Topic: Splatoon 3

anyone know what this one's from?

Ooh, I like that jacket! That reminds me to play SR lol

@WoomyNNYes I need it!

@BingleyBongley well all I can think of is Elvis haha!

I thought Elvis, too, but I that era seems too old to me. Unless... as a halloween costume, maybe that makes more sense. @CaleBoi25 @BingleyBongley

@WoomyNNYes The headset should tell us the theme. I really do hope we get a Santa clause costume!

Elvis generally had capes on his costumes, side note this was due to how he was a massive Shazam fan as kid.

To me it looks more Elton John-ish.

It vaguely reminds me of Gene Simmons from KISS. But yeah what @Snatcher says, the headgear will likely give it away. But isn’t it different that they started with the clothes. Don’t they usually do the headgear first?

@masterLEON I think it’s usually the cloths.

@Snatcher It ended up being that the Astro Helmet was the only one where the headgear dropped first. The most recent sets the clothes dropped first. Before that the majority of the drops were headgear: https://splatoonwiki.org/wiki/Salmon_Run_Next_Wave

@masterLEON Your right! I don’t know why I thought it was clothing lol! Maybe because the recent one is have been interested in has been the clothing and not the headgear.

Nintendo is getting us anticipating a literal gear drop lol

Please let there be Splatoween this month 🙏 I can finally wear the Octoling girl amiibo gear without it looking out of season

@luckyseven According to various leakers we are on for Splatoween and Frosty Fest! 🤞

Small vent here but…
My teammate for about 3 days now have been awful. In Anarchy I lost 2 rank ups and 3 series, in ST I am stuck in Pro+2
I know rubber banding should get me back up soon but still

I’m sorry to post 3 times in a row but… have any of you watched the takitsuobu heartbeat animatic?It is so good?

I'm wondering if halloween's theme is something similar to the Alien/Nessie/Big Foot theme. Like Monster/Vampire/Ghost.
If it is exactly that,... I said it first!

Are the players in your region really that bad in Salmon Run?
I think I got into a lobby with NA players when I played very early in the morning. (I play mostly in the morning because I have rarely time in the afternoon. This time it was sooner than usual. )
The playstyles of those players were really weird. And really bad. I don't know if they really were from the NA region, but if they are, I can totally understand why you and @WoomyNNYes have so much trouble with SR. Even bad players from my region play better than that.😅

In the NA region, and for some reason, I always get the best teams super early in the morning. Every big run, I got my high score at like 4:00 in the morning and then slept until noon...

@CaleBoi25 I saw videos of datamines for it so it’s probably going to happen, can’t wait @Budda I hope that’s the theme too! It would be cool

I'm going to guess, it's because maybe only experience players are playing at that time, or you're getting matched with UK+EU.

@Budda
Q: Are the SR players in NA really that bad?
A: In fact, it's the worst I've seen it in the past week.

I'm getting matched with newbs on a whole new level, now. It's as if there's literally been an exodus of SR regulars, or people that know how to play SR. My teammates virutally ALWAYS have newb banners with callie, marie, or cuddlefish badges (newbs who are working their way through the single player for the first time).

In order to grind for scales and king salmonids, I MUST to demote myself. In pro 3 & pro 2, I can't make quotas, I struggle to complete 3 waves. It's abysmal. It's the worst since SR regulars started leaving the game last spring. If I want to complete 3 waves, I MUST demote myself to pro 1, pro 0, sometimes Over Achiever. And now, I have to keep demoting myself to stay in pro 1, or pro 2. If I have 3+ successful jobs & rank up, I reliably won't get past wave 1 or 2.

I tolerated this new normal (for Pennsylvania, eastern US) for the past week. SOMETIMES I got a veteran SR teammate at the beginning of the 2 hour map rotation. Now, I can't even get lucky when there's a new weapon rotation over the weekend. This weekend, SR was almost exclusively purely SR newbs. It's astonishing. Nintendo's matching or difficulty algorithm is completely broken for this current game population in the US. I'd rather wait 1-2 minutes in matching, if that's what it takes, to match me with other SR veterans. That's what's needed, but not how matching works. Teammates don't take down Slammin Lids, Flyfhish, Stingers, Drizzlers, or shoot down Dizzler missiles. These people are clearly brand new to SR. If you're not dying from drizzler rain, you may end up struggling to throw a splatbomb into a flyfish bin, because tenta missiles are pounding you and shaking the ground so much, you can't aim/throw your bomb.

And it's amazing now, at this low of a rank, I frequently only get bronze scales from encountering or defeating king salmonids. I've gone 3, possibly 4 king salmonids in a row without a silver scale. WHAT!?

Salmon Run seems almost unplayable until there's a Big Run, maybe, or the next grizzco wild card rotation, or maybe a real good weapon rotation.

On a positive note, I've gotten better at one-shotting flyfish with Inkjet & cannons.

So, @CaleBoi25, if you see my SR rank is really low, like Pro 0, or Over Achiever, it's because I've been demoting myself as far down as needed so I can get king salmonids. If I get to pro 2+, I usually end up with a string of 8-9 jobs without a king salmonid encounter. It's so awful, and such a waste of my time, I have to demote.