Topic: Splatoon - OT

@crimsontadpoles: Ouch, looks like Rob wasn't with us that game.

@crimsontadpoles: Wow, I only got +6 that game. One more, though, and I should rank up.

@crimsontadpoles: Wow, that was some of the most beautiful displays of teamwork I've ever seen! And now I'm an A- for the first time!

Thanks to the Amazon sale ($15 off), I finally placed my order for the game. Thanks to amazon prime, it'll be here wednesday

@Nicolai Wow, that last opposing team was really tough

@crimsontadpoles: I can't tell you how many times I get splatted by the Kraken that time.

@Nicolai That was fast, they slaughtered us really quickly there

Yeah, that's what I meant. Guess I was wrong about every less popular team winning the most matches thing (I forgot about that), but my point still stands. Even when the popularity tally compensates for the less popular side, it can't really be a coincidence that the less popular team wins the most matches almost all the time. Initially, I was thinking the more popular team wasn't pulling their weight, but now it's automatically the more popular team that loses.

@crimsontadpoles: Yeah, I need to stop getting myself roped into 1 on 1 situations as a dynamo roller. I'm better off making a mess out of general chaos than a controlled environment.

@crimsontadpoles: Damn, I got so close to winning it for us! (had the rainmaker at the end)

@crimsontadpoles: Wow, lost only 4 points that time. The game haveth mercy.

@Nicolai so close that time. We did well against 2 S rank players

@crimsontadpoles: Wow, I did absolutely nothing that game, thanks to whomever that was

Same, I also didn't do anything in that previous game

@crimsontadpoles: THAT time was me with the Rainmaker
@crimsontadpoles: My internet is acting up a little, sorry about that. I think I got it back, though.

@Nicolai Connection was lost

@Nicolai YYYEEEESSS, I got the Rainmaker to their base that time

@Nicolai The next game will have to be my last. It's starting to get late here

@crimsontadpoles: Great! I haven't been doing well since I switched to Splat Roller, so I'm taking that as a sign that I should switch.

@Nicolai That was great fun, but I'm going to quit now, I'm starting to get tired

@crimsontadpoles: Sure thing. I got stuff I should probably be doing, anyway.

@Operative: This game is SO fun! Trust me, once you start playing it, you won't be able to stop for awhile. $15 off is a good sale, go Amazon!

Once you reach level 10, you'll be able to do squad battles, they're really fun! We do them a lot on this thread. Feel free to join in!

@Nicolai: Sorry I feel asleep earlier,was after 1am for me.I'm usually up during the night working online but last night caught up with me.

Going to play some now if anyone cares to join?

So some of the images from the Splatoon artbook have been shown and surprisingly, the artbook also contains a bit of information about the world of Splatoon.

Prevously unknown concept art for the Squid Sisters.

Also it describes a bit more about the Octarians. From what I've been told (since I can't read Japanese), in one of the book's captions it says that all Octarians are coming from the cut-off tentacles of one single source and those specific Octarians are incapable of reproduction. Also it was stated that the more tentacles they have the higher their rank and intelligence.

Edit: Also, Sheldon appeared to have been originally designed as a Puffer Fish before later being changed to a Horse Shoe Crab. Octo Valley was also designed significantly different as well. It was originally designed to appear far more post-apocalyptic.

@OorWullie: I can! You make the room.

I feel like there's something messed up with the matchmaking or how they calculate the battle percentage, because it never seems to agree with my experience playing the Splatfest. Like played as Autobots and they were the best Splatfest teammates I'd ever had at the point yet they lost by the worst margin ever. Then played as Science and went a brutal 9-21 between trying the first night and the next morning and gave up at Champion because all the teammates that kept coming and going were unbelievably awful and I wouldn't have had the time to spend making it to royalty by losing over and over, yet they only lost by the smallest margin. Then played as Planes and went an amazing 33-10 over two different sessions where I was constantly having amazing teammates coming and going, only to have Planes lose by a big margin. If there are truly these margins like 55:45 in win percentage, you'd think between all the different teammates you have and all the different opponents you face, you should notice some correlation with how your battles go. I'm convinced there's either something broken with the matchmaking that condemns you to be placed with a certain caliber of player for the duration of a Splatfest or they're just making the battle percentage up and totally ignoring what actually takes place during the Splatfest. I understand maybe I'd randomly be lucky or unlucky and have vastly different results than the overall results sometimes, but I feel like there should be some correlation, which there just doesn't seem to be any except for the results actually being anti-correlated with my own experience.