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njsykora posted:I did the same, but wasn't using the shield more than once a match. I did notice people have gathered the charger is for backing your team up from a distance though, and rollers really weren't as common this time round. I also noticed rollers were rarely going around alone, they usually had a charger or gunner alongside to protect them. Yeah as far as I can tell, the best team composition appears to be 2 rollers, 1 Splattershot (Jr), and a Sniper if the sniper is good and understands what their role is. Otherwise 2/2 or a Splattershot and a Jr. because the rollers need some kind of covering fire, they really can't take a Splattershot head on unless the shooter is terrible.
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Katana Gomai posted:Whoever suggested the paint roller is the best weapon does not understand the game (it's Splattershot Jr. because of the shield, hth) Eh, I think the roller is pretty awesome because it makes a fun game like this accessible to people like me who aren't good at shooters. I mainly ran around painting stuff in a giddy spree and I still managed to get better than average kills at the end of each round.
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I was kicking rear end with the roller in the first session, second session people were killing me a lot easier. I went up against one 100% roller team and kicked their rear end. Still couldn't do any good with the sniper rifle though.
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oopsie rock posted:Eh, I think the roller is pretty awesome because it makes a fun game like this accessible to people like me who aren't good at shooters. I mainly ran around painting stuff in a giddy spree and I still managed to get better than average kills at the end of each round. I'm not saying it's bad, it's just not "op".
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May 9, 2015 13:19
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Eindyin posted:I was kicking rear end with the roller in the first session, second session people were killing me a lot easier. I went up against one 100% roller team and kicked their rear end. Me too, our team trapped them in spawn and kept them there almost the entire match. Final score was like 89 - 5.
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May 9, 2015 13:22
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Katana Gomai posted:I'm not saying it's bad, it's just not "op". I'm crap at shooting so your OP gun is wasted on me when I use it. 
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May 9, 2015 13:23
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njsykora posted:I think it says enough that we can't decide which weapon is most overpowered. After playing with all of them, I think they're all pretty evenly matched. Except the sniper, that thing is total poo poo.
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Katana Gomai posted:Whoever suggested the paint roller is the best weapon does not understand the game (it's Splattershot Jr. because of the shield, hth) So I think in the release version you can choose whatever load out you want, so you could have roller with shield.
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njsykora posted:I think it says enough that we can't decide which weapon is most overpowered. We call that 'balance'.
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Eindyin posted:I was kicking rear end with the roller in the first session, second session people were killing me a lot easier. I went up against one 100% roller team and kicked their rear end.
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May 9, 2015 13:27
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I'm pretty impressed with the lack of lag/disconnects or anything like that. Most of the players in my games seemed to be from Japan but everything ran flawlessly for me
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greatn posted:So I think in the release version you can choose whatever load out you want, so you could have roller with shield.
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Well that was fun! I ended up mostly sticking to the Roller, but figured out that you really don't want only Rollers on a team. The charge attack the Roller has in the demo was amazing too. Not regretting my preorder.
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Even when we got destroyed I still had a fun time playing and look forward to much paint splatting and squid inking in the future. By the last two matches I was really getting to feel of using the paint to quickly run away and sneak around people. There were also a number of funny times when I would kill someone as they killed me, smushing each other with the paint roller is hilarious.
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The most amazing thing about this is that it actually runs with little latency and I didn't experience one iota of lag. Nintendo is really stepping up their online game with this one, even if everything is coming piecemeal and there's not voicechat
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Definitely going to preload this as soon as possible, that hour was just too cool. I loved all the weapons, really. I feel like the charges are going to have to take some time to work with and figure out, but I can tell already they're great for climbing somewhere quickly and splattering around from a hard to reach area. Of course you are basically painting a giant series of arrows pointing towards yourself if you're not careful. I started to favor a strategy of pairing rollers with splattershot dudes, where the roller would paint the path and the splattershot would zip around him in squid form painting walls and covering the roller's rear end as necessary. It's definitely not just going to be all roller guys all the time in the long run, I am pretty sure. Best feeling so far I think is rolling into abandoned enemy territory and taking the whole thing by yourself while your team defends another area. I can not wait for the 29th, please life pass faster 
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My experience wasn't as stellar, sadly. Just a bunch of "looking for partners", "failed to connect to partner" after a minute attempt. Rinse and repeat during one hour. I don't have the wired adapter people use for Smash Bros, but I got good signal to the router, so I'm left not knowing if it was a problem with the stress test beta, not enough teams around for me to join, or my router apparently being poo poo with this particular game. I guess at least the tutorial was rather fun and I played a bunch of that squid jumping 2D thingy.
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greatn posted:So I think in the release version you can choose whatever load out you want, so you could have roller with shield. Even then you'd still be unable to kill anyone who can shoot and walk backwards at the same time. I'm actually really pleased with the weapon balance (as far as we've seen it). Saoshyant posted:My experience wasn't as stellar, sadly. Just a bunch of "looking for partners", "failed to connect to partner" after a minute attempt. Rinse and repeat during one hour. I don't have the wired adapter people use for Smash Bros, but I got good signal to the router, so I'm left not knowing if it was a problem with the stress test beta, not enough teams around for me to join, or my router apparently being poo poo with this particular game. I got stuck looking for more players once, we were at 6/8 forever and the countdown just kept resetting itself. After ~5 minutes I just turned off my console since there's no other way to leave that screen. Katana Gomai fucked around with this message at 14:32 on May 9, 2015 |
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Artix posted:Yeah as far as I can tell, the best team composition appears to be 2 rollers, 1 Splattershot (Jr), and a Sniper if the sniper is good and understands what their role is. Otherwise 2/2 or a Splattershot and a Jr. because the rollers need some kind of covering fire, they really can't take a Splattershot head on unless the shooter is terrible. If I'm a roller, and someone with a gun is coming for me, that's when I start hucking bombs at them. If that doesn't kill them, hopefully it at least panics them enough that they back off and you can slip away (and maybe circle around and get them from a different direction)
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Saoshyant posted:My experience wasn't as stellar, sadly. Just a bunch of "looking for partners", "failed to connect to partner" after a minute attempt. Rinse and repeat during one hour. I don't have the wired adapter people use for Smash Bros, but I got good signal to the router, so I'm left not knowing if it was a problem with the stress test beta, not enough teams around for me to join, or my router apparently being poo poo with this particular game. I got stuck during the first test, kept searching then coming up with disconnected message. Restarted the game and it fixed it, but I had to do the tutorial again. Second session, it didn't happen at all. I was expecting way worse considering they were doing a stress test.
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Eindyin posted:I got stuck during the first test, kept searching then coming up with disconnected message. Restarted the game and it fixed it, but I had to do the tutorial again. Second session, it didn't happen at all. I was expecting way worse considering they were doing a stress test. Redoing the tutorial wasn't the fault of getting stuck. The demo saves nothing, so you have to redo (or just skip) the tutorial and create your character each time.
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When can I actually play this Splatoon thing? I tried during the play hours and kept getting a site maintenance message. Was looking forward to some squiddy acion
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Calico Heart posted:When can I actually play this Splatoon thing? I tried during the play hours and kept getting a site maintenance message. Was looking forward to some squiddy acion Go to the eShop and it should have a banner for Splatoon with the demo times for your region. There's one final play session, and it's in about four hours.
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Calico Heart posted:When can I actually play this Splatoon thing? I tried during the play hours and kept getting a site maintenance message. Was looking forward to some squiddy acion The site maintenance message is what turns up when you're not playing during the right hours. Are you sure you were playing at the right time? Anyway the last one starts at 12 PM PST/3PM EST. A little less than 5 hours from now.
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I'm excited for the next hour of Splatoon time. I had a blast with the first hour, but I never tried the sniper rifle gun, so I think I'll give that a shot first and see if I like it. I was actually quite surprised to like the gyro aiming, too. It's a nice addition to the R stick, because it felt a little quicker for me, as I don't play many console based first person shooters, so having that really helped. It also helped to turn up the sensitivity a bit and use the splattershot junior. I think I'm just gonna pre-order the drat game already. Now if only I could find the amiibos for it...
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Ugh, I missed this morning's Splatoon and I'll probably miss this afternoon's.  Does it seem like something that'll have some longevity, or does it seem like one of those things people will bore with pretty quickly and move away from?
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oopsie rock posted:Eh, I think the roller is pretty awesome because it makes a fun game like this accessible to people like me who aren't good at shooters. I mainly ran around painting stuff in a giddy spree and I still managed to get better than average kills at the end of each round. Same here. I am not very good at FPS games, but I had a ton of fun trying to roll out as much paint as possible with the roller. And I usually was the highest scoring person too.
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Sorry to post this again, but when's the next splatoon demo? I'm bad at math.
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Sade posted:Sorry to post this again, but when's the next splatoon demo? I'm bad at math. 3 Hours, 28 Minutes
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Wish I could get the game digitally and still get the Smash hats. Stupid Gamestop exclusives. Maybe they'll release them later.
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Echophonic posted:Wish I could get the game digitally and still get the Smash hats. Stupid Gamestop exclusives. They will.
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Motto posted:Zelda noticeably absent. It's going to be a launch NX game that also appears on Wii U, like Twilight Princess did with Cube/Wii. This is going to happen, stop pretending it isn't!!
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The Machine posted:It's going to be a launch NX game that also appears on Wii U, like Twilight Princess did with Cube/Wii. Ok the taint reaper.
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mabels big day posted:Ok the taint reaper. Wow, mods???
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mabels big day posted:Ok the taint reaper. Woah fuckin' rude don't drop these kinda burns so casually
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