Two More New Weapons Are Coming To Splatoon Tomorrow

Just another reason to return to my new favourite game!

Awesome. These look like my kind of weapons.

Not really bothered about new weapons as I just stick with my trusty Aerospray RG for the most part.Thought we would have had another new stage by now though,might have been due to the Splatfest being on.

The level cap needs to be raised. New weapons are welcome though 😊

Another Gal. Hmmmm.

the gal weapons are so annoying ;p they can kill u with 2 hits T_T and when i see everything with a 1 sec delay cause of my suckish internet it doesnt really help

Yay another brand new weapon and a new load out of an old favourite. I don't care for the sprinkler sub on the vanilla .92 so I'm excited to see what this has to offer.

That .96 Gal Deco is mine!

Slightly off topic, I'm surprised nothing was written about the different Splatfests (or at least a poll to see what people thought about it).

New weapons are always welcome.

@rjejr

Happy Birthday #7!

An alternate .96? Count me in!

SPLATOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!

If you haven't got this game and you're wavering, get it!

@arronishere Not that I think it's needed, but my guess would be so some people can show the world how much better they are at Splatoon than others... Although let's face it, you can max out at 20 as a mediocre player just though time and perseverance... (Not that I'm suggesting any of the fine people on this forum would resemble that remark)

@arronishere Couldn't agree more...

@sinalefa Good morning!

@arronishere - My eyes and my brain want a higher level cap, those four 20s stand out when team of 20, 18, 14 and 12 lose to them. At least if it were 30, 28, 26, 24 vs 20, 16, 14, 12 it wouldn't jump out at me as much. And w/ a level cap of 30 maybe they could split up turf war 1-15 and 16-30. There should be enough players to do that by now. And the way the leveling has worked so far it would take awhile to get to 30. And each level up after 20 we could get a sea snail.

Just use your imagination a little, I'm sure if there was a splat fest of keep level cap vs raise level cap the sides would be very lopsided in favor of raising it.

Finally! Been waiting for the alternative .96.
While I like sprinklers from the original. The special is a waste for me most of the time. Hoping they'll add something better for this one.

You know, I really should give the Krak-On Splat Roller a break and try some ranged weapons for a change. Maybe those will be my cue, as long as their sub weapons and specials deliver.

@OorWullie Don't forget we did get a new stage before the cancellation of the last Splatfest. I'm sure these are times releases and the change in Splatfest messed it up a bit.

@rjejr My biggest concern now is when Rainmaker is finally released will it also rotate and I won't be able to play it for 8 hours. What started out for the better is now bringing some of the game modes down. Why do I have to wait 4 hours to play a mode that might not be convinante to my time.

@Razzle

Why did you ever leave?
/slaps Razzle until he admits being wrong for not playing Splatoon 24/7

It is crazy that these are releasing on the same day, since they are variants of my two favorite weapons. Splash-o-Matic for turf wars, and .96 Gallon for Ranked Battles! The HYPE is real!

I do love all the Gals and their set-ups, so this release works for me.

Finally an alternate .96 gal load out! I've been loving the .96 gal for tower control but the sprinkler and echolocator are so... pffft.

Nice! I'm going to check these new weapons out when they are released and possibly have another late nighter again in online matches in Splatoon.

We alreday have the .96 gal deco, and i bought it.

Levels do Nothing, why raise the cap?

@OorWullie: Amen. Though that Sploosh-O-Matic looks like it may be big trouble in a showdown. Just look at how much ink it throws!

Totally THRILLED with adding ability slots to my "old" items, like my beloved 2-stripe mesh hat. This game just keeps getting better and better!

Please let the sub and special be good on the .96 gal. That's my go-to weapon for ranked battles. But I'm not a hug fan of the current special.

The Sploosh-o-matic looks like a Splat-o-matic with a funnel attached onto it.

@arronishere -"shouldn't be split up as that's what rank is for."

In theory thats what ranked is for, and probably what the developers had in mind, but I still see a lot of level 20's in turf war.

Lots of reasons for level 20 players to be in turf war they need to address:

playing w/ friends
don't like the current ranked mode - splatfest or tower control
don't like the 2 maps in ranked - I won't play rig or warehouse

If they would let us play w/ friends in ranked, offer a choice of tower control or splat zones, and change it to 3 maps in a rotation, that would probably go a long way towards getting better players out of turf war. Maybe in August.

Playing Turf Wars is also a good way to level up equipment or try out new weapons without sacrificing rank.

Cool, new weapons are always nice

@OorWullie Aero Spray? It's all about the rollers!

All those new weapons look nice in theory, but they are just little variations of the weapons we already have. I don't even bother anymore to try them out. They should come up with something new. Maybe a Quake3-like rocket launcher? Or how about we get two weapon slots in rank mode? That would be really awesome.

@gaby_gabito @arronishere @Zach77:
I think a level cap raise is inevitable, otherwise the game will get boring at some point. Who said that higher levels do have to unlock anything? Just take MK8 for example, you can push up to 1600, but it doesn't unlock anything. Just leveling to get a higher level is fine, if you ask me. And it's true, you find just as many people with lvl 20 in Turf War as you find in Rank battles. So clearly there are people who prefer Turf War even when their level is maxed out

But I like the proposition @rjejr made even more: Give us a sea snail for every level up over 20! I already used up my four sea snails and so far they are the best thing that was introduced in Splatoon. Why can't I just buy sea snails or win them somewhere aside from the Splatfest (didn't really "win" them, I just joined the rock team and then sadly didn't have time to participate in the Splatfest)?

@ricklongo While I completely agree with you (I never got used to the rollers because of their sluggishness and find the other weapons more eciting) - are you really still playing with the old Krak-on-roller? Why not the far superior carbon roller (it's way lighter)?

@shani Because it doesn't have the Kraken special, which is the main draw of the Krak-On Roller for me.

@OorWullie Areospray RG. How skilled :^)

@ricklongo Ah okay, now I understand. But you know the kraken got weakened, right? ^^ And I think there are other weapons which got the kraken as a special (don't remember which ones because I rarely use the kraken, it doesn't cover enough area for my taste).

@shani It got weakened, but it still has been working fine for me. The thing is that, with a roller, you'll sometimes want to venture far into enemy territory to cover ground. In these situations, the kraken is awesome because it not only allows you to become invulnerable when enemies inevitably show up, but also gives you a way to easily dispatch them AND the extra speed to quickly get somewhere else. It just complements the roller's traits so well.

@shani - I have 16 sea snails I don't use, they should let us trade them for cigs like in prison. Or something. I'm really not sure what to do w/ them. I know what they do, add a slot or shuffle, but I like my gear.
Basically for me leveling up is just about seeing people at different levels. If it were up to me they would just go ahead and max it out at 99 right now just so we can see how long people have played. I just happen to like 99 as a 2 digit max level video game number.
I do hope they figure out a way to reward people w/ A+ rank. Not sure how many people have or will ever reach A+, but even they will need incentive at some point. I'm B- 30. I'm always B- 30 b/c I always lose a bunch when I get there then struggle to get back from C+.

@ricklongo Ok, because since the Kraken got nerfed, everytime I encountered one, it wasn't that hard to defend myself. Just constantly shooting at the kraken is enough to not get killed, so I thought using the kraken would now be even less effective.

@rjejr: Where did you get so many sea snails? Did you get additional sea snails by actually playing the Splatfest? Btw I think it's a shame the Splatfest only endures 24 hours. I think they should make it a week or at least three days (= a whole weekend).
And yeah, something like rank 99 would be fine by me, for now.
Most of the time I'm c+ with ~40 or 50, sometimes I get close to B- and sometimes when I lose consecutively I fall down to C 70, but only for a short while. ^^

@Spoony_Tech - "when Rainmaker is finally released"

Yeah, that's a concern.

And a beef of mine I may have forgotten to address in the forums - Callie and Marie spend so much time at game boot going over the stages for each mode but they don't tell us what mode is available. I really hate that. I'm aware that I'm easily annoyed, but stupid things like that annoy me even more. If they are going to tell us the stages, tell us the current ranked mode.

@shani - "I think it's a shame the Splatfest only endures 24 hours. I think they should make it a week "

When splatfest first started I was like - "hey lets do this every weekend". And then hour after hour past, and for 24 straight hours we were stuck playing in that stupid warehouse level. So now I'm all - "never again, talk to the hand".

I got 16 sea snails for getting up to 50 points in the 3rd level, I think 1st was 10 and 2nd 25. And I was team DoG, and we won. Well we lost but more people decided to lose more often so that helped us win. Please don't ask me to explain it, I really have no idea.

The Sploosh o' matic is just a splash o' matic but different sub & special.

@rjejr Come to to think of it, in combination with the limited map selection, I think it would be more than ever necessary to stretch the Splatfest onto several days. This way you wouldn't get stuck on one map (I hate when that happens, but it's random, so it can happen) and besides, you wouldn't need to play the whole day thinking "omg not much time left". I didn't have the chance to play it but I think the limitation of 24 hours rushes the player, doesn't it?

Okay, I didn't know that you can get so many sea snails. It's a shame really, they did a poor job in introducing and explaining them at all.
Because when I was at a friends on friday(he was lvl 20 and I was lvl 19 at my own Wii U - now I'm 20), I went to the guy in the back alley and when he said something about adding slots or switching them, we both thought it was something you get when you're level 20. Not something you get for taking a side in Splatfest. It was on sunday at home when I realized I got four sea snails (while still on lvl 19) and that I got them because of my vote.

Adding and changing the slots was something I wished for when the game was released. So I added a slot to my 2-star cap and also one to a pair of 2-star shoes. Then I wanted to switch the slots on my boots (those with ink resistance as main ability) because all three abilities were crap (for me), but the new abilities weren't better at all (2x faster running, 1x damage up). So I had to use my fourth and last sea snail and I finally got the combination I hoped for (special charge faster, special duration up, defense). But now I have no sea snails to change my clothes and other headgear. Also I wish instead of switching one could choose the abilities.

Oh and yeah, Callie and Marie really should announce which mode is active. Or even better, Nintendo should offer Splat Zones and Tower Control separately. I don't get why those two modes have to be in rotation. What happens when rainmaker is released, do we really have to wait 8 hours to get to a specific mode?

I will try the .96 Deco

I usually stick to my rollers. I rarely use any guns. The ones i see used though are always the same ole same ole > AeroSpray...Dual Squelcher

@shani - " they did a poor job in introducing and explaining them at all."

Welcome to Spaltoon, where they don't know what's going on and neither do you.