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Splatoon |OT4| You're a detriment to your squad
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Funniest thing is the people who are asking to get back weren't even the ones playing.
PotionBleue
Member
I did a few tests, swimming while carrying the Rainmaker is about 23% slower.
Swim Speed Up still improves swimming speed, but even with 3× main and 1× sub Swim Speed Up, you swim 4% slower (while carrying the Rainmaker) than the normal swim speed without any ability.
Swim Speed Up still improves swimming speed, but even with 3× main and 1× sub Swim Speed Up, you swim 4% slower (while carrying the Rainmaker) than the normal swim speed without any ability.
My inkzooka is bigger than yours
Yours is making it rain.
No really, I love that the Rainmaker is just a glorified Inkzooka.
Edit: could have had another knockout, but a teammate stuck to my side like glue in the final stretch instead of getting me a path to swim. We still won, but the KO dosh would have been nice.
So I'm going on stream now with hopefully fixed audio and less compression from my experiments with Atrocious and BlueSilver earlier yesterday morning. I'm also interested in squads for Rainmaker mode. Who's joining me for Team Tsunami? 
So I'm going on stream now with hopefully fixed audio and less compression from my experiments with Atrocious and BlueSilver earlier yesterday morning. I'm also interested in squads for Rainmaker mode. Who's joining me for Team Tsunami?
Just woke up from a nap and still haven't got to try the new mode, so I can join you.
Magnet_Man
Member
I really wish we could match make by region. I get nothing but Japanese players who kill me after they've been dead for a second.
I really hate when that happens to me in turf war.I don't get the problem with just Japanese players so I don't think region matchmaking would help me that much.
I have been hearing the old music a lot at times since the 2.0 update. I still get to hear the new music, but some of the new tracks only play like once per day in a match for some odd reason.
I like rainmaker mode so far, I think. I have never seen a match end so fast before. It started, teammate heads straight to the rainmaker then straight to the finish without stopping. It felt like 15 seconds. Protip: Don't bring 3 chargers. I see lots of people with chargers.
Rainmaker always seems to end in knockout, at least so far. Lots of people not quite sure what to do yet it seems.
Rainmaker always seems to end in knockout, at least so far. Lots of people not quite sure what to do yet it seems.
Finally back in S, going to sleep now cause I overdid Splatoon tonight
I haven't had a single match go into Overtime in Rainmaker, just quick matches and quick points and loses. It does appear to favor different types of strategies in terms of the skills/subs/mains. No one is using Echo on Rainmaker or at least in my games.
I haven't had a single match go into Overtime in Rainmaker, just quick matches and quick points and loses. It does appear to favor different types of strategies in terms of the skills/subs/mains. No one is using Echo on Rainmaker or at least in my games.
PotionBleue
Member
Rainmaker is going to make Tower Control boring.
Yes omg I'm sick of hearing the same songs since game's release. I barely hear the new ones and that is no cool :'( oh well.
I just had a Rainmaker overtime match. I have to say that was one of the most exhilarating things I've experienced in Splatoon. It's like the other modes where you have to hold off the "enemy waves", but you are doing it in a more dynamic way and not a fixed position/path. I think we got 12 or more kills in overtime alone, the only thing that can top that is Blackbelly Splat Zones overtime.
GGs dood. Your bucket is getting better. Keep at it.
EmCeeGramr
Member
I switched back to Turf War and good god, some Splatfest quality teammates were out there. Complete "if we hide at spawn and never ever try to be aggressive, maybe we'll magically win eventually" shitshow.
lmao for real people are trying that?
Exactly. And people are taking the Rainmaker before I do so I can't take the left path. Really annoying.
Triforce141
Member
Suction bombs are pretty useful at killing considering the shield blows them up instantly.
SparksterMeta0
Member
Perhaps that is what the opposing team expects you to do?
Just won a match in like 30 seconds. I didn't have anything to do with it though.
They don't wanna walk on the bridge I suppose.
Been conditioned by tower control. I can't see any other path.
Magnet_Man
Member
I MADE A PATH FOR YOU!! STOP TRYING TO KILL THAT DYNAMO ROLLER!! I MADE A PATH!! FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!
SparksterMeta0
Member
Splatoon |OT4| I make it rain on them squids!
I'm surprised to see so many short victories here. 30 seconds, really? Every game of Rainmaker that I've had thus far has been intense, some going into OT even.
Perhaps I was lucky to play with a group of randoms who instinctively knew what they were doing. Regardless, I can say this mode is going to bananas once the community gets a better handle of it.
Perhaps I was lucky to play with a group of randoms who instinctively knew what they were doing. Regardless, I can say this mode is going to bananas once the community gets a better handle of it.
User 463088
Banned
Had a good group for a while. Managed to win four in a row, two of which were in about 30 seconds or thereabouts.
Then I got paired with a lobby that...I don't think they had any idea what they were doing. We were playing on Camp Triggerfish. I managed to get the Rainmaker all the way to 4 by myself. The rest of my team was, for some reason, inking halfway across the map. I tried to wait it out for some support, but no one came. With 10 seconds left, the other team had never touched the Rainmaker. We were at 5. It went into over time. The other team won, because my team was no where near where anything was. I was the only one trying to kill the people with the Rainmaker.
: head desk :
I do like this mode though. I don't like Splat Zones or Tower Control, but I can see myself playing this one a fair bit.
Then I got paired with a lobby that...I don't think they had any idea what they were doing. We were playing on Camp Triggerfish. I managed to get the Rainmaker all the way to 4 by myself. The rest of my team was, for some reason, inking halfway across the map. I tried to wait it out for some support, but no one came. With 10 seconds left, the other team had never touched the Rainmaker. We were at 5. It went into over time. The other team won, because my team was no where near where anything was. I was the only one trying to kill the people with the Rainmaker.
: head desk :
I do like this mode though. I don't like Splat Zones or Tower Control, but I can see myself playing this one a fair bit.
EmCeeGramr
Member
that feel when your entire team abandons you when you're holding the damn thing on YOUR SIDE
NamikazeBurst
Member
Wow. First time playing rainmaker and the people in my team that took it went back to our base and just tried to shoot over the one barrier in the dome. We lost because no one ever tried to take it to the other base and took it to our base for the opponents...
jwillenn
Member
The right route is a very good defensive play, especially for time scamming. It kind of reminds me of punting in football.
EmCeeGramr
Member
holy fuck, rainmaker is so stressful. comebacks are crazy when you can pull them off.
During the last game we managed to do a last minute comeback to a knockout and I nearly dropped the controller from exhaustion. (best part was the A+ player on our team who did the least work, so we got less points from it. But it was a moral victory).
During the last game we managed to do a last minute comeback to a knockout and I nearly dropped the controller from exhaustion. (best part was the A+ player on our team who did the least work, so we got less points from it. But it was a moral victory).
Count me as one of those schmucks who couldn't find the rainmaker a few times
Won my last game tho by sneaking to the goal while everybody else was duking out