Played Splatoon 3: Lots of fun, one concern
With Splatoon, Nintendo launched a new IP in 2015. The colorful one shooter quickly blossomed into hit, and Splatoon 2 was not long in coming. Fans and critics praised the smooth gameplay, great music and fun gameplay. Now we are about to release Splatoon 3, we could do that exclusive switch game even try it out live and in color at Nintendo. You can find out whether the color battle is just as much fun as its predecessors in our Preview!
First we played the classic one Turf War mode, in which the goal is to color the arena as colorfully as possible with our octopus ink. At the same time, we take out opponents so they can’t do that. So far so good, though something has to be new, right? Sure, we fought on fresh maps, which, at least at first glance, feel fairly balanced.
In addition, we are now able to evasive jump run backwards and stand up to us new weapons to disposal. That Splatanaobviously inspired by a katana, is one fast, powerful melee weapon, which we use to quickly eliminate opponents. But we only distribute a little color on the map with this weapon. Also new is the bowwhich, compared to other weapons, doesn’t take up much space on the map, but does a lot of damage with precision.
While the splatana is very easy to play, the bow requires more expertise and its handling is not so easy to learn: Depending on whether we are jumping or standing on the ground and depending on how long we charge the weapon, we will behave the shots different. If you want to show others how to play properly and want to be challenged a little more, this is the perfect opportunity to live it up.
Otherwise there are new ones ultimate skillsthat work like that equipments in past parts of the series. That aside, the game looks very familiar to experienced players, but that’s not a bad thing, as Splatoon’s smooth gameplay doesn’t need to be changed much for more fun, it just needs to be expanded upon.
Dive into the Salmon Run
We were also allowed to use our fins on the mode Salmon Run lay. Unfortunately we weren’t allowed to show it to you in the video. A similar mode already existed in splatoon 2however, was the Co-op PvE battle limited in time and could only be played at certain times. That changes in Splatoon 3 (buy now ) at last! Up to four players can we do that Horde mode tackle and defend ourselves against the evil underwater beasts. But fighting power alone is not enough. In order to survive the three waves of enemies, we must collect golden fish eggs from the bosses and bring them to our base.
Our salmon runs ended relatively quickly, but that wasn’t because we got bored. No, each time we increased the difficulty of the mode. We started at about 10% and ended up at 30%, the difference was obvious. We don’t even want to know what the whole thing looks like at 200%!
Oh, did we mention that we don’t get to choose our weapons, we get one new one assigned per wave? This makes the mode even more interesting and at the same time teaches us to know and master all the weapons! Communication between players is also welcome, otherwise we will quickly get lost in the onslaught of the opponents. Unfortunately there still is no integrated voice chat. If you want to communicate, you have to get either a apartment download or rely on third party programs.
Splatoon 3 campaign
Also the story mode of the game teaches us how to use different weapons, skills and our movement actions. In the small, parkour-like levels we solve puzzles, defeat opponents and, similar to Salmon Run, have given weapons at our disposal. Already at the beginning we had problems with some of the puzzles and got stuck with some opponents for a short time, so far the mode doesn’t seem to be child’s play, despite an age rating of 6 years! We couldn’t spend a lot of time in story mode overall, but it looks promising so far. Now it just depends on how many levels there are in the game.
One of the ultimate abilities tied to our weapons is a tank that we use to fire powerful projectiles! [Quelle: Nintendo]
Splatoon 3 – Online Worries
We still have to address something. Splatoon has always had Problems with online mode. Thankfully, some of these have been resolved! We can about very easily create lobbies, to invite friends and even with these play on the same team. Sounds crazy, but it really is only now possible. Also, while waiting for a match, we can spend time with our friends in the lobby and in the training room. So the waiting is more interesting.
But there is another big problem that shows up in all Nintendo titles: the serveror rather theirs non-existence. Anyone who plays Splatoon online does not use any servers provided by Nintendo, but solely their own connection and that of their fellow players. This is also called peer2peer. That causes one under lags suffers or opponent sees far too lateif the difference in the connection quality is too big – nowadays actually one No-go in online games.
Here we try to make the best use of the bow, firing three projectiles at the same time to eliminate our opponents in one fell swoop.
Source: Nintendo
Especially in titles with a competitive claim, when the Splatoon also wants to be seen. When asked, we were not able to find out whether anything had been improved in this aspect. Another problem is the tick rate, which is responsible for the number of times per second players share where they are and what they are doing. Have you ever turned a corner and still been hit? It’s probably because information in Splatoon only 16 times per second be transmitted. In comparison: Valorant has a tick rate of 128 and Counter Strike: Global Offensive via one of 64. These circumstances make fair, competitive competition difficult, so it is to be hoped that these problems will be solved in the new branch. We couldn’t test it because we were playing via a LAN connection.
Apart from these (potential) online quirks, Splatoon 3 also delivers one according to our impressions so far Incredibly fun shooter with smooth gameplay, fantastic soundtrack and unique gameplay.
Splatoon 3 is a Switch exclusive shooterthe am September 9, 2022 appears. Splatoon is a relatively young Nintendo brand, the first part came onto the market seven years ago – and celebrated great success. Of course, you will soon find out how part 3 performs in the test in our test.
Reference-www.pcgames.de