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Playable Octarians aren't a possibility because Inkling law prohibits Octarians from owning property.
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Ineffiable posted:So how was post release support like in the first game? Added more cosmetic stuff, maps, weapons? Regular releases of new maps and/or weapons. Plus a larger selection of background music tracks in rounds. Let me put this way; The reason they went out of their way to mention Sheldon having a fast-forward option in his dialogue was because in the first game if you stopped playing for a few months and came back, he'd likely have a good 5-6 new weapons to talk about having 'just' arrived instock.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 13:32 |
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Ineffiable posted:So how was post release support like in the first game? Added more cosmetic stuff, maps, weapons? Yes, they added new weapons for the first... six months of the game? The final set of weapons added were previous ones with slightly new textures and different sub and special loadouts. But for the first six months we got radically different weapons (the inkbrushes, the splat gatlings, the slosher buckets, etc) and a whole slew of new maps and also, yeah, a ton of extra shirts/hats/shoes. Splatfests ran monthly for a year. They're essentially promising to double that, with a year of updates (mentioned in the Squid Research roundup a week or two ago) and two years of Splatfest support, so they're essentially committing to double the support Splat1 got. And if the game sells really well, who knows what else we might get. Post-launch support is a key component of the experience, is the point, and it's all entirely free. Rexroom posted:Playable Octarians aren't a possibility because Inkling law prohibits Octarians from owning property. rip tho I guess that means Marina's just crashing at Pearl's place? edit: DalaranJ posted:Imagine being able to play the game two weeks early, but you can only play against "influencers". I feel like there's a joke about "You may take Splatoon with you when you go to hell, but" joke in here somewhere. SpaceDrake fucked around with this message at 13:54 on Jul 17, 2017 |
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Escobarbarian posted:Nah, people who have the game can play online. One of my friends who's an "influencer" has been playing for 2 weeks the jammy oval office Imagine being able to play the game two weeks early, but you can only play against "influencers".
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 13:39 |
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SpaceDrake posted:Yes, they added new weapons for the first... six months of the game? The final set of weapons added were previous ones with slightly new textures and different sub and special loadouts. But for the first six months we got radically different weapons (the inkbrushes, the splat gatlings, the slosher buckets, etc) and a whole slew of new maps and also, yeah, a ton of extra shirts/hats/shoes. Splatfests ran monthly for a year. Thanks, this solidified my decision to buy this game day one. A year of support is fantastic and it's always best to get into a multi-player scene asap. Can't wait to jump on on Friday.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 14:06 |
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They're going to lock playable Octolings behind Octoling amiibo, believe it.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 14:16 |
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Did they say if you have to reach level 10 to unlock Ranked Battles like in splat1? I don't plan playing turf war at all unless it's a splatfest
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 14:22 |
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:They're going to lock playable Octolings behind Octoling amiibo, believe it. I am super OK with this as long as they print more than like ten of them It's exactly what amiibo are good for - desirable cosmetic content for your home and game
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 14:24 |
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DalaranJ posted:Imagine being able to play the game two weeks early, but you can only play against "influencers". You'd get a ton of bonus money from Judd, because those guys all suck hard at video games.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 14:28 |
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Today I learned that squids (inklings) are different from octopi (octolings).
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 14:29 |
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Forget amiibos. Nintendo needs to release a multi series blindbox of Splatoon minis.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 14:30 |
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LPG Giant posted:Today I learned that squids (inklings) are different from octopi (octolings). In Japan, the Octoling soldiers were called Octozons (Takozoness - Tako + Amazoness), because they're all women The weird monster Octarians are, presumably, the males. deadly_pudding fucked around with this message at 14:39 on Jul 17, 2017 |
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Ineffiable posted:Thanks, this solidified my decision to buy this game day one. A year of support is fantastic and it's always best to get into a multi-player scene asap. Can't wait to jump on on Friday. No problem! Also, now that Nintendo's Youtube has un-hosed itself, here's the part of the big update that details content updates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnIAN06eSAE&t=1265s Also, since we do seem to have a bunch of new guys, I guess it does need to be emphasized: Splatoon 1 got a ton of updates over its first six months or so of service (with balance and bug patching continuing until September 2016). It launched with four weapon types - Splattershot-style machineguns, Rollers, Chargers, and Blasters, and in a way the latter was just a single shot mod of machineguns. The updates added Slosher buckets, Splatling gatling guns (with multiple wildly-varying performance envelopes), and Inkbrushes, which could be seen as a mod of Rollers but were wildly different in performance, much moreso than machinegun-Blaster. There were also some more subtle weapon variants, like the Bamboozler, which was a Charger set up to more simulate bolt-action semi-auto rifles from the World Wars (since it was the weapon of soldiers in the Great Turf War a century ago) and Nozzlenoses, which tried to simulate burst-fire rifles. Neither was considered very good for practical use, sadly. The short of it is, the weapon list more than doubled across the game's update cycle, and that leaves out the Sheldon's Pick variants at the end of the updates. Splat2 is launching with virtually all those major weapon types, and a year of content updates ahead of it. Be excited. PaletteSwappedNinja posted:They're going to lock playable Octolings behind Octoling amiibo, believe it. Yeah, if it isn't the SP unlock, it'd probably be this. I think it'd generate some salt - amiibo availability and all - but I could understand it and way back when the Octoling trigger was found to have been added in 2.0 and the Hack Octoling was a thing, that was the going theory, that it'd be an amiibo of some sort, since the data for the Squid Sisters amiibos were added at the same time. Jonas Albrecht posted:Forget amiibos. Nintendo needs to release a multi series blindbox of Splatoon minis. I mean, gently caress it, at this point there's eight of the goddamn things (series 1 kids + Sisters + series 2 kids), so any more and you could fill a bag with 'em. deadly_pudding posted:In Japan, the Octoling soldiers were called Octozons (Takozoness - Tako + Amazoness), because they're all women One of the scrolls in Splat1 shows DJ Octavio in humanoid form, though. It's kind of unclear what's going on with the non-Octoling Octarians, though IIRC the art book in Japan (of course) insinuates that they're deliberately-severed tentacles done so to create troops, since octopus arms grow back and are somewhat intelligent on their own because celaphopod nervous systems are actually Lovecraftian irl?
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 15:09 |
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SpaceDrake posted:
Horrifyingly awesome
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 15:11 |
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I have a non-dual band 2.4 ghz router and was thinking of upgrading to a dual band 5ghz one. Anyone with a Switch done this and noticed a jump in better wifi signal connectivity?
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 16:05 |
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How are you supposed to use the Splatoon headset if you have the console docked? Just not use the game audio cord?
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 16:27 |
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Spacebump posted:How are you supposed to use the Splatoon headset if you have the console docked? Just not use the game audio cord? Why are you sitting more than two feet from your TV you McMansion owning Rich gently caress? (use an extension cord I guess)
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 16:37 |
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Man, that Splatfest made the hype SO REAL for me. 3 days 7 hours 3 days 7 hours 3 days 7 hours
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 16:56 |
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Splatoon 2 is my most anticipated game of 2017
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 16:59 |
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Lakbay posted:Splatoon 2 is my most anticipated game of 2017
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 17:03 |
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Escobarbarian posted:Man, that Splatfest made the hype SO REAL for me. 3 days 7 hours 3 days 7 hours 3 days 7 hours I've been playing some Splat1 to try and take the edge off. It might just be making things worse. Do we have an exact time for when it launches, though? I was assuming it'll be midnight PST on Friday on the eShop, but. Spacebump posted:How are you supposed to use the Splatoon headset if you have the console docked? Just not use the game audio cord? Long rear end extension cords. It's a fairly impractical setup. Also, speaking of routers, I wish I could upgrade mine. Unfortunately my otherwise-good ISP insists we use the modem-router combo provided. Of course I'm still suspicious that the problem lies in the Switch's wireless radio rather than the router, given how little trouble anything else has connecting.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 17:05 |
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Just put a wireless access point on your existing network and don't use the isp wifi?
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 17:06 |
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LPG Giant posted:Today I learned that squids (inklings) are different from octopi (octolings). This is my first Splatoon game and I can't tell the difference either. ...are we racist?
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 17:15 |
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squid tastes better than octopus
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 17:21 |
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unless you count takoyaki but that's cheating because that's just a ball of seasoned batter with octo pieces dotted inside
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 17:22 |
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mmm squid sashimi.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 17:39 |
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Dr. VooDoo posted:I have a non-dual band 2.4 ghz router and was thinking of upgrading to a dual band 5ghz one. Anyone with a Switch done this and noticed a jump in better wifi signal connectivity? I was playing the Splatfest on a 5ghz band but since I had never played Splatoon 1 on my new apartment's wifi, I don't really have a good comparison. At the very least, all of my connectivity errors during the Splatfest happened during matchmaking but since I was on Ice Cream's side that might have partially been the lopsided popularity as well as my Internet. I noticed lag a few times during play where someone would snap out of range or the ink pattern would snap into a new shape, but I never got disconnected while playing or while results were being calculated.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 17:46 |
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:This is my first Splatoon game and I can't tell the difference either. Inklings just have one sucker at the end of each hair-tentacle, the Octolings have several on each .
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 17:50 |
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Also, evidently actual storyline details are leaking ahead of the reviews being open tomorrow. Beware of spoilers, if you care. If anything I'm surprised it took this long, if "influencers" have had the game for a while now. And I guess we'll find out if my dumb octo speculation was true or not soon enough
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 17:55 |
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SpaceDrake posted:One of the scrolls in Splat1 shows DJ Octavio in humanoid form, though. It's kind of unclear what's going on with the non-Octoling Octarians, though IIRC the art book in Japan (of course) insinuates that they're deliberately-severed tentacles done so to create troops, since octopus arms grow back and are somewhat intelligent on their own because celaphopod nervous systems are actually Lovecraftian irl? Says it in the english one too, maybe Octolings are like the Gerudo
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 18:56 |
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Please stop posting inkling agitprop
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 18:57 |
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I was at the grocery store today and ended up buying BOTH ice cream and cake. I see what they did there
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 19:02 |
splatoon 2 fake news
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 19:24 |
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eonwe posted:splatoon 2 fake news Callie did squid/11
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 19:47 |
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The Bloop posted:Callie did squid/11 I know for a fact that Marie won the Final Splatfest with the aid of Octarian hackers.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 20:10 |
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I can't prove it, but Pearl is a plant by the inkluminati and Marina is there to distract scrutiny with her Octoling wiles.
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 20:13 |
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# ? Jul 17, 2017 20:14 |
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