Well I now hit S+ in Splat Zones and Rainmaker. Such a weird feeling to go into solo ranked and have fuzzy and another completely unrelated streamer I recognize on the opposite team, at the same time.
Lag still sucks but I think the new ranking system is just way easier and more forgiving.
The secret scroll on level 7 alludes me so. But hey, I think I've mapped out my to-go look at this point. With 10+ snails to spare, I added more ability slots. :D
[up to area 3 in single player]
Also tossed out a few more friend requests.
I still have to go back to single-player at some point and unlock all the replica weapons. That'll be fun… anyway I think the scroll that really stumped me was on Stage 6. I was convinced you were supposed to access it from one area but I was wrong.
Stage 6 I haven't found either (that's the charger one, right?). The ending stretch to the zapfish took me so many tries, getting both platforms to move and jump over.
Well I now hit S+ in Splat Zones and Rainmaker. Such a weird feeling to go into solo ranked and have fuzzy and another completely unrelated streamer I recognize on the opposite team, at the same time.
Lag still sucks but I think the new ranking system is just way easier and more forgiving.
Does the game still match everyone with mostly Japanese players? Had enough future vision deaths in Splatoon 1.
https://octo.im/2017/07/31/splatoon-2-online-multiplayer-analysis/
I'm just gonna leave this here
That killed my enthusiasm. Thanks, Nami. :sad:
Seriously, thank you. Splatoon 2 will be my main game if I buy a Switch. Now it's easier to wait until it's cheaper or Nintendo gets their online act together.
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Does the game still match everyone with mostly Japanese players? Had enough future vision deaths in Splatoon 1.
That killed my enthusiasm. Thanks, Nami. :sad:
Seriously, thank you. Splatoon 2 will be my main game if I buy a Switch. Now it's easier to wait until it's cheaper or Nintendo gets their online act together.
I have way, way less matches involving Japanese players, and even then it's usually one or two sticking out like a sore thumb. Now and again I do get inserted into an all-Japanese roster but at least right now it's nothing like it was in the first game.
That said it doesn't mean everything is lag-free. But I also still hesitate to call the overall smoothness and responsiveness of matches worse than the first game. Sometimes it's much better. Usually it's about the same. Sometimes it's worse. So on average, who knows. I do think the update rates are almost a moot point when clearly the overall latency is orders of magnitude higher than a few frames in matches when you're actually suffering to significant lag.
That killed my enthusiasm. Thanks, Nami. :sad:
Seriously, thank you. Splatoon 2 will be my main game if I buy a Switch. Now it's easier to wait until it's cheaper or Nintendo gets their online act together.
imo, that's a shitty reason to give up on the game. Or lose enthusiasm on it or w.e.
Single player is excellent, Salmon Run is excellent, and for all intents and purposes turf war, ranked and league are all still just as fun as the original one. Sure, laggy shit happens every now and then, but for every horrible case of it you also have like 10 cases of actual matches where you could hardly notice any issues.
If you found the first game fun, avoiding the second one just like that is seriously just a loss. At the least give yourself the time to watch other people play it and ask if it's worth it.
Yeah, but…money.
Splatoon 2 will be the only reason I'll buy a Switch. Hundreds of dollars for one game. Not interested in single player. Salmon run looks fantastic, but it's not worth getting a Switch. Glad the lag issue isn't as bad as I thought, but like the Wii U/Splatoon 1, I'll probably wait for a price drop.
Also, I really don't have time to play it now, need any excuse I can find.
Of course, minutes before posting I'm tempted with this:
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They're releasing the Brella finally? That's gonna be soooo fun. It was awesome in the single-player so I'm excited to see how it stacks up with real opponents.
Time to go through single player again for the Hero Replica version of it.
I already did thinking I could get it early <_<
Next Splatfest is
tl;dw:
Hopefully with this update we also get some goddamn balancing. But we'll see I guess.
Whoo hoo, Team Flight won ^^
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/splatoon-2s-superpower-splatfest-now-over-here-are/1100-6453064/
Played less battles compared to the last one, but still got some in. I remember having a level 1 and a level 47 on my team at one point lol.
I'm trying to get into the game at the moment. Is Turf War the only mode you can play before reaching level 10?
So far i'm doing fine i guess, my points are constantly in the upper range despite only playing with players at level 20 and above. I mean, i'm dying more than i manage to get kills so far but i guess that will change with experience.
Any advice which weapon is good for beginners?
I'm trying to get into the game at the moment. Is Turf War the only mode you can play before reaching level 10?
So far i'm doing fine i guess, my points are constantly in the upper range despite only playing with players at level 20 and above. I mean, i'm dying more than i manage to get kills so far but i guess that will change with experience.
Any advice which weapon is good for beginners?
The default Splattershot and the Tentatek Splattershot are probably the most basic weapons to deal with while also being rather strong in the meta, so to a lot of people they're not only a solid start but just what they keep using for forever. Most dualies fall within the same range of basic while allowing for some maneuverability.
Then there's the weapons that a lot of people are using due to their ease to both paint and kill: the N-Zap, the Sploosh-o-matic and the Splash-o-matic, and more infamously the Octobrush, which can kill effectively while having ridiculous range and a solid kit. If you're sticking just to turf war, I think the aerospray is still a popular option just by virtue of painting fast and building up curling bomb special… problem is that if you play people who know what they're doing you'll be a priority target for killing.
If you really want broken, the tri-slosher continues to be the number one broken weapon for a lot of people, since it can kill rather fast and easily with surprising range while requiring little aim.
The thing to keep in mind about a lot of weapons above is that while being good they can build up very bad habits. Currently there's a lot of new splatoon players going around in higher ranks and in turf war as well without a shred of defensive strategy or survivability. Which is where other non-automatic weapons come in, since by design carrying weapons that require charge time, super close range, spacing, precision or a controlled amount of ink will also require more strategy in how you approach the enemy and how you escape engagements where you would otherwise die.
Summary:
If you want to really get good at the game, try out each weapon class as you buy them and develop habits with the stuff you feel fun. I'd suggest developing a favorite weapon for each weapon class to really have versatility as well as different experiences.
If you are currently just interested in ease of winning, top recommendations are probably just the splattershots, rapid-paint weapons (n-zap, sploosh, aerospray if in turf war only), the octobrush and the tri-slosher.
Other bits to consider in getting better:
I'm trying to get into the game at the moment. Is Turf War the only mode you can play before reaching level 10?
So far i'm doing fine i guess, my points are constantly in the upper range despite only playing with players at level 20 and above. I mean, i'm dying more than i manage to get kills so far but i guess that will change with experience.
Any advice which weapon is good for beginners?
Yeah you're locked out of ranked matches until level 10. I disagree with the decision but it's been that way since the first game. I think I know where they're coming from ("learn the game before jumping in ranked matches where your performance affects your teammates' rank") but it's frustrating for veterans of the first game, people starting new accounts, etc.
If you didn't know, the points you get in Turf War correlate to how much turf you inked. So if you have a rapid-fire weapon you're naturally inclined to have higher numbers. Also if you spend time inking your base (areas that will never need re-inking) then you have some guaranteed points there. Not that it's necessarily a good measure of how good you are, or a great strategy for winning… but it's definitely a great strategy for leveling up as quickly as possible in turf war since it's tied to the exp you earn lol.
As for weapon advice... I'm a big proponent of trying a variety of things and picking what seems the most interesting to you. There are few weapons that are just straight-up inferior. Sniping is probably the hardest, but that shouldn't discourage you. The main thing is to use motion controls. And don't constantly use the Aerospray... it will teach you really bad habits for the ranked modes <_<
Okay, thanks a lot guys!
I'm actually using the Splattershot most of the time (i'm Level 8 right now) and so far im managing alright i guess. Kill/Death ratio is 50:50 but i'm noticing an improvement.
After i switched to motion controls i had some problems and i'm still figuring out which sensitivity is best for me. But generally i'm just trying to get more experience and i feel like when i started Overwatch a year ago.
I actually started Splatoon 1 without motion controls, for weeks. It was so hard for me to learn gyro; at first simply because it made me dizzy if nothing else. But without it you can't ever be even halfway competent with things like chargers and blasters. I think if I had to pick a personal favorite weapon class, it's blasters. Which I absolutely hated before using the gyro XD.
The idea of motion controls felt incredibly stupid to me when I first started trying it. Mainly because any console shooter I've played has been purely analog. Didn't even recognize when motion controls felt incredibly natural to me after using them.
Tbh - and I'm sorry but - I really can't gel with the motion controls for Splatoon. It's not because of them, I'm just too jittery when I play.
Like I said, it took me a lot of painful practice. Part of what helped was pressing the controller or my wrists into my lap to sort of anchor it in place and stop it from wobbling. Eventually (after many hours of sucking) it got easier, and now it's second nature.
THEY NERFED THE TRI-SLOSHER!!!! LESS RANGE AND LESS DAMAGE!!
Other AWESOME changes:
Inkjet nerfed! Less radius for the shots, less damage of the inkjet exhaust, bigger hitbox for the person flying
Ink Armor nerfed! Armor breaks in less frames, if receiving more than 100 damage the player receives knockback and gets hurt I think?
Baller buffed! Gets pushed back less by enemy fire, explosion has greater range, knocks opponents farther
Ink Storm buffed! Greater radius for the special, takes less to build up
Stingray buffed! Lasts longer and the radius of the shot increases as you hold the charge
Splashdown buffed! Character goes higher prior to splashing down but comes down faster, the radius is larger, minimum damage is greater, and takes less to build up
Sprinkler takes longer before getting to the useless phase, and takes up less ink
Point sensor has a larger radius, after throwing it ink recovers faster than it did
Splash Wall comes out faster after being thrown
Beakons consume less ink
There's also tweets from japanese devs saying that even within the same rank, they're looking towards changing matchmaking so that it finds people closer to your hidden rank, ensuring better team compositions. I wouldn't be too hyped about this since I'm sure it's cool in japan where the volume of players playing at the same time is likely to be higher, whereas for a lot of us in the west it might just mean longer wait times before a match is found.
This is all obtained from people translating japanese patch notes; we should be getting official english ones at some point today.
Holy crap, that's a really awesome list of changes. Other than the tri-slosher, I'm really happy in particular about the Inkjet/armor nerf and sub-weapon buffs.
