Splatoon is a shit game, be glad you didn't play it t. 1.6k hours
Xavier Murphy
>will we not be able to upgrade / edit gear? You can still do that with just the regular money. Snails just made it free. >will updates stop after this? Content updates stopped in April or so when they released that latch batch of weapon kits, but they will continue balance updates until December apparently. >will the night versions of stages/hub be gone forever? You can still play them and the shifty stations in private matches.
Jose King
You can get the snails from leveling up. There will still be balance updates until December. The nighttime stages and shifty stations can be used in private matches after the last fest.
Salmon run is only played by kids and shitters too bad at the game for pvp
Levi Nelson
>Do we know what will happen after? Results of the final splatfest will determine whether the third game's story will be based on dictatorial order or WORLD OF STR.
They're not even the same genre, so I don't really get your point. That's like me saying no one likes ABXY because Sashimori is better. People just aren't fans of Ink Theory.
Evan Bailey
I am
Kayden Foster
I would like them better if the instruments themselves sounded better.
Joshua Ross
Could possibly depend on the last splatfest. Imagine if Chaos wins and the next music genre is metal.
I know it'd be kind of hard to explain specifics through text, but what time should I really be using ink armor? I usually use it whenever we have all four people up, at least half of the enemy is alive, and when it seems like a good time to push or defend. It never really seems to make a difference, though.
ive never found ink armor to be that great of a special honestly, it gets torn to shreds super quickly and doesnt help a whole lot, whether its me or someone else using it
I don't understand Nintendo's line of reasoning >Wants to make Splatoon an esport >Only updates it for a year or two
Like, do they not understand how competitive games work???
Thomas Russell
You have the right idea. The best time to use it is right before the teams clash. It's just really difficult to determine when your team is gonna push without voice chat. When in doubt, pop early, i've wasted so many ink armors because my teammates died right before it kicked in.
Because Splat 3 is coming sooner than people think
Cooper Lewis
No, they still don't grasp how online is supposed to work still. Game should still be getting new weapons sets at the least. Several still only have two variants and that's just unfair to them.
Isaac Reed
i'm s+5 in zones and control and fuck, salmon run with randos is a complete crapchute. I fucking hate it. It's fun but people tend to panic and fuck up far too often for it to be rewarding.
This. Plus you know pretty quickly whether you have a team you can cooperate with or are headed for THAT'S A WRAP.
Recent Splat Zones matches had me doing by far the best on my team (18 splats one match) only for us to lose because somebody disconnected or you just sometimes get chucklefucks that somehow made it to S rank and still don't know how the mode works. Worst is when you get someone that just Woomyspams at the base.
what are these cephs running from? they're not! they're running to, the worlds toughest competition in Inkopolis, today's battle pits the anarchy loving team chaos vs the control freak team order. So get fired up for today's episode of MXC, Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, with your hosts, Callie Blankenship, and Marie Romano! i tried
>the fuckers that shoot rockets because your team sure as hell won't do it.
Why
WHY don't people prioritize taking out Flyfishes and Stingers!? You get too many of either on the map and it's almost guaranteed crew wipe. It drives me bonkers.
Dominic Walker
It's a twitter drawing prompt thing, I found it on my feed since I follow a lot of Splatoon artists
Ayden Robinson
Because that Steel Eel is big and right in their face so it has to take priority
Is now a good time to get this game? Other than the fact that the splatfests are over and it costs $70+ for all the content. I haven't played since the first game
Kevin Evans
Why does this one autist come over here to post about someone from the general like we give a fuck
John Campbell
no senda ruined it
Parker Garcia
senda needs to be banned for killing splatoon
Gabriel Hughes
game's still alive and the last splatfest has yet to happen, it's your choice if you already have online Vouchers may be a choice too if you don't mind digital he's there ? I just filtered s enda from Yea Forums
Brayden Gutierrez
this, mexicans ruin everything
William Cox
Yes. 3 won't be for a while and a lot of people are still playing 2. You can buy it used to get the most bang for your buck.
Elijah Carter
good idea. she needs to be eradicated off the face of the earth
>wasn't home for the squid vs octo splatfest >won't be home for the final splatfest Yes, I know the Switch is portable, but most of the time I won't be able to play it/have internet
>tfw I missed Stay Home/Travel splatfest because I was traveling
Benjamin Fisher
heh
Christian Diaz
I like the faces squids/octos make
Ethan Ross
Nice, somewhat
Luis Garcia
I AINT NO GODAMN SON OF A BITCH!
Mason Gray
>fall into a major bout of depression right when the last Splatfest was happening >proceed to completely ignore it, didn't play anything that whole weekend Man, what the fuck is wrong with me? I'm trying to optimize my gear too.
David King
YOU BETTER THINK ABOUT IT BABY Why did they think it'd be a good idea to hold a memorial and advertise it on the forums?
Will Senator Armstrong be the next villain if Chaos wins?
Camden Sanders
>salmon run >flanked by the flying boss and another boss >i go for the flying one myself, rest of team takes care of the other >take down the boss >turn around to find my entire team died
I'm still disappointed that theres no arcade games in 2.
Grayson Cook
You have a rhythm game
Xavier Price
is this what rank X is like?
Camden Cooper
I liked the 8 bit loading minigames though.
Jacob Howard
We had cake vs ice cream but what about doughnuts? I just got a piping hot fresh batch of a dozen doughnuts and I feel like I'm going to die they're so delicious
I don't normally like jazz that much but splatoon-style jazz would be amazing
David Martinez
Fuck you I like them, but you are right, freeform jazz can be dodgy for a Lot of people. The music shuffling is the really shitty part because this fucking game really likes to put this band frequently
Justin James
Speak for yourself dickbutt
Cameron Walker
I only subsist on the tears because they're all you have
I hope in Splatoon 3 they finally let you change main abilities on clothing. A good amount of the amiibo clothes got stuck with niche or shit abilities. Marina's clothes far outshine Pearl's for instance.
Joseph Turner
Hell no, they are carefully calculated
Benjamin Allen
They\ve taken a step towards this with the Splatnet gear, hopefully they realize that fashion and stats should be separate.
Leo Torres
I'm sick of all these ten year old plebs bitching about Ink Theory. They're not even that "weird" as far as jazz goes. Wow, the trumpet is dissonant, jazz has had dissonance since the bebop days, and it's all mild compared to the distortion of modern rock and electronic subgenres. Fucking plebs like dubstep (not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's objectively more dissonant and discordant) but complain about jazz. God damn uncultured babbies. Ink Theory were one of the best music additions to the game and are some of the best vidya jazz, by all objective accounts catchy and easy to digest, but paying homage to real jazz beyond big band and smooth jazz tropes. Only musically illiterate zoomers disagree. Listen to pic related if you want actually difficult jazz listening.
>the music played in the trailer is called memories of inkopolis and it's composed by DJ Octavio So the whole damn city had one of the biggest riots that involve a sport idols and some war criminals?
Well, there's heavy implications Mr. Grizz is Octavio (same/similar voice, you get power eggs when you splat octos, they would make sense as the mysterious power source for the octo machines mentioned in the scrolls, the fact it's implied you're actually harvesting eggs for something shady) and there also seem to be implications of Salmonids being involved in the Splatocalypse, so Octavio will likely either come back as the villain in the form of Grizz, or his actions will be what unleash the Salmonid invasion (in which case he might end up as an allied antihero against them).
>Marina's ears Fuck man. I forgot she even has those.
Nicholas White
>it's a "japanese player with min-maxed gear and an n-zap '89" episode
Jack Lewis
I know they wouldn't do it because it's a NIntendo game, but if Octavio somehow escapes and becomes the villain AGAIN in Splat3 they really should consider actually just killing his ass.
>there's heavy implications Mr. Grizz is Octavio There are no implications at all. How would he even be moonlighting as Grizz if he's trapped and the squid sisters are watching him? Even if you say it's before he's captured, he's after the Great Zapfish in the story mode.
>How would he even be moonlighting as Grizz if he's trapped and the squid sisters are watching him? Grizz is a statue with a speaker, all he has to do is talk through a remote while the squid sisters are away from tentakeel, which they frequently are. That might even explain the periodic nature of Salmon Run shifts >Even if you say it's before he's captured, he's after the Great Zapfish in the story mode. They mention between the plot and the scrolls that Octavio lost the great turf war because of the Great Octoweapons being unplugged, that no one knows how the current Octarian weapons and personnel machines are powered (the same ones that give you eggs when splatted), and the Great Zapfish would serve as a good permanent solution to the power problem, with tricking Inklings to collect power eggs as a cleverly nefarious backup. And again, listen to Octavio and Grizz' voices.
IIRC the Ruins of Ark Polaris map strongly hints that Grizz is not just a bear statue with an embedded speaker, and that he's not a seafolk species either.
Sebastian Martinez
This is the one piece of evidence that sways me. There's obviously a real bear involved here.
Gameplay needs to look like this. In a perfect world Splatoon would be a gritty cel-shade style that runs with what only occurs in Persona 5's UI for every asset.
Ethan Collins
That would lose a lot of the upbeat atmosphere they're going for.
Splatoon 2 came out almost exactly after a year the final splatfest happened. I'll give it two years max.
Oliver Lee
Yeah you're right...I AM talking about the same game that mentions human extinction in a "oops yeah that happened, ah well." fashion.
Alexander Moore
Punk, just because I think that'd make for the cutest squids.
Lincoln Perez
>human extinction in a "oops yeah that happened, ah well." fashion. Well that's exactly it. It's all tongue in cheek. Only time things get dark and stay dark is OE, and most of that darkness is loaded towards the end.
Fuck Dives, if that asshole wasn't a dickhead and share, Manakysis wouldn't have to delete all his Splatoon artwork.
Josiah Williams
>tfw sister's moving out and taking the switch with her >Right as the game finally gets a barefoot option >Internet connection is too shit and no more content makes it hard for me to justify rebuying it when I already don't have the drive to play more than turf war anymore. Monkeys paws are rough but worth it still got some great faps
Gabriel Fisher
Odds that the next console Mario Kart game is Nintendo Kart instead?
Jacob Mitchell
This was an actual animation in MK8 before controversy got it patched out.
James Myers
Sounds like you enjoyed it quite a bit, user.
Jeremiah Roberts
Grizz nuked the polar ice caps to cause global warming. That's why beware of bear signs are near the poles
I don't give a shit about the splatfest, I hope they make rank X stay indefinitely though since they won't oversee the game anymore. Also fuck clam blitz.
Zachary James
>tfw haven't played any vidya besides Splatoon 2 in almost 2 years >listen to both soundtracks 80% of the time How am I not sick of this game yet
nips probably still think westerners only like grungy shootem mcbombman and hate colorful fun Can't blame them, I suppose.
Isaiah Bell
Some of the best merch for everything they've ever made is Japan only simply because they think we wouldn't want it. You would be furious the amount of cool fucking shit we will never be privy of even knowing ever existed unless you knew japanese and knew what to look up in japanese. The best Gundam game to ever exist was a Japanese-Only Battle Royale arcade game in the same vein as Armored Core.
Jason Nguyen
>implying adults exist >implying they don't commit suicide when they reach the age twenty
Justin Ward
Well just look at what sells on every other platform, you can't really blame them. I swear to Christ if I have to see another goddamn zombie game be announced.
This is why I'm praying DOOM gets more traction Yeah, it's bloody mcshooty beefcake, but it's also fun and colorful and hectic as fuck. It's the antithesis of boring brown and bloom. I just pray it sets new standard and we can get out of this decade long rut.
>yfw you realize that the Rainmaker's Forcefield getting damaged is what is happening to you when you get damaged but Nintendo would get too many weird looks essentially making a inflation game >They'll keep the popping death animation though
Also reminder that Inklings and Octolings don't dissolve when they come in contact with water, that's a safety trigger during Turf Wars as an "out of bounds" penalty to force them to respawn. Instead, they sink. Proof of this is during Salmon Run, if you cover turf on a low tide and then wave 2 is normal/high tide and the tide goes back out, your ink will still be there. The water didn't wash it away and neither did it float on the water, so Inklings/Octolings are therefore denser than water and also sink.
With that logic, I suppose that makes the "shocking snuff comic" that keeps getting brought up by shitposters impossible in-universe.
Xavier Williams
We will get another octo expansion DLC?
Nolan Jenkins
This is what I thought too. If the ink is dense enough to break hardwood at the relatively low velocities we see it travel i-game, it's gotta be heavy as fuck.
He/she probably did, but I can speak for someone who has 1k on it; it is mostly frustrating. The game is good and enjoyable, but it comes at a price. the price of salt.
Wasn't it mention somewhere in the game that "rumor goes that Grizz isn't even there talking to you in and that all of his lines are pre-recorded and played back to you?"
Is it too late to join the fun? I always wanted to get a Nintendo system for Splatoon but couldn't due to years of procrastination and preoccupied by PS/PS4 games.
Ethan Rivera
Nah. People are still playing splat 1, and the Wii U is otherwise dead except maybe sm4sh. You'll only catch the last splatfest, but that's only a little event thing. The game itself will keep you engaged.
It's never too late, even Splatoon 1 is still actively played.
Bentley Powell
but that wasn't by diives...
Bentley Jackson
That's good to know. End of financial year sale is coming up and I could fetch the system + games at a reasonable price. I'm just sick of playing 'realistic' shooters and Splatoon seems like a breath of fresh air.
Noah Diaz
>Manakysis wouldn't have to delete all his Splatoon artwork He did fucking what?!
Jason Martin
>seems like a breath of fresh air. It certainly is.
It's pretty much why I fell in love with it. I was confused at the initial trailer, but intrigued by the movement options and the whole aesthetic. Fast forward to the first testfire and I can't fucking get enough of it. I still can't get enough of it, the more time goes by the more I love this game.
>Start Turf War round >Enemy team has THREE (3) charger-type weapons and are making my team's life hell >I have a Hydra >I outrange them all >And I damn well know it
I've been killed by so many Aerospray PGs it's frustrating as all hell.
Also I was about to ask why the Aerosprays are named after gunpla grades but then I remembered, they're fuckin' dual-action gravity airbrushes. Of course they're named after gunpla grades.
Mason Reed
I switched to french just to see and they're way more creative about ability names than the english version a lot of them are wordplays or just funny shit, here are some example IRecovery -> ink (high) tide RSU -> footing SSP -> Turbo-squid QR -> no time out QSJ -> aerodynamism IRes -> dry feet Tenacity -> Justice Stealth jump -> perfect landing what are some other goofy or better translations in other languages ?
>that aura on ghost veemo What sort of madman would draw this?
Jayden Parker
>Get in a pissing contest with another enemy Hydra >It's largely a game of chicken to see who can edge each other out in range >Other teammates try to join in on both sides >All get gunned down because we're trying to see how hard we can pee OUTTA THE WAY, PLEBIANS
Michael Allen
Well the desc is just " Please don't cry." Maybe he just wanted to draw something sad
Overall, the final fest hasn't gotten the explosion of art I thought it would generate. There's a steady stream going but I thought it was going to cause a veritable avalanche.
I guess it'll start ramping up again once we entire the final weeks. Just feels weird to have a whole week of ORDER V CHAOS and suddenly my plaza is relatively normal again.
I just wish the Switch didn't use Bluetooth. Shit contributes to most of the input lag.
Grayson White
Sometimes I miss the old amazon octos in art. I prefer my daughter but they were really lovely. The credits in 1 implying they were becoming friendly just sort of went nowhere in 2.
Unfortunately the input lag drove me away from the game. It's hard to go from Splatoon 1 to Splatoon 2 - I really wish there was some way around it, even USB doesn't solve it.
I hope to god Splatoon 3 is not on the Switch, I want another chance at the buttery smoothness of Splatoon 1.
William Morales
>The credits in 1 implying they were becoming friendly just sort of went nowhere in 2. Not really, that happened too. In canon, Agent 8 is only one Octoling among many at Inkopolis, she just arrived last because of the whole Deepsea Metro business. The others arrived through other means, but all were freed by the Calamari Inkantation in Splatoon 1. So the amazons all de-floofed their tentacle hair and became the other veemos you see and fight with/against.
Cooper Wood
I just wished we had their huge hair. Though I know why we don't have that option. Also, maybe they will expand on that in Splatoon 3 since with the Splatfest, it definitely looks like they want to shake things up a bit.
>So the amazons all de-floofed their tentacle hair and became the other veemos you see and fight with/against. I don't really buy it, but for practical reasons I kind of have to.
Maybe they could've had an enemy octoling hat for veemos or something.
They made the Afro work. I'm sure they can make the classic style work too.
Blake Wilson
The afro is all smooth and easy to squish around. Getting those big poofy tentacles to work with different things like baseball caps or helmets probably wasn't easy.
We need male squid idols. Preferably a TWEWY Joshua personality with someone genuinely outgoing but oblivious (but secerety salty as fuck all the time)
Nolan Clark
All videogames are for children
Levi Gray
I'm split on this. It may add variety, but I fear it may attract the lower echelon of the easily wooed 12 year old girl one direction fan demographic.
Oliver Martin
>We need male squid idols Only if they are hardcore metalheads.
Jace Flores
Would Pearl occasionally show up?
Julian Martinez
Cute
Luis Harris
That's the idea. Maybe they could be pearls old bandmates or something.
Juan Rivera
right in the woomy
Dylan Myers
Honestly, I've always liked Octazons a lot better than I like Veemos, they just seem a lot cooler. It was also fun headcanoning them as a team of savvy, well-trained soldiers, who got completely blown out by a single rookie Inkling and their tard strength.
Caleb Rivera
Nah
Hudson Morgan
When is the last splatfest? I havent played in months since Smash took over my Switches life but I'm done to jump back in for one last run in the games life
this shit is the biggest turnoff in video games so what, I've missed 2 years worth of content just because I didn't play until now? I stopped playing MMORPGs because of this shit, now this cancer is infecting normal games, too? fuck outta here
Landon Rogers
>indecisive faggot who doesn't make a move gets mad when stuff leaves him behind lmao this is why you're a virgin too
Anthony Hernandez
as someone who has played mmos a lot,I can tell you it is nothing like that in splatoon
William Anderson
PEDO THREAD
Kayden Wilson
I just took a look at the mess I call my room and realized: chaos it is
I dont have a switch yet because, honestly I cant justify it with my backlog, and ive played most of the good games on WiiU. I still play splatoon every now and then, am I missing much with splatoon 2? I wanna play it so bad, but I dont see it happening any time soon.