Splatoon 3

Splatbros… It’s JUST GETTING STARTED!

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  1. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    inkjet on brella means they won't ever buff them unless they also nuke inkjet back to being shit

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      making brellas better requires the switch to have more buttons. brellas need a dedicated deploy button that is separate from shooting.

  2. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    this one will be the coom thread

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      It always is, nobody plays this shitty game any more. I should sell my copy before its worthless

  3. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    This thread won't make it through the afternoon
    and that's a good thing

  4. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Over under on Slammin' Lids parking themselves in the middle of the stage on high tide.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Won't this level be way more manageable now that we have egg throw?

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Much more manageable. You can probably reach the basket from the other side.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        People are saying it's worse than boat and I can't believe that

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Nah I don't think it'll be worse.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Dandori Issue

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Salmon run pikmin clone
        >You control Mr. Grizz who controls an army of cephs that take out giant bosses scattered throughout the level, have to raid piles of eggs and other strange human relics.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/e7USLYE.png

      Splatbros… It’s JUST GETTING STARTED!

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      out of all fricking stages why did it have to be this one? Can you imagine trying to operate the fan platforms while freelancing with the average Splatoon 3 player? Why not Ark Polaris or Lost Outpost???

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        japs get off to timmies mass dying in gay baby jail

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Why not Ark Polaris or Lost Outpost???
        They'll likely be added before the game's done

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Given they skipped Outpost if going by Splatoon 2 release order they probably had issues getting the new boss Salmonids, let alone fricking Cohozuna, to function well with the walls.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          I fail to see how thats my problem. They can just create destructible enviroments or force low tide for coho

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            >They can just create destructible enviroments
            that would take effort
            >force low tide for coho
            imagine having 4 full meters and wave 3 keeps being high tide lol

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              Black personnon.. They can just squidjump you to lowtide for extra wave

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                I guess

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm still not sold on it. Hell, half the reason I tolerated sizzle season was because it had the cutest veemo emote ever made. Without that cushioning my expectations, there isn't too much I'm excited about. At least we'll probably get Side Order during next month's direct.

      Euuuughhhhhh, man.

      This season just got crazy.
      Teaser for a new Grizzco weapon for Big Run?
      https://twitter.com/SplatoonNA/status/1692552704617324801?s=20

      Please be less of a pain to use than grizz splatana.

      Glad I saved my golds

      One of the best hats from 2, but I don't know if I'm ready to sacrifice 30 golds.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Shaping up to be the worst season so far. Hell, looks like we’ll get even less gear, half the stuff we see just shows off old gear oversized or backwards, hardly anything new. Not even the tableturf cards show much new stuff. Doubt we’re getting anything in the shops either. And they clearly hadn’t learned with the maps either

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          The Ship Map looks kinda neat.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          would sell my left kidney for moray towers to return or if its already returned, the ability to wear glasses/hat combos with only one item retaining stats. or, yknow, some outfits that aren't appealing to Latino zoomers, like fedoras instead of gangbanger jerseys or topknots

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            No, frick Moray Towers. And frick whatever changes they would make to it if they did bring it back.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              moray towers + nzap 89 is basically an instant win for your team in 1 and 2

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Hell, looks like we’ll get even less gear
          After last season, I fricking believe it. Saved up so much dosh in preparation, and it didn't matter a fricking bit. Pretty much the only thing I can hold onto hope for is that the ship level won't be another Z-shape like the skyscraper.

          >900 EVP
          You're almost there bro

          Oh shit, someone's going for 999?

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Hope
            >With splatoon of all series
            Don’t make me laugh

  5. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Okay everyone
    I need an answer to the all-important question. The one we've all been waiting for. The one master code Nintendo hasn't cracked yet.
    How can the Angle Shooter be made good? More damage when you step into the tripwire? Longer reveal? More lenient aiming? Not being on the squelcher?

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >More damage when you step into the tripwire?
      This seems like the most reasonable buff imo.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      What if it did 45 damage???

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      > More damage when you step into the tripwire?
      It doesn't even do any damage post-throw to begin with.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      The tripwire actually does damage, something like 10 or 15.
      Secondly the line drops to the ground and leaves a thin trail of paint when its duration expires. It will be thinner than a brush but still enough to prevent normal movement.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Secondly the line drops to the ground and leaves a thin trail of paint when its duration expires. It will be thinner than a brush but still enough to prevent normal movement.

        This would be interesting.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Tripwire does damage.
      Direct hit from the angle shooter gives location for longer than the point sensor, while just touching the wire gives a shorter duration instead.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      it's already good
      what it should do is not limit the damage and reveal to one time per entity

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Make it pierce through objects and players.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Fix the fricking throwing angle

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Tripwire does damage (probably 15-25), make it aim at your reticule properly and make the sensor last longer on direct hit
      Genuinely I think that's all you'd need to do

  6. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Dread and Heavy Edit aren't different enough from regular Slosher and Heavy to justify their existence but at least they're not more downie SSPs

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >SSPs
      wut

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Splattershot Pro

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          oh, downie SSP = nova. gotcha.
          Seems like this Splatling is the nova equivalent of splatings with better range than heavy, weaker damage but unlike nova, better accuracy.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >nova could have been dual squelcher we all wanted and needed
      >instead ssp and aerogay had sex and we got an abortion
      hang nogami

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        If you gave nova an accuracy buff the annaki kit might turn into more of a problem. Base kit aint doing shit though unless killer wail gets a significant buff

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          dual squelcher had less firerate so overall special spam speed should be the same

  7. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I hope the new variants of the clothing means unzipped jackets

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      nice

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      We already found out that the "new variants" only applies to certain hats and just T-shirts. Sorry coomy

  8. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Do we know what heavy edit's gimmick is?

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      No confirmation but I'm expecting it's just very fast shooting and has perfect accuracy.

  9. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I bought this game but barely play it.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I've put 900 hours into it. Think I put something like 400 into Splat 1 and 250ish into Splat 2. No idea why I've played 3 so much but I think it's playing with the pool is more fun than playing with randos. The game just *feels* good to play though, I dont know.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I did that with the first game. Didn't really get into it until Splatoon 2 and now I can't stop playing. Not sure why it but happened but you'll get hooked eventually.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I've barely played it since January. The shitty maps burned me out plus the realization that I was getting burned out due to basically the same gameplay since S1 had me take an extended break. I haven't even gotten to rank 10 on this season's catalog.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        The meat grinder maps and boring splatfests is what got me to stop playing and paying for Nintendo online before the Zelda splatfest. If they fix the maps to be less AIDS then I would be inclined to play again but they are pretty painful and matches seem like a one way curbstomp most of the time. The same issues with modern TF2 which is funny.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I personally have other games to play from my backlog, so far I think I clocked in a good 400 hours, but I guess I'm burnt out a bit don't think I'll hit 1k hours with how I got 2 jobs

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      For me its 610 hours

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Once I saw the fomo battle passes I instantly lost interest. I booted it up recently cause I heard you can get that stuff from a gacha but it's 30k a ball. The grind in this game is worse than fricking freemium phone games.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        At least none of it is anything is gamelan related like Genshit characters or whatever, pretty much the only saving grace.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Only play during Splatfests. The game's ranked is awful and never improves.

  10. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    This season just got crazy.
    Teaser for a new Grizzco weapon for Big Run?
    https://twitter.com/SplatoonNA/status/1692552704617324801?s=20

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      New grizz weapon yeah
      The theories are Grizz Splatling or Dualies.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Japs in the twitter post point out it has similar design to Splat Dualies
      >NA post specifically says weaponS not weapon

      How the frick are Grizzco Dualies going to work.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        I just expect them to be a juiced up Tetra Dualies.
        Maybe it has infinite rolls? But I would expect it to shoot while firing and deal a ton of damage + decent range and fire rate. Just very ink hungry. But if it's very ink hungry then the rolls will deplete its ink even faster. Hard to say, interested to see what they come up with

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          >I would expect it to shoot while firing
          *shoot while rolling, like tetras due

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        I think you can roll infinitely and it does damage to salmonids. Probably splats the smaller stuff instantly.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Imagine if each roll had a little AOE blaster like explosion around the player, now that would be litty

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Roll into enemies to deal damage
        >Air roll is like an air dash
        >You can walljump with it
        please do something cool with the rolls

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Slow down there cooli-oolio. They aren't doing anything nearly as cool as that.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Days of NA Splatoon intern not frick up and leak shit:
        0

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >>How the frick are Grizzco Dualies going to work.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          The salmonids aren't ready for this kind of pain

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        ROLLING AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND!

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        I'd think they'd work as double barrel sawed off shotguns

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      dualies and splatling

  11. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >timmy spends ENTIRE match trying to curling surf into the ebin spawn ink
    literal bots have more intellect
    and it has been nearly a decade

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Sploosh tries to swimdash into our spawn
      >Catch him and throw him out
      >He tries again, same path
      >I notice and throw him out again
      >This time I stick around to where he's trying to cut through and when he tries once more I hose him the moment he shows his face
      >He doesn't try again
      lmao

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        I feel really sorry for sploosh players man.
        Two dogshit kits, worst range in the game. Levels have zero flanks and have backliner favortism.

        If you're a sploosh you basically have to run quick respawn and just feed the whole game. If you run ninja squid you're sacrificing it's great swim speed buff over other weapons. And seeing as how it's unlikely weapons are going to get three kits in this game, sploosh is stuck with its dogshit kits. The alternate kit is offensively bad with killer wail and beacons. Zero synergy for the weapon and plenty of other better beacon weapons to use.

  12. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    When are they adding seeker back

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I had legit forgot about that sub completely until recently. Had to go and watch footage and it's still fuzzy in my mind as someone who played a fair amount of Splat 1. I think curling bomb was its replacement

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Curling bomb doesn't explode on impact and that's what I want the most from seeker. It's a funny bomb. I threw it against a wall the other day and it splatted 2 people trying to climb up.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      never
      enjoy the cuckling bomb
      echolocator also never

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      never

      I had legit forgot about that sub completely until recently. Had to go and watch footage and it's still fuzzy in my mind as someone who played a fair amount of Splat 1. I think curling bomb was its replacement

      it basically got split into curling and autobomb

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Seeker could still exist alongside those two. They're different enough.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I liked seeker. It could climb up inclines you wouldn't think would work like the ones on the big tower in Blackbelly.

      The one I really want back is Disruptor to replace Toxic Mist as the latter is fricking useless.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        I like disruptor but apparently everyone whined that it was the most broken sub weapon ever so I don't think they'd bring it back. I'd be all for it though.
        Seeker however was considered one of the weaker sub weapon so I don't see a problem with it coming back besides maybe conflicting with curling bomb or auto bomb

  13. 9 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I like this splatfest art. Shiver looks very smug.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah it's the official render for the anniversary fest, pretty neat

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Frye wants a hug

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Getting the 2D art for fests is cool and all, but I certainly wouldn't mind if we got more 3D renders like this in the future

  14. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Glad I saved my golds

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      That's only 1 gold moron

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        That's the twitter announcement screen you dingus.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        uh oh, moron alert!

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Says the one that outed himself as a shitter with only 1 gold to his name

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            it's from the twitter you stupid mother sucker

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              >screenshot from troon website
              Go back to /vg/ with that shit

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                In Japan it's not a troon website, it's where the japanese Splatoon posts their updates you contrarian moron. Put your aerogay to your head and press the trigger and don't reply to me again before you do

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >30 golds for a fricking hat

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Not just "a hat" anon.
        THE fricking hat. I'll have 20 golds leftover afterwards and I can make up those losses with big run

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          they are too pussy to bring back THE hat

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          >THE HAT
          worker's cap or Ika Musime Hat?

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      okay but when are they adding the space hero suit

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I've never reset my rank, is it really the best way to grind scales? I feel like trying it now would be career suicide and I'd never get back to EVP

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Willingly deranking yourself is a really bad idea. Just stay in EVP and just play to a king every shift or whatever. Grind Big Run since it has double scales now. Don't demote yourself, it's not worth it.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        I wondered this as well and put myself in Overachiever to try and get more scales. Honestly, it wasn't really worth it like

        Willingly deranking yourself is a really bad idea. Just stay in EVP and just play to a king every shift or whatever. Grind Big Run since it has double scales now. Don't demote yourself, it's not worth it.

        said. It's a pain in the ass to get back to the higher ranks since randoms do NOT coordinate well.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          >randoms do NOT coordinate well
          they do not coordinate at all

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Forever stucked with 21 gold scales since none have dropped for months on my end. I don't get it i have been shredding the bosses lately and none has dropped, what am i doing wrong?

  15. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    big nig express is really fun
    thouh it definitely is a "never use outside turf or maybe zones" weapon

  16. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >got up to 500 last night
    >two hours of play today and I’m down to 440
    RIP 999 dreams, the Timmy energy is too strong

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Make a room, let's go

  17. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >wanted to host a room as soon as the golden rotation starts
    >it's at 4 AM in my time
    Not staying up for that, guess I'll see if anyone's up for playing once I wake up later then.

  18. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    2/4 Salmon open

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'll join

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        We need it because these freelancers are shit

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Sounds about right. Freelancers were shit yesterday too

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          drives me crazy when timmies die under the grates on that side of the map. Unless there's a bigshot and you're equipped to camp the cannon for a bit, just stay at the fricking basket

  19. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Alright well we're 3/4 now, if anyone wants to join speak up

  20. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Are you ready to seethe?

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I've five starred reeflux and it probably doesn't need a buff, it's pretty great now (for turf) and I feel like if they made it even better people would complain and they'd overcorrect and we'd just end up with a worse reeflux

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      extremely moronic picture

      I've five starred reeflux and it probably doesn't need a buff, it's pretty great now (for turf) and I feel like if they made it even better people would complain and they'd overcorrect and we'd just end up with a worse reeflux

      >we'd just end up with a worse reeflux
      good

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Tenta is fine, frick off

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        isn't that splat brella not tenta

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          he means tentatek crutchshot

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          He means the Inkstrike spammer.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      What's with shitters complaining about wipers?

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        They have the second most obnoxious users.
        I just want them to get shit on for no reason.

        It was fun as frick with Stamper, and I want the second round.

  21. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I just want a squiffer with some kind of offensive sub/special

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'd give it the wiper kit. Torpedo/ultra stamp.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Zipcaster would be perfect

  22. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is there even a reason to play slosher after this new one comes out? It seems to have the same range and damage as slosher except you can do two sloshes at once. It's a direct upgrade.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >the 2nd new song
      sometimes they just write music that's almost too good to be battle music because you're going to eventually wring the enjoyment out of it due to hearing it so much

      vanilla bucket still has a better kit since you combo off of 30 damage chip much more easily with a splat bomb than a suction bomb. tri-strike is much better than reefslider but thats a given, but to be more specific you dont want reef to get you in close since you dont to be very close in the first place with your slow fire-rate and low ttk

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        really hope they don't save the band reveal for last like they did with sizzle season's reveals
        i really like what they've got so far

  23. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >7 revives
    stay alive DAMMIT

  24. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    nice goldie spawns, game

  25. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Frick me gushers is rough on this map. Definitely screwed us there with my deaths, sorry team

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      pop another invite so we can maybe get 4 here

  26. 9 months ago
    Anonymous
  27. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I only join good players sorry

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      We just got a gold so jokes on you

  28. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Post the boss which splats you the most
    >Splatted by Drizzler!

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Stingers and Flyfishes get me the most because I'm always the farthest away from them.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >two Ink Storms at the same time

  29. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    when the frick are they finally nerfing flyfish?

  30. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Pretty fast kings. Nice gold. I'll go for another

  31. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Epic map rotation
    Made a new room 3/4

  32. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    have they posted the amiibo outfits yet?

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      not yet

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        dang. I won't be getting any cause I don't like Deep Cut, but I have a fren who will probably be getting cards he'd let me borrow. I hope the clothes are good.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Oops looks like one of the Frye amiibo accidentally fell into the trash

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >implying I won't buy all of the Frye amiibos

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Reminds me of how the original separate ones for the first game went where the female Inkling sold out almost immediately while the other two were still easily found days later.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Oh wait, the original squid wasn't sold separately at first, I was thinking of the rerelease and the recolored ones that were clogging up shelves. The thing about the disparity about the male and female Inklings was true though.

  33. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    quad dualies
    work like bayonetta's guns

  34. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Good hustle team

  35. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    would reeflslider really be OP if you could drive it around like baller?

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Wouldn't that just be an explosive Ultra Stamp?

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        you can't yeet reefslider
        more like it would be less gay kraken

  36. 9 months ago
    Anonymous
  37. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >enby gloop
    and just like that i've voted you off the island
    time for a new shitter

  38. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Better, better

  39. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    thank you to the anons who posted pro controller advice earlier, I seem to have fixed the drift.

  40. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I wanna see if they can make their fingers flash different colors like Christmas tree lights, like each finger not just the whole hand

  41. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    You squiggers dying way too much here

  42. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    *muffled Ay!*

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      He's bleeding out of his ass.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Literally Blue + Yellow + Gray
      >Big Man gets red.

  43. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    What the frick was that zuna guys kek

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      We did p good damage I'd say. gg team. pretty tough rotation

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        I tunnel visioned hard

        yeah yeah yeah GGs, not the best loadout for spawning grounds but we made some progress. good luck with your 999 but this might not be the one

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I tunnel visioned hard

  44. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >thread up for 3 hours
    >less than 150 posts
    it's so over

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      People have been declaring this game dead since launch week.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        splatoon has never been more irrelevant on Ganker, so they're kinda right (not saying you should care about that but)

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Kek did you miss the last two or so years before Splat3 released we couldn't manage a 100 reply thread unless it was just squidbreasts everywhere.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            NTA but I did miss that. I took a break from both Ganker and Splatoon for a few years. Splatoon 3 sucked me back into both of them.
            The state of Splatoon 2 at the end of the game was really bad so I'm not surprised it was hard to discuss it here. I'm surprised there were threads at all.
            I assume the pool feature makes it much easier for these threads to survive now. I doubt they'd be nearly as active if we couldn't easily play together.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            gonna be honest i kinda fell off the splatoon train before main power up was a thing, probably after octo expansion? so i'll just take your word for it

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          >irrelevant on Ganker
          In a way, that can be taken as a compliment.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            I suppose that's true now, thankfully the first game was out before a certain flood of migrants happened. That combined with being a new franchise on a dead console meant it was only pretty comfy being a Splatoongay.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              I mostly remember everyone cooming to squdkids in spats back in 2015

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Pearl should definitely get a cape for the DLC.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Pearl should definitely get a cape for the DLC.

        I love Pearl but hate Marina. Can we just forget about the bad half of Off the Hook and keep Pearl as a recurring character?

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah I agree with you there. Marina just kind of annoys me with that weird expression she's got on her face

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            Her expressions annoy me too so I get that. It's more her personality that bothers me. She's a nothing character. Her entire existence is to play support for Pearl. The only time people talk about her is either when it's about her body or her relationship with Pearl. There's nothing else to her.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              Pearl needs Marina to bounce off of otherwise she goes from endearingly rambunctious to just abrasive.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              She has the "i'm a le genius nerd" thing going for her which is kind of cool to think how she made all the shifty stations and other octo tech and how they integrated that into the game. It's cool that she's an octo who awoke due to the Calimari Inkantation. But yeah mostly it's just coomers and lezbo shippers who adore her. Who and because she's a brown choctopus or whatever. Pearl is cooler, she's definitely the leader of the group. You feell like Marina would be lost without Pearl but not the other way around

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          New band of Pearl+Callie+Big Man when?

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            >New band of Pearl+Callie+Big Man when?

            You mean Pearl+Marie+Shiver.
            That’s the superior group that needs to form a band

  45. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Was it ever discussed what Shiver was up to prior the octo immigrants being invited around splatoon 1/2 era?
    Was she part of the octarian army and became a defector like Marina and 8?

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Honestly I don't think we have any background info on Deep Cut like we have on Squid Sisters, much less Off The Hook.
      Unless there's something on like, the artbooks or on twitter

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      The Inkling and Octoling war seems to be an Inkopolis only thing. Shiver’s family was stated to be respected in Splatsville since ancient times. Probably also why DJ Octavio doesn’t care if you’re an Octoling since Agent 3 likely has nothing to do with him

  46. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Just saw an Inkling girl holding hands with an Octo boy

    It's over. Inkopolis has fallen. Billions must splatter

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      its OVER....how can we compete inkling bros...

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Squiggers will learn their place

  47. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Sorella Brella got Inkjet
    >Metagays are already latching to it.
    >Brella is becoming the new Anakki Nova.

    I fricking hate this, metagays already sucked off the fun from Sloshing Machine, Ballpoint, and Nova. Now they will do the same with Brella until it gets nerfed again.

    Should have been Inkstorm, Inkjet should have been in the Octobrush, their specials must have been swapped.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Current brella getting nerfed
      Not even Nintendo is that cruel

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        if brella gets nerfed it probably starts healing stuff

  48. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    You'd think after about five rounds of losing race wars that Octos would be on the brink of extinction.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      With women that sexy it's hard for the race to be erased

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        It's astounding that such seductive creatures were raised as militaristic emotionless killers

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          >turned into soulless killing machines when their natural instinct is just to flutter around and be cute 24/7

          Tragedy

  49. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Wasn't there an interview at some point that said inklings are naturally aggressive creatures? The peace can only last so long.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Well IRL squids are agressive buttholes so I believe it

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >t. passive aggressive octo troon

  50. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    The only specials so far that aren't on a splatling of some kind, are Crab Tank, Ink Vac, Killer Wail, Reefslider, Super Chump, Missiles, Tristrike, Trizooka, and Zipcaster.

    So keeping in mind some of these are clearly too good to be put on the new ballpoint, I have a bad feeling they are gonna ruin it by giving it either ink vac or reefslider. I'd hate that.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Reefslider would be fricking awful for it since you'd need to charge after the explosion to be able to continue offense. Zipcaster would also be trash because of the midair charging penalty.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        What about Ink Vac?

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Ink Vac could be decent for it since you're already in a backline position so you can apply the succ from a relatively safe position, though even after the buffs Ink Vac is still somewhat mediocre in general.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            What do you about BOTH gold dynamo and tri stringer having Super Chump? Are two of the weapons gonna have kraken to keep the two special amounts even?

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              Unlikely. Even Special distribution has never really been much of a priority for the devs.

  51. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >spawning grounds
    I hate this shift

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      it's a fine shift

  52. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Saw that this interview question about the octo in Side Order caused speculation about whether the octo is a clone or some shit. This definitely just means you can choose to play as agent 4 or agent 8 depending on if you choose to be an inkling or octoling right? That's all I'm getting from this

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's a pr answer that doesn't confirm or deny 8

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Literally just being cheeky for the sake of intrigue

  53. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Side Order definitely won't come until the 2nd anniversary. We'll probably get a couple trailers for it though.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      This is some next level doom posting. Chances are it's coming this holiday or early next year at the latest. They want to get it done so they can move on to the next game

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        How is it doomposting if I think it's a good thing. I don't want it to be rushed. It would be a good way to end the support for the game, especially if it kicks ass.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          What you want is different from what will actually happen. A DLC does not need one and a half years of development, unless you want the next splat game to be even more rushed

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            >A DLC does not need one and a half years of development
            A DLC developed by the Splatoon 3 team does. That's why I want them to take their time. They fricking suck.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        it's called being realistic, why do you believe they are gonna release over an entire year before scheduled
        it's planned for release before the end of 2024, expecting anything sooner than the second half of 2024 is setting yourself up for disappointment

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          >it's planned for release before the end of 2024
          That's just a placeholder date for a last possible release. They do that for every DLC and they never get to the very end of the deadline, don't be a fricking moron.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            >they never get to the very end of the deadline
            I never said it'd release 31st of december 2024, if they were gonna release this year they'd say it would release before the end of 2023
            I think it's likely they release it around the final planned season so around the start of september 2024, that's still significantly ahead of the deadline, ahead by around 4 months even

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Side order won't come until end of support

      Sounds about right.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I don't think they would release a major thing like DLC at the end of its planned lifetime, but at the latest it'll probably come early next year. It's probably going to be more like Future Connected where they announced the released date and dropped it a week later.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Why couldn't they release it at the end of its life? That seems like the perfect time to release it because it would be like on big final content drop.
        Honestly though I'm expecting them to extend the game anyways. They won't have Splatoon 4 ready for the next console and they probably want an actively supported multiplayer game for year 1 owners of the new console.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Because that's manpower that could be used on the next Animal Crossing or whatever game.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            I expect them to make another Splatoon before they make another Animal Crossing but yeah I guess they still need manpower for it.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              After 3 mainline titles, I actually think a spinoff might come before 4. Hopefully a competent team gets a go.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                I would really like a spinoff but I don't feel like it's going to happen. There's a lot that could be done with the series but it's too grounded in its competitive multiplayer shooter gameplay to take advantage of it. A spinoff will never happen though.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                It managed to include arcade minigames, wave survival, decoration and dungeon dice monsters throughout the series as side things. Straying from competitive shooting is actually really easy

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                I have a hard time counting the arcade games and tableturf because those are hardly even related to splatoon. What I meant is that the singleplayer is shallow because it's hard to make a uniquely different singleplayer mode based on the gameplay from the competitive shooter side of it. I think a spinoff would be great for that kind of thing. They did do a good job with salmon run though.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Games do stuff unrelated to the original focus all the time, just look at wario ware. They could do a life sim with splatoon and nobody would find it odd at all.

                Are you kidding? Most people feel burned by Splatoon 3 but not by New Horizons. Splatoon 4 is gonna be a bomb while the next AC will be a huge hit. They are gonna make AC first, we are due another next year or the year after at the usual rate.

                Really? I thought the opposite considering how in AC you had a lot of people complaining about basic quality of life features and updates feeling lacklustre

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >arcade games and tableturf
                >hardly even related to splatoon

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              Are you kidding? Most people feel burned by Splatoon 3 but not by New Horizons. Splatoon 4 is gonna be a bomb while the next AC will be a huge hit. They are gonna make AC first, we are due another next year or the year after at the usual rate.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                That blows my mind because NH is a much bigger downgrade from the previous entry than Splatoon 3 is.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >but not by New Horizons.
                People had been b***hing about the lack of actual updates/DLC for 2 years after its launch.

                Games do stuff unrelated to the original focus all the time, just look at wario ware. They could do a life sim with splatoon and nobody would find it odd at all.

                [...]
                Really? I thought the opposite considering how in AC you had a lot of people complaining about basic quality of life features and updates feeling lacklustre

                NH's audience is 90% normalgays who loved it and most of them will buy the next one. Even then the AC team could easily win back all the detractors by just including the QoL this time and making a big deal about the fact. They had a stripped down product because of the new town customisation, they can easily sell the same thing again + QoL and more dialogue for villagers and make bank.

                >Most people feel burned by Splatoon 3
                The western audience is irrelevant. Splat 3 became one of the fastest selling games in Japan. It's sold 13M in less than a year. That's huge. Splat 4 will sell gangbusters and they'd be foolish not to release one at release. Nobody is "burned" about Splat 3 in the grand scheme. Splat is like Call of Duty over in Japan, they're going to want to get it on the new console as soon as possible. Reminder that Splat 1 on the Wii U came out just two years before Splat 2 on the Switch. They're going to want to recreate Splat 2's success as well.

                Splat also takes way less resources than to create a new animal crossing game. Splatoon games can be released in a half-finished state and then added on to later, that's always been the model and there's a ton of asset reuse.

                Lol the fricking cope, most of those are early sales before the hype died and everyone realised the core game design fricking sucks in every way except the mechanics which are poorly used. Splatoon fans are majority hardcore gamers and the majority of those felt burned so won't be getting the next one unless big changes are made. That includes the Japanese

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                The game is still massively popular in japan, you're the only one coping. You know what game was horribly received but people keep buying? Pokemon. The games don't stop selling and they have way worse issues than what's going on in Splatoon. People most definitely will buy a new Splatoon game on a new console in droves, ESPECIALLY the japanese. don't kid yourself.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Kek Splatoojb2 spent years in a much more cancerous state than Splatoon 3 ever had been in terms of game play. If that shit didn't turn people off the series nothing will.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Splatoon 2 had good maps though

                Splatoon 3 has more active players than Splatoon 2 ever did (as of the interview in april). It's more popular than ever worldwide.

                >game that sold more and has large brand recognition all thanks to 2 has more players
                WOAH DUMBFRICK REALLY

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Splatoon 2 had good maps though
                wrong

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Splatoon 3 sold 3 million fewer copies than Splatoon 2, anon. What are you talking about? The people that did buy it stuck around for longer. They're less burnt out than they were with 2.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                good maps don't mean shit when all the specials are supreme cancer, don't tell me you miss S2 tower control

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                tower control is dogshit by its core design

                Okay but that's the thing. Splat 2 actually had some good new levels. The Reef is a good level, Manta Maria is a good level, and there's a few more that are good or average, better than the average we got with Splatoon 3 at least. What are the "good" new levels of Splatoon 3? Hagglefish? is that it? Name some good levels of Splatoon 3 that beat the best of the levels in Splatoon 2. You can't, because there are none! So yes, Splatoon 2 had objectively better level selection than 3 has at this point. Not to mention they had fricking variety, more than just this tetris block shit.

                >Manta Maria is a good level
                peopel actually say shit like that and believe it

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                What's a level in 3 that's better than Manta Maria? A new level that's actually from 3, you can't name one.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Kek no it didn't. They're better than Splatoon 3s Terri's piece abortions but by no means "good". Splatoon 3 already has pretty much all of the ones from Splatoon 2 that could be considered "good" at this point anyway.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Okay but that's the thing. Splat 2 actually had some good new levels. The Reef is a good level, Manta Maria is a good level, and there's a few more that are good or average, better than the average we got with Splatoon 3 at least. What are the "good" new levels of Splatoon 3? Hagglefish? is that it? Name some good levels of Splatoon 3 that beat the best of the levels in Splatoon 2. You can't, because there are none! So yes, Splatoon 2 had objectively better level selection than 3 has at this point. Not to mention they had fricking variety, more than just this tetris block shit.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Manta Maria is a good level
                I think it's a fine map but it's the most Splatoon 3 map in that game. It's a straight line and there's a single flank option with very few inkable walls. I can't see how you can criticize Splatoon 3 maps but praise Manta Maria. I want Musselforge Fitness back.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Manta Maria has a lot more going on in than Eeltail, Scorch, or Mincemeat, that's for damn fricking sure. It's an objectively good level, considered one of the better levels from 2. Unfortunately the Splat 3 devs felt it was a good idea to gimp it and remove one of the alternate routes. But it's better than any of the new levels in 3. You've yet to name me a new level from 3 that's actually good.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Brinewater is better than any level from 2

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                What more does it have going on? It's a straight path with an elevated area, a bridge connecting it, and one flank route. That's just Eeltail. In fact most of the Splatoon 3 maps compare to Manta Maria. I'm really not sure why you chose that as your example. Like I said, it's the most Splatoon 3 map in that game.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                If it were the most Splatoon 3 map in this game it would have zero flanks and zero verticality.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                I don't think you understand what the word "most" means. Go ahead and name a more similar map to Splatoon 3 in Splatoon 2 then.
                Also it's literally has the same characteristics as Eeltail so your reply isn't even accurate.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >he still can't name a level in Splat 3 that's better.
                Splat 2 objectively had better map design than 2.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                How many times do I have to say Eeltail was better than Manta Maria

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Eeltail
                >good

                oh I am laffin'

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah Eeltail is super fun. I like the bridge. It's pretty good on TC and CB.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                I'm gonna be really honest the maps in Splatoon have pretty much always been the weakest aspect of the games. The developers are way too scared of paintable walls and geneal verticality.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Splatoon 3 has more active players than Splatoon 2 ever did (as of the interview in april). It's more popular than ever worldwide.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >NH's audience is 90% normalgays who loved it and most of them will buy the next one
                it's funny that you think this doesn't also apply to splatoon

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                It does but many mouthbreathers ITT seem to love acting like morons for the sake of moronation

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Splatoon has always been more of a priority for the devs despite Animal Crossing's success. They finished Splatoon 1 and immediately shit another one out so it could be early on switch. Only after Splatoon 2 did they start making Animal Crossing. I feel like AC is something they're fine to let sit for a while but they're more aggressive with Splatoon releases. I definitely think Splatoon 4 will come first.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >but not by New Horizons.
                People had been b***hing about the lack of actual updates/DLC for 2 years after its launch.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Most people feel burned by Splatoon 3
                The western audience is irrelevant. Splat 3 became one of the fastest selling games in Japan. It's sold 13M in less than a year. That's huge. Splat 4 will sell gangbusters and they'd be foolish not to release one at release. Nobody is "burned" about Splat 3 in the grand scheme. Splat is like Call of Duty over in Japan, they're going to want to get it on the new console as soon as possible. Reminder that Splat 1 on the Wii U came out just two years before Splat 2 on the Switch. They're going to want to recreate Splat 2's success as well.

                Splat also takes way less resources than to create a new animal crossing game. Splatoon games can be released in a half-finished state and then added on to later, that's always been the model and there's a ton of asset reuse.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                people definitely felt burned by both

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                I've felt burned by every sequel I've played recently except MH Iceborne and EDF 5. Frick so many bad sequels in the past 5 years

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Switch is on the way out, even if its successor is backwards compatible I don't see them thinking extending Splatoon 3's support life past the promised two years to be something they'd think would be worthwhile.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            I think the Switch dying is exactly why they would extend it, only if it's backwards compatible obviously. I don't think Splatoon 4 would be ready and they probably want Splatoon to be active on the new console early on in some form. Extending support makes the most sense to me.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          They have "extended" support for both games past teh original dates but really all that ammounted to was extra kits and Splatfests, not actual new content like new maps or new weapons.

          I would think that they would want to release the DLC at or near its height of popularity. By the end of support there won't really be as many people playing the game except the diehards. Also in my mind it means they're done with any kind of support patches unless something goes majorly wrong, but I could be wrong.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        maybe I'm misremembering but I recall that the "planned" updates were pretty much done for S2 but the Octo Expansion came out and they extended it

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          They have "extended" support for both games past teh original dates but really all that ammounted to was extra kits and Splatfests, not actual new content like new maps or new weapons.

  54. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >actually doing well on spawning grounds
    Is this an amazing rotation or am I just getting gud?

  55. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    We're so fricking back Fryechads

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      yep, back in deep waters

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      We're not gonna win

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        doesn't matter as long as i get to lick her tummy

  56. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I feel bad for the ten actual Frye fans in the world, you guys have zero chance of success.

  57. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'd be okay with Frye winning even though I'm a Shivergay. Anyone but Big Man.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Same but for anyone but Shiver

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Why is Twitter here?

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          That's "X" to you, plebeian

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >shadman

  58. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >These are the effects of no Miiverse in Splatoon
    https://x.com/_potatobag/status/1692478950461579497?s=61&t=kjLQEoBKGfxIvbelhywKMw

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Poor AJ, I know him.
      He's a literal underage that just wants a cool male character and these troons are bullying him.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >x.com
      can't the gays who made x-com games sue musky elon for being a homosexual?

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >full of queer ships

      Not in my headcanon b***h

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        imagine the hybrids

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          I would make some. I wish squids were real.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Last panel ruins it

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          I agree but I can tank the damage

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Pearl and Marina is the only gay shit in Splatoon that I can see being "real" and even that is a sort of situation where I just kind of shrug my shoulders and go "Eh ok" instead of actively shipping like some psychos.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        tried reading this left to right then right to left before realising you're meant to read it column by column for some reason

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        more. I demand it

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous
        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          if you say so boss

          frick I was just about to post that one anon

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous
    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >another is racist
      isn't cuttlefish being racist in OE just NoA bullshit? even beside that he treats new agent 3 the exact same regardless of it they are a squid or octo
      that aside, crying about "hetero shit" and "muh gay ships" because some kid wants a cool male character is fricking cringe and doesn't even make sense, he's not asking big man to slam puss or anything

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        even in troonhouse troonslation he says that any squid sister fan is not an enemy to him

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >make game focus on female characters because men find women attractive
      >"nuh uh it's for women"

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >These are the effects of no Miiverse in Splatoon
        https://x.com/_potatobag/status/1692478950461579497?s=61&t=kjLQEoBKGfxIvbelhywKMw

        Splatoon is fricking HUGE in japan. Of course the game focuses on women.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        This reminds me of how Sengoku Basara is extremely popular with women in japan

  59. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Twitter erasing Marina’s humansexuality in favor of their homosexualery.

  60. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Where are the new kits? Did the Explosher get anything?

  61. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    so...whos gonna be the one to put shiver in a jar...

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Me!!

  62. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    but why?

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      you don't know why people make clickbait?

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        It's a good song?

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          it's mid

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Their best is Triple Dip

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            Triple Dip is the best multiplayer song in the series to date

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              No it's actually Sucker Punch but Triple Dip is close

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Really don't care, you're all squiggers to me

  63. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I can deal with Chump on Gold Dynamo as long as they give it a bomb sub

  64. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >one Nook store upgrade
    NH is fricking garbage and makes Splatoon 3 look like a fricking masterpiece by comparison

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Different flavors of shit, they’re both shit at the end of the day

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      No surprise there, Animal Crossing hasn't been good since the Gamecube.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Eh. GC is absolutely the best one but WW and NL had their positive points. NH is completely soulless garbage that trades pretty m1uch all of the fun elements for dumbass terrain building blocks mode.

  65. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Even outside of Japan the game is selling extremely well, one of the most popular things on the console. It somehow got best multiplayer game when thats usually guaranteed to go to something like CoD or Overwatch.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      The entire multiplayer game of the year award only shows how bad S3's competition was.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Even outside of Japan the game is selling extremely well
      Is it selling extremely well in Japan? All of those famitsu sales updates show it selling pretty slowly. Apparently Japs usually like to buy games at release and then sales slow to a crawl.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        A game not leaving the top 10 since it was first introduced means it's selling extremely well in Japan

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >thats usually guaranteed to go to something like CoD or Overwatch.
      that just tells volumes about the absolute state of modern shooters
      if something like at the very least titanfall 2 was around splat 3 won't be winning shit

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Look at its competition. Splatoon 3 winning was less on its merits and that its only real competition was a fricking TMNT revival.

  66. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Still fricking hate Flounder Heights. I wish I could remove it. It's not fun at all to play.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Absolute shitter opinion. One of the few maps in this game that has actual approach options and flanks. One of the few levels in this gave that has some verticality even after they gimped it down.

      Brinewater is better than any level from 2

      Now this is just bait. Brinewater is just the bottom part of moray towers without the verticality.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Verticality in Splatoon sucks. It favors instant kills. Flounder Heights will always be a shit map.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >it's an only good part of the map with all cancer removed
        maybe one day you morons figure out that verticality != good map

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah but apparently flat == good right moron? Let's just disregard the fact that Flounder is actually open and not just a solitary meat grinder with one entrance into the enemy side of the map. There are multiple entrances, that's what makes it unique in this game.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            flat = good
            just big enough to not be a crampfest but small enough so no one can hide = good
            can always bomb some homosexual instead of him being invincible behind 30 walls and 40 corners = good
            no fricking grates = good
            deal with it

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              You're a dumb moron who is also a pussy. Deal with it.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >charger shitter who can't live without his precious verticality calling anyone a shitter
                beyond lmao

  67. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Play match
    >Team gets spawnlocked
    >Nobody can land a hit
    >Get tired after a minute and a half of this
    >Close the game and reopen
    Since there's no option to resign I guess I'll just take the 6-minute ban. It's better than continuing to play that match.

  68. 9 months ago
    Anonymous
  69. 9 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why did Koreans start making cute shit? I learned Japanese for this kind of stuff and then this happens.

  70. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Sp what is Lil Jud gonna dl with all those eggs now that he's presumably in control of Grizzco

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Caviar

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Find out in Splatoon 4!

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      eat all of them

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      We won't know until the next game

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      A salmonid king hybrids

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      to fuel his death mecha as the final boss of the next splatoon game

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Lil Judd definitely isn't evil. They would have to keep cycling out the salmon run guy for someone new and it would be stale. Also I doubt they'd do anything bad with a Judd because he's a bit of a mascot.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Lil Judd definitely isn't evil.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            Lil Judd absolutely is evil but I feel like him being evil while also being small and harmless is going to be a running gag for quite a while.

            Should have phrased that better because I know about all that shit and how he hates Judd. He definitely isn't the villain though. They'd never do anything with him that would require his role in the game to change because they want the Judds to judge turf war. Actually being a threat would be too much for him.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              Okay so why did they give him the headset after you clear the story mode? It's heavily implied he's running Grizzco now

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Running Grizzco doesn't necessarily mean he's a villain. It's an energy source so it could be used for a good reason as well like helping the octarians. I dunno but I'm sure he won't be a villain.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >he was a good boy he dindu nuffin!
                Ookie dokie then...

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Even if he is the villain, someone would have to replace him at Grizzco for the mode to still exist. It's not like every single person at Grizzco would be collecting the eggs for some evil purpose so I'm not sure why everyone is convinced that Lil Judd must be doing that.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >someone would have to replace him at Grizzco
                Marina could do it. She would even rebrand it to a force for good. Marinaco

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                That's actually possible. She would actually have the smarts to use the eggs for a good reason as well.

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >marina will never praise you for collecting so many golden eggs
                It's over

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Just the motivation I need to make it to 333% hazard

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                how about revived commander Tartar

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Mfw just realized they're named Judd because they judge

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >these are the people I'm playing with

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                smartest shivergay

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                It's ok I didn't get e-liter's name until like a week ago and how it's a portmanteau of elite and liter

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                They're called judd because it's like an ink judd.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Lil Judd absolutely is evil but I feel like him being evil while also being small and harmless is going to be a running gag for quite a while.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          main judd will always be there, as for salmon run, just have someone else run it, even an AI character, dig up the scraps of the phone homie from OE and force him to operate SR as a punishment lol, as for him being not evil, idk, dude's main character trait we know is that he's seething about his inferiority complex, I think he'll lash out and then end up regretting his actions once defeated and being reaffirmed by the characters that he's just as good as main judd

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      time travel to kill judd because we need an even bigger and more moronic story climax for the next game

  71. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    The adjust gear feature is great. The oversized shirts look super cute on girls but even the dudes look cooler. This kind of customization is huge.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Flipping the hats still won't help the dire situation that I can't wear half the headgear with my pigtail haircut.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I've always wondered about this default shirt you always see the promotional/Smash bros inkling wearing. Does the shirt say いか? It means squid so there's no way it's just a coincidence. I don't think there's any instance of real Japanese anywhere else though.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        pretty sure they've talked about how inkling writing and speech is made to be like, interpreted as/reminiscent of japanese and/or english, I think it's most apparent on 1's splatfest shirts, so it probably looks like いか on purpose

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        It's Ika on purpose. The Octo Tee says Tako.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          I didn't notice that because it's a bit more distorted but you're right.

  72. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    soon

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Gonna be an absolute blood bath judging by the fact they can't even handle Bay.

  73. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    He would never get close to any villains

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      What are you implying?
      Also agent 4 is the cutest.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Judd is on team chaos and he's the only one cozying up with Octavio, who has historically been a villain in the series. Not to mention it's implied that he was doing business with Mr Grizz who also ended up being a villain. Grizzco itself is a shady operation in which you're stealing eggs and murdering salmonids for some obscured reason. We now know that the eggs were going to a pretty nefarious cause, so what makes you think they're instantly being funneled towards a good cause, especially when nobody in the Splatlands seems to be aware of what Grizzco is up to now or who is even running it. It certainly hints towards Lil Judd being up to no good. I don't know why you wouldn't at least factor in the possibility

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          I think it mainly for gameplay purposes. If Grizzco is just perpetually being used for evil then nobody would work for them, especially after the second time that the leader was evil. You would lose salmon run if they keep Grizzco being evil. It can be shady but I wouldn't expect them to keep it evil without axing the mode entirely.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            >>I think it mainly for gameplay purposes. If Grizzco is just perpetually being used for evil then nobody would work for them, especially after the second time that the leader was evil.
            It's heavily implied people work for them because they're desperate for money, and like the real world people are desperate for money and will work for corporations in which they know they are evil because they need cash.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      callie with pearl's crown and killer wail goes hard

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      never

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >down for whatever
        Hot

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Judd just wants to eat everybody
        That's really funny

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          >japanese "humor"

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Splatoon 3 had a grizzco relevant plot
        >no boss battle against The Employee
        It's trash.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          the employee in that image is literally just 4, I doubt 4 would work for grizz to destroy inkling society

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            Grizz's motivation should've been completely rewritten and 4 would fight the player for gold capsules.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              homie i would fight myself for 32k gold capsules

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            she will after she goes completely insane from being left alone in bumfrick nowhere shithole

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          It's so lame how little salmonids show up in the hero mode considering the main villain is THE Salmon Run guy
          Conceptually 3 could've had the best hero mode but they completely fumbled it

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            Hey remember this and how it meant literally nothing in the end isn't that awesome

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              context or what you mean idk

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              It’s probably just dark humor of the Salmonid calling for help. Even though they are clearly an intelligent species with their own culture, the devs love dehumanising them as animals such as calling Little Buddy a dog (even concept art had him on a leash)

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                To be fair they are animalistic, not much else to it. Why are you so concerned about dehumanization of salmonids?

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            Grizz was mishandled completely which is the worst part of it all. Dude’s the guy who founded and instigates SR yet is tossed into some completely unrelated story with the stupidest motivation and killed off unceremoniously. Could’ve had something interesting with him and the salmonids but he’s wasted now. Especially hate they play off his death at the hands of smallfry as him getting his comeuppance for his business with the grizzco statue role-reverse after beating him, but it doesn’t work. Now whatever grizzco-centered story that should’ve involved grizz is going to lil’ judd, and I can’t imagine it not being stupid. I don’t even think they will delve much more into salmonids

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              >his death
              He's just floating in space, they weren't showing his floating corpse there in the credits.

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              >killed off
              The end credits show his he's still alive orbiting. Doomed to settle in his defeat indefinitely. Also, I think your taking this kids game a bit too seriously

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Also, I think your taking this kids game a bit too seriously
                People's standards were seriously raised by OE even though in hindsight OE's plot wasn't that great either

              • 9 months ago
                Anonymous

                Either way, it’s a fricking kids game. What’s it with nintendo fans treating their games like this? It’s for children, get a fricking hobby

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >8 and Pearl
        >"The girl who the girl I look up to looks up to. Wow."
        Very cute. I'm glad she understands how great Pearl is.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Sheldon as a weapon seller has to be neutral
      >Judd well, he's a judge
      >Mr. grizz's plans go far beyond that, he will doom both sides
      nice

  74. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Brella has Autobomb/Inkjet
    FRICK YEAH that's perfect
    I never even considered Inkjet on it but it'd synergise really well and Autobomb is the best bomb for it considering how ink hungry the main is.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Congrats brellabro on your not-shit kit. You deserve it.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        I was hoping for Wave Breaker since Autobomb/Wavebreaker would have been a genuinely perfect kit but Inkjet will synergise well with the weapon so I'll take it
        Hopefully we get a third that's Torpedo/Wave Breaker that'd be cool

  75. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >missed out on two seasons
    >missed out on the kamenrider win pose

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Don't worry it's just a super rare chance in the gacha now

  76. 9 months ago
    Anonymous
  77. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I can't wait to play as 4 again in Side Order (most likely). She's the cutest.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      personally I hope they're a boss

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        I'd be fine either way but I don't really see why they'd lock you to octoling again. It was obvious why for octo expansion but there's not much of a reason for that to be the case this time. At least it's a safe bet she's in the expansion one way or another.

  78. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    New rotation in 10 minutes
    what mode we playing gals?

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      X

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Not enough players...
        >Not enough players...
        >Not enough players...
        Hmmm let's check the schedule
        >clams next for open
        Are we chad enough for clams, PoolsClosed?

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          FOOTBALL

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Do you really want to play Hammerhead clams?

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            yes

  79. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    What if Side Order is a bait and switch like the campaign and it quickly becomes the balls to the wall Chaos-fest people have been waiting for?
    It won't happen but I can dream, right?

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Side Order could literally be anything and I'd like it. I just want more singleplayer content.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      would be funny if they did that shit twice
      >YOOOOO CHAOS THEMED STORY
      >it's actually order themed
      >YOOOOO ORDER THEMED STORY
      >it's actually chaos themed

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        More like
        >YOOO CHAOS THEMED STORY
        >It's actually Order themed
        >YOOO ORDER THEMED STORY
        >It's actually Order themed
        In the end, Marina had the last laugh

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      would be funny if they did that shit twice
      >YOOOOO CHAOS THEMED STORY
      >it's actually order themed
      >YOOOOO ORDER THEMED STORY
      >it's actually chaos themed

      >City looks like it represents order.
      >Player is an agent of chaos.
      The odd part is the character hasn't got any weapons or gear on them.
      I wonder if it's a roguelike mode and you're earning things bit by bit and changing the pristine white area into something more chaotic.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        She's in the hub no weapons allowed

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      who cares
      give me a dlc where big run turns into full out war, you depart to assault salmon fortress but get captured and sold to experimental underwater facility you have to escape from and this facility is full of living gene goop enemies taking vaguely squid and octo related forms full of tentacles and writhing and screaming in pain

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        I've always thought a single-player mode where you get in gigantic battles with combined Salmonid/Octarian forces would be fun

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          I'd rather fight a group of inkling terrorists along with some other species to make it kind of like the inverse of what we've been doing. We've done octarians and salmon for long enough.

  80. 9 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Very cute 4. I love how she's portrayed as having a more playful attitude than the other agents.

  81. 9 months ago
    Anonymous
  82. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Made a room just wanna do a boss

  83. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    frye tummy

  84. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I have now 5 starred all 19 pieces of Annaki gear
    ...which means I'm still short of 5 stars for the gold badge

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      shouldve just waited until next season and see if the brands with lesser pieces will get more outifts

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Nah I didn't really have anything else to spend money/snails on anyhow. Now all I have to do is wait for one piece of annaki gear which...could take longer than we think, especially with how little new gear they showed off in that season trailer.

  85. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    this thread stinks go back to vg!

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      not even st/ink/ers want to stay in their own threads anymore. too stinky over there

  86. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >finally reach rank S-
    >almost to the -500 points
    >series is Splat Zones
    I give up with this game mode. It's literally grenade and bubbler spam, and it's ALWAYS the enemy team while I get to watch my team get their shit get pushed in the moment they leave spawn. Resetting my rank is a fruitless effort because it'll basically be the same shit, just with less demand for points.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      >S-

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      come on son it's just a game
      majority of us made it to S+, you can too. just don't play while your tilted. Play the modes you like, if you don't like splatzones you don't have to play it

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        I don't give a frick about my rank. I just want catalogue points so I can put this game down for good until the next Splatfest. Going back to B is basically the same hell I'm already subjected to so may as well stay in the S- minus and deal.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          There is no S- anon

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            Pretty sure I'm just so used to being in negative that I consider it S-.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          But you'll miss the Big Run if you do that.

  87. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >7 hours left
    >just reached 770
    So close yet so far

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Make a room.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah i'll play again

        Alright cool, room made

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Advertise if you get room again because I missed it.

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            First game didn’t go so well, sending another invite

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            we're waiting squigger

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah i'll play again

  88. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    human + inkling hybrids...

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      How the frick would that even work?

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        No squidform, but they can swim

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Wow! I can't wait for me and my squid wife to comfort our child when they find out they can't participate in turf wars!

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            Buy him a paint gun, problem solved.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous
      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Would raise and care for with inkling wife

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Namonaki-chan is wife material.

        • 9 months ago
          Anonymous

          Where are all the inkling milfs nintendo?

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            They're busy doing important things. Please understand

            • 9 months ago
              Anonymous

              >"Don't play with my old Turf War equipment, honey, I could literally get arrested."

          • 9 months ago
            Anonymous

            They’re inkling HAGS, too old for a fresh game like splatoon

  89. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >someone in the pool is doing private battles
    ooooohhhh ssssstiiiiiiiiinkers...

  90. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    I hope they fix the hover hand shit on many weapons

  91. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Lost Outpost skipped
    Yep, that ones not coming back because they would actually have to modify it's terrain to allow Zuna to waddle his way into the basket area + the walls fricking with the new bosses

    RIP

  92. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >double glowflies

  93. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Wow, nothing like a glowfly sandwich to frick your day up. First one on high tide burnt all our specials.

  94. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Good round. Made a new room for the map rotation. Just need 9 more wins.

  95. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >accept friend request
    >boots me out of the room
    >can't join again
    WOOW

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Wait yeah wtf happened who is this rando? I thought I saw you in the lobby. Sent another invite if your up for it.

  96. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Both fish sticks were blocking the big shot cannons, top lel.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      nightmarish low tide, but glad we got through it

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      So many big shots

      nightmarish low tide, but glad we got through it

      Guys somebody else needs to get in the lower cannons to kill those stingers as the back cannons can't reach that far

      Damn, Cohocks gets brutal if they break the front line.

      Top lel. Did everyone expect me on the cannons? I wanted to punt some cohocks with the E-liter.

      Why do you feel the comment on every little fricking thing that happens inbetween matches? Just say ggs and move on. No one wants to hear this shit.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        >NOOOOO STOP COMMUNICATING WITH EACH OTHER!

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        Why are you against people playing video games on the video game forum.

  97. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    So many big shots

  98. 9 months ago
    Anonymous
  99. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >10 poop scales
    how close are you to 999 now bro

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      860. I can finish it off in Freelance if you get bored. I appreciate the boost, definitely shaved a few hours off of what it would have taken.

  100. 9 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why is this hot?

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        She’s really cute. I always try to make Namonaki look her best when I draw her.

  101. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Guys somebody else needs to get in the lower cannons to kill those stingers as the back cannons can't reach that far

  102. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Damn, Cohocks gets brutal if they break the front line.

  103. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Top lel. Did everyone expect me on the cannons? I wanted to punt some cohocks with the E-liter.

  104. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >rant about nzap nerf in last thread
    >anon points out its still op in turf war
    >play with nzap 89
    >anon was not fricking joking
    >single handedly team wipe on multiple matches
    >one team had 2 rage quits
    >got to see the new fistbump animation 5+ times with my inkling
    thanks anon

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Get some special up for those chumps to make them a bit beefier

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        thanks, i mostly have an agility set but special up would be my only fighting chance against blastergays

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      What nerf? Didn't it just get buffed along with Splattershot?

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        at launch, chump was like a massive step down from the previous inkstrike (very op) and tenta missiles (also op)

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      gonna copy you
      I did a lot better in turf just by picking up fricking nova so I can only imagine using an actual weapon

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Its an old reliable and has never disappointed me in up close battles. Still going for a 5 star on it.

  105. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Now that was just bad luck

  106. 9 months ago
    Anonymous
  107. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    This rotation was not kind to me.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      It seems to have been unkind to everyone. People probably started playing again after the trailer to our dismay.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      The weapons are more technical and only have limited roles.

  108. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Sloppy coho but we got a gold out of it, good hustle team

  109. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    >900 EVP
    You're almost there bro

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