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Splatoon 2: Your new octopus wife is here
commandercool:
Are you talking about pay grade, which I'm assuming corresponds to difficulty? It's tough to say because my teammates rotated a lot and sometimes they were good and sometimes they were bad, but the difficulty ramped up considerably in the relatively short period of time that I played. I don't know if it continues to rise at that rate or what the upper levels are like, but in around 20 matches I went from basically winning every round to winning about 20% of the time.
And yes, the short rounds are a HUGE boon. This mode kind of reminds me of that Overwatch event where you fight robots, and that was often a grindy slog while this is quick and dirty. Losing doesn't feel terrible because rounds don't take 20 minutes
commandercool:
Beat the last boss.
Spoiler: Wasn't quite as much of a spectacle as the first time and the music wasn't anywhere near as good, but it was still surprisingly difficult which is nice. Callie has an evil outfit where she gets hypnotized by DJ Octavio and it seems to have visible thong straps, which is pretty shocking for a Nintendo game.
commandercool:
So buying items from the Switch app is interesting. My understanding is that if you pick out an item on the app there's a vendor in-game who will add it to their sale inventory so you can buy it. The app items are the same name and appearance as existing clothing items, but with a different main ability. It seems pretty random what ends up for sale, but this at least offers a potential out to the eternal conflict between looking fresh and having terrible abilities.
Third Eye Lem:
--- Quote from: commandercool on July 28, 2017, 04:57:55 PM ---So buying items from the Switch app is interesting. My understanding is that if you pick out an item on the app there's a vendor in-game who will add it to their sale inventory so you can buy it. The app items are the same name and appearance as existing clothing items, but with a different main ability. It seems pretty random what ends up for sale, but this at least offers a potential out to the eternal conflict between looking fresh and having terrible abilities.
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Oh boy...At least you can tweak your abilities, right? Is that still a thing?
commandercool:
Of course. In fact it's much, much easier now. There's a buff you can buy that increases your odds of rolling a particular ability for a while, and there's a mechanic I don't fully understand yet called "ability chunks" that seems to be a currency that you can spend to just buy abilities outright.