Ever wonder what happens if two teams cover the field with the same amount of paint in Turf Wars? Is there sudden death? A tie-breaker? I wish.
In this footage by TheeIncubusHD, we see two teams that play through a match peacefully. Instead of painting the ground with ink, they instead elect to do a small dance-off on the corner of the map:
No ink anywhere on the map, as you can see:
Once the match ends, however, the game still tallies the paint…except there’s no paint on the ground. Not that this stops it from trying to crunch the numbers anyway:
It’s a bunch of baloney — nobody won! It still picked a victor, though. TheeIncubusHD’s reaction is kind of golden here, so you should definitely watch the footage:
Wow, Splatoon. Wow. Kind of makes me wonder how many matches I’ve won/lost that were actually ties!
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9 responses to “If You Tie A Splatoon Match, Bad Things Happen”
Bruh Jud -.-
It counted to 0.2% coverage on the slow count before giving one team 0.4 and the other 0.3.
So I’m questioning, is it accounting for the presence of 4 players on the map, and the difference being some of the players were in mid jump, standing or in squid-form entering the ground, thus creating a variation in the percentage of map “covered” by a colour?
That’s exactly what I was thinking. I wonder what would’ve happened if everyone had just stood still instead of jumping and potentially causing a discrepancy with their mid-jump ink…
Youd think they’d test it a few times to look further into it…
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Thats probably what happened, you can see it happen in Inkopolis too that sometimes when changing form you leave little temporary footprints. If you wanted to try for a tie then when group matchmaking is made available get eight friends to just stand on the starting pads and see what happens…
Judd is a great judge, and clearly knew that blue were better dancers. The outcome was obvious!
It’s quite easy to miss checking for a tie condition. We were almost ready to release a game before I realised we hadn’t accounted for ties.
We decided to go to Sudden Death mode. Then I got in trouble for putting the word “Death” in a kid’s game. So we spent an afternoon trying to decide what to call it, before finally just plumping for “Tie-Breaker”. Then we had to get localisation done for the new game mode.
There’s a lot of surprising complexity in these simple things.
Tell me this is a joke…