Topic: Splatoon 3

@Deltarogue 20 in total now but six of them in the few hours I played last night. It's a fun weapon rotation.

@Budda I've battled Cohozuna more times than I'd care to admit and I've only gotten a single Gold scale off of him myself. Very much seems like pure RNG unlike the Bronze and Silver ones.

@Fizza I got five pretty quickly and bought the banner thinking they seemed common enough, then got one more and then never saw them again for the longest time. Finally got a couple last night though so back up to three, haha.

Does anybody else here have a least favorite map from the current rotations?
Wahoo World is my new greatest enemy 😂

@Dev9417 I thought someone in this thread has already said they rotate rewards on a monthly basis for Salmon Run.

@Dev9417
Do you mean the unlockables slots, or empty empty slots in general? The former unlocks when you meet certain conditions:
Spend 100 bronze and 10 silver scales(first unlocks)
350 bronze, 40 silver and 4 gold scales(second unlocks)

I'm sure they'll add more though. But sheesh they want 100 silver scales for black and white suits each. We really need to grind for these. I played with a player with a white suit already a few days ago. That person seems to play a lot of salmon run. First you have to unlock it and need additionally 100 silver scales. 😅

@Dev9417 Salmon Run reward gear changes monthly. This month was Bream-brim Cap. I think October 1 will introduce a new piece of gear, if the datamine is correct, its some cool futuristic silver, metal-looking sunglasses. Cooler than the bream-brim cap.

@Budda I'm currently on 43 silver so almost half way to being able to buy the black or white slopsuit but I still like pink the best anyway.

@BenAV There's more than just orange, green and yellow?

@Dev9417 Regarding

If you're talking about the empty slots in the rewards you can buy with scales, I believe you have to buy what's currently there in order to unlock what's next? Looking at the pic below, you have to buy the green and yellow slopsuits to unlock new colors. (EDIT actually, i found how things are unlocked and posted those rules in the next post below)

@Fizza In case BenAV has gone to bed (it's midnight-ish there in in australia?), here's a clip of all rewards, which shows all slopsuit colors currently available: pink, blue, black, white.
The description of this youtube says how to unlock everything, if I understand it right.

How to unlock:
You start at level 1.
Level 2: Spend at least 100 bronze and 10 silver scales (unlocks pink and blue suit)
Level 3: Spend at least 350 bronze, 40 silver, and 4 gold scales (unlocks everything - like the black and white suit)

@WoomyNNYes I tend to go to bed at like 5 or 6am so it's still early days for me, haha. I didn't actually know what you needed to spend to unlock stuff when I was buying things but that checks out with what I've bought. Yellow + Pink Slopsuit (40 silver) and four banners (360 bronze, 5 gold). It's almost as if I knew what I was doing.

Thanks for confirming, @BenAV. Yeah, I didn't know what unlocked everything either, until 30 min ago, when I saw the description of that youtube video.

I would actually disagree on the opinion that weapons are unbalanced currently. I think you can succeed with any weapon, it’s just a matter of figuring out which ones fit your play style best. Any weapon can be played around as long as you stay out of their range of threat and put them with in your range of threat at the right time, and then it’s just down to execution. More important than weapon ability or gear sets or any of that is discipline, pushing when your team is in advantage state and positioning favors your team’s ink.

The only things that currently feels slightly unbalanced are a couple of specials. Tenta missles are too good at displacing teams from the objective in Anarchy Battles and Ultra Stamp’s hit boxes are still kinda broken, in that it will occasionally not hit when it looks like it definitely did. Still, these specials are significantly better balanced than in 2. Tenta Missles still aren’t being “spammed” by more than 1 player a game regularly and Ultra Stamp only slightly hinders some weapons potential (I’ve seen some people who are very good with Splatana Wiper, which has Stamp).

@RubyCarbuncle Yeah Sloshers are pretty good in 3, especially Sloshing Machine with Fizzy Bomb and Booyah Bomb. What I generally do to deal with Sloshers is space them out with Bombs, don’t approach them straight-on, and avoid being below them or away from ledges they could space me out with. But, yeah they’re definitely one of the stronger classes in 3.

I downloaded the patch this morning and the first three games all had disconnects. This is annoying.

@jump The Splatoon experience right there honestly. I was playing a Rainmaker match yesterday with Range Blaster and was absolutely dominating the other team, hitting directs and indirects like nobody's business. And just as we were about 10 points away from victory?

@Fizza this seems worse than normal with the current update. I had found 6 other players and it went 3 mins looking for another player before disconnecting this morning. This is probably the worse I’ve ever had with all of the Splatoon games now, yesterday it was fine and had loads of matches with no problem.

ok is anyone else having issues with the ultra stamp hitbox
i loved the special in splatoon 2 and mini splatling is one of my mains and i'm glad its on it in splatoon 3
but sometimes it feels like the special just doesn't hit
the hitbox is def messed up rn

@novasoup I'm right there with you buddy, welcome to the club. I literally just had a match there about 2 days ago at Mincemeat Metalworks where I was playing Range Blaster, the opponent activated their Ultra Stamp and ran straight towards me....only for me to somehow squeeze unscathed through a gap between the hammer and handle and deck them with a direct. Hype as all hell? Absolutely. Depressing that one of my favourite specials has been gutted in this way? Also absolutely. Here's hoping this mid-October balance patch fixes it because I want to play Wiper, Mini and Sploosh so badly.

Also, very good avatar pick: Harmony is precious. I hope we get some new Chirpy Chips music at some point in 3 cause I just think that'd be neat