Splatoon

Squid cousins
Fab
Squid cousins some more
Rain Check pg 3
INK JET PACK
Trying out new tentacle styles
Same as above
Human'd Clementine
And yet going out on the ocean would be a really bad idea
Moms
Starve a fever, send a squid to fight a cold

Last night, I not only got back up to B- Rank, but managed to reach B Rank!

Return of the Testfire...

edited 12th Feb '17 12:01:35 AM by NoLimit

HYPE :D

edited 12th Feb '17 2:58:50 AM by AceOfScarabs

Hope I have one by then.

Also, doesn't this mean that the game will be pretty early? The last testfire was only a short time before the first game came out.

edited 12th Feb '17 4:12:02 AM by edvedd

Time to wreck Rollers once more.

I'm feeling a little more confident that this will be out in June now. A Testfire already hopefully means that they've got almost everything ready and just need to balance and tweak things.

It would be nice for a Nintendo game to launch early in its release window instead of at the ass-end of it.

The Splatoon producer confirmed there will be no returning special weapons in 2 due to, in part, the new controls and the desire to "reset" the playing field a bit.

The new specials will be a combination of reworked old specials that were in the first game and new stuff.

Also, hairstyles and pants/bottoms are just for style reasons. They don't affect abilities.

edited 12th Feb '17 6:48:18 PM by NoLimit

Hey, sometimes that's all you need. I think people were slightly bummed that there weren't any purely stylish options in the first game, since you had to be concerned with stats and such.

I just want the ability to dress my Inkling however I want and not worry about abilities when doing so.

Well, now you kind of can.

I just want some pants, a decent pair of... what's that noise? Oh god it's the Over Used Joke Police! They're taking me away! AHHHHHHH!

In other news, I had the weirdest lag moment. Ok, so you know how when a match is about to start, you get a birds eye view of the map followed by you seeing both teams spawning in? Well, I had a moment where the birds eye view scene lasted longer than normal followed by the game starting the match just as my team was spawning in. I didn't even get to see the other team. Just, birds eye view and "GAME START! ...What do you mean your team is just now arriving?!"

edited 12th Feb '17 7:02:32 PM by OrionAurora

I'll be honest, I kinda wish they had gone with badges for the skills instead of keeping them tied to hats, shirts and kicks.

Make said badges show up as flair on certain tops and all that.

Still keeping my fingers crossed for coop play, or perhaps AI battling.

Local co-op via multisystem wireless play will definitely be a thing.

I'm hoping there'll be splitscreen co-op for the game when the console is docked, too.

I hope for single-cart download play (like spawn copy local multiplayer).

Okay, I just had the most ridiculous plat zone match ever. The final score? 87-91.

Do elaborate?

I... how did I win? My score was ~5x to my teammates' scores. I was sitting at ~1500p to everyone's ~300p.

It was a splat zone match on Piranha Pit and the teams were probably the most evenly matched than any other one I've been in. The match was probably three minutes in before anybody captured the zones, and it was swapping back and forth between the teams every few seconds. Like the longest duration that any one team controlled both zones was maybe like four seconds, tops.

It was just bizarre because I've never had a match that was that tightly contested and low-scoring.

edited 17th Feb '17 7:29:20 PM by JapaneseTeeth

That's awesome. I love seeing low-scoring games thanks to how well everyone is playing.

A comparison of Mario Kart 8's Urchin Underpass and character models.

Hey No Limit. Here's that Overwatch fan art you never asked for.

Yeah, it was a really fun match. Most of them tend to have large point swings at some point, so it was cool to have a match that was tightly contested the whole way through.