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Chronojam
Feb 20, 2006

This is me on vacation in Amsterdam :)
Never be afraid of being yourself!


Inflammatory posted:

had two different rounds in ranked tonight where a roller decided they needed to ink the whole loving path down moray towers.

I do that because kraken

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MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

He's been tapping into Aunt May's bank account!
Didn't I kill him with a HELICOPTER?
I really need that Slosher with kraken right about now, inkstrike is awful in Rainmaker.

Cialis Railman
Apr 20, 2007

ArmyOfMidgets posted:

I really need that Slosher with kraken right about now, inkstrike is awful in Rainmaker.

The slosher with the kraken will probably be the most annoying goddamn thing to fight against.

Me, I'm waiting for the hydra splatling.

Topoisomerase
Apr 12, 2007

CULTURE OF VICIOUSNESS

BattleMaster posted:

I just played some Triple Squads with Roflfox and Lioness. You're still at a disadvantage over 4 mans but you can really use the faster respawn to meat grinder if you're coordinated. Also you definitely need invincible specials. I was using a Splattershot Jr. with Comeback, 2 main Fast Respawns, and 5 sub Special Savers while Roflfox was using the .96 Gal Deco (easily one of the best ranked weapons) and Lioness was using a Tentatek Splattershot. We won two games, fought one game to overtime with a lead before losing, and fought most of the rest of the several games to time (Rainmaker on Port Mackerel and Camp Triggerfish). I feel like it forces me to play better, too.

I think people start games lazily when they see they're against a 3-man because I was getting far more kills than usual by hucking Splat Bombs over the Rainmaker at the start.

Yeah that was a lot of fun and I think I lost more rank when we played 4 man today than I did in 3 yesterday, haha.

Smiles
Oct 23, 2012

Always interesting to see gimmick loadouts every now and then; this squid just went 11/1 against us on Walleye (we lost).



My team were getting two/three-shot by her Burst Bombs, squid was crazy accurate with them.

Incidentally, a while back on Moray, a squid with the exact same loadout threw a Splat Bomb from that one sniper's perch to another and blew me up cause I couldn't process she could throw it that far.

Jarogue
Nov 3, 2012


Silly Chibi, robots can't be Squid Kids

No. 1 Callie Fan
Feb 17, 2011

This inkling is your FRIEND
She fights for LOVE
Japan had it's Squid vs Octo Splatfest, and Squid won. Is that a good thing? I don't know.

Anyway, they released the MVP results, and interestingly the MVP on the winning side used the Bamboozler of all things. I guess I'll have to give that gun a serious run sometime.

Silver Falcon
Dec 5, 2005

Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and barbecue your own drumsticks!

Cialis Railman posted:

The slosher with the kraken will probably be the most annoying goddamn thing to fight against.

Me, I'm waiting for the hydra splatling.

There's a slosher with the Kraken? Please tell me more!

Jintor
May 19, 2014

this artbook's pretty good

Smiles
Oct 23, 2012

Welp, just went 19/0 on Hammerhead with a Custom Blaster, beating out my 17/0 record with a Splatterscope on Walleye and 17/0 with a 3K Scope on Blackbelly, and I've only got +140,000p on this thing compared to the +900,000p on my rifles. Dunno why people rag on Chargers so much when this monster exists.

Jintor posted:

this artbook's pretty good

Any good places to import the book and soundtrack from? Is Play-Asia any good?

Inflammatory
Apr 22, 2014

Chronojam posted:

I do that because kraken

it isn't worth it.

oopsie rock
Oct 12, 2012

Smiles posted:


Any good places to import the book and soundtrack from? Is Play-Asia any good?

I used to order stuff from Play-Asia and they were good, but I haven't gotten anything from them in a while. For the past few years I've been ordering my Japanese video game soundtracks from CDJapan and I've been extremely satisfied -- the prices are generally good and they have a reward points program: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp

If you sign up, make sure to give them your birthday (or your "birthday" if you think you'll only be making the one order) so you can get 300 reward points every year on top of whatever other rewards you get from purchases. It's not much, but it's a nice bonus if you're like me and discover another thing to import once or twice a year. EDIT: Forgot to mention that you redeem the points for discounts on your order.

(I'm not affiliated, I just like them a lot and have my Splatune album pre-ordered already!)

oopsie rock fucked around with this message at 14:04 on Oct 13, 2015

Relyssa
Jul 29, 2012



Silver Falcon posted:

There's a slosher with the Kraken? Please tell me more!

https://nwplayer123.github.io/Splatoon/Upcoming/

Slosher Deco has Splash Wall and Kraken.

Cialis Railman
Apr 20, 2007

So the rumor is that Nintendo gave the US Europe's splatfest which is why NOE's rerunning cats v. dogs.

Mr.Pibbleton
Feb 3, 2006

Aleuts rock, chummer.

Cialis Railman posted:

So the rumor is that Nintendo gave the US Europe's splatfest which is why NOE's rerunning cats v. dogs.

I hope it's eating vs sleeping

:allears:

Chronojam
Feb 20, 2006

This is me on vacation in Amsterdam :)
Never be afraid of being yourself!


Inflammatory posted:

it isn't worth it.

I like to paint it then super jump over to my team further up I guess.

Silver Falcon
Dec 5, 2005

Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and barbecue your own drumsticks!

Kaethela posted:

https://nwplayer123.github.io/Splatoon/Upcoming/

Slosher Deco has Splash Wall and Kraken.

Oh man. And it's the regular kind of slosher, not a Tri! :swoon: I'm going to use the gently caress out of that thing when it's released! I love the slosher but the sub/special on it are kind of meh.

Smiles
Oct 23, 2012

oopsie rock posted:

I used to order stuff from Play-Asia and they were good, but I haven't gotten anything from them in a while. For the past few years I've been ordering my Japanese video game soundtracks from CDJapan and I've been extremely satisfied -- the prices are generally good and they have a reward points program: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp

If you sign up, make sure to give them your birthday (or your "birthday" if you think you'll only be making the one order) so you can get 300 reward points every year on top of whatever other rewards you get from purchases. It's not much, but it's a nice bonus if you're like me and discover another thing to import once or twice a year. EDIT: Forgot to mention that you redeem the points for discounts on your order.

(I'm not affiliated, I just like them a lot and have my Splatune album pre-ordered already!)

Oh hey thanks! They're a lot cheaper than play-asia too for some raisin.

Cialis Railman
Apr 20, 2007

I had a couple of matches tonight where my only reaction was "Well, that was a thing that happened." Like the one where my bamboozler-packing rear end outshot a level 50 kraken roller. I was top of the team, actually. :stare:

Like

how

We lost

giffan
Jul 10, 2012

Smiles posted:

Any good places to import the book and soundtrack from? Is Play-Asia any good?

I used Celga to order the art book before I figured out you could order straight from amazon.co.jp which is far cheaper (so yes I ordered it twice haha). There's an option to view the site in english to make an account. It's about $9 to ship to north america.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/4047330736?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

Anora
Feb 16, 2014

I fuckin suck!🪠

Geostomp
Oct 22, 2008

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

Mmmm, delicious copyright infringement.

No. 1 Callie Fan
Feb 17, 2011

This inkling is your FRIEND
She fights for LOVE

... Use preservatives.

No. 1 Callie Fan
Feb 17, 2011

This inkling is your FRIEND
She fights for LOVE
You want merchandise? Here's your merchandise: Licensed plushies coming this December. (Japan only.)

Sockser
Jun 28, 2007

This world only remembers the results!




Those are awful.

AfroGunsou
Dec 8, 2009

:yeah:
the splatoon artbook is real good even though theres a few good 2 page spreads that dont look as good with a big dumb crease down the middle.

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

Sockser posted:

Those are awful.

I saw a photo of them at a toy show and thought they looked fine from an angle; I think that head on isn't the best perspective for them.

Bean
Sep 9, 2001
They'll be on eBay and then in Nintendo World soon enough.

I like that cookie cake. Here's hoping that it will be on eBay and then Nintendo World soon enough.

Smiles
Oct 23, 2012

How about them squid gashapon key chains

They're like 30 Aussie bucks apiece on eBay :/

PaletteSwappedNinja
Jun 3, 2008

One Nation, Under God.

Rexroom posted:

You want merchandise? Here's your merchandise: Licensed plushies coming this December. (Japan only.)



Where's Judd? They had Judd at TGS.

Cialis Railman
Apr 20, 2007

So it just hit me that Rainmaker is basically football.

Qwarq
Apr 3, 2009

Where do you live where football is played with a ball that shoots giant cyclones of ink?

I want to watch that.

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe

Cialis Railman posted:

So it just hit me that Rainmaker is basically football.

This is also why the nerds hate it so much.

Geostomp
Oct 22, 2008

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

Qwarq posted:

Where do you live where football is played with a ball that shoots giant cyclones of ink?

I want to watch that.

I'd actually see the appeal of tailgating if that were the case.

Silver Falcon
Dec 5, 2005

Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and barbecue your own drumsticks!

Suspicious Dish posted:

This is also why the nerds hate it so much.

Whaaaat? I love Rainmaker! It's the only Ranked mode I can stand to play!

Hit B+ (again) last night!

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

Silver Falcon posted:

Whaaaat? I love Rainmaker! It's the only Ranked mode I can stand to play!

Hit B+ (again) last night!

Rainmaker is great fun, but it's amazing how stupid some people can be in it. Okay guys, I've got the rainmaker near the goal and could use some backup!....Guys?... Why are you on the other side of the map?

Ometeotl
Feb 13, 2012



It's MISSEL! Or SISSLE!
I confused myself...



The game is getting an update to 2.2 on the 20th.

http://splatoon.nintendo.com/whats-new/

Scroll down to get the list of changes and the links to the details on those.

PaletteSwappedNinja
Jun 3, 2008

One Nation, Under God.
Splatoon update 2.2.0 incoming!

quote:

Listen up kids and squids! The Splatoon technicians will be sending out update data (Ver.2.2.0) starting at 6 PM PT on 10/20. They will also be performing server maintenance from 5:50 to 7:00 PM PT on the same day. During that window, service will be unavailable

Patch notes: http://splatoon.nintendo.com/assets/media/splatoon-patch-v2-2-0-notes.pdf

Cialis Railman
Apr 20, 2007

Ometeotl posted:

The game is getting an update to 2.2 on the 20th.

http://splatoon.nintendo.com/whats-new/

Scroll down to get the list of changes and the links to the details on those.

To me it looks like there are some pretty big changes being rolled out, like nerfs to blasters and roller across the board. They're also making the heavy splatling a little cheaper to use, which suits me just fine. Plus shaving exactly one point off the damage of the splattershots? :psyduck: They're also retooling the matchmaking system so S-ranks are paired up with other S-ranks more often.

It's weird. I've been so used to developers abandoning games post launch that when one of them actually fixes a bunch of stuff that I wanted them to fix, I don't know how to react. :geno:

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Sam Faust
Feb 20, 2015


This doesn't look like a small amount of changes. We get nerfs to the blasters and rollers across the board and a bunch of other adjustments to most weapons, plus some changes to Tower Control and Splat Zones. They mention automatic special refill being to added to those modes for certain situations. I'm very curious to see how that changes the flow of a match. I may have to put Mario Maker down for a bit to get splatting again.

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