Topic: Splatoon 3

Just went back to this game, felt like I took a nice hiatus from it. (Been playing Tears of the Kingdom, and I was busy with other stuff too.) I picked Bucket List for this Splatfest.

I chose "save the world". The teams I played with today were great. 5 losses and 29 wins including 2x10 matches. Most losses against my own team.

I do not want to stop playing.

I chose Bucket List, 16 wins - 7 lose. I won 2, 10x battles. Had quite a lot of mirror matches. I mostly lost against Save the World they were savages lol.

Go Team Bucket List!!!

I finally got my first bronze capsule at the shellout machine, never got any of bronze/silver/gold before this.

I chose Same Ol, with the expectation that it would be there underdog with votes but end up winning with the better stats. (I also picked for the shirt & ink color)

@Grumblevolcano I have 1000 hours in Splatoon 3 and have almost exclusively gotten bronze capsules. I've maybe gotten one bronze every 2-3 months. I think I've only gotten one silver capsule. And I've NEVER gotten a gold capsule, which seems insane to me for the amount of time I've put into the game.

I went Team Bucket List. I sadly haven't had a ton of time to play due to work, but scored quite a few wins.

I feel like the splatfest are a little too long in Splatoon 3. I think 42 hours is a bit much especially for regular splatfest. Special fest like frosty and spring can be 42 hours imo then 72 for final. I really like 24 hours like in 1 and 2. 2 straight days of only turf war is a lot with no break and the only other mode is salmon run (for some reason).

Anyone like or dislike 42 hour splatfest?

@Potato-man Splatfests have always been two days/48hours-ish since splatoon 2. Maybe there's been a three day splatfest, but my memory is hazy on that.

I think too many people would miss out if Splatfest was only 24 hours. Sometimes people have other plans/family stuff that take up much of one of the weekend days.

@WoomyNNYes The only 42 hours in Splatoon 2 was the special ones i.e Springfest and Frostyfest according to inkipedia that may be wrong though. And 3 day for FinalFest. But those are pretty good points, so more can participate.

Thanks for commenting back 🙂

This might just be the luckiest Splatfest I've ever had: four 10x wins for Team Bucket List almost back-to-back-to-back-to-back, two wins on Defenders on ROM-en Tricolour and my first 100x win in almost a year and a half.

what on earth is happening XD

I don't like to be negative, but I really don't like Barnacle & Dime. The map that's sort of shaped like the letter S. I've been having some terrible matches on that map... like whenever the enemy team covers the majority of it, I get "stuck," so to speak, and I keep getting splatted by everybody shortly after I respawn. So I can't even get to the center part and my team would lose miserably. It might be all because of how it's shaped... probably my least favorite map in the game, honestly.

@MarioVillager92 SAME! Although I rather like the stage, it is annoying sometimes. Hard time on this stage in splatfest, lost most of the time with spawn campers

@Potato-man Yeah. Sometimes I win in that stage, but yeah... I think it needs a bit of improvement. Maybe make the beginning areas wider or something.

I also won my first anarchy series! The mode was Tower Control.

Congratulations!

I find the wording a bit weird for winning a series. “5 wins in a row” implies… 5 consecutive wins, with no losses breaking them up. Winning a series on the other hand involves getting 5 wins before 3 losses. There’s no need for them to be consecutive, and up to 2 losses are permissible.

Does “in a row” mean something different in North American parlance?

Anyway, not to detract from your victories at all — this is a linguistic quibble I have with the game itself, not your performance. Well done again!

NEW SPLATANA HAS SUCTION/BUBBLE AND WALL/JET!!! This thing is gonna be a beast!

@MarioVillager92 @Octo-JellyFish For me, regarding the Barnacle & Dime map, being good with splat bombs can help, because of their range and lethality. Auto bombs are also good to flush the opposing team at choke points, or if they are spawn camping. Having these bombs can be especially clutch when you have a weak team that cannot splat the enemy. Having a good special weapon is loses it's worth if you're spawn camped and can't charge it.

I guess I'd say, getting spawn camped is often a result of a few reasons:

• you have a weak team(newb kids)(It happens, at no fault of your own. Team matching is random-ish)
• or the other team is super good (possibly partied up, possibly on coms)
• or the other team has weapon range advantage (or strategy advantage).(If they had a brutal strategy advantage, that's a good opportunity to watch the replay from their point of view and learn.)

If my team ends up trapped at a choke point, or spawn camped, I often see it's because my team had mostly or all short range weapons, or had no bombs(or skill to use bombs). Suction bombs can help control an area, but for me, I have better success with quicker exploding splat bombs, or auto bombs flushing opponents out of an area.

I liked the Splatfest winner dialogue. Friendship for ever!

GUYS I WON 2 100x BATTLES THIS FEST! My first ever, too. it was overall fun, really like the Tricolor layout for ROMen.