My favorite part of this update is being able to play rank battles with friends, now I can move on from my A rank that god knows how much trouble I went to trying to get it with bad teammates and random disconnections

Nintendo of Japan's official Splatoon twitter account revealed the launch of a dedicated friend networking service for the game. I don't know if or when an English release will launch nevertheless it's still pretty interesting. The tweet translations are as follows: 

1. "For everyone battling online we're launching a friend networking service called "Ikaling" starting today. Login with your Nintendo Network ID and you can see at a glance your friends' play statuses."

2. "In Ikaling, you can input your planned battle times beforehand so that you can let your friends meet up with you. It's linked to Twitter, so you can make plans that way too. If you see a friend who meets your schedule, go and enter a battle together!"

3. "In Ikaling, you can see the rankings amongst your friends. Score is calculated individually for both Turf Wars and Ranked Battles based on how many times you've won and win percentage. It is reset every week on Sunday at midnight, so you can compete with your friends every week."

Here is the site.

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Finally inked a lil bit yesterday (only two ranked matches), so I could try out that "new" camp map before the update...
but I'd be up to some squad-ranking later today!

I was complaining for nothing last week, since we wouldn't get the chance to host a tourney this week.

Success!!! Yes!!!

I thought the dream was gonna die yet again on that last battle, as my luck ran out and we finally had to play on Moray Towers, and of course my team has no range while the enemy has two chargers. It started out in typical Splatzones on Moray Towers fashion with neither team able to do jack, but eventually I just was like screw it, and went straight for their zone despite their snipers still live. Somehow neither me nor the charger who was right in front of the zone noticed each other until after I capped it. He must of been like "What the hell!?" when the "They capped all the zones!" message appeared on his screen hehe. From there I pushed into their territory, then after they forced me out I just stayed in their zone keeping it capped from a Sniper above and that somehow worked until we won! My teammates were good at keeping our zone safe, as they better be since it's essentially a 3v2 for them, while I completely solo'd the enemy zone, I feel pretty damn good about that! <(^_^<)

http://nintendoeverything.com/off-screen-fast-racing-neo-footage/

http://nintendoeverything.com/gamescom-2015-footage-roundup-day-2/

http://nintendoeverything.com/nintendos-moffitt-on-embracing-indies-says-never-say-never-to-working-with-playtonic/

http://nintendoeverything.com/shinen-hopes-to-have-fast-racing-neo-out-in-december/

XCX and this game on december? Not bad

Oh lawlz you can still face squads of 4 when you have 3. Worse still was the team were against being guys from Squid boards so we got wrecked, although I did hold my own pretty well. Also it doesn't affect my rank so that's cool.

Another great thing about squad battles, takes a lot of pressure knowing your rank won't decrease if you lose

tag.

So apparently Michael Ancel designed one of the Super Mario Maker levels that come with the game, cool.

http://nintendoeverything.com/super-mario-maker-now-thought-to-have-over-60-levels-one-designed-by-raymans-creator/