Topic: Splatoon 2

@Shane17 Unfortunately not. It's perhaps the biggest legitimate criticism you could throw at the game; it takes so long to to trawl through dialogue before you can actually play it.

Once you start playing Ranked, the matches will go up to a maximum of 5 minutes, so it might feel a bit fuller.

Glad you're enjoying the game!

@Maxz that’s a shame, I find it such an annoyance just smashing A to try and get passed it!

Yeah it’s great finally won my first game just as I suck being on L2 currently! For someone like myself though I’m never top of the COD/BF games for killing, so a game like this where killing people or shooting them doesn’t matter as much as doing the objective i’ts brilliant!

@Shane17 @Maxz I agree, I wish the news would only pop up once you enter the lobby. Or they could add a checkbox [ ] display news in the user settings, but I guess they want you to see the news at some point.

Still, it's better than in Splatoon 1, where you had to watch the news every single time you booted the game.
If you leave Splatoon 2 open (and put your Switch in sleep mode), you don't have to watch the news again. Unless it's a new day (or is it after 24 hours?).

Alrighty then, bureaucracy threw me a curve ball again and as it turns out, I can only shoot my film at the main location during weekdays, until Fridays, not Saturday and Sunday, like actually planned. Only good thing in this is that I have now all the time of the world to participate in this weekend‘s Splatfest. Would really love to join with some fellow members from Team Gherk-Out and play some Team Matches.

@shani Huh, I leave Splatoon 2 always open and it only tells me the news when Salmon Run closes or opens.

News is only retriggered when there's new content or when Salmon Run opens (not when it closes).

Edit: Speaking of new content, this week's weapon is the Custom Goo Tuber with Curling Bombs and Inkjet. I feel like this makes more sense than the original Goo Tuber set (Suction Bombs and Splashdown). Perhaps it'll be a little less maligned now?

Hello everyone I just got into Splatoon 2 and I been trying to sub strafe and it's not working for me. Has it recently been patched?

So in regards to Team Matches, SplatNet 2 tells me @NaviAndMii is at least Gherk-Out. Don‘t know for sure but @Zyrac also mentioned he‘d go Team Gherk-Out, I think. If both of you have time and are willing to join me, this would leave just one member. Btw, I could play from when the Splatfest begins until around 10 PM CEST on Saturday.

@iLikeUrAttitude It's still a thing. As long as you keep holding R you should be able to quickly change momentum while swimming by releasing ZL for a moment and pressing it again while holding a different direction. Unless you have Ink Mines, in which case it won't work.

@GoldenGamer88 Yeah, I intend to pick Gherk-Out. I'm pretty available on Saturday so if we do get a fourth I should be able to take part.

@GoldenGamer88 @Zyrac Yeah, I've chosen Gherk-Out and would definitely be down for some team action if we can get a fourth!

@Zyrac @NaviAndMii That‘s awesome! I already wrote to some german friends if they‘d like to join us tomorrow, though, neither of them has played Splatoon as much as any of us three have. So if any fellow Gherk-Out member on here could join us, I‘d be extremely delighted! Always meant to do some Team Matches and this is as close as I have gotten thus far.

@Zyrac @NaviAndMii Guys, I got a fourth! He‘s from a german Nintendo fan site, where I‘m also an user. How does 7:10 PM CEST sound to you guys? Also, do we wanna voice chat over at the NL Inklings Discord? There should be a link to it over at the Multiplayer Match Organization Thread.

@GoldenGamer88 With any luck I can make that time, sure. I can't currently do voice chat, but it'd still be good to make some use of Discord.

@Zyrac Ah yes, I forgot, you couldn't last Sunday either when we were playing SR. If I get the okay from Navi, I'll go and invite my friend over to the discord then.

Does anyone know how to get merch to accept coins instead of sea snails for adding new slots to gear. I don't know why but he stopped accepting coins and only wants sea snails.

New US Splatfest! Money Vs. Love, baby!

@omagickarp To my knowledge, you can only increase slots/rerolls with sea snails. The only time Murch accepts cash is for scrubbing filled slots.

Money versus Love, eh? Didn‘t we have something like that back in S1? Oh, yeah, the japanese had that with Love taking the win.

Oh man, that new US theme could make things super intense: "The thing in whose name name we're destroying the world" vs. "The thing in whose name we could save it".

Or perhaps other less catastrophic interpretations. Either way, it makes the Great Gherkin Debate look a little less... earth-shattering. Not that I mind our SplatFests being based largely around petty grievances and trivialities.

I can't currently do voice chat either unfortunately, but I've downloaded the Discord app to my phone for some post-match debriefs Catch you later!

@NaviAndMii Good to hear from you. There should be a link to the NL Inklings discord over at the Multiplayer Organization thread ( https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/nintendo-switch/the_multip... ). I‘ll send an invite to the fourth there as well as he‘s not an user here and can‘t use the NL chat.

Here's a video of the recent Splatoon concert.

I just love how big Splatoon is in Japan. I'm also amazed by how far we've come in terms of 3D modeling in such short time. The in-game models look great too but the big screens and fluid animation in the concert really take these characters to whole another level.