I feel like they should reduce the chunk price to complete a gear set, like 5 for the first, 10 for the second and 15 for the third, so 30 chunks to complete a full gear set
THIS. I play Splatoon 3 way more than I ever did in Splatoon 2 and yet, I don't have a single ability where the chunk count that reaches above 100 because the number of chunks you need to change your gear is way too much imo.
Don’t worry, they will bring back the Captain’s hat for a salmon run purchasable item and it will only cost 50 gold scales. A small price to pay for a hat
Story Mode captain's hat: Hand me down from Cuttlefish who had no regrets hiving it away Salmon Run captain's hat: Only overfishers would have enough scales to buy this thing.
You want the Octoleet Goggles? Cool. That’ll be 150 Silver Scales, multiple days of your life you will never get back, and the life of your first-born child, please.
One thing that bugs me is the lack of music variety in battles, they have ALL the other songs from past games but you can’t listen to them for battles, and they haven’t added any new battle tracks since launch (except for the 1 splatfest song)
LITERALLY . It’s so frustrating to be able to listen to all of the ( tbh good and better ) past music only in the lobby but once I get into battle no sorry can’t listen to it anymore , why ? Idk (: listen to the same 5 songs some more
YES, I’ve been so frustrated about this! A lot of my favorite songs in the series are from the previous games, especially Splatoon 2. Hearing them in the lobby, it almost feels like the devs are taunting me. The songs are already in the game data, so why not put them in the multiplayer? I know some players would probably prefer to hear more of the newer music, but that issue could be solved by adding options for which songs play, or even the frequency of each song (kind of like what Smash Bros has).
I really like the Splatoon 3 battle songs, but yeah. It's frustrating that there isn't any problem with having the previous songs in the game, so why don't they have any previous songs for battles. Especially since they added the jukebox. We should be allowed to make a playlist of our favorite songs, including single player tracks, and have them rotate to the next track every match.
Probably the worst thing about Splatoon 3 for me was their choice to lock gear behind scales. I enjoy Salmon Run and in the past it has been easy to get Salmon Run exclusive gear by just playing a few rounds. Now they want me to grind the mode and get a ridiculous amount of scales for basic clothing, which aren't even related to the mode. I've been trying to grind scales in fear that they're going to lock Octoling gear behind it.
I kinda wished they made some items cost power eggs instead so they can become more useful in the game, for example I was hoping for the old returning salmon run gear would cost power eggs. But yeah i definitely agree with you.
@@jambon2730 It’s not pure RNG, as it’s based on either how much health you got down on the boss or how fast you splatted them The splatoonwiki goes into more detail
My biggest problem with Splatoon is it feels like too much of a grind, especially Salmon Run. I strongly dislike how they drop your rank every rotation and the scale drop rate is far too low.
the rank drop to 40 wouldn't even hurt as much if it simply had more ranks lol, the ranks stop at evp and it just overfills to 999 from there....only to drop down to 40 as soon as the rotation ends lol. The only thing the 40 actually helps is if you're in danger of ranking out and you gain 40 points lol
Agreed, I know most people don't consider it a problem with EVP 999 since it's an optional achievement, but it makes it such an impossible task it's legitimately unfair unless you're a pro player with 3 other pro player friends to play with- and en entire weekend to spend playing this game depending on your win/lose ratio.
@@dooplon5083It also sucks because sometimes Profreshional is legitimately worse than previous ranks UNLESS you actually manage to get a good team and oh believe me you wouldnt believe how rare it is to actually get decent teammates that actually pop bosses near basket and stop wasting specials on a single isolated boss…. And bro its not a skill-issue because ive basically literally mastered this mode i was even so close to beating the world record SOLO with randoms but next time we get a godly good rotation ill definitely get and break WR lol.
@@dooplon5083Salmon Run actually needs more ranks tbh or severely rework its matchmaking system because its consistently been harder at higher levels of play than Splatoon 2 and thats sooo ironic, since it should actually be the opposite given the new movement options and egg throwing??? And also general buffs to the weapons to be at least all of them a little bit more decent. 💀
@@SimoneBellomonte I think you're forgetting a key reason why it's harder now, the salmon are faster and we have more bosses as well Also yeah the ranking system is fucked lol, stopping at eggsecutive VIP is just criminal lol
Not a mention to Splatoon 3's matchmaking. Losing a series because of higher rank opponents (looking at their pins on their banners) is frustrating, and it happens very frequently. Yesterday farming in turf war I got a bunch of new players as opponents and they got absolutely annilihated every game. I'm really hoping for some fixes and improvements in matchmaking really soon
Oh my god same , I have no clue why they do this especially in ranked . I remember being in like B A or A+ and seeing someone with either a S or S+ pin on the enemy team . How does it make sense to match people with lower ranks to higher ranks ?
@@WahooYahoo they likely ranked down after a previous season, which is why they have the badge. i don't think it's possible for people to match outside their rank (besides maybe during rank up battles?)
It's not just about the skill of the players, it's also about the weapon. I can't even begin to count how many times I got two tri sloshers while the enemy got two tentateks. Weapon-based matchmaking is nonexistent
I think I said this on your maps video too, but I REALLY miss Splatoon 1's verticality in their map designs. While some of the stages were incredibly unbalanced, at least they felt different from one another. I feel like most of the newer stages don't have much of an identity compared to the old ones, and many of them just feel like the same stages but with different skins.
@@internetguy7319 GOOD verticality. Most splatoon 2 maps have verticality that doesn't matter or is too restrictive wheras splatoon 1 has alot more freedom with verticality that makes sense and adds options.
Custom Kits for not only private matches but also special Turf Wars would be a really cool way to extend the life of this game until the next Splatoon game comes out on the next Nintendo console
Honestly, with the edition of so many different main weapons, subs, and specials, I wouldn’t be surprised if one day we get custom kits in comp as well in a future game.
Seeing and Knowing your Splatoon Pet peeves are really nice and most, if not all, are very relateable for a wide range of players, including myself. Glad to see you speak openly about what you dislike about Splatoon 3.
Yes, but the community is starting to become annoying, for each "splatoon is a good game" video, there are x10 "splatoon problems" type videos. Giving feedback to the developer is important, but all that repeated (minor) complaints make outsider that might be interested on the game go away, thinking that is a bad game while in reality is pretty good.
5:41 This is for JP region. We have a huge tournament called スプラトゥーン甲子園(Splatonn Koushien) and regulation of this event is only main ability. So Nintendo added this function before last Splatoon Koushien in Splatoon 2 to let us immitate this competition. So I understand it makes tottaly no sense to not only NA/EU players but also AS players outside JP. But I just wanted to show everyone here to say its not meaningless.
@@ragingstorm_ But he sounds like he doesn't have any idea how this option works. And I am fully understandable why it is. Maybe he really knew what this was for, but you guys aren't. So I am here to mention it.
I do know what it is for, I was more trying to say it was the only use. I went to the NA Championship in 2019 and we had the same custom switches they used at worlds (I had the one Wadsm used) and it was main only. I just find it poor that that's all you can do. I Belive they've used those same switches since 2017 world champs and still did with the NA championship 2 weeks ago, so I get it exists for that. Basically I'm not upset that option exists, more that it's only that option that exists.
@@ProChara I didn’t know that this option was actually used other than JP. It’s really glad to here that! And I agree to your points that Private Matches have definite margins to add other customs.
I mentioned this in Ken's hot takes video, so I'll keep it brief. My problem with s3 is the flawed catalogue system imho. It feels heavily grind heavy and full of FOMO. It makes me feel that I'm not playing because I want to but because I have to or else I miss out on certain emotes that I want. Being able to unlock them from the gacha machine doesn't help much because you're leaving it to chance. I'd rather buy the emotes instead. Edit: P.S: The other problems you mentioned in this video are one of the main reasons I've been playing less and less. Combine that with bad matchmaking and you've got a recipe for "I don't wanna play anymore".
Not trying to throw shade at you because I'm sure you have good reasons not to play the game due irl stuff. But you really can't blame the catalog system since the game gives you 3-4 months to complete for every new season. So if you miss some unlockables, then that's kinda on you. I hope there's no harsh feelings 👌
The catolauge ain’t that bad, three months to complete, first win of the day being almost a full level, and the rewards (gear, emotes, etc) becoming accessable later on after. It isin’t any way near as bad as you make it out to be. Only a grindfest if you wait till the last minute.
@@louisaguila2905 Not if someone didn't get the game on launch day though. Person gets Splatoon 3 for Christmas but oh too bad, you didn't get the game 3 months ago so now you don't get stuff like the funni dab emote the trailer _advertised._ Sucks to suck! Or you're like me who decided to go into the game completely blind and didn't learn that the catalog system was a thing until too late into the 1st season for me to get anything meaningful. If it were just stuff like banners and titles and Tableturf cards and whatnot then sure, whatever, I couldn't care less, but locking bigger stuff like the emotes and even gear behind happening to own and be able to grind the game enough in a specific time window and if you missed it then too bad it's gone forever just kinda sucks, and there's NO REASON why it has to be like that. I fail to see how having that stuff limited-time locked like that is objectively better for anyone rather than if it were always unlockable, the latter just seems vastly preferable in every way, which is why I'm not content with the "oh well it's not that bad" argument, because yeah, it's not _that_ bad for most people, but it would still be better if it just wasn't like that to begin with. Especially since, if I remember correctly, outside of certain special events, there was nothing so limited-time like that in Splatoon 2, if I wanted to I can still unlock nearly all the gear and stuff in that game no problem even now (except the Japan-exclusive stuff, which also sucked). Adding them to Mystery Boxes and the Shell-out Machine now makes it better (managed to get a Drizzle Season emote I didn't have before from a Mystery Box in this season's catalog which was nice, wasn't the funni dab though), but even then it still kinda sucks for anyone who didn't have the game on launch day and can't play it daily, because it's now up to gambling luck.
I miss Ark Polaris glowfly rounds, still difficult but they were a lot more exciting than praying that a goldie didn’t knock your roller player off the sockeye tower
A huge problem with salmon run is the prevalence of shore bosses. Flyfish (in particular), stingers and big shots have too much influence at EVP ranks over 600, while not being as easily killable as they should be for their offensive power
Big Shot is balanced tho cuz at least it has the pretty cool (and insanely underrated) reward of dropping the Cannon other than also being a very BIG and easy SHOT lol, unlike Flyfish whos consistently always been the worst boss to fight both for risk and reward and still we got no nerfs for that. 💀
That wouldnt fix the problem for low-ranks tho tbh, rewards should just generally be higher for both if not all ranks, and then increase even more the higher you go, this way you still fix the problem of grinding but still making it a bit more satisfying to rank-up.
My biggest issue is probably just the matchmaking in general. I have friends who completely stopped playing Splatoon 3 because of how unbalanced the matchmaking can get and I fully get that. A lot of times the game just isn't fun when you're constantly being put against people who are clearly out of your league. And the weird thing is that from my own experience this wasn't an issue in Splatoon 1 and 2. Oh and of course, this is assuming the game is even able to start without getting a connection error or someone leaving in the first minute of a match.
Same here. I remember splatoon 1 was really smooth. I started 8 months later and i still manage to be in good level in general, the match making and controls were great and friendly. But 3 is a total oposite story, i started 1 month later and i had a record of losing more than 20 matches and i still was at really low level. I ended up looking forward more for salmon run but the grining is awful x,D.
@@Oronamin00 yeah, it's kind of always been there but I feel like it's gotten so much worse inbetween 2-3. It's pretty terrible that in X rank, the most exclusive rank, you can literally get matched with players that practically avoid the objective and things like that, y'know? Whereas your opponents are basically pros.
For me there are some things about chunks and abilities that I dont like. I think the ability tickets should increase the chance of the ability should be better (I've had moments when I didn't get any ability even with the drink) there should be a in game guide what says what abilities are more-/less common for a brand And the splatfest shirt should atleast double the chunks when scrubbing abilities off
When it comes to grinding, the catalog also feels very hard to do, even with the 1.5 Boost from splatfests and daily wins. I play almost every day and I’m still barely at level 40 :’)
The exclusive gear from each season is also frustrating :( I’m an incredibly grindy player (finished catalogue within the first month) there’s just no way to get the gear from the catalogue before. I just want the glasses from drizzle season dammit.
@@starlightrai I’m pretty sure gear is still in the shops after the season? Also, you can get all the drizzle drops from the shell out machine, so they aren’t really gone.
as much as certain things annoy me in this game (tickrate, needing better servers, etc.) its hard to ignore the great steps up from the previous game. going back to s2 is actually painful for me with the worse motion, special design (with exceptions), and even things like UI, and i really appreciate all of the improvements that came with this game
@@RA_0645 Same. Went back not long ago and had Rainmaker Albacore in the Ranked Rotation at the time, and let me say, while Albacore does have problems and is probably too big for most people when it comes to maps, just having such a massive map with so many areas to move and explore and ways to go and flank and whatnot felt SO LIBERATING after all the cramped-ness of Splatoon 3's maps, it felt AWESOME. Because like, to make up for how little room and areas to go there are in 3's maps, I had to get a lot better at optimizing the movement of the game and being aware of what areas and routes WERE there to squeeze whatever flanking or cover I possibly could out of the maps, and then going back to Splatoon 2 with those enhanced skills and awareness I didn't have before, and now being able to apply those skills to the sheer freedom of such a big open map, was so much fun and so refreshing.
There is no servers except for matchmaking, game is P2P ever since the first one, and the funny thing is the netcode would always get worse in-between games lol, ok maybe Splatoon 1 was a bit too host-oriented, that just doesnt mean the tickrate shouldve been the same in 2, that only makes it worse 💀, while Splatoon 3 worsened both netcode and tickrate with almost halfing it 💀 lmao (from 30 to 16 Hz).
Totally agree, with every point you make. I have 800k grizzco points and just got my fifth golden scale recently. I don’t have any issues with ability chunks, but I’m definitely not the norm since salmon run isn’t that popular (still that you can’t test anything is really disappointing).
Just the fact that someone could end up never seeing a Gold scale, even if that chance is almost zero, is insane. I've gotten around 10 and only have 230K points but that's ridiculous. They should enable us to swap scales for higher tier scales
I have about 800+ hours in splatoon 3 and a pretty hefty chunk of that has been solely grinding salmon run and i still don't even have 30 gold for something like juice parka
When my brother first started the game, he really wanted to do salmon run because of all the cool rewards. He was having a lot of fun, and then eventually fought Cohozuna after a few shifts. When he saw the scales you get on the win screen, he asked me what they're for. Having to explain to him that the coolest rewards in Salmon are locked behind scales that are 1. RNG dependent and 2. Take forever to get even a couple of anyway felt pretty bad. He was almost angry learning that those rewards would take so long to get...
6:09 Luci if you're reading this I gotta say, seeing you miss a stationary enemy wavebreaker because you flicked instead of just aiming at it is highly relatable and I feel your pain.
LMAO, i think exactly at this moment my wife wanted to ask me something so I glanced at her for a second and then i looked back like “what how is the wave breaker not dead?!?”
My biggest gripe is Ranked in general. I do like the series and open more than 2's 3 strikes and you're out for Ranked but it makes no sense that you lose your rank every 3 months. Also for me, it just kills any motivation to play Ranked and finally get to whatever rank you hit only to have it reset at the end of the season and having to grind back up to it. It's like getting a promotion to manager at a job but then getting demoted back to a supervisor on the next quarter.
I think chara mentioned this before that it's not too bad since if you don't play for a year you will be at a low rank but it helps as in if you're rusty you won't match against S+ players in your first battle
I definitely agree about the gear system being too expensive. I only have one gear set for my main and I don’t want to spend a ton of chunks to try out a new build. I’d really love to play multiple different builds or try out something after a balance patch but I don’t because I either don’t have enough chunks or want to save some for other builds. Everything should be just worth less to let people who don’t know exact what they want to try stuff out and see what works. It’s way better than 2 but just needs some work
Another weird thing about private battles is that while you can choose what weapon you have in Salmon Run, you can't choose the Grizzco weapons, even if one is currently in rotation.
Good to know Anarchy Open actually has really small losses, because I'm like level 30 and still didn't really feel ready for it because rankings give me anxiety but I'd love to try them out.
Don't worry too much about ranked, honestly you can grind in series if you're C tier even if you lose all 5 matches But yeah, open is mostly to play with friends or practicing the gamemode in rotation
i tried ranked in Splat2, and i stopped playing once one of my ranks had the double-cracks in the bar from the same anxiety. i _do not_ have that problem in Splat3. i've been having so much of a blast with it, i have learned that i actually like clam blitz. honestly, even if you don't care about being competitive or ranking up, it's just nice to have some other modes to play.
Yeah me and my friends jokingly call it "fake ranked". You can queue with a team, but it matchmakes entirely based on the person with the _lowest_ score, instead of an average or something. You gain 8 points for a win, and you lose 1/2/3/4/5 points on a loss, depending on if you're C/B/D/A/S ranked. You can see how there's basically zero cost. In C rank, it only takes one win to balance out eight losses! As opposed to Series, "real ranked", where you have to queue solo, you pay points to enter, lose nothing on a loss, and get huge points if you win several games. Tbh though if you're playing alone, I'd still recommend Series even if you're nervous; C- "pays" 0 points to enter a series, so there's literally _nothing_ to lose. The worst possible thing that can happen is that your number doesn't go up, which is, you know, also what happens if you don't play at all! And you'll be going up against a bunch of other C-tier solo queuers, instead of the chance of coming up against a coordinated team. My other piece of advise is to start on Splat Zones, since it's basically just fixed Turf War, you don't have to learn a lot. Paint the ground and keep it painted to win.
I've always had an issue with Salmon Run's policies. Just the fact that someone could potentially (though very low of a chance) never see a Gold Scale is absolutely absurd. I wish they'd let us exchange scales for the higher tiered ones or even let us use the power eggs we get to buy them. That way it incentivizes the greedy to actually help out their teammates getting chummed on
i didnt see any gold scales until i got past 200 vp. then got 2 in one boss. the lack of consistancy is ultimately what makes the grind so painful because it doesnt even feel like your working your way up to eventually earn the better rewards. youre just doing the same thing over and over and hoping to get lucky.
2:00 It took extra time because you did it suboptimally! Putting a second identical sub on a piece of gear takes twice as many chunks as the first (20 instead of 10) but provides the same benefit. You could have spread the swim speed, ink recovery, and quick super jump subs out more evenly between the three pieces of gear and saved yourself 30 chunks.
i miss when splatfests had all new stages. I get that they wanted to have a new gimmick with tri turf battle but i am not waiting in anticipation for that the same way that i did for the stages in splat 2. Even just a little bit of difference between the current stages and the splatfest versions like adding rails or sponges in places would definitely make it more like a fun event for me rather than just a day where i can’t play the ranked modes.
I don't mind locking gear behind scales, but if they do so, they don't have to worry about people completely selling out the scale shop, so they should make it much more affordable and less grind intensive As a bamboozler main, I dread the day I have to grind 50+ gold scales for the cap of legends because you know they're gonna make it expensive, I'm already saving up just in case it happens
Might be controversial but at this point I think that splatoon’s map rotation system is better than a lot of other games. I see in other games (mainly rainbow six siege) where the player base will avoid any new maps like the plague. I like that splatoon 3 somewhat forced you to play maps outside of your comfort zone and actually experiment and it’s a really nice change of pace.
100% agree with all the points made here, especially the absurd grind that's required to unlock many things in the game. I've had such a hard time collecting scales from SR that it's preventing me from enjoying the mode and having fun--I feel incredibly discouraged knowing that I probably won't be able to obtain many of the rewards even if I keep playing for the next few years.
Biggest problem for me personally is Disruptor getting snuffed, that thing was SO much cooler than Toxic Mist and would have been rad to see in this Splat 1-themed roster. Maybe it could become a hybrid of sorts, being a Disruptor when it land and a Toxic Mist if it hits the ground?
Toxic Mist isn't THAT bad, it just doesn't do enough for its ink cost. I did like the "1s lingering effect after you leave the mist" change that was suggested in the past that could easily fix the sub weapon. I always felt Toxic Mist was one of those sub weapons that doesn't need too much to be good buff wise, it's just the matter if it will ever get said buffs is the question.
@@silxer3154 I don't think Mist needs a buff. What it needs it having its cost reduced from 60% to something like 50%. It's a sub that can't kill, so why does it cost more than a Bust Bomb even after its nerf.
@@Ramona122003 No, mist certainly does not need to be more spammable. The problem is mist is a bad subweapon, but if it were good it would be be broken. This is because it has a much longer duration than other subweapons that aren't deployable like the sprinkler and splash wall. So my preferred solution would to make it a deployable like the sprinkler, where throwing a mist removes the previous one, and it can be destroyed by enemies. But in exchange it can be buffed significantly since spamming is no longer a concern. For instance it could last longer and be cheaper but easy to destroy, or it could stay expensive, but last forever and be harder to destroy or have a larger radius.
@@ulyssesb1842 Making Mist 50% wouldn't make it spammable since it takes half your tank and it has a delay on when it starts refilling. If Mist was 50%, you can constantly used it when retreating which isn't that different people throwing a bomb at you as they swim away. And buffing Mist wouldn't make it broken. At least no more than bomb spamming.
6:01 another thing they could add as an option for Private Battles: gun game! Every splat, you swap weapons. Whether that’s one’s that are predetermined by you before the match starts, or randomized completely is up to you. Yeah it’s absolutely massive and would require a good bit of work to implement, but it’d improve the games lifespan and make things a lot more fun imo
I wish we’d get new salmon run stages instead of returning ones!! I love the hydro stage and sockeye is so unique. Also maybe add more specials and fix the god awful reward system
Im glad the ability system was addressed (Im still trying to get a pure of qr, even when a piece of gear with a qr main ALREADY on the gear. But, im still struggling with just a PART of a build.) Just a casual player nothing to big.
the thing is about that whole “ranked is unlocked at level 10” thing, if you have data from splatoon 2, you could completely bipass that entire requirement gate and play ranked immediately as you get your name in game. they locked an easy pass to ranked behind another game
I’ve had battles where I experienced no lag but I randomly just disconnect mid match . I can’t go through one series without disconnecting at least once or twice
i am profoundly lucky in that i haven't had any lag issues, but my lobbies constantly wipe out and i have nonstarter connections. and even when it works well, there have been times when i'm doing solo queue and get matched with... the same people. over and over again. and i'm wondering, if Nintendo's solution to its shitty net service was just to filter my matches down to people i have good p2p ping with regardless, how disheartened would i be by how little of the world's playerbase is actually available to match with?
@@dackattac yea for me I don’t disconnect most of the time but instead half the lobby does mid gunfights which has happened twice recently I also notice problems with snipers hitting me behind walls me, dying after killing people and so much more bollocks
Got an Eero Mesh router to help with the Bufferbloat. That really helped me with my online games for the Nintendo Switch. Yes, it's not a perfect solution, but at least I'm not disconnected or lagging anymore. Can't speak for everyone, but it worked for me. ^^
The fact that the best way to grind for bronze scales is to have 4 people demote to the lowest rank, throw 5 games then shred the boss on the 6th shows how deeply flawed this system is.
I feel like Nintendo should have top player beta testers, just having top players testing the game before updates, pointing out flaws might help the balance.
@@splatommy7527Which explains why the balance was definitely better than all of the other previous games combined, but still wouldnt explain why both Little Mac and Ganondorf were bottom tiers lol, also Ganondorf being complete garbage for almost 4 games in a row if he wasnt as good in melee too (he was just average in melee i believe if im not my memory isnt mistaken).
I love your ideas for private battles!!! Those would all be an absolute blast. I also like the idea of testing any kit you want so that you can plan for skills and such. One thing I wish you could do is exchange food/drink tickets. I have SO MANY exp food tickets and I don't need them anymore, but I'd love some more full-team money tickets. It'd also be nice to stack them.
The problem I see with it is how 1/3 of the weapons you can choose rn are shooters and we still have only two splatanas and two stringers and basically two brushes(not counting the kits)
i'm forever going to be salty about how (currently) the only octobrush kit has probably the most useless special in history (in comparison to new specials like the kraken and crab tank..)
@@mr.anonymous8091 to me it's just so inferior compared to other specials and I feel like its uses are so limited in comparison. Like, I think typically a booyah bomb or kraken will cause way more damage than even the best zipcaster users. It'd be one thing if I had a CHOICE but because of the weapon I main I'm literally stuck with that special. Even the INKBRUSH got another kit. Not to mention the whole shooter bias thing, agh.
Man the custom game thing would be so much fun. With that you can have more tournaments, competitive and casual, give more ways for content creators and streamers to show off the game, and give more freedom to playing when rotations aren't in your favor. Having more options is always a good thing and I feel like most of the things you mentioned are things they could easily add as options. They might have to test some things out and balance a few here and there to make sure servers don't crash (like infinite specials but you can't use another until the other is over) but just adding the option feels like a no-brainer. And you briefly mentioned it but as a smaller addition I'd love to see more options to the training mode. The new area in 3 is a huge improvement but stuff like infinite tank / infinite special would be great for learning how to aim or how to get used to a weapon / special in general. Things like learning how to properly hit with Inkzooka or Inkjet would be way easier to practice if I didn't have to get my special back each time.
I really think you should be able to buy chunks directly for coins, maybe 500 coins per chunk. This is without even suggesting abilities being free and gear being completely cosmetic which I truly actually think is how it should be.
@@tacenda3250 you need so many chunks to do anything, maybe 2k max because that would mean 20k for a sub ability and 90k for a main, which is ABSURD and doesn't actually reduce the grind that much at all. You're suggesting 100k coins for a sub, which is just too much.
I would prefer some sort of trading system for scales, maybe you can give 100 bronze scales to get 1 silver scale and you can give 10 silver scales to get 1 gold scale. Wouldn't even be that bad if you could trade backwards too.
I mean, you do have a good point about the update cycle, im fine with it, but id rather have the weekly weapons so we get more content/fun at the same time! It gets very boring after atleast a week of playing with the new weapons, but either way, still love the game!
Agree with most these problems. Point 1 about the grinding, I think is such an easy fix and I'm not being a backseat dev a lot are just numbers. Hazmy recently did a video about all the Salmon Run issues and the frequency of scales dropped is terribly slow. Things like gear I agree with and to me the answer is just to make the juices a much higher chance of rolling than they are now, enough that with the right gear brand you're at 90% or something.
Your point about gear is so true, I’m always scared to spend chunks on anything because I’m holding large amounts in preparation for future season’s returning gear. (Enperry Jacket / Enperrial Shoes lol)
One personal problem I have is they way they handle ranking up for ranked battles. On paper winning 3 matches while not losing 3 may seem easy. But because of how dumb the match making can be, you can get stuck just wasting points. I kind of wish it was just "reach a certain point threshold" and then you rank up
Yeah, I'm getting increasingly annoyed by it and sometimes it feels like without the right weapon ur just wasting ur points I'm going for 3 stars on various weapons and combining the series system with matchmaking stuff and some pretty ass map modes I don't feel like trying to raise freshness on weapons I'm lesrning more to use. I often feel very limited in playstyle in Series tbh, I'd say 3 losses is way too little especially past S where one bad sequenxe of losses can wipe a lot of ur points progress And why not Open? Well because only wins give y money and losses give none. I hate that and makes it so I try and go for Series which often becomes frustrating
Once again, I just love how you address issues with this game. You actually acknowledge the issues with the game and give constructive criticism on it but not because you want to bash on one of the best shooter games in modern years for no reason, but because you want the game to grow and become the best version of itself. Glad I subbed to you Edit: just watched till the end of the video so let me just say my point of view on most of these: I personally think that all of these are just pet peeves to me (which you probably think that too but I’m just saying) and also in terms of the update cycle, I think it was greatly improved form splatoon 2 and the seasonal updates do add enough content for me (probably just fresh season, chill season was a let down) I really like the idea of a mid season update. I think what they could add is a tiny new price of content like maybe adding a single new mode or a new stage for salmon run like you said. For now I’m not too upset about how it works rn because I am usually still invested in the game by the middle of the season (because it’s splatoon 3, duh) but also because there is usually a new splatfest announced by then. Great video as always Chara Sorry this is long I don’t realize how much I type 😑
Definitely agree about the gear taking way too much grinding to get what you want, it leads me to playing the same weapon all the time because I can't get good gear for the weapons I want to try out. I don't mind the main ability being a bit more expensive though because I kind of like how it encourages you to use crazy outfit combos
Holy rip I can not agree with you more. Everything you said is so true. here’s to hoping they actually do make things better in the future. This game feels like it’s having a slow start, so hopefully they start changing stuff more and giving more content in the future. Epic video Chara
As someone who has a compulsive need to unlock everything in a game, the sheer amount of time needed to unlock all the Salmon Run and Tableturf stuff is so demoralizing. There's a Salmon Run banner for 999 silver scales. It will take literal years to get that and everything else.
One thing, that has been bordering me is the reset of your anarchy tank each season. Not only throws it the game's balacing out of the window, but also punishes players, who spend a lot of time grinding for an S rank. Getting an high rank level is in Splatoon 3 a lot easier than in Splatoon 2, so I get why, the developers would introduce such an mechanic. That doesn't change the fact, that Splatoon 3 discourages you to play anarchy battles. Why would you ever play a significant harder mode that punishes you from investing time in it, when you could just play turf war until the end of time? At least it's harder to lose your rank, which was the reason, why I was afraid of playing ranked battles in Splatoon 2. Games have to penalize a player's mistake accordingly, but it should never feel frustrating.
I think one crucial aspect that keeps my friends from playing is the ability to climb ranks in a group. In ranked you can only play single ranked matches as a group and not do the series. It’s so much slower to climb that way and discourages playing with a group. And most of my friends only Want to play with eachother
Then you could just get carried to the higher ranks and have to deal with the matchmaking for a C rank player and an S rank player, but now for meaningful anarchy series. The rank up system is there to match you against people your skill, don't try to rank up and instead try to get better, it will make the experience way less miserable and you'll end up ranking up by yourself
3:15 Honestly, it would be really cool if we could get 2nd casual mode added that implements the ranked modes and have that be accessible at level 5. It'd be great for the game since on top of giving new players a taste of what rank would be like, it would allow casual players to be able to participate in something other than turf war without needing to enter rank mode. It would also allow for players who can participate in x-rank the ability to choose between all 4 modes, or giving peeps in lower ranks to choose between 3, helping even further with preventing the game from getting stale. I also believe it can help out with binding the western casual and competitive communities together since it would give them a mode they could reach a common ground on Call it Regular battle EX or something
I agree with the grinding issue everything is so insanely grindy as someone who OFTEN plays splatoon 3 its still a grind! They definitely need to tone it back
Yes on the matchmaking, not only is it frustrating but it actively discourages you to test out new weapons because why would I want to my team at a disadvantage by trying out a new weapon. And having SBMM on casual modes like Turf War is completely baffling and complete ruins an already mediocre game mode.
The whole grind issue is one I entirely agree on. It took me literal years to get at least like… more than 4 gear I use regularly and switch between when needed for turf/ranked, and that was in Splatoon 2. But Splatoon 3, I got one good gear just mere weeks after the game launched. The Chunks system is more improved from the 2nd game, but you still have to dedicated to a grind for that good gear within turf/ranked, even with the fact you can get extra chunks from filled gear, that “28000” exp you need is still much for those “spare chunks” Lots of the little things and major things need to be tweaked so grinding is less painful, but not as easy as some of these “Free to play” games I see, that let you get literally everything in the game without spending a single penny. Like, maybe making it so drink tickets for gear don’t just increase the exp by 50%, but maybe 75% or 2x, maybe even having it so there are 2.5x exp gear tickets as well, and team wide gear tickets so everyone benefits from the ticket, much like the money and level tickets (except they don’t have the useless “50%” tickets) like at least in salmon run now, you get more tickets more often due to the fact it’s open 24/7, because you just get more golden eggs the majority of the times compared to Splatoon 2, and also because there’s a higher chance to get multiple tickets in a bonus. Meanwhile the RNG for the scales…. Well what van you expect? They can’t make it that easy to get scales, more so it’s a pain because of how expensive everything is. More so they need to half the price of everything rather than make it so you get more scales more often. I couldn’t care less because all I wanted from that was the blue slopsuit anyway :P Match making could also be improved, but it’s also something that’s factually hard to make better, because not everyone who plays the game has a consistent play. Like some days with my main, I absolutely slay. But other days I lose more often, or have an equal win/lose ratio, which is either due to me, or due to the fact I’m paired up with people who just don’t do enough. Literally some people will either not take the objective, or will go for kills more than the objective/inking turf.
Dude the PB ideas are killer... like for overwatch I really struggled to get into it, but what helped me for that game was custom match templates that people used that had infinite ammo and the like to help me jus, point and shoot without worrying about reloading. Something like that for splat pb would be kinda sick honestly
My biggest gripe with the game is hit detection. Certain weapons feel absolutely criminal in how they land and how they can do damage. In other shooters things like that would be fixed like within the week of discovering it but in here it's just something that seems to be looked at and accepted
Tableturf is also a grind in this game, the amount of exp you need to level up is ridiculous and it can take an hour or more at a time to level up, not only that but if you want to get character exclusive card sleeves you have to beata character on the hardest difficulty 30 times
One thing I can say for sure that I'd like for this game is being able to chose your favorite battle themes for your battles you do in turf, rank and x battles, I personally don't like hearing the songs change every time I battle, and instead, I'd prefer to stick with 1 song that gets me going of having fun in the game but also the intensity of the match
I've said this before many times and I'll keep saying it: As a backline player, the #1 most frustrating thing about the game is that you have no control over what your team composition is in solo queue other than choosing a weapon and hoping you get matched with compatible teammates. Like literally, every other team game lets you change weapons/characters AFTER seeing what your teammates chose, or lets you choose weapons/characters TOGETHER. It would be really simple too: After finding a team, the game should put you in a room similar to when you're in a squad/league/open party where you can see your teammates weapons and you have say, 30-60 seconds or so to change gear. That's it. It wouldn't even be that hard to implement since it basically already exists in those modes I mentioned. It's so frustrating getting like 3 backlines vs fast aggro weapons and knowing that all the other team has to do is run at us and we lose.
to be fair, i do agree with the idea of having different settings added into private play, but the one thing i would add to that is the setting to add AI into private play as well that way you dont have to sit and wait for people to join in if you dont want to
I'll admit, i downloaded Splatoon 3, kept DC'ing, and anger ordered the Ethernet adapter because of it. Im not mad I have it now, but needing to spend an extra $30 bucks just to finish a round was really frustrating.
to add on to the grind complaint, the catalogue needs to be easier to level up outside of turf war. I started playing ranked when I unlocked it, but when I saw how little the catalogue level goes up when you lose, I dropped it pretty quick. for the past two seasons I've only managed to complete the catalogue within a week of the season ending, and if I want to keep completing it I can't really focus on anything other than turf
Yes to SO many of your statements, especially the 'server' issues. I wish Nintendo would get their act together with the connection/net code AND with ensuring Region Lock works during Splatfest. Fighting Japan is a pain thanks to their internet being a 80% chance of lagging so hard that you start to wonder if their purposely messing with their router or entire teams disconnecting during a match.
I haven't had that much problem with playing Nintendo games online and I had zero lag and one or two disconnections during the weekend. But the game is selling well so if you want Nintendo to improve their internet by not playing the game or not buying the next entry the team and the main heads of the company will put Splatoon with earthbound and F-zero and more then likely not even bother doing any other games with multiplayer or online play period. You may say that I'm defending them but their are loads of people on Twitter and reddit who complain and defend some of their comments that may lack constructive criticism and will do it to make themselves feel justified. I like how Nintendo is updating the game and they even have a European championship and the game is growing and selling well but even if these problems do change the game is still viewed by a lot of people who view it as "kitty" It's a mainstream game that sold 10 million within four months and more likely has hit 15 million and twitch has it ranked with the most obscured niche games (niche games doesn't mean games that only have a anime artstyle)
@@maplemiles3381 Okaaay, I think you need to take a break from the internet and walk around for a bit. All I was doing was agreeing with Chara's opinions and giving my loose two cents on the 'server' issue. Is the 80% too much? Yes, yes it is and I haven't proven it to be true. But that is how I feel matches go when I face squads or players with Japanese ID, even with stable internet on my side. I didn't state that I wish Splatoon 3 would perish and rot in a toxic dumpster, I didn't threaten to boycott Nintendo or their Online service and wishing everyone who supports Online would suffer for it. All I said, was "I agree ProChara! Here's my thoughts on the matter." concerning a game I enjoy playing but wish had a few more patches. Have a nice day! (Or evening, or night. :)
@@jeweledexplorer3305 but how come the playerbase increased during the announcement. Or is it that Nintendo games sell no matter the quality you think I don't understand the big picture splatoon 3 is getting better and the feedback and sales paint a clear picture the weapons are quality and so are the recent maps and the meta is not stale and its people trying to find reason to complain but as they get told off they will defend their comment to feel justified like "I want them to do better" and before you say that I'm that person I'm not
@@maplemiles3381 Just a thought, but maybe the player base increased because of the announcement. Advertising does work. Do you think that where people are in the rankings might affect their like or dislike of the game?
@@CherylHenderson007 okay I never thought of ranking at all and their are loads of people playing the game how have never played it before during splatfests people just go right to the middle of the map and not bother and inking the base first. I'm happy that it's still selling well but now splatoon 3 selling well is a bad thing despite the recent patch. I've also questioning how thisbgame being more easier to jump into is being out sold by Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (brand name mostly) and overwatch 2 which are more harder to jump into but OW players say their game is easier to jump into then splatoon
im a casual and i completely agree with the map design (i noticed it during the splatfest demo) and the gear thing 100% the other things you mentioned are things i didnt know i wanted
I think the Splatfest tee's chunk costs should be the standard. 3, 6, 9, so 18 overall. That way players could really get into testing out new gear sets, or even feel confident enough to wipe one set and put different abilities on them. I know I really don't like to touch gear that's been "completed" even if I'd like to have say, run speed up instead of swim speed. It's just too much time.
The gear issue is extremely valid, but if I’m being honest I forgot that was a thing. I’ve been doing gear seeding since I had access to drink tickets and I haven’t felt the “I don’t have any good gear hhhh.” Before that though, it was frustrating to roll ink recovery up on my otherwise perfect RSU jacket for my splatlings
big thing for me is not being able to get gear from previous catalogues once that season has ended. i was really busy irl last season and wasn't able to finish the catalogue, and missed out on the onyx o1sters and the tentaclinger earring, the two things i wanted most, and for the time being they're completely unattainable for me
I heavily agree with NSO sucking more in Splatoon 3 than it did in Splatoon 2, and there's more to it than what was shown. The disconnections mid-match and pre-battle are well known, but then there's the addition of disconnecting post-match, despite getting the full results screen and still being in the lobby, and not getting any rewards for it. Another note would be the glitches. Even though many have been patched, they were still there. Sure, not every game is perfect at launch, but the amount that was (and still is) present is too much for how much hype was put into the game.
The map design and gold scales are my biggest pet peeves. I was so excited for Mahi-Mahi and Hammerhead to return since I never played S1 and I couldn’t believe how disappointed I was with what we got. It also didn’t help that when we got Brinewater, it just felt like they cloned Mahi with a few tweaks. It’s really deflating when Rainmaker or Clam Blitz (my favorite modes) come up and it’s just on the same open box maps over and over. Also I have no idea why beating a King Salmonid doesn’t guarantee at least 1 gold scale considering how hard these fights are. I’ve beaten both bosses multiple times but I still only have like 2 scales.
Mahi is the one that hurts and infiurates me to no end. Just looking st the map from S1 I can tell how fun and better it would be, but the one they gave us is depressing honestly
Some of the badges in this game take WAY too long to get. I don't think anyone is going to get level 999 until like 2025. It also takes SO long to get evp 999, especially on maps like marooners. Even with that, I'd still day the map design is the worst for me.
It's so annoying since it would be SO EASY to fix. If you don't have like, a whole team of pro players, you're basically doomed. Back in splatoon 2 they actually had checkpoints every 100 points, which would be SO USEFUL when EVP resets back to 40 every 2 days (which let's face it, when you're trying to get 999 points.. getting back to 40 feels like being set to 0.
I’ve heard through some other players that a possible reason for Nintendo requiring such a long grind for certain items is because they do not want players to get said items quickly and suddenly lose interest. Other shooter games like Call of Duty have something similar in the form of weapon camo challenges, however, they’re much easier to obtain and are usually the main focus of players when playing instead of trying to win matches. While I can understand the thinking behind this idea, the fact that you have items such as that one Salmon Run banner that costs 333 gold scales, when gold scales are already very hard to get, is just ridiculous.
The idea players will get bored if there isn't an absurd grind is a fallacy especially with this game, as things like the Splatfests, Big Run, Seasonal Content are meant to keep players coming back in and what truly retains players is a game that's fun while maintaining rewards that are reasonably attainable if you put in enough effort. Right now that jacket that costs 30 gold scales will take 1,500 scale drops on average if you're around VP level and getting approx 2% drop rate on Golds. Assuming you always get the 10 scale drops for beating the boss, it will take 150 bossfights which will be guaranteed to appear every 5 runs (though can happen in 3-4 a reasonable amount if you're lucky) which comes up to having to do 750 shifts, all of which require you beat the boss and keep your Pay Grade high enough that Gold Scales drop at a reasonable rate, not to mention a new rotation not only resets your Boss Meter Automatically (meaning it will take at least a few rounds to get a boss) but also pay grade resets to VP 40 at maximum. That's pretty unacceptable for the average player IMO... You should be guaranteed a bonus Silver/Gold Scale for killing the boss regardless of pay grade and the number of scales you get from the boss should be increased since even some of the Bronze and Silver Scale costs are unreasonably high
I 100% agree with the chunk grinding. I was lucky enough to get two of the all-chunks balls from the shell-out machine, and even then, that wasn't enough to put together a single full set of my desired abilities. For how small the benefits are from these abilities, they are WAY too expensive as a time investment.
Honestly I've loved this series for years and I know I still will but for now the game is frustrating me so much I just need to take a good break from it. I feel like this video didn't mention some of the outrageous issues the game has (in my opinion.) Everyone's already mentioned the matchmaking is absolutely terrible, where more often than not you'll get paired with players worse than you, while going up against players far better than you. Whatever their matchmaking system is it REALLY needs to do a better job at pairing players who have an actually equal skillset. Not just getting you on a win/lose streak, setting you up with easy wins then impossible matches one after the other. It's especially broken for competitive players trying to get high scores in ranked. I literally had a win/lose streak for about a week or so, where everytime I played series I'd win the matches just fine, but the SECOND I entered a rank-up battle I'd immediately lose horribly. It took me 6 TRIES. Which for the record, I'm not like really bad at this game or anything, I've gotten in top 20% big run, (barely missed the top 5% quota) gotten the golden toothpick in splatoon 2, etc. This isn't me being salty, this is the matchmaking system being broken at the worst possible timing. What's been making ranked really broken lately is the kraken. I will never understand who thought that special was a good idea when stinger got nerfed/replaced with killer wail 2.0 or whatever. The crab was bad enough, now I've got to deal with a LITERALLY INVINCIBLE special being spammed around the objectives? It's the worst on Tower Control where someone can literally just sit there and get free points until the special timer runs out. Sure there's knockback or whatever but I feel like it's so minimal I wouldn't have noticed if I wasn't told about it. It sucks on Splat Zones too where they can just camp mid and once again, you can't kill them, or re-take the zone because it's covered in their ink and a kraken or two guarding it. I mean, you know the special design was broken when pro teams would just have 4 crabs on them, I can't even imagine what it might look like now with the kraken re-introduced. It's made so much worse by the fact that some weapons in the game STILL don't have a duplicate, so while other people get their crabs and krakens I'm stuck with that useless wall-sticking special. (I know pro players can make good use of it but overall I think if given the option most people would prefer like, a booyah bomb or one of the previously mentioned kinda OP specials.) I still can't believe nintendo wanted so desperately NOT to nerf the crab they just kept making super specific weapons and specials do more damage to it, instead of just? simply decreasing its own stats. While I'm complaining about ranked, it isn't exactly fun going into X rank when I constantly have to deal with poor matchmaking, as well as only getting like, 20-30 points when I win 3 matches in a row. I swear I'm just getting really bad luck or something because I've gotten 200 points for winning matches before. And because of the matchmaking messing with my win-lose streak I can't really get anywhere because I'm just stuck with winning a few points, losing a few points, over and over and over. And I know this is a smaller issue to most people but until a checkpoint system is implimented that EVP 999 badge will always feel terrible to me. The fact that it takes around 7 hours MINIMUM and you only have 2 days to do it is just insane, I'm sure for players who have pro players to match with it isn't that bad, but for people attempting this mostly freelance it's an absolute nightmare. It'd be so much more attainable if you could just keep somewhat close to the rank you were at before but the fact you go back to 0 is so demotivating. It's especially strange knowing the system in Splatoon 2 DID have checkpoints. Weird pattern happening here with this and the server problems being better in splatoon 2. And a smaller rant here with most splatfest themes being so mid and boring that basically everyone is demotivated to play because they don't actually care about proving their team right as the best or anything. I had that with the chocolate splatfest, unlike others, because of how heavily people were slandering white chocolate, but with most of the themes it's just been.. eh. I think that's proof enough with the most recent splatfest, there should not be a theme chosen where one team gets 8% of the vote, that's a clear sign their themes haven't been chosen very well. I know I'm not the only one annoyed by the themes too, so, y'know. It's just kind of a bummer when a theme is so boring players don't feel the need to play much during the once-every-few-months event. Sorry for ranting this long but god I needed to complain about it somewhere. I do love this game and I still mostly enjoy it, but man, they've really got some issues they need to work on.
I feel like they should reduce the chunk price to complete a gear set, like 5 for the first, 10 for the second and 15 for the third, so 30 chunks to complete a full gear set
THIS.
I play Splatoon 3 way more than I ever did in Splatoon 2 and yet, I don't have a single ability where the chunk count that reaches above 100 because the number of chunks you need to change your gear is way too much imo.
@@MatildatheMoonwolf I have some that are close to 200 lol
And buff drinks to like 50% as well (maybe even make them guarantee the ability)
@@kwayke9 yup
@@MatildatheMoonwolf if u want to grind chunks play salmon run
Don’t worry, they will bring back the Captain’s hat for a salmon run purchasable item and it will only cost 50 gold scales. A small price to pay for a hat
Story Mode captain's hat: Hand me down from Cuttlefish who had no regrets hiving it away
Salmon Run captain's hat: Only overfishers would have enough scales to buy this thing.
oh boy i cant wait to get the bee keepers hat for 800 bronze scales
You want the Octoleet Goggles? Cool. That’ll be 150 Silver Scales, multiple days of your life you will never get back, and the life of your first-born child, please.
I wonder how much the frienship bracelet is gonna cost...
How about the eye of justice, which costs 10000 gold and silver scales and your soul
One thing that bugs me is the lack of music variety in battles, they have ALL the other songs from past games but you can’t listen to them for battles, and they haven’t added any new battle tracks since launch (except for the 1 splatfest song)
LITERALLY . It’s so frustrating to be able to listen to all of the ( tbh good and better ) past music only in the lobby but once I get into battle no sorry can’t listen to it anymore , why ? Idk (: listen to the same 5 songs some more
YES, I’ve been so frustrated about this! A lot of my favorite songs in the series are from the previous games, especially Splatoon 2. Hearing them in the lobby, it almost feels like the devs are taunting me. The songs are already in the game data, so why not put them in the multiplayer?
I know some players would probably prefer to hear more of the newer music, but that issue could be solved by adding options for which songs play, or even the frequency of each song (kind of like what Smash Bros has).
Agree. Omg my friends flamed me for this months ago. I want more tracks to listen to in battles because it's getting a little stale
I really like the Splatoon 3 battle songs, but yeah. It's frustrating that there isn't any problem with having the previous songs in the game, so why don't they have any previous songs for battles. Especially since they added the jukebox. We should be allowed to make a playlist of our favorite songs, including single player tracks, and have them rotate to the next track every match.
I like the S3 battle songs but they need to add more new ones
Probably the worst thing about Splatoon 3 for me was their choice to lock gear behind scales. I enjoy Salmon Run and in the past it has been easy to get Salmon Run exclusive gear by just playing a few rounds. Now they want me to grind the mode and get a ridiculous amount of scales for basic clothing, which aren't even related to the mode. I've been trying to grind scales in fear that they're going to lock Octoling gear behind it.
I kinda wished they made some items cost power eggs instead so they can become more useful in the game, for example I was hoping for the old returning salmon run gear would cost power eggs. But yeah i definitely agree with you.
Not to mention how scales are purely RNG and not even one silver is guaranteed after defeating a boss salmonoid
@@jambon2730 at least you dont need to defeat the boss to get a silver or gold one, but the problem is still there.
Ive been grinding salmon run a ton worrying that theyre gonna make the friendship bracelet super expensive if they bring it back it sucks
@@jambon2730 It’s not pure RNG, as it’s based on either how much health you got down on the boss or how fast you splatted them
The splatoonwiki goes into more detail
My biggest problem with Splatoon is it feels like too much of a grind, especially Salmon Run. I strongly dislike how they drop your rank every rotation and the scale drop rate is far too low.
the rank drop to 40 wouldn't even hurt as much if it simply had more ranks lol, the ranks stop at evp and it just overfills to 999 from there....only to drop down to 40 as soon as the rotation ends lol. The only thing the 40 actually helps is if you're in danger of ranking out and you gain 40 points lol
Agreed, I know most people don't consider it a problem with EVP 999 since it's an optional achievement, but it makes it such an impossible task it's legitimately unfair unless you're a pro player with 3 other pro player friends to play with- and en entire weekend to spend playing this game depending on your win/lose ratio.
@@dooplon5083It also sucks because sometimes Profreshional is legitimately worse than previous ranks UNLESS you actually manage to get a good team and oh believe me you wouldnt believe how rare it is to actually get decent teammates that actually pop bosses near basket and stop wasting specials on a single isolated boss…. And bro its not a skill-issue because ive basically literally mastered this mode i was even so close to beating the world record SOLO with randoms but next time we get a godly good rotation ill definitely get and break WR lol.
@@dooplon5083Salmon Run actually needs more ranks tbh or severely rework its matchmaking system because its consistently been harder at higher levels of play than Splatoon 2 and thats sooo ironic, since it should actually be the opposite given the new movement options and egg throwing???
And also general buffs to the weapons to be at least all of them a little bit more decent. 💀
@@SimoneBellomonte I think you're forgetting a key reason why it's harder now, the salmon are faster and we have more bosses as well
Also yeah the ranking system is fucked lol, stopping at eggsecutive VIP is just criminal lol
Not a mention to Splatoon 3's matchmaking. Losing a series because of higher rank opponents (looking at their pins on their banners) is frustrating, and it happens very frequently. Yesterday farming in turf war I got a bunch of new players as opponents and they got absolutely annilihated every game. I'm really hoping for some fixes and improvements in matchmaking really soon
Oh my god same , I have no clue why they do this especially in ranked . I remember being in like B A or A+ and seeing someone with either a S or S+ pin on the enemy team . How does it make sense to match people with lower ranks to higher ranks ?
@@WahooYahoo they likely ranked down after a previous season, which is why they have the badge. i don't think it's possible for people to match outside their rank (besides maybe during rank up battles?)
@@vyvadas When it happened to me it was during the first season
It's not just about the skill of the players, it's also about the weapon.
I can't even begin to count how many times I got two tri sloshers while the enemy got two tentateks. Weapon-based matchmaking is nonexistent
@@thehumanflintfun9666 It [the weapon-matchmaking] really is nonexistent; I hope this gets better but I’m starting to doubt it
I think I said this on your maps video too, but I REALLY miss Splatoon 1's verticality in their map designs. While some of the stages were incredibly unbalanced, at least they felt different from one another. I feel like most of the newer stages don't have much of an identity compared to the old ones, and many of them just feel like the same stages but with different skins.
most Splatoon 2 maps have more verticality than most Splatoon 1 maps
prochara is very biased lol
@@internetguy7319 GOOD verticality. Most splatoon 2 maps have verticality that doesn't matter or is too restrictive wheras splatoon 1 has alot more freedom with verticality that makes sense and adds options.
I miss Splatoon 1 maps so much....
Bring back Moray Towers, Nintendo cowards
Agreed. I swear to God every single new one feels either a hallway or too flat
Custom Kits for not only private matches but also special Turf Wars would be a really cool way to extend the life of this game until the next Splatoon game comes out on the next Nintendo console
Yes! I want that stupid Angle Shooter out of my Splattershot Pro!
Honestly, with the edition of so many different main weapons, subs, and specials, I wouldn’t be surprised if one day we get custom kits in comp as well in a future game.
Seeing and Knowing your Splatoon Pet peeves are really nice and most, if not all, are very relateable for a wide range of players, including myself. Glad to see you speak openly about what you dislike about Splatoon 3.
Yes, but the community is starting to become annoying, for each "splatoon is a good game" video, there are x10 "splatoon problems" type videos.
Giving feedback to the developer is important, but all that repeated (minor) complaints make outsider that might be interested on the game go away, thinking that is a bad game while in reality is pretty good.
5:41 This is for JP region. We have a huge tournament called スプラトゥーン甲子園(Splatonn Koushien) and regulation of this event is only main ability. So Nintendo added this function before last Splatoon Koushien in Splatoon 2 to let us immitate this competition. So I understand it makes tottaly no sense to not only NA/EU players but also AS players outside JP.
But I just wanted to show everyone here to say its not meaningless.
he wasn’t trying to say it is meaningless. but that there should be more options also
@@ragingstorm_ But he sounds like he doesn't have any idea how this option works. And I am fully understandable why it is. Maybe he really knew what this was for, but you guys aren't. So I am here to mention it.
Interesting. Thank you for the knowledge!
I do know what it is for, I was more trying to say it was the only use. I went to the NA Championship in 2019 and we had the same custom switches they used at worlds (I had the one Wadsm used) and it was main only. I just find it poor that that's all you can do. I Belive they've used those same switches since 2017 world champs and still did with the NA championship 2 weeks ago, so I get it exists for that.
Basically I'm not upset that option exists, more that it's only that option that exists.
@@ProChara I didn’t know that this option was actually used other than JP. It’s really glad to here that!
And I agree to your points that Private Matches have definite margins to add other customs.
I mentioned this in Ken's hot takes video, so I'll keep it brief. My problem with s3 is the flawed catalogue system imho. It feels heavily grind heavy and full of FOMO. It makes me feel that I'm not playing because I want to but because I have to or else I miss out on certain emotes that I want. Being able to unlock them from the gacha machine doesn't help much because you're leaving it to chance. I'd rather buy the emotes instead.
Edit: P.S: The other problems you mentioned in this video are one of the main reasons I've been playing less and less. Combine that with bad matchmaking and you've got a recipe for "I don't wanna play anymore".
Not trying to throw shade at you because I'm sure you have good reasons not to play the game due irl stuff. But you really can't blame the catalog system since the game gives you 3-4 months to complete for every new season. So if you miss some unlockables, then that's kinda on you.
I hope there's no harsh feelings 👌
The catolauge ain’t that bad, three months to complete, first win of the day being almost a full level, and the rewards (gear, emotes, etc) becoming accessable later on after. It isin’t any way near as bad as you make it out to be. Only a grindfest if you wait till the last minute.
@@VoxelChaos It ain't that the catalogue is bad, I just find it flawed. But I get what you mean.
@@louisaguila2905 Not if someone didn't get the game on launch day though. Person gets Splatoon 3 for Christmas but oh too bad, you didn't get the game 3 months ago so now you don't get stuff like the funni dab emote the trailer _advertised._ Sucks to suck! Or you're like me who decided to go into the game completely blind and didn't learn that the catalog system was a thing until too late into the 1st season for me to get anything meaningful.
If it were just stuff like banners and titles and Tableturf cards and whatnot then sure, whatever, I couldn't care less, but locking bigger stuff like the emotes and even gear behind happening to own and be able to grind the game enough in a specific time window and if you missed it then too bad it's gone forever just kinda sucks, and there's NO REASON why it has to be like that. I fail to see how having that stuff limited-time locked like that is objectively better for anyone rather than if it were always unlockable, the latter just seems vastly preferable in every way, which is why I'm not content with the "oh well it's not that bad" argument, because yeah, it's not _that_ bad for most people, but it would still be better if it just wasn't like that to begin with. Especially since, if I remember correctly, outside of certain special events, there was nothing so limited-time like that in Splatoon 2, if I wanted to I can still unlock nearly all the gear and stuff in that game no problem even now (except the Japan-exclusive stuff, which also sucked).
Adding them to Mystery Boxes and the Shell-out Machine now makes it better (managed to get a Drizzle Season emote I didn't have before from a Mystery Box in this season's catalog which was nice, wasn't the funni dab though), but even then it still kinda sucks for anyone who didn't have the game on launch day and can't play it daily, because it's now up to gambling luck.
honestly if they added the option to go to previous catalogues you couldn't complete instead of goin straight to the mystery boxes, that'd be nice
I miss Ark Polaris glowfly rounds, still difficult but they were a lot more exciting than praying that a goldie didn’t knock your roller player off the sockeye tower
A huge problem with salmon run is the prevalence of shore bosses. Flyfish (in particular), stingers and big shots have too much influence at EVP ranks over 600, while not being as easily killable as they should be for their offensive power
Big Shot is balanced tho cuz at least it has the pretty cool (and insanely underrated) reward of dropping the Cannon other than also being a very BIG and easy SHOT lol, unlike Flyfish whos consistently always been the worst boss to fight both for risk and reward and still we got no nerfs for that. 💀
I wish they made your boss salmonid gauge fill faster the higher your rank is. I feel like that could help make up for the insane cost of the rewards
That wouldnt fix the problem for low-ranks tho tbh, rewards should just generally be higher for both if not all ranks, and then increase even more the higher you go, this way you still fix the problem of grinding but still making it a bit more satisfying to rank-up.
My biggest issue is probably just the matchmaking in general. I have friends who completely stopped playing Splatoon 3 because of how unbalanced the matchmaking can get and I fully get that. A lot of times the game just isn't fun when you're constantly being put against people who are clearly out of your league. And the weird thing is that from my own experience this wasn't an issue in Splatoon 1 and 2.
Oh and of course, this is assuming the game is even able to start without getting a connection error or someone leaving in the first minute of a match.
100% and this issue gets like, 10x worse when you're trying to play ranked competitively.. especially X rank.
Same here.
I remember splatoon 1 was really smooth. I started 8 months later and i still manage to be in good level in general, the match making and controls were great and friendly.
But 3 is a total oposite story, i started 1 month later and i had a record of losing more than 20 matches and i still was at really low level. I ended up looking forward more for salmon run but the grining is awful x,D.
We had this issue in splatoon 1 (specifically new players randomly matchmaking high rank players) if I remember well
@@Oronamin00 yeah, it's kind of always been there but I feel like it's gotten so much worse inbetween 2-3. It's pretty terrible that in X rank, the most exclusive rank, you can literally get matched with players that practically avoid the objective and things like that, y'know? Whereas your opponents are basically pros.
@Oronamin00 Yeah, we did. God forbid your opposing team had a Japanese Charger. That charger would easily wipe out your teammates 😭
For me there are some things about chunks and abilities that I dont like. I think the ability tickets should increase the chance of the ability should be better (I've had moments when I didn't get any ability even with the drink)
there should be a in game guide what says what abilities are more-/less common for a brand
And the splatfest shirt should atleast double the chunks when scrubbing abilities off
I went the entire splatfest with ink recovery drink, didn't get a SINGLE chunk.
@@shybandit521 I hate it when that happens! And it happened way too many times to me
When it comes to grinding, the catalog also feels very hard to do, even with the 1.5 Boost from splatfests and daily wins. I play almost every day and I’m still barely at level 40 :’)
The exclusive gear from each season is also frustrating :( I’m an incredibly grindy player (finished catalogue within the first month) there’s just no way to get the gear from the catalogue before. I just want the glasses from drizzle season dammit.
@@starlightrai I’m pretty sure gear is still in the shops after the season? Also, you can get all the drizzle drops from the shell out machine, so they aren’t really gone.
@@emeraldxgaming570 it’s not in the shops if you haven’t unlocked them in the catalogue. I’ve been playing daily for 4 months.
@@starlightrai ah, I didn’t know. Though I’m pretty sure they are still in the shell out machine?
@@emeraldxgaming570 the shell out machine does not give out gear ;-;
as much as certain things annoy me in this game (tickrate, needing better servers, etc.) its hard to ignore the great steps up from the previous game. going back to s2 is actually painful for me with the worse motion, special design (with exceptions), and even things like UI, and i really appreciate all of the improvements that came with this game
For me, going back to Splatoon 2 felt really good.
@@RA_0645 Same. Went back not long ago and had Rainmaker Albacore in the Ranked Rotation at the time, and let me say, while Albacore does have problems and is probably too big for most people when it comes to maps, just having such a massive map with so many areas to move and explore and ways to go and flank and whatnot felt SO LIBERATING after all the cramped-ness of Splatoon 3's maps, it felt AWESOME. Because like, to make up for how little room and areas to go there are in 3's maps, I had to get a lot better at optimizing the movement of the game and being aware of what areas and routes WERE there to squeeze whatever flanking or cover I possibly could out of the maps, and then going back to Splatoon 2 with those enhanced skills and awareness I didn't have before, and now being able to apply those skills to the sheer freedom of such a big open map, was so much fun and so refreshing.
I DISAGREE massively, i find playing splatoon 2 WAY better, it just feels all the way better without the constant lag spikes
Lmao splatoon 1 and 2 are 100000% better Than 3 🤦
There is no servers except for matchmaking, game is P2P ever since the first one, and the funny thing is the netcode would always get worse in-between games lol, ok maybe Splatoon 1 was a bit too host-oriented, that just doesnt mean the tickrate shouldve been the same in 2, that only makes it worse 💀, while Splatoon 3 worsened both netcode and tickrate with almost halfing it 💀 lmao (from 30 to 16 Hz).
Totally agree, with every point you make.
I have 800k grizzco points and just got my fifth golden scale recently. I don’t have any issues with ability chunks, but I’m definitely not the norm since salmon run isn’t that popular (still that you can’t test anything is really disappointing).
Just the fact that someone could end up never seeing a Gold scale, even if that chance is almost zero, is insane. I've gotten around 10 and only have 230K points but that's ridiculous. They should enable us to swap scales for higher tier scales
I have about 800+ hours in splatoon 3 and a pretty hefty chunk of that has been solely grinding salmon run and i still don't even have 30 gold for something like juice parka
When my brother first started the game, he really wanted to do salmon run because of all the cool rewards. He was having a lot of fun, and then eventually fought Cohozuna after a few shifts. When he saw the scales you get on the win screen, he asked me what they're for. Having to explain to him that the coolest rewards in Salmon are locked behind scales that are 1. RNG dependent and 2. Take forever to get even a couple of anyway felt pretty bad. He was almost angry learning that those rewards would take so long to get...
6:09 Luci if you're reading this I gotta say, seeing you miss a stationary enemy wavebreaker because you flicked instead of just aiming at it is highly relatable and I feel your pain.
LMAO, i think exactly at this moment my wife wanted to ask me something so I glanced at her for a second and then i looked back like
“what how is the wave breaker not dead?!?”
I truly could not believe they made the final salmon run banner 333 GOLD scales and still have the drop rate for gold scales be like 1%
My biggest gripe is Ranked in general. I do like the series and open more than 2's 3 strikes and you're out for Ranked but it makes no sense that you lose your rank every 3 months. Also for me, it just kills any motivation to play Ranked and finally get to whatever rank you hit only to have it reset at the end of the season and having to grind back up to it. It's like getting a promotion to manager at a job but then getting demoted back to a supervisor on the next quarter.
I think chara mentioned this before that it's not too bad since if you don't play for a year you will be at a low rank but it helps as in if you're rusty you won't match against S+ players in your first battle
I definitely agree about the gear system being too expensive. I only have one gear set for my main and I don’t want to spend a ton of chunks to try out a new build. I’d really love to play multiple different builds or try out something after a balance patch but I don’t because I either don’t have enough chunks or want to save some for other builds. Everything should be just worth less to let people who don’t know exact what they want to try stuff out and see what works. It’s way better than 2 but just needs some work
Another weird thing about private battles is that while you can choose what weapon you have in Salmon Run, you can't choose the Grizzco weapons, even if one is currently in rotation.
Good to know Anarchy Open actually has really small losses, because I'm like level 30 and still didn't really feel ready for it because rankings give me anxiety but I'd love to try them out.
Don't worry too much about ranked, honestly you can grind in series if you're C tier even if you lose all 5 matches
But yeah, open is mostly to play with friends or practicing the gamemode in rotation
i tried ranked in Splat2, and i stopped playing once one of my ranks had the double-cracks in the bar from the same anxiety. i _do not_ have that problem in Splat3. i've been having so much of a blast with it, i have learned that i actually like clam blitz. honestly, even if you don't care about being competitive or ranking up, it's just nice to have some other modes to play.
Yeah me and my friends jokingly call it "fake ranked". You can queue with a team, but it matchmakes entirely based on the person with the _lowest_ score, instead of an average or something.
You gain 8 points for a win, and you lose 1/2/3/4/5 points on a loss, depending on if you're C/B/D/A/S ranked. You can see how there's basically zero cost. In C rank, it only takes one win to balance out eight losses!
As opposed to Series, "real ranked", where you have to queue solo, you pay points to enter, lose nothing on a loss, and get huge points if you win several games.
Tbh though if you're playing alone, I'd still recommend Series even if you're nervous; C- "pays" 0 points to enter a series, so there's literally _nothing_ to lose. The worst possible thing that can happen is that your number doesn't go up, which is, you know, also what happens if you don't play at all! And you'll be going up against a bunch of other C-tier solo queuers, instead of the chance of coming up against a coordinated team.
My other piece of advise is to start on Splat Zones, since it's basically just fixed Turf War, you don't have to learn a lot. Paint the ground and keep it painted to win.
I've always had an issue with Salmon Run's policies. Just the fact that someone could potentially (though very low of a chance) never see a Gold Scale is absolutely absurd. I wish they'd let us exchange scales for the higher tiered ones or even let us use the power eggs we get to buy them. That way it incentivizes the greedy to actually help out their teammates getting chummed on
i didnt see any gold scales until i got past 200 vp. then got 2 in one boss. the lack of consistancy is ultimately what makes the grind so painful because it doesnt even feel like your working your way up to eventually earn the better rewards. youre just doing the same thing over and over and hoping to get lucky.
2:00 It took extra time because you did it suboptimally! Putting a second identical sub on a piece of gear takes twice as many chunks as the first (20 instead of 10) but provides the same benefit.
You could have spread the swim speed, ink recovery, and quick super jump subs out more evenly between the three pieces of gear and saved yourself 30 chunks.
i miss when splatfests had all new stages. I get that they wanted to have a new gimmick with tri turf battle but i am not waiting in anticipation for that the same way that i did for the stages in splat 2. Even just a little bit of difference between the current stages and the splatfest versions like adding rails or sponges in places would definitely make it more like a fun event for me rather than just a day where i can’t play the ranked modes.
I don't mind locking gear behind scales, but if they do so, they don't have to worry about people completely selling out the scale shop, so they should make it much more affordable and less grind intensive
As a bamboozler main, I dread the day I have to grind 50+ gold scales for the cap of legends because you know they're gonna make it expensive, I'm already saving up just in case it happens
Might be controversial but at this point I think that splatoon’s map rotation system is better than a lot of other games. I see in other games (mainly rainbow six siege) where the player base will avoid any new maps like the plague. I like that splatoon 3 somewhat forced you to play maps outside of your comfort zone and actually experiment and it’s a really nice change of pace.
Yeah but tbh id like to have a bit of both of the systems, because playing Tower on both Mincemeat and Mahi or Brinewater is just down horrendous. 💀
100% agree with all the points made here, especially the absurd grind that's required to unlock many things in the game. I've had such a hard time collecting scales from SR that it's preventing me from enjoying the mode and having fun--I feel incredibly discouraged knowing that I probably won't be able to obtain many of the rewards even if I keep playing for the next few years.
I fought a Cohozuna boss salmonoid 1 or 2 times per day for 6 MONTHS to get the white slop suit. It's way too much of a grind
Biggest problem for me personally is Disruptor getting snuffed, that thing was SO much cooler than Toxic Mist and would have been rad to see in this Splat 1-themed roster.
Maybe it could become a hybrid of sorts, being a Disruptor when it land and a Toxic Mist if it hits the ground?
did you even play splatoon 1 nobody liked playing against disruptor
can't play the game until it ends wooo
Toxic Mist isn't THAT bad, it just doesn't do enough for its ink cost. I did like the "1s lingering effect after you leave the mist" change that was suggested in the past that could easily fix the sub weapon.
I always felt Toxic Mist was one of those sub weapons that doesn't need too much to be good buff wise, it's just the matter if it will ever get said buffs is the question.
@@silxer3154 I don't think Mist needs a buff. What it needs it having its cost reduced from 60% to something like 50%. It's a sub that can't kill, so why does it cost more than a Bust Bomb even after its nerf.
@@Ramona122003 No, mist certainly does not need to be more spammable. The problem is mist is a bad subweapon, but if it were good it would be be broken. This is because it has a much longer duration than other subweapons that aren't deployable like the sprinkler and splash wall.
So my preferred solution would to make it a deployable like the sprinkler, where throwing a mist removes the previous one, and it can be destroyed by enemies. But in exchange it can be buffed significantly since spamming is no longer a concern. For instance it could last longer and be cheaper but easy to destroy, or it could stay expensive, but last forever and be harder to destroy or have a larger radius.
@@ulyssesb1842 Making Mist 50% wouldn't make it spammable since it takes half your tank and it has a delay on when it starts refilling. If Mist was 50%, you can constantly used it when retreating which isn't that different people throwing a bomb at you as they swim away.
And buffing Mist wouldn't make it broken. At least no more than bomb spamming.
6:01 another thing they could add as an option for Private Battles: gun game! Every splat, you swap weapons. Whether that’s one’s that are predetermined by you before the match starts, or randomized completely is up to you.
Yeah it’s absolutely massive and would require a good bit of work to implement, but it’d improve the games lifespan and make things a lot more fun imo
I wish we’d get new salmon run stages instead of returning ones!! I love the hydro stage and sockeye is so unique. Also maybe add more specials and fix the god awful reward system
Im glad the ability system was addressed (Im still trying to get a pure of qr, even when a piece of gear with a qr main ALREADY on the gear. But, im still struggling with just a PART of a build.) Just a casual player nothing to big.
Just use gear seeds. It's super easy and there is a good tutorial on youtube by Chase247. It makes making perfect gear SUPER fast
the thing is about that whole “ranked is unlocked at level 10” thing, if you have data from splatoon 2, you could completely bipass that entire requirement gate and play ranked immediately as you get your name in game. they locked an easy pass to ranked behind another game
I would say the servers, net code and Wi-Fi problems have been pretty noticeable even in X battles for me
I’ve had battles where I experienced no lag but I randomly just disconnect mid match . I can’t go through one series without disconnecting at least once or twice
i am profoundly lucky in that i haven't had any lag issues, but my lobbies constantly wipe out and i have nonstarter connections. and even when it works well, there have been times when i'm doing solo queue and get matched with... the same people. over and over again. and i'm wondering, if Nintendo's solution to its shitty net service was just to filter my matches down to people i have good p2p ping with regardless, how disheartened would i be by how little of the world's playerbase is actually available to match with?
@@dackattac yea for me I don’t disconnect most of the time but instead half the lobby does mid gunfights which has happened twice recently
I also notice problems with snipers hitting me behind walls me, dying after killing people and so much more bollocks
Got an Eero Mesh router to help with the Bufferbloat. That really helped me with my online games for the Nintendo Switch.
Yes, it's not a perfect solution, but at least I'm not disconnected or lagging anymore. Can't speak for everyone, but it worked for me. ^^
I agree with the point about the rewards for Salmon Run. It’s so expensive time wise that it’s almost discouraging.
6:35 um uhh how do we tell him
The fact that the best way to grind for bronze scales is to have 4 people demote to the lowest rank, throw 5 games then shred the boss on the 6th shows how deeply flawed this system is.
I feel like Nintendo should have top player beta testers, just having top players testing the game before updates, pointing out flaws might help the balance.
or just a public beta environment for anyone so they can try more extreme changes without disrupting the main branch
I heard they did this with Smash Ultimate
On a parallel universe, perhaps.
But we're stuck with this universe's Nintendo instead. Not too bad, but nowhere near as good.
@@splatommy7527Which explains why the balance was definitely better than all of the other previous games combined, but still wouldnt explain why both Little Mac and Ganondorf were bottom tiers lol, also Ganondorf being complete garbage for almost 4 games in a row if he wasnt as good in melee too (he was just average in melee i believe if im not my memory isnt mistaken).
I love your ideas for private battles!!! Those would all be an absolute blast. I also like the idea of testing any kit you want so that you can plan for skills and such. One thing I wish you could do is exchange food/drink tickets. I have SO MANY exp food tickets and I don't need them anymore, but I'd love some more full-team money tickets. It'd also be nice to stack them.
The problem I see with it is how 1/3 of the weapons you can choose rn are shooters and we still have only two splatanas and two stringers and basically two brushes(not counting the kits)
i'm forever going to be salty about how (currently) the only octobrush kit has probably the most useless special in history (in comparison to new specials like the kraken and crab tank..)
@@-mothman- Zipcaster ain't that bad.
But I also feel like the reason they made uninkable walls is because they wanted players to use Zipcaster more.
@@-mothman- I’ve personally been fine with zipcaster cause I main stamper so I’ve just gotten better at using it.
@@mr.anonymous8091 to me it's just so inferior compared to other specials and I feel like its uses are so limited in comparison. Like, I think typically a booyah bomb or kraken will cause way more damage than even the best zipcaster users. It'd be one thing if I had a CHOICE but because of the weapon I main I'm literally stuck with that special. Even the INKBRUSH got another kit. Not to mention the whole shooter bias thing, agh.
Man the custom game thing would be so much fun. With that you can have more tournaments, competitive and casual, give more ways for content creators and streamers to show off the game, and give more freedom to playing when rotations aren't in your favor. Having more options is always a good thing and I feel like most of the things you mentioned are things they could easily add as options. They might have to test some things out and balance a few here and there to make sure servers don't crash (like infinite specials but you can't use another until the other is over) but just adding the option feels like a no-brainer.
And you briefly mentioned it but as a smaller addition I'd love to see more options to the training mode. The new area in 3 is a huge improvement but stuff like infinite tank / infinite special would be great for learning how to aim or how to get used to a weapon / special in general. Things like learning how to properly hit with Inkzooka or Inkjet would be way easier to practice if I didn't have to get my special back each time.
I really think you should be able to buy chunks directly for coins, maybe 500 coins per chunk. This is without even suggesting abilities being free and gear being completely cosmetic which I truly actually think is how it should be.
500 is REALLY cheap. More like 10000
@@tacenda3250 you need so many chunks to do anything, maybe 2k max because that would mean 20k for a sub ability and 90k for a main, which is ABSURD and doesn't actually reduce the grind that much at all. You're suggesting 100k coins for a sub, which is just too much.
I would prefer some sort of trading system for scales, maybe you can give 100 bronze scales to get 1 silver scale and you can give 10 silver scales to get 1 gold scale. Wouldn't even be that bad if you could trade backwards too.
“When League drops” we’ll keep waiting my friend. We’ll wait till half life 3
I mean, you do have a good point about the update cycle, im fine with it, but id rather have the weekly weapons so we get more content/fun at the same time! It gets very boring after atleast a week of playing with the new weapons, but either way, still love the game!
I felt sometime desperate when my salmon boss gauge is full charge, but after finaly winning one match to confront the boss, he doesn't appear
Agree with most these problems.
Point 1 about the grinding, I think is such an easy fix and I'm not being a backseat dev a lot are just numbers.
Hazmy recently did a video about all the Salmon Run issues and the frequency of scales dropped is terribly slow.
Things like gear I agree with and to me the answer is just to make the juices a much higher chance of rolling than they are now, enough that with the right gear brand you're at 90% or something.
Your point about gear is so true, I’m always scared to spend chunks on anything because I’m holding large amounts in preparation for future season’s returning gear. (Enperry Jacket / Enperrial Shoes lol)
I'm actually very surprised the Salmon Run shells system hasn't been revamped yet
One personal problem I have is they way they handle ranking up for ranked battles. On paper winning 3 matches while not losing 3 may seem easy. But because of how dumb the match making can be, you can get stuck just wasting points. I kind of wish it was just "reach a certain point threshold" and then you rank up
Yeah, I'm getting increasingly annoyed by it and sometimes it feels like without the right weapon ur just wasting ur points
I'm going for 3 stars on various weapons and combining the series system with matchmaking stuff and some pretty ass map modes I don't feel like trying to raise freshness on weapons I'm lesrning more to use.
I often feel very limited in playstyle in Series tbh, I'd say 3 losses is way too little especially past S where one bad sequenxe of losses can wipe a lot of ur points progress
And why not Open? Well because only wins give y money and losses give none. I hate that and makes it so I try and go for Series which often becomes frustrating
Once again, I just love how you address issues with this game. You actually acknowledge the issues with the game and give constructive criticism on it but not because you want to bash on one of the best shooter games in modern years for no reason, but because you want the game to grow and become the best version of itself. Glad I subbed to you
Edit: just watched till the end of the video so let me just say my point of view on most of these:
I personally think that all of these are just pet peeves to me (which you probably think that too but I’m just saying) and also in terms of the update cycle, I think it was greatly improved form splatoon 2 and the seasonal updates do add enough content for me (probably just fresh season, chill season was a let down) I really like the idea of a mid season update. I think what they could add is a tiny new price of content like maybe adding a single new mode or a new stage for salmon run like you said. For now I’m not too upset about how it works rn because I am usually still invested in the game by the middle of the season (because it’s splatoon 3, duh) but also because there is usually a new splatfest announced by then. Great video as always Chara
Sorry this is long I don’t realize how much I type 😑
The biggest problem for me is ultra stamp being really laggy, which is sad, because I main L3 D.
Wasn't Stamp buffed though?
@@Aego384 yes, but it’s still very buggy, it’s better, but hopefully be the real stamp when fixed.
Definitely agree about the gear taking way too much grinding to get what you want, it leads me to playing the same weapon all the time because I can't get good gear for the weapons I want to try out. I don't mind the main ability being a bit more expensive though because I kind of like how it encourages you to use crazy outfit combos
Holy rip I can not agree with you more. Everything you said is so true. here’s to hoping they actually do make things better in the future. This game feels like it’s having a slow start, so hopefully they start changing stuff more and giving more content in the future. Epic video Chara
Whoever edited has great taste in music!
As someone who has a compulsive need to unlock everything in a game, the sheer amount of time needed to unlock all the Salmon Run and Tableturf stuff is so demoralizing. There's a Salmon Run banner for 999 silver scales. It will take literal years to get that and everything else.
One thing, that has been bordering me is the reset of your anarchy tank each season. Not only throws it the game's balacing out of the window, but also punishes players, who spend a lot of time grinding for an S rank. Getting an high rank level is in Splatoon 3 a lot easier than in Splatoon 2, so I get why, the developers would introduce such an mechanic. That doesn't change the fact, that Splatoon 3 discourages you to play anarchy battles. Why would you ever play a significant harder mode that punishes you from investing time in it, when you could just play turf war until the end of time? At least it's harder to lose your rank, which was the reason, why I was afraid of playing ranked battles in Splatoon 2. Games have to penalize a player's mistake accordingly, but it should never feel frustrating.
I think one crucial aspect that keeps my friends from playing is the ability to climb ranks in a group. In ranked you can only play single ranked matches as a group and not do the series. It’s so much slower to climb that way and discourages playing with a group. And most of my friends only Want to play with eachother
Form a team and enter low ink!
That would be broken because you would not be able to have it only queue with teams, because there aren't enough that play that consistently
Then you could just get carried to the higher ranks and have to deal with the matchmaking for a C rank player and an S rank player, but now for meaningful anarchy series. The rank up system is there to match you against people your skill, don't try to rank up and instead try to get better, it will make the experience way less miserable and you'll end up ranking up by yourself
I can never find people to play splatoon with?
I once suggested custom kits on Twitter. They called it the worst idea ever.
Every match would just be splatbomb
Twitter complains about anything
Nice video keep up the good work, also nice to see almost daily content.🦑
3:15 Honestly, it would be really cool if we could get 2nd casual mode added that implements the ranked modes and have that be accessible at level 5.
It'd be great for the game since on top of giving new players a taste of what rank would be like, it would allow casual players to be able to participate in something other than turf war without needing to enter rank mode. It would also allow for players who can participate in x-rank the ability to choose between all 4 modes, or giving peeps in lower ranks to choose between 3, helping even further with preventing the game from getting stale. I also believe it can help out with binding the western casual and competitive communities together since it would give them a mode they could reach a common ground on
Call it Regular battle EX or something
Love the Triangle Strategy music at the end ❤
I agree with the grinding issue everything is so insanely grindy as someone who OFTEN plays splatoon 3 its still a grind! They definitely need to tone it back
Ink saver sub chunks are solo rare if you don't save them up, & also the tickets. I really just wish there was a store where you could buy chunks
Yes on the matchmaking, not only is it frustrating but it actively discourages you to test out new weapons because why would I want to my team at a disadvantage by trying out a new weapon. And having SBMM on casual modes like Turf War is completely baffling and complete ruins an already mediocre game mode.
"once league is added" man....
I got so sad when I heard that in this video
Same thought too lol
I want to see a shift shuffle mode or something where it’s standard multiplayer modes, but with salmon run gimmicks.
The whole grind issue is one I entirely agree on. It took me literal years to get at least like… more than 4 gear I use regularly and switch between when needed for turf/ranked, and that was in Splatoon 2. But Splatoon 3, I got one good gear just mere weeks after the game launched. The Chunks system is more improved from the 2nd game, but you still have to dedicated to a grind for that good gear within turf/ranked, even with the fact you can get extra chunks from filled gear, that “28000” exp you need is still much for those “spare chunks”
Lots of the little things and major things need to be tweaked so grinding is less painful, but not as easy as some of these “Free to play” games I see, that let you get literally everything in the game without spending a single penny. Like, maybe making it so drink tickets for gear don’t just increase the exp by 50%, but maybe 75% or 2x, maybe even having it so there are 2.5x exp gear tickets as well, and team wide gear tickets so everyone benefits from the ticket, much like the money and level tickets (except they don’t have the useless “50%” tickets) like at least in salmon run now, you get more tickets more often due to the fact it’s open 24/7, because you just get more golden eggs the majority of the times compared to Splatoon 2, and also because there’s a higher chance to get multiple tickets in a bonus.
Meanwhile the RNG for the scales…. Well what van you expect? They can’t make it that easy to get scales, more so it’s a pain because of how expensive everything is. More so they need to half the price of everything rather than make it so you get more scales more often. I couldn’t care less because all I wanted from that was the blue slopsuit anyway :P
Match making could also be improved, but it’s also something that’s factually hard to make better, because not everyone who plays the game has a consistent play. Like some days with my main, I absolutely slay. But other days I lose more often, or have an equal win/lose ratio, which is either due to me, or due to the fact I’m paired up with people who just don’t do enough. Literally some people will either not take the objective, or will go for kills more than the objective/inking turf.
you nailed it on the grind section. it is abysmal
I think having the ranked game modes in like a “party playlist” would be really nice
Dude the PB ideas are killer... like for overwatch I really struggled to get into it, but what helped me for that game was custom match templates that people used that had infinite ammo and the like to help me jus, point and shoot without worrying about reloading. Something like that for splat pb would be kinda sick honestly
My biggest gripe with the game is hit detection. Certain weapons feel absolutely criminal in how they land and how they can do damage. In other shooters things like that would be fixed like within the week of discovering it but in here it's just something that seems to be looked at and accepted
Tableturf is also a grind in this game, the amount of exp you need to level up is ridiculous and it can take an hour or more at a time to level up, not only that but if you want to get character exclusive card sleeves you have to beata character on the hardest difficulty 30 times
One thing I can say for sure that I'd like for this game is being able to chose your favorite battle themes for your battles you do in turf, rank and x battles, I personally don't like hearing the songs change every time I battle, and instead, I'd prefer to stick with 1 song that gets me going of having fun in the game but also the intensity of the match
I've said this before many times and I'll keep saying it: As a backline player, the #1 most frustrating thing about the game is that you have no control over what your team composition is in solo queue other than choosing a weapon and hoping you get matched with compatible teammates. Like literally, every other team game lets you change weapons/characters AFTER seeing what your teammates chose, or lets you choose weapons/characters TOGETHER.
It would be really simple too: After finding a team, the game should put you in a room similar to when you're in a squad/league/open party where you can see your teammates weapons and you have say, 30-60 seconds or so to change gear. That's it. It wouldn't even be that hard to implement since it basically already exists in those modes I mentioned. It's so frustrating getting like 3 backlines vs fast aggro weapons and knowing that all the other team has to do is run at us and we lose.
to be fair, i do agree with the idea of having different settings added into private play, but the one thing i would add to that is the setting to add AI into private play as well
that way you dont have to sit and wait for people to join in if you dont want to
I'll admit, i downloaded Splatoon 3, kept DC'ing, and anger ordered the Ethernet adapter because of it. Im not mad I have it now, but needing to spend an extra $30 bucks just to finish a round was really frustrating.
to add on to the grind complaint, the catalogue needs to be easier to level up outside of turf war. I started playing ranked when I unlocked it, but when I saw how little the catalogue level goes up when you lose, I dropped it pretty quick. for the past two seasons I've only managed to complete the catalogue within a week of the season ending, and if I want to keep completing it I can't really focus on anything other than turf
Yes to SO many of your statements, especially the 'server' issues. I wish Nintendo would get their act together with the connection/net code AND with ensuring Region Lock works during Splatfest.
Fighting Japan is a pain thanks to their internet being a 80% chance of lagging so hard that you start to wonder if their purposely messing with their router or entire teams disconnecting during a match.
I haven't had that much problem with playing Nintendo games online and I had zero lag and one or two disconnections during the weekend. But the game is selling well so if you want Nintendo to improve their internet by not playing the game or not buying the next entry the team and the main heads of the company will put Splatoon with earthbound and F-zero and more then likely not even bother doing any other games with multiplayer or online play period.
You may say that I'm defending them but their are loads of people on Twitter and reddit who complain and defend some of their comments that may lack constructive criticism and will do it to make themselves feel justified. I like how Nintendo is updating the game and they even have a European championship and the game is growing and selling well but even if these problems do change the game is still viewed by a lot of people who view it as "kitty"
It's a mainstream game that sold 10 million within four months and more likely has hit 15 million and twitch has it ranked with the most obscured niche games (niche games doesn't mean games that only have a anime artstyle)
@@maplemiles3381 Okaaay, I think you need to take a break from the internet and walk around for a bit.
All I was doing was agreeing with Chara's opinions and giving my loose two cents on the 'server' issue. Is the 80% too much? Yes, yes it is and I haven't proven it to be true. But that is how I feel matches go when I face squads or players with Japanese ID, even with stable internet on my side.
I didn't state that I wish Splatoon 3 would perish and rot in a toxic dumpster, I didn't threaten to boycott Nintendo or their Online service and wishing everyone who supports Online would suffer for it.
All I said, was "I agree ProChara! Here's my thoughts on the matter." concerning a game I enjoy playing but wish had a few more patches.
Have a nice day! (Or evening, or night. :)
@@jeweledexplorer3305 but how come the playerbase increased during the announcement. Or is it that Nintendo games sell no matter the quality you think I don't understand the big picture splatoon 3 is getting better and the feedback and sales paint a clear picture the weapons are quality and so are the recent maps and the meta is not stale and its people trying to find reason to complain but as they get told off they will defend their comment to feel justified like "I want them to do better" and before you say that I'm that person I'm not
@@maplemiles3381 Just a thought, but maybe the player base increased because of the announcement. Advertising does work. Do you think that where people are in the rankings might affect their like or dislike of the game?
@@CherylHenderson007 okay I never thought of ranking at all and their are loads of people playing the game how have never played it before during splatfests people just go right to the middle of the map and not bother and inking the base first.
I'm happy that it's still selling well but now splatoon 3 selling well is a bad thing despite the recent patch. I've also questioning how thisbgame being more easier to jump into is being out sold by Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (brand name mostly) and overwatch 2 which are more harder to jump into but OW players say their game is easier to jump into then splatoon
I think a great change for scales would be if you could exchange power eggs for scales
im a casual and i completely agree with the map design (i noticed it during the splatfest demo) and the gear thing 100%
the other things you mentioned are things i didnt know i wanted
I think the Splatfest tee's chunk costs should be the standard. 3, 6, 9, so 18 overall. That way players could really get into testing out new gear sets, or even feel confident enough to wipe one set and put different abilities on them. I know I really don't like to touch gear that's been "completed" even if I'd like to have say, run speed up instead of swim speed. It's just too much time.
If we could get a season of buffs and additions to non-shooters that would be nice
The gear issue is extremely valid, but if I’m being honest I forgot that was a thing. I’ve been doing gear seeding since I had access to drink tickets and I haven’t felt the “I don’t have any good gear hhhh.” Before that though, it was frustrating to roll ink recovery up on my otherwise perfect RSU jacket for my splatlings
I still don't understand how the netcode got worse between games.
1: The grind
2: the grind
3: The Grind
4: THE GRIND
5: THE ENDLESS GRIND FOR GEAR ABILITIES DEAR _GOD_
big thing for me is not being able to get gear from previous catalogues once that season has ended. i was really busy irl last season and wasn't able to finish the catalogue, and missed out on the onyx o1sters and the tentaclinger earring, the two things i wanted most, and for the time being they're completely unattainable for me
chara to help u in regards to gear, u can find ur gear seed and put the exact abilities u want. its rlly nice
I never realized that brinewater only has two paintable walls, actually crazy
I heavily agree with NSO sucking more in Splatoon 3 than it did in Splatoon 2, and there's more to it than what was shown. The disconnections mid-match and pre-battle are well known, but then there's the addition of disconnecting post-match, despite getting the full results screen and still being in the lobby, and not getting any rewards for it.
Another note would be the glitches. Even though many have been patched, they were still there. Sure, not every game is perfect at launch, but the amount that was (and still is) present is too much for how much hype was put into the game.
The map design and gold scales are my biggest pet peeves.
I was so excited for Mahi-Mahi and Hammerhead to return since I never played S1 and I couldn’t believe how disappointed I was with what we got. It also didn’t help that when we got Brinewater, it just felt like they cloned Mahi with a few tweaks.
It’s really deflating when Rainmaker or Clam Blitz (my favorite modes) come up and it’s just on the same open box maps over and over.
Also I have no idea why beating a King Salmonid doesn’t guarantee at least 1 gold scale considering how hard these fights are. I’ve beaten both bosses multiple times but I still only have like 2 scales.
But if map design is important why is the game selling well
Mahi is the one that hurts and infiurates me to no end. Just looking st the map from S1 I can tell how fun and better it would be, but the one they gave us is depressing honestly
Some of the badges in this game take WAY too long to get. I don't think anyone is going to get level 999 until like 2025. It also takes SO long to get evp 999, especially on maps like marooners. Even with that, I'd still day the map design is the worst for me.
It's so annoying since it would be SO EASY to fix. If you don't have like, a whole team of pro players, you're basically doomed. Back in splatoon 2 they actually had checkpoints every 100 points, which would be SO USEFUL when EVP resets back to 40 every 2 days (which let's face it, when you're trying to get 999 points.. getting back to 40 feels like being set to 0.
I’ve heard through some other players that a possible reason for Nintendo requiring such a long grind for certain items is because they do not want players to get said items quickly and suddenly lose interest. Other shooter games like Call of Duty have something similar in the form of weapon camo challenges, however, they’re much easier to obtain and are usually the main focus of players when playing instead of trying to win matches. While I can understand the thinking behind this idea, the fact that you have items such as that one Salmon Run banner that costs 333 gold scales, when gold scales are already very hard to get, is just ridiculous.
The idea players will get bored if there isn't an absurd grind is a fallacy especially with this game, as things like the Splatfests, Big Run, Seasonal Content are meant to keep players coming back in and what truly retains players is a game that's fun while maintaining rewards that are reasonably attainable if you put in enough effort.
Right now that jacket that costs 30 gold scales will take 1,500 scale drops on average if you're around VP level and getting approx 2% drop rate on Golds. Assuming you always get the 10 scale drops for beating the boss, it will take 150 bossfights which will be guaranteed to appear every 5 runs (though can happen in 3-4 a reasonable amount if you're lucky) which comes up to having to do 750 shifts, all of which require you beat the boss and keep your Pay Grade high enough that Gold Scales drop at a reasonable rate, not to mention a new rotation not only resets your Boss Meter Automatically (meaning it will take at least a few rounds to get a boss) but also pay grade resets to VP 40 at maximum. That's pretty unacceptable for the average player IMO... You should be guaranteed a bonus Silver/Gold Scale for killing the boss regardless of pay grade and the number of scales you get from the boss should be increased since even some of the Bronze and Silver Scale costs are unreasonably high
5:56 that sounds like so much fun. I can’t for it to not be in the game-
I 100% agree with the chunk grinding. I was lucky enough to get two of the all-chunks balls from the shell-out machine, and even then, that wasn't enough to put together a single full set of my desired abilities. For how small the benefits are from these abilities, they are WAY too expensive as a time investment.
I can’t believe you didn’t mention the 333 Gold Scale banner
Honestly I've loved this series for years and I know I still will but for now the game is frustrating me so much I just need to take a good break from it. I feel like this video didn't mention some of the outrageous issues the game has (in my opinion.)
Everyone's already mentioned the matchmaking is absolutely terrible, where more often than not you'll get paired with players worse than you, while going up against players far better than you. Whatever their matchmaking system is it REALLY needs to do a better job at pairing players who have an actually equal skillset. Not just getting you on a win/lose streak, setting you up with easy wins then impossible matches one after the other. It's especially broken for competitive players trying to get high scores in ranked. I literally had a win/lose streak for about a week or so, where everytime I played series I'd win the matches just fine, but the SECOND I entered a rank-up battle I'd immediately lose horribly. It took me 6 TRIES. Which for the record, I'm not like really bad at this game or anything, I've gotten in top 20% big run, (barely missed the top 5% quota) gotten the golden toothpick in splatoon 2, etc. This isn't me being salty, this is the matchmaking system being broken at the worst possible timing.
What's been making ranked really broken lately is the kraken. I will never understand who thought that special was a good idea when stinger got nerfed/replaced with killer wail 2.0 or whatever. The crab was bad enough, now I've got to deal with a LITERALLY INVINCIBLE special being spammed around the objectives? It's the worst on Tower Control where someone can literally just sit there and get free points until the special timer runs out. Sure there's knockback or whatever but I feel like it's so minimal I wouldn't have noticed if I wasn't told about it. It sucks on Splat Zones too where they can just camp mid and once again, you can't kill them, or re-take the zone because it's covered in their ink and a kraken or two guarding it. I mean, you know the special design was broken when pro teams would just have 4 crabs on them, I can't even imagine what it might look like now with the kraken re-introduced. It's made so much worse by the fact that some weapons in the game STILL don't have a duplicate, so while other people get their crabs and krakens I'm stuck with that useless wall-sticking special. (I know pro players can make good use of it but overall I think if given the option most people would prefer like, a booyah bomb or one of the previously mentioned kinda OP specials.) I still can't believe nintendo wanted so desperately NOT to nerf the crab they just kept making super specific weapons and specials do more damage to it, instead of just? simply decreasing its own stats.
While I'm complaining about ranked, it isn't exactly fun going into X rank when I constantly have to deal with poor matchmaking, as well as only getting like, 20-30 points when I win 3 matches in a row. I swear I'm just getting really bad luck or something because I've gotten 200 points for winning matches before. And because of the matchmaking messing with my win-lose streak I can't really get anywhere because I'm just stuck with winning a few points, losing a few points, over and over and over.
And I know this is a smaller issue to most people but until a checkpoint system is implimented that EVP 999 badge will always feel terrible to me. The fact that it takes around 7 hours MINIMUM and you only have 2 days to do it is just insane, I'm sure for players who have pro players to match with it isn't that bad, but for people attempting this mostly freelance it's an absolute nightmare. It'd be so much more attainable if you could just keep somewhat close to the rank you were at before but the fact you go back to 0 is so demotivating. It's especially strange knowing the system in Splatoon 2 DID have checkpoints. Weird pattern happening here with this and the server problems being better in splatoon 2.
And a smaller rant here with most splatfest themes being so mid and boring that basically everyone is demotivated to play because they don't actually care about proving their team right as the best or anything. I had that with the chocolate splatfest, unlike others, because of how heavily people were slandering white chocolate, but with most of the themes it's just been.. eh. I think that's proof enough with the most recent splatfest, there should not be a theme chosen where one team gets 8% of the vote, that's a clear sign their themes haven't been chosen very well. I know I'm not the only one annoyed by the themes too, so, y'know. It's just kind of a bummer when a theme is so boring players don't feel the need to play much during the once-every-few-months event.
Sorry for ranting this long but god I needed to complain about it somewhere. I do love this game and I still mostly enjoy it, but man, they've really got some issues they need to work on.