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Silentman0
Jul 11, 2005

I have a new neighbor. Heard he comes from far away
Inhales deeply Yyyeaaahh, that's the poo poo I needed. That was totally worth the weight. Now just gotta wait one more week...

Also, I gotta a bunch of guys with latino names in my games. If anyone sees "pablo" tell him I said hey, he did good work. I carried him just as hard as I carried everyone else, but he did better than I expected.

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mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

homeless snail posted:

Please everyone turn off the motion controls... so it will be easier for me to cover you in paint.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

He's been tapping into Aunt May's bank account!
Didn't I kill him with a HELICOPTER?
Someone disconnected at the start of one of the last matches I had. Won by .7% anyway :kamina:

Electric Phantasm
Apr 7, 2011

YOSPOS

I had a match where if I didn't die at the last second we would have won, lost by .7 :(

Jazama
Oct 5, 2013
9/10 will buy, though a bit hesitant from the initially melting servers.

Doctor Hospital
Jul 16, 2011

what





I hate when people use the roller and don't use the shake.

gameface
Nov 23, 2007

ThisIsACoolGuy posted:

All of my matches were on the rig level. Got into the warehouse at the very end and disconnected :v:

Weird, my experience was the almost complete opposite. Only got Saltspray maybe twice, all of the rest were Walleye.

Icedude
Mar 30, 2004

Aww, it's over :smith:

Splattershot Jr is insane and I love it. Gotta love making a mad dash at the start of Warehouse to get to the crates in the very center and then point-blank splatting their charger who climbs up these a second or two later. :laugh: Totally going to be using that or the even faster firing splatter in the full game.

In fact generally playing ambush tactics by hiding in your ink and popping out to get enemies who wander nearby is surprisingly effective, and that's without the gear in the full game that hides your wake when moving in ink :allears:

e: Also the EU version having "Nice!" and "To me!" instead of "Booyah!" and "C'mon!" is bullshit :colbert:

Icedude fucked around with this message at 01:14 on May 24, 2015

ambient robot
Apr 23, 2014

by Lowtax
Couldn't get used to the motion controls with the time I had. I won pretty much all of my games and was in the top 2 on my teams, regardless. Teaching myself to watch the gamepad is harder than I thought it'd be. Also, I think I might be one of the few people that doesn't like playing roller.

Lemming
Apr 21, 2008

Zaphod42 posted:

Ignore this goon and play however you like best. Dual stick is fun, motion controls are fun; to each his own.

I didn't say dual stick was less fun (I think it is), I said it was worse. It'd be like playing a PC FPS with a controller. You'd be gimping yourself.

Silentman0
Jul 11, 2005

I have a new neighbor. Heard he comes from far away

Jazama posted:

9/10 will buy, though a bit hesitant from the initially melting servers.

Of all the testfires, this is the only one that was spotty, and the second hour was just as good as the first testfires.

Lemming
Apr 21, 2008

mabels big day posted:

Splattershot is the best weapon but the shield is too good to not use splattershot jr.

+Yeah!

Shield is loving nuts.

Sade
Aug 3, 2009

Can't touch this.
No really, you can't
IMO it's really encouraging that not only did they get the server issues lined out within about 30 minutes, they extended the demo by a whole extra hour to make sure everybody got a chance to play. :3:

Spacebump
Dec 24, 2003

Dallas Mavericks: Generations
A team full of rollers can't do anything if someone spawn camps and they are all 4 respawning. Can't wait to see hilarious tactics in ranked play in a few months.

Dizz
Feb 14, 2010


L :dva: L

Shlapintogan posted:

I hate when people use the roller and don't use the shake.

You mean the smash attack thing? I try to but it's difficult to properly aim it so that the ink hits enemies.

Cialis Railman
Apr 20, 2007

Game loving owns. I'm starting to get the hang of the charger, I found that it works real well if you arc the shots a bit. It's easy to forget that the name of the game isn't so much your k/d but getting as much ink out as possible.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

He's been tapping into Aunt May's bank account!
Didn't I kill him with a HELICOPTER?

ambient robot posted:

Couldn't get used to the motion controls with the time I had. I won pretty much all of my games and was in the top 2 on my teams, regardless. Teaching myself to watch the gamepad is harder than I thought it'd be. Also, I think I might be one of the few people that doesn't like playing roller.

I think I see what you mean, I loved the hell out of the roller in the first testfire, then tried the splatter shot jr. in the third one, this time i started off with the roller for two matches but it's just too slow. Splatter Shot Jr. is the speed.

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

Spacebump posted:

A team full of rollers can't do anything if someone spawn camps and they are all 4 respawning. Can't wait to see hilarious tactics in ranked play in a few months.

on the first day a team of 4 rollers was unstoppable... now its basically the worst team setup you could have

Geostomp
Oct 22, 2008

Unite: MASH!!
~They've got the bad guys on the run!~
That was fun, but the gyro controls will take a little getting used to. I'm a little ashamed to say that I was the sort of noob that kept using the roller without shaking much, but, in my defense, I almost always got 800+ with it. I lost more often than not, but I lost with pride.

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

one roller, two splattershot jrs, and one either splattershot or charger if the charger is good is probably the best team setup. i would know, as I'm now a professional splatoon player, and I've made the official tier list too.

Countblanc
Apr 20, 2005

Help a hero out!

Dizz posted:

You mean the smash attack thing? I try to but it's difficult to properly aim it so that the ink hits enemies.

Its just a shotgun dude

TVs Ian
Jun 1, 2000

Such graceful, delicate creatures.
Managed to get in three games, won the first one by a good margin, lost the next two by a couple of percent. I definitely need more time to get used to the controls, but it was fun. The only weapon I personally did well with was the roller, but I think that was just due to my control issues. Once I have some single player down I think I'll be ok.

Geostomp
Oct 22, 2008

Unite: MASH!!
~They've got the bad guys on the run!~

mabels big day posted:

one roller, two splattershot jrs, and one either splattershot or charger if the charger is good is probably the best team setup. i would know, as I'm now a professional splatoon player, and I've made the official tier list too.

That sounds pretty good: a roller to advance, two splattershots to do most of the legwork and a charger to support from high ground. Unfortunately, since almost everyone in this demo was a noob by definition, I never saw a team without two rollers.

Thanks Internet
May 27, 2012

This poster just flew all the way from Caketown just to make this post!

Now THAT'S desperate!

Silentman0 posted:

Inhales deeply Yyyeaaahh, that's the poo poo I needed. That was totally worth the weight. Now just gotta wait one more week..

:yeah:

Electric Phantasm
Apr 7, 2011

YOSPOS

I hope the implement some sort of team preview or something, because I want to play roller, but I don't want to be on a team with 3 other rollers.

Rudoku
Jun 15, 2003

Damn I need a drink...


E: err... I had fun. Now I can camp Target so I can get a nice water gun to go with it.

Rudoku fucked around with this message at 01:18 on May 24, 2015

Thanks Internet
May 27, 2012

This poster just flew all the way from Caketown just to make this post!

Now THAT'S desperate!
So spawn camping isn't really viable, but super-jump camping totally is. Nothing like splattering someone the instant they land.

Jarogue
Nov 3, 2012


I think I made a lasting impression on people with my roller technique. Go where no roller has gone before. I was painting the top of box and charger points with the roller, the next match everyone started doing it, made it easier for me to go paint other things.

Also a Team full of roller beat a team full of Splattershot Jr.

Blackbelt Bobman
Jul 17, 2004

I don't need friends! I've been
manipulatin' you since the start!
All so I can something,
something X-Blade!


I was up against four rollers for one round. Cue the deep strategy of "walk backwards while shooting as the roller desperately tries to run me over."

Geostomp
Oct 22, 2008

Unite: MASH!!
~They've got the bad guys on the run!~

Electric Phantasm posted:

I hope the implement some sort of team preview or something, because I want to play roller, but I don't want to be on a team with 3 other rollers.

Same here. Maybe it'll be in the full version so we can get something resembling strategy with the teams.

Lemming
Apr 21, 2008
Oh also pro tip if a roller is about to get you you can jump over it and kill them. Rofl.

Tengames
Oct 29, 2008


Blackbelt Bobman posted:

I was up against four rollers for one round. Cue the deep strategy of "walk backwards while shooting as the roller desperately tries to run me over."

that "W+m1 tf2 pyro" anology someone made is incredibly accurate.

Zaphod42
Sep 13, 2012

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

Thanks Internet posted:

So spawn camping isn't really viable, but super-jump camping totally is. Nothing like splattering someone the instant they land.

Which seems balanced. You're supposed to jump onto friends; pushing too far forward leaves you vulnerable.

gameface
Nov 23, 2007

Thanks Internet posted:

So spawn camping isn't really viable, but super-jump camping totally is. Nothing like splattering someone the instant they land.

Yeah, in one match I got a triple kill from splatting one guy, seeing the superjump marker and sitting near/on it, splatting THAT guy, and repeating it again. It was kind of funny.

Silentman0
Jul 11, 2005

I have a new neighbor. Heard he comes from far away

Jarogue posted:

Also a Team full of roller beat a team full of Splattershot Jr.

Hey man, remembering to click on the right stick is hard.

gameface posted:

Yeah, in one match I got a triple kill from splatting one guy, seeing the superjump marker and sitting near/on it, splatting THAT guy, and repeating it again. It was kind of funny.

I wonder how many people have figured out that you can turn around mid-air, it's trivially easy to just stand behind them as they land.

Evil Eagle
Nov 5, 2009

I got a quadra kill in this game

Lemming
Apr 21, 2008

Silentman0 posted:

Hey man, remembering to click on the right stick is hard.

I still panic a lot and hit R by accident and die :saddowns:

pichupal
Mar 23, 2013

Poochy ain't Stupid.
I might be.
I had lots of fun winning some matches with the Splat Charger. It can be really useful guarding an area, but it's not as useful for getting points for yourself. The exception being long unclaimed areas that you can just charge, shoot and move a little to the left. I think the trickier part is trying to adapt to how everyone is playing, especially now since people are trying out weapons. I do wish people actually used the suction part of the Suction Bomb more, it can be really good for taking people out from sniping spots and hiding behind walls.

jivjov
Sep 13, 2007

But how does it taste? Yummy!
Dinosaur Gum

Thanks Internet posted:

So spawn camping isn't really viable, but super-jump camping totally is. Nothing like splattering someone the instant they land.

Yeah, superjumping and landing in a field of the other team's ink is not fun.

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Suaimhneas
Nov 19, 2005

That's how you get tinnitus

Blackbelt Bobman posted:

I was up against four rollers for one round. Cue the deep strategy of "walk backwards while shooting as the roller desperately tries to run me over."

The smart roller runs from enemies and spends their time painting empty corners of the map, then heads for the enemies once the Killer Wail is charged

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