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[jorgejjvr]

The gear you order in splatnet can be used for any game mode?

When can I refresh my abilities on gear?

 

[-shadow-]

wait. Story spoilers

Spoiler

Why is DJ Octavia the last boss again? And why us he using the same robot as before? Bummer

:/

Yeah it's rather disappointing. Especially considering that

Spoiler

the big twist

is pretty much worthless and adds absolutely nothing.

 

[Jim_Cacher]

Just finished Salmon Run. Holy shit it was intense but stupid fun!

I hope there will be updates for it

How you 'finish' it? Beating the highest difficulty?

I also remember there are going to be updates.

 

[aett]

Probably too early, but do we know roughly how long the single player mode is?

 

[hatchx]

Yeah it's rather disappointing. Especially considering that

Spoiler

the big twist

is pretty much worthless and adds absolutely nothing.

How do you guys beat the game so fast? I saw someone already at level 16. I've played for 5 hours, I'm at level 6 in battle (mostly winning too), one the 2nd world of the story, and havn't even touch Salmon Run.

That is disappointing though. The SP so far is incredible, and they've added a lot to the level detail, so it's disappointing the final boss doesn't match up.

Probably too early, but do we know roughly how long the single player mode is?

Reviews said it was around 6 hours.

 

[Distresssss]

I have got a 2100 point win in a game already. Having a ton of fun for my first Splatoon game. The tests Nintendo did really sold me on it.

 

[-shadow-]

Been having really mixed matches, either we win by a mile or lose by a mile. It's really weird, in the original it was pretty consistent. Not entirely sure why this is...

How do you guys beat the game so fast? I saw someone already at level 16. I've played for 5 hours, I'm at level 6 in battle (mostly winning too), one the 2nd world of the story, and havn't even touch Salmon Run.

I got the game yesterday and my ISP messed up, so I was 30 hours without internet. So I just played through the single player mode.

 

[Ozium]

nintendo is making absolute sure for me to hate this game right now

had a ton of connection issues and had to restart the switch twice, so I had to listen to the announcement and you can''t skip it.. well you can, but then you have to wait 10 seconds for marina to scratch her fucking record every time (I now hate marina, she can go to hell)

jump button not being on X is weird, and there's no option to change it so I keep opening the map when I want to jump. being forced to use the worst weapon is annoying af

then I get into a game and it's like 3 level 1s and the rest are 6-8 and of course it puts all the level 1s with our piece of shit pea shooter on the same team and I've had 3 games in a row where I've put down 1900+ of ink and the 2nd highest person on my team has like 400

fucking disgusting

 

[OryoN]

Just lost like 8 of the last 12 games, with over 1000p almost each match.

That feeling tou get when you're splatting everyone and inking everywhere, then when the match ends and you see the miniscule area of turf covered in your color ink, and you wonder... you just WONDER if you were playing 4v1...

 

[foxuzamaki]

So there was a day 1 download for splatoon 2, what is it for?

 

[Deft Beck]

I'm level 3.5 or so and I keep losing every single game. I've only won once.

 

[JigglesBunny]

Let the record show - Splat Dualies are the worst thing since Ebola.

 

[Jaded Alyx]

So there was a day 1 download for splatoon 2, what is it for?

Maybe the Online App thing

 

[Zemm]

So many shit players in this game that the grind to level ten for ranked is just painful as fuck

 

[NoName999]

How you 'finish' it? Beating the highest difficulty?

I also remember there are going to be updates.

Get the number of required golden eggs and survive all 3 waves.

 

[Mister Negative]

how often do the clothing shops re-stock?

 

[flipswitch]

Has any settled on a controller scheme? Just on the default settings but I'm still not 100% satisfied. I was hoping they would be better ( first time Splatoon player).

 

[phanphare]

how often do the clothing shops re-stock?

every 24 hours I think

 

[bonesquad]

So many shit players in this game that the grind to level ten for ranked is just painful as fuck

Sorry

 

[Forerunner]

So many shit players in this game that the grind to level ten for ranked is just painful as fuck

I got 1200P one game and we still lost. All my teammates had like >400P.

 

[13ruce]

Finished the story and actually loved the final boss. Damn...... Also digged the music was pretty cool imo.
Awesome!!!!!!!!

Now time to refight it for some additional lulz. But anywaybi really loved the story mode and the game so far is hecka good.

Time for a few hours of salmon run after this jeez i love Splatoon to death lol.

Edit: Think i will settle with a small squid sisters tattoo on my back, and some story mode spoilers:

Spoiler

callie's evil design probably and marie's normal old design, callie without the glasses, and octo tattoo tho lol.

 

[-shadow-]

Let the record show - Splat Dualies are the worst thing since Ebola.

To play with or to play against?

 

[OrbitalBeard]

nintendo is making absolute sure for me to hate this game right now

had a ton of connection issues and had to restart the switch twice, so I had to listen to the announcement and you can''t skip it.. well you can, but then you have to wait 10 seconds for marina to scratch her fucking record every time (I now hate marina, she can go to hell)

jump button not being on X is weird, and there's no option to change it so I keep opening the map when I want to jump. being forced to use the worst weapon is annoying af

then I get into a game and it's like 3 level 1s and the rest are 6-8 and of course it puts all the level 1s with our piece of shit pea shooter on the same team and I've had 3 games in a row where I've put down 1900+ of ink and the 2nd highest person on my team has like 400

fucking disgusting

I'm glad I don't take Splatoon this seriously. Christ dude, just have fun.

Though connection issues obviously suck.

 

[Jim_Cacher]

Get the number of required golden eggs and survive all 3 waves.

Oh, understood. You have beat it once.

There are rewards for getting enough points. I guess the rewards are changed monthly since the exclusive gear is for "this month".

 

[AlexFlame116]

nintendo is making absolute sure for me to hate this game right now

had a ton of connection issues and had to restart the switch twice, so I had to listen to the announcement and you can''t skip it.. well you can, but then you have to wait 10 seconds for marina to scratch her fucking record every time (I now hate marina, she can go to hell)

jump button not being on X is weird, and there's no option to change it so I keep opening the map when I want to jump. being forced to use the worst weapon is annoying af

then I get into a game and it's like 3 level 1s and the rest are 6-8 and of course it puts all the level 1s with our piece of shit pea shooter on the same team and I've had 3 games in a row where I've put down 1900+ of ink and the 2nd highest person on my team has like 400

fucking disgusting

Maybe you should go outside for a bit.

 

[DrArchon]

Got up to level 5. Nintendo just made it hell for those first couple of matches. Nothing but the Splattershot Jr, not even allowed to LOOK at new clothing, it's a total slog to get through those first levels. Maybe if the Splattershot Jr had a more impressive special than that damn armor I'd feel better.

Is there anyway to rebind the controls? I'm not great at using the Splat-Dualies because having to flick between the B button and the control stick for aiming sucks. Reminds me of trying to play Genji and Lucio in Overwatch before I switched jump to the left trigger. I want to use the Dualies because they should be a type of gun I adore, because I love high mobility, high rate of fire weapons, but I feel like without using the dash I'm better off with a Splattershot variant.

 

[JigglesBunny]

To play with or to play against?

With. When I use them, I barely cover any ground. When other players are using them, they're always the lowest scorers on the team. Either there's some bizarre learning curve that nobody has down or they're just not very good.

 

[octopiggy]

nintendo is making absolute sure for me to hate this game right now

had a ton of connection issues and had to restart the switch twice, so I had to listen to the announcement and you can''t skip it.. well you can, but then you have to wait 10 seconds for marina to scratch her fucking record every time (I now hate marina, she can go to hell)

jump button not being on X is weird, and there's no option to change it so I keep opening the map when I want to jump. being forced to use the worst weapon is annoying af

then I get into a game and it's like 3 level 1s and the rest are 6-8 and of course it puts all the level 1s with our piece of shit pea shooter on the same team and I've had 3 games in a row where I've put down 1900+ of ink and the 2nd highest person on my team has like 400

fucking disgusting

 

[OverturePT]

Lol, I'm sure there are a lot of people thankful that the voice chat isn't there by default in-game, some posts here about new players are "fantastic".

 

[AlexFlame116]

Lol, I'm sure there are a lot of people thankful that the voice chat isn't there by default in-game, some posts here about new players are "fantastic".

Nintendo foresaw this...

 

[HoJu]

someone explain the design decision to force you to use the worst fucking weapon in the game until you reach level 4

You can use more weapons at level 2

 

[watershed]

nintendo is making absolute sure for me to hate this game right now

had a ton of connection issues and had to restart the switch twice, so I had to listen to the announcement and you can''t skip it.. well you can, but then you have to wait 10 seconds for marina to scratch her fucking record every time (I now hate marina, she can go to hell)

jump button not being on X is weird, and there's no option to change it so I keep opening the map when I want to jump. being forced to use the worst weapon is annoying af

then I get into a game and it's like 3 level 1s and the rest are 6-8 and of course it puts all the level 1s with our piece of shit pea shooter on the same team and I've had 3 games in a row where I've put down 1900+ of ink and the 2nd highest person on my team has like 400

fucking disgusting

Breath and relax. Take a break. Come back later. You sound irrationally stressed.

 

[Dartastic]

I love this game so much. I'm so glad I've got this on the Switch. Ugh. So fresh.

 

[13ruce]

Lmao please people if you beat the final boss do it again hilarious.

Spoiler what's different:

Spoiler

dialoge changes, awesome ones

 

[-shadow-]

With. When I use them, I barely cover any ground. When other players are using them, they're always the lowest scorers on the team. Either there's some bizarre learning curve that nobody has down or they're just not very good.

Walk sideways with them. They're pretty terrible walking forward, but are great in spreading sideways due to them shooting pretty straight.

 

[Zemm]

Do you get a loss if you close the game on the lobby screen? Because this is still the worst, waiting for a minute plus and the timer resetting every time someone leaves our joins. Fucking hell, how did they not change this?

 

[NoName999]

Ran into a person with the message "Anime Sucks"

Found my soulmate, GAF

 

[KingSnake]

Lol, I'm sure there are a lot of people thankful that the voice chat isn't there by default in-game, some posts here about new players are "fantastic".

Or the voice chat could have been used to guide them instead of them acting like headless chickens.

 

[Lord_Byron28]

Ran into a person with the message "Anime Sucks"

Found my soulmate, GAF

I ran into the same person.

 

[Blues1990]

I'm having so much fun with the single player mode, I haven't even touched the multiplayer stuff. Also, I missed out on Salmon Run.

 

[Lightning Lord]

Been playing a lot of Splatoon 2 since downloading it this morning. I've probably played more than I ever did of the original when I owned it so I'm glad I decided to give the series another chance. Salmon Run is way more fun than I was anticipating and have had a blast running through it. I also like that it constantly forces you to use different weapons for each wave, since it guarantees that if you're going to have to learn how to properly use them in the long run.

 

[AGoodODST]

With. When I use them, I barely cover any ground. When other players are using them, they're always the lowest scorers on the team. Either there's some bizarre learning curve that nobody has down or they're just not very good.

Nah they are pretty great. Consistently top of team and 10 or so kills. I love them.

 

[CoconutTank]

So, is LAN play really only available for wired connections? We can't find a way to do that over WLAN and the ad-hoc wireless is a bit unreliable.

Mario Kart's LAN mode works fine over WLAN.

You should be able to do LAN play without wired connections. I haven't tried it myself but I remember the dialog from directs saying that's possible.

I don't understand how you're supposed to use the blaster. It just seems extremely shitty.

Is it the one that looks kind of like a flamethrower and has toxic mist and splashdown? Blasters fire an explosive round which explodes on contact with an enemy or after a certain distance. Directly hitting an enemy will immediately splat them if they're not protected, and the splash damage from the explosion hurts quite a bit as well. The problem is that Blasters have a slow rate of fire, and the explosive round will fizzle and deal very little damage in a very small area if it hits a non-enemy surface. Blasters are generally worse at turfing than something like a Splattershot

Spoiler

but if you kill everyone then you generally turf better than 0 players

Shoot strong corners.

Blaster is very strong, like a charger and roller combined. But it takes a fair amount of skill.

It's not really a shotgun, more like... Well, a blaster

The closest approximation that comes to mind personally is a very short range rocket launcher, except it's generally bad to shoot the floor with blasters if you want to splat someone.

It's not really enough Imo.

Prefer a 2 second bubble shield or something

No one bothers to jump if any jump you make is gonna get camped by the time you get there

It's just a risk one has to evaluate most of the time, though I do try to swim back a bit to a safe spot if someone is trying to jump to me.

Salmon run is basically this.

Splatoon tends to have some... very disturbing implications :O

Do equitable items with the same perk stack? (e.g, hat/shirt swim speed up)

Thanks.

There seems to be so much depth to this game though and so many things to consider.

Another question if you don't mind. Do "perks" stack up? So if I have two items of clothing with ink saver do I get a boost, or am I wasting a "perk"?

Yup! There's a bit of diminishing returns the more you equip an ability (the canonical name for perk in Splatoon), so 2 big ink saver boosts isn't necessarily twice as good as 1 big ink saver boost. But yes, abilities on your gear do stack, and you will get some benefit, however small.

Hey, this might be a dumb question, but how do you get all the outfit pieces from an amiibo? Like I scanned the green squid amiibo from Splatoon 1 and I got the helmet, but how would I go about getting the other ones? Scanning it again only has the option of taking a picture with it.

I just used my amiibo on my console to unlock the DLC. It's not giving out costumes for my friend sitting next to me. Is it a one and done?

You can keep scanning amiibo for gear, but there's a delay inbetween each time you scan. I forgot if the delay is once per day or depending on how many games you've won.

Update wishlist Addition:

Spectator mode while waiting to jump in a friends game

It's available for private matches, but I also wish this extended to at least Turf War matches as well.

Does your salmon run rank reset when it rotates out? Would be kinda shitty to have to grind the easy matches again to get to the tougher stuff.

I am very sure you keep your Salmon Run rank beyond the current rotation. I don't think it'd be possible to grind all the way to 100%+ in 2 hours of Salmon Run if you started at 0% every rotation, but I guess I could be surprised.

No, the problem is even though the right stick is supposed to be for left to right only, the motion also lets you do left to right, so I'm doubling up on the one axis and it's really throwing me off. And even minor tilts I seem to go very far.

I think you can set sensitivity separately for stick and for motion if you have gyros turned on. Turning down the gyro a bit might be helpful, but play however you think is fun if you like.

As someone who didn't get to play Splatoon 1, do you recommend single player first? I have both the joycon and classic controller. What works best for most people? Game looks like a lot of fun.

Yeah, I would recommend going through hero mode to help you get acclimated. I personally like pro controller most, but I've done split joycons and that seems to work well.

What is weapon freshness? I think that's what someone said. On the lobby screen the big arrow with a weapon in it that says "Dry".

In the matchmaking screen what is the arrow that says "Raw" with my weapon?

WHat's this arrow that started out saying "Dry"

It's your win streak with the weapon you're currently using. Once you break certain numbers on your freshness meter (I think 5, 10 and 15?) you get a big bonus in points. You can tell because you'll get a big purple bonus like this:

What about style? +3000

I think several folks confirmed this in the thread.

don't have the game yet, but some friend told me that you still can't create games... you can only join your friends, and you don't necessarly team up with them... what's up with that?

Is it only on ranked?

For Turf Wars, that's true. You can join a lobby that a friend is in, but teams are always shuffled per match.

You can join teams/lobbies that are set up by your friends in League Battle (which requires being B- at minimum for the mode), in Private Battles and in Salmon Runs.

I thought this was the case too until I still see 50% of the base's turf empty at the end of the game

Yeah I get a little annoyed with my teammates that just swim or jump right back to mid after dying when there's so much space left to turf inbetween. Whenever I die in turf wars I always check the map to see if there's space inbetween that I need to cover.

They stack, but keep in mind that sub abilities (the ones you roll for) are less effective than main abilities. Getting three of one ability on a piece of gear was common practice in the original.

Edit: New page, haven't seen an answer yet; is the squiffer gone?

Yup! To add to what you've posted, for abilities that can stack, if it's in the main slot (the big circle), it provides 10 points of said ability. If it's in the sub slot (any of the 3 smaller circles), it provides 3 points of said ability. So 1 main of Ink Recovery will always be more beneficial than 3 subs of Ink Recovery, although changing subs will be much easier. From the 3 pieces of gear you wear, you have up to 57 points to distribute for abilities (3 main slots and 9 sub slots), though you have to do so in 3s and 10s. To reiterate what I stated earlier, ability stacking will see diminishing returns, so even though 20 points of Ink Recovery is definitely stronger than 10 points of Ink Recovery, it's not 2 times stronger. This is at least how the ability system worked in Splatoon 1, and I'm fairly sure it's how it works in Splatoon 2 as well.

Also uh... I do think the devs said every main weapon from Splatoon 1 will be coming back for Splatoon 2. I don't think I've seen a squiffer in any of the promotional materials, though there is a squiffer bottle in Sheldon's shop.

I haven't read any updates in this thread (so I apologize in advance), but is voice chat active now? Any impressions on it?

Also compared to the first Splatoon, how do you like it?

I only got to play around for ~2 hours last night, but I already like it a lot I definitely like the new specials more than what was available in Splatoon 1, and it sounds like Salmon Run has a lot of positive impressions thus far.

Thanks for the helpful reply.

Final question to anyone that knows, is it at all possible to change your sub and special ability? Like mix and match?

To give you an example there's a weapon I like but I hate the Ink armour as the special ability, I'm assuming I'm stuck with it. I'd love to swap it for the curling-bomb launcher.

If so it's a damn shame, it would be great if you could literally mix and match to your hearts desire.

Nope, it's not possible to mix and match main weapons/sub weapons/specials. I think it's more interesting for weapon loadouts to be fixed, otherwise players are likely to gravitate towards specific combinations instead of working well with what they have.

So that means I'm stuck with only one out've three abilities for most gear until Splatfests? That...sucks. That really sucks. I feel so weak. :/

Also: If I link my nintendo account to the app, can I thn link it to another mobike device? I only have a temp one that I may have to give up soon.

Also just randomly had a friendin private match. I wish there was a one on one with randoms because that was interesting to play.

iirc Spyke wouldn't provide his services to you till you were level 20, and given some of the parallels thus far I would imagine Murch won't talk to you till you are level 20 as well. I'm really hoping that adding more slots can be done with squid bux.

Just beat Salmon Run at 205% Pay grade... How high does it go lol? This is insane.

wat

you have to press A after you select someone with the dpad on the map to superjump?

what the fuck why not just press the direction to jump..

did they set out to make this game worse than the first on purpose?

Yeah I don't really like doing the button combo to jump to someone. What I prefer to do instead is use the gyro to target who I want to jump to and spam A. This might be slower for jumping back to spawn but we'll see.

There's no close games because I'm never ever ever in a game that ends 4v4. It's ridiculous.

Maybe try playing with SplatGAF folks. We usually don't have any connection issues and can get full turf war parties going.

The gear you order in splatnet can be used for any game mode?

When can I refresh my abilities on gear?

Yes, gear you order from anywhere can be used in any mode except for Salmon Run (which restricts you to the GrizzCo work uniform anyway).

Uh, if you're talking about rerolling sub abilities on gear, I think maybe you need to be level 20 and talk to Murch. I can't confirm this myself since I'm not that level yet.

 

[Pastry]

Man I have had non-stop shitty Salmon Run crews today. Way better last night.

 

[OrbitalBeard]

I'm having so much fun with the single player mode, I haven't even touched the multiplayer stuff. Also, I missed out on Salmon Run.

Wait, what?

God, please tell me it's still available to play today. I'm in NA.

 

[Busaiku]

The single player feels like such a slog from the first area.
It's probably the stupid slow firing right now though.

 

[AlexFlame116]

Wait, what?

God, please tell me it's still available to play today. I'm in NA.

I wasn't able to find it anymore.

 

[Skellig Gra]

Just got it in the mail. Diving in to the ink in a bit!

 

[LotusHD]

Lol, I'm sure there are a lot of people thankful that the voice chat isn't there by default in-game, some posts here about new players are "fantastic".

Online app redeemed lmao

 

[SparksterMeta0]

Before I headed to work, I played some Turf Wars up until Level 4 and am now able buy gear.

Most importantly, I was able to play Salmon Run. Man that mode is intense!