Yup. Which is interesting. We'll see what the next one has in store. Today I rand into about 2 or 3 less than level 10s. So I think the game is gaining more new players. We'll see how that changes things if at all.

I made it back to C finally. Well I mean I didn't play ranked that much so yeah. I love the new Rainmaker mode. I only got to play a few rounds though.

Okay so I really want to start up that Squad Battles. I think the weekends work best for me if any long run playing. Weekdays I can squeeze about an hour or two depending on the day. I'm thinking just starting with 2 man squads and go from there as it's easier to work around.

I was hoping that among the Splatoon players here, we have someone who is friends with at least 6 people with the game who we could get a full 8 private battle to practice in. I mean we can just throw ourselves into the fire so to speak but it would be nice to take advantage of the private battles to train up a bit and work on team synergy.

Thoughts? Commnents? Sweet-n-Low?

Posted by Trelior

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I work weekends, and my days off are usually reserved for streaming and/or editing.

I do have a third day off this week, but my friend Rudrake said he may want to squeeze a collab project into his schedule, if his workload permits.

I can make no promises.

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That's fine. My schedule is not very open either. It's just getting the ball rolling. No worries if it doesn't work out.

Looks like they are having another demo of Splatoon! If you've not had a chance to play it or 'kick the tires' than now is the chance!
The Demo will run from 3-5 PM PT on August 21-23. The demo is in the E-Shop thingy. If it's like the first one of these I'd grab it ahead of time..

Grasshooper Hmm.. Oh well. That old proverb result was about right. heh.

We'll see if the Transformers US Splatfest will have a better point spread compared to the last ones.

RE: Squd stuff. I'm going to be busy for a while, but I would still like to have a match or two sometime soon. If anyone has free time let me know on IRC or here and we'll see if can make something happen. It's always nicer to play with friends.

I finished the recent US Splatfest around 10am today. Here are some screenshots with the last set of gear I had. (I rotated weapons and gear)

I reworked my gear a bit. I have a few sets. The theme is 'green' (heh no surprise from me eh?)

Here is one of my Ninja Squid Loadouts:

(Swapped image to be more compact.)

Since I often use the Splattershot Pro I like to have at least one ink saver main (1x primary or 3x sub). In this configuration the swim ups act more like a cancellation to the penalty for ninja squid. one main swim up main (3x subs) pretty much balances it out, and the extra sub means a little bit of a speed boost.

The remaining two sub ablites actually have the most effect of a single sub ability. If I remember correctly special duration up 1x sub gains about another second of time with a special.. and approx 3/4s second for the quick respawn.

I was really lucky to roll two ink savers and not a defense as the brand of that shirt has increased odds of defense up. (Not very effective by itself anyway)

I still haven't played much ranked. I play little here and there, and haven't feel comfortable with the amount of time I want to give to it. :/

I'll prob post more of my loadouts in the hopes maybe others will share theirs. If not than humor me, I enjoy this kind of stuff.

"This shit just got meta yo!"

Yup. The tradition continues! I got to Science Queen in about 4 hours. I played this one completely 'chill' and just had a blast!




I used the Neo Splash-o-matic for the first 1 1/2 ranks, than switched to the Aerospray RG for a while as I haven't played with it in a while. Than I used the Splattershot Pro for the last half.

Now we'll see how team science does. Art will get the popularity vote for sure.

About how I figured final results wise, but closer numerically than I thought it would be. My teams kicked butt, but the teams I've seen in video playbacks looked awful for science. Mostly newish/inexperienced players against vets. (I had a level 10 roller that pulled his weight for about half of my run to Champ)

I had a lot of fun with this one

Look like Squidring/Splatnet is now in english we'll get a lot more people using it. Since I posted my 'top inked' on twitter, might as well here too. Trends are trendy! (Feel free to post yours!)

Another Splatfest, another post to this very thread! I kinda took a lazy way of playing, but did really well (once I woke up. I started at 5am today.) Just used the Splattershot Pro and Forge Pro this round. I wanted to work on my over all skills and timing with no ink recovery perks. (Well I started with different than usual gear without any, but I did eventually switch from the Pilot Goggles to my Avatars which as one sub ink saver main.)

Screenshots:


My Squid Ring Score.


I got to "Queen" level pretty quickly. When I was sucking I had a good team to back me up. When my team wasn't so great I did in kind. Had a lot of fun.
(Hmm.. you can crash a car too you know?)


My final load out used. The first time I actually had a few teams who knew what 'painting the target' means. The Forge comes with Point Sensor sub wepaons. Basically a bomb that marks anyone who gets hit show on the game's HUD for 10 seconds or so. In most of the games if I marked someone and I died or they escaped my range someone swooped in and got him.

Overall it felt like it took even less time to get to max level than before. Team planes should win the popularity as we fought other team planes over 10 times at least. The hardest fights were with other team planes for sure. (I even ran into one of Bouche's cohorts while playing.)

Anyone else play? I know there was no EU Splatfest..

Congrats Cars! Donuts indeed!
Another close one. Just remember your perceptions on how your team is doing isn't the whole picture. We kicked butt with the teams I had on the team plane side, with maybe a scad few losses. I also played at 4am ET. Only the late night west costers and hardcore are usually who I run into (and for the most part I always play early in the morning due to life commitments. )

I just think it's humorous how people get bet out of shape over these win/losses. I could care less which side wins as long as the ride is fun. I just saw someone say "Callie must die for winning" in a miiverse post. I think someone needs to relax a bit.

On to the important one...



Welp. Team Tako didn't win so no overwhelming Octoling statement can me made here. (lol j/k) The results are nearly identical to the NA one, but look what 1%~2% can do to change the outcome. Shows how close both really were this time.

Hope that if you played you had a much fun as I did

DJ Bouche and a few of his friends played splatoon this morning.


They've announced a new balancing patch coming out this week. It's going to just big enough to shake everything up a little.

It seems to have done it's job. it's minor but it does seem to improve gameplay overall. We should play sometime soon Epele!

In the next US splatfest we've got an old internet classic. "Pirates vs. Ninjas"


Now if you know me well enough I can't not go with the team that's green. So I guess that made my choice easy..

Also I've joined a squad it seems. The name of the squad is 'Oldies' (If you see anyone with the tag ol'*NAME* ie: ol'Emuz that be them.) Should be interesting. Means having more people to play cooperatively with and I'm looking forward to that.

For this Splatfest instead of getting up early I stayed up and played with the Oldies. We actually ended up in a few matches together which was fun!



I tried to mix it up and used the .96 Gal. Worked very well.

Overall the ninjas appear to have secured the more populous team award. I only lost about 8 matchs or so total. We'll see if that remains constant over the other players.


The maps where a all ones we've had before. Even though I hate Arrowana Mall I kinda was hoping to see it at night. One Small-Mid Stage and two large ones was interesting.






I spent some time with my alt this evening. It's on team Ninja and I only fought a pirate team once. I played at least over 12 matches..

I'm dead tired so I'm going to leave it there. I'll prob post the results tomorrow.

Results:


Yeah. That's about how I figured over all.. but the margins were really wide this time.

x6 was a factor this time..

My Squad (Oldies) will be particpating in this weekends big splatoon tournament called "Inkstorm II" I'm not in this one, but still check it out (and the all the big players who are more favored heh.)

Our Team's Twitch Stream
Main Tournament's stream

Starts 2PM ET today with pools and tomorrow with top 8.