Topic: Splatoon 3

Up yours, @jump! 😆 (I'm just kidding around😉)

@WoomyNNYes I never said vanilla is bad, I've just never met anyone who likes or orders it.

In any case you're wrong! The best ice cream flavour is Ben & Jerry’s Oh My Banoffee Pie!

I'm more worried about what picking vanilla will look like in a kids game where the goal is spraying loads of white sticky fluids at the other team.

Can anyone tell me, WTH this is a shot of in the splatfest news? Is it a coffin with two candles? I honestly have no clue. What the heck is it??😆 Is that a 90's phone answering machine? I see what looks like a curly cord on the left.

Pasting the video to play at the relevant time stamp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98TZHMaP6yA&t=20s

@WoomyNNYes I always thought it was a fax machine or an old printer with Xmas/Hanukkah lights next to it.

@WoomyNNYes It's a fax machine. There's tons of lore behind it actually, but the gist is that the fax machine tells the hosts what the Splatfest theme will be.

@jump @StarPoint Ohhhh, you're right. I see the paper tray sticking out the top to hold whatever print is spit out. Ohhhhhhhh. I see. Werid. It's so hard to tell what it is. Looks like the fax machine is in a baby's crib, but with candles, definitely a fire hazard.

That's a great explanation. Thanks, @Dev9417!

Participating in my first competitive Splatoon tournament tonight. Splat University Draft Team Eleven FOR THE WIN!!!

Update: We lost.

@octokid Was it rough? Like, how many rounds did you go? (no wrong answer, just curious)

This month's new Salmon Run gear is pretty cool. It looks futuristic, possibly related to Order, unless someone knows what its inspired by. It has a digital neon eye shield HUD(heads up display). XD

@WoomyNNYes
It's probably inspired by Dragonball Z. Reading your power level... IT'S OVER 9000!!!

Did a single round of Eggstra Work so far today whilst charging some controllers for Ghost Trick and managed to get a surprisingly respectable high score of 158! I'll definitely be coming back to it (especially after they've lifted the restrictions on friends-only) so hopefully I'll be able to maybe hit the 180 or god forbid even 200 range before Monday!

This feels oddly manta-phobic in a way.

I tried three rounds of eggstra work here in the US (profreshional 2). My team never got past wave 3. My highest egg count stands at 53. So, I won't be touching that again. I can't win when I'm always teamed with 2-3 newbs. The matching algorithm is against me. But I'm no longer shocked by this. I'm sure all the veterans are in pools, or not playing, etc.

On a positive note, I got the new gear with the ability I wanted first try, playing regular salmon run. The first gear loadout was Ink Saver Sub, exactly what I wanted. So, that was good.

@Wolfleaf Yeah, hazmy pool hasn't been much better for me in previous events, it's surprisingly full of newbs. VicVillon's pool is "autobomb". I haven't tried it yet, though. This is just the first time I remembered her pool name.

Is there an actual local co-op mode on this game. My daughter said there is.

@Qwertyninty There was one in the first game on Wii U (don't get your hopes up: it was just a Mario party-esque 'Pop the Balloons' minigame) but it's since been removed from both of the Switch-era sequels.

@Qwertyninty There's no co-op feature. Your only options for lcoal wireless play are, you could play private battles and tableturf.

I think I was wrong to assume that just because Side Order wasn't in the Direct that it definitely isn't releasing alongside the next season. August and September are currently very empty meanwhile MK8 Deluxe DLC wave 5 is launching next week so that's definitely not an August release.

I remembered that there were announcements at Gamescom in previous years that Nintendo attended. Like in 2018, Nintendo showcased the gameplay debut of the Torna DLC for XC2 and then at the end Nintendo shadow dropped other DLC for XC2:

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/08/xenoblade_chronicle...

It doesn't mean it will definitely happen but rather there's a chance that Nintendo could use Gamescom as a way to fully reveal Side Order.

@Grumblevolcano As much as I'm praying that your hunch is correct, I'm personally thinking that the August/September/October period will be used for the first half of Pokemon SV's DLC since that would settle into the Autumn 2023 period rather snugly. If we were to use SwSh's DLC as an example, Isle of Armor came out June 2020 while Crown Tundra came out roughly 4 months later in October 2020. The gap should be even smaller this time around with both parts coming out within one season of each other, with the widest gap possible without potential delays being August to December.

So basically: I'm not too confident in Side Order coming out sooner rather than later at the moment. Would definitely be cool for it to release close to the first anniversary of the game like Octo Expansion did for 2 though.