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Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Around Monday the booth should show up.

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MisterShine
Feb 21, 2006

Ah I thought it was this weekend based on the tumblr thing, so its next weekend?

pokeyman
Nov 26, 2006

That elephant ate my entire platoon.
Voting opens today, actual Splatfest is next weekend.

Also if you start the game during Splatfest you are directed to the voting booth. There is no escaping Splatfest, it is literally the only playable game mode when it's on.

Dizz
Feb 14, 2010


L :dva: L
What happens if you don't vote for splatfest and then play during the event? do they put you in gay baby jail or something?

Relyssa
Jul 29, 2012



Dizz posted:

What happens if you don't vote for splatfest and then play during the event? do they put you in gay baby jail or something?

I haven't tried, but I think they just straight-up don't let you play if you don't pick a side.

MisterShine
Feb 21, 2006

Game not available in Switzerland

oopsie rock
Oct 12, 2012

Dizz posted:

What happens if you don't vote for splatfest and then play during the event? do they put you in gay baby jail or something?

If you mean "don't vote for Splatfest until the day it starts" then they force you to vote before you can play.

Dizz
Feb 14, 2010


L :dva: L
SUCKS!

Suaimhneas
Nov 19, 2005

That's how you get tinnitus

pokeyman posted:

Voting opens today, actual Splatfest is next weekend.

Also if you start the game during Splatfest you are directed to the voting booth. There is no escaping Splatfest, it is literally the only playable game mode when it's on.

Can't you still make a private lobby and play whatever you like? Assuming you have seven friends who also don't like splatfest

lick it or ticket
Apr 12, 2013

When you want to laugh cry as hard as you can, when you want to cry laugh all you can. When you see rain, just think of it as the world laughing with you, and laugh until you can't anymore.

Suaimhneas posted:

Can't you still make a private lobby and play whatever you like? Assuming you have seven friends who also don't like splatfest

Private lobbies are still available, but just Splatfest otherwise.

Scaly Haylie
Dec 25, 2004

Suaimhneas posted:

Can't you still make a private lobby and play whatever you like? Assuming you have seven friends who also don't like splatfest

*record scratch*

Bean
Sep 9, 2001
I dunno, how far in the past are we talking? Because I like antibiotics.

Kinky Cookie Bunny
Apr 1, 2011

I just spent a match in turf war and noticed there was one of those assholes that wear the cracker jack hat on my team and then at the end of the match I realized it was Senerio hahaha whoops

oopsie rock
Oct 12, 2012

Bean posted:

I dunno, how far in the past are we talking? Because I like antibiotics.

For some reason I thought you were talking about the future, and it still made sense to me :(

MisterShine
Feb 21, 2006

I find the w/friend multiplayer in this game pretty interesting. Ranked you can have your buddy just tool around with you, its ranked so get-poo poo-on. But you CAN play together in casual unranked but just in the same lobby, often on opposing teams.

Its a sort of clever way to deal with organized teams just stomping the crap out of casuals. Although I guess Im not 100% sold on it as I sometimes do just want to play casual with my lovely friends on the same team without having to deal with organized teams curb stomping us.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


I've decided to go Team Future.

Zaphod42
Sep 13, 2012

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

No. 1 Callie Fan
Feb 17, 2011

This inkling is your FRIEND
She fights for LOVE
Judging from the amount of rudimentary depictions of penises on Miiverse, I'd say Splatoon got a fresh boost of new players.

hey welcome to the show!
Jan 22, 2014

nobody loves me
It was Christmas

ZenMasterBullshit
Nov 2, 2011

Restaurant de Nouvelles "À Table" Proudly Presents:
A Climactic Encounter Ending on 1 Negate and a Dream

Jonas Albrecht posted:

I've decided to go Team Future.



Team Future is where it's (going to be) at

Cialis Railman
Apr 20, 2007

This is bad. I'm starting to miss Arowana Mall. :v: It wasn't that bad of a map, really. You just had to push HARD into the center, and that was something a lot of people couldn't get.

Night Blade
Feb 25, 2013


You loving beat me too it... ASSASSIN?!

THE X-MEN ARE THE ASSASSINS!

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Cialis Railman posted:

This is bad. I'm starting to miss Arowana Mall. :v: It wasn't that bad of a map, really. You just had to push HARD into the center, and that was something a lot of people couldn't get.

It's my favorite map, I hope it comes back soon.

Suaimhneas
Nov 19, 2005

That's how you get tinnitus

I guess absence really does make the heart grow fonder, even for things that are trash with no redeeming qualities

Dizz
Feb 14, 2010


L :dva: L
arowana is a good map

No. 1 Callie Fan
Feb 17, 2011

This inkling is your FRIEND
She fights for LOVE
It's a bit strange. They announced they'd remodel Urchin Underpass back then, but this - nothing but silence. When Famitsu did their Splatoon poll back in July, Arowana Mall was the second least favorite map. (Bluefin Depot was number one. Figuratively speaking. Although they never removed that from the roster so far.)

I guess Nintendo looked at it, saw that it has a tendency of suffering from map lockdowns and decided to take it off for alterations or worse.

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
I think they took it out because nobody liked it but they couldn't commit to resourcing a redesign.

Cialis Railman
Apr 20, 2007

Rexroom posted:

It's a bit strange. They announced they'd remodel Urchin Underpass back then, but this - nothing but silence. When Famitsu did their Splatoon poll back in July, Arowana Mall was the second least favorite map. (Bluefin Depot was number one. Figuratively speaking. Although they never removed that from the roster so far.)

I guess Nintendo looked at it, saw that it has a tendency of suffering from map lockdowns and decided to take it off for alterations or worse.

Wait, whats wrong with bluefin?

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Cialis Railman posted:

Wait, whats wrong with bluefin?
Anyone squidding out of spawn dies instantly, it's obnoxious to play as a roller or brush, it's confusing for new players, you can kill yourself a bunch of ways.

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro
Fun Shoe
on tower control whenever i try to jump for the tower the slightest bit of lag comes in and stalls the tower making me fall right in the water

No. 1 Callie Fan
Feb 17, 2011

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FactsAreUseless posted:

Anyone squidding out of spawn dies instantly, it's obnoxious to play as a roller or brush, it's confusing for new players, you can kill yourself a bunch of ways.

Those are just marks of a bad player. I played roller on it a couple of times, and it's good, you just have to rely on your teammates on this map more than others.

Which is why it was the least favorite map. :v:

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Rexroom posted:

Those are just marks of a bad player. I played roller on it a couple of times, and it's good, you just have to rely on your teammates on this map more than others.

Which is why it was the least favorite map. :v:
They're all things that make the map incredibly unfriendly for new players, and there's especially no reason for the grate right after spawn.

No. 1 Callie Fan
Feb 17, 2011

This inkling is your FRIEND
She fights for LOVE

FactsAreUseless posted:

They're all things that make the map incredibly unfriendly for new players, and there's especially no reason for the grate right after spawn.

Yes there is. It's to remind new players that they should not squid on the grates.

Cialis Railman
Apr 20, 2007

Sounds like the Japanese just need to git gud. :colbert:

Space Fish
Oct 14, 2008

The original Big Tuna.


I think Arowana Mall would be improved by a netted/grated walkway on both sides of the center hill, bridging across from the bottom. This would allow players to sneak around the hill into flanking position, but slowly enough that the hill could get taken in the meantime as a consequence. Maximal play would require reading the map, while scrubs would slow down their teams trying to hide from the scary ol' hill.

It would also make run speed matter a little more. I avoid run upgrades like the plague.

MisterShine
Feb 21, 2006

I have never played on the mall.

Skatepark is my level of most dislike though. Especially splatzones right the gently caress beside each other

Cialis Railman
Apr 20, 2007

MisterShine posted:

I have never played on the mall.

Skatepark is my level of most dislike though. Especially splatzones right the gently caress beside each other

You're not the only one who doesn't like the skatepark. Something about it is visually confusing to me, plus you can't squid up the goddamn ramps without jumping.

Anyway, isn't there an official Splatoon twitter feed? Maybe if we tweeted them a bunch asking where the mall is they'd release an official statement, like "we got rid of it" or "we're retooling it and it'll be rereleased with ancho-v games" or something. :shrug:

Cialis Railman fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Jan 11, 2016

Suspicious Dish
Sep 24, 2011

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

MisterShine posted:

I have never played on the mall.

Skatepark is my level of most dislike though. Especially splatzones right the gently caress beside each other

that mode owns shut up

MisterShine
Feb 21, 2006

Its a poorly designed level with a sniper tower in the middle of both zones.

Trash for Trash.

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Dizz
Feb 14, 2010


L :dva: L
I've never had sniper problems on skatepark.

Dynamos are a different thing.

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