The last Splatoon player still standing after Nintendo's Wii U shutdown is now trapped in map purgatory for the next ten years
May. 1, 2024That’s a long time to be stuck on Moray Towers
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Before this, Splatoon’s maps changed every four hours, with the Ranked Battle mode on offer swapping between Tower Control, Splat Zones, and Rainmaker at the same time. However, after the servers were supposed to shut down, dataminer OatmealDome, who runs a website which displays future map and mode rotations for all the Splatoon games,noted thatfrom April 30 at 2PM ET / 11AM PT / 7PM BST, the map rotation was set to last for an entire decade.
If it was actually possible to play, you’d be stuck with Turf War on Blackbelly Skatepark and Port Mackerel, and Rainmaker on Bluefin Depot and Moray Towers. This selection is rather amusing, with Moray Towers being one of the most divisive maps in the game, largely thanks to how much it favors charger (sniper) weapons – one fandescribesthe ten-year rotation of it as “a fate worse than death.”
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