Splatoon 3 - Sizzle Season begins 1st June!

[strawdonkey]

 

Might as well get the thread started now. Lots of cool new stuff in the video - that ink longbow looks amazing!

 

Things we know

 

Character creation:

 

- There are more skin tones and eye colour variants compared to Splatoon 2

- Hair is stylable now? This is clearly Very Important

- Creating a buddy? It's a small fry? I hope we can give it a mullet

 

Story and location:

- Inkopolis Tower is stuck in the ground? Either that or Callie and Marie's promo trips have gone a bit wrong:

 

 

- There's some kind of new city, served by the now beat-up subway trains. 

- Capitalism has sadly not perished, as Mr. Grizz appears to still be in business

 

Gameplay?

 

- New spawn animations - are those custom spawn locations?

- Longbow weapon

- New crab sub weapon thing

- New maps

- ...it appears the Inkzooka has made a return from Splatoon 1

(Basically all of the research taken from this post on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/splatoon/comments/lm6zfc/splatoon_3_megathread/)

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A sheet for RLLMUK Splatoon 3 players - drop your Friend Codes and Splat Tags (or whatever they're called) here!

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ef51fPvmpglEvPKqjeCXnAlDWWzxJ8g5m-rtlSZaYjQ/edit?usp=sharing

[MW_Jimmy]

I think it all looks great! I'm very much interested to see what they do with the single player campaign this time around as they have so much of the world built-up I could definitely see them going all out this time.

[Quest]

Looks fantastic. Setting based on chaos winning the final Splatfest?

 

The new city looks a bit Kowloon to me. 

 

 

[moosegrinder]

In. So very in.

[Gotters]

Looks fresh.

 

It's the only shooter I can play as my OCD nature and old man running away from all the other players suits it perfectly, I just find empty corners of the map and greatly enjoy myself tidying up and making the paint as neat and complete as possible.

 

There is fun in getting other players obviously, but the winning thru paint coverage and non violent nature of it is absolute genius.

[Talvalin]

I'm looking forward to getting this on Day 1 and not getting absolutely crucified by more experienced players. Oh wait, that's going to still happen anyway isn't it?

[Captain Kelsten]

Godawful trailer but day one for the game. 

[smac]

Well, my post saying that they would never do S3 on Switch aged badly.

 

*look at several thousand hour playtime* I'm in.

[BubbleFish]

Love the game and day 1 for sure. Not sure the trailer really gives you anything that suggests a sequel though. If you told me it was a new map and weapon in S2 I'd believe it. Did they provide any further details on the Direct?

[BubbleFish]

Sign that S3 might include reworked S2 (S1?) maps?

 

 

[moosegrinder]

I'd be disappointed if they didn't tbh 

[moosegrinder]

Splatoons Facebook page has been sharing some world building stuff for 3. Nothing groundbreaking or revealing but nice little tidbits nonetheless.

 

 

[moosegrinder]

Ok this is new.

 

[smac]

Yeah, spotted that in the trailer above. Great for established team play.

[Isaac]

If they gave this a free to play Splattle Royale mode it would be absolutely huge.

 

Which means they won't do it of course.

[Quest]

Good.

[MW_Jimmy]

Splatoon 2 has sold 11.9 million copies and is the 9th best selling game on the Switch.

[moosegrinder]

Yeah, it's not small fry. 

[Isaac]

No but I'm talking Fortnite huge.

[Marlew]

No, it wouldn't. That's absolutely stupid.

 

It might be as big as Fall Guys was for a couple of months. 

[Stanley]

5 hours ago, Isaac said:

If they gave this a free to play Splattle Royale mode it would be absolutely huge.

 

Which means they won't do it of course.

Fuck that. 

[Keyboard Koala]

New trailer:

 

 

 

Looks ace. Or sexbest. But I suppose that'd be up to the dekay-o-meter.

[smac]

Still only '2022'?

[Keyboard Koala]

 

Happy Halloween from the real squid game 😛

[Strafe]

SEPTEMBER 9th!

 

 

[Keyboard Koala]

Right after Summer holidays. Bummer

[Quest]

This is going to ruin my life. I can't wait.

[the_debaser]

I was convinced this would get pushed back until the switch 2 was ready. Hyped!

[the_debaser]

 

[Rex Grossman]

Sweet! I didn't get round to buying the Octo Expansion.