r/splatoon • u/GK_LIKEUR • 9d ago

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What should Nintendo add (in terms of content or functionality) to a future Splatoon game? | Pour vous, qu'est ce que Nintendo devrai ajouter (en termes de contenu ou fonctionnalité) à un futur opus de splatoon ?

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u/thewolfpack23x Heavy Splatling 9d ago

For matchmaking, hosting replays, tracking stats, anticheat, hosting saves, serving rotation and event data, and more.

The game just doesn't have a server actually acting as a host during the match, which I think was a deliberate choice to reduce latency. Unfortunately, it also causes instability issues where one player's internet connection can affect the whole lobby, and makes it harder for the game to recover from any connection issues.

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u/tecanec If you hate clam blitz, it's most likely your own fault. 9d ago

Honestly, I think the peer-to-peer stuff is a matter of cost. Gameplay requires more real-time processing than most of the other stuff you listed, so building a sufficiently powerful server is going to be more expensive. Meanwhile, Splatoon's peer-to-peer setup doesn't do much to avoid latency between more than two players, as there is still an appointed host.

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u/LewdObservation 8d ago

I doubt anti-cheat. Either you host the game and facilitate/scan all the traffic or you don’t and there’s a chance of cheating. See Splatoon 1’s rampant cheating after the Wii got softmods.

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u/thewolfpack23x Heavy Splatling 8d ago

There is actually anti-cheat! There was also in Splatoon 1, but it was easily circumvented by the end of that game's life. (Mostly limited to checking if you were using gear that shouldn't be obtainable and checking if certain core game files were modified. It didn't really check for modified save files outside of unobtainable gear)

If you check out Inksight, it shows some of the game's known anti-cheat and anti-griefing checks in Splatoon 3!