Topic: Splatoon 2

I played some Salmon Run yesterday with Sinalefa and 2 others in our LINE chat, and we used Discord for voice chat while playing (works fantastic by the way- I think Nintendo's online app is officially obsolete, Splatnet2 aside). And while I rarely voice chat, I have to admit it really helped us communicate properly which helped us play better. I would say "Sniper boss in the back corner" while someone else would say "I got splatted by the fan lift, with the last egg we need" etc etc. It really enhanced the experience.

I have no desire to use voice chat for turf wars, but for Salmon Run it's amazing. Does the Nintendo App facilitate voice chat for Salmon Run when playing with randoms?

@-Green- I've been sitting quite happily in Profreshional mainly using just 'This Way!' to communicate. I'd argue teamwork is absolutely vital, but a fair amount of that can be surmised from context; watching your colleague's backs, not getting overly dispersed and stranded, inking a path should another player need it, etc.

Voice chat might make certain things easier (and also more sociable and fun), but I don't feel like there's a frustratingly large hole in its absence.

@Maxz I have not had that fortune. I've been stuck on the OA for a while now and just dropped a rank. I don't think the current level of communication for strangers is enough.

@TheLzDragon Then include more word prompts beyond the 3 available.

@JaxonH No, voice chat is exclusively friends in the app too. As a result, the only purpose of the app in its current form whatever your view of voice chat is SplatNet 2.

Quick question. If you pick up a bonus from playing Salmon Run (e.g. Swim speed up) do I then need to activate it or is it just automatically applied to my squid?

@BigBadJohn Neither, what you get are ability chunks. You need 10 or 20 of them (dependent on the ability) and have to talk to Murch to add the ability to a slot.

Seems to take forever to even get one ability to add by choice. Not sure how many chunks you get for ghosting a piece of equipment but, at 20,000 a pop it could mean serious cash to get enough chunks for something like, double other abilities

Got Profreshional this morning. I like the first map better than Marooners Bay, I think it's a fair bit more balanced.

Balance? Who needs balance, when the random bosses can be 5 mosquitos in a row?

How much can you really plan when the waves are random?

The specials mostly just serve as panic buttons against particularly thick swarms, or being caught out far from your team. The sting ray is a bit different, though; it can damage otherwise invulnerable bosses. Other than that, I don't see specials used too often, and I still got to Profreshional just fine.

@Grumblevolcano ah I see. Thank you.

@TheLZdragon Have you been matched with many Japanese players in Salmon Run? How does it compare the number you've been matched with in Ranked and Turf?

Communicating as to which enemies to target and which players should do so, etc. It's not huge stuff, but it's definitely there.

The specials actually have interesting applications with swarms of bosses.

Currently at Overachiever with some friends.
Anyone want to join us? Need one more

Edit: got a fourth

@Maxz No outside the EU players here. Had some Japanese sounding names though but written in English.

Its confusing...

@Nicolai I believe you said something about Rollers?
We'll be there. Around the corner, up the road, on top of your head.

We'll be there.

Waiting.

Also, I still find for rollers, the best thing to do is to turn motion controls off, and use the sticks to ambush the hell outta people.
Motion for anything else though.

I've just clicked with short range chargers, and I'll definitely use those in SplatZones, I think, where my Rollergame isn't as strong.

So, started playing this today. Now, Splatoon was a very good game, but I stopped playing after a while because of how frustrating it got. I am not an easily frustrated person - I can lose at Smash or Mario Kart all day long - but I guess it's harder to accept defeat in a team game. Whether I'll have the same issue with Splatoon 2 remains to be seen, but it's definitely going to help that the specials are much less aggravating. They made a good call there.

It does sting me a bit that both the Echolocator special and, apparently, the Recon ability have been taken out. I made heavy use of both, because knowledge is power. I think a lot of people didn't consider Recon to be good, but seeing the enemies' locations before deciding where to Super Jump (if at all) was extremely helpful. At least I no longer have to lament its unavailability in Splatfests (it was only on shirts).

If I have one real complaint so far, though, it's that your own location on the map needs to be better highlighted. It turns out a blue squid on blue ink is not the easiest thing to see, and the lack of a second screen makes it harder too keep track. Far too often I bring up the map and think "wait, where am I?" I'm sure better familiarity with the stages will mitigate this, but still.

In the first one I never used Rollers, stayed mostly with .52 gal, but since I don't have it yet, I decided to give the Carbon Roller a try. I really like it all of a sudden! Tried it in my first few Ranked matches since I reached level 10, and it's lots of fun! The autobomb and the ink cloud are pretty good, and it's been working out really well for me.

I can't stop playing this game. It's ridiculous. I expected to like Zelda better than Splatoon 2, but that is definitely not the case. This game is borderline worth buying a Switch for, even if you buy nothing else.

@KirbyTheVampire The problem for me is this is the type game that keeps me from my other games. I've already neglected Ever Oasis now for 2 days and all I want to play is this game.