Reminder: The First Splatoon Global Testfire Details Are Out

So, 10-11 central time? Hate to keep my roommates up during finals week. Oh well...

4 more hours...or more like 3:30

Your roommates can deal. Who sleeps at 10:00-11:00 anyway? Gotta be at least midnight or you waste a vital part of the day.

Im staying all night up now. Not gonna miss this. Currently almost 2 am :/ This will be worth it

I go by Atlantic Time but I work overnights and I don't have work tonight. It worked out ok for me.

Suprised there isn't Urchin Underpass on there. Pre-ordered the game, super excited, the game comes out on my last day of school.

The countdown is what?

So stoked! I had a hard time focusing at work due to my stoke-ness.

9pm-10pm here in Mountain Time Zone!!!!!!!!! I can squeeze another hour or so out of my night!!!!!

In the words of the wise Reggie Fils-Aimé, my body is ready!

Would of been nice if it was now but it will be from 11 to 12 for me. I actually thought that I missed it so I guess I can still play the first time slot.

Fingers crossed for the 11pm and 7am sessions. Can't wait!!!

@97alexk take a nap with a few alarms unless you don't wanna risk it.

I just wish I could learn the controls better before going in. Even a blank room with nothing to shoot would have been appreciated.

@edgedino Clearly he's too stoked to sleep.

Wait when does it start Central time in NA?

Less than 2 hours. So excited. I am so ready for this.

@liljmoore

10pm.

@liljmoore 10:00 King of redundancy. This is actually the third time this has been stated. It was also in the first comment.

@vio Thanks

I'm so excited to finally play this!! My first weapon of choice will probably be the Splat Charger.

11 PM for me! Almost an hour to go!

10-11 for me isn't bad. I'm so excited! I'll probably only be able to try tonight, as the other times are sorta weird for me.

GET HYPED!

I am so ready!

I'm on the east coast and after working all day I dunno if I'll make it til 11pm!

I can't believe I'm doing this.

Gonna try this tonight (not free during the other times) but expect it to crash tonight. I'll give it a try anyways and add to their servers' payload.

For those looking to avoid time math, its about 40 minutes from this post.

This is so stupid; why couldn't it just be a full 24 hour event... I am up at 4am just to play this demo.

My friend and I played Smash and Mario Kart 8 for 3 hours, can't wait to finally try out this demo.

So hype! Ten more minutes!

I just tried connecting, and it says that it has reached its limit. As soon as it hit 11:00 est on my phone, that's when I pressed connect. I guess everyone did it at the same time.

Played for about 40 minutes....had a few times where I had to reconnect for a match but it was fun amd seemed to work pretty smooth. I wonder how many people jumped online to test it out?

I'm not convinced that I will purchase this right away but maybe in Aug after the updates I'll give it a go.

The Squids have some odd taste in music but I find myself humming along to the songs. Seemed like the roller was a winning weapon in most of the matches I played but someone out there was deadly with the charge rifle. I got sniped 6 times in 1 match.

The roller paint weapon is definitely my favorite.

That was fun. I am clearly the best Splatoon player in the world, but that's no surprise cuz I'm the best player in general. #unofficially

Played the whole hour. This was the most fun I ever had playing a game online. Sooo much fun. So much deeper concerning tactics than I thought.
Had no hickups. When I switched weapons I had to sometimes try 2 times because the lobbies were full...that's all.
Also: Sooooooo glad they let me switch motion off and change the sensitivity!
Great experience.

Loved it. And bought. Boom.

wow! That was fun! But well, more like splaroller... The team with most rollers almost always won in my case, aiming with guns was strange because of the motion controls, needs more practice I guess. Loved it!

That paint roller though. It was so fun to use I loved ittttt. Ugh I wish I had the money to pre-order ╥﹏╥

Just played the full hour, at first I thought the servers were overloaded but I got on with a bit of persistence. The game is really fun and smooth, my only issue is there isn't much to do when it comes to weapons (your stuck with the default classes so you can't try different combinations).

P.S. The roller is OP.

session 1 analysis. no problems connecting online or staying online, tutorial is useful but not the biggest fan of gyro controls(i immediately turned them off when i could), joining matches is quick but matches got disbanded often for multiple reasons, squid jump (which can be played while waiting for a match) is a cool idea but gets boring very quick( i hope not all the other minigames are locked behind amibos), matches are fun but i havent quite figured out the best way to play, the splat roller seems a little overpowered almost 50-75% of people used it, and tbh 1 hour of play time isnt the worst, i got about 8-10 matches in and by the time it was over i feel i have had enough(at least of whats available in the test). ill be playing again tomorrow for session 3, session 2 is way to early for me

Played the whole hour, first 40 minutes w/ the first gun, last 20 w/ the 2nd. Never tried the sniper rifle or the roller.

Roller is OP. It is really fun killing those guys if you can find a nox to stand on.

Took me 45 minutes to figure out my sub weapon, never figured out my special, still came in first on my team almost every match when I used the first gun. So as OP as the roller may be it doesnt seem to do much for your points or ranking personally though it will help your team win.

Game looks great, but now its 12:23 and I have way too muchafrenaline pumping to go to sleep. Reslly wish they could have toraled all our match poi ts at theend and our won-loss record.

Oh well, it was a blast considering I didnt really know what I was doing, and I eant it now more than before, but still undecided. Msybe if we have another test next weekend while Im awake, cant make either 1 tomorrow.

Happy Mothers Day all you mothers out there. I know Kates mum makes 1, that migjt be it though. Maybe TBD if shes still around.

I like how Europe & AU/NZ get 10% of the digital game if they have the demo - I am tempted to see if it will be cheaper than the disc, because this will be my most played game ever, and I like the idea of not having to chage discs when Lego Jurassic Park and Yoshis WW comes out.

Ugh, I didn't get to play at all. Lots of refreshing, praying it'd work, kept disconnecting. Well that was a fun hour. >> the servers better not act like this when it comes out or they may lose my sale...

Too bad I can't make the other two times.

Same here.

@ShadJV The servers may act worse because more people will be playing and these tests will not nearly be enough unless Nintendo over exaggerates the number of players.

@rjejr love that you still have time for the mothers out there after staying up late to shoot stuff.....
I can't wait to try the game( if poss in the last UK session) if my internet holds up that is. I've got a very bad ping so online gaming is a struggle for me and I'm unlikely to get much out of this at peak use time. Would be nice to get excited for the game again after non-stop 'not what I wanted to hear' info getting rolled out.

Hope the servers can take it, I will be recoding my session too and upload to my YouTube shortly so everyone can see how bad I mess up!

@rjejr I felt like the roller is more annoying than OP. I never used it and also got 1st in all of my matches. If I got killed it was usually be a roller, though...

Session number 2 sees my oldest up and doing the tutorial. Glad he decided 6am was a good time to wake up. Wasn't really planning on making it to any of the other sessions but here goes nothing

Just played session 2. More fun than I was expecting, Still trying to get back into playing this type game without a Wiimote, but had a blast

i was doing an experiment where i stood by the the opponents base put ink on the wall and hide there it worked and i was able to get kills with it

It really feels like a Mario Kart of online shooters. My 6 year old played for an hour and won as much as he lost.

A smart team with guns will destroy a team of rollers but the rollers still seem to do better as a general rule in the 2 hours I've seen.

As with the 1st session, no issues getting in and staying in the game

Awesome game, but I hope the full version has more game modes, or it could get a little stale fast.

Great demo! I was a little frustrated with the gyro controllers at first (didn't think to check options) but they eventually started to click. I just feel like I need to train my brain a little bit as I kept trying to turn with the gyro controllers and forgetting to use them mainly for vertical aiming and use the r-stick for turning. But, I can see the advantage of gyro aiming; definitely more efficient and quicker than using the sticks. Very addicting, I started getting the shakes as soon as the hour was over. Getting into matches was a little slow at first but got quicker as the hour passed. All in all, I think I played at least eight matches. I liked the versatility of the weapons. I wonder if they'll match players better in the future (I played a match against a team that was all rollers). I came away impressed and I didn't really know what to expect.

This game is so good! I can't wait for launch now

I don't think that the rollers will be a problem. If Nintendo is good at something, then at testing a game until it's really balanced.
Initially I often got killed by the rollers too, but rather because I wasn't expecting them, because I'm not just used to aiming, and so on. If you encounter one, you simply have to react appropriately – that is, keep a distance. Then it's them who got no chance.
However, what I miss is weapon change in game. Not any time, of course, but at least when re-spawning.