How you know it ain't 4VS4? I mean, at Expos they managed to have 4VS4.
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How you know it ain't 4VS4? I mean, at Expos they managed to have 4VS4.
But it's the best one
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
Apparently being high level means nothing, people seem to refuse to paint their own turf, or they're lazy and think I'll just do it every match. Last match I went 1-0, just spent the entire match painting our own turf, a shitload of spots that nobody claimed, dominating the opponents turf, then at the end come back and reclaim my own turf. It was like I was the only one who knew what the winning conditions are.
I don't know. There's no details as far as I can see.
donkey show
Member
Seconded. Really love the back and forth on that one trying to maintain both zones.
it's the competitive mode......
Vampirolol
Member
Seems like my typical experience. I'm both killer AND painter, not that I dislike it but I see many snipers painting (???) and rollers just moving random.
Beelzebufo
Banned
Err for splat zones? Because your strategy is a bad one for that mode lol
Painting with the charger is actually really easy, if you just fully charge up and do it in lines. It covers a lot of ground very quickly. basically any long stretch of turf can be easily painted in 2 shots with a charger. I love it.
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
Turf War, sorry I didn't clarify.
Storm Kyleis
Member
God, Splatzones is soooo fun.
Find the one with the Japanese dev playing with a charger.
I was personally dumbfounded because I can't play with a charger like him...
I know that feeling that's why I like this picture and should be put on Miiverse or something
Beelzebufo
Banned
Ohh gotcha lol. I was gonna say!
Also, do you really get no coins for single player?
It's a different gametype than Turf Wars, so it doesn't always need to be rewarding for the losers of a match or follow the same ethos.
Maybe you could get a bit of a bonus depending on how much time your team racked up in a match?
It's not that hard to dislodge the other team
- Flank the vantage points from behind/side
- Build up a special and use that to wipe the middle
- Wait for teammates, don't run into middle wildly
I've at least taken the zone back even with crappy teammates, and I wouldn't consider myself a good player. I understand the strategy mechanics though from playing Team Fortress 2 and that you're going to get wiped sometimes on a King of the Hill mode.
Lmao at the first point.
Wait inking walls has no effect on score? Is this confirmed? If so this is a huge revelation for me and honestly kind of weird in my opinion.
Partly agree on the sentiment.
The ranked battles can be fun, but most of the time it's just mud-fight/camping and since the A ranks, I'm not sure I actually enjoyed a lot of match.
Guess I'll stick mainly with Turf War and see how it goes once there's more people in each rank, maybe it will evolve in something more interesting/less chaotic.
I really wish there was a ranked Turf War mode too.
Belgian Dude
Member
Anything that can't be seen from birdseye view doesn't count towards points since you can't know where you need to replace enemy ink. Walls are only for mobility.
Damn did I just totally miss this or is it "assumed"? That is huge for me I won't waste as much time painting walls now! >_<
Yeah, no score for walls (check your score counter in the top right). The reason is because there's no way of seeing which walls you need to paint on the top-down map, so there would be no way to tell where you needed to go.
You don't even need to charge it all the way for it to be effective at painting either. Half charge on some of the chargers is plenty to paint things in front of you. Couple with ability to fire as quickly as you can pull the trigger (not enough people know this), the charger is good for painting lots of ground really quickly.
donkey show
Member
The higher your rank, the higher your win bonus is. At rank B, you get +3000p on top of the 500p win bonus you get. Ranked is very risk versus reward, but the idea of holding a tighter zone makes the gameplay more frantic and fun for me.
RuneFactoryFanboy
Member
Well last night certainly put me in my place. Serves me right as I was getting cocky.
The new map I kept getting killed by rollers and chargers holy crap. With so many hallways, rollers would turn the corner and plow me constantly. Chargers would sit on top of the moving forklifts and kill me. I even kept dying to other rapid fire users which I usually do pretty well at.
So then I tried Ranked battles and got destroyed. I would spawn, super jump, die immediately. Each round I must have died 15+ times and was probably no help to my team at all. I did manage to win some rounds and be top on my team, but I don’t understand why and didn’t feel any satisfaction like I knew what I was doing.
I’ll practice some more but at this point I really don’t like the zone mode. It feels more like straight up death match and it can end way too quick. One round our team won in what feels like a minute and again, I didn’t really understand why. I don't like the mindset of it either, that you can lose quick, walk away with nothing, and ruin your rank. It feels bad, whereas the normal turf war is still fun even when I lose. I love how Turfwar is completley stat-less and carefree. If I try a new weapon out and get last place 50 times in a row I couldn't care less and it's fun.
For the life of me I cannot give up the Splattershot. I blow my money on so many guns only to come back to it. No other gun clicks like that one does and I don’t get it. I tried out the Aerospray thinking the rate at which it lays down ink would be awesome and the range wouldn’t be an issue. However the accuracy kills it for me. I tried out the new Zapper thinking it’s everything the Splattershot is but better, still performed worse.
The new map I kept getting killed by rollers and chargers holy crap. With so many hallways, rollers would turn the corner and plow me constantly. Chargers would sit on top of the moving forklifts and kill me. I even kept dying to other rapid fire users which I usually do pretty well at.
So then I tried Ranked battles and got destroyed. I would spawn, super jump, die immediately. Each round I must have died 15+ times and was probably no help to my team at all. I did manage to win some rounds and be top on my team, but I don’t understand why and didn’t feel any satisfaction like I knew what I was doing.
I’ll practice some more but at this point I really don’t like the zone mode. It feels more like straight up death match and it can end way too quick. One round our team won in what feels like a minute and again, I didn’t really understand why. I don't like the mindset of it either, that you can lose quick, walk away with nothing, and ruin your rank. It feels bad, whereas the normal turf war is still fun even when I lose. I love how Turfwar is completley stat-less and carefree. If I try a new weapon out and get last place 50 times in a row I couldn't care less and it's fun.
For the life of me I cannot give up the Splattershot. I blow my money on so many guns only to come back to it. No other gun clicks like that one does and I don’t get it. I tried out the Aerospray thinking the rate at which it lays down ink would be awesome and the range wouldn’t be an issue. However the accuracy kills it for me. I tried out the new Zapper thinking it’s everything the Splattershot is but better, still performed worse.
Yep. Same as it saying never stop painting. It's better to sometimes hold back and defend the hot zones
Saltspray Rig Splatzones:
the way this splat zone is set up is so hype
Just look at your points when you paint a wall, it doesn't go up. Walls are still important kinda though, height can be a big advantage, there's lots of ways to get up to places that people aren't expecting so it's easy to flank.
Agree as well. I think it would be better if there were multiple splat zones, or a progression from one end of the map to the other, a la TF2's CP mode. Then again, we are getting payload mode soon; should be great fun.
I just posted it on the last page.
Ye I like it because you have so many options to approach it.
hydragonwarrior
Member
This would make a fantastic e-sport once the following is known.
Ain't saying you can't pvp but forgetting to ink is bad since it's the goal of that game.
I'm not talking about the ranked mode.
Yes, it is confirmed and if you're looking for more advice talk to the cat in game
I'm not talking about the ranked mode.
Yes, it is confirmed and if you're looking for more advice talk to the cat in game
Especially with jump beacons
And it's pretty much required in Splat Zones.
At work and all I can think of is Splatoon. This game. Have the inkgirl amiboo waiting to be picked up too, which is awesome since I thought I would have to wait forever for a new shipment.
Finished the singleplayer yesterday and the last boss is one of Nintendo's finest hours. Just so good. And the credits. Hnnnng.
Finished the singleplayer yesterday and the last boss is one of Nintendo's finest hours. Just so good. And the credits. Hnnnng.
Vampirolol
Member
I know, some snipers are really good at that. I don't think that there's anything really wrong to do in this game, not even camping that can actually help during turf wars in some stages.
Yep, controlling the high ground overlooking the splatzone is key to victory, you control the towers, you win by knockout.
Ah, yeah, I see.
Well sooner or later, the Prima won't have the maps...then i'll be ready! spindashing
Banned
Same. I walked into work and my amiibos were delivered. I can't wait to go home and play.
I should definitely play with GAF, though. It seems like a good way to get gud. The problem is that my name appears as my real name and may confuse Gaffers. Can I change this easily?