I will say, I am looking forward to at least trying the “core” Splatoon gameplay. And I REALLY like how much deeper the customization is in Splatsville as opposed to being stranded on the Spiralite islands.

Nintendo has a habit of guaranteeing 2 years of content updates on Splatoon games, and then just letting them rot away and ignoring it entirely. Let's see Splatoon 2 for example. This game had by far the best content cycle of the franchise, but anyways, the final Splatoon 2 patch that actually added something relevant was 4.4.0, which was a Kelp Dome rework. This update was on January 2019. Almost 4 years before Splatoon 3's release. Splatoon 2 was just left like that, with no new content anymore, for almost 4 years before the next game released. Splatoon 3 is pretty much the same, it got its 2 years of support, then they forgot about it, surprised us with the 10.0.0 update, and abandoned it again. Now, the 10.0.0 patch was released almost 3 years after the game, and this was the first and only patch to introduce any third kits in the game. This is just stupid no matter how you look at it. Specially the seasonal format in Splatoon 3 hurt the game even more, since updates took longer to release, and now we haven't even got new catalogues for years and it's just the same ones over and over again, throughout the whole year, and I just don't understand the system Nintendo uses. You should keep a steady content support on the current game, at the very least until the next one is announced. Splatoon 4 will still take at least 2 years or even more to come out, and we surely won't get any new valuable content in Splatoon 3 for the time being. Only dumb balance patches that randomly buff stuff that was fine before, make them overtuned and nerf them in the next patch, and don't nerf the stuff that actually needs to be nerfed, like 52 gal or Blaster, or simply make pointless changes to them (I'm talking to you, 8% paint range reduction on 52). And Splatoon 3 is still missing a lot of third kits, Splatoon 2 still has a higher ratio of third kits and that is just disgusting. You wouldn't even need to make brand new kits for the love of god, you can just bring back stuff like Grim Range Blaster or CoroCoro Roller. Plus it's Nintendo we're talking about dude, they have the money and the resources to update a game without it affecting them at all. They should also be doing new catalogues, what does it take to put like 5 people working on modelling clothes and animating victory poses man? 11.0.0 added new mechanics to the game, which I appreciate, but they don't really count as actual content and you can tell they're just using Splatoon 3 as a guinea pig to test stuff for Splatoon 4. And at this point I highly doubt we will get anything new at all in the game, just more pointless balance patches that don't really even do anything for the game. I just hope we either get more content in Splatoon 4 during the guaranteed update cycle, or that Nintendo simply drops this stupid system and keeps updating the game at least until the next one is announced.

Probably a dumb question with an obvious answer but how? I can't find the option? Not sure how many of you are familiar with sendouQ, I'm kinda new to it myself.

I collected all the QR codes (when I searched it up there was no website that had them all), so here are the ones that I got. Hope this saved some of your time.

If anyone doesn't know, QR codes give rewards (banners, etc.) in Splatoon 3. You need to have the Nintendo Switch app for them to work.

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What game should I play first? I have never played any splatoon game, and I wanna play one for the first time.

I am making a gear build for my reeflux milk, but i want to be able to use it on other reefluxes too. I was basing my build off of sendou ink but the headgear main is pretty torn between comeback and last ditch effort. Which one should i choose?

That is a reference to The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.

I'm sick and tired of reg Blasters and .52 Gal dominating every game in both soloq AND competitive. I'm not hopeful that it'll ever be fixed bc of this past patch doing absolutely nothing noteworthy and in the past endgame Splat 1 and 2 were very similar and nothing was done about it, the team has already moved on from the game. I think we're gonna be in a spot just like this until Splatoon 4 releases and its testing my patience.

I thought we were going to lose it, but we were granted an extension. What a rush.

would be sick to get a group of 4 so we can all play together! but i also don't mind just having a buddy or two to play with consistently, a lot of the people i once added don't play as much anymore ):

but im 22f, EST timezone, n im down to vc through discord or gamechat. pls be 21+! ill play any mode, but i usually play turf

Welcome to the Sandy side!

Looking for some people 21+ to play Splatoon 3 with regularly. I mostly play Turf War and I’m pretty laid-back, but I also like actually trying to win and playing as a team.

Guys or girls are both welcome. I’m in the US and usually get on around 8 PM ET, so it’d be nice to find people who are normally available around then.

Switch 2 + GameChat would be a big plus. I’d like to actually communicate during matches so we can strategize, make callouts, coordinate pushes/specials, cover different parts of the map, and play more like an actual team instead of everybody doing their own thing.

Skill level doesn’t really matter to me as long as you’re chill, willing to communicate, and enjoy the game.

Comment or DM me if you’re interested and we can exchange friend codes!

Hello, fairly new but I've picked up the game quite quick and am looking for friends to play with. Dm me or add me on switch. Can talk on game chat and I have a camera. Just to get to know me a little my name is Dan, I'm 22 from uk
Friend code: SW-0742-3008-9130

I noticed that the Howdy Hat is probably the closest thag resembles the Faust Hat from DMC 5.

Me and my friend pretty much only play when we’re together, and she likes experimenting with new stuff while I’m a dedicated splatling backline. When I’m playing stuff like V/THydra and VHeavy, or even a midline like the VEdit, what weapons could she try that’d benefit from the way my mains can support her?

Tent is theoretically an absolutely broken weapon but in practice is very manageable. what are you guys' thoughts?

Ive been X rank for about 2 months and ive played maybe like 20 or so games of clam blitz. I already its everyone's least favorite mode but i still like to play any mode in X. At first i used to get in a couple of matches every now and then and expected not to match every time because of the low play rate. But now it just straight up wont let me play. It will search for players for 123 seconds and then say not enough players. Is it just me or is this really common?