Splatoon

Yesterday I was utterly wrecking face in Turf War in the Kelp Dome. Then I went into ranked (Rainmaker), and I ended up suffering my first ever rank-down. I'm back at C+ now .

Yeah, that's going to happen. I've gotten booted out of ranks more often than I can count.

Shame to hear that.

Want to try brightening your day by squadding in ranked?

Also, for my pet peeve of today's splatting; to quote the Drinking Game page...

I had a teammate lay down not one, but two of them right near our spawn point in one match.

edited 9th Feb '17 3:27:53 PM by Lightblade

The Splatling returns

How near the spawn? Pointlessly near is one thing, a beakon on your home side can still be a good thing.

But I'm assuming like one second swimming distance away from it.

Yep. I was at Walleye Warehouse. One was on the floor right in front of it, within N-Zap shooting range of the spawn, and another was on the spawn point itself.

I've seen matches where people will put all three beakons on the spawn point. And these aren't noobs in turf war, this are S-rank matches. Seriously, why?

Probably because they don't think Beakons are useful, even though they totally are.

Waste of time, ink and oxygen.

Intelligently placed Beakons are amazingly handy, since they can allow your team to advance on two fronts or to allow you an escape hatch.

edited 9th Feb '17 8:34:19 PM by Pulse

Welcome to the hell side of ranked Ligthblade. Rank loss will be a typical experience, especially when you transition from each major letter grade.

As for beakons, I can buy the idea that someone forgot they had a different weapon. I've certainly done it. So, one beakon at spawn, not a big deal. But three at spawn? Bro... do you even Splatoon?

New stage, Musselforge Fitness

But why would there be a pool

Speaking of lifting, here's a new stage - Ack!

edited 10th Feb '17 3:34:36 PM by Lightblade

"Why is there a pool?"

Why is there an entire stage set on top of a pool? Inklings clearly love pools.

Must like swimming in their own death.

Maybe the pool is filled with something other than water?

When there's no Ink Battles going on, the pools are filled with clear ink.

The difference is subtle but vital.

Inklings can change colour freely.

Therefore public pools just use a designated colour for each day and are just filled with ink and outside of turf wars inklings just change colour whenever to suit their needs.

At least that's my boring opinion.

Spectator Mode confirmed, only for private matches though.

I believe you got your links mixed up. Unless North Carolina's lawmakers are somehow involved with Splatoon.

Srsly spooky

Yeah, all of the state's lawmakers play Splatoon with the Republicans playing E-Liters.

Actual video of spectator mode from Youtube, instead of a Twitter video.

I'm just amazed by the pun names.

Also, I just realized: Does this mean 9 Switches can hook together? Otherwise...how else would the 9th person control the spectator mode?

That's really cool. It would be nice to be able to watch random matches, but still.