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Commissar Ken posted:As long as your team isn't loving around an Inkblast shouldn't take full control to them if you have control of it. I've only ever see it knock you out then either you get it back or they get it based on what goes on after. That being said one round those motherfuckers had 2 stocked up and they just salted the earth until nothing stood. i've seen that three times on urchin underpass. stock up two inkblasts, wait at spawn, fire when there's 10 seconds left, charge in
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Just played a few rounds of ranked and I hate it because my first would-be victory was cut off by lag. In all seriousness, I think the meta needs time to form, but the race to claiming first and pushing the advantage is super intense and I love it.
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The easiest thing to do at Urchin Underpass once you have the area is to just sit there with your roller and wait for someone to pop in and splat them away. Chances are the rest of your team will bother finding other people if you just keep hold of the fort itself and utilize corners. But honestly, I'm going to hit C because if I don't, I'll hate myself, then I'm never playing again.
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Btw new map should be roller heaven there is so much area to cover and blind turns all over where you can see weapon people firing down the way. Super easy to wait and punk them
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Jun 2, 2015 05:37
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I was hoping the contacts would change my eyes to what it looks like in the picture
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Jun 2, 2015 05:39
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Come on guys. It's 2015. You should know Elo hell doesn't exist.
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Jun 2, 2015 05:46
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4 rollers dominant on splat zone. That poo poo is hilarious.
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"Let's make an intense heavily teamwork oriented gametype in a game where you can't communicate or play with your friends, also you lose rank progress if your team is poo poo" That's basically ranked in a nutshell, you're fine at C rank but once you move up to B it gets a lot more intense and harder to win, I've been on a win-lose, win-lose, win-lose streak for the past hour now, I've made 0 progress on the rank bar thing.
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It's really insane how much of an advantage the defenders have in Splat Zone. Being able to just be invisible 80% of the time is huge, and most of the zones seem to just be death pits where the attackers will just have a revolving door of dead players.
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yeah, i just joined a match where one of our players just sat at the spawn and did nothing the entire time. i got 10 kills and 2 deaths, but we lost because that fucker didn't do anything
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Alteisen posted:"Let's make an intense heavily teamwork oriented gametype in a game where you can't communicate or play with your friends, also you lose rank progress if your team is poo poo" So what you're saying is it matched you against players about your skill level
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Jun 2, 2015 05:53
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owned but king of the hill/ranked does suck
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Alteisen posted:That's basically ranked in a nutshell, you're fine at C rank but once you move up to B it gets a lot more intense and harder to win, I've been on a win-lose, win-lose, win-lose streak for the past hour now, I've made 0 progress on the rank bar thing. Then you're at your appropriate rank and the system works. Hooray! noirstronaut posted:owned Nah its fun.
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Jun 2, 2015 05:55
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Freaking LOVE the new map, especially as a roller player. Got my first 1200+ score my first time playing on it. Also tried Ranked and I really dig it but I had a pretty different experience to you guys. The other team got down to 34 before we took it from them and then managed to defend well even with 2-3 of them having inkstrikes.
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Ok I'm an idiot, how do I draw one of those dumb pictures for people to see in the plaza?
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Countblanc posted:It's really insane how much of an advantage the defenders have in Splat Zone. Being able to just be invisible 80% of the time is huge, and most of the zones seem to just be death pits where the attackers will just have a revolving door of dead players. The defenders have an obscenely stronger advantage on Saltspray Rig than Urchin Underpass, Inkstrikes notwithstanding. You're on top of a hill, with blind corners the attackers have to come around, and the only other way in is a small ledge that is very easy to arc paint up onto. It's also a small-enough area that everybody can watch eachother's backs. Urchin Underpass is a lot harder to hold (and far more fun) because you've got three different spread-apart places to jump in from at any given time (though of course everybody's just gotta bum-rush over that hill into Seekers and waiting ink splats), and with the Zone in the pit it's much easier for the other team to spray frantically.
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the ranked penalty system makes no sense. like i understand the draw of having more competitive matches but ink strike can completely gently caress over a team that's dominated 75% of the match as it stands right now. there really should be 2 points on each map to ease up the congestion and make alternate routes worthwhile
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Centzon Totochtin posted:Ok I'm an idiot, how do I draw one of those dumb pictures for people to see in the plaza? go to the mailbox thing on the left side of the path from the cat
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TubeStank posted:the ranked penalty system makes no sense. like i understand the draw of having more competitive matches but ink strike can completely gently caress over a team that's dominated 75% of the match as it stands right now. there really should be 2 points on each map to ease up the congestion and make alternate routes worthwhile Considering it's called Splat Zones, it would really be helped by having more than one. Hell, Saltspray Rig's practically built to have two of them.
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TubeStank posted:go to the mailbox thing on the left side of the path from the cat excellent, thank you!
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Considering it's called Splat Zones, it would really be helped by having more than one. Hell, Saltspray Rig's practically built to have two of them. yup. another thing that puts the attacking group at a disadvantage is that they have to rely on ink paths to get to the point where the defending team can spawn on one another. there's just so much about the mode that doesn't make sense with the mechanics that the game has unless they built maps specifically for the mode.
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What kind of loadout are my Roller bros preferring? I just can't settle on anything, for either mode. Obviously Ninja Squid is great, and I'd probably like Stealth Super Jump, but other than that nothing seems to really jump out at me. Defense Up seems largely useless, as if you're going to die you're going to die. Damage Up doesn't seem particularly useful as a roller as I'd like to just one-shot anyway. Maybe Run Speed?
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Run speed absolutely, and I always like quick respawn for anything.
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Poultron posted:What kind of loadout are my Roller bros preferring? I just can't settle on anything, for either mode. Obviously Ninja Squid is great, and I'd probably like Stealth Super Jump, but other than that nothing seems to really jump out at me. Defense Up seems largely useless, as if you're going to die you're going to die. Damage Up doesn't seem particularly useful as a roller as I'd like to just one-shot anyway. Maybe Run Speed? Considering that Rollers are entirely based on your movement, Run Speed+ effectively becomes Fire Rate+.
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 The absurd amount of Spongebob memes really is making me feel like a kid again.
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Internet Kraken posted:
I got a chuckle out of seeing "The Cake is a Lie" on some of the in-game graffiti/LED boards. Aperture Science really kicked off their Goo development after all  .
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hey uh why do squid girls do that lil hip sway thing. like are they trying to sex me
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I hear all these people talking about rollers in the new zones, but the best weapon for the area is the ink wall. Watching a bulldozer seal someone in a kill box is the best.
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I will agree saltspray is a very bad map for ranked unless the bottom area was given a zone, then it would become beautifully insane. I don't agree about the Inkstrikes though, they may disrupt the zone for a moment but unless you have some control over it the defenders will undo that work in 3s. I did plenty of times. Hell I'd be firing into the drat effect since I knew no one was near enough to stop me. Edit: I'll go as far to say if your always using a strike on the zone you're doing it wrong. It's more useful to displace players usually, expecially chargers on a ledge LethalGeek fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Jun 2, 2015 |
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LethalGeek posted:I will agree saltspray is a very bad map for ranked unless the bottom area was given a zone, then it would become beautifully insane. I don't agree about the Inkstrikes though, they may disrupt the zone for a moment but unless you have some control over it the defenders will undo that work in 3s. I did plenty of times. Hell I'd be firing into the drat effect since I knew no one was near enough to stop me. I managed to drop an Inkstrike right on top of the other team's and wipe out the two poor bastards that had jumped in to sieze the zone under the cover of theirs  .
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Ranked mode is amazing, Splat Zones is so much fun and now that people are centered around an objective and not in every stupid corner of the map the Blaster can shine and be great.
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I played 6-7 ranked games and never won a single one. In fact, I never got coins in a single one of those.  I don't know if I should just give up on trying to play that or what. I figure if I'm losing that badly that often, the problem is probably me, but I don't know what to do about that.
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TubeStank posted:the ranked penalty system makes no sense. like i understand the draw of having more competitive matches but ink strike can completely gently caress over a team that's dominated 75% of the match as it stands right now. there really should be 2 points on each map to ease up the congestion and make alternate routes worthwhile You can easily just take the territory back after you nuke the idiot who fired the rocket. The buffer timer keeps sudden blasts like the Ink Strike from being irreversible table-turners. Every single ranked match I tried had someone try that stunt but we took the point back right after, since my teams had people who fought around it and not directly on top of it.
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noirstronaut posted:hey uh
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Splat Zones is fun but would probably be improved by the ability to form your own teams. Which I think is coming in another update, so in like six months or so.
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Cialis Railman posted:Splat Zones is fun but would probably be improved by the ability to form your own teams. Which I think is coming in another update, so in like six months or so. August, I think, so two months.
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Worst Girl posted:why are you thinking about squid girls trying to sex you? maybe i wanna sex them back
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Regarding the four-hour map rotation and the girls doing the news update, I'm idly wondering if they're hiding a discreet server refresh behind it just to keep the hardware running properly.
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