Yeah I'm just about done with this game. I just went on like a 15 game losing streak, all full of bullshit like this:
Matchmaking in this game sucks sooo bad.
Man. I don't even play ranked, I just love Salmon Run and Turf War, and without any real rank thing going on there's less sense of being dicked over, y'know? I just like unlocking stuff on my gear.
Had a horrible losing streak on rainmaker last night as well. The art academy and port mackerel stages are brutal on rainmaker, whoever gets the first kills and advances has all the momentum with such small stages.
Yeah I'm just about done with this game. I just went on like a 15 game losing streak, all full of bullshit like this:
Matchmaking in this game sucks sooo bad.
I'm not sure what I'm looking at here? Is it the K/D ratios on each team? Weapon loadout distribution?
For me, ranked mode is just full of people that don't grok that they're not playing Turf War. Granted, my experience is still in the Cs because I just don't like playing most of the modes as much as Turf War and Salmon run, but I've read here and elsewhere that it's the same at all ranks.
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Yeah I'm just about done with this game. I just went on like a 15 game losing streak, all full of bullshit like this:
Matchmaking in this game sucks sooo bad.
I'm not sure what I'm looking at here? Is it the K/D ratios on each team? Weapon loadout distribution?
For me, ranked mode is just full of people that don't grok that they're not playing Turf War. Granted, my experience is still in the Cs because I just don't like playing most of the modes as much as Turf War and Salmon run, but I've read here and elsewhere that it's the same at all ranks.
Yes it's the KD ratios on each team. Normally k:d's don't matter as much as teamwork in shooters, but in this game if even one teammate dies you're at a significant disadvantage in the ranked modes. if you're entire team is dying as much as theyre killing/more than theyre killing you're not going to win.. ever.. and every match is like this. After the 50th game it stops being a coincidence. I'm doing everything I can to keep my teammates alive and together too. And when I eventually do win? It's not because I've suddenly been given a competent team, its usually because I run around like a maniac splatting the entire enemy team over and over again (just wiping them once doesn't work because the second they come back they kill all my teammates instantaneously and I'm left to fend for myself in a 3 or 4v1). Like I said, it's exhausting.
Yeah I'm just about done with this game. I just went on like a 15 game losing streak, all full of bullshit like this:
Matchmaking in this game sucks sooo bad.
I'm not sure what I'm looking at here? Is it the K/D ratios on each team? Weapon loadout distribution?
For me, ranked mode is just full of people that don't grok that they're not playing Turf War. Granted, my experience is still in the Cs because I just don't like playing most of the modes as much as Turf War and Salmon run, but I've read here and elsewhere that it's the same at all ranks.
Yes it's the KD ratios on each team. Normally k:d's don't matter as much as teamwork in shooters, but in this game if even one teammate dies you're at a significant disadvantage in the ranked modes. if you're entire team is dying as much as theyre killing/more than theyre killing you're not going to win.. ever.. and every game is like this. After the 50th game it stops being a coincidence. I'm doing everything I can to keep my teammates alive and together too.
The one ranked mode I truly like and play (Splat Zone), I often end up being that guy too (I prefer the standard slosher to the tri though). Like if you've got half a brain you realize this isn't Turf War and strategize accordingly. Unfortunately that seems to be a rarity. It is shocking how effective a simple flank approach works, even if you're the only fucking one doing it.
Sorry if I came off like a goose asking about your screen cap, I was just looking at it and not seeing anything terribly out of the ordinary, which probably speaks to your point
Doesn't help that the aerospray is probably the worst weapon you can use for that mode and map.
Splatoon 2 has a serious aerospray problem in general.
I mean, it's pretty good on a lot of maps in turf wars because it's got very good coverage. And then the special lets you charge blindly (people rarely use it smartly, but). So they see big numbers.
The people who are murdering the enemy team with double-digit kill counts? Never an aerospray. It's terrible for that against anything with range or mobility. Dualies, the longer ranged shots, squelchers, blasters, splatlings... the list of what wrecks it head to head is long.
But DAMN can it lay down ink, and that's valuable on its own.
Even in ranked it can be useful... rapid coverage can help for splat zones (probably better off using something else still, like octobrush), or breaking the rainmaker open fast (and once you're carrying it who cares about your gun).
Yeah I'm just about done with this game. I just went on like a 15 game losing streak, all full of bullshit like this:
Matchmaking in this game sucks sooo bad.
I'm not sure what I'm looking at here? Is it the K/D ratios on each team? Weapon loadout distribution?
For me, ranked mode is just full of people that don't grok that they're not playing Turf War. Granted, my experience is still in the Cs because I just don't like playing most of the modes as much as Turf War and Salmon run, but I've read here and elsewhere that it's the same at all ranks.
Yes it's the KD ratios on each team. Normally k:d's don't matter as much as teamwork in shooters, but in this game if even one teammate dies you're at a significant disadvantage in the ranked modes. if you're entire team is dying as much as theyre killing/more than theyre killing you're not going to win.. ever.. and every game is like this. After the 50th game it stops being a coincidence. I'm doing everything I can to keep my teammates alive and together too.
The one ranked mode I truly like and play (Splat Zone), I often end up being that guy too (I prefer the standard slosher to the tri though). Like if you've got half a brain you realize this isn't Turf War and strategize accordingly. Unfortunately that seems to be a rarity. It is shocking how effective a simple flank approach works, even if you're the only fucking one doing it.
Sorry if I came off like a goose asking about your screen cap, I was just looking at it and not seeing anything terribly out of the ordinary, which probably speaks to your point
Nah you didn't come off that way at all, I was just answering the question.
Re:flanking. Flanking only works if you have a competent team who's holding their own as a "base of fire". Otherwise you'll get one or two kills before being splatted after they roll the rest of your team up. At least thats what happens to me.
Doesn't help that the aerospray is probably the worst weapon you can use for that mode and map.
Splatoon 2 has a serious aerospray problem in general.
I mean, it's pretty good on a lot of maps in turf wars because it's got very good coverage. And then the special lets you charge blindly (people rarely use it smartly, but). So they see big numbers.
The people who are murdering the enemy team with double-digit kill counts? Never an aerospray. It's terrible for that against anything with range or mobility. Dualies, the longer ranged shots, squelchers, blasters, splatlings... the list of what wrecks it head to head is long.
But DAMN can it lay down ink, and that's valuable on its own.
Even in ranked it can be useful... rapid coverage can help for splat zones (probably better off using something else still, like octobrush), or breaking the rainmaker open fast (and once you're carrying it who cares about your gun).
I just think it's telling when 9 out of 10 Turf War matches I get into has teams comprised out of at least 2 aerosprays. When it is the weapon of choice it's time to take a look at it. Just my opinion though.
Yeah I'm just about done with this game. I just went on like a 15 game losing streak, all full of bullshit like this:
Matchmaking in this game sucks sooo bad.
I'm not sure what I'm looking at here? Is it the K/D ratios on each team? Weapon loadout distribution?
For me, ranked mode is just full of people that don't grok that they're not playing Turf War. Granted, my experience is still in the Cs because I just don't like playing most of the modes as much as Turf War and Salmon run, but I've read here and elsewhere that it's the same at all ranks.
Yes it's the KD ratios on each team. Normally k:d's don't matter as much as teamwork in shooters, but in this game if even one teammate dies you're at a significant disadvantage in the ranked modes. if you're entire team is dying as much as theyre killing/more than theyre killing you're not going to win.. ever.. and every game is like this. After the 50th game it stops being a coincidence. I'm doing everything I can to keep my teammates alive and together too.
The one ranked mode I truly like and play (Splat Zone), I often end up being that guy too (I prefer the standard slosher to the tri though). Like if you've got half a brain you realize this isn't Turf War and strategize accordingly. Unfortunately that seems to be a rarity. It is shocking how effective a simple flank approach works, even if you're the only fucking one doing it.
Sorry if I came off like a goose asking about your screen cap, I was just looking at it and not seeing anything terribly out of the ordinary, which probably speaks to your point
Nah you didn't come off that way at all, I was just answering the question.
Re:flanking. Flanking only works if you have a competent team who's holding their own as a "base of fire". Otherwise you'll get one or two kills before being splatted after they roll the rest of your team up. At least thats what happens to me.
Flanking has worked for me in situations when the opposing team is holding the splat zone (again, it's the only one I've really gotten into) and the rest of my team just takes the most straightforward approach to the zone and runs into a wall of ink. Flanking in and raining death with the slosher is about as complicated a strategy as I use and it tends to work. Again, still in the C rank range so this could be atypical.
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Doesn't help that the aerospray is probably the worst weapon you can use for that mode and map.
Splatoon 2 has a serious aerospray problem in general.
I mean, it's pretty good on a lot of maps in turf wars because it's got very good coverage. And then the special lets you charge blindly (people rarely use it smartly, but). So they see big numbers.
The people who are murdering the enemy team with double-digit kill counts? Never an aerospray. It's terrible for that against anything with range or mobility. Dualies, the longer ranged shots, squelchers, blasters, splatlings... the list of what wrecks it head to head is long.
But DAMN can it lay down ink, and that's valuable on its own.
Even in ranked it can be useful... rapid coverage can help for splat zones (probably better off using something else still, like octobrush), or breaking the rainmaker open fast (and once you're carrying it who cares about your gun).
I just think it's telling when 9 out of 10 Turf War matches I get into has teams comprised out of at least 2 aerosprays. When it is the weapon of choice it's time to take a look at it. Just my opinion though.
Yeah I'm just about done with this game. I just went on like a 15 game losing streak, all full of bullshit like this:
Matchmaking in this game sucks sooo bad.
I'm not sure what I'm looking at here? Is it the K/D ratios on each team? Weapon loadout distribution?
For me, ranked mode is just full of people that don't grok that they're not playing Turf War. Granted, my experience is still in the Cs because I just don't like playing most of the modes as much as Turf War and Salmon run, but I've read here and elsewhere that it's the same at all ranks.
Yes it's the KD ratios on each team. Normally k:d's don't matter as much as teamwork in shooters, but in this game if even one teammate dies you're at a significant disadvantage in the ranked modes. if you're entire team is dying as much as theyre killing/more than theyre killing you're not going to win.. ever.. and every game is like this. After the 50th game it stops being a coincidence. I'm doing everything I can to keep my teammates alive and together too.
The one ranked mode I truly like and play (Splat Zone), I often end up being that guy too (I prefer the standard slosher to the tri though). Like if you've got half a brain you realize this isn't Turf War and strategize accordingly. Unfortunately that seems to be a rarity. It is shocking how effective a simple flank approach works, even if you're the only fucking one doing it.
Sorry if I came off like a goose asking about your screen cap, I was just looking at it and not seeing anything terribly out of the ordinary, which probably speaks to your point
Nah you didn't come off that way at all, I was just answering the question.
Re:flanking. Flanking only works if you have a competent team who's holding their own as a "base of fire". Otherwise you'll get one or two kills before being splatted after they roll the rest of your team up. At least thats what happens to me.
Flanking has worked for me in situations when the opposing team is holding the splat zone (again, it's the only one I've really gotten into) and the rest of my team just takes the most straightforward approach to the zone and runs into a wall of ink. Flanking in and raining death with the slosher is about as complicated a strategy as I use and it tends to work. Again, still in the C rank range so this could be atypical.
Yeah that kind of stuff stops working consistently once you reach A rank.
Alright, first ranked session went well. I went straight from C- to B- in Tower Control.
Can you send these competent players my way?
Based on my experience, jumping to B- or B from the initial C- can be done with individual skill, without an intricate amount of team support. I wonder if the accelerated ranking up has brought some folks up too quickly that there's still a lot of variability? But sometimes the games do get rolly and there's no way to avoid it. Just gotta roll with the punches. It took me about a year to get to A+ in the original Splatoon 1. And now, in Splatoon 2, after the initial ranking up to B- and B, I've been stuck going about 50:50 in wins and losses, rather than the relatively easy time I expected to have to get to B+ or A-. Stuff takes time, especially when playing with others. Maybe that's just me, though. Shooters aren't really my genre of expertise.
I really want to get together for some premades or whatever for ranked some time. But tbh the whole phone app thing is one reason I'm dragging my feet. And I also tend not to play in longer than half-hour to an hour chunks. And also I'd be embarrassed if I did poorly.
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Jfc it's never ending
Edit: a little bit different since the guy dropped, still being fucked by the game though.
Can one organize teams here and successfully use them in game? I would be willing to anger you as a teammate. I mean… crush our foes. (Jokes aside, I hover around A to S rank because of inconsistent matchmaking.)
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Can one organize teams here and successfully use them in game? I would be willing to anger you as a teammate. I mean… crush our foes. (Jokes aside, I hover around A to S rank because of inconsistent matchmaking.)
Yes! I need a consistent team so badly rn. My friend code is in my sig. You need the Nintendo app if we're gonna communicate though. We can still play without it but we'd be relegated to booyahs and this ways.
Like in rain maker theres always guys that try and rush the goal instead of waiting for back up. You can win by time out theres no hurry.
In splat zones Ill try and snipe with a heavy splatling but my team wont take advantage ( or one guy will and keep dying because the other team is in force) or worse Ill run up with inkbrush siginal for them to jump to me and nobody wil.
I feel like Ill never escape C
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I know from experience that the brush is awful for Salmon Run. And a roller too? Basically two roller-types for this one? And did I see a sniper rifle, or was I not looking closely enough? I remember seeing the Zapper which is fine.
I know from experience that the brush is awful for Salmon Run. And a roller too? Basically two roller-types for this one? And did I see a sniper rifle, or was I not looking closely enough? I remember seeing the Zapper which is fine.
And all this on the harder of the two maps.
Yeah the Zapper is acceptable if a little lacking in range, the Roller/Octobrush double up is really awkward and the Roller (Flinga?) doesn't seem very well suited to the job. And the Sniper is one of the ones with a fairly long charge.
Sub out the Roller for a Splatershot and it'd be fine but as is... Yeah.
The Brella is less...shotgunny than I expected. It's almost more like a Blaster with decent range, but better fire rate and spread at the cost of killing power.
I expected more of a close-range instant kill weapon
To me the brella feels like shooting with a charger when you just tap the button and get that line squirt. Not too blasterish because there isn't that specific sweet spot range you need to aim for.
Salmon run today was brutal. What a crap weapon load-out. Doubling down on roller-style weapons + charger just means that your team doesn't have enough firepower to handle big waves of enemies.
To be fair, there's only one real roller in this loadout. The brushes are all about mashing the flick to spread out damage in waves. Whoever has the E-Liter has to really be on point.
Pretty sure I cleared more rounds than lost tonight, although never really racked up big scores.
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The Brella is less...shotgunny than I expected. It's almost more like a Blaster with decent range, but better fire rate and spread at the cost of killing power.
I expected more of a close-range instant kill weapon
I think it can still splat in a single shot if you but dead on. That or I sprayed some people that had already been but.
Edit: Nevermind. I tested it and it does 90 damage on a perfect hit.
Actually did okay with this salmon run's load out. Only the griller and high tide waves gave real team wipe/timeout problems.
Also I think too many players forget about specials. Either that or do the "got to save it when I need it most but never end up using it" thing. I tended to save specials until wave 3 as well but have started to use them more often and earlier to some success.
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I'm not sure what I'm looking at here? Is it the K/D ratios on each team? Weapon loadout distribution?
For me, ranked mode is just full of people that don't grok that they're not playing Turf War. Granted, my experience is still in the Cs because I just don't like playing most of the modes as much as Turf War and Salmon run, but I've read here and elsewhere that it's the same at all ranks.
Yes it's the KD ratios on each team. Normally k:d's don't matter as much as teamwork in shooters, but in this game if even one teammate dies you're at a significant disadvantage in the ranked modes. if you're entire team is dying as much as theyre killing/more than theyre killing you're not going to win.. ever.. and every match is like this. After the 50th game it stops being a coincidence. I'm doing everything I can to keep my teammates alive and together too. And when I eventually do win? It's not because I've suddenly been given a competent team, its usually because I run around like a maniac splatting the entire enemy team over and over again (just wiping them once doesn't work because the second they come back they kill all my teammates instantaneously and I'm left to fend for myself in a 3 or 4v1). Like I said, it's exhausting.
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The one ranked mode I truly like and play (Splat Zone), I often end up being that guy too (I prefer the standard slosher to the tri though). Like if you've got half a brain you realize this isn't Turf War and strategize accordingly. Unfortunately that seems to be a rarity. It is shocking how effective a simple flank approach works, even if you're the only fucking one doing it.
Sorry if I came off like a goose asking about your screen cap, I was just looking at it and not seeing anything terribly out of the ordinary, which probably speaks to your point
Splatoon 2 has a serious aerospray problem in general.
I mean, it's pretty good on a lot of maps in turf wars because it's got very good coverage. And then the special lets you charge blindly (people rarely use it smartly, but). So they see big numbers.
The people who are murdering the enemy team with double-digit kill counts? Never an aerospray. It's terrible for that against anything with range or mobility. Dualies, the longer ranged shots, squelchers, blasters, splatlings... the list of what wrecks it head to head is long.
But DAMN can it lay down ink, and that's valuable on its own.
Even in ranked it can be useful... rapid coverage can help for splat zones (probably better off using something else still, like octobrush), or breaking the rainmaker open fast (and once you're carrying it who cares about your gun).
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Nah you didn't come off that way at all, I was just answering the question.
Re:flanking. Flanking only works if you have a competent team who's holding their own as a "base of fire". Otherwise you'll get one or two kills before being splatted after they roll the rest of your team up. At least thats what happens to me.
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I just think it's telling when 9 out of 10 Turf War matches I get into has teams comprised out of at least 2 aerosprays. When it is the weapon of choice it's time to take a look at it. Just my opinion though.
Flanking has worked for me in situations when the opposing team is holding the splat zone (again, it's the only one I've really gotten into) and the rest of my team just takes the most straightforward approach to the zone and runs into a wall of ink. Flanking in and raining death with the slosher is about as complicated a strategy as I use and it tends to work. Again, still in the C rank range so this could be atypical.
Yeah that kind of stuff stops working consistently once you reach A rank.
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Based on my experience, jumping to B- or B from the initial C- can be done with individual skill, without an intricate amount of team support. I wonder if the accelerated ranking up has brought some folks up too quickly that there's still a lot of variability? But sometimes the games do get rolly and there's no way to avoid it. Just gotta roll with the punches. It took me about a year to get to A+ in the original Splatoon 1. And now, in Splatoon 2, after the initial ranking up to B- and B, I've been stuck going about 50:50 in wins and losses, rather than the relatively easy time I expected to have to get to B+ or A-. Stuff takes time, especially when playing with others. Maybe that's just me, though. Shooters aren't really my genre of expertise.
Edit: a little bit different since the guy dropped, still being fucked by the game though.
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Yes! I need a consistent team so badly rn. My friend code is in my sig. You need the Nintendo app if we're gonna communicate though. We can still play without it but we'd be relegated to booyahs and this ways.
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Holy shit, that splat-count though.
Now you know my frustration.
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In splat zones Ill try and snipe with a heavy splatling but my team wont take advantage ( or one guy will and keep dying because the other team is in force) or worse Ill run up with inkbrush siginal for them to jump to me and nobody wil.
I feel like Ill never escape C
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This one's pretty rough.
Yeah I might be intentionally skipping this one.
I know from experience that the brush is awful for Salmon Run. And a roller too? Basically two roller-types for this one? And did I see a sniper rifle, or was I not looking closely enough? I remember seeing the Zapper which is fine.
And all this on the harder of the two maps.
I would also like if all that stuff was also on a website.
Yeah the Zapper is acceptable if a little lacking in range, the Roller/Octobrush double up is really awkward and the Roller (Flinga?) doesn't seem very well suited to the job. And the Sniper is one of the ones with a fairly long charge.
Sub out the Roller for a Splatershot and it'd be fine but as is... Yeah.
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I expected more of a close-range instant kill weapon
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Pretty sure I cleared more rounds than lost tonight, although never really racked up big scores.
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I think so yeah.
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I think it can still splat in a single shot if you but dead on. That or I sprayed some people that had already been but.
Edit: Nevermind. I tested it and it does 90 damage on a perfect hit.
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Also I think too many players forget about specials. Either that or do the "got to save it when I need it most but never end up using it" thing. I tended to save specials until wave 3 as well but have started to use them more often and earlier to some success.
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It certainly has a lot more space to move around in at high tide.