I think they could manage to do two a week. Or if they were going to do one a week, it would have been nice to start with all the vanilla version of weapons that were in the first game.
Atleast they appear to be giving us all the vanilla versions first before doing any alts. The Rabid Blaster Pro, Range Blaster, Sloshing Machine, Hydra Splatling, and Bamboozler should be next in line if they continue this bar the new weapon types.
LOL, yeah, Goo Tuber is just plain bad. I sometimes wonder what Nintendo is thinking with these new weapons. I think they imagine a "fun" concept but don't think it through.
Still not an excuse to not feel betrayed by NoA during that time. :P
THIS!!! We need this! We need it right now!
I'll take the rapid pro, but if they can skip right to the pro deco, I'll be very appreciative. They won't, but it's like buying a lottery ticket. You buy it for the dreams -- not because you think you'll win.
Legit, if there were an ability where nobody could superjump to me without a ninja jump, I'd probably wear it.
If they give the squiffer a good charge hold then the goo tuber can show itself the door. That thing really needs some kind of buff, it's an interesting idea with such unfortunate execution
Stealth Jump was nerfed hard enough to basically not even exist, unfortunately.
They've also released a different weapon class each week, so if they continue the pattern we should be getting either the Hydra Splatling or the Sloshing Machine next week (unless they consider the Blaster a completely separate class now).
Except in TC. Got to keep those chain tower jumps going.
How did they nerf stealth jumps?! I've been using that ability often! If it's not great anymore I'll swap it for something else.
I don't know, ELiter and ELiter scope already give us two chargers with mines. (and I'm not happy about it), I'm not sure a third one would be a wonderful addition. Fresh Squiffer would be awesome with sprinkler, or toxic mist and Tentamissiles or baller. I'd give it burst bombs but if we get those on a bamboozler instead again since goldie was a thing, I'd stick with that.
Is it really okay? The range of a squiffer, the charge time of an eliter, and a stealth gimmick that deprives you of stealth. IMO Sheldon selling this thing tells me Octavio may have been messing with those goggles of his.
Whether I'm playing as a blaster or with the jet squelcher, I usually play an anchor role in tower so I can clear the tower if the team gets on, but also act as a safe super jump point. I only jump on the tower when it seems really safe because team wipes are just a death sentence in tower.
Read the fine print on the ability. You might have missed something.
Except now there's no added delay to your jump, and the distance that it works at is about that of the .96 gal. That's hardly a straight nerf, you just can't invisibly jump right into the middle of combat with it, it has a use in protection against snipers and people rushing to attack the marker they see.
Yeah. Usually if I'm not playing eliter in TC I'm kind of frantic on-off the tower to help speed it up. And when I play splatterscope I love nonstop planting bombs on the thing :P Heck half the time with eliter I get roped into riding the tower :P
I did see that but overall it still seems effective. You don't get that mad dash to splat the spawner, and I'm not a huge SJ user, I rarely SJ unless I know it's safe, or if I'm SJ'ing blind to the tower rider just to keep the chain going, or near the RM as a last ditch escort return. (Or Beacons....but who really uses those in S2?! By the time you put the cursor on one you could have swam there! :P ) Though it does make dodge roll SJ sound practical.
The thing about beakons and sprinklers is that they aren't meant to be dropped in the middle of combat anyway. So having enough ink to throw in some pot shots isn't exactly needed or appropriate.
Beakons have an uphill battle in this game already sadly. With the higher emphasis on combat, and more people being splatted, they will see the beakons sooner when looking at the map. And the greater visibility and structure of the maps in this game (so far) make it harder to hide them well. It doesn't help that in the time it takes to plant 1 beakon, and get your ink back, you could be doing more to help your team ink more ground or move forward. Or you get splatted by the person you just splatted 20 seconds ago because they are already back in the middle ready for vengeance.
Yeah, I'm hoping future maps are more beakon-friendly, beakause at the moment it feels like the only maps where they would be useful are the ones that return from splatoon 1. The splatoon 2 maps seem so much more dense and centralized, and usually don't take v long to get to the center. So why would you risk a jump to a beakon when you could just drop down a couple of ledges and get to where you wanna be anyway? I'm sad, since I loved the octobrush with beakons in the first game, and now using beakons doesn't seem as helpful or rewarding.
Yeah, beacons seem REALLY useless. Everything you said here makes them kind of weak. Granted, all the old maps are coming back so the hiding places will return, but with these new maps in the mix it still negates a lot of chances to use them. I was a HUUUGE beacon user in S1 even before beacons were cool, with the eliters. I ran an SJ build (thus the strawboater hat in the pic) and would jump from beacon to beacon to spawn constantly. Just trying to jump TO my beacons is so annoying in this game it seems useless on the map. I wish they'd implemented "press Y, hold left trigger, to bring up beacon navigation menu" so you could use beacons like jumping to teammates but you have to hold trigger to toggle between team/beacon list on the dpad.