There's Another New Weapon Coming To Splatoon Today

...but will it be better than the trusty Splatershot Jr.? Ill find out at lunch time. Anyway, sure sounds like a handy thing to carry around if you're in Chile.

PS: Never mind, Europe: 3AM... tomorrow morning, then.

Google translate produces the following "translation":
"O'clock tomorrow June 13 11 am, new weapon "Sharp marker" is added. It's fast shooter of the bullets of roses with less fire. ATK's low, but quite useful if Aim for tightly basis. Sub "Kyubanbomu", Special's "Bum Rush"."

In German it even describes the gun as decorated with roses. ^^

I don't know much Japanese, but the first words after the date and time are "atarashi buki", or "new weapon." It's called the Sharp Marker, obviously, though who knows if that'll be the name in other territories.

Apparently "Cuban Bomb" is the Japanese name for the Suction Bombs, so there you go. And the special is the Bomb Rush.

And that's why we don't use online translators

AAAAH! The Splatoon Wiki is in Comic Sans D: Someone help!

@Damo
You're using Bing!? Really?

@Tiefseemiez Surprise "Bum Rush"

I know some Japanese. Here's my translation.

Tomorrow on June 13th at 11am (Japan time) a new shooting weapon called "Sharp Marker" will be added. It shoots bullets (ink) in a rapid-fire scatter pattern.

It has a low offensive power, but in close combat it is very strong.

The sub weapon is the "Cuban Bomb" and it's special is the "Bomb Rush"

End translation.

What...what is the Cuban Bomb?

Infidels using bing

God, I love translation services.

Finally! Something to win in Chile with! Been having trouble there.

So, another rapid fire weapon? Nah, I'll pass. I'm waiting for some kind of shotgun-type weapon: extreme fire power, strong spraying pattern, but low accuracy and range, and a lot of ink usage per shot.

@kepsux Probably that special bomb where the good guys leave faces of Che Guevara in the ink, while the bad guys mark the territory with Fidel Castro.

@Kaze_Memaryu
there already is a weapon that is basically a shotgun. It has a low firing rate and when you fire it goes a little bit in front of you and then pops. It's slow, has terrible distance, but strong killing power. To bad I can't remember the name of it though.

@Radbot42 It's called a Blaster. It fires a single large glob of ink which explodes in a small area around it, but it does essentially function much like a shotgun as @Kaze_Memaryu spoke about.

The only thing missing from the description was the absurd amount of ink usage.

I used the Hungarian Phrase Book to translate it, but all I got was, "My hovercraft is full of eels!"

Thanks to all who did a much better job than Bing or Google. But even reading the descriptions I still cant tell if its an upgrade to the splattershots or aerosprays or .52 and .96 gal guns. If its an aerospray for the masses we're about to start seeing a lot higher scores in the game. Though theres slways the mop men to drag things down.

Ill be usint it at 10 tonight, Ill let you all know.

In the pics it looks like a stream of ink. Kinda like a firehose. Wonder why there are no weapons like that.

@RantingThespian applause

I don't think this will replace my Splattershot Pro, but I'll give it a whirl.

Cool, can't wait to try it out. Hopefully I'll like it more than the paintbrush. I have no idea how some people are so good using the paintbrush.

I love the Jet Squelcher so I would like something similar to that weapon.....I don't think it's going to be this weapon though.

http://splatoonus.tumblr.com/post/121346142259/listen-up-at-7-pm-pt-a-new-weapon-enters-the

that's the official tumblr talking about the new weapon

@Tiefseemiez

I can't wait to see the new Bum rush special! XDDD

Is Chile where they're hiding all the working servers?

I hate inkbrush users, they are no use in turf war especially on my team, and they are little use in Splat Zones. They are so easy to kill, especially when they are still, trying to kill you by spamming ZR

@kepsux Well apparently you don't speak English cuz you said "it's" instead of "its" and now I'm confused on the whole meaning of your post.

@Vineleaf What does "cuz" mean?

@kepsux Fee was using a shortened version of "because".

Google translate isn't much better: O'clock tomorrow June 13 11 am , new weapon " Sharp marker " is added .
It's fast shooter of the bullets of roses with less fire .
ATK 's low , but quite useful if Aim for tightly basis .
Sub " Kyubanbomu " , Special 's " Bum Rush " .

@Vineleaf Haha, I was just mocking him for using slang while criticizing my grammatical error.

@RantingThespian You win. You win everything.

I win in Chili every day. Doesn't everyone?

Sounds like another high rate short range deal. Easy targets for the mindful player.

@TheAceofMystery I feel they are OK in splatzone to lay out a path at the beginning of the battle. I feel they should have a beacon as their sub weapons because they can move around the battle field really quickly placing them. Not sure of the top of my head what they do have now

@Yorumi its all about the skills i did better than 3 aerosprays in turf war (rank A-) with paint brush.

Woooo it comes out 9pm my time.

"Thanks, Bing!" 😂 ROLF

3 am UK time again... Why Nintendo, why?

...So somebody other than me finally figured out that Bing is actually better than Google?

@EverythingAmiibo Hahah, this bugged me as well. xD

Here's the official translation from the Splatoon's tumblr page:

"Listen up! At 7 PM PT, a new weapon enters the fray—the Splash-o-matic! Its shots don’t spread much, and it has excellent rapid-fire capability. It could be said to be a bit lacking in attack power, but zero in on a target and they’ll burst in no time flat. Plus, this bad boy comes equipped with Suction Bombs as a sub weapon, and Bomb Rush as a special weapon.".

You're welcome.

Cool. But I'm still waiting for Splatoon to be worth 60 bucks.

Meh. It's just a Splat Jr. without spread. Bomb rush sucts. I think NZap is better with its range.

@theberrage
It never will, so best thing to do is write a letter to Nintendo asking it they can sell it to you for less or stop waiting.

@outburst My thoughts exactly, I dont think any weapon will have main/sub/special as usefull as the Splattershot Jr (in turf war that is).

@Reusinck I bought it day 1. It's a lot of fun. Wish there were more modes and more customization to matches.

@Radbot42 @Rhydas Yes, yes, of course, but I was thinking in slightly different ways than blaster-types. Blaster weapons have a detonating glob of ink, and using them well requires a lot of skill on determining distances - it's a rather advanced weapon to excel at.
I was really thinking more along the line of many small sprinkles of ink being shot forward in an almost fan-shaped pattern, making it a devastating point-blank weapon, but almost useless on higher distance due to the low damage of individual shots and the strong spray pattern. I'd love that, but it's just an idea.