Can someone threadmark this? PleaseUniversal currencies
Gold (money) can be used to buy headgear, shirts, shoes, and locker items from Hotlantis, the general store. You can also spend 5,000 gold at the Shell-out machine (the gumball gacha machine in the Lobby) once per day for a random reward. Any subsequent uses of the Shell-out machine that day cost 30,000 gold. Days reset at 8PM EST.
Experience points are won from any type of non-Salmon Run or Tableturf battle and are used to level up your character, which unlocks lower weapon costs as well as earning you Conch shells (only during Splatfest).
Catalog points are for earning rewards from this season's catalog, which go up to level 100 and will be reset in three months for next season's Catalog.
Tableturf points are like Catalog points but for the Tableturf reward system. As of now the level cap is 50. Currently I'm TableTurf 33. Thanks to that, I have a unique end-battle pose that I haven't seen used by a single other person in the game this far.
Splatfest-only currencies
Clout is points for your Splatfest team. Clout is one third of the winning criteria used for judging the winning Splatfest team.
Conch shells are a Splatfest-only currency you get by leveling up your character with EXP, or by leveling up your Catalog with Catalog points. Conch shells give you one free use of the Shell-out machine. They are also used as one third of the winning criteria used for judging the winning Splatfest team (the final third is popularity).
Sea snails, not to be confused with Conch shells, are also a Splatfest-only currency that you earn for participating in Splatfest after Splatfest is over. Sea snails are a very valuable currency to be given to Murch in order to add Power levels (ability slots) to your gear, and to reroll existing abilities on your gear.
And finally, Festival shells, not to be confused with Sea snails or Conch shells, are another Splatfest-only currency that increase the odds of your team entering a 100x or 333x Splatfest battle, in which your team's resulting clout is multiplied by the respective amount. You earn Festival shells by winning 10x Splatfest battles, which occur rarely and randomly.
I’m loving it, I missed splatfests a lot.Jeez, is anybody actually having any fun or is Splatfest just miserable for everyone but me?
Jeez, is anybody actually having any fun or is Splatfest just miserable for everyone but me?
I had fun on Team Fun. Became a Fun Ruler even.Jeez, is anybody actually having any fun or is Splatfest just miserable for everyone but me?
I had fun on Team Fun. Became a Fun Ruler even.
I had minimal disconnects, very short wait times (couldn’t even charge my special in the test range half the time), had a welcomely less frequent but still solid amount of tricolor, and got cut throat but fun matchmaking. Basically everything worked as it should. I totally believe everyone else’s experiences in this thread, but uh yeah nothing bad happened to me…
That’d be super cool. Definitely had some tonal whiplash when I was playing during the day and it’s night out lol.Same. Not a single disconnect. Short wait times. And I play exclusively over wifi too.
Also, this is the best Splatfest theming for the plaza yet. Wow they really made it come alive. Love playing at night and makes me wish the game at all times reflected real world time and we’d get stages during the day, dusk, and night.
For real, the bridge map with the ferris wheel in the background is too lovely to keep for just Splatfests. Would love it if the game was on some sort of day-night rotation.Also, this is the best Splatfest theming for the plaza yet. Wow they really made it come alive. Love playing at night and makes me wish the game at all times reflected real world time and we’d get stages during the day, dusk, and night.
even big man???I dislike the new idols very much. Worst part of the game as far as I'm concerned.
Ever since I finished the campaign I absolutely adore them.I dislike the new idols very much. Worst part of the game as far as I'm concerned.
even big man???
I do feel like we're more...on edge? I feel like it's a combination of the servers being more jammed than usual (and the longer queues and disconnects that follow), the team based aspect of things, and the better players who would normally stick to ranked now playing Turf War mixed with more casual players here for the event and rewards leading to a wild medley of...well, this. I don't think this a Fami exclusive feeling either.Jeez, is anybody actually having any fun or is Splatfest just miserable for everyone but me?
Yeah, the whole game needs adjusting when it comes to playing with friends and communicating with other players. They make it so hard that the incentives to keep playing are just not there if you're not already very much into it.Things that happened when teaming up with a friend for an hour and a half:
-Anytime "not enough players" appeared, I got kicked out of my friend's room
-When the maps updated, I got kicked out of my friend's room
-4 communication errors despite living in the same city with good internet
-Not a single Tricolour battle despite being a twosome
This is my friend's first Splatoon game and while she did enjoy herself generally she was also annoyed. Really hope they hear feedback about the Tricolour matchmaking especially.
As a fellow Grubber, I Yeah’d this.The 2 tricolor matches I played were fun at least. Hammerhead is very different than Sturgeon, this time it felt very difficult for the attackers to win given how open mid is.
Please yeah my art to support Team Grub
Judd means life.I am trying to decide if I should do a Shiver avatar, or a Big Man Avatar.
Or Judd
Judd is still great
There's 1 reported case of someone hacking, but it's more likely you might have been seeing a clash blaster or a rapid blaster, or someone lagging.Guys… for real, has this game been hacked? Some people using blasters have a fire rate much faster than normal…. It’s really strange…
I’m 99% some people have hacked this. They are shooting to fast.
Judd means life but I will bring death if Judd goes ANOTHER game without getting an Amiibo :cJudd means life.
I’m having fun, but boy do I feel like a scrub. yes I am trying to git gud but please let me play with other scrubs until I doAlright, exactly 20 turf wars into the Splatfest. No tri battles yet, but it's a good time to take stock and see if it's been as bad as I thought.
Tally:
4 wins, 16 losses.
18 kills, 95 deaths.
This is absolutely miserable. I'm usually average or better at shooters. I almost always enjoy them. But each Splatoon game has a very specific way of making you feel utterly and totally incompetent. It's a shame because I love everything else about the game. But knowing I'm just fucking up other people's days by not being able to hit air... I'm out.
Yup… that weapon was clash blaster.There's 1 reported case of someone hacking, but it's more likely you might have been seeing a clash blaster or a rapid blaster, or someone lagging.
I hadn't thought that matchmaking might be to blame, but... yeah. Why am I playing against guys so superior to me?I’m having fun, but boy do I feel like a scrub. yes I am trying to git gud but please let me play with other scrubs until I do
I'm having a blast, the only reason I stopped is because my arm was beginning to hurt due to the covid vaccine booster.Jeez, is anybody actually having any fun or is Splatfest just miserable for everyone but me?
From what I recall the clash blaster has a short range. As long as you're not heading straight at them you should be able to pick them off.Yup… that weapon was clash blaster.
Totally broken.
Not only the shooting goes too far, but the fire rate is out of this world. Totally broken weapon.
You can get to a higher ground and just spam.
What the hell. Splatoon 3 is very unbalanced right now.
It's one of the weakest weapons in the game, with an extremely slow kill time and very bad range/painting capacity/movementYup… that weapon was clash blaster.
Totally broken.
Not only the shooting goes too far, but the fire rate is out of this world. Totally broken weapon.
You can get to a higher ground and just spam.
What the hell. Splatoon 3 is very unbalanced right now.
They shouldn't have done that. The problem with the demo splatfest was that Sturgeon was too tilted towards the attackers due to mid's raised platform, not that it was played too much. Hammerhead is much better balanced so people would have enjoyed playing on it at the same rate that they did in the demo. They overcorrected and made the problem worse.Y'all aware they did this, right.
tl;dr they realized Tricolor Battles weren't balanced in the Splatfest World Premiere, they didn't have time to implement fixes in time for this one, so they just made them rarer. It's likely going to be easier to get into one by the next one.
They shouldn't have done that. The problem with the demo splatfest was that Sturgeon was too tilted towards the attackers, not that it was played too much. Hammerhead is much better balanced so people would have enjoyed playing on it at the same rate that they did in the demo. They overcorrected and made the problem worse.
The problem wasn't it being played too much though, the map was just bad and not fun to play on. Hammerhead is good so it's a shame it's being wasted.It's not balancing it being played too much, mind you. It's "they need to take the mode out back and rework it, but there was no time to do it before this Splatfest". So instead of just not making it available until they finish reworking it, they just made it rarer so it doesn't contribute to splatfest results too much.
This is ridiculously helpful. You da best, poop.Universal currencies
Gold (money) can be used to buy headgear, shirts, shoes, and locker items from Hotlantis, the general store. You can also spend 5,000 gold at the Shell-out machine (the gumball gacha machine in the Lobby) once per day for a random reward. Any subsequent uses of the Shell-out machine that day cost 30,000 gold. Days reset at 8PM EST.
Experience points are won from any type of non-Salmon Run or Tableturf battle and are used to level up your character, which unlocks lower weapon costs as well as earning you Conch shells (only during Splatfest).
Catalog points are for earning rewards from this season's catalog, which go up to level 100 and will be reset in three months for next season's Catalog.
Tableturf points are like Catalog points but for the Tableturf reward system. As of now the level cap is 50. Currently I'm TableTurf 33. Thanks to that, I have a unique end-battle pose that I haven't seen used by a single other person in the game this far.
Splatfest-only currencies
Clout is points for your Splatfest team. Clout is one third of the winning criteria used for judging the winning Splatfest team.
Conch shells are a Splatfest-only currency you get by leveling up your character with EXP, or by leveling up your Catalog with Catalog points. Conch shells give you one free use of the Shell-out machine. They are also used as one third of the winning criteria used for judging the winning Splatfest team (the final third is popularity).
Sea snails, not to be confused with Conch shells, are also a Splatfest-only currency that you earn for participating in Splatfest after Splatfest is over. Sea snails are a very valuable currency to be given to Murch in order to add Power levels (ability slots) to your gear, and to reroll existing abilities on your gear.
And finally, Festival shells, not to be confused with Sea snails or Conch shells, are another Splatfest-only currency that increase the odds of your team entering a 100x or 333x Splatfest battle, in which your team's resulting clout is multiplied by the respective amount. You earn Festival shells by winning 10x Splatfest battles, which occur rarely and randomly.