Topic: Splatoon 3

New players, alright! Not bad!!

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I'm in northeast US, playing salmon run and turf war, and nothing seems out of the ordinary. It's been ok. I have a Fios wifi router.

Spicy for the win!

I chose team Sweet.

Also, Nintendo, fix the Salmon Run matching, for christ's sake. I can't get out of of pro 1 because of all the newbs. Please match me with other players of similar experience. Is that so hard? Is that not fair? Trying to fight winter blues with splatoon, but it appears Salmon Run matching (US region) only compounds winter blues. Forgive my bitterness forum friends.

Hey, since Tricolors are no longer dependent on what team's in first, will we be able to get them from the start of the Splatfest next week?

Now that the voting has officially begun, TEAM SPICY ALL THE WAY BABY

May as well take this opprtunity to ask which one is everyone picking? I went with Spicy for 2 reasons:

1. I have a natural gravitation to spicy food like curry and shredded chicken.
2. I haven't picked a team captained by Shiver yet when she's my favourite idol out of Deep Cut.

So yeah: the two kind of went hand in hand XD

I picked Sweet, can't say I'm a fan of any of the 3 flavours but if I had to choose 1 it would be sweet.

I think everyone on Spicy (including myself) are masochists. WE LIVE FOR THE PAIN.

I was very close to picking Sweet myself when the Splatfest was originally announced, though I leaned more towards Spicy in the end since I went with Frye the last time there was a food-based option and it uh....didn't go so well for me.

I picked up Splatoon 3 with some Christmas money, and I'm in love with it right now. The new maps are so much fun. I love the launching onto the match. I love the lobbies so, so much.

Can't wait for the Splatfest! Team Spicy all the way!!

Out of all the taste choices for this Splatfest, Sweet is easily the one I like the best. Always loved stuff like cake, cookies, ice cream, and the like... plus my birthday is coming up on January. So I went with Team Sweet!

Definitely going team Spicy. I love sweet foods but sometimes sweetness can be overwhelming. I always go for spicy foods if I ever have the chance, and I love the pain of having something super spicy.

Poor Big Man, though. I doubt he wins hardly anything this time around.

@Dev9417
Well. Actually spicy food is very healthy for you. It tricks your body to heal your "burned" tongue. But since you are not actually hurt, the body uses that prozess to heal real inflammatory parts of your body instead. Like a cold for excamle.

NO PAIN NO GAIN!

Do you have to win a certain amount of consecutive matches with any one weapon to get a Sheldon ticket, or does only the amount of wins per weapon matter? I'm hoping that it's the latter. I see that sometimes, when I win a match, I see a "freshness raised!" notification with a star rating, and the game gives me a Sheldon ticket. I'm asking this because in Splatoon 2, if you lose a match, your weapon's freshness rating goes down. Plus, in this game, it looks like you can't use cash to buy more weapons, you can only use the Sheldon tickets.

@MarioLover92 You get a Sheldon ticket every time you level up, I think. You can use xp gain food tickets to level up faster.

@MarioLover92
For the stars you have to level them up. You get exp on them just playing matches. The amount of exp you get is the same amount you get for your general level.(For Turf War losing 800 and winning 1400). You can see the current weapon level and how much exp you need, in your weapon select screen. Hover over a weapon and press ZL. It's in the top right corner. And as already said here, you get tickets for leveling up your general level. But you only get a ticket for the first star of the weapon. The rest are badges and stickers from this weapon.
The weapon freshness is a completely different thing. It works like it did in Splatoon 2. But this time it's even more useless. You don't get any exp from it.

@WoomyNNYes @SlashFuture @Budda Thanks everyone! I'm not sure if I get a ticket every time I level up my player level, but I would guess that you're given them when you reach certain levels, or something like that. That's good that the weapons don't lose freshness, if that's the case. I'll try to get the food items as well to boost my EXP. I remember in Splatoon 2, you get food tickets from playing the story mode, I would imagine that's the case in Splatoon 3, as well. I haven't played S3's story mode yet, I probably should.

@MarioLover92 Three ways to get food & drink tickets:
1) Salmon Run capsules for the first 1200 points. After that the capsules are gear only. (this is the fastest way to get food & drink tickets)
2) Shellout machine
3) Sheldon Drone at the helicopter launch pad at the first island in Alterna. The drone is available after you beat the single player. For 999 points, send off the drone, and 24 hours later, you will recieve a randomized reward item at the computer in the Lobby. The rewards are randomized like the Shellout machine capsules. So... 24 hours after sending the sheldon drone, there will be an exclamation point bubble above the computer in the Lobby when the reward item is available.

@WoomyNNYes @MarioLover92 more specific info on the shel-drone- you need to beat every level and survey every site, basically meaning to either ink or walk on every part of the site and find every secret (they're marked on the map, the striped areas are areas you haven't surveyed and the yellow glowing areas hold secrets)

@novasoup Oh, every level has to be beat to get sheldon drone? Thanks for correcting.

(side note: I had 60,000 points in Alterna, and I've been using the Sheldon Drone every day for the past two months. 🤣)

@MarioLover92 You get one sheldon ticket per level thankfully.