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PadWarrior
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Really wish there was a splatoon forum that was more active than squidboards. Game needs a forum similar to smashboards or something.
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
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Splatoon 2 |OT2| New thread incoming. DO YOUR JOB.
PadWarrior
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Nah that's not it at all. I'm looking for pics of all gear with their mains, Japanese gameplay and stat calculators. Stuff like that.
Sorry we're not good enough for you.
Seems all that's talked about here is salmon run grillers and poor teammates lol
Dark Cloud
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Shouldn't it be Splatoon 2 |OT1.5I
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Anyways I don't know about the Ranked Modes (I haven't played a single Ranked Mode match up to now), but in Turf Wars that Splatbrella seems pretty useless
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Anyways I don't know about the Ranked Modes (I haven't played a single Ranked Mode match up to now), but in Turf Wars that Splatbrella seems pretty useless
Everyone seems to have their own problem with their own specific Salmon Run miniboss but I posit that you're all wrong.
Flyfish waste so much time flopping back and forth that you can clear out the small guys and just barely charge up enough ink to do both bombs yourself unless you're in a tight tight spot like right next to the sides of the boat.
Maws you can paint barely any ground and just drag it over to the bucket as you refill ink along the way
Stingers you can dodge the lazer or specifically draw the lazer away from your teammates if you have its attention, its only a problem when every one of your teammates is ignoring them forever, but thats a problem that every boss has. They're pretty trivially taken out because they're always vulnerable and they're my lowest tier target
Drizzlers you can at least keep them from doing anything by turning your full attention to the missile they launch and if you can position yourself well you can use that as an assault back at the drizzler or other small groups of enemies
Steelheads become zero problem when people stop running up to them and you just take them on when you're ready to focus on them. bomb out the small guys around their feet and only get in range to trigger their bomb charge when you have ink and nothing to bump you around
Grillers if you have competent teammates can just be led in circles by bouncing around on a corner or between two walls. You can and probably should always just try to take out the smallfry and let your teammates figure out how to attack the tentacle
Scrappers are TRIVIAL to kite around and require turning to shoot a single tap of ink at to stop them dead in their tracks. Take them to the bucket or to a team mate, be the first to shoot and then turn them around so that your teammate gets 100% access to their weak point
But the fucking Steel Eels
FUCK
they make a massive invincible slow moving wall hitbox that basically 1hko's you
Shooting their face doesn't even reliably aggro them to you
If they are aggroed to you and you are not in the most open space or if you are on the boat map there is zero chance you will be able to get the kill
Their massive invincible wall completely blocks damage to the little tiny driver that sits behind
There is no way to shut them down slow them down or temporarily stop them
There is also no way to speed them up when they move so fucking slowly that four other bosses have time to spawn before you can conceivably damage them
They will instantly kill any genius who tries to use Inkjet or Splashdown
they swing their hitbox around super quickly and disguise its location by wrapping in on itself a million times so the Stingray isn't even particularly effective at taking them out.
They have no minimum turning radius so they don't even "coil around and trap" a person who could conceivably kill them from the inside out
They die from the Back forwards but you need to wait for the front, which is still moving and bumping your less astute teammates to their death to finally die before you can even ferry the eggs
They take up massive amounts of space and are always the same length meaning they're even worse then grillers at high tide.
I'm just shocked there isnt a rolling difficulty level for these bosses. Shorter steel eels, longer charge Steelheads, Stingers with shorter lazers or less chunks, Grillers with more vulnerable points and less smallfry. Etc.
The difficulty level available in Salmon Run is so granular but then it is just blanket applied to a spawning speed algorithm that makes it not actually that fun after you get competent. I'm definitely excited to see where it goes after they patch it more but i'm regretting how good it is for money every time I have to queue up with randoms
Flyfish waste so much time flopping back and forth that you can clear out the small guys and just barely charge up enough ink to do both bombs yourself unless you're in a tight tight spot like right next to the sides of the boat.
Maws you can paint barely any ground and just drag it over to the bucket as you refill ink along the way
Stingers you can dodge the lazer or specifically draw the lazer away from your teammates if you have its attention, its only a problem when every one of your teammates is ignoring them forever, but thats a problem that every boss has. They're pretty trivially taken out because they're always vulnerable and they're my lowest tier target
Drizzlers you can at least keep them from doing anything by turning your full attention to the missile they launch and if you can position yourself well you can use that as an assault back at the drizzler or other small groups of enemies
Steelheads become zero problem when people stop running up to them and you just take them on when you're ready to focus on them. bomb out the small guys around their feet and only get in range to trigger their bomb charge when you have ink and nothing to bump you around
Grillers if you have competent teammates can just be led in circles by bouncing around on a corner or between two walls. You can and probably should always just try to take out the smallfry and let your teammates figure out how to attack the tentacle
Scrappers are TRIVIAL to kite around and require turning to shoot a single tap of ink at to stop them dead in their tracks. Take them to the bucket or to a team mate, be the first to shoot and then turn them around so that your teammate gets 100% access to their weak point
But the fucking Steel Eels
FUCK
they make a massive invincible slow moving wall hitbox that basically 1hko's you
Shooting their face doesn't even reliably aggro them to you
If they are aggroed to you and you are not in the most open space or if you are on the boat map there is zero chance you will be able to get the kill
Their massive invincible wall completely blocks damage to the little tiny driver that sits behind
There is no way to shut them down slow them down or temporarily stop them
There is also no way to speed them up when they move so fucking slowly that four other bosses have time to spawn before you can conceivably damage them
They will instantly kill any genius who tries to use Inkjet or Splashdown
they swing their hitbox around super quickly and disguise its location by wrapping in on itself a million times so the Stingray isn't even particularly effective at taking them out.
They have no minimum turning radius so they don't even "coil around and trap" a person who could conceivably kill them from the inside out
They die from the Back forwards but you need to wait for the front, which is still moving and bumping your less astute teammates to their death to finally die before you can even ferry the eggs
They take up massive amounts of space and are always the same length meaning they're even worse then grillers at high tide.
I'm just shocked there isnt a rolling difficulty level for these bosses. Shorter steel eels, longer charge Steelheads, Stingers with shorter lazers or less chunks, Grillers with more vulnerable points and less smallfry. Etc.
The difficulty level available in Salmon Run is so granular but then it is just blanket applied to a spawning speed algorithm that makes it not actually that fun after you get competent. I'm definitely excited to see where it goes after they patch it more but i'm regretting how good it is for money every time I have to queue up with randoms
donkey show
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This is good, lol.
DarkConfidant
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They need to fix that glitch where it says that the rank meter won't change...and then it changes anyways.
audio_delay
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First time since launch i am getting disconnections!
Just did a crazy Griller round with a high tide. I have no clue how we did it since we were one egg short at the 15 second mark and no one was handling the Small Fry and I had a Charger. Somehow got the last egg in and died in the process, but we still won.
Ended this Salmon Run session on 80 Professional, which is up from 50 Professional I left off on.
Overall, good session.
Ended this Salmon Run session on 80 Professional, which is up from 50 Professional I left off on.
Overall, good session.
Dark Cloud
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I don't get how you guys are climbing in Salmon Run. Idk how many ranks there are, but I'm still on Part Timer. It's just too inconsistent. I win some then lose like 5 in a row. Rinse and repeat.
Leatherface
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Next time I do Salmon Run I'm coming here for a team. The randoms are mindbogglingly bad more often than not. I feel like I will never get past over-achiever by rolling the dice on players. lol
audio_delay
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At certain times of the day, you just get better team players
For me, it's still the griller that's the most annoying, when there's two. By far.
Maybe it's because other part timers are just awful, and you'll have less issues with better teammates once you've ranked a bit. Though in lower levels, you can do much with bad teammates.
How are you loosing? All dead, or quota not met?
It depends. I have played almost nothing but random and I got to Professional several times. I do have bad sessions that drops me to Overachiever or worse Go-Getter, but I always manage to climb back to Professional.
(definitively doable with some luck, I managed 32 in a single wave)Dark Cloud
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Probably
Oh it's like 90% due to us all dying. I try my best. I use the commands as much as I can to communicate, but I'll get games where nobody, but me uses them. I go as hard as I can and I try to play smart, but idk maybe it's just bad luck and bad breaks here and there causes us to lose.
I like this one.
I always play Salmon Run with 2-3 friends over Discord. Its nice to coordinate and even then we still lose like last night when I couldn't hit a griller enemy to save my life. =p
I should keep on with single player today so that I can try out the cute umbrella weapon. I think its in the SP right? I'm in the fourth world now.
I should keep on with single player today so that I can try out the cute umbrella weapon. I think its in the SP right? I'm in the fourth world now.
Dark Cloud
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Yeah, it's in single player.
Leatherface
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For me I always get to 70 or 80% through over achiever and then get a string of 4 or 5 bad groups. Some of which wipe on the first damn round which destroys your points. It is soul crushing. lol
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
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Guys... face the fact you're playing bad too.
Protect gold eggs and let the rest of your team funnel them to the basket. Back them up against bosses. Make sure you're the one rescuing them. Let them know when there are eggs on the field. Make sure you (as you're so superior) survive once you've hit quota. Ink walls. Maintain ink trails back to the basket. And so on and so forth. I'm 250% and have played with nothing but randoms.
Protect gold eggs and let the rest of your team funnel them to the basket. Back them up against bosses. Make sure you're the one rescuing them. Let them know when there are eggs on the field. Make sure you (as you're so superior) survive once you've hit quota. Ink walls. Maintain ink trails back to the basket. And so on and so forth. I'm 250% and have played with nothing but randoms.
This.
Leatherface
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I have a bad round here or there but I play pretty damn well. Between this game and the last I've been Splatooning for a long long time at this point. When my GF and I play together with one other good person we can practically run these ourselves. The problem is getting randoms who are all for themselves and don't bother backing each other up. Salmon Run is about team work above all else.
Dark Cloud
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Lol why I even bother.
Yep. It's possible to carry an ok team in salmon run. Not that I can say much, since I spent 98% of my salmon run time with gaffers from the discord, but still. There's always room for improvement.
edit - obviously a trash team is gonna trash whether you're good or not.
This one's good lol
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Learning to ink and traverse walls will improve your Salmon Run game by 100%. For example, it instantly trivialises Grillers at anything under Professional. Salmonids can't go up walls, and many of them can't even hit you effectively inside a wall, and going up walls is often quicker than alternative routes.
That's my major tip for making Profreshional. I guess the others would be: take out Flyfishes at the earliest opportunity. If there's more than one Flyfish active, use your Stinger. Learn how to cope with Maws as quickly as possible. Many of the boss types lock onto one player as long as they don't move out of range, watch their movements closely and figure out whether they're going to go for you or whether you can move around them (Steel Eels). You can't be wiped out as long as a bomb is active, and bombs are like healing explosions. Worst case scenario, you won't wipe out until after the entire drowning animation has played out, which takes nearly 5 seconds. Regularly use 'This way' to cope people. Pay attention to the tide markings at the start of every level. Learn what your weapon is for - like, if you have a weapon which needs to charge, you are a support role, know your place.
That's my major tip for making Profreshional. I guess the others would be: take out Flyfishes at the earliest opportunity. If there's more than one Flyfish active, use your Stinger. Learn how to cope with Maws as quickly as possible. Many of the boss types lock onto one player as long as they don't move out of range, watch their movements closely and figure out whether they're going to go for you or whether you can move around them (Steel Eels). You can't be wiped out as long as a bomb is active, and bombs are like healing explosions. Worst case scenario, you won't wipe out until after the entire drowning animation has played out, which takes nearly 5 seconds. Regularly use 'This way' to cope people. Pay attention to the tide markings at the start of every level. Learn what your weapon is for - like, if you have a weapon which needs to charge, you are a support role, know your place.
RecRoulette
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I really don't take Salmon Run too seriously and probably get carried in a lot of my games. Just depends on your teammates/luck
I've only played Freelance and got up to Profreshional. You can do it too!
Dark Cloud
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Nobody here is saying they're God at this game while their teammates suck. I have bad games too where I'm crap. I had to figure out all the new weapons I don't use at first.
At the beginning I always ink the ground and the walls to create paths to travel on. I try to keep the surround area of the egg basket our color. I always look for the enemies at the beginning and call my team to where they're at. Problems arise when you have enemies come from one area of the map and then you have enemies coming from another side of the map.
This is when I will see the team split up and it can go bad from there. The one enemy I hate the most is that thing that has like two arms for rockets and shoots them into the air all over the map. I absolutely hate it. You have to try to throw bombs into his arms just to kill him.
At the beginning I always ink the ground and the walls to create paths to travel on. I try to keep the surround area of the egg basket our color. I always look for the enemies at the beginning and call my team to where they're at. Problems arise when you have enemies come from one area of the map and then you have enemies coming from another side of the map.
This is when I will see the team split up and it can go bad from there. The one enemy I hate the most is that thing that has like two arms for rockets and shoots them into the air all over the map. I absolutely hate it. You have to try to throw bombs into his arms just to kill him.
Dark Cloud
Member
I'm going to play Salmon Run now and see how many bonuses I can get.
Leatherface
Member
The problem more often than not with randoms is instead of working together you have team members running off on their own ditching the team. They end up getting killed off and are no where near by to be revived easily. If you get two people doing shit like this you will most likely wipe.
A great example is the event that has streams of those fast moving Salmonids with the gold ones mixed in. A good team knows the best strat is to stay together near the basket and take out the waves as they rush in. There will be more than enough eggs that drop and with 4 members covering both choke points it shouldn't be much of a problem. I can't tell you how many times randoms would just take off and almost immediately die in an attempt to grab some egg that is WAY out of reach. With waves of enemies pouring in your team can die off pretty damn quickly if all your teammates do that. That is a bad team.
A great example is the event that has streams of those fast moving Salmonids with the gold ones mixed in. A good team knows the best strat is to stay together near the basket and take out the waves as they rush in. There will be more than enough eggs that drop and with 4 members covering both choke points it shouldn't be much of a problem. I can't tell you how many times randoms would just take off and almost immediately die in an attempt to grab some egg that is WAY out of reach. With waves of enemies pouring in your team can die off pretty damn quickly if all your teammates do that. That is a bad team.
PadWarrior
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Salmon run is too repetitive for me.
As a new player, I feel like the aerospray is incredible for turf war. Had three games where we were defending spawn all game but had two aerospray users (me and someone else). 30 seconds to go, we ignore the enemy and zoom down the side of The Reef, hitting the centre and then inking as much territory as we can. Three times in a row this secured victory, the two aerosprays ended up with about 1300p each time, our other two teammates with about 300p.
It's like you don't even have to battle the other team while using these things. Also helps that the multi-curling bomb special can really ink a lot of territory if used from the centre or it can wipe out a team if you catch them on a ramp.
EDIT: Sorry, it was Sturgeon Shipyard
It's like you don't even have to battle the other team while using these things. Also helps that the multi-curling bomb special can really ink a lot of territory if used from the centre or it can wipe out a team if you catch them on a ramp.
EDIT: Sorry, it was Sturgeon Shipyard
Oxnard Montalvo
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Yes please. Too many times have I had it that everyone throws into the left bucket.
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