Metroid Killer
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Paint the walls they said! Lunatics!
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Splatoon |OT4| You're a detriment to your squad
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PadWarrior
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Interests that it does move faster maybe this will get more people to ride it
Metroid Killer
Member
Just watched as my gf played some tower matches. At one point in kelp dome her entire team got on board near the center and a pair of the enemies standing on the grid bridge just couldn't keep up with the tower. So the entire team only had to deal with 2 enemies on their way to victory. Lol
Back to A+. I was on the verge of falling to A-, but was rescued by squad battles. I'm surprised that the matches are usually pretty easy in squad. 50% of the time we were up against teams with B's or C's. I expected more S's to just be hanging around, farming for cash and levels. Although there was that one horrible match against a full team of S+.
Saint Gregory
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IDK, lately when I've actually been having a lot of success with Tower is being on a team were we take it as slow as possible with one player on the tower moving it forward and the other three players inking territory and flanking attackers from the sides when they close in on the tower. It's a good idea for everyone to start piling on when close to KO though.
PadWarrior
Member
Oh yeah that's a good strategy and it works well. I was mostly referring to those randoms that don't get on the tower at all even when a team has been wiped lol
Saint Gregory
Member
Oh god, that drives me crazy as much as when we wipe the other team in Splatzones and my teammates rush the spawn point instead of painting the zones -_-
Fortunately I'll be playing only with GAF until I reach S rank
PadWarrior
Member
Lol man I know how you feel. That's my plan as well to get out of B+Oh god, that drives me crazy as much as when we wipe the other team in Splatzones and my teammates rush the spawn point instead of painting the zones -_-
Fortunately I'll be playing only with GAF until I reach S rank
I kind of like it when the rest of the team rushes ahead when we clear enemies out of the splat zone area because it means I can just chill out in a good position near or in the zone and ambush kill anyone who makes it past them. It works great in certain maps, but not so much in the ones where there are two zones.
Saint Gregory
Member
I'm talking mostly about Port Mackerel and Skatepark, since for some reason they're always the two maps in the rotation when I play zones :/
If you could only see the look of exasperation on my face when I'm running helplessly in a circle on Skatepark painting the zones over and over while my teammates are off doing... whatever they're doing when they should be painting the zones
tonyh24613
Member
Did they change the rules or tower never move when both team have one inkling on it?
It's always been like that.
Alcotholic
Banned
I just got the game last night, played for a while and had a blast. I logged in this morning and played with the Japanese guys... Holy crap are they tough. I didn't really enjoy myself as much. But it's still a fun game.
Saint Gregory
Member
Does the number of inklings on the tower have any effect? It could have been lag but I feel like I've seen it keep moving if one team has more players on it than the other.
tonyh24613
Member
How did I climb up to A- and not knowing this. o_0
The first -15 points of S rank are a nightmare.
The first -15 points of S rank are a nightmare.
lol if I ever manage to get to S rank I'm immediately stopping. S+ just doesn't seem worth the trouble
Situations like that are pretty rare and don't last long, since it's safer to clear the tower while you're off it. The only times I see people jumping on regardless is when the tower is close to the end and the other team just won't stop respawning on top.
I didn't believe you when you told me, but later on that day I started seeing it and as the charger, if we got a team wipe I would always jump on to make it go faster, it really helps sometimes.
I thought they said the tower moves faster with more people on it? That's why I thought it was the case before it came out.
And after it came out, I saw for myself that it was moving faster with more people on it.
Headgear and Shoes nearly have the same amount. 60 and 59, respectively.
Jeff Vader
Member
Even if the tower does move faster with more people the trick is getting somebody to ride the damn thing in the first place
Inquisitive_Ghost
Member
I can't play, but I must know the result.
Metroid Killer
Member
I could swear I've seen the tower move with players from both team on it at once...
Well if you are talking about 1 from each team it doesn't unless some lag is involved, I think whatever team outnumbers the other, it will move toward their end goal
tonyh24613
Member
Standing on tower, watching enemies desperately trying to get rid of splash wall sure feels good.
Saint Gregory
Member
I haven't played TC in a while with a weapon that has the splash wall sub but I wonder if having two guys on the tower alternating the wall bounce to keep an active wall up on it at all times would be a workable strategy? Suction bombs would probably still be an issue but I think burst and splat bombs would bounce off.
Nico_D
Member
I second that.
Sounds like it could be somewhat helpful. But the other team could possibly also drop walls in front of the tower... and I'm not sure what happens when two walls collide, but I'd imagine they'd cancel out.
I'm pretty sure they said it didn't and that it only moves faster when retracing covered ground.
Hmmm, someone needs to test this.
Jeff Vader
Member
If I remember right, the person on the tower got splatted by the enemy splashwall even though the tower itself had a wall on it too.
my first Gaf squad vs Gaf squad match! You guys really deserved that win, blasters are the bane of my existence. Also nice to see that my connection apparently wasn't acting up for once
Saint Gregory
Member
IDK, that sounds like something that might cause a black hole and swallow Inkopolis :{
We'd be creating the squid version of the LHC >_<
tonyh24613
Member
I think two splash walls may work on triggerfish tower control, the route is full of walls and platforms for the bounce trick.
IIRC, throwing walls at enemy walls will cause your wall to disappear immediately, if two walls collide in TC, I think the wall on the tower will destroy the one on the floor.
The first wall cancels out the second one
Jeff Vader
Member
Gonna try ranked since hitting A+, wish me luck guys.
edit: first match, knock out with my team being 2 S, my A+ and a B+. Only got 6 points, yeah I'm done till next tower control.
edit: first match, knock out with my team being 2 S, my A+ and a B+. Only got 6 points, yeah I'm done till next tower control.
I remember asking this question when the Treehouse was debuting the mode and people told me it was placebo...
Didn't work at all, lol. Maybe once a blaster with Kraken releases.
tonyh24613
Member
First two maps for Rainmaker is Kelp Dome and Camp Triggerfish.
Watching now.
Starwolf_UK
Member
Following observation in another thread. Indeed it is true that ranked seems to have "the connection is unstable" problem for me a lot less. It is not enough less for me to stop losing rank though (started with B- 42 am now B- 10) which is worrying as some people have the theory the lower in ranked you go the worse the average connection and the more "the connection is unstable" which could explain why turf wars is usually unplayable for me.
Still it is crazy I can typically not last more than two minutes in a turf wars match yet ranked play has run into overtime on several occasions including the most underwhelming victory ever. 127-0. I felt really bad for the other team. 5 minutes and not a single point to show (well aside the 5 points of EXP...). I also probably let my team down as I had never played Moray towers on Splat Zones.
Also I think point loss in ranked might be due to match performance (with disconnection an automatic -10). In a room of all B- I lost and got -8. When there were two C+ on my team in the same room I lost and got -10 (lost more points against more skilled opponents). We only got the tower to 99 in that is what makes me think performance is part of it.
Still it is crazy I can typically not last more than two minutes in a turf wars match yet ranked play has run into overtime on several occasions including the most underwhelming victory ever. 127-0. I felt really bad for the other team. 5 minutes and not a single point to show (well aside the 5 points of EXP...). I also probably let my team down as I had never played Moray towers on Splat Zones.
Also I think point loss in ranked might be due to match performance (with disconnection an automatic -10). In a room of all B- I lost and got -8. When there were two C+ on my team in the same room I lost and got -10 (lost more points against more skilled opponents). We only got the tower to 99 in that is what makes me think performance is part of it.
The patch has been playing its part too.
In case you wondering it's tied 1-1 with both teams experiencing lag when the other hosts, there was definitely lag from watching the stream on dude's side don't know about the other team
Edit: someone from the stream tried to enter the private lobby lol