Pearl sounds like she's looking to get smacked in the gob.
ackchyually did you know Super Mario Bros 2 is called Doki Doki Panic in Japan!??!?
Post comes across more salty than I want to but I really feel like the splatfests in general should end up in a draw if the popular vote is *that* skewed. I would of said this if my team won but it really doesn't feel fair that one side gets stuck in mirror match hell and doesn't get to properly contribute when it's *that* bad.
I'd expect an interesting PvE mode for Splatoon 2 because the first one had it. The second's entire final act is so bad.
I mean, it has the same thing 1 has (very literally) so not sure what you mean.
Octo Expansion fucking kills it tho
While I don't feel screwed this month because I have three extra, winning or losing Splatfests are much less of a fuckabout because you can't do as much as you could in the first one. In the first it would save you 30k a spin for Spyke to fuck you over and it's a snail to add a slot to gear but if you're going straight for abilities thanks to Splatnet and ordering from other players it's really easy to get 3 starred items with the ability you want, which just leaves the fashionistas that want to wear specific gear pieces with specific abilities to look the coolest.
Super Sea Snails are infinite now anyway because you get one for every level up, and due to the prestige system you can keep leveling endlessly and continue to get more and more.
It always seemed strange to me that splatfests take a "best two out of three" approach to these categories when really it should just take an average of all three to see who won
Personally I like the current system better, because it allows the superior choice to win even when it's unpopular among the masses.
I feel like most people just vote for their least favorite girl regardless of what the choices are, so their favorite girl wins.
The current splatfest system makes the winner super predictable, which in turn makes splatfests not as much fun. Splatoon 1 had a better system.
But why do people like the Gremlin more?
I'm trying to formulate this post without seeming petty that pulp won
To me, it always seemed like splatfests have two tiers: the popularity and the battles. If you do poorly in one, you can edge out a win if your team does really well in the other. But at the very least, I feel like giving battles two categories gives it an inherent advantage over popularity. This is especially true as the more popular a team is, the less they'll actually be able to find a match with the other team.
If we look at the results, the amount that Pulp won the battles is much smaller than the amount that No-Pulp won popularity, but this doesn't matter in the end, because the fact that each battle category is worth the same as the single popularity category, Pulp wins despite coming winning by less than a percent in one of the cases.
Again, I don't want to seem like I'm trying to rewrite the rules so my favored, correct choice is the winner, this has been something I've been thinking about since the first splatfest, before the game came out. But I think we can really see the disconnect here in the scoring system in this particular splatfest.
The winner would be even more predictable if it was by popularity alone, or even just the averages. This way there's at least a chance of obvious minority choices winning. As it stands popularity is more of a tie-breaker in case a category only wins one of the gameplay-based scores.
Then again Splatoon 1 didn't have as many outrageous Splatfests like Baseball vs Soccer in the US, which made their system more appropriate.
Also I got Splatoon 2 on sale and this was my very first splatfest. I'm in love with this game.
how? I've been leveling but haven't gotten any snails prior to the splatfest.
... the rehashing of the fight is the bad part. It’s literally the same boss fight with zero interesting flair except for a single character having a cool new costume
Once you hit level 50, then talk to Judd in the square. Then you get one after every level up.
So assuming you have the patience to reach level 30, THEN you start getting rewarded.
It's not like you aren't rewarded for leveling to 30 regardless, since there are weapon unlocks all the time up to then.
The teleporting motherfuckers in City of Tears/Hollow Knight are satanic.
Yeah, but half of those I don't even care about. All I really need is my roller. You're given pretty reliable weapons right away, and the differences with those unlocks seem pretty minor to me. Leveling up also just feels way too slow, and that's probably my biggest gripe with Splat2. It's kind of underwhelming when you win a really intense match and your experience bar goes up half a centimeter.
That's what EXP tickets are for. Salmon Run gives them away like candy, and you can also get cheap ones from Octo Canyon after upgrading all weapons and subs, and better ones from Deepsea Metro after finishing the Octo Expansion. And if you're looking for crazy large boosts, Ranked gives much more EXP than Turf War does for winning, especially for a KO.
Splatoon 1's Splatfest system was actually worse, honestly.
Back then, it was only two categories. When both were on even footing, it was more or less just a straight up popularity contest with wins barely mattering.
Later, they gave a x6 bonus to wins, which only resulted in pure reverse popularity contests. Skilled players would wait to get an idea of what the least popular choice was and just opt for it instead, because it was so easy to game that bonus.
This system isn't perfect, but there have been cases where there has been a popularity gap, and the popular team actually wins. Even then, there's 2 other chances for the popular team to win. Skilled players can attempt to game the system, but they need to do it on two fronts, so it's not nearly as foolproof as it was in Splatoon 1.
The OJ Splatfest was really damn close, to be honest. We're talking a less than 1% difference between sides for the Solo matches. No Pulp could've easily had it.
I think that it's just in extremely rare cases where one side has a 10-15% lead in popularity that the popular team has a automatic +1 vote so at worse they draw.
Just kind of how I feel. It doesn't happen enough that it happens all the time but in extreme cases like this one it doesn't punish one side just because it's popular.
I wanna see the Mario Strikers costumes return. Don't know where or how, but I want to see those designs again.
I don't think we'd have much of a gripe for how this Splatfest resulted in if the theme for this month actually had, you know, two sides that were so good, you'd have trouble deciding which one to pick over the other
Love vs Money, Action vs Comedy are a few I can think of where I liked both sides, but because of that, it made the Splatfest fun and the winner unpredictable
Is splatoon 2 hard to get into? I'm not real huge into online competitive games anymore because I feel like the skill ceiling is super high all the time and I can hardly keep up. I liked the first one on the Wii U but I never went real hard into the meta plus I'm not sure what nintendo switch online is going to look like once they turn on premium mode.
I've only got mario odyssey and it's still keeping me occupied for now but I don't know how long it'll keep me. Only other stuff I'm real interested in that's been announced is smash and pokemon and unannounced animal crossing.
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nah its pretty easy to get into. it's pretty easzy to pick up and play because as long as you're shooting you're helping the team.
I woke up and saw 50 new posts in this thread and thought a Direct had been announced or something.
Nope, just discussions of orange juice.
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