Topic: Splatoon 3

My internet is down due to major srorms in the area, but I will be going Team Rice! Gotta stay true to my Asian heritage!

@Truegamer79 Yes they did. It is located in the lobby just to the right of the Grab-N-Go shop.

@vio *Crab-N-Go, actually, but we get the idea.

Totally called it. Nintendo said so themselves that Grand Festival will be the last splatfest in Splatoon 3. Here's what it says in the My Nintendo sweepstakes for that splatfest...

Splatfests in the Splatoon 3 game for the Nintendo Switch™ system reach a “grand” finale in the music-filled Grand Festival in-game event** ! From the minute your Inkling or Octoling arrives at the train station and walks through the ink shower unscathed, you’ll see why this is a Splatfest like no other.

This Splatfest for the Splatoon 3 game runs Sept. 12-15 with a four-day festival of music, ink-stained competition, and community fun. There are surprises lurking everywhere, from the field of competition to the rafters high above the main concert stages—where, this time, it’s not just the Anarchy Splatcast hosts Deep Cut who are getting in on the act!

So yep, they called it the grand finale... it all makes sense now. Especially with Nintendo having announced that they're working on their next console.

@MarioVillager92 Hmmm… Grand Finale doesn’t mean there won’t be reruns though. I do think this will be the last new Fest though.

@CaleBoi25 Yeah that's what I meant, Splatoon 2 had reruns of a couple splatfests after its final fest. Plus there was the one made for Mario's 35th anniversary. So it seems this game will also do a few reruns... and Mario's 40th will be next year. I'm not sure if there will be a splatfest for that though, Nintendo probably wants to promote their next console by that time.

@Croctopus Good point, I forgot they did the rerun Fests due to lockdowns. That said, datamined files indicate a possible Splatoween and FrostyFest rerun at the very least.

@Croctopus Oh I forgot they did those due to the pandemic as well. I didn't play much of Splatoon 2 after Chaos vs. Order. While those rerun splatfests were going on, I was playing a ton of a certain other Nintendo game, lol... speaking of which, I'm pretty much all ready for a new Animal Crossing game. I've got my fill of New Horizons' base game, just gotta play more of the DLC sometime. If the devs are gonna work on the next Animal Crossing, which I personally hope they do after Splatoon 3's all done, hopefully they'll have some rerun splatfests in the timeframe before the Switch 2 comes out.

Don't forget to check your Wandercrust progress in the splatnet app.

I got distracted with summer (not a bad thing!) and discovered that I already fulfilled the wandercrust gear challenges, and i just had to check off the Support buttons to accept the last piece of gear, the fuzzy Judd ears, aka Judicial Hearing.

I am going to miss this Fest due to stupid internet being down. We had quite the storm go through, so our house is (mostly) OK, and my family is safe, but... That means no Super Sea Snails...! Not the worst that coulda happened I suppose.

I finally managed to get to S+ for the first time. I'll play around with X Battles a bunch after the Splatfest has ended.

Just signed off after a great two hours or so followed by 12 — yes, 12 — losses in a row. You ever have one of those stretches where every match is a beatdown from the beginning? It seemed we were pinned deep in our territory every one of those matches.

@Burning_Spear Man, I feel you there. A 12 game losing streak sounds brutal. Never quite had 12 in a row, but I've definitely gotten close. My usual plan when I get on a losing streak is I'll generally switch weapons after like 4 or 5 weapons. Doesn't necessarily help me win, but does make me feel better lol. Anyway, while losses can be rough, at least you didn't threaten a terrorist attacks over it, unlike some people.

@Bigmanfan Forgot about that sore loser, LOL. Yes, I switched weapons too. And I also backed out of the lobby for a few minutes — not blaming other people, but thought maybe I was caught in a bad team/weapon mix. But all is good: I switched to Balatro and beat one of the three remaining decks in the game.

@Burning_Spear Nice. Playing another game is always a good way to lift spirits after a losing streak. Well, wish you the best of luck if you're playing in the splatfest today!

It's nice that most Tricolor matches have been all 3 teams (only a few mirror matches so far) and Eeltail Alley is a fun map for the mode. I haven't been doing too well in terms of performance, Pasta's been winning most matches I've played.

@Grumblevolcano Is there not a new map for tricolor? Or did they do map changes in Eeltail?

@ok1 It seems the main change is that they added 4 gushers to the map, makes things a bit more chaotic.

@Grumblevolcano The addition of gushers is cool, sadly didn't have time to play but good to know it was interesting! Excited to play it when they rerun the map.

Once again, I forgot to scrub my spaltfest Tshirt. I'm so tired of forgetting. It's not a big deal, but I think they really just need to give us the chunks from the shirt.

Also... for crying out loud. I haven't been able to log into the site all weekend. I don't know if it was a Firefox thing or what. I logged in tonight with Chrome. Although, I was failing to login with Chrome too over this weekend.