racers coin**

## Game Rewards

 Winning Bonus
 GG XP

## Maps, Lobby & World Records

Each map has a world record displayed in chat when starting the countdown.

### Maps & World Records

There are 14 Hyper Racers maps, these are listed below.

## History

### Capture The Flag

Capture the flag was released on September 8th 2022 but was later removed on December 16th 2022.

In this game mode, instead of racing, 2 teams (red and blue) go against each over to try and capture the other team's flag. The first team to capture the other team's flag 3 times wins.

### How to Play

To win, a team needs to capture the other team's flag 3 times. To do this, players can drive over the other team's flag to pick it up and then return it to their own team's flag located on the opposite side of the map.

Each player has a launcher which contains 32 snowballs. This needs to be reloaded when it runs out and takes 5 seconds to reload. Hitting a player with a snowball will make them respawn near their team's flag. If they are carrying a flag, they will drop it.

### Kits

There are no powerups in Capture The Flag. Instead, each player can equip a kit.

**Capture The Flag Kits**
This ability recharges every 30 seconds, and you can only have and use 1 at a time.
 Ice Lobber
This ability recharges one use every 10 seconds, and stores 3 of them at a time.
This ability recharges every 30 seconds, and only 1 use can be stored.

### Maps

There was only 1 Capture The Flag map, Castle.

### **Battle Mode**

This was a special game mode where instead of racing, players drive around a map to collect power-ups and hit other players! The person with the most hits wins!

This mode was removed in Season 7 week 3 on the 8th of September 2022 with the release of Capture the flag replacing it.

### Maps

There were 3 Battle Mode maps, these are presented below.

 Mesa Pit
 Plaza

## Sounds & Music

In Hyper Racers, music will play from the start of the game to its end! In the  ***Extra Things*** menu, there is an option to change the volume of the music during a match.

Below is a list that you can listen to.

Music
 Part
 File

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