Although they've flushed out the problematic Special Charges like Tentatek's Inkzooka or Dynamo's everything, there will be more specials in general.
Better inking capabilities, faster Inkstrike and less special loss when you die. This will make the N-Zap 89 an insane Turf War weapon.
Better inking huh?
Deathmatching. Using it as a dedicated killing tool, basically.
It's a pretty small buff. 50% is a large increase percentage-wise, but its current movement speed is so low that it'll be hard to even notice unless you're using it.
Someone on the splatoon reddit page made a handy chart of weapon strafe speeds. The jet strafe speed is equal to the .96, but after the buff, the strafing will be equal to the dual squelcher and .52 gal.
Imo the specials were intolerable as it was. If the specials are even MORE abused this might well lead to me putting the game down for good. It was BARELY tolerable before. And in particular bomb rushes and bubblers. They were overused and broken. If they're used MORE now, the game will be flat out broken. This is a very sad day for Slatoon :(
Isn't that what the burst bomb mains were using it as before? Doesn't that make it worse?
Yeah....I really REALLY don't know what their thinking is. Im not sure if it's about "lets remove anything but midrange shooters and make guns solely about charging specials because reasons" or "We want people to stop playing Splatoon so they buy NX after it's announced in 2 months, so let's make it as unfun as we can"
The difference between the old and new versions is essentially that the old version was far more spammable, but the new version is a bit more powerful.
Splatling damage isn't affected by charge. Charge only affects the duration of the burst and the range of your shots (range only increases up to the first ring, though). The new Hydra Splatling will get higher damage once the second ring fills (which is full charge)
Im partly happy, partly unhappy about that. Some things like the TTK meta had to go. But undoing things that people spent a lot of time learning, so late in the games cycle is kind of dopey.
How often do you fire from max charge? I haven't used the Hydras too extensively but I feel unless I'm behind a corner waiting I don't wait until max charge but the first ring of charge before firing or even earlier if the enemy is close. This thing just charges so darn slowly, and with the unwarranted swim speed nerf I'm kinda wishing the extra damage came into play at the first ring.
and I finally got a good roll on them and put together a decent set for e-liter, only to find out that all my rerolling has done is bring the amount of burst bombs back to 2.6.0, at the cost of 2 mains. There goes that set. At least I can use them with .
I honestly didn't like the Hydra Splatling since it didn't give much benefit over the Heavy at a high cost. That said, at least there's a reason to use it after the patch (and go for full charge on top of it), as I believe it'll make the Hydra Splatling the fastest splatting weapon in the game (aside of weapons capable of one-shot splats). It shoots faster than the Sploosh and splats in the same number of hits
It depends on the map really. When it comes to larger maps like Camp Triggerfish and Piranha Pit, I'm usually fully charging the Hydra because there's a lot of space. It gives more time to charge the Hydra and figure out where to aim. Smaller maps like Blackbelly give more of an issue because it's easier for the enemy to get in your face much quicker. So it's rarer to find a Hydra who will fully charge on a small map unless their team is in complete control. Fully charging does have its benefits. When the Hydra is fully charged, I can easily take out three people in a single charge and this buff could help me take out all four enemies if they're close enough together. I'm often coming across teams packed together far more than I probably should haha. :P
The dual squelcher wasn't nerfed. It got a buff like a bunch of other weapons where it loses less special upon death. and the tentatek got the opposite where it loses much more special upon death.>All my mains get nerfed (Dual Squelcher, Splatterscope, E-liter)
>Tentatek remains mostly unchanged
*sigh*
Just when I felt like I was becoming competent with the E-liter, too. Oh well, I guess the Splatterscope was always my favorite charger, anyways. I feel like the E-liter being hit from literally all sides was too much, but whatever. I'll still play it, in TW for fun, that is.
I don't know how I feel about the cold blooded/echolocator thing. I've always ran cold blooded paired with echo, so having both nerfed is so... weird. I don't know if I should keep using both, or only use one, or what.
I was hoping that I could find a balance between Special Duration Up, Swim Speed Up, Ink Saver Main, Ink Saver Sub, Ink Recovery Up, and Damage Up to take the E-liter at least closer to my current fit, but no matter how I look at it, it's nerfs are too great.
I'm just really bummed the only thing i'm getting from this update is nerfs, and it seems that the one weapon that i'm good at that i've been reluctant to use because of it's OPness is unchanged. I mean, I kinda like the splash, I guess, so i'll give that a try.
I'm just hoping that the 20% reduction isn't as much as it seems in game. Hopefully 6% is enough to offset it, but c'mon. Six percent? Ugh, i'll stop spitting salt onto this post now.
EDIT: I just remembered (because I forgot for some reason) what annoyed me the most. When they buffed Ink Saver Sub, I started rerolling my
