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Splatoon 2 Direct - stream, live blog (starts 10AM ET/16:00 CEST)

by nintendaan
06 July 2017
GN Version 5.0



- Use Inkopolis Square to equip shoes and clothing
- custom leg wear and skin colors
- Galleria offers popular gear and weapon shops
- Headwear shop called Headspace
- Character called Flow
- Jelfonzo (jelly) runs the Ye Olde Clothes Shop
- Bisk the Spider Crab runs the Shoe shop Shella Fresh
- Sheldon returns to the Weapon Shop
- You can now fastforward his dialogue
- Going deeper into weapons
- New functionalities
- Keep charge with charger with for example
- Clash Blaster, Flingza Roller introduced
- Goo Tuber can hold charge for extremely long
- Dapple Dualies extremely lightweight
- Sub Weapons like Autobomb, Toxic Mist
- Special Weapons are all new
- Yours and other icons will glow when ready
- Bomb Launcher launches a variety of bombs
- Ink Armor protects from any one attack
- Baller puts you in explosive hamster ball
- Turf War being reintroduced
- Sturgeon Shipyard, Port Mackerel introduced during rell
- Tower Control, Splat Zones and Rainmaker make a return
- Rotate every two hours
- Tower Control has checkpoints now
- Rainmaker now shoots blobs
- Ranks are now seperated by modes
- League Battle allows you enforce teams with friends
- Rewarded in medales
- Murch allows you to customize Gear completely
- Can choose freely abilities now
- Object Shredder destroys obstacles quicker
- Change Respawn time for various options
- Salmon Run only available at certain time slots online
- Introducing various boss opponents like the Steel Eel
- Drizzler, Stinger also showcased
- Fog and night impact how the opponents behave
- certain items only available in Salmon Run
- SplatNet 2 gives you the latest information
- Info about your last 50 battles
- Life time inkage
- Order Gear right to order from there
- Nintendo Switch Online app allows you to invite friends and voice chat
- Draw option to throw messages into levels
- amiibo allows you to save settings
- Food allows you to get more points and money from battles
- The Shoal allows to play locally anything you want
- Squid Beats 2 is available minigame
- Hero Mode next
- Face off against Octerians here in various challenges
- Marie seems awfully worried
- New weapons are in development
- Splat Brella allows to shoot and protect
- Bubble Blower special weapon in the works
- New gear also in the works
- New stages like a ship
- Updates will last for about a year
- Splatfests will make a return
- Fight together with friends on the same team
- Marina and Pearl are stars in the new square, song called Off The Hook
- First Splatfest on July 15: Cake or Ice Cream

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