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Squid Savior From the Future
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For Ninja Squid, I love the ability, but I've found that I really only benefit from it on the heavies. Dynamo being a big one. With the fast weapons, I've found the extra swim speed up is nicer than the ninja. Sploosh, krak-on, carbon, and my speed-loaded tuber all seem to benefit from sharking and flanking RAPIDLY. Sure they see your splash, but it's hard to train on targets moving that fast. In the heat of battle a small fast moving target might as well be invisible. Meanwhile if I'm trying to position to camp quietly, moving slow (not quite the old waggle ninja, but just moving slowly in painted ink is, of course, just as invisible as ninja. And ninja isn't invisible if you hit a pocket of enemy ink or dry land.
The heavies, on the other hand benefit from it, because they have no way of moving "faster than human reaction" can account for so it hides them better. I still use it with krak-on sometimes because that's right in between in movement speed. But I've learned ninja sploosh isn't really any more ninja-ey than Sanic sploosh. :D Any player with a keen enough eye to notice where you are zipping around, has a keen enough eye to have detected a ninja squid, too.
My issue with point sensor is that I too often get false negatives. Echo Locator was useful because it was bullet-proof. It worked universally until the cold blooded meta picked up. Too many times with sensors, I waste a lot of ink throwing it, the radius LOOKS like it told me the coast was clear, but the enemy was apparently just off the corner of it and comes out and splats me anyway as I approach. I've learned it's not a very effective tool for flushing out hiding squids, and is a distant forth below the 3 bomb types of forcing them into the open, and I can't rely on the results and have to ink anyway (at which point using ink would have been a better bet.) Even Echo Locator became too unreliable after the cold blooded meta. I'll throw one out to help teammates now and again, but I've learned not to use them for me. Though I do also ink, a LOT with even weapons that don't ink a lot. And SMn isn't really a bad inker....it just has an odd inking pattern.
That's the thing, I never thought it was especially useful even in S1. :) Good point about the low visibility maps, but OTOH, there's too many areas where squids tuck nicely into corners that the sensor LOOKS like it covers, but apparently actually doesn't. But then I also try to paint flat smooth surfaces to move around in everywhere for my play style anyway, so I'm constantly painting rather than making straight lines to go kill through even with a Pro. But what I've learned is that with or without point sensors, charging into enemy solid ink is dangerous and stupid. I therefore constantly do it anyway.
But the various bomb types, and especially auto bombs, seem to be THE most effective tools for doing what point sensor claims to do, anyway. When a sensor is thrown, a squid may or may not be in it's path. When a bomb is thrown, they don't stay around long enough to find out :) Glad someone else thinks so. On a lot of maps I can never actually see the thermal outlines for stingray. Some maps are better than others. The Manta Maria is particularly difficult to see the outlines on for some reason, where musselforge is usually ok.
It occurred to me, I was thinking of splatting OPPONENTs bubbles, not my own! A full unload of a splatling does nothing. And 3-4 direct charger hits do nothing (which REALLY sucks...the bird flipping toward charger users continues....)
Sorry, I saw those words used in the same paragraph and stopped reading the rest of the post..... :p
Yeah the tight quarters in makerel mean that the enemy can't hide from the radius of it.....that's probably the only map that really works on. The corridors in Triggerfish used to be ok for it too. But not always.
