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Hot Diggity!
Apr 3, 2010

SKELITON_BRINGING_U_ON.GIF
The matchmaking in ranked is rear end why do I keep trying to play it

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Icedude
Mar 30, 2004

Locking down an entire team because they all keep superjumping to the one same spot one by one will never get old, especially when it lets you turnaround from 20 seconds left on their timer to a knockout :allears:

Count Bleck
Apr 5, 2010

DISPEL MAGIC!



Solid.

noirstronaut
Aug 10, 2012

by Cowcaster
there's so much early 2000s stuff in splatoon. it weirded me out that anyone who even grew up loving 2000s stuff is like 20 or some poo poo

LazyMaybe
Aug 18, 2013

oouagh

noirstronaut posted:

there's so much early 2000s stuff in splatoon. it weirded me out that anyone who even grew up loving 2000s stuff is like 20 or some poo poo
older friends of mine always get really weirded out when I mention Halo 3 being a childhood game for me while I'm old enough to drink

noirstronaut
Aug 10, 2012

by Cowcaster

IronicDongz posted:

older friends of mine always get really weirded out when I mention Halo 3 being a childhood game for me while I'm old enough to drink

that's crazy. i remember my friend justin stole the game from target and wanted me to pay him $30 for it, but i never did and he stole it back from me

e: i was cool w/ it, i knew i should've paid him. we're cool friends today.

Evil Eagle
Nov 5, 2009

Damage up is good for one weapon type: Chargers. You can kill before fully charged with some strength up and it's really noticeable.

Icedude
Mar 30, 2004

I think there must be some way to game the random abilities, because I just was in a match against a guy who had 4 defense ups on a single item of clothing, with one or two more on his other gear :cripes:

noirstronaut
Aug 10, 2012

by Cowcaster

Icedude posted:

I think there must be some way to game the random abilities, because I just was in a match against a guy who had 4 defense ups on a single item of clothing, with one or two more on his other gear :cripes:

My contacts have all defense ups and I did nothing to get them.

Gentleman Baller
Oct 13, 2013
Holy poo poo. Haven't had this much fun with a console shooter since Timesplitters what the hell is Nintendo doing I can't believe how many knockouts they've delivered recently.

noirstronaut
Aug 10, 2012

by Cowcaster
i might get nintendo's logo tattooed on my body but i don't know where yet

Internet Kraken
Apr 24, 2010

slightly amused
Spent the last 2 hours playing ranked mostly, got up to B and did pretty well. Really loving the custom blaster more and more. All I need is some better pieces of gear to go with it.

IronicDongz posted:

spyke&some lil squiddy monsters

[x]

I'm glad I can hire a creepy urchin chav to mug other kids so I can get their stuff. I wonder if he talked the same way in the original Japanese.


Icedude posted:

I think there must be some way to game the random abilities, because I just was in a match against a guy who had 4 defense ups on a single item of clothing, with one or two more on his other gear :cripes:

Laugh at him because all those defense upgrades are basically worthless.

noirstronaut
Aug 10, 2012

by Cowcaster
Doesn't he just find ripoffs? He's like the old dude in town who sells bootlegs movies.

But why does Nintendo want us to know that he kills those clams next to him

Regy Rusty
Apr 26, 2010

noirstronaut posted:

Doesn't he just find ripoffs? He's like the old dude in town who sells bootlegs movies.

But why does Nintendo want us to know that he kills those clams next to him

The snails have eyes like 1-Up mushrooms so he's not really any worse than Mario really...

noirstronaut
Aug 10, 2012

by Cowcaster
drat

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012



Love it.

Come on, Nintendo, let people order my school uniform. I don't care!

DalaranJ
Apr 15, 2008

Yosuke will now die for you.

Jonas Albrecht posted:

Come on, Nintendo, let people order my school uniform. I don't care!

They should patch it so that if you try to buy the amiibo outfits there's a cutscene of the police hauling Spyke off to jail.

Jarogue
Nov 3, 2012


Jonas Albrecht posted:

Love it.

Come on, Nintendo, let people order my school uniform. I don't care!

Never, people had to wait 5 hr outside a store in the rain to get them for there grand kids or lovers. :argh:

Kilometers Davis
Jul 9, 2007

They begin again

noirstronaut posted:

But why does Nintendo want us to know that he kills those clams next to him

This is the only thing I don't like about the game.

I would buy $20 dlc to save the clams and put Spyke in squid jail.

Cialis Railman
Apr 20, 2007

Kilometers Davis posted:

This is the only thing I don't like about the game.

I would buy $20 dlc to save the clams and put Spyke in squid jail.

But who will I buy hoodies from!?

Reiley
Dec 16, 2007


Marine life is cut-throat, and not forgiving. This aint' Finding Nemo over here.

skeletronics
Jul 19, 2005
Man
On Saltspray Rig, the only way to the top is through the middle, so if you control the middle, you control the top.

If you control the top and the middle, you can safely ignore the bottom and still win. Maybe if they have the bottom and all of the corridors they could win, but it's really tough.

Therefore, control the freaking middle. In nearly every game where my team focuses on that, we win. Exceptions being when the other team makes a last second push and successfully takes a significant portion of the top. Then ignoring the bottom hurts since they only need a little push into your territory to tip it.


Also I'm bad, don't listen to me.

Reiley
Dec 16, 2007


What I like about the Rig middle is you can go up the pipes on the outside of the front walls from the outside but you can't get on top of those walls from the inside. It's a nice little touch. Go up those pipes, and take the high ground. Be the big fish. It's blood for blood, this ain't a game.

noirstronaut
Aug 10, 2012

by Cowcaster

skeletronics posted:

On Saltspray Rig, the only way to the top is through the middle, so if you control the middle, you control the top.

If you control the top and the middle, you can safely ignore the bottom and still win. Maybe if they have the bottom and all of the corridors they could win, but it's really tough.

Therefore, control the freaking middle. In nearly every game where my team focuses on that, we win. Exceptions being when the other team makes a last second push and successfully takes a significant portion of the top. Then ignoring the bottom hurts since they only need a little push into your territory to tip it.


Also I'm bad, don't listen to me.

I feel like this si very wrong for a number of reasons, but I am very tired

Jarogue
Nov 3, 2012


IronicDongz posted:

spyke&some lil squiddy monsters

[x]

Silly Squid. Squids don't eat urchin, otters and triggerfish do.

noirstronaut
Aug 10, 2012

by Cowcaster

Jarogue posted:

Silly Squid. Squids don't eat urchin, otters and triggerfish do.

squids don't swim in paint either

ThisIsACoolGuy
Nov 2, 2010

Shaped like a friend

Got the impression that Spike does actually mug inklings and the reason they have different stats is because he uses his seasnails on them. His entire "how-too" speech is him just dancing lightly around it and at level 20 he kinda goes over it again after telling you about his reroll powers.

MrFlibble
Nov 28, 2007

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Fallen Rib

noirstronaut posted:

squids don't swim in paint either

No they swim in ink. And are also kids. What game have you been playing?

noirstronaut
Aug 10, 2012

by Cowcaster

MrFlibble posted:

No they swim in ink. And are also kids. What game have you been playing?

they're squids now

and it's not ink, it's paint, you don't roll ink with a paint roller, you paint paint with a paintroller. the inkbrush is not a valid argument right now b/c it does not exist yet

Tyty
Feb 20, 2012

Night-vision Goggles Equipped!


How does a team with 3 rollers and me as the only gunner win

I am legit awful at this game. How did the rollers do so well with me as their backup

I don't understand

ThisIsACoolGuy
Nov 2, 2010

Shaped like a friend

I wish I could swap ranked colors and turf war colors. I like turf war a thousand times better but Ranked has more appealing colors to me

dragon enthusiast
Jan 1, 2010

noirstronaut posted:

I feel like this si very wrong for a number of reasons, but I am very tired

It's correct. Control the chokepoint to the top area and you control the map. I just straight up ignore top on that map now unless the other team takes our first.

LazyMaybe
Aug 18, 2013

oouagh
The chokepoint is interesting in that there are multiple routes/platforms, though.

Just wanted to say that because a lot of people hear "chokepoint" and think "bad"(hoodoo flashbacks)

Truxton
Oct 31, 2012

Onean
Feb 11, 2010

Maiden in white...
You are not one of us.

noirstronaut posted:

I feel like this si very wrong for a number of reasons, but I am very tired

I wouldn't say it's wrong for a lot of reasons, but I do feel it's not quite right.

For example, holding your exclusive lanes and the top and bottom platforms while the other team holds everything else will get you the victory. Both teams have easy access to the bottom platform from their spawn, and it's not too hard to rush to the top platform for most weapons using the side route. Those together means it's pretty easy for somone to go take the bottom platform while someone else takes the top in the last minute, winning you the game. (It was really weird seeing the map at the end, with yellow covering the platforms and our lanes, and a giant swath of purple cutting everything off from the rest. It was also surprising, since the match had been a complete stomp and we had been losing from about 30 seconds in.)

ThisIsACoolGuy
Nov 2, 2010

Shaped like a friend

pichupal
Mar 23, 2013

Poochy ain't Stupid.
I might be.
Best Splatzone map is on now. Port Mackerel is the best in both modes.


edit: I was wondering, since people you've played with appear in the Plaza after a match, we could probably distribute clothing around that way. I finally got Ninja Squid and Stealth Jump gear, so we could do a match, drop out, and order it for Spyke. Or if you want the Squidvader Hat, the best hat.

pichupal fucked around with this message at 07:38 on Jun 3, 2015

Lemming
Apr 21, 2008
Port is great, skatepark is loving insane.

Clawed my way into A-. I must press on.

Fix
Jul 26, 2005

NEWT THE MOON

noirstronaut posted:

and it's not ink, it's paint, you don't roll ink with a paint roller, you paint paint with a paintroller. the inkbrush is not a valid argument right now b/c it does not exist yet

Somebody didn't GIS ink roller. :ohdear:

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codenameFANGIO
May 4, 2012

What are you even booing here?

Tyty posted:

How does a team with 3 rollers and me as the only gunner win

I am legit awful at this game. How did the rollers do so well with me as their backup

I don't understand

Answer: I was one of those rollers. :getin:

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