Previous: >>562287434Official: https://splatoon.nintendo.com/Base: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/character/splatoon/en/Wiki: http://splatoonwiki.org/Booru: https://booru.inkgen.moeBuild analyzer: https://sendou.inkPool code: inkgen>News• Splatfest: Baby Chicks vs Li'l Bunnies vs Bear Cubs - 4/10-4/12• Version 11.0.0 patch notes: https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/59461/~/how-to-update-splatoon-3#v1100• Splatoon Raiders trailer - https://x.com/SplatoonNA/status/1932422840797524219• Fresh Season is on until 5/30>Media Accountshttps://x.com/SplatoonNAhttps://x.com/SplatoonJPhttps://x.com/SplatoonEU>Map Schedules and Seed Checkerhttps://splatoon3.ink/https://leanny.github.io/splat3seedchecker/#/>Gear, Weapons, and Collectableshttps://leanny.github.io/splat3/catalog.htmlhttps://leanny.github.io/splat3/database.htmlhttps://leanny.github.io/splat3/collectibles.htmlhttps://leanny.github.io/splat3/coop.html
collectin' splatfest conches
kaboomy
>>562890537
comm errorreopening
>>562891972any room left?
>>562892050we were 2/4 so yeah
i respect woomen
ggggggggggggggsssss R & G
>>562896345GGs
hehe wee~
what is /ink/'s stance on this
>>562898337
>>562899497I don't get it
>>562899772What kind of food is her head piece, Always looked like a mango to me
>>562898337What food is on shiver's head? Therr might be parallels.
>>562901319Spotted the tourist
If they paid an option to never get paired against Japs I'd buy it day one.
who else is playing cookie run kingdom x kpop demon hunters while listening to kpop
>>562904524I'm not a woman, no.
>>562904524Answer me >>562783568
>>562904572You're a kid now you're a squid now
>>562904524im playing turf war while listening to somehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4AE3ub4nBM
>>562906523Name? FC? Rank?
>rando frontliner on your team always swims to the front and attempts to 1v3>rando eliter on your team is always dogshit>rando brush never sharks around to get the kill>enemy team never has this problemwhy are they like this
>>562907006>rando frontliner on your team always swims to the front and attempts to 1v3I stopped doing this weeks ago.
>>562907006All me
>>562906595rolls
Holy shit its already 10 and I just got on. wtf is this time
>>562904991kpop and squidpop sound the same broit's just gibberish
Not even woomies can fix me anymore...
>>562909678Veemos.
>>562909763You may be on to something here.
Here I go being a shitter again. I love losing almost all my games because suffering is improving little by little despite the almost crippling sadness that comes from being stomped! And did I mention the losing streak!
gently but relentlessly rubbing veemos suction cups
No fatties allowed beyond this point
>>562911875I need that in visual form like.... Yesterday
>>562911328
>>562912352But woom.... It's 90%
i wish there was an option to disable the point-of-impact coloured crosshair and just keep the default infinite-range crosshair
>>562912719You are currently in Nintendo's lose bracket The losses will continue until woomying improves
>>562913124BUT I JUST GOT INTO XCAN A SQUIGGA CATCH A BREAK
>>562913180Not until woomying improves and or your finally get out the Nintendo lose bracket aka the FLAR bracket.
Well that's all I wrote.>>562913842Happy to report I won 3 games out of 8 and got 1 fist bump with a veemo.A lot of losses
>>562913842
>>562914242>1 fist bump with a veemoYou might be losing a lot but you got something nice out of it
reminder that flar is shitter cope
even top 10 people are shitters in 3 bro, we're playing in the dung pile
>>562914242veemo feet
I don't believe Splatoon uses engagement based matchmaking simply because I don't believe Nintendo is competent enough to implement such a thing, or up to date enough on online multiplayer standards to know that it even exists.
>>562918010true EOMM is pretty complex so I doubt that, but there's a lot of simpler systems that will work similarly such as per-session MMR that can run ahead of / behind real MMR to prevent long win/loss streaks, tilt protection (avoid giving very low winchance matches to players on loss streaks), etc. Nogami seems to have a knack for super-specific glickos (see splatfest power, x power per mode, anarchy power per rotation per team, series power, challenge power per team, ...) so I'd not be surprised if there's a bit of per-session MMR that can run ahead to force you to lose or win for cadence. Which imo isn't even a bad system, you want the matchmaking to match people who are currently at an equal skill, not "over the last 50 matches" at an equal skill, if someone's having a bad day you don't want them to fuck up everyone else
>>562913180if you just got into X, then by definition you're the worst player there, so yeah your first matches will be hell and you'll freefall in xp for a while until you improve I'd know I'm at 1100 now
Woomy in the dark...
when will they nerf painbrush
>>562918010nintendo's incompetence is not in their inability to implement it, it's in their inability to hide it
Almost lost my shit when maps changed after my 13th shift because I thought that was the end of the entire rotation.
>>562918010My man they have rolled out 5 or 6 patches for matchmaking.
blame everyone but yourself for losses and you'll never improve
>>562937425tell that to the company that rolls out a matchmaking change every other patch
>>562937425who do i blame for my hollow victories?
the woomy who cried flar
>>562937425Self improvement is a meme.
How God saved me from my Woomy addiction
>>562938984stop being such a defeatist
the only constant is you
>>562941321No.
>>562941523>the only constant is me>match results vary wildlyergo, matchmaking is SHIT
anyone wanna play some open?
>>562944297post your near perfect winrate in S2 thenshould be no problem if it's only the matchmaking's fault
>>562918010>>562931524>>562934925Game's been datamined enough to confirm that it uses the same dogshit matchmaking as the previous game, they just keep trying to tweak how weapons are distributed across teams in modes like Splatfest Pro and X Battle for whatever gay reason, and also broaden the matching in other modes so people get into games faster.
>>562945758you've been here for long enough to know that nobody's complaining about not winning, we all complain about every match being a washa 50% winrate where most matches come down to the wire vs 50% winrate where every single match one of the teams gets steamrolled are completely different thingss3 is the latter, and the latter fucking SUCKS
>>562946669this doesn't happen though
>>562947694sorry babygurl but even the ecelebs can't cope with their forced 50% winrates anymorehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRIJEvpZVtM
>ecelebscouldn't care less
>>562947694it doesn't matter if it's intentional or not, if matchmaking can not provide even matches, it is shitand splatoon 3's matchmaking objectively can not do so, ergo, it is shitwe are probably looking back at 2 with rose-tinted glasses and thinking it was better, but even if it indeed wasn't, all that means is that it too was shit, that does not make s3's matchmaking any betteryou might also look outside of splatoon and say that blatant unobscured ebmm is industry standard nowadays, but surprise, that doesn't make the situation any better either, they are shit if they do thatthe question is not why that happens or where the game stands overall, the question is how to not be shitit is that easyall the matchmaking has to do is not be shithow hard can that be?
>>562948370this issue has persisted since the game's conception and has only gotten worse over time because we've been exposed to it for a little over a decade now, even 1 was like the wild west4 needs to do something completely different with matchmaking, a total overhaul is required, not suggested
>>5629483702 went to shit alot slower because the player base wasn't spread out over multiple modes there were only three modes of play in 2, salmon, turf, rankedmeanwhile in 3 we've got salmon, turf, series, open, x-rank the player base is spread out over 5 different game modes at any given time
RAIDERSNOW
>>562949054you forgot two separate x-ranks for no reason
>>562950021oh right, but they definitely weren't added for no reason
>>562950021Nu-uh, clearly there's a reason to it. They knew 99% of NA would never have a realistic chance at the top badges so in their infinite kindness they have us filthy gaijin a welfare division so we can get our phony top 500s (which japs promptly stole for themselves until they were forced into their own region).
X rank is just another S+ queue now actually, considering anyone with even negative S+ points can play X just because fuck you and fuck your match quality t. devs.
>>562953375good luck with that calliefren
the problem is twofold: first off the human mind sees a fair winrate as 70%, and second off improvement is always a process of two steps (in any skill), first comes vision (ability to see how shit you are so you can learn from it), then material improvement (ability to apply what youve learned in practice). you see this everywhere under many different names, ie in art you have "art high" and "art low". during the phase of getting vision, your selfimage deteriorates as your material skill isnt improving and to your vision is only getting worse in comparison. that's the hardest part, until you break through it by learning and applying, and then you get material improvements and rank goes up. but if the human mind doesnt like a 50% winrate where they cant overly contribute (because theyre the same as everyone else so it's essentially just matchmaking dice roll), then it feels bad with all these things compoundingthe only real answer is to try and see the process for what it is and to try and savor the moments of material improvement
>>562950252And then they went ahead and added new regional X Badges
>>562954395I don't have all the colors unlocked, unfortunately. Might get some help where I can to build it.
>>562955135you're focusing too much on wins and not enough on contribution and closeness of matcheswins are meaningless if the game effectively forces you into officially sanctioned smurfing, or worse, puts you on the same team as an officially sanctioned smurf as an accessory
>>562946639why do people insist that matchmaking was better in s2 then
>>562959795The longer you're exposed to something the easier it becomes to point out flaws.We've been stuck with this exact system since 2017.
>>562955681>still hands out the old badges so the only ones still holding any weight are the top 10 and top 500 tako ones
>>562937425>blame myself>still dont improve Well?
I must sacrifice this woom to get better, but I don't know if I have the strength to do it.
How can you improve if you don't play a lot?
>>562964675Time played doesnt equal skill.
and my first reaction isn't "oh my cod he said the- he said the word", it's "now how is a squigga gonna borrow a tacticooler? squigga is you gonna give it back?"
>>562965827Can you lend a squigga a Snipewriter?
>>562964675im ngmi i think
raiders news neversplatoon 4 neversalmon run third wave never
>>562968074Nate said this summer.
Squids are reclining.
how many people even play tentakek clam blitz, like 6k?
>>562968137better beswitch 2 only has air riders so far
>>562969436>Air Riders dead game lmao, mogged by MKW
>>562969436Drag x drive, Welcome Tour, Metroid Prime 4, Bananza, Pokopia
>>562970483jesus nintendo needs a new direct yesterday
>>562969686>MKWmid and overpriced>>562970483>Drag x driveunderbaked>Welcome Tournot a game>Metroid Prime 4bad>Bananzabad>Pokopiamineslop pokeslop cozyslop
>>562970872>>562970483idk which one of these posts is a bigger bait.
>>562970872bananza wasn't bad though
>>562969686More people playing doesn't mean it's better. MKW was super underwhelming. Between the piss poor kart balancing (all of your rooms are going to be light/feather weights and if you do see a heavy weight it's a bowser in a reel racer), the ranked system sucks ass and basically stops for anyone not try harding at 8000-8500 points since you're expected to always come in the top 4 to continue gaining points and despite this the ranked system doesn't mean fucking shit, the game still slaps players of all ranks into any match which makes you wonder why it even exists (besides to piss off the player when they have a streak of bad luck). When I realized I had to tryhard like everyone else if I wanted to continue climbing I just stopped playing. Objectively Kirby Air Riders is the better designed game.
>>562973394Air Riders is barely a game outside of City Trials, Mario Kart is simply better because it's good at being a racing game.>kart balancingthe gameplay is fun and probably the most fun in the series with the trick system, also let's not act like Air Riders isn't broken either with its balancing>ranked sucks assand Kirby is any fucking different? atleast you can find other players in MKW, in Kirby you find one or two other guys and the rest are bots lmao. I regret the purchase more than I do ZA.
>>562970872i fucking hate pokemon and even i can admit that pokopia is a great game.
>>562972439bananza is better than splatoon 3 (true and real)
woomymon champions
>>562972093All of those games are switch 2 exclusive.
>>562974565you've got really shit taste in video games
>>562974801yeah but dragxdrive is a tech demo and welcome tour is a bunch of tech demos in one so i would not count those and neither is mp4 (it's a switch 1 game)agreed with pokopia and bananza though, those are fantastic sytstem seller games. kinda funny that nintendo is experimenting more with switch 2 in terms of their big hitter IPs.bananza instead of 3d mario, pokopia instead of new gen, a spin off splatoon game, a sequel to a niche kirby game e.t.c. they're definitely not playing it safe for the first year.
>>562972439Bananza has a movement model so shitty that it's hard to believe the Super Mario Odyssey team made it, and the entire game is just breaking and throwing chunks of the environment around until you empty the level out and go on to the next levelit doesn't even manage to be a good collectathon because there's like 2 types of things total to collectit's an abysmal game>>562974586please note i specifically did not say pokopia is badit's slop, but it's good if you like those slop genres
>>562976019what is slop if not bad
>>562976364slop is sloplike how monster energy is slop but i still like it
>>562976448monster energy is not slop but it is bad
>>562976019>hating bananzawhy should i take your opinion seriously
>>562976019t. person who didn't play it and unironically got angry at the candy gradient fur palette
>>562977992i did play it, and i actually quite like its visualsbut in terms of gameplay and gamefeel, bananza is to odyssey as sonic crossworlds is to mario kart
>>562978585>but in terms of gameplay and gamefeel, bananza is to odyssey as sonic crossworlds is to mario kartthat's probably the meanest thing you can say about itbananza is a unique game and it does a lot good and i can see some people put off by it, but straight up claiming it's bad is delusional
>>562978915it's not a bad game in a vacuum, sure, but it's absolutely a bad flagship first-party Nintendo platformer and it deserved to be much better
>>562979504At some point you need to accept that you're just part of an extremely small minority, most people thought the game was phenomenal. Odyssey gets similar flak and that doesn't make it any less of an amazing game.
>>562980307popular doesn't mean good and odyssey doesn't have the same problems nor severity of problems as bananza
>>562980614I never talked about popularity, Pokemon is popular despite not receiving critical acclaim from fans in recent times.DK Bananza is widely regarded as a great game, you're not the arbiter of truth.
>>562980802>DK Bananza is widely regarded as a great game, you're not the arbiter of truthneither are the people who bought itdunno why you keep bringing up its popularity
>>562981116retard.
>>562981221shit taste
>>562974565>Mario Kart is simply better because it's good at being a racing game.do you really want me to lecture you on why mayo kart is not a better racing game than anythingdo you really
banana dick is a decent game but fuckers talk and sing too muchyou have to play on mute to not die of cringe
that's great and all but where are the woomies?
>>562981614do you happen to play splatoon with kpop
>>562981464I dont need the ramblings of a schizo that doesnt know anything about mario kart.
>>562983878i might not know as much about mayo kart as people who religiously play mayo kart, but i know a LOT about racingand not just games too
>>562981464mario kart is decent though, it's just that MKW is expensive and shoehorns everyone into knockout races by making every other mode a downgrade from previous mario karts
>>562988738a racing game where you can't go faster than you can handle is not a racing gamehas never been, will never becall it a cruising game, like euro truck simulator (unironically more fun than mayo kart btw)
Short open?
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH TOMODACHI LIFE NEEDS TO COME OUT NOW AAAAAAAAAAHHHH
>>562994548Play Pokopia instead.
>>562994649>not actually big open area but a bunch of smaller areas because they can't program world chunks>Ugly unbreakable backdrops that you have to build around>incredibly annoying footstep noises>progression is locked behind real world time with nothing to do in between>no room to actually customize because everything is pre-built for you. giving the brainlets a sense of accomplishment even though they barely did anything>the classic ripping off successful games without realizing what actually made them successful>literally no one that actually likes Pokopia hasn't already played Animal Crossing and is just subconsciously imagining that instead, else they're just a mindless pokemon consoomer>+more I probably missed
>>562994548will you be putting /ink/ers on your island, anon?
>>562995259>game key card>music is repetitive>too many kanto pokemon as usual>habitats make no sense and literally no way to know what they are without buying their guide>live service elements>animations are way too long>constant framerate drops
>>562995349I have priorities, like myself, my gf, and miku, then going to add all my OCs and some friend's OCs, and then if I have room I'll add some select /ink/ers with their permission.
>>562994548seriously can't wait, I have grand yuri ambitions
>>562996770me too, my island roster is comprised almost entirely of girls.
>>562995259Some stuff is true, some are just opinions and some are just aren't true or can be bypassed.>Ugly unbreakable backdrops that you have to build aroundOnly thing unbreakable in by the end game is a Pokemon center and even that can be removed and placed somewhere else.>progression is locked behind real world time with nothing to do in betweenDate skipping.>no room to actually customize because everything is pre-built for you. giving the brainlets a sense of accomplishment even though they barely did anythingKits serve as a starting point for people. They aren't the only options.>literally no one that actually likes Pokopia hasn't already played Animal Crossing and is just subconsciously imagining that instead, else they're just a mindless pokemon consoomerThe last good animal crossing was new leaf>habitats make no sense and literally no way to know what they are without buying their guideThe game tells you how to make habitats.>live service elementsSplatoon?>constant framerate dropsThey're rare. >game key cardThe only real reason to avoid the game.
>>562994548>tranny game
obsessed
>>562997483
>>562964196She can escape at any time
>>562999667Joining
>>562999667Me.
>>562999667I'll play in 10 mins or so.
>>563000323Just let me know when and ill reopen
>>563000664Open up when you can.
lol
squids reign supreme
GGs open
GGs openers
GGs open.
GGs opens.
GGs
>guy swims through my ink to kill me while dodging all the explosions of a torpedo at point blankThis game sometimes.
>>563004817Hacks?
>>563004817Its a bad sign when you can't tell if something like that is hacks or just good old your playing a JP player using McDonald wifi.
>sh not on my teamGonna be like pulling teeth again.
is there any point in saving shell out tokens until the last day of the splatfest?
>>563013704no
>>563014217why your squid is black
Wow, I forgot how beautiful the hubs are in the sunset, haven't seen that since GrandfestWell it is time for me to try and get better
Woomy sounds>>>/wsg/6125354
>>563018137I can listen to that... all day
>>563011373Good woomy
>>563015083Full of black ink
>>562995749KantoSAGES putting entitled DSzooms on suicide watch as usual
>>563018137I needed that
>>563015083big black cephalopod
>>563018137MORE
When’s the last time you looked at your locker
That's all for tonight!Out of 14 games, I won 7, 2 series were won and I'm sitting at 1358.7 power.That was fun. Feel better about zones than clam blitz from yesterday.Growing little by little. Need to work on my aim, I'm shakey.
woomy do you even know what a low taper fade is
>>563024392Woomy!
well, first time going 3-0maybe splatling is an easy way to get carried
>>563024973Good job, squigga.
>>563026368They're doing this to me tomorrow
>>563026934
It's okay, you don't need to wake up.
>>563035619Id like it a lot if I could die in my sleep tonight.
>>563042343just put the clam in the basket lil bro
>splatfest coming up>decide to play a game>get placed on a team with two hydras against a team with zero back liners>just afk to dodge the 10 minute penalty and then turn off the gamehaha man it's so hard to figure out why this game died so quickly
>>563047430>decide to play the game>don't actually play the gameretarded afkfaggot
>>563047430>not becoming a janitor for the super hydra bros and slowly but steadily pushing the enemy all the way to their spawn
>plays for chaos>gets mad that 3's a messcouldn't be me
Do chaosfags regret their choices yet
>>563053864we got 3, orderfags got side order. we both lost unless raiders is good, then we won.
>>563054323as an orderfag, i liked side order
>>563054323>muh raidersEven if it's good it's still a single player game that you'll clear in 20-30 hours (imagine if it's shorter than that lmao) and then you'll be forced to go back into the Splatoon 3 mines for another 2+ years. Assuming they were working on Splatoon 4 along side Raiders (imagine if they weren't).
>>563055002I'm not worried about game length as much as I am replayability (side order sucks in both aspects), they need a satisfying gameplay loop that isn't reliant on endless resource collecting and minecraft shit, which is my fear currently
>>563055839after the disappointment that was slide border, i have negative hopes910's output in general lately has been blunder after blunder
it's woomy effective!
>>563057868This confirms my post on games being on july 2nd and 30th.Splatoon Raiders is July 30th by the way. Fire Emblem is later in the Summer
>>563055002>you'll be forced to go back to the Splatoon 3 mines for another 2+ yearsor i could... play something else?
>defends a game he doesn't play
>>563058024would they really release two first parties in one month? rhythm heaven is a bit of a smaller release but still
>>563058176you already do
>>563058307i've played this game for 4 years, i can take a break after raiders.
>>563058176a game that fails to retain its audience or provide value to returning players is an objective failureif someone suddenly finds himself with a craving for woomy game, the only options are dead game and bad (possibly also dead) game
not really
>>563058310Yes.
>>563058901>missile spam and 99.9>cooler and painting backlinesboth active woomy games are diametrally opposing flavours of assleft buttock and right buttockand we're stuck in the middle
>>563057868fuuuuckkkk my wallets not gonna be able to take a break ever
>>563059413I want to be stuck between woomy buttocks
>>563062359No you don't it's stinky
>>563063452and sweaty, and warm
>>563063452no stinkier than any other part of woomythe problem is that between the buttocks is woomy's siphon, and it's baisically a power washer that shoots ink at rocket pressures, it can and will put a hole straight through you shall she want to do so
Woomy woomy!
>>562988738nah regular racing is good now, people found fun shortcuts
1king fish?
>>563074048was about to ask too, im down
>>563074232Opening.
>>563051632>/ink/ is one person
ggs 1kinger
gggggggs slom!!
