Splatoon 2 Version 5.1.0 Arrives Early Next Month

Clash Dualies inkoming!

I think it's a shame how Nintendo has let the Splatoon 2 hype die down. Splatoon 2 was looking like the next Overwatch for a bit but since they stopped releasing weapons and maps it has faded quite a bit.

Maybe we'll get an announcement for a Splatoon 3 or a spinoff of some sort for 2020.

@Heavyarms55 if I’m not mistaken, Splatoon and Animal Crossing are the same team. That’s part of the reason there has been such a gap since the last Animal Crossing game since they made 2 Splatoon games, and now they’ve stopped major updates for Splatoon 2 with the new Animal Crossing only a few months out

@Heavyarms55 I'd have loveore splatoon support too but there's no denying that it did get a lot of love. Overwatch hype hasn't been that big too lately.

Though 2 is supposed to be happening eventually.

@Heavyarms55 I'm hoping for S3 news some time next year too. Even if it's just new battle stages, weapons, specials, Salmon Run maps, Salmonid bosses, make it easier to play with friends... well I guess I'm describing an expansion as much as a sequel, but I'd be happy with whatever they call it.

@ALinkttPresent I wasn't honestly aware of that. Considering how utterly different both games are, I'd never have guessed either. Understandable that they'd want to focus on one at a time, but I feel like they could have had an alternative team supporting Splatoon 2 after they moved to Animal Crossing. Not like Nintendo doesn't have the resources.

That said Animal Crossing has been at the top of my wish list since the Switch launched, so no complaints really.

@mauhlin12 Salmon Run was my favorite part of Splatoon 2 so I hope in the next game they expand on it and add more to it. An 8 player mode, larger and more maps, and a mode where you can pick your own weapons.

@Heavyarms55 agreed. Almost 75% of my time has been in salmon run. In fact I sold my xbox one x to buy more switches so I could locally play 4player salmon run.

@sixrings Lol, really? That's... actually no different from me buying several GBAs and DS's to trade Pokemon between my games. Yours is better because you were probably playing with friends. XD

@Heavyarms55 If Salmon Run was its own game, it would be my most played game on Switch by quite a bit. I like the idea of 8 player Salmon Run with bigger maps, maybe 4v4 SR to see who can collect the most eggs. I did kind of like being forced to play whatever weapon you get dealt in each round. Makes me step out of my comfort zone and try weapons I'd never pick in a competitive match. I would like to be able to wear our own gear with abilities in SR, imagine how many eggs you could grab with all 12 slots with swim speed up.

@mauhlin12 " I did kind of like being forced to play whatever weapon you get dealt in each round. Makes me step out of my comfort zone and try weapons I'd never pick in a competitive match."

This is why I'd like it as an alternate mode. They could make the random weapon mode be more lucrative to encourage people to do that, but have the mode where you can choose your weapon there for people who want to see just how high level they can push when then coordinate.

@Heavyarms55 true story.

I am pretty salty about Splatoon. Even though I liked the first game a lot, I didn't get Splatoon 2 on Switch after being burned by the end of the Splatfests on the Wii U. I even missed the last one because I was on vacation.

I can't believe Nintendo ended them so quickly this time round. It seemed like on the Switch version the Splatfests ended before the game even got going. Nintendo could just cycle through the old ones if creating new content was too much effort. As I say, I wasn't able to take part in all the original 'fests because I wasn't home every weekend to play them, so being able to take part later would be good, or maybe even try the other side of the argument. Or for people new to the game to try out the Splatfests they missed.

It is a bad way to support the game to have a handful of Splatfests and then nothing at all. Putting out new Splatfest ideas seems like a really cheap way to get publicity for the game long-term and keep sales going, surely? Not having them seems like a guaranteed way to make the game feel past it - "oh yeah, there used to be this extra thing, but now it's dead, don't bother..."

@Heavyarms55 Same team made Mario Rabbids Kingdom and TC Ghost Recon Wildlands / Breakpoint too.
Also. Steep is using same engine as Wildlands.

Flounder Heights!!! C’mon...

I was that convinced that they would announce Splatoon 3 before the end of the year, I told my nephew that if they didn't I would buy him some v-bucks for damn Fortnite. C'mon Nintendo, two days left....

Still love this game, so much fun to play.

I'll be all over it if there's a number 3...

Glad to see this still getting support. Spent most of the day yesterday playing this. Such a fun game!

@mauhlin12
Yeah. I would rather it be an expansion similar to Overwatch 2.

Still play Splatoon 2.
New content would be awesome, or at least confirmation that they're working on Splatoon 3.
My Salmon Run rank has tanked since summer, an I still can't get it back to profresh 400. It's often obvious in 3rd wave someone doesn't know how all the salmonid strategies yet, or how to use all the weapons, or just gave up.

@Zach777 Yeah I miss Flounder Heights and Hammerhead Bridge too. Am guessing they'll be saving a few stages from the first game for the eventual release of Splatoon 3.

I stopped playing the day I discovered Nintendo was stopping support so soon.