Speaking of abilities, I have to take a moment to rail against the ridiculousness of being able to stack any ability with perfect shinies, but especially swim speed. Faced a sploosh in clam yesterday with every single slot but one sub loaded with swim speed. They could move 2-3x faster than anyone else and could even run down rolling inkbrushes. We basically couldn't leave the spawn area because there was no escape, flanking or anything. I get that "anyone can do it" but it really messes up the game when one player can move at Sanic speed to the point the match feels hacks are running due to stacked abilities and coupled with a high mobility weapon, the slower weapons can't really hit them at all. I was the only one taking him out ever only because I had Clash Blaster....but even that was near impossible. Got a crack for that too just as the rotation ended. Just like with DMG up in S1, there really ought to be limits on some of the stacking. Don't nerf the first 3 mains worth but after that it gets ridiculous, and since the majority of players don't have stacked shinies like that it's a "free" version of pay-to-win that those that grind a ton can play differently. Nintendo thankfully doesn't charge, but if EA influences the industry too much I can foresee Splatoon 3 using that system and offering a "shortcut" by paying Spyke/Murch/Pricky to bypass the grinding for only $4.99 to buy that shiny shirt of your choice....or $13.99 for the full shirt/shoes/hat set, making a legit pay to win when C- players all have shiny swim speed sets. The groundwork is there with the current system, they just need to add the credit card slot.
We've all been waiting for the squeezer for so long, and at least it's a fun new wep but now that I look at it I'm getting bad vibes of the tentabrella *brrr* Still, it can't be as big a letdown as the gloogas, right? Right? Back me up guys....
I imagine "3.0" will make glooga and tentabrella meta OP though. That's just now Splatoon 2 rolls. #justrollwithit
. Splatoon 2 is far from a solved game, as limited as the meta gets.
Green bucket? Check. Gold aerospray? Check. OHKO splattershot? Check. Nerfbaler, nefballer, nerfballer, nerfballer.
It's more useful for escape than approach. With combat-focused map designs and QR being worthless, being able to instantly leave a bad situation with a pure of QSJ does have value. Jump time to spawn + travel time is still better than 8.5 seconds out of the action. This is also useful for those people that like to jump to spawn to use tenta missiles or sting ray (not that I think that's the best idea).
QSJ makes for a good example because it DOES have applications, even if it's a matter of taste for most players.
I haven't used it much in S2, but yeah I used to run a QSJ kit with Celiter (back before it had a bubble blower....) and it was a blast shooting around the map. I've done it with dapple and it works ok (waiting for Sploosh Neo (which will always be OG sploosh to me!) still to make better use of that), and krakon. QSJ does have merit as a mobility build. I think there are two kinds of frequent super jumpers. Those that main weapons with beacons, and those that main quick respawn :p Most people just see QSJ as suicidally jumping to squad mates surrounded by enemies after they respawn, but the beacon lovers tend to use QSJ more tactically for escapes and beacon jumps. QSJ isn't useless, but mostly only if you're using beacons (or someone else is.) I don't mind abilities that are weapon-specific....there's a place for that. Maybe more of that would be cool actually.
With tentamissiles, especially nzap I do SJ back to spawn.....they getting 3-4 is so critical with that special it's kind of a waste not to. But not stingray....that doesn't really benefit much from the huge range if the enemies aren't near spawn, and it's hard to control at such range.
I’m ready for Mr. Squishy to be used for 2 hours after launch and disappear never to be seen again unless it gets a buff :p
Seems like it’ll keep the Splash Wall/Sting Day kit, which could be quite interesting all things considered, but I scarcely play the game anymore so it doesn’t matter for me lol. Also is anyone else experiencing major issues with Ballers now? On 2 occasions I saw someone lose their Baller, swim through ink (or run around in the case of the other), then heard an explosion sound and seen the Baller reappear frames before it blew up, resulting in my death. If that doesn’t scream bad netcode I don’t know what will, but I wouldn’t pay for Splatoon 2 online unless they actually bother to improve it because this seems to be getting worse rather than bettter.
I saw something like that back in August or September, but I haven't seen it recently. I've seen lots of teleporting and enemies that magically survive standing in the middle of my bomb blasts and then kill me. And the other day in clam I got a weird match where someone DC'd at the start, but then they were back, and then EVERYONE but myself and 2 enemy inkbrushes DCd. And then they were back. And then 1 inkbrush on either team was DC'd and that's how it ended.
Also, I got 'the connection is unstable" yesterday.......from the splat app on Android..... :p
