Big Run is over and Undertow Spillway is saved! You’ve all made Mr. Grizz proud!
>Overall thoughts on Undertow for Big Run
>What’s your high score? Think you made gold?
>What you think gold will be?
>Made the most out of the 2x scales?
>Was it thanks to folks here or freelancing? Anyone you wanna shout out?
>You think you preformed well? Could you have improved?
>Looking forward to the next Big Run?
>Most importantly: Did you have fun?
The last thing you see.
After 3's final season is announced.
last kit we'll see? yeah probably
*sniff*
Where is this from? No way it's an official render.
First of all I wanna thank God
Had a lot of fun with this one
Got up to 750ish EVP
156 scales
Mostly played with the pool, some good freelancers
Second day was suffering at first but then turned things around.
Shoutout to everyone in PoolsClosed
Went from 75 silvers to 139, so freaking zased
>156 scales
**156 high score, i'm tired
Think gold will be somewhere around 140, not as high as everyone is thinking
I want to manhandle pearl and throw her around the room
She could take it. She could also throw you around the room.
she will kill you with her voice
I want to apologize toy he pool for being a shitter
Why are girls playing baseball a thing that gets me going
Pearl is for tender loving Squidiot
Idk man, they just look good
For me FLCL planted the seed
Why is that octo so cute?
>she's just Marina, but a blue ringed octopus and in jazz clothes
Still, though
Octos are naturally cuter than their squid counterparts for the most part
THIS IS OCTARIAN PROPAGANDA AND I WILL NOT STAND FOR IT
They're not wrong though
Octolings fricking suck. I wish they were never made playable. All of their hairstyles look worse than inklings and octogays are obnoxious. The only good one is Shiver.
cope squidiot octos (specifically the girls) are better in every way
There's not a single octo as cute as the squid sisters (or my squid, of course). Splatoon will always focus on the squids, octos will always be an afterthought, as they should be.
I pick octo (male) with an afro and i will await the return of the gold toothpick when it comes back in Side Order
Boys are the afterthought squidiot that's why all octozons are girls. Also until I see her I'm calling your squid shit
You're the one coping if you think octos aren't also an afterthought after being introduced in a DLC 2 games in.
>won't post their squid
your inkling is SHIT
last 3 digits of this post is what it take to get gold
As expected
imagine joining the pool but playing SOLO
just leave and stop flooding the notifications tab with your solo playing ass
>Low tide fricking sucked
>147
I hope so
>maybe 145ish
>no
>Ganker pool
i don't want to embarrass anyone
>Frick no
I did ok maybe the first night of BR but sucked the rest of it. Shit if people avoid me going forward in SR I don't blame them. I'm gonna try and play some more SR to get better before the next one
>Next BR
Really depends on the map, if there's a new boss and x2 scales
>fun
Sorta in a masochistic way
>Overall thoughts on Undertow for Big Run
so far the toughest big run
>What’s your high score? Think you made gold?
154 I hope
>What you think gold will be?
151
>Made the most out of the 2x scales?
I mostly have everything so yes
>Was it thanks to folks here or freelancing? Anyone you wanna shout out?
Both
>You think you preformed well? Could you have improved?
No I kept getting 5+ deaths
>Looking forward to the next Big Run?
Yes
>Most importantly: Did you have fun?
Yes until today
I am so fricking bad at the game. I got to 97, but stopped there. Stingers and Flyfishes are a nightmare, and Scrappers are trying to lick my butthole while I'm dealing with them.
What rank? I got to 107 shortly After reaching Profresh +3. Though, I couldn't play much due to being sick
Only +2.
>You’ve all made Lil Judd proud!
ftfy
thoughts on Undertow for Big Run
Dont get the hate, low tide is a bit of a mess but high and specially mid tide are pretty damn good
>>What’s your high score? Think you made gold?
141
Its 50/50 I'd say
>>What you think gold will be?
No less than 140, no more than 144
>>Made the most out of the 2x scales?
Dont really care that much, I got all the rewards I want
>>Was it thanks to folks here or freelancing? Anyone you wanna shout out?
Folks here
Big thank you to SplaGOON, Ricey and Mint who got me to 141, and shoutout to Treize who was in my previous highest record lobby at 137
>>You think you preformed well? Could you have improved?
I think I did way better than the last two runs but there's always room for improvement
forward to the next Big Run?
Yeah, Im hoping we get a new Salmonid King this time
>>Most importantly: Did you have fun?
Saturday was kind of a lull but I really enjoyed friday and today
>Overall thoughts on Undertow for Big Run
Overall fine, low tide is ass though.
>What’s your high score? Think you made gold?
156, results are out so yes.
>What you think gold will be?
I was advised to aim for 151 by a fellow splat autist but I expected it to be closer to 145.
>Made the most out of the 2x scales?
Barely any gold.
>Was it thanks to folks here or freelancing? Anyone you wanna shout out?
Mostly people in the pool, based Ricey carrying me to insane heights as always.
>You think you preformed well? Could you have improved?
Definitely made some dumb mistakes from time to time, but got gold so I'm satisfied. I got to 985 EVP right before it ended instead of 999, pic related
>Looking forward to the next Big Run?
I can't stop playing this game.
>Most importantly: Did you have fun?
Fun?
Was great playing with you too!
>139 eggs during regular salmon
This is a really good rotation.
Not being an ass map helps.
Even normal homosexuals realized low tide Spillway was shit.
And here I thought I was just having a skill issue.
That seems about right. At that Rank, I typically got a bit over 30 Eggs each wave.
Might have topped that if that last high tide didn't spam fly fish on us.
Big Run Undertow was fun. I wanted more difficulty out of Salmon Run and that's what I got.
>Overall thoughts on Undertow for Big Run
Chaos, but the insanity was fun after I stopped stressing about my score
>What’s your high score? Think you made gold?
167, my best score yet for Big Run. If it's not gold, I would be shocked
>What you think gold will be?
139, I think Undertow might've been too hard for most players
>Made the most out of the 2x scales?
SO MUCH BRONZE
>Was it thanks to folks here or freelancing? Anyone you wanna shout out?
Freelance
>You think you preformed well? Could you have improved?
I vary between carrying the team and being a massive detriment. I feel like I'm improving at least
>Looking forward to the next Big Run?
Always
>Most importantly: Did you have fun?
Yes
an otherwise decent map massively dragged down by low tide
144, no
149
The 2x bonus was the main reason I bothered to play BR all weekend long this time. Didn't get many silver/gold scales but I know I wouldn't have gotten close to this high score without its influence
freelanced
Pretty good, it's my best BR so far. Last 2 times I got bronze'd
If it includes a new king salmonid, yes.
Friday and Saturday, yes. Today, no.
How could they have fixed low tide?
Remove floppers
you sick bastard
It really speaks how fricked up lowtide was that Flip Floppers went from being a joke to a nightmare.
>remove one of the easiest bosses that bring the eggs to the basket
please no
More fricking inkable surfaces. Salmonids not coming from four directions at once. Low Tide Undertow was like playing Tricolor, defending.
making it not undertow
Not putting the team in a pincer formation the whole map would help. Lowtide Wahoo and Inkblot didn't do that despite being the middle as far as I can remember.
Inkblot low tide did do that
I really don't recall enemies come from the rear, just the front and sides.
GGs lads, that went really smoothly aside from that one wave.
>first run of new rotation i get a higher score than my big run high score
That is the last time i play an event where I'm late to the party and all the good players are either done already or ranked in the 400+ so there is no chance of matching with them. Even with the pool rooms you get pro +1 morons joining and ruining everything
But I got my top 5% high score 3 hours before the Big Run ended
my scores fell off hard past evp 600, it was simply too difficult to actually put all the eggs in so a bunch were getting wasted every round
I think if you want to go for a good score with randos, EVP 400 is the sweet spot
GG, I saved Crab Tank for nothing.
Thanks for the Salmon run guys too tired to continue. got to 260 just to get one coho but at least we defeated it.
Did they change how much of the flopper circle you have to ink? Felt like it wasn't auto filling as easily as it used to
You have to fill in a percentage of the circle actually put down. If the inkable circle is smaller for whatever reason, that means more of it you need to fill in.
Think they might have been a little bugged on this stage
Remember previous Salmon Run stages have gotten a stupid amount of bugfixes. These big run stages are mostly untested and a little more glitchy/janky
No, but the issue was because of Undertow's sloped and slanted surfaces you had to also paint the slopes too, which basically meant you needed one person on each side.
How would you improve Big Run anons?
Make it so any map it's on is fairly open and has a lot of linkable walls?
Would you keep the high score/gold trophy rewards system in place or would you opt for something different?
Only Boss Salmonids.
Only Grizzco weapons.
>4 grizz splatanas
No
This, but both Horrorboros and Big C spawn for Xtrawave.
Remove the Splat 2 maps.
Sockeye, Hydroplant and Junction are so much better than those pieces of shit.
there's nothing wrong with it now that they added the scale bonus
Ranked Modes
Splat Zones:
>Keep the SplatZones painted and get eggs.
>If you don’t, the splatzone will be blocked and turned into a spawning point where you can’t get eggs.
Tower Control:
>Ride the tower to the goal to get the eggs.
>Tower is bigger as it holds the egg basket.
Rainmaker:
>Egg Basket is sabotaged, time for plan B.
>One player will carry the Rainmaker which will work as a Golden Egg Vacuum.
>Place the Rainmaker into the Checkpoint to eject all the eggs to the helicopter.
>Beware, Salmonids are attracted to Rainmaker and will try to steal it resulting into a Game Over if it reaches their spawn points.
Clam Blitz:
>Goldie is locked inside a glass, powering a mighty cannon that will destroy the basket.
>Collect clams to break Goldie’s glass with a Super Clam.
>Goldie will drop a golden egg for each Clam you throw while the shield is down.
>Use the canon to launch eggs at the basket.
>Beware, Snatchers will collect clams to make a Super Clam and use it to attack the Egg Basket.
>special depletion
is that an actual weapon stat?
Kino
that's a cool ass kit
Was that weapon datamined? Or just wishful thinking?
I made it before Sizzle Season.
>Get rid of the statue rewards and replace them with either extra gold scales or vouchers that can be redeemed for Grizzco items
>In addition to the 2x scale bonus, increase chances of getting gold scales from 34% to 70%
There, I've fixed Big Run.
Low tide was awful, high tide surprisingly good. Pretty much an inverse of most SR maps. Wish people would ink the fricking walls though.
139. I hope so, but I doubt it.
At least 150.
I made enough silver to finally get a black gloopsuit, frick yeah.
I got my high score from inkgen pool, but reached over 700 EVP in freelance.
I performed as well as my team would let me.
Yes, so long as life doesn't get in the way of it again.
I did, thanks for asking.
Fricking called it.
I'll say it once I'll say it again.
The 5% cut off will be 144 or 145.
Big Run has made my fever worse.
So the new Challenge is going to be random weapons... I love modes like that, fricking homosexuals, just open Challenges 24/7...
My best was 143, I imagine it should get me at least silver.
Challenge is on the 15th yeah?
yeah, 14th ~ 15th, after that one is turf war ranked I guess.
>random weapons, but turf
That's actually fun. I'd kill for that to be a common thing.
HERE WE HO
>150 for gold
Huh, a lot lower than expected
130 for gold badge
game just updtaed
IT'S 151
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
huh, my guess was correct
>missed silver by 1
Damn, knew it was going to be 150 but I tried my best and didn't make it : (
>I'm still top 50%
I'll take it.
The inflation of the scores is insane, I wonder if the devs think the same
Makes me wonder if they'll make some kind of adjustment. Top 10% instead of 5? (this is cope)
>next Big Run opens up the top 10% for gold
>the cutoff still jumps to 160
remember what they took from us
Loser theme from 1 was kino.
I actually find it more insulting to be forced to look at the winning team celebrating than my loser team looking salty
"You FRICKING SUCK" in music form.
Devs are too busy playing tetris with map designs to care.
Why would they think that? Anyone could see that it would happen as casual SR players lose interest.
>Why would they think that?
Because their predictions were significantly lower than the actual turnout from the very beginning. They have to be at least somewhat surprised.
you really think their generic demo screenshot was a prediction?
nta but yes
93 eggs.
93 frickin eggs.
terrible frickin rounds
Profreshitter moment
Holy shit; I thought I was safe for sure with 149. Good thing I kept playing for fun and got 154 on my last round of the night.
>125 here
WHEW
ok ok i'll take it
I really don't wanna cut it so close next time though
150 and up chads where we at
>150
all that for nothing
OH FRICK OFF
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Hi I've got silver 🙂
I'm gold in the first big run.
Hi
I got 160 in the first hour or two of the event and it was all downhill after that.
Do not understand why people gloat about an RNG mode like big run when all the replays of high egg counts are just discord groups getting optimal waves and weapons
I got gold with random freelancers so you don't need discord.
boingus where you are you're a solid squigga.
Im saying the replays where teams get like 200+ eggs and overinflate the average is just RNG shit and not skillful
If it was Eggstra Work then yeah thats skillful
>replays where teams get like 200+ eggs and overinflate the average
How many times do we have to do big runs until people realize there is no average? It's the top 5% of participants, not the top 5% of eggs. Those 200+ teams make up like maybe half a percent of the top 5% at most. They don't really change anything.
GOLD
I'm curious how many hours you play of the game, maybe I just don't play enough? I get the impression the top 5% are people that play SR at least weekly
I was gonna hit you with the
>at least weekly and not daily
but I have gold and while I mostly play daily I definitely do skip days and I think towards one of the season I just didn't play for a couple weeks
towards the end of one of the seasons*
I'm a shitter that some how fluked into 150, I usually play each rotation to 1200p but will bail if its shit like high ink weapons on Bay.
Did you get gold for all BR events though or just the lates one?
I'm specifically asking those that have all golds.
you didn't reply to me but in that case ignore my reply to you as well because I got silver on the second BR
Not any of those anons but I got gold and I don't play salmon run nearly as often as most of the board does. Obviously, playing more will make you better but you don't have to play all the time to get gold. I've gone months without playing salmon run before and I'm still good. I do play ranked daily though so maybe that helps. My movement and aim is great.
My highscore this time was 183. I play every single rotation to at least 1200. If it's a fun one though I'll grind scales for however long.
>t. gold badge on every map, gold on every big run, gold on eggstra
Damn, this is what it takes to be top 5%?
I literally don't have the time for it.
I don't have a single 999 gold badge, nor max hazard. But I do have about 600 hours in the game between Salmon Run and S+ rank + splatfests. Got the gold everytime except the first but I didn't really try very hard that time. In my experience it's all about getting the right waves and knowing what to prioritize
>and knowing what to prioritize
Other than the obvious (stingers, big shots, flyfish) are there any tips you can give?
I have always been silver. Got close to gold twice but the fact I'm.consistently getting silver must mean I am doing something severely wrong, but I don't know what.
Clear trash whenever you can afford to, provided you're not saddled with some 0 dps weapon like Inkbrush (and even then you should try to find room to do it) Those Cohocks may not be a problem for you right now, but they'll be someone else's problem very shortly.
I already do this, I don't stop for a moment and try to constantly be killing or egg-collecting.
I got 41 eggs on my best highscore, but the total with the team it still wasn't enough (teammates got 35 each). I'm devastated.
The next step is to lure bosses closer to the basket when appropriate and reserve the last 20 seconds to deliver as many eggs as possible.
I already know to lure floppers, scrappers, as well as steelheads and slamming lids where possible. Still, I'm stuck a silverlet.
It sounds like you know what you're doing and you're at the mercy of weapons/waves/your team. I couldn't pass 150 this time no matter how hard I tried, whether I picked up more eggs or hyper focused shore bosses.
My tips
>Be aggressive with your special usage. Use your specials to make egg collection faster and easier. Like booyah bombing 3 scrappers on the basket, or using the wave breaker to keep the trash at bay during the big egg cleanup in the last 20 seconds after bosses stop spawning.
>Recognize what your weapon is ideal for, and do that. Priorities targets it's good against. If you have an AOE weapon, focus on trash 24/7. Always be doing something.
>Similarly, recognize what your teammates weapons are weak against, and help them patch up those weaknesses. If you see a charger about to be overwhelmed by trash for instance, help him. Or if you see a flipper flopper land on a blaster and you have a shooter, help him paint it.
>Learn HOW the bosses work. Scrappers will chase the closest player until someone shoots them, then they'll chase that. Lids will start moving against if you bait them to slam and then leave. Stingers will always target the farthest player. Etc.
>Be mindful with your aggro. Don't lead lasers, missiles, or Steel Eels into your teammates.
>Your health is a resource, learn how to use it. It's okay to take a hit if you know you're going to live, and not have to give up your positioning. Similarly, utilize squid roll armor to make more aggressive plays, like armoring through Steelhead bombs to maintain your positioning against them.
>shoot the drizzler torpedoes for the love of god
Again this is stuff I already knew and implement in my play as much as possible, I understand very well by this point how luring works and how to handle map control to optimize egg collecting and as long as I have the reach I alwaus get the drizzler shots as nobody else ever does until loke EVP 300+ anyway. I guess I just suck at my skill of applying it and need to play a lot more to keep up with the top 5%...
You need to play more aggressively, take more chances to get more eggs simple as.
There's a few other tricks like letting snatchers pick up eggs and paying attention to which way they're flying, letting them deliver eggs to the basket.
Mothership waves can be a great source for eggs, you can ink strike/crab tank bomb the frick out of the ship and make it rain eggs over the basket, that sort of thing. High tides/fogs are where most of the really high egg counts come from, so when you get one of those start thinking it's time to maximize eggs. Hang mostly by the basket, you understand luring yeah but you didnt want to aggro too many bosses away from the basket.
What I do is just kill the frick out of everything, trash, bosses, all of it. Makes it much easier to clean up the eggs afterwards. Playing your weapon to its strengths is important. Just gotta focus more on egg jockeying anon, this isn't regular Salmon Run. You want the high score you need to emphasize egg collecting. It's a tricky balance to maintain because you cant neglect the lesser salmonids either. Using specials "early" to clear bosses around the basket is good.
A few more little tips
- Dying is really really bad. Stay alive no matter what. Ink all the walls at the beginning, you will want those escape routes when things get hairy.
-> If a teammate dies, locate them immediately (unless there's a frick ton of eggs by the basket and they're on the ass end of the level, decide which is more important at the moment). If they are dead, that means they're not killing/collecting eggs which is really bad.
- On the subject of egg collecting, say there's a giant pile of eggs near the basket. Don't just throw one, then let your ink recharge so you can throw another. Throw, then swim after immediately picking up the next egg, rinse and repeat.
-> If it's further from the basket, think of how tornado waves are done. Swim a little bit before throwing, then as you swim back your ink will refill so you can throw another one, little trick but it adds up.
-> If you kill a fishstick, dont just sit up there waiting for your ink to refill to throw another one. You don't necessarily need to climb it to kill it depending on the weapon, that's wasting time. Kill it, let the snatcher collect them, then shoot him down and all the eggs are now easy to collect on the ground. You can do other stuff in the meantime.
-> If you're killing shore bosses, do not try and ferry each egg back. Kill it, grab one egg and head back. Don't wast time and aggro bosses/enemies on the ass end of the level, it's not worth it.
>Throw, then swim after immediately picking up the next egg, rinse and repeat.
To be more specific I mean throw -> then hand deliver the next egg.
Another thing about dying is that more things aggro onto players still alive. So things can snowball really badly and quickly
Wait you can 100% parry a steelhead bomb with a squidroll point blank? If so, I did not know that
>this is what it takes to be top 5%?
Not at all. Did you read me? I got 183. That's probably like fricking top 1 or 2% or some shit. It's a ridiculous score. You absolutely don't have to no-life the game and 999 every map to reach the 5%, you don't even have to reach max hazard level; I got a few 150-160 scores shortly after starting out, in the low EVP 100s range.
Frankly, a lot of it is luck. Good teammates, good weapons, good specials, good spawns, good waves. But getting better at the game will certainly allow you to make the most out of every wave, no matter what happens, as well as move up the ranks to meet similarly competent players, which raises your chances of getting in a good score.
kek no, I hardly salmon run and have the top 5% badge. I am still wearing the default suit.
join the /vg/ pool
>top 5% goes to the top 5% most dedicated players
shocking
You obviously didn't play with freelance if your score is that high. Basically cheating.
I did all my Big Runs entirely freelance. I wish I had a reliable gang like that, trust me.
You name wouldn't happen to be Nomad, would it?
switch says 775 hours, ive just played every SR rotation so far and 999'd every map just so i get that out the way
got gold on all, wahoo world was stressful since i didnt know what the real cutoff was gonna be, lost sleep playing that lol
I don't play SR weekly. I don't think Big Run really requires high level SR skills, just committing enough time to try and get a good shift with good waves. The actually good SR players probably just get high scores more consistently without relying on lucky waves. If you just keep playing on Big Run and don't give up, you can get that one good round that nets you a gold score. All three of my golds came from getting a lucky Mothership wave
>If you just keep playing on Big Run and don't give up
I played all weekend and still only got silver, now I just feel completely deflated.
Another for my collection.
Another golden statue for my collection.
more golds for the octo bandit
>Shiver shrine
kino
>143
IT'S OVER
Off by one two times in a row.
>183
Was there ever any doubt?
>barely made top 5% again
I'm not going to make top 5% next time.
>135
beat my previous HS...for silver again....owari da....
>150
rough
>next BR will be at least 160
jesus christ I can't keep up anymore. I'll never get the gold, I got so close yet so far.
>Silver by a few eggs.
Man, I’m glad I already got the golden badge, otherwise I’d be pretty pissed about this.
>147
FRICK I THOUGHT THAT WOULD BE MORE THAN ENOUGH
Black person
What is this? A trophy for smallfry?
At least it's reasonable to put in a locker.
Forgot pic
>151 eggs
Let's fricking go, I'm finally not a silver shitter for once.
Wait what I got gold? I'm a shitter there must be some kind of mistake.
SilverChads WWA
TRIPLE GOLD YEAH
Based. GG btw with those games at the beginning of Big Run, got a secured gold quite early
GGs, I also peaked with the 152 early on and wasn't able to beat it after.
ggs pretty crazy how we earned it so early and at least for me it stayed the top score for the rest of the event
bro your eggstra work sticker?
i genuinely bought into the "this stage was harder, the cutoff point will be lower" cope 🙁
>t. 139 eggs
once i saw japs getting 200+ i knew we were fricked
I don't blame you. I got gold and even I thought the cutoff would be lower. I thought it was harder than other big run stages.
With how nasty low-tide is, mid/high tide is pretty great. Likely it was people who lucked into those who were able to raise the gold standard
nah, this one had higher all over it, it is easy to wipe but at the same time mid / high tide it was super easy to get a ton of eggs.
You under estimated the player die off. Less casual normal gays playing means less score offset for try hards.
haha that was me that said that.
i seriously thought it would be lower too, looks like the casuals are slowly getting weeded out
Same I thought low tide would be enough to lower the curve. But I guess I'm that much of a shitter.
It was me. Please understand if you and the others didn't fall for it, the score may be even higher than it already is. Thanks for helping
Is the silver badge worth putting on my tag or is it still a mark of a shitter
>silver 1st big run, miss 2nd big run
>i decided to farm scales today and got 166 and made gold because of it
hell yeah frickers
well I just barely made gold (152)
already had the gold badge from the first one so whatever
more interesting was the dialogue mentioning the water ways in the splatlands, possibly foreshadowing a final big run in the hub
>Bronze first Big Run
>Silver second Big Run
>Gold third Big Run
I'm sorry that I'm responsible for them adding a Platinum category in Big Run 4 but clearly this trend must continue.
I fricking knew it would be higher. As much as people were complaining about low tide it felt much easier to rack up a bunch of eggs near the basket compared to Inkblot
too shit for top 500 but at least I have these
Oh that’s clever what you did with the eggstra work sticker, i’m gonna steal that
GOLDCHADS, REPORT IN AND MAKE FUN OF SILVERLETS AND BRONZEBABBYS
>Gold by literally 1 (one) egg
I laughed way too hard.
Weird. Big Run is over and suddenly I'm having fun in Salmon Run again.
Though I gotta admit, High Tide Griller on Junction is kinda fricking mean.
Wahooo World
>114 high score
>EVP 90
Inkblot Art Academy
>125 high score
>EVP 240
Undertow Spillway
>141 high score
>EVP 500
At least Im improovin
That cutoff is starting to get really high.
It will only go up as more and more people drop off.
Last Big Run is going to have a cut off of 175 at least at this rate.
>only played like two matches
>mfw still got silver
>played almost a hundred shifts
>silvertard
This was literally all I did for the entire weekend
>Got gold this time and the last time
>but still salty I missed gold by one on the first big run
I am ashamed to put the big silver coho in my locker bros...
so 160 minimum for the next big run huh
yeah it's gonna be hell, hopefully the stage is better next time and it actually has a new king
Early datamines had three place holders for Salmonids, one ended up being Fug. Seems like the odd number Big Runs will get new kings.
>Big Run 1: 135 for gold
>Big Run 2: 141 for gold
>Big Run 3: 150 for gold
Ay... (we're fricked)
Probably be:
>Drizzle 2023: New King trophy
>Chill 2023: Returning 2 Map. Mothership trophy
>Fresh 2024: New King trophy
>Sizzle 2024: New Map + Hugefry trophy
>Drizzle 2024: Mr. Grizz trophy
I got gold from freelance. Highest score I had with Ganker was 135. The pool sure has a lot of shitters in it.
they come crawling in for big run/eggstra work and then frick off until the next one
That kinda pisses me off. I change my name a lot because I'm indecisive about that stuff. You guys are gonna lump me in with the shitters every time you see me with a new name.
Are you ready to try harder and harder as the runs go on?
bros...what happened to our playerbase....
Zelda happened
Its been a month since Zelda
it's a meaty game and casuals especially won't have or spend their free time to play
Why didnt Pokemon tank the first Big Run? That was just as big as Zelda
pokemon has like 20 hours of content at best
I put 175 hours into it and I didnt even do raids
>he bought that early access trashfire
I'm sorry
Pokemon is shit
Because everybody assumed the first big run would be this incredible life changing piece of content to rescue the game from its sorry state
If anything I'm mentally preparing to get bronze and shitty green as time goes by.
That's a huge dropoff
Wow I've been the one beating the drum about player die off but I didn't think it'd be that bad.
This is what bad maps does to a playerbase.
it's more like what zelda does to it
We'll see come Big Run 4 I guess.
I'm not saying it'll recover or anything, but if there's a new boss it'll probably be less of a severe decline
Almost 2 million is honestly a pretty great number. If I wasnt shown any data I'd have thought these events capped out at like 500k people.
Nah, I just wish there was more rewards instead of the strange gatekeeping they're doing
Where did these numbers come from
his gay ass
At this point I'm gonna just cope and accept I won't ever reach gold at this point. With BR being random weapons and normal stages I'll just have to accept that RNG may never be on my side. I'll just settle with getting better at SR in the meantime.
You can still get a fluke team and set of runs and get gold even if you're a shitter. Like me!
I fricking knew it, all the casuals weren't playing which brought the score up
Next one will have a softer drop or maybe even go up because theres gonna be a new king
I feel that a part of it is that people have realized that unless you're already in, like Profresh +2 there's almost no chance of earning the good rewards even if you do well every wave, so those who don't play SR have little incentive to participate.
On top of this, the idea of this Run, that Salmonoids are attacking the spillway, isn't as interesting as the idea of them attacking a theme park or art academy.
>that Salmonoids are attacking the spillway, isn't as interesting as the idea of them attacking a theme park or art academy.
No one gives a shit about that though
NTA but I thought it was kinda neat, they mentioned they're literally right under the city rather than attacking some random place, gives a little more gravity to the situation but you know we repel them at the end anyway so it doesn't matter
I disagree. As for both in the Plaza and out of it, I saw people making artwork and jokes about the specific premises of the last two Runs. While I can't say for sure, it makes perfect sense that the idea behind a run can help gain or lose a bit of interest.
Yeah that makes sense
I guess I'll try keeping that in mind for the next one, I've never been big on lore and there's chunks of contexts I often miss that probably would have made my experience a bit better if I knew them
Meant for
All those things plus there wasn't a new King Salmonid so there's not much new stuff for your average player to see. Salmon Run using normal levels isn't such a great gimmick when the level isn't very suited for it and Big Run as a whole doesn't really offer much to your average player.
Me too, but I think next time I'll only be able to get a bronze.
I unironically want the normal Eggstra Work sticker, the one below bronze, cause it looks the best
It's bullshit that they only give you one even if you get the gold.
I'm assuming there won't be unique eggstra work stickers, you'll just stack up a bunch of the same one
thoughts on Undertow for Big Run
It's shit
>>What’s your high score? Think you made gold?
Frick no. 127.
>>What you think gold will be?
It's probably going to be lower than the last two given how everyone seemed to be struggling.
>>Made the most out of the 2x scales?
I killed about 30 of the bastards and all I got was a pile of bronze and about 30 silver.
>>Was it thanks to folks here or freelancing? Anyone you wanna shout out?
Bit of both.
>>You think you preformed well? Could you have improved?
It was a really mixed bag. I think I did pretty good on my part, but I definitely shit the bed on some runs.
forward to the next Big Run?
Ehh. About that...
>>Most importantly: Did you have fun?
Can't say that I did. Honestly the bad maps and randomness of teammates and has really left a sour taste in my mouth. This big run kinda made me reflect on why I'm still doing this. I've pretty much just been playing turf once a day for my daily level and ranked at the third month so I can maintain my rank. The lack of truly new stuff each month isn't helping much either. Probably just going to drop splat3 for a while. Thanks for reading my blog. Have a good night.
>It's probably going to be lower than the last two
Yeah. That's what I get for not reading the thread.
Oh cool, I got bronze.
It's NOT FAIR
I tried so damn hard this time, grinded all weekend. I got the most eggs on my best score and it still fell just short.
I fricking give up, this has ruined my enthusiasm for the SR.
I'm already nervous about the next big run
Only got 141 eggs. I should play more Salmon Run to become better.
I hate big run and I'm glad it's only once per season. Eggstra work is the superior competition because the playing field is even. All skill, no RNG, as a competition should be. Also I still like splatfests the most.
Splatoon 3 has been out for 3/4 of a year
Naturally it's going to lose player count especially with how fricking slow they've been to add content (even slower than the previous games). But it would have lost players either way, come on people
Make a room
>going to feel pressured next Big Run to get 165 minimum
if you want silver.
How shit am I and how do I stop being such a shitter? I play X battles on the Japanese region so I think I'm lower than I would be against Western players but I know that's just cope.
You already know the final big run is gonna be some special gimmicky stage with Deep Cut helping you or something and it will take place in the splatlands itself or one of the single player hubs.
Thats the only way they could draw in everybody to play it one final time
It'll probably be in Splatsville proper, with different sections serving as different tides.
finally, a justification for the hub being absurdly large
it's probably why it's designed like that in the first place, everything could easily be on one level and 60-70% of it cut without issue but there's suspiciously 3 height levels, one of which is completely unused for anything practical and the another has like 3 things that could easily be on the first height level
They also have the excuse to make Inkopolis the hub during the event since Splatsville has been taken over
>Don't pay for dlc
>Can't access anything since splatsville is under siege
They gave Octo Expansionlets Octolings if they picked Team Octopus for the Squid vs Octopus Splatfest, so giving free access to a hub with no content doesn't sound too out of the ordinary
yep, probably one of the reasons they added inkopolis back, all players will get emergency evacuated there (even if they don't have the dlc but they'll be forced back to splatsville when the event ends ala squids v octo)
>silver for like a couple hours playing big run
You guys didn't even try. I have the badge anyway and don't care about the rest.
The requirement for gold is insane, especially on a tough map like undertow. Regardless of what statue you got, you guys went through hell and are probably better SR players for it
It sure doesn't feel like I'm any better.
I'm already EVP, there's no better than that.
SR really needs a better ranking system, having EVP just continue to higher numbers is silly - there should be an actual EVP+ already to strive for.
I put at least 17 hours in Big Run to wind up just barely missing gold. I want to kill myself right now.
You are dirt.
I tried so hard, I don't know what I did wrong
Not everyone was meant to be a golden GOD.
At least you got lots of bronze scales along the way
how often do you play regular sammin? Regularly play the normal shifts for a couple months with the intent to improve, and you'll get results come next big run.
NTA but define 'improve'
survive more shifts, reach higher EVP, learn some overfishing tech, learn each weapon's ideal use better so you're comfy when you get them randomly in big run. Stuff like that. Basically, you wanna become more consistent. Scoring high is luck dependant but if you're a more consistent player you'll be able to capitalize when you do get those lucky waves.
>survive more shifts
That's something that always screws me over. I have Splatoon 2's Salmon Run ingrained into my mind and it will never, ever stop fricking me over since 3 starts you at 2's HLM.
stop chatting and make aroom
Bruh i thought 148 was safe at least I got a shit ton of scales for friendship bracelet
>One hundred fricking fifty
That is way too high dude
That's kind of the point. Only 5% of players get gold so of course it's going to be stupid hard.
next splatfest already announced
july 8 to 9
Theme?
where
what theme
lying fricker
I remember when the first few overwatch 1 PvE events came out and beating them on legendary was so hard that only 0.5% of the playerbase at the time could do it or some shit
So i know im not THAT bad at games since i managed that and that shit too way longer than getting gold in any big run
A lot of it's luck. Which waves spawn, which weapons spawn, and which bosses spawn (and where they spawn)
I got multiple +150 runs in a row with an especially good team of randos, it's not all luck based.
I said a lot of it is luck. You need a decently skilled team as well, but luck plays a big part. Forgot to mention which way the snatchers fly. If they go towards the basket then that's another factor you can't control.
>Get's a good team of randos
>It's not all luck based
everyone on Ganker is good meaning that rng element should have been removed when you guys queue together
>admits to being a sweaty ow player
Being good at PvE and being good at PvP are two different skill sets
As if MvM in TF2 isnt proof of that already
>even japs are baffled at the score number
Huh
People really under valued just how much, statistically speaking, the casuals dying off would cause the results to slant.
If this had the same number of players as Big Runs 1 and 2 then yeah this would have probably actually had the score brackets fall just due to the map design.
Wrong, you forgot grizzco charger is superior to the previous grizzco blaster + grizzco brella. Mothership wave + grizzco charger = higher score
True that is a factor I didn't think of, but I do think the playerbase die off is a large portion of it.
Yeah, the other 2 grizz weapons aren’t anything crazy that could make an impact. Grizz brella is just a rapid-fire brella and the grizz blaster is just the clash blaster on crack
Yeah by walking into the locker room, nobody does that
I can live with being a Silver Shitter
Nice
One thing this Big Run taught me was how to quickly hop up a fish stick and accurately tap shot them to death with a charger. No time to wait for the shooter to finish jacking off and get over there.
I learned that the hard way back at launch
>get a charger? you are now on lesser/stick duty because your Freelancers will hyper focus bosses at shore
>get something that can't paint? better aim at the floor because basket area will permanently be Salmonid ink
>Inkbrush? be grateful your team didn't get it so they can't feed 15 deaths in the first 20 seconds
>your weapon can't paint and nobody will kill flipper floppers? drop a bomb on one side and paint the other
how do I git gud at ranked
I've always sucked shit at pvp in games because while my ability to actually play the game is fine, I'm a brainlet and terrible at game sense and good decision making. What do I do to improve that?
Honestly the only way is to just play ranked modes and get the feeling for them. Bit of a mixed bag since in open there's less of a punishment for loosing, but who you'll be facing varies. In series there's more to loose but you're fighting people your own skill rank. There's also videos out there I'm sure.
Its honestly the miracle the game even runs at above 30 FPS with how they swamp you with bosses from every angle
it doesnt even hit 30 fps at higher hazard levels, there is clearly something inherently wrong with how slammin lids and fish sticks are programmed for them to tank the framerate that hard
We need more shitter to come back to frick up the curve
If anything these results are going to scare off more shitters, demoralize them to the point where they won't even bother because they know they can't make gold anymore
only thing that will bring casuals back is a shiny new boss
its ok, anniversary will bring em back with the new shark salmon boss
>It's just Shiver's boss fight reskinned
I mean yeah its just gonna be a flip flopper but as a shark
And then ToTK also has an octorok pretending to be a shark
Sharks good
Ready for this Splatfest?
It sounds so fricking boring but they're totally doing it
>Reds useless in every game that isn't 1
>Yellows useless in every game that isn't 2
>Blues useless without arbitrary water to justify their existence
I got 101 thanks to the DEENS pity room. Nowhere near that any other time. Any time I get out of Profresh, I start getting losing streaks until I hit fricking Overachiever. I'm obviously not good, but once my performance dips, everything goes wrong forever. Also I swear Chargers were given out way, way more often this Big Run, and I don't mean the Grizzco.
>it's a gootuber level
>I got 101 thanks to the DEENS pity room.
Glad I was of help
>come back for results
>I only bare made it to gold
Holy frick, was not expecting that high of a jump from the last big run. I was sincerely hoping with how much Undertow was filtering people, myself included, that the cutoff for top 5% was going to be skewed lower. Nope, this was even more drastic than the previous increase. And it's only going to get worse as time goes on. I am very, very scared for future big runs.
Thanks so much for your help, Ganker. I lucked out the first couple times, but there was no way I could've gotten to 154 eggs this time without the lot of ya. And both times I reached that score, there was no mothership. I checked the app, we earned that shit. You guys are the best.
We have to try harder next time if we want another gold.
We were trying our hardest, though you're not wrong. Really, this run felt way more luck-based than the previous 2. There's always going to be an element of luck, but at least Wahoo World and Inkblot felt doable most of the time. Getting a low tide in Undertow was basically a death sentence. I can count the number of times we got a good egg count there on one hand.
Dip your feet into the pool, water's fine.
"Some" shit luck is putting it lightly, I'd say. But overall, I'm still glad we all got to play a lot of it together. This suffering would not have been nearly as tolerable with randos. I got maybe one good rando team the whole time. Here's to the next big run not being such a pain in the patella.
I may have to stop solo queueing for my golds if the trend keeps going the way it has
Mhm, was glad to see you made it when gold was 150. Overall as annoying as Undertow was and some of the shit luck we got, i’d say it was a good time nonetheless. Got my black gloop, secured gold, slaughtered bosses, and most importantly, played with plenty of great folk here
Least now we can relax a bit with more regular shifts and not sweat so much. Gg to everyone, I look forward to more salmon slaughter in the future
>check pool after map change
>there are already homies past 200 VP
How the hell you dudes not burnt out. I needed to go take a nice long walk after big run ended.
Those gold boss badges won't earn themselves.
There's probably like 5 years left to enjoy earning them. I see no reason to speed run it.
I guess the autism is just that strong. No matter how much I love Splatoon, I can't imagine doing nothing but play it for hours, days on end without doing anything else.
Autism, NEETs
They are legitimate autists that fixate on the mode and play nothing else
I have to admit they are better than me at it too
you should wait for the discordgays that suddenly appear with 800+ evp
because we can finally play normal salmon run now
Scrappers can be real dicks sometimes
>and frick that squid in particular
Look closer, its an octo. Even the Salmon knows the sewers are too good for the filthy octo
>filename
Every time I read it the entire video plays in my head without fail
lol you can see me notice the scrappers and immediately throw wave breaker because I knew we were about to be fricked lmao
I think about playing with anons and it fuels me with motivation to play
If that was me then I wanted to defeat coho once after big run but everyone keeps leaving and I was 200 when I got and defeated coho. Also it's a holiday today where I live. And it's a good chance to get a silver badge by the two days.
>join the /vg/ po-- ACK
>first big run 5%: 137+
>2nd: 141+
>3rd: 150+
by this trend the next one is 160+ for sure.
Japs complained this time so they will lower it to 10%
That's what I'm scared of.
The way you said that brought this to mind.
I can respect that.
This is genuinely the first thing I thought of once Big Run ended.
For all my frustrations about how ball-busting Undertow was for big run, I still managed to maintain 2.2 wave clear average and reach 810 VP. So I guess that's something.
Glad to see we were on the same wavelength.
Even though scrappers are usually easy fodder, I have a personal vendetta against them because they tend to target me 2or 3 at a time while I'm trying to deal with something else. And randos literally never help me. They can see me getting chased while having an E-Liter or something, and just frick off instead of distracting them.
The worst is if you've got a very ink hungry weapon, stuck in green ink with an empty ink tank, and a scrapper is on your ass and bumps you to death. So fricking painful
>two or three scrappers chasing you
>surrounded by green ink
>have range blaster
>no one is helping you despite being 10 feet away
I've been in this situation more times than I can count.
I already forgot who it was. Think it was multiple people.
I'm 360 now.
Godspeed, you fricking lunatic. Godspeed.
This happened to me at least once or twice during big run. Big swig 's gigantic hitbox is dangerous to both salmon and yourself.
Man Im getting excited for the new DLC. Hope we get news soon
I refuse to get excited when they haven't given us anything besides a sneak peak. That being said, it's a very, very nice sneak peak.
>Also got 100 calatog with all the playing since the start of the season.
Damn, I'm not even at 50 yet.
Oh I'll stopping at 400 I'm too tired right now. Also got 100 calatog with all the playing since the start of the season.
this is the reason
So the people saying that overfishing doesn't matter were right. It's never about how well the top players do, it's about how many people are around to play.
This is only going to get worse now since there will be less newcomers and the remaining players that don't get disillusioned from the results will become harder to compete with, thus shrinking the pool of players only to the stronger ones resulting in a higher curve.
Are you excited to use me on Mahi Mahi next season Ganker?
pro tip: never go near the basket
Pro Tip: ALWAYS save your specials for Cohozuna.
3 seconds left? quota met? all other team mates alive? spam "help!"
>Only 2 more big runs
Lads... just have fun while it lasts
wait I thought we had at least 4 more
Yeah there will likely be four more
>Grizzco Slosher in Drizzle
>Grizzco Stringer in Chill
>Grizzco Splatana in Fresh
>Final All Grizzco one in Sizzle next year
Make a room
>frick yeah, got my Salmonids figure, time to rearrange my locker
>remember I never look at my locker anyway
>nobody looks at lockers
How would you fix lockers? Would making them viewable while queued be enough? Make some items have interactive gimmicks like in Animal Crossing?
You already can view them while queuing. They added it this update.
I feel like they need to double the width of lockers and expand the locker room
Huh, I had no idea. I never tried after not being able to in the first months.
>Have a shit ton of SR-specific locker decorations
>Locker decor to spend scales on
>Locker decor for big run
>Locker decor for eggstra work
>The people who primarily own these will be the dedicated SR players who primarily play only Salmon Run
>
>No way to view lockers in GrizzCo
>When they literally have lockers there already for changing your outfit
It's bullshit. They should let you create a locker for GrizzCo specifically. Call it your work locker.
They took away the option to rotate items at specific angles using a glitch (instead of facing one of six directions) and didn't add it legitimately to the game, I think that really killed interest for most people.
Then there's other annoyances like items constantly sliding around and jittering in place (try placing things on top of a book or magazine, shoes are repelled by each other for some reason) because the physics are still fricked up, no option for half-wide shelves and lining up the smaller hooks perfectly feels impossible, you're forced into having a bigger locker as you progress with no option to downscale it, and not being able to save multiple different layouts in case you want to experiment or change it but not have to redo it from scratch every time.
I also wish you could see the lockers of other people in your pool, either replacing the random lockers or mixed in with your friends', as well as the lockers in Grizzco being viewable instead of just for decoration or changing your suit. I don't think the game even consistently shows the ones for the people you just played with in turf / ranked.
thoughts on Undertow for Big Run
Frick this map
>>What’s your high score? Think you made gold?
Pathetic 102 eggs
>>What you think gold will be?
less casuals playing/higher average. Step up, Senpai
>>Made the most out of the 2x scales?
Only played around 5-8 matches.
>>Was it thanks to folks here or freelancing?
Freelancing
you wanna shout out?
60 Black person wieners in nogami
>>You think you preformed well? Could you have improved?
Playing less & less Salmon Run. Wish i could start on EvP 200. Its just doing Gacha Dailys with 1200 Points and that is getting really boring. Release the god damn Side Order DLC Already. Enough with this RNG Fest with RNG Tides, RNG Weapons, RNG Bosses, RNG Snatchers & RNG Players. Frick this Gacha Game. let me gamble for Woomy Swimsuits.
forward to the next Big Run?
Not really. The Grizzco Weapon will be the No Range Sword
>>Most importantly: Did you have fun?
You sick frick!
They should make it so you can watch woomys changing in the locker room hire me Nintendo
The community for this game is cancer and really soured me on the franchise as a whole.
It really is just nothing but timmies, pedophiles and ERPing autists.
Frick you all. Go back to /ink/.
Ive never once ERP’d
I dont post on st/ink/
Im not a e-girlgay
and I destroy timmies on a regular basis
I dont give a frick about “the community”, I just care about the gameplay.
go frick yourself you flaming homosexual and move on with your sad life.
woomyboobies
inksacs too big
Start sucking
Trust me if I had a busty woomy gf I would daily
I tried nonstop the whole time of big run, and only once, just once, in the very beginning, did I even get lucky enough, to have everything perfect and give me a score of 133, and I never ever got more lucky then that, in fact I never even got close to repeating the same score, from teammates that never lure, to the worst loadouts, to the most ridiculous spawn timings, to disconnections, the list goes on with the number of simple things needed to go wrong, to instantly make you be unable to get a good score.
Not even 100 posters in your brony general
Let me guess…Genshart impact fan?
>best score is 133
>two minutes before big run ends, que up for one last game with randoms
>probably won't be anything special
>wave one, 45/26, pretty good start but eh it won't stick
>wave two, 56/28, damn that's amazing we could actually do it
>wave three, pic related
I wasn't even mad, it was honestly hilarious
THANK YOU FOR THE WEAPONS MR GRIZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>still 32 levels away from victory twist
It's going to be a long road. At least I'll soon have the SNES. Always one of my favorite consoles.
Shit, I think this happened to me once.
The next emote after ballerina feels like a ways away
>It's going to be a long road
Remember the goal, keep your eyes on the prize, remember what the grind is for: the cutest emote for your veemo
I like that expressions on their faces.
>Overall thoughts on Undertow for Big Run
Low tide sucked, but I will always be grateful for cheese blocks.
>What’s your high score? Think you made gold?
154. I know I made gold
>What you think gold will be?
150
>Made the most out of the 2x scales?
Frick no! All those king Salmonid, and not a single gold scale. I knew the Big Run Bonus was moronic, and I hate that I was right. The bonus should've been an increased chance at getting gold scales.
>Was it thanks to folks here or freelancing? Anyone you wanna shout out?
Three times in a row, freelancing has yielded me better results than grouping up.
>You think you preformed well? Could you have improved?
I've beaten my top 3 best scores, so I have improved. However, I'm not the only one who can do .
>Looking forward to the next Big Run?
I will if the trophy is a reissue of the other ones. That will give me a chance to relax and be a shitter, for once.
>Most importantly: Did you have fun?
Not really. The stage remixes are interesting, but the trophies are stressful. I got gold, and I've still got anxiety from it.
>All those king Salmonid, and not a single gold scale.
I fricking feel you, I started Big Run with 4 gold scales and ended it with 6
HOLY FRICK IS THAT
OH MY GOD
ALL HANDS ON DECK
IT'S A SCAPPER
HOLY FRICK RUN TO THE BEACH IT MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT GETS HERE
FRICK FRICK FRICK
WARNING WARNING DANGER DANGER
I hate that this genuinely got a rise out of me.
Sure does. I think it's 60 or something? Looks kind of nice, but ballerina is currently cuter.
My eyes were never anywhere else.
why is splatoon reddit closed?
they're all closed right now to protest some API thing
why you going there in the first place
....
it literally says why on the bottom of the private screen page.
why is the splatoon porn reddit closed
i want the e-liter shoved up my ass
>first 2 shifts of the rotation and get a gold
neat
i almost forgot SR can be fun
>Big Run 1: 2869022 players
>Big Run 2: 2766896
>Big Run 3: 1853657
A massive decrease in this Big Run's participation would explain to me the increase of the score - I honestly expected Top 5% to get much lower. Sad news, it seems lots of players are taking a break from Splatoon 3
TotK is filtering out the shitters necessary for lower ranges.
It's just gonna get worse and worse from this point on.
It was the lack of a new boss. Without a shiny new thing to jingle in front of people they noly bothered to play a few matches
>t. played like 5 games, got 130, and fricked off
>t. played like 5 games, got 130, and fricked off
I don't remember making this post
Sizzle season in general is kind of a flop.
When the highlight is the return of one of the worst Splatoon 2 maps (and it being better than most Splatoon 3 maps) you're not going to invoke much interest.
If challenges weren't so half assed that could have probably helped retention but they are so oh well.
It's amazing how fast interest in challenges plummeted when it was discovered that they're even more time-locked than SR used to be in 2. I still haven't played any by sheer coincidence that the one so far conflicted with other modes I wanted to play or just wasn't available at the time. I do not understand what compels the japanese to be like this. That shitty holier-than-thou attitude of "you can only play this game my way because it's how I meant for it be played".
That's also part of the reason the times are so ass, they're done with Japanese players in mind.
anyone playing sr? may make a room in 10 min
i'm up for it
Eh, might as well for my capsules. Gotta get that cash money.
>That veemo
I’m developing some impure thoughts…
Room is up
>clash blaster
God damn it, and it looked like such a good loadout otherwise. Just gonna have to deal.
At least it's fun to use e-liter. Especially when lessers walk in a line in this map pretty often
True, but based on the last time I played on Junction, I hope I get to actually use it properly.
Gotcha.
Hey its good at mobs and cleaning up. You dont really need a powerhouse 4th with those other 3
Well that could have gone better. God, I hate this thing.
I would prefer literally any other blaster. I don't care about its strengths, it's the weaknesses that frick me up.
>I would prefer literally any other blaster
Even vanilla Blaster?
There we go, getting back into the groove.
Yes I would.
>Great for clearing trash
>Idiot proof destroyer of Stingers and Fish Sticks
What's the problem? Obvious Grizz blaster is better, but then grizz weapons are superior
Starting the room at 3/4, if anyone wants to join let me know so I can re-ping the room
Room still open? I go my supers, but wouldn't mind playing until another boss
Yeah, we're on w3 right now. I'll re-announce after
I'm on stand by
Just shoot me a (you)
up
Hope my game doesn't DC, I got an error when I first tried to join
Another Big Run, another green statue for me.
lol what the frick can you bait the steelheads into throwing their bomb into the water? kek
was that 9 low tides in a row?? is the game broken or something?
>a male inkling doing the twirl
homie, you gay.
I was gonna say, this shit is ridiculous. At least it's not the low tides from when I was going for 999. That nonsense gave me nightmares.
i wanna bury my face in that veemos crotch
The roundhouse is a very masculine method of killing salmon
Guess everyone's finished? I got all my bonuses anyway.
Make sure to taunt 3 times before you do it.
Getting sick of low tide. i swear we played the same seed twice in a row there.
Hope I'm not getting too gun hoe on all the low tides. Haven't played this part of the map.
I really thought we were going for 12 straight low tides there. lol
11 out of 12, not bad. I want another charge round
>still no fatass
Sheesh. Also wow, still more low tides.
Is she even aware when Big Run is happening
>Maps & modes
well, kind of wanted to call it there anyway. GGs
Frick me, that took longer than I thought. I do kinda wanna keep playing, but I also know I'm gonna have to stop in like 5 minutes so I'll just come back later. 2 silvers weren't bad.
>Clash Blaster against Chozo
https://www.myinstants.com/en/instant/anyway-i-started-blasting-70658/
GG guys
Damn, everyone’s gone
Hey, no fair, I was gonna say that. I was even looking for new veemo images.
[spoilereWas literally just an excuse to share it[/spoiler]
Just got off, though not exactly looking to hop on this late, just head to bed since the next few days are off
Supposedly something to do with japanese culture where you have to follow what’s set. Apparently heard there if you order something you can’t even modify it since they have a specific way they make it and you gotta take it as so. Same goes with the games I guess. Not happy about it either, too far and few in between it’s easy to forget. Also doesn’t help they’re all ranked so you know you’ll encounter sweats
I'm more than familiar with the concept, I just hate that this is the way they are. Conformist pricks. Nice spoiler.
Hope they wise up at some point. Seems they’re learning a tad given SR became available all day. It’s not much, but it’s something at least
Yea, good sign I should sleep. Take care
They seem almost incapable of wising up, given recent business and vidya design decisions, but I suppose nothing's impossible. Though that seems to mainly stem from a certain percentage of the audience b***hing to them. Anyways, good night. I'll probably tuck myself in soon enough.
The interview with them on the Splatoon 3 maps doesn't give me much hope of them fixing their shit.
Don't remind me, that thing almost drove me up the wall. Which will be the one few times I get to go up a wall because they keep making them fricking unpaintable. It's the most glaring issue with all the new maps and the response was literally, "lol, really?"
If I've learned anything from Pokemon and seeing Masusa float through interviews, it's that the sits have a very tight grip on the PR side of things, and the devs aren't allowed to say anything that could be seen as admitting flaws or acknowledging discontent. Think of it less as the devs not knowing what they're doing, and more them being under embargo and trying to move the interview along without giving an answer.
according to a self-proclaimed dev on Ganker (
), development builds of games get periodically sent to higher ups for feedback
while the source is dubious, if that applied to nintendo devs as well, some changes coud be explained by that
How to have fun after reaching 999
Took me a second.
>scores keep inflating with every Big Run
Damn. Do you think it'll keep going up or are we reaching some kind of plateau soon?
If next Big Run have:
Grizzco Slosher = Score will be highest power ever in Big Run
Grizzco Stinger = Higher power but not the highest
Grizzco Splatana = Lower score than before
I think the final big run will take place in Splatville hub with all Grizzco weapons (Golden Rotation)
Unless we get a massive inflation of players somewhere down the line, it can only go up. That's just how it works. The percentage is based on how many people are playing.
Anyone up for a coho or two?
Sorry, anon, I'm pooped and gonna go to bed now. Look at the queen of games.
Fair enough to be burnt out after Big Run. I would be too if I wasn't close to buying something with scales. cute veemo
We put in good work this weekend
It was a long, hard weekend full of misery, pain, and flip floppers. So many goddamn flip floppers and steel eels. But it was worth it for gold. One last bit of thanks to all the people I played with, I hope I helped at least one of you get your own gold. See you next big run, or probably sooner in eggstra work. I think that's in 3 weeks or something.
Why is it that Big Run trophies make people seethe but stuff like Challenges and X rank results and trophies just have people shrug it off and easily accept that there are better players than them?
The one thing Splatoon proves time and time again is that, no matter how good people at Nintendo are with character and gameplay design, they are absolute fricking neanderthals when it comes to anything online-related. I get that online play was not a thing in Japan for the longest time so they have no foundation to build on, but even other Jap companies are figuring these things out at this point.
Nintendo are as old-fashioned as they come, sad to say. I'm sure all the execs still use fricking rolodexes or something.
I've had waves where a tight wave of boss salmonids reduced our egg count and then at the final wave I see players use their special as celebration for clearing wave 3
I want those people to fall back to overachiever level
Bad habits from 2.
rooms?
tushy
>3 eggs short of silver
Exactly what I was expecting, and same result as the last two Big Runs.
Anyone up for some Salmon in 30 minutes or so?
This rotation's good enough for me to want to try for 999.