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[Geg]

Tonight's impromptu Turf War room, Hide & Seek and general stream shenanigans were great guys.

See everyone later for Flounder hype!

I watched the vod of that first turf war match we played on bluefin depot and even I was surprised by my first kill on you. The way I dodged your charger shot made it look like I was psychic or something. Geg OP indeed

But yeah tonight was fun, I was kind of missing the old fashioned mixed gaf/random turf war rooms

 

[lastrealgameralive]

Dear Vert,

No.

Sincerely,
PreyingShark

P.S.

Spoiler

GGs

No?

 

[Kastrioti]

Still online?

Yeah I'm playing with robotguy right now. I would've started a 4 man group but I wasn't sure if we had enough

 

[Nico_D]

Yeah I'm playing with robotguy right now. I would've started a 4 man group but I wasn't sure if we had enough

I'll join when ready to try.

Edit: so a fourth player?

 

[BGBW]

Always funny to see people who obviously glitched their levels. A "level 50" in my game who died miserably and clearly wasn't that experienced.

Maybe they play non stop and got there slowly two points at a time.

And no matter how much I play I still have silly deaths like falling into the water in the mall for example.

 

[Robotguy]

I'll join when ready to try.

Edit: so a fourth player?

I'll drop out after the next match. Need to get some sleep.

 

[correojon]

Finally! I ordered a Ninja Squid shirt with 3 ink main savers and Spyke delivered it with only 2...so I put it on, won a ranked match and bingo! The last ink main saver unlocked!
My new main shirt to use with the Octobrush.

Does anyone know a headpiece with special charge up and swim speed up affinity (or the other way around)?

 

[WorldStar]

is haunt a decent ability? never used it before

 

[BlueSilver]

is haunt a decent ability? never used it before

It's bad if you don't ever die. If you have teammates who like to kill, haunt is good.

 

[Nico_D]

That lag is ridiculous. I have teleporting people. Good times, easy play.

 

[Nico_D]

Thanks Kas. Can't take it anymore. Lag and players who won't move or escort the tower start to piss me off.

And those rollers who didn't care to paint the fucking ground... argh.

 

[WorldStar]

wtf is up with everyone reporting lag?

been playing this game non stop and never experienced any lag whatsoever so far

yall on dialup?

 

[CoconutTank]

Naw I get spikes of WiFi interference every once in awhile, and my modem will reset itself whenever it feels like it. Thanks AT&T.

No I don't think damage ups help the tentatek by that much. Suction bombs and Inkzooka OHKO on their own. Only the main weapon will benefit from damage ups, and the benefits are admittedly very situational.

 

[WorldStar]

Naw I get spikes of WiFi interference every once in awhile, and my modem will reset itself whenever it feels like it. Thanks AT&T.

No I don't think damage ups help the tentatek by that much. Suction bombs and Inkzooka OHKO on their own. Only the main weapon will benefit from damage ups, and the benefits are admittedly very situational.

yeah, i think ive noticed an improvement with damage up + 52 gal, but havent really noticed much with other weapons. especially the weapons that are rapid fire (e.g. tentatek, aerospray, etc.)

also, brah, buy a decent modem/router and stop paying AT&T a monthly fee to rent theirs. youll thank me later, i promise.

 

[Nico_D]

wtf is up with everyone reporting lag?

Keeps coming and going. I don't know whether it is because of players from some specific Japanese region or that all Japanese are online playing and crowding the servers.

It can anything from non-existent up to a point I see teleporting players and can't kill anyone 'cause they seem to be indestructible.

 

[WorldStar]

do teams balance themselves in ranked?

if you suffer a horrible defeat due to your team fucking sucking, should you exit and re-join a different ranked game or stick with it because it will auto-balance?

 

[Bulbasaur]

Squad anybody??

Ranked random is killing my life..

 

[Nico_D]

Squad anybody??

Ranked random is killing my life..

It's making me to want to kill myself.

If you're here still, I could try if only to see whether the lag is still there.

 

[Canti]

^Playing for the next 40-60 minutes if anyone wants to try squad (I'be never tried it before, go easy on me!). NNID is Socanto if anyone wants to add me

 

[Starwolf_UK]

Yay stage update tomorrow. Might turn on the game to mess around in recon then ruin a few turf wars matches.

If anyone wants any spoilers NWPlayer123 has looked at the map. There is also a sneak peak of that bridge map. I think that is what the

Spoiler

uninkable surfaces

comment relates to.

Is anyone having internet issues on their Wii U with ONLY Splatoon?

Sounds like Splatoon to me. My theory is the game is demanding of upstream which basically any ADSL connection is going to be inadequate and since it is peer to peer one ADSL connection peer could cause things to go haywire.

Is anyone having the issue where Splatoon disconnects, gives you "You do not have an internet connection" despite having internet, and then saying "Unable to find wireless connection" when you go back into the lobby, until you restart the Wii U?

I've had the issue of it disconnecting during most matches since the v2.0.0 patch came out complete with an ominous "the connection is unstable" message. I have stopped playing the game until I get a connection upgrade which I am hoping will solve the problem. My theory is my pitiful 0.4mbs of upstream is getting choked to death by this game which results in me desyncing with the other players or timing out with the host and so getting kicked (since I've heard no reports of being unable to ink the floor in v2.0.0 my guess is this behavior is a fix for that).

If it is only started recently turning the router off and on again and also using wired have been shown to help but correlation is not causation.

do teams balance themselves in ranked?

if you suffer a horrible defeat due to your team fucking sucking, should you exit and re-join a different ranked game or stick with it because it will auto-balance?

I'm pretty sure teams are random. Some people do leave a room as soon as they lose but how the matchmaking works is still a bit of mystery (will leaving stick you into a weaker room? no idea). The problem with ranked these is squads existence which means S rank players who play ranked solo end up with no choice but to be thrown in A and even B rooms due to lack of S population (as the S players they would play with are in squads so they won't lose rank, I like to call these players S rank cowards but at the same time I kind of see their point, why should I lose out on points for wins as losing rank is an uphill struggle).

In general I believe people are more likely to stay when they are winning than when they are losing but that is not to say advice is as simple as win=stay therefore lose=leave. If all the lose=leave people leave then who replaces them? More losers so same chance of ending up with a rubbish team regardless of if you stay or leave.

As for matchmaking in general. The game appears to use a 32 bit (i.e. 4 byte) hash/seed which updates every match. So what is that 1024 different possibilities? I guess it can also use level and rank as factors external to this seed though.

 

[Zing]

wtf is up with everyone reporting lag?

been playing this game non stop and never experienced any lag whatsoever so far

yall on dialup?

Worse... They live in Europe.

 

[Razmos]

I wonder if we are gonna get a theme park map:

Or an Airport map, for that matter.

 

[DaBoss]

We got a park and a port stage, so close enough?

Spoiler

Those are both great themes for stages.

 

[Zing]

Despite exploiting it myself, saltspray is broken in rainmaker.

 

[Nico_D]

Worse... They live in Europe.

True. We are that awful. Hideous.

Despite exploiting it myself, saltspray is broken in rainmaker.

What's the matter with all of you? It's not broken, it's very fun map in Rainmaker. Sure, not many options and the upper platform cheat sucks but still.

 

[Zing]

Rainmaker... Again...

I am not usually one to complain, but this is actually making me go back to turf war.

 

[backlot]

What's the Saltspray cheat? So many exploits popping up these days I can't keep up.

 

[Nico_D]

What's the Saltspray cheat?

Well, not a "cheat" per se but cheating. While winning, taking the fish to the platform and keeping it there until the timer runs out.

 

[WALKMAN04]

Rainmaker... Again...

I am not usually one to complain, but this is actually making me go back to turf war.

Really again, the past 2 rotations I played last night were rainmkaer, I wake up and its rainmaker. This is why something needs to change about the rotation system, even if they just change the rotations to 2 or 3 hours it would be better than 12 hours of rainmaker.

 

[backlot]

Well, not a "cheat" per se but cheating. While winning, taking the fish to the platform and keeping it there until the timer runs out.

Oh yeah, I've seen that. Kelp Dome has an annoying stall tactic too. Sucks when that shit happens.

 

[Geg]

Yeah most stages will give you a warning and speed up the rainmaker's self destruct timer if you take it too far back to your base but I guess that doesn't apply on Saltspray since the north platform is still far from your base.

The weird thing is they actually made a few changes/easter eggs to the north platform of Saltspray, so it seems like they weren't expecting that area to go ignored. They added some porta potties in the northwest corner that are only there in the Rainmaker version of the map for some reason

 

[Zing]

480 points required for level 40. Only 48 knockouts, right? Let's do this.

 

[Vecks]

Despite exploiting it myself, saltspray is broken in rainmaker.

We do what we must for the victory. That's the nature of ranked.

 

[BGBW]

The weird thing is they actually made a few changes/easter eggs to the north platform of Saltspray, so it seems like they weren't expecting that area to go ignored. They added some porta potties in the northwest corner that are only there in the Rainmaker version of the map for some reason

That's cool. Will make sure to recon that map if I see it on rotation.

 

[Negotiator]

As for matchmaking in general. The game appears to use a 32 bit (i.e. 4 byte) hash/seed which updates every match. So what is that 1024 different possibilities? I guess it can also use level and rank as factors external to this seed though.

Can you elaborate? What is that supposed to mean?

 

[Danthrax]

Here's an updated changelog of every Splatoon update for funsies. All dates and Splatfests are North American.

Patches and new game modes are highlighted, Splatfests are italicized, new stages are bold, new weapons are plaintext:

May 29: Splatoon released (29 weapons plus three Amiibo-unlocked weapons, five maps, Battle Dojo, Octo Valley, Regular Battles, Turf War)
June 1: Added: Ranked Battles, Splat Zones, Port Mackerel, N-ZAP '85
June 2: Patch Version 1.2 (fixed a glitch with Spyke not taking money and stabilized Booyah Base framerate)
June 5: Added: Inkbrush
June 10: Added: Kelp Dome
June 12: Added: Splash-o-matic
June 16: Added: L-3 Nozzlenose, Custom E-Liter 3K
June 19: Added: Bluefin Depot
June 23: Added: Luna Blaster
June 26: Added: Custom Dual Squelcher, Carbon Roller
June 30: Patch Version 1.3 (with balance patch: Kraken, Ninja Squid and Stealth Jump nerfed)
July 1: Added: Tower Control
July 4: First Splatfest (cats vs. dogs)
July 7: Added: Sploosh-o-matic, .96 Gal Deco
July 10: Added: Moray Towers
July 17: Added: N-ZAP '89, Octobrush
July 18: Second Splatfest (rollercoasters vs. waterslides)
July 21: Added: Neo Splash-o-matic, E-Liter 3K Scope
July 24: Added: Camp Triggerfish
July 31: Added: Range Blaster, Inkbrush Nouveau
Aug. 5: Patch Version 2.0 (added: Squad Battles, Private Battles, Slosher, Heavy Splatling, three new background songs during matches, new gear in shops; increased level cap from 20 to 50 and ranked cap from A+ to S+; reworked Urchin Underpass; nerfed Inkzooka and Echolocator and buffed Killer Wail)
Aug. 8: Third Splatfest (marshmallows vs. hot dogs)
Aug. 14: Added: Rainmaker
Aug. 20: Added: Flounder Heights
Aug. 29: Fourth Splatfest (Autobots vs. Decepticons)

 

[Saint Gregory]

I wonder if we are gonna get a theme park map:

Or an Airport map, for that matter.

MK8 has both a theme park (two actually) and an airport track. Coincidence?

 

[Geg]

Deepest lore

 

[spindashing]

I haven't had the time to put into Splatoon, but I'll have some time tonight.

It's crazy though. I tried playing the Black Ops 3 beta last night and I felt that something was missing. My moving around felt so limited and then I realized:

Motion controls. In Splatoon it felt so much more natural to move the gamepad around to aim much more better and I had quite the hard time readjusting.

 

[Starwolf_UK]

Well, not a "cheat" per se but cheating. While winning, taking the fish to the platform and keeping it there until the timer runs out.

I knew about going to the north of saltspray but I never thought about getting on the crane...

Can you elaborate? What is that supposed to mean?

Basically there is a small part of the save file that is modified when you play multiplayer. You can think of it as 32 light switches set to on or off. Within those presumably is the playstyle element of matchmaking (described in that post as kill count, death counts and paint points).

Although that translation isn't clear if rank=level since it says regular match. Also it doesn't say how ranked works. Come to think of it might be talking about how the teams end up being split once you are in a room instead. What a mess...

 

[Rize_21]

Deepest lore

It really is.

If the single player mode is any indication, this might comes with the

Spoiler

octolings.

 

[PadWarrior]

Does anyone have the black layered ls shirt with ink saver main as the primary ability?

 

[Gsnap]

HA

A clean sweep. One after the other. She don't need Spyke. She don't need anybody.

(yes I was using the rg because I wanted to get a bunch of points in turf wars without risking my rank : p )

 

[spindashing]

(yes I was using the rg because I wanted to get a bunch of points in turf wars without risking my rank : p )

You need Jesus in your life, friend.

 

[Gsnap]

You need Jesus in your life, friend.

I don't mess around with my rank, spins.

 

[DaBoss]

In Japan, 'level' is known as 'rank'. Well the direct translation of it.

 

[Robotguy]

Then what is rank known as?

 

[Geg]

HA



A clean sweep. One after the other. She don't need Spyke. She don't need anybody.)

I just unlocked my second quick respawn up on that hat yesterday. I hope I get similar luck with the last one

edit: In Japan, rank is "Udemae" which means skill

 

[Zing]

My previous post was poorly worded, so I will rephrase...

Has anyone seen a chart or list comparing the run speeds of each weapon while "shooting"?

I have a general feeling that aerospray is the fastest runner while constantly shooting. I have fun with triple run speed and it in turf war.

 

[tonyh24613]

Uh, don't know why but Ikaling website shows that the rule and maps for ranked battle will be the same in next rotation.