No one's talking about the new Splatoon news? You'll want to.

[regin2005]

spemanig said:

(1) Game won’t use CPU fighters; only once 8 human players have been found will a match start
(2) Having multiple modes with random matching would limit the number of players per mode, so all the focus is on the 4 vs. 4 for that
(3) No communication with players you are matched with
 

These are the only things that I have problems with. 

Just like a few people in the thread has already mentioned, the lack of communcation kinda sounds like this game won't be as strategic as we all thought it could be and for me that is a let down, unless there's some sort of planning you can do before the match starts.  If you are allowed to do that, then that won't be so bad. 

The lack of modes in the game severely cuts the game's longetivity and overall replay value (for a Nintendo game) would be poor, unless there are modes added to the game as an update at a later date.  Of course if modes are added to the game at a later date through updates, DLC, etc., then those modes probably should have been included in the game from the start and the game delayed to finish everything up as a result.

As for CPU fighters, we all know this is for the online portion of the game.  But what happens when one of those human players drop out midway through a match?  Is that team just going to be at a disadvantage through being outnumbered until a human player replaces the dropped player?  They could have a bot PLAY for the missing person until someone comes in the match instead of playing a 3v4 game.

 

To me, I'm a little disappointed and a little turned off of the game as some hype for this game just went down a little when I read this thread and I'm glad I did.  With that being said, Splatoon (IMO) just went from a MUST have game that I was gonna get DAY ONE to a game I'll get eventually....UNLESS these issues are addressed, of course.