Not very ideal to make a claim based upon one's track record, more or less on a forum where it's like up to 1% of people who plays this game. Even with the updates ending next year, I wouldn't be surprised if they change the Splatfest result system once more to disrupt the pattern. So, I wouldn't recommend people following my observation to heart.
LOL, figures, every time I've played a splat fest, Marie is green (and most of the time I tend to like Marie's theme better but would rather play Callie's color!) Burger was an exception for me - I like green more than orange, and like both foods, so I had to pick the one that gives the title of "Burger King" just for giggles. :D
I think your matchmaking experience does sound similar to mine unfortunately. I played Friday night, Saturday afternoon, and Saturday night. Friday night had the big disparity we both saw. Saturday afternoon (across several lobbies) had the same issue until I got a 2 really good lv40-50 players on my team that carried us through a string of wins. They left when we finally lost one. But the time I got the good team is around the same time you got better matched teams. And Saturday night was the worst of the bunch, every lobby I went in was this huge disparity. In the afternoon I probably played 20 rounds and won 15. Saturday night I played probably 30 rounds and lost 20-25. Most of them very badly. Several of them spawncamped so bad I didn't even crack 400p and ended up with +1pt. I made King 10 minutes to midnight! I felt like I was just thrown into S-rank TC. I'm thinking maybe the Team Nice kiddies were sent off to bed and I was left with the Mountain Dew & Dorito crowd on Naughty (Do they even buy Nintendos?) :p
This is definitely what I came across. I played for the hour and a half I could on Friday night (west coast, Friday shift ended at 10 PM), and I won 2 matches total. I hoped Saturday would be better, but the win rate was about the same. If we were up against another Team Nice, however, we would invariably stomp them. It made me wonder about just how bad some other matches must be if we were getting crushed against most Team Naughties but were crushing other Team Nices.
Why is that? Is it that it's considered cool to be bad?
Fortunately it seems not all of us had such a bad experience. But good to know I'm not alone. I didn't go up against tea nice more than once, and honestly I don't even remember the results of that one! I was so miffed at the string of losses. You don't want to know how bad some of them were. Spawn camps were the rule rather than the exception. I mean it happens sometimes if a team gets a solid lead, but it just doesn't normally happen THAT often!
"Sega Does What Nintendon't" - if you remember the 90's console wars. Yep, "bad" and edgy is "cool" - it's why the 13 year olds play the M rated shooters, and us older folks are playing cute & colorful Splatoon ;)
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You know those times when Marie just glares at Callie, and you KNOW she's thinking how much she wants to charge up her charger right now? The rest of us are glaring at you that way right now :p
I don't think you understand, both burgers and pizza are popular foods in the united states with foreign origins, while pizza may be more so at the moment, burgers are still well cherished.
This is off topic but you fought someone named Mr.Creeper lmao
Oh, I understand the ideas of the themes, and what they intended, and I don't mean that burgers or pizza aren't popular. My point is it's kid of like having a theme of "Team Video Games vs. Team Historical Fiction Novels", for the theme of "what pastime do you enjoy on a summer weekend?" Both are entertaining passtimes, both are popular, but one is more popular and especially for the crowd in question. It's not that the theme or question of marshmallows vs hot dogs was bad, but it was going to have a hard slant. That one's just a minor grievance. Burgers v. Pizza was guaranteed to have a massive slant and it did. The question wasn't bad, but choosing battle teams based on a food that is presently going to be a pick by more people (vegetarians included after all), and pizza is associated with parties, video games, and kids more than burgers (heck Best Buy had that REALLY weird promotion for Xenoblade X where you got a gift certificate for pizza....it's THAT closely associated with gaming.) So when you ask gamers which food to choose, and one is "gamer food" and the other is not, you're probably going to get skewed results. I'm not saying NoA did something wrong, I'm just saying they should consider how the choice could affect team distribution in ways other than personal preferences and not fracture the size/ability of the teams by too much. Naught or Nice, like Pizza, the more "hardcore" gamers were likely going to side with the one option more than the other. Even if the teams were 50/50 in popularity that choice was likely to pull the better players to Naughty.
Wow, so I basically got paired up with people who cannot ink out of a wet paper bag and matched against the best of the best? What does that say about this game's revamped matchmaking system? Does it think that I am so good, I can hold the team up against four elite players and carry three beginners to victory? (Then again, some of the levels of my teammates suggest they are not beginners at all.)
While initially running to the middle ground isn't a bad idea, since you can establish map control, it is when they focus more on killing that it does get annoying. It is extremely frustrating when you have teammates that use weapons that can cover turf fast but don't do that, especially if you're using a weapon that has poor turf coverage. If I encounter this after a while, I start to use weapons with good inking and killing potential.
You get those people who are good at bunkering down and holding an area from the other team. They're in charge of spooking the enemies away while the rest of the team does their thing. If I ever find myself in this situation, I usually play very safe and never be as aggressive as I usually would. It's better to keep the middle ground and win by 10% then by going all ham, getting splatted, and ending up losing hard.
Yeah, that's what I mean: They have zero interest in inking except as a means to get to the opponents faster. They are treating it as neither a Turf War or a Ranked Battle, but rather, a deathmatch, only they also don't realize that the more of your ink you have around you, the better you can hide or maneuver around. They seem to think they can run up to an opponent and splat them.
LOL, ouch. At least I can understand someone in that position. Lvl3, just got the game, hasn't even seen ranked yet, just started playing online for splatfest, fresh from the solo campaign probably. Fun times. I can forgive a noob for being a noob. He'll learn. The lvl23 that goes 0/11, last in inked I can't forgive. And I've seen more than one. I could even understand a disconect or real life interfering and being afk, frustrating as it is. But you don't get killed 11 times being afk. That requires actively seeking to get shot.
Yeah, I saw that too. There was definitely a deathmatch mentality the whole day. I see that often, but it was very pronounced during splatfest. Most of my main weapons at this point, aren't great inkers (all chargers, luna, sspro, etc.) and it's exceedingly frustrating when I'm the only one inking - the slowest on the team. Using these types of weapons I do try to be the one taking the short path - not to get to "fighting" but to get to center (or a sneaky camp site just inside enemy turf) - and expect the inkers on the team to fortify turf behind me. Instead I find them off to the side getting splatted (and super jumping to me getting splatted again) I have to go back and ink. I have to come back with an ink weapon. And then I have the same problem as you. I take time to i
Yeah, I usually run to mid, and, if I have a weapon that paints sraight lines, paint a traversal grid through the paths of mid for the team. Then the team ignores it and just goes ahead killing Then mid is lost, and in some maps, that's the game right there. And since MOST of the weapons I use aren't reat at inking, it becomes awful. It's bad in all modes but in splatfest that means that my weapon options become limited pretty much to aero, sploosh, nzap.
