This past weekend brought the ESL Go4Splatoon European Grand Final, in which teams splatted it out for the crown and Nintendo Switch consoles as prizes. Also of note at the event, though, was a brief reveal of a new track for Splatoon 2 - Humpback Pump Track.
A brief glimpse is below (if the video doesn't auto-play at the right spot, go to the 2 hours, 8 minutes and 25 seconds mark).
The official Splatoon Tumblr page has also uploaded some screens and a brief outline.
Introducing Humpback Pump Track. This new stage is an indoor BMX track, but Inklings use it as a stage for Turf War. It features many curvy ups and downs, and the bike track surrounds a small hill in the middle. You'd think the openness makes for great visibility, but the hump abundance creates a surprising amount of blind spots. Inklings can employ multiple strategies, including frontal breakthroughs or attacking from the side.
Oh… and we just realized that jellyfish can ride bikes? What!?
Let us know what you think of this new stage in the comments.
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There are no flat tyres here. This looks like an amazing stage!
I'm surprised how pro players play this game. They always seems to chase after the enemy and majority of their shots are on the turf their team already owns, while leaving blank or enemy turf the way it is :/ I mean, they are super fast, very mobile with all the squid-changing techniques and they get a lot of kills, but I thought the aim of this game is a bit different
Had my very first experience with Splatoon during the recent global testfire and I usually scored the same amount of points as most of the players here, but maybe the game is different when the enemy team are champions
I was going to say before seeing the description that it looks like a skateboard park or something similar.
We know that young squids only care about fashion and turf wars.But what about adults ones?Why we see only other races(mostly jellyfishes) doing other things?
Really looking forward to Splatoon 2. Testfire totally sold me on the new ideas they have. Can't wait for even more cool stages to be shown off as we get closer to release!
Hype is building!
@mateq
Haha true, but as a person who played the game since the beginning, I can tell you that I felt the exact same way when I first started. I was always saying, come on guys, ink your turf!
As time went on, I soon realized that they were kind of right in their approach. The idea is to kind of ink your turf minimally and catch your opponents off balance by bull rushing them. If and when you get splatted, you can ink what you left out the first time, unless someone else on your team already has.
No right or wrong way to play, but there are different strategies to consider.
Hope you enjoyed it though! Splatoon was my most played game on Wii U.
@mateq It's pretty much the difference between new and seasoned Splatoon players. The new guys tend to go in all guns blazing, whereas the old-timers are a bit more methodical.
The stage looks cool. I just wish it was outside. Prefer the graphical detail in the outdoor stages vs the indoor.
@MoonKnight7 That actually makes perfect sense, thanks for clearing that out for me! I fully loved the testfire, can't wait for the full game. I suppose after only 4h of gameplay it's hard to judge which strategy works best, but like I mentioned, it was surprising seeing all those pro players running after each other rather than splatting the ink around
Glad to see the splatling gun, that was my main weapon.
@mateq
Sure no prob. If you get the game, you'll catch on to all the nuances. I learned that technique because I usually played every weekend in the morning, and it was mostly Japanese players on the servers. That is the technique they seem to prefer.
Oh, and I'd classify them all as pros. I got destroyed until I caught on to how they play the game, haha. Definitely some tough love, but because of it, I am a better Splatoon player.
I wish Nintendo would announce the firm release date for this game. The wait is almost unbearable, LOL. Just knowing an exact date would be great. I hope it's not the literal last day of summer before Fall. Nintendo has a history of launching games/apps literally on the last day of a season so they can still claim the game launched on time.
Slosher confirmed! I can't be more hyped!!
Also, I think I spot some user banners in the stage, like miiverse posts...but they said they weren't going ahead with miiverse on the Switch? Things that make you go hmm...
@mateq There's also a fundamental difference between approaches to Turf War and the ranked modes that are the basis of competitive play (Splat Zones, Tower Control and Rainmaker) - although the techniques and styles learned in ranked play do actually translate really well to turf war.
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