A look at the new Splatoon 2 icons on Switch
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Included in today’s new Switch update are six new icons for Splatoon 2. System owners can use any of them as profile pictures. Take a look at the full set above.
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Splatoon 2 devs on Salmon Run’s difficulty, sharing art and messages, Splatfests, launch content, voice chat, music, more
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Today, Game Informer put up a lengthy interview with Splatoon 2 producer Hisashi Nogami and lead programmer Shintaro Sato. Plenty was discussed here, including Salmon Run, letting players share art and messages, Splatfests, how much content will be available at launch, why voice chat is limited to friends / other familiar people, and music. There were other topics sprinkled in as well.
We’ve rounded up some of the noteworthy comments from Nogami and Sato below. You can read the full interview on Game Informer here.
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Splatoon 2 Turf War – Nintendo Treehouse: Live @ E3 2017
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Splatoon 2 single-player first look – Nintendo Treehouse: Live @ E3 2017
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Splattershot Jr. and Jet Squelcher return in Splatoon 2
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During yesterday’s Splatoon 2 Salmon Run segment at Treehouse Live, we got a quick look at some of the weapons that were available to the players, and this confirmed two more returning weapons from the first game: the Jet Squelcher and the Splattershot Jr. We didn’t learn if their sub and special weapons changed compared to the first game, but this is nonetheless good news for fans of those weapons.
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Splatoon 2 Salmon Run – Nintendo Treehouse: Live @ E3 2017
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As a small follow-up to last night’s Salmon Run report, you can actually increase the difficulty beyond 100% and go all the way up to 200%. Once you’ve taken on a successful run in this mode, 5% of additional difficulty will be available in your game.
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Splatoon 2 is 1080p docked, 60 FPS
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Nintendo shared a technical update about Splatoon 2 during the Treehouse Live stream today. According to one of the staffers demonstrating the game, it’ll run at 1080p when docked (720p in handheld mode). Splatoon 2 will also be 60 frames per second. When that information was brought up, Splatoon 2 producer Hisashi Nogami indicated that this is indeed correct.
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Nintendo planning “big Salmon Run events” for Splatoon 2, more maps will be added
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This information comes from an IGN preview of Splatoon 2…
During our hands-on with Splatoon 2, we also learned that Nintendo is certainly planning big Salmon Run events, and adding more maps besides the Spawning Grounds. This was great to hear, as without additional content, once Salmon Run is “solved,” so-to-speak, it could easily suffer from a lack of a variety.
When asked if Salmon Run events would take the place of Splatfest, the Nintendo representative simply said they “weren’t discussing Splatfest at this time.”
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Splatoon 2 – off-screen Salmon Run footage
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Splatoon 2 – off-screen Inkblot Art Academy stage footage
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