I went ahead and played a couple of Testfire rounds the other day. Of course, I didn’t slaughter the newbies. I played as sloppily as possible, going so far as to just sit somewhere high up watching what was going on and not doing anything for more than half the match. Most beginners don’t know how to climb up walls, apparently, so I was pretty safe. Wrote down some of the highlights:
- I stood in front of a Roller who was just standing there in humanoid form, doing nothing. They threw a Suction Bomb at me and then walked away.
- In Walleye, from the top of the mid crates, I shot a single bullet at a Splattershot Jr. who was standing nearby. They kept standing there for a few seconds before finally aiming at me and shooting. I was able to run away pretty easily.
- From the same place, I did the exact same thing to a Roller who had pulled out their Killer Wail. They very slowly turned in my direction and set off the Killer Wail right at me. Again, I was able to flee no problem.
- I witnessed a Splattershot Jr. run up the tarp in Walleye, all the while dutifully shooting at the ground.
- Saw a teammate Super Jump to my ally and then proceed to just walk around shooting at the ground.
- I saw a Roller spamming squid form in enemy ink. I don’t think they were squidbagging or partying, they genuinely didn’t know how to get out of their predicament. I stood right in front of them, at which point they could have splatted me very easily, and they ignored me and rolled away.
- I saw someone swim straight toward a rolling Roller (in plain sight), with the outcome you would expect.
- I watched a Roller teammate follow an enemy Roller all the way to our spawn. Once the enemy Roller hit the spawn, they obviously bounced off of it and somehow ended up trading with my ally.
- I rolled right behind an enemy Roller in Saltspray Rig’s bottom area, stopping when they stopped (oftentimes getting stuck in ink with their tank empty). At no point did they try to splat me.
- Had a couple of mutual Roller squishings.
- So, so many Rollers needlessly painting over their own ink.
- Had some fun jumping over Rollers as well. I remember back during the days of the Global Testfire; people kept saying Rollers were OP, and I was mindblown when I read you could just jump over them.
- A Charger had seen me on the crates in Walleye, and they tried really hard to splat me, but I kept jumping back and forth between the two highest crates. This went on for at least half a minute.
- I came across a couple of people who obviously had played the game before and were slaughtering newbies, including someone who splatted me and then proceeded to squidbag. I splatted them, squidbagged back, and unfortunately got caught by another opponent (and then I got booted from the game, but that’s another story).
- For the most part, I didn’t get more than one or two splats per game, and if I did it was only to defend myself or to take down newbie slaughterers.
- I had fun glitching Splat Bombs on the left crates of Walleye when I was using the Splat Charger. Nobody else cared about it though. :( And I did try to draw hearts, but they kept getting inked over.
- I had a couple of moments where muscle memory took over and I splatted people without meaning to. One time I rolled a Splat Bomb at someone and immediately regretted it. With the Charger, I panicked and accidentally splatted someone who was coming after me instead of running away.
- Overall, the matches didn’t seem to sway in the opponents’ favor when I did nothing, for some reason. There were a lot of disconnects, of course, so that might have been why.
Needless to say, I was laughing pretty hard at a couple of these. I dunno if the Testfire is still on, but I encourage you to check it out if you can. It’s pretty fun to see how far people have come since Splatoon’s beginnings.
Also, another thing of note: they didn’t bother updating the Testfire with the most recent patches, so KIller Wails sport their old look and you can throw four Burst Bombs per full tank again.
I don’t get what you mean by using a mirror.
Did you just reflect the TV screen into it and play while looking at it to add some extra challenge?
