[Splatoon] Kid/Squid color coating warfare with style!

Taramoor

Uncute thread title.

Maz-

MNC Dover wrote: »

Title updated. 5 points if you get the reference. OP is horrifically out of date, so I'll try to clean it up when part 2 hits.

Yes hello, I'd like to claim my 5 points.

BlueBlue

do y'all think the squids wash their tentacles with shampoo or what

MNC Dover

Sorry @Maz-, looks like @Taramoor beat you by 5 minutes, so 5 points to him. On the other hand, you get 5 points for posting a Genma pic.

Athenor

I am still tooling around in Zelda.. but I'm pulling myself away from that to see how this plays.

Man, I wish my TV was working.

HappylilElf

There's another testfire happening in like 20 minutes right?

Athenor

Testfire just let me connect to do the tutorial!

PMAvers

Looks like the Testfire is live a couple of minutes early. I'll try running my stream again.

BlueBlue

Not having success connecting to switch internet, even to accept friend requests

PMAvers

BlueBlue wrote: »

Not having success connecting to switch internet, even to accept friend requests

Try restarting the Switch (by holding the power button down), and then re-connect to Internet via options.

HappylilElf

BlueBlue wrote: »

Not having success connecting to switch internet, even to accept friend requests

Try restarting your switch. Mine was doing the same thing but it's working after a reset.

Athenor

There are some definite quality of life improvements in here, but damn if switching jump and map isn't throwing me off, ESPECIALLY with fucking Zelda training me to jump with X!

*turns off motion controls because they aren't working so well on the portable*

Athenor

Yup. Still Splatoon. Connection is quite solid, playing without motion controls works better for my current setup, I like the dualies, 3 minutes still goes WAY TOO DAMN fast.

Also everything looks so much better, like the plastic tarps on un-inkable surfaces.. and the ink itself..

BlueBlue

Got in with brute force eventually~

X was jump in the original so definitely throwing me off as well, now that's it's the "go blind" button

ManetherenWolf

i keep getting "An Error has occurred" every time i try starting it

Athenor

I wonder if the idea is to have jump be as close to the stick as possible? That means tip on Wii u, bottom on switch...

They better have the controls be mappable.

Imperfect

ManetherenWolf wrote: »

i keep getting "An Error has occurred" every time i try starting it

Same. And "Details" is "The server is operating normally."

So what's the flippin' error, then?

EDIT: Whoops, just connected!

ManetherenWolf

got in!

also figured out how to turn off motion aiming, thank god

Road Block

Did splatoon have leaver penalties? Seeing a few and it instantly sinks the match.

BlueBlue

Thinking it's a leaver in this time of connection stress testing?

In any case no it didn't and it was a bummer every time, on the plus side matches are real short

Handsome Costanza

It's confirmed, I am the worst at Splatoon.

Road Block

BlueBlue wrote: »

Thinking it's a leaver in this time of connection stress testing?

In any case no it didn't and it was a bummer every time, on the plus side matches are real short

Ah well should improve once the game comes out with ranked mode.

Messing with the lobby music with the control sticks is surprisingly addicting.

BlueBlue

Vocals with dpad

Handsome Costanza

Nevermind.. I think I found the source of my woes. I jacked both sensitivity settings to -3 and now im playing much better.

Zython

I think I play better with gyro controls in portable mode. The weight of the system helps me make more subtle movements.

PMAvers

Man, this guy that's been in the last few matches. He's using the charger, and just spamming the shots everywhere.... and naturally, is just constantly dying.

ManetherenWolf

welp. testfire is done for today. ah well.

Can't wait for the full game release.

Handsome Costanza

This is the game after changing my sensitivity settings. Yeah we lost but I had been 0 for the century before that so it's something worth celebrating.

BlueBlue

Found out the hard way you're on a time limit to pull the trigger on those missiles once you start targeting

Just line up already!

skeldare

Woo Splatoon. It's been too long. So much fun playing in handheld.

Big Dookie

Managed to stream the last 20 minutes or so of the latest testfire. Unfortunately it felt like about half of that was spend waiting for matchmaking, but I got a few matches in at least.

My first Splatoon, so take it easy on me.

Mr Khan

Testfire impressions:

Roller feels like an impressive buff, or maybe i'm playing with enough noobs that my utter lack of nuance with the roller makes me competitive again. Splatdown is useful when you get ambushed, but the windup is too slow and the impact is too small. Needs to be widened to about the area of an Inkstrike.

Missiles need to be faster, much faster. As it is, all they're good for is area denial right now.

I like the joycon and the default aiming sensitivity for the charger now. The megabeam or whatever it is needs to be faster too, though, like the minigun of yore.

The jetpack's pretty good on the deadliness front, but the weakness of being a pretty easy target needs to be addressed by stopping the recoil when the attack ends: they're trying to stop you from getting places you shouldn't go, i disagree, you should be able to do that, especially since you can't carry anything while superjumping or special attacking, so it won't screw up with things like Rainmaker.

Both stages seem on the small side, but designed pretty well for all of that.

Handsome Costanza

Also chalk it up to being a newbie but man I sure did fall through the grates in the floor/off the stage a lot.

BlueBlue

i was looking at all the grates thinking heh heh heh

seasleepy

The new maps are interesting... They both feel a lot like Urchin Underpass more than any of the other old maps, but with even more hideyholes.

That fucking jump button change is gonna take some getting used to.

I love that undercut/glasses combo, still A+ style all around.

skeldare

I'm in love with the splat dualies. I think I'm going to main them.

Mblackwell

AbsoluteZero wrote: »

Played two games and now I can't connect. No matter. This game controls like dogshit. I'm mystified this game is so popular.

I'm not sure where this sentiment comes from. I can perform ridiculous maneuvers quite easily in Splatoon, things you haven't been able to do in shooters since Quake 3 Arena. It's not that it controls poorly, just that there's a learning curve and you need to accept that you won't be awesome right away. Also play with Motion Controls. Gyro is a must if you want to break the skill ceiling.

You could tell many players hadn't played Splatoon before, or at least not often as my wife and I dominated basically every match. I mean like 2000 points and 10-0 kind of dominating. Dualies are pretty fun, and a rolling is a nice counter for that moment when you realize you are about to be nailed by a charger. Also you can apparently hold ZL and drop yourself out of the sky when you're using the inkjet.

Edit: Am I nuts or did the Reef map have absolutely no way to get up into the enemy base near their spawn? I found a way in Musselforge Fitness, but not in the other.

Handsome Costanza

Inkjets seem awfully vulnerable, as long as one wasn't directly facing me I had time to line up and take the perfect shot.

Big Dookie

The roller definitely feels like the easiest to pick up and play with little prior experience. My daughter who never plays any kind of FPS/action games tried a few during the test fire, and she was able to get first place a couple times using the roller. I'm sure there's some nuance to it as you get more competitive, but at first glance it seems the most straightforward.

Road Block

A quick heads up I think might prove helpful. When super humping you can fire before you hit the ground. Caught out a few people who seemed to think because they could see where I'd land I was a safe kill.