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Splatoon is Nintendo's unique twist on the shooter genre. Shoot ink on both your friends and environments to win the match! Players can turn into squids and 'swim' through their team's ink color. Players can also use their team's ink color to slow down enemy movement. It's ink or be inked in this chaotic marriage of third person shooters, de Blob, and good ole fashioned paintball.
So is my router completely horrible tonight, or is it Nintendo's servers? Pretty annoying night, to be honest. Lots of glitching (paint not being filled in) and disconnects. Not sure what the problem is linked to.
But really, I think you just vote in a simple poll and then if the people who voted for the same thing perform better than the other side, you all win an item that lets you add an extra slot to an item. That's about what I remember from the Splatoon Direct awhile ago.
Some Splatfest Battle music. The Squid Sisters deliver catchier tunes than anyone on any contemporary top 10 list. I'm listening to this for the fourth time in a row now, and I can't stop smiling. Onto my iPod it goes.
Not a single post yesterday? Wow! I've been away from the game because of work/play/E3 but I am hoping to hop on briefly tonight to try out the new weapon coming out at 10PM!!!
I don't get the Jet Squelcher weapons. Or some of the other weapons in that case. Some barely paint anything and run out of paint super quick. I don't see the plus side to some of these.
I wasn't sure if I'd like it, but the L-3 Nozzlenose is actually pretty fun to use. The burst-fire design allows for some pinpoint accuracy that makes it feel like a combination of a rapid-fire weapon and a charger weapon.
Also, good games, Guillaume and Fabien. It was awesome when we had three charger users on the same team!
So weird that the game doesn't show you at the very least people's Miis, so that you can confirm that, yes, it IS the Peter you know and not some other person.
@Octorockin It does but what good is that? Players are hardly ever stationary for long enough for you to hit them well and those weapons are super weak. So if the thing isn't good for combat, and isn't good for painting...then I don't get it. Some weapons feel way too high maintenance.
I finally bought the gold gun and man is that thing OP. Shot straight to the top of list nearly every game I used it with many kills and little to no deaths. It's no surprise I see that weapon everywhere. If that weapon is gonna be that effective then maybe they should buff other weapons.
@carlosrox The Aerospray is very powerful when it comes to Turf War since it paints a pretty big area and can finish people off pretty quick (if you manage to get close enough), but I think there are better choices in Splat Zones.
It works better on some levels than others. Like Judd says, learn which stage has better advantages when using certain weapons. And calling it weak? It's a one shot kill if it's fully charged. The new one they released also has ridiculous range. The point of a charger isn't to cover ground and I can see why an entire team of chargers would be weak (despite us winning when our team had 3 of them ) but effective controlling of splatting your opponent is just as effective. The less time they spend on the actual course, the less chance they have at covering and the more your team can. Calling it a bad weapon is really being short sighted on how the game works.
) but effective controlling of splatting your opponent is just as effective. The less time they spend on the actual course, the less chance they have at covering and the more your team can. Calling it a bad weapon is really being short sighted on how the game works.
