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zolthorg
May 26, 2009

https://twitter.com/WikiHowTXT/status/622392118489784320

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CuddleCryptid
Jan 11, 2013

Things could be going better

The Deleter posted:

Got this game for Christmas and it has raised my blood pressure higher than League of Legends ever did. I need a therapist. I'm only level 7, stop matching me against these assholes in samurai gear! :smith:

If it makes you feel better, half of the time you can just focus on painting over your side of the map and contribute more to victory than the level 20000 players trying to TDM for the center. It's a good way to get used to the controls and maps.

The Deleter
May 22, 2010

DreamShipWrecked posted:

If it makes you feel better, half of the time you can just focus on painting over your side of the map and contribute more to victory than the level 20000 players trying to TDM for the center. It's a good way to get used to the controls and maps.

Yeah, I switched to twin stick controls because the motion ones felt way too twitchy. I picked up the rollers and I'm having a pretty good time just painting swathes of the map and pretending to be the energy sword from Halo. Feels way less stressful.

When should I bother min-maxing clothing perks? It kinda sucks running into people with full swatches of damage up perks, but I can't be bothered with all that poo poo. I've just been buying what's fresh, yo.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

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

The Deleter posted:

Yeah, I switched to twin stick controls because the motion ones felt way too twitchy. I picked up the rollers and I'm having a pretty good time just painting swathes of the map and pretending to be the energy sword from Halo. Feels way less stressful.

When should I bother min-maxing clothing perks? It kinda sucks running into people with full swatches of damage up perks, but I can't be bothered with all that poo poo. I've just been buying what's fresh, yo.

You can mostly play with that mentality. In rank i'd say it matter somewhat, but min-maxing perks have very light benefits. For example, damage up always caps out 1 damage unit before a gun would take less to kill someone, so no matter what you're never really killing faster from raw damage (well there are few exceptions but lets ignore 'em for now)
In half an hour a splatfest starts, by playing you'll be able to gain Super Seashells which let you put more perk slots on your clothes and when they're full reroll the perks you got.

Best advice I got is look for a main perk you like (like faster respawn) and stick with it and mobility stuff, but never put it above looking fresh.

Count Uvula
Dec 20, 2011

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The Deleter posted:

Yeah, I switched to twin stick controls because the motion ones felt way too twitchy. I picked up the rollers and I'm having a pretty good time just painting swathes of the map and pretending to be the energy sword from Halo. Feels way less stressful.

When should I bother min-maxing clothing perks? It kinda sucks running into people with full swatches of damage up perks, but I can't be bothered with all that poo poo. I've just been buying what's fresh, yo.

If you're in to the game enough to min-max your perks, you should know that learning the motion controls is more important than any single perk :eng101: You can min-max your perks once you have all the clothes/weapons you want, play around with your clothes to get a feel for what each of them do in the primary slot (general rule of thumb, 3 secondary slot perks is worth 90-100% of a single primary, so you can easily estimate how effective they'll be when you roll them in your secondary slots).
Seashells from splatfests are each the equivalent of a 30,000 coin reroll, so play the splatfest until you're all tuckered out on it because you can get up to 720,000 coins worth of seashells.

The Deleter
May 22, 2010
Alright, sounds cool. I'll see if I can squeeze in some Splatfest stuff tomorrow but I'm not going to bother min-maxing until I decide to jump into ranked. I should probably try and get used to the motion aiming. Thanks! :)

bunky
Aug 29, 2004

I guess the Google Doc in the OP isn't active anymore? I picked this up last week and it would be cool to add some friends. Username is thebunky.

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!


Whoa

Night Blade
Feb 25, 2013

The Deleter posted:

Alright, sounds cool. I'll see if I can squeeze in some Splatfest stuff tomorrow but I'm not going to bother min-maxing until I decide to jump into ranked. I should probably try and get used to the motion aiming. Thanks! :)

If you cant get used to motion aiming, or aiming traditional firing weapons Rollers are a common suggestions but you might even want to check out blasters too.

Canned Panda
Jul 10, 2012




I just wanted to say that I officially hate that dame skate park level!

Nep-Nep
May 15, 2004

Just one more thing!
My team has been all around so good that for a moment I was beginning to suspect we were cheating. Not often I am blessed with such a competent team, this is great.

MisterShine
Feb 21, 2006

Soooo splat fest really brings out the lovely connections huh?

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Team Marie is still the side that attracts aggresively bad players.

Cialis Railman
Apr 20, 2007

Had a good time. Made it to so hawt and 14 points into past defender before I called it a night. I played a little more than usual because I needed the money for the custom hydra. Took about an hour, and I lost twice in that time (Which cheesed me off, because I had a solid streak going. :argh:)

The heavy splatling is quickly becoming my go-to gun for these things. I think I've used it the last these last two or three times, and I used ONLY it for Naughty v. Nice.

Randumb Thots
Apr 5, 2015

Jonas Albrecht posted:

Team Marie is still the side that attracts aggresively bad players.

Holy Christ. Like, I knew Team Future was going to be the super popular one with all the kids that loses by 80 points but I picked them anyway. I guess that's on me.

Nep-Nep
May 15, 2004

Just one more thing!
On team past. Just reached Champion, and I have not lost a match yet.

Otherkinsey Scale
Jul 17, 2012

Just a little bit of sunshine!

Randumb Thots posted:

Holy Christ. Like, I knew Team Future was going to be the super popular one with all the kids that loses by 80 points but I picked them anyway. I guess that's on me.

That's what I predicted too, but then seeing a bunch of Team Past posts in the plaza made me reconsider.

Also, I tried out the Custom Hydra Splatling but the Mini-Splatling spoiled me because it just charges up so fast.

MisterShine
Feb 21, 2006

Jonas Albrecht posted:

Team Marie is still the side that attracts aggresively bad players.

It's me. I'm the aggressively bad player

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Roughly 15 out of 16 matches have been losses. 7 of those 15 ended in us getting spawn camped. I just want to die.

TheMadMilkman
Dec 10, 2007

Do you have to get to champion to max out splatfest? Because if so, I'm not doing it. Tonight was brutal.

Otherkinsey Scale
Jul 17, 2012

Just a little bit of sunshine!

TheMadMilkman posted:

Do you have to get to champion to max out splatfest? Because if so, I'm not doing it. Tonight was brutal.

The highest rank is King/Queen.

TheMadMilkman
Dec 10, 2007

Carrasco posted:

The highest rank is King/Queen.

Ya that's not happening here.

Jarogue
Nov 3, 2012


This is going out to all the people on Team Furture that I fought tonight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6XQbWqb6-s

I got Past Champion in less the a 1 hr and a half. That has happen since the time I worked for Megatron.

also the names are even funnier this time like Past King and Future King.

No. 1 Callie Fan
Feb 17, 2011

This inkling is your FRIEND
She fights for LOVE
https://twitter.com/SplatoonJP/status/688179927896604672

Which is better: Looks or Brains? That's for Japan to decide next weekend.

https://youtu.be/1KTUXKk-GXo

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!

Rexroom posted:

https://twitter.com/SplatoonJP/status/688179927896604672

Which is better: Looks or Brains? That's for Japan to decide next weekend.

https://youtu.be/1KTUXKk-GXo

Terry Pratchett posted:

... People would take pains to tell her that beauty was only skin-deep, as if a man ever fell for an attractive pair of kidneys.

Callie is looks, right? She has to be.

Ometeotl
Feb 13, 2012



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



If you choose your team based on which gives you the better chance to win, then you deserve to lose.

Silver Falcon
Dec 5, 2005

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

Ometeotl posted:

If you choose your team based on which gives you the better chance to win, then you deserve to lose.

:yeah: So much. The difference between King/Queen on the winning and losing teams is a mere 6 sea snails. Pick the side you want to win and make it happen!

Takoluka
Jun 26, 2009

Don't look at me!



Jonas Albrecht posted:

Team Marie is still the side that attracts aggresively bad players.

I've had players consistently sit in the spawn and just throw bombs. This is, quite honestly, the most unfun Splatfest I've played, and I've lost more than one. It's infuriating and mind-boggling.

Space Fish
Oct 14, 2008

The original Big Tuna.


Anyone using the name G.D. Grackle yet?
I can't be the only one who hears it throughout Splatfest.

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009

Is that an edit or what

pokeyman
Nov 26, 2006

That elephant ate my entire platoon.
Bunch of future on future action.

Scaly Haylie
Dec 25, 2004

FirstAidKite posted:

Is that an edit or what

No, Nintendo totally signed off on one of their characters talking about how they want to travel back in time to have sex.

Senerio
Oct 19, 2009

Roëmænce is ælive!

Kinky Cookie Bunny posted:

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

I pick hats based on what I have yet to master. Prob already moved onto the next hat.

Night Blade
Feb 25, 2013

WarpedNaba posted:

Callie is looks, right? She has to be.

That is the worst art since Dancing vs Singing

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009

Lizard Wizard posted:

No, Nintendo totally signed off on one of their characters talking about how they want to travel back in time to have sex.

It wouldn't be the first time there was some kind of innuendo in a nintendo game

Dr Cheeto
Mar 2, 2013
Wretched Harp
It ain't real, it's just nerds thirsty for Callie

pichupal
Mar 23, 2013

Poochy ain't Stupid.
I might be.
Oh man, after playing a while in S and S+ ranked, it's really nice to see all these low level squid kids Booyah-ing all the time even when we're losing. :3:

Team Future already knows the result of this splatfest, so we might as well have fun while it happens.

Edit: Callie wants to ride a dinosaur and meet a human. Someone just switched it. It's why the text isn't lined up properly.

zolthorg
May 26, 2009

Team chocolate milk is the best team

Hardcordion
Feb 5, 2008

BARK BARK BARK

zolthorg posted:

Team chocolate milk is the best team

I assume you mean team future? I wouldn't really call it chocolate milk but I agree. I think from now on I'm going pick sides based solely on which color I like more.

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Hatastrophe
Sep 28, 2007

pichupal posted:

Oh man, after playing a while in S and S+ ranked, it's really nice to see all these low level squid kids Booyah-ing all the time even when we're losing. :3:

Team Future already knows the result of this splatfest, so we might as well have fun while it happens.

Edit: Callie wants to ride a dinosaur and meet a human. Someone just switched it. It's why the text isn't lined up properly.

Our team got camped at the spawn in kelp dome and we just spammed booyah, it was good times. Honestly Outside a few bad matches, I've been doing alright on team future. It's just either a slaughter or a good win.

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