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Nintendo knows when it's got something good on its hands. Splatoon 2, alluded to in Nintendo's 2015 Fall Preview of the Switch, has finally been blown out in glorious fashion at the January 12th/13th event.
Key Features: New Weapons (like the Duelies) New stages and classic stages (some with zip lines from the single-player mode!) Online Multiplayer Expanded Local Multiplayer Presumed Single Player Mode New Mode: Salmon Run (aka Horde Mode) - 4 player co-op
Key Questions: What are you most excited about from the trailer? What are you most hopeful for? Are you buying at launch? When do you think launch will be?
Releases: July 21st, 2017
Ploot and DrFinkelstein Discuss The July 6th, 2017 Nintendo Direct about Splatoon 2
I'm most excited about the new Salmon Run stage. I love Salmon Run! I hope they extend that mode with more features too, because there's not much you can do after reaching Profreshional.
@r_hjortthere's not much you can do after reaching Profreshional.[/quote]
You mean aside from seeing your rank go down?
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Eh, Turf Wars makes so many weapons pretty much useless unless you're pro with them. It's basically "use your main unless you want to lose/come in last place" mode. Some weapons just don't ink like auto weapons do.
To me Ranked really makes all weapons, subs, and specials shine. If I'm gonna practice with weapons I don't use, I feel like using it in Ranked a lot more than TW, which is kinda insane.
Welp, at that point where I dropped out for a week or two, came back, and everyone is like 2-5 times higher levels than me and I just get rocked continually. This is where I tend to drop out permanently of these kind of games.
How can the only people playing online be people who obviously play all the time!? There aren't any more casual online gamers?!
@Zero Don't you get matched up with people close to your own level?
How about playing some Salmon Run to just have a good time while getting some cash, and then go on a shopping spree for good equipment? After some training and that new equipment you should be able to hold your own in the other modes, and gain a few levels. Maybe?
This is really just about me wanting to see even more people play Salmon Run.
@r_hjort The game attempts to match you with players of a similar level, but if that takes too long to find, it will dump you in any game available. Even if you're a lvl 1 dumped into a lvl 50s match.
@Mop it up Sure, I was basically trying to ask Zero if he got screwed over by the match making. But that's not at all how I typed it out, now that I re-read my post.
@r_hjort@Mop it up I have no idea how it is supposed to work but most everyone I get matched with is a way higher level than me.
Of course, there is a logical reason for this. Most people buy a game within the first month or two and most people play it the most then. Over time more and more people drop off and eventually the only people left playing are the few late to the party n00bz and the diehards. Are we hitting that point where most everyone left playing is a diehard?
Of course, in stuff like Mario Kart that just NEVER STOPS SELLING there are always n00bz so no matter when you start you can find other n00bz. I guess not every game is like this though...
Today's Splatfest was quite awesome. It was way more even in popularity so I barely got matched up with my own team. Team Flight was a team I was proud to support. The way the hub looked tonight with all the best art that had made it's way up the ranks today was really nice. I just finished a good hour and a half with Trish, Ploot, and Jarsh, and it was a riot. We ended up actually fighting the same team we did earlier in the session on the same stage and while we lost initially, we redeemed ourselves in round two by a big margin. Earlier today I was able to enjoy time with my nephew Logan, Ploot, and MrBiggsly as well.
Overall the quick and dirty stats of my actual Splatfest run (i.e. only from the beginning of Splatfest thru the match that got me to the top rank), are as follows…
Played Most on Manta Maria Won Most on Manta Maria Was Top Player Most On The Reef Was Top Player on a Third of the Matches Won 21 of my 29 matches (72.4%) Closest Match was just 0.8% Had 1 Match With No Deaths Max Splats In a Match was 14 Average Splats Per Match was 8.
I should compare this to the last Splatfest. But maybe later.
This game is sooooooooooooooooo much fun. Now that I've finished the single-player, my hour a day playing Turf War during lunch has been a blast. Did really well today too, a lot of 1st and 2nd place finishes on my team.
Table-top mode with motion controls is a revelation.
Played some fun matches with and against four other NWers last night: it was myself, ploot, VofE, MrBiggsly, and lurker/new member Daveosaur (who is my brother in law)! The room timed out on Daveosaur and I...I don't think it could handle the awesomeness of that many NWers in one place at one time.
Here's a question I ask myself after almost every match: if I have the highest score, but my team loses, did I just get stuck with crappy teammates, or am I failing them strategically in some way? I'd think that however much turf you cover is a pretty good quantifiable way of determining how much you contributed, but not all turf is equal in a strategic sense. If you and one of your opponents stand 20 feet away from each other and keep inking the area halfway between you for the entire match, you'll rack up a huge score, but you won't have helped your team that much; then again, you successfully distracted one person on the other team, so at the very least you pulled your weight...
I think it can be a bit of both. If the teammate scores are relatively low, that lends to the team just not pulling weight. But if the scores are on par with others, team Dynamics may not be working.
You play in the Splatfest today? I'm team Werewolf but have not, and will not be able to play in today's match.
How's the new stage? Is the Twilight Zone stage, whatever it's called, unique once again?
I didn't play in the second Splatfest, but yeah, the Twilight Zone stage different from the Mayo vs. Ketchup one! It's got these revolving walls that divide the map; pretty hard to get into your enemy's turf, I've had a lot of matches where the ink split is even right down the middle.