The Nintendo Switch

invisible squid plus roller is a popular combo in my games so far, people like to pop out and one shot you

One of the many reasons I'm loving the Octobrush right now is getting to use autobombs to counter people sharking like that

yeah, it's awesome that for every tactic there's an effective counterattack

yeah i'm still like level 8 so i don't have some of the good weapon sets yet. i just got the giant minigun thing which i have not yet seen anyone attempt to use.

also how do i do the dodge roll with the duallies that i see other people using? if it was explained somewhere, i missed it.

press 'b' to do the dualie roll i think

specifically while firing

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fuk team mayo, team ketchup 4 lyfe

despite this borderline hate speech i will add u

it pleases me that not even nintendo can fix the Sniper Problem in team shooters

i've played with motion controls for like 6 hours of turf war now and they still havent clicked for me, i guess its just different enough from other shooter controls that i dont have a gamer's lifetime of brain pathways built up for it. i feel like if it ever clicks i'm going to suddenly be 10x better at the game though.

how do I find one of these

I do recognize this is possibly the least useful venue to pose that question

i got mine via gamestop preorder, had to get a bundle with zelda and crap

online preorder i should say. this was about a month ago, i just happened to look at the site on a day when they had put more up. i think there's tracker pages out there for the major retailers

i just checked and the zelda bundles are available on gamestop now. i just bought one.

blarrrgh

i've kinda been hunting one for a few weeks tho so this is just good timing

among my people "blarrrgh" means "thank you greatly for this edification - your advice and narratives are important, but I cannot with all confidence follow the same avenues"

here, try this: http://www.istocknow.com/live/#device.0=switch&nostock=on&newstock=on&brands=7%2C18%2C3%2C27%2C24%2C26%2C20%2C22%2C11%2C23%2C2%2C16&lowzoom=0&position=35.032415%2C%20-85.15112729999998&zoom=10

the uk equivalent was how i found mine

btw i've never been happier to have been wrong than i was about the commercial prospects of the switch itt pre-launch, it's great to see nintendo doing so well (not v well at keeping up with demand, admittedly) - nearly five million shifted since launch!

i knew it was gonna be a success the moment i saw one in person, it's hard to understand just how small it is & how good it looks despite that, until you see it in action

yes its an absolutely pleasure to use and i can see why there's such a huge desire for ports of eveeeerything

i saw someone online idly wishing for a switch dark souls trilogy earlier and my heart skipped a beat, i'd double-dip on all three of those in a second

i hope they use white and red ink for the splatfest

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my wish has been granted lmao. this owns

gonna spend all day tomorrow throwing buckets of mayo at people

is it just me or is splatfest really underlining how wicked fucking incompetent people are at turf war

yeah the people who are good at shooting just fight over the center and don't help maintain the sides and the people who are bad at shooting tunnel on inking and die repeatedly to close range weapons. i am the latter i guess.

you need a good balance of the 2 to do well

i really love securing 75% of a map and losing because dudes called "ubergamer03" (or, well, fourteen-year-olds) keep suicidally going for kills over and over

mayo queen bizarro gazzara, checking in

spent a while on a team beside a player called 'mayonetta', who is now my hero

http://i.imgur.com/Ycew6hO.jpg

a great victory, fellow mayo comrades

SUCK IT KETCHUP

yesssssssss

Better go collect my sea snails!

wtf do i do with these 23 snails

Talk to Murch, he can add slots to gear or reroll gear abilities. Just ... don't ask what he uses them for.
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what a crock of shit, ketchup was robbed

SEE YOU IN HELL, MANNS

but for real i went from lv5-lv11 yesterday, hit ketchup queen, and feel like i figured out a lot about this game. really loved the level of detail in the lobby too (like the confetti strewn on the ground today!) - there's stray pro-ketchup graffiti all over some of the levels, it definitely feels like the day after some giant festival. such a cool game.

Lol team ketchup is so butthurt

http://kotaku.com/mayo-won-splatfest-but-some-splatoon-2-players-worry-t-1797572693

i mean they're not wrong at least about the majority of matches having been ketchup v ketchup

the ranked modes are a bloodbath compared to turf war, i just got 24 splats in a tower control match which is more than twice my highest from turf war

i gotta play splatoon? really? is it that good?

it's an exceptional online team shooter, but it's still a online team shooter so if you weren't into overwatch or tf2 or whatever then it might not be your jam

personally i can't imagine playing overwatch ever again now that i have this

i am allergic to online shooters in general but splatoon is wonderful, honestly

good piece on the appeal of splatoon, and the splatfest experience, here: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-08-07-team-ketchup-loses-everyone-wins-in-splatoon-2s-first-proper-splatfest

Since before E3 I've had a basically insatiable craving for "news" about Switch releases, it's terrible.

I never knew I needed anything in my life as much as the paint roller in Splatoon

xpost, a bit: I think what makes Splatoon so special is how perfectly the game's structure coaxes teammates to to cooperate, play the objectives, not be glory hogs, etc? Like, spreading ink is the objective (as far as I can tell, K/Ds have literally no effect on your XP, points or end of match ranking) but also a vital support activity for your teammates, the jump-to-teammate feature and relative deadliness of the weapons encourages people to work in groups (especially since concentrating on a firefight means losing paint coverage and a potentially disastrous amount of mobility due to enemy ink)...every design decision is just so fucking smart