Tacorona72
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Rainmaker is garbage.
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Splatoon 2 |OT2| From Smallfry to FlyFish in 5 Easy Steps!
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wild wild rice
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Gotcha thanks. Time to check the Switch app...
Magnet_Man
Member
Fuck this. I've gone a straight nose dive from professional down to 20/99 overachiever. Whoever thought this was a good set for Salmon Run needs to be fucking fired.
SparksterMeta0
Member
naaaaaaaaaah. You know what the stages are going in. If you pick wrongly, back out and go back in.
Getting a fresh lobby is a good thing
Nah, this weapon set is actually pretty good, the problem is people don't know how to use them.
Charger- self-explanatory
N-Zap- killing lots of shit
Octobrush- creating quick paths to eggs and bosses
Roller- Keeping the area near the egg basket painted in your ink, rolling over smaller mobs
But people try to play hero squid no matter their weapon and fuck everything up.
JershJopstin
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I wish good teammates were real is the best one.
zenspider
Member
Git gud sucka!
Just won a 3 v 4 Rainamker (S+) on Port Mackerel.
We played out of our minds and won 22-55.
Immediate adds all around.
I was running Tenacity... So clutch! Popped 8 Tenta Missles with Special Boost and my team cleaned them all up.
I never liked Tenacity over the meter boost, but my playstyle leaves me.last man standing pretty often and if I can escape I can usually provide a safe jump and catch 3-4 people in my missle lock.
It's taking me a while to get a solid range game in S2, but it's been paying off. I desperately want Jet Squelcher with Burst Bombs, but I'm having fun learning the new range game.
Anybody else finding long range weapons more difficult in Splatoon 2 vs 1?
For me it's:
Splat Zones >>> Rainmaker > Tower Control.
Don't really have a huge preference though. It's really about the mode AND the map. To me, The Reef + Tower Control is absolute misery in the A ranks.
Many cracks as i fill up the B+ rainmaker meter.
It does skip ranks for you higher than B-, by the by. I skipped right over neutral B in rainmaker, but there's a 50/50 shot i'll have to do B+ twice at the rate i'm going...
I played a surprising number of Charger matches in Turf War where i was the top inker on my team. Partly skill (i got up to 800 in some matches), but partly because some teammates with easier weapons were doing worse than that.
It does skip ranks for you higher than B-, by the by. I skipped right over neutral B in rainmaker, but there's a 50/50 shot i'll have to do B+ twice at the rate i'm going...
I played a surprising number of Charger matches in Turf War where i was the top inker on my team. Partly skill (i got up to 800 in some matches), but partly because some teammates with easier weapons were doing worse than that.
MrPhiliasfrog
Member
So true. People loves to play hero
The octobrush there is the weak link. Only a little faster that the roller, has the most trouble killing, consumes ink so hard. Should have been an inkbrush.
The current set has ink consumption problems in general. The best weapon there is the 4k because that thing can destroy a lot of bosses in just one charge, but it needs to be in the hands of a good charger user because of its really long charge time.
PadWarrior
Member
I waste more time in this game trying to find a match than actually playing.
Jeff Vader
Member
So the brella. It's been a ton of fun so far but oh boy the learning curve is rough.
Yeah thats true enough. The only maps I like for Splatzones really are the two from Splatoon 1. All the new maps are... just boring big arenas at the end of the day.
I like maps where there is real distance between the two bases and you can have isolated fights and struggles, which I suppose Humpback has as well. But eh
I love the brella win animation
I love win animations that carry a flow to them, and the Brella nails a flow.
Like, yeah, your Gun animation is okay or whatever, cool pose, but you just like... Held the gun up. Brella, you go from holding it along your side to spinning it twice, before popping it open where you will even continue to spin it every once in a while!
The Splatlings' animations work really well with "cool" get-ups. Buckets are also great. Kept the spinning on finger animation from the first game, but added the sitting portion to it. Sidenote, using a Bucket also has a special animation on spawning in; they smile! Like, "I'm fighting with a bucket! Could this be any better?"
zenspider
Member
Really? I rarely wait more than 60 seconds. Usually closer to 20-30. Maybe a router issue?
PadWarrior
Member
Can't wait to start paying for online where it takes several minutes to find a match lol.
Got a brand new one lol
Got a brand new one lol
zenspider
Member
Jesus... Sorry that sucks
Incitemaybe
Member
Same hereI love the brella win animation
It's a tough Salmon rotation mostly because the supposed hard-hitting weapons are very slow. E-Liter can one-shot an awful lot of stuff but the long charge time is a bit of a liability when things get hectic, and since you can't charge-store without the full charge, it means you have to be stationary for a long time before you can contribute much. Flingza has some strong attacks but the vertical slice having its long windup is problematic for largely the same reasons as the E-Liter. It can run over chum and two-roll Cohocks which is helpful though. N-Zap and Octobrush both have decent enough damage output, but battling through the waves to reach anything can become a pain. It's not a terrible setup overall but somewhat of an awkward one requiring people to directly back each other up and play to each weapon's specific roles. Again, tougher to do once the map gets hairy.
Meanwhile, I finally reached level 30! All weapons access. \o/
The Clash Blaster...it inks pretty badly, the trail kind of reminds me of what you get from an airborne Rapid Blaster, but god damn if it isn't hilarious to use and actually pretty fun, at least in my initial playing around with it. Feels like a great way to put the army of lamer Aerosprays in their place. I think I'll put together a build for this and see what I can get out of it, probably with a lot of run speed, and some ink saver sub to mitigate the cost of bomb usages. A little bit of ink resistance and sub power for good measure.
Meanwhile, I finally reached level 30! All weapons access. \o/
The Clash Blaster...it inks pretty badly, the trail kind of reminds me of what you get from an airborne Rapid Blaster, but god damn if it isn't hilarious to use and actually pretty fun, at least in my initial playing around with it. Feels like a great way to put the army of lamer Aerosprays in their place. I think I'll put together a build for this and see what I can get out of it, probably with a lot of run speed, and some ink saver sub to mitigate the cost of bomb usages. A little bit of ink resistance and sub power for good measure.
PadWarrior
Member
No problem maybe it's just tonight.
RecRoulette
Member
Thats the magic of splatoon to me. When you're team work materializes without any direct communication.
Playing with an actual spoken plan and goal and talking would absolutely ruin the game for me.
I love when you just see what your team is doing or planning and work together.
RecRoulette
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Don't feel bad, I got the big old zero today. Just a tricky set all around.
The E-Liter is pretty fun in Salmon Run. The extra charge time sucks, but damn does it feel good to one-shot Steel Eels from across the stage... I forgot that chargers can do that. I have gone from someone who hates chargers to wanting to steal away the weapon in every game of Salmon Run. This game, man.
The Flingza Roller sucks so hard, though. The only application for the extra fling is that you can kill a Steelhead with it (was able to do it in 2 vertical swings). Everything else, other weapons kill better.
The Flingza Roller sucks so hard, though. The only application for the extra fling is that you can kill a Steelhead with it (was able to do it in 2 vertical swings). Everything else, other weapons kill better.
D.Lo
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I've made up an article with pictures about the Splatoon craziness in Japan if anyone is interested. So much merch...
https://nintendosegajapan.com/2017/08/15/nintendo-switch-and-splatoon-madness-in-japan-part-1/
Part 2 will be about launch day.
https://nintendosegajapan.com/2017/08/15/nintendo-switch-and-splatoon-madness-in-japan-part-1/
Part 2 will be about launch day.
Merchandise
Member
When you lose Rainmaker LITERALLY in the last five seconds. FeelsBadMan
SciencePilot
Member
Great post, thanks.
So much merch, but where is a zapfish plush?? That's what I really want.
MissileTrick
Member
are you level 37 in turf wars right now? Cause if so I'm playing with ya.
Jeff Vader
Member
That was a good read.
Merchandise
Member
Alright I've lost every rainmaker game tonight so far, so that's nice. 10+ game losing streak right now.
Nearing 4 weeks, this is my progress so far.
Haven't been able to play Rainmaker much.
Haven't been able to play Rainmaker much.
That's really cool, thanks for sharing.
RecRoulette
Member
This was an awesome read.
I knew Tower Records was doing cross-promotion because of the Wet Floor CD, but I didn't even think of them tying in the Splatfest demo too. That's really cool.
I spent way too much at 7-11 on the Ichiban Kuji stuff @_@
You should stream or record footage if you don't already. I'd love to see and (hopefully) learn from the play. DUDE and
Also, that's nuts. For some reason I didn't realize that you have two nearly at 50. How many times have you jumped multiple tiers?
What does cF stand for? I've seen the tag a few times in solos. Of course, most of them are probably fakes (like the three "sendou" I've seen already), but they clearly know it means something.
E: forgot 2dos' name and just defaulted to Fuzzy for some reason