Topic: Splatoon 3

Alright, I've seen something online that looks great but I cannot for the life of me find where it is in 3: is there a way to sort your weapons based off of their class? I saw some tweets around about the Splatfest Premiere showing it off but I haven't seen anything besides the regular sorting options present in 2 and I feel like I'm going crazy. If anyone knows both whether this exists and how to access it, I'd greatly appreciate it cause Popularity can only get you so far!

ALL DAYYYYY, Son. ALL DAY.

FINALLY, I beat Cohozuna for the second time, and during a sunday driver time of the day, no less. Perhaps watching CheWoomy eggsecutive Salon Run gameplay helped. And perhaps two other things played a part, I got a good weapon, the blaster, and fully utilized it, and I used my special, the Booyah Bomb. I'm not sure I saw anyone on my team used their special.

@RubyCarbuncle I saved clips from playing through what I thought were the two toughest parts of theThose Aren't Birds level, in case you wanted to see how I did them.

@WoomyNNYes The hard levels in Splatoon games are like mid-2000's Sonic games: frustrating as all hell....but some absolutely banging beats.

@Snatcher If you are referring to the "retro framers" (which are a pair of pixely glasses), then you need to get your catalog level to 79 in order to get them, hope this helps!

@Deltarogue Thank you so much! That’s exactly what I wanted, time to grind.

So I'm thinking of buying solatoon 3 but is I really any better than 2, splatoon 2 was a little bit too fast. Is it a little bit better to play, is there much new gameplay in it, like alot ?

@Ninfan It’s splatoon 2 but upgraded, so if you didn’t like 2 your probably not going to like this one. Tho I feel like I’m a rare case, as I actually ain’t the biggest fan of 2, but I got three because I wanted to give it another chance, and it looked cool. Funny thing is, I love it miles better the. 2, miles.

@Ninfan There's a lot of new gameplay involved in 3 absolutely, but if your concern is that it'll be too fast then let me tell you: 2 will feel like an old man crossing the street by comparison. So if that puts you off, there's no shame in backing away

Man the matchmaking in this game is outright garbage. I'm Rank 3 now, but I keep being pit against people who are extremely high rank, and I just keep having the floor mopped with me. I don't think it's really all that fun to die constantly because I didn't just get the game on launch and play it every hour of the day. I wish that they actually pit you against people on your skill level, instead of just throwing you in with people who are completely overpowered and who you stand no chance against. It's making me not want to play the rest of the game. I enjoyed the campaign for the game, but the multiplayer component is rough.

I also keep getting kicked offline every now and then.

@VoidofLight I definitely had this happen on a few occasions too. It's starting to happen with less frequency but it's still a nuisance when you get wiped out over and over again.

I usually tend to jump into something else for an hour or so before returning back to the mode that was causing me bother. That usually does the trick.

@VoidofLight I think it's connected to how ranked works. Ranking up in Splatoon 1 and 2, you just had to fill the meter by winning ranked battles but this time there's a few big differences that make it harder to rank up:
1. Have to spend rank points to enter a series which finishes when you either have 3 losses or 5 wins (you can have a net loss of rank points all because of communication errors for example)
2. To go from a "+" rank to the "-" rank above, you have to enter a series where you rank up if you get 3 wins but stay at the current rank if you get 3 losses
3. "Anarchy Battle (Open)" is for when you want to stay at your current rank as gains and losses in rank points are very small

So you could easily see pro players stay in the lower ranks because of points 2 and 3 to farm XP (both level and catalog) and cash which makes matchmaking unbalanced.

@Grumblevolcano Above all else I think the #1 thing that probably contributes to the unbalance is that it lets you continue with the same teammates. Strong teams will stay together for a few games in a row and likely wipe the floor with any newly formed team with a weak link and it can take a while to actually find a decent group that has a chance at times.

Some interesting notes from OatmealDome regarding this upcoming hotfix patch:

• It's going into effect at 1AM UTC on 30th September.
• Like Smash updates, replays will not carry over so save the ones you want to keep (I'm going to try and keep my 100x Splatfest battle myself).
• A bug where you'd fall through the map with Tacticooler is getting fixed.
• The obvious main fix to Sea Snails vanishing after Splatfest is going through.
• An exploit where you could use the Reef-Lux to farm points in order to speed through levels and the catalogue will get you PERMABANNED online so be wary of that (its very much only for players who got like 10k P in a single match so don't let it put you off the weapon but you have been warned).

The first big balance update (not new weapons or such, just balance changes) will be coming in mid-October during the mid-point of the current season (aka what is shown in your catalogue) and this'll apparently also address the aforementioned Reef-Lux exploit in addition so very excited for that. Just fix Ultra Stamp and I'll be a very happy chappy

I enjoyed the first 'real' splatfest of Splatoon 3 but it's probably the worst splatfest I've ever taken part in. The connection issues, the garbage matchmaking and tri-color being non-existent. I was Team Gear so I pretty much just fought my own team constantly. I get why I couldn't enter tri-color because of being on the ever so popular team but I played for about 10 hours overall and would've like at least ONE tri-color match. It made the second half boring since you couldn't access the new feature of splatfests in Splatoon 3. But I understand it was all on Nintendo's fault.

They really gotta be careful with what the next themes are for splatfests because the open ended question of what would you bring to a deserted island and having a logitical answer naturally made that the most popular. If Gear had been in the lead halfway through we'd all probably get a whole bunch of tri-color matches. Shame because Hammerhead Bridge seemed like a much better map for the concept of it rather than Sturgeon Shipyard which was a really terrible choice for the defending team. I still think that tri-color should have it's own unique maps like the Shifty Stations of Splatoon 2.

The current Salmon Run rotation is a pretty fun one. Just played for a couple of hours straight and got up to Eggsecutive VP 300 which is the highest I've been so far. Might play a bit more later to see if I can push higher.

The next couple of rotations could be good ones as well so I might be playing a fair bit of Salmon Run over the next few days.

It isn’t even ranked. I’m struggling to even play turf war without being matched with overpowered players. @Grumblevolcano

@VoidofLight I just had the realization, that maybe we encounter tough OP teams more often because Splatoon 3 has made it easier to play with friends.

@Fizza What's wrong with Ultra Stamp? I don't use it to know.

Please have a tableturf update with more cards (pearl and marina come to mind), more maps getting bored with the basic ones, and multiplayer would be superb. only cpu players is dumb. This side game has so much potential for something they clearly put in to round out the package.

Speaking of tableturf they should release it separately as some people (including me) has or have to buy splatoon 3 just for tableturf

@GoombaKing64 Whilst I don't know whether they'll be adding more cards to the pool (though I very much hope so), playing it online with other people has been confirmed for a later update so that'll give it a nice bit of longevity and competitiveness for the future