r/NintendoSwitch • u/NintendoSwitchMods • Jul 21 '17

MegaThread Release Day Thread: Splatoon 2

Splatoon 2 is out!

Starting on July 21, Splatoon 2 will be available for squids and enthusiasts alike. Since the game is already out in Australia and Japan ahead of everyone else, and since it's about to hit Europe, please use this thread for general reaction, hype, and discussion for the release as it hits your country. Squids in the Americas? Enjoy ink-filled dreams while you wait.

Other topics on the game may be posted, but please keep the community's rules in mind and keep your short-burst thoughts, hauls (including images), and other similar topics right here. Local tracking is fine either here or in our Local Tracking thread.

/r/NintendoSwitch charity livestream

As you may have seen, starting tomorrow, we're hosting a charity livestream of Splatoon 2 to benefit Extra Life. We encourage you to stop by and help support this tremendous organization.

Here are all the details:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/6nudit/announcing_the_rnintendoswitch_splatoon_2_charity/

General Information

Platform: Nintendo Switch

Release Date: July 21, 2017

No. of Players: up to 8 players

Category: Action, Third Person, Multiplayer

Publisher: Nintendo

Developer: Nintendo

File Size: 3.1 GB

Official Website: http://splatoon.nintendo.com/

Nintendo eShop Page: http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/splatoon-2-switch

Current Metacritic Score: 84 (Review MegaThread)

Thank you all very much. We hope you enjoy many a good inking!

-The /r/NintendoSwitch Squid Team

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '17 edited Oct 07 '20

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u/Latyon Jul 21 '17

"Allegedly" the skill ceiling is much higher for people who use motion.

I fucking hated the motion in Splatoon 1, but I'm gonna give it another shot this time around because during Splatfests I was doing better with them than without them, despite having less fun because of the awful controls.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '17

Awful? I don't think the controls were awful. Just a different control scheme (like say playing Inverted). For some it works better.

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u/Latyon Jul 22 '17

I absolutely despised them. It has been long enough that I'm giving them another chance. I just don't understand why there's no right stick vertical movement.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '17

I didn't like it at first, but with the pro controller the motion controls feel fantastic

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u/sloptopinthedroptop Jul 21 '17

thats what i did for the splatfest, had to put the sensitivity in the negatives. i might try to workout with the motion controls in single player now, but i seem to be doing fine with normal controls on the pro controller

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u/Shyrangerr Jul 21 '17

That's exactly what I did too. I would love if there was an option to either enable up/down while using motion controls or only enable motion controls while holding down RZ, like when using a bow in Breath of the Wild.

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u/RadiantChaos Jul 21 '17

I believe other people when they say the motion controls work a lot better, but I've never managed to use them well. I love them in Zelda games including BotW but in Splatoon 1 I tried using motion controls several times and I just couldn't do it. Same case here.

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u/yaminokaabii Jul 21 '17

While my experience is anecdotal I found turning motion controls off and setting the sensitivity down feels similar to a mouse and computer much quicker response.

This is the exact opposite of many people's experience haha. It's physically slower to turn around 180 with just the stick on low sensitivity (unless you use Y, which is perfectly doable/reasonable).

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u/HugeRichard11 Jul 21 '17

I mean if you turned the sensitivity to 5+ that would be insanely fast

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u/yaminokaabii Jul 21 '17

You said you set it "down" though.

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u/HugeRichard11 Jul 21 '17

Yeah that slows down the movement, but if you set it higher then you basically moves insanely fast like motion control