The August update will hit 8/6 next Thursday!

[Robotoboy20]

On the official Japanese twitter they've announced that the update will hit next Thursday! Also Urchin Underpass will be "under construction" between 8/3 - 8/5 for some reason meaning it will not be playable during that time.

Here's a link to an english article.

 

[TheMH]

Awesome, this makes my day :)
I played high stakes my summer vacation being from August 1 to August 23, so I'm very happy it's released that early. Couldn't be better at all for me.

 

[Grafkarpador]

Wait, out of all maps they're rebalancing Urchin? Not Arowana or Towers? I thought Urchin had a pretty good balance

 

[ShinyTogetic]

Well damn
that knocks my prediction date out of the window
but hey the earlier the better I suppose x:
and with Urchin getting a remodeling I wonder if other the stages will get this treatment in the future as well?

 

[Robotoboy20]

Wait, out of all maps they're rebalancing Urchin? Not Arowana or Towers? I thought Urchin had a pretty good balance

It's VERY easy to get locked into your base area. The entrances to the middle suck REALLY bad... any aggressive player can easily camp the opposing teams entrance into the middle because of those slopes... It also looks like they may be moving the trees. From the diagram in the under construction pic, you can see that the entrances to the middle are what will be retooled.

 

[Grafkarpador]

It's VERY easy to get locked into your base area. The entrances to the middle suck REALLY bad... any aggressive player can easily camp the opposing teams entrance into the middle because of those slopes... It also looks like they may be moving the trees. From the diagram in the under construction pic, you can see that the entrances to the middle are what will be retooled.

can't find the diagram, care to give a link?

 

[TheMH]

can't find the diagram, care to give a link?

It's right next to this thread: http://squidboards.com/threads/the-splatoon-devs-will-remodell-maps-so.3554/

 

[suavevillain]

Match making finally i can't wait.

 

[Pudding♥]

Awesome it arrives this early! Now just to find people to play with in teams/private lobbies hmm.....

 

[Scarlient]

the update has to have octolings

 

[Boolerex]

Get hype, lotas of hype

 

[gameonion]

The first details are out, holy **** I'm hype.

https://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/201..._medium=Nintendo+of+Europe&utm_source=twitter

EDIT: LEVEL CAP RAISED TO 50?! OH YES

 

[Tigurr]

Sounds like Rainmaker won't be coming next week, but later on. But we'll have plenty of other stuff in the mean time...can't wait!

 

[Sol64]

https://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/201..._medium=Nintendo+of+Europe&utm_source=twitter

I'm so hyped, cannot get more official than this.

LEVEL CAP increase and S+ Rank!!!

 

[Wadsm]

Did any reliable source confirm the date for western countries as well? I haven't seen an actual confirmation yet.

 

[gameonion]

Did any reliable source confirm the date for western countries as well? I haven't seen an actual confirmation yet.

https://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/201..._medium=Nintendo+of+Europe&utm_source=twitter

 

[suavevillain]

I'm so hyped lol i have wanted this forever man lol.

 

[Grafkarpador]

Did any reliable source confirm the date for western countries as well? I haven't seen an actual confirmation yet.

They're not going to split the player base by different game versions in different regions, especially after the game simultanously released and all of the post-release content got releaaed on the same day for every region

 

[Sol64]

Did any reliable source confirm the date for western countries as well? I haven't seen an actual confirmation yet.

Did you not click mine and/or gameonion's link?

 

[redacteddd]

We've confirmed the Famitsu contest winner's costume is international, which probably means the Ika Musame costume is.