What am I not getting? This game is just chaos with people running around with no organization (Ranked, I have never played League). It just isn't fun for me, and I really wanted to like it.
I love the game overall, but prefer Tower control or Splat Zones way more. How can I approach it to make it more sensible to me?
Posted Dec 15, 2017, 10:40 PM UTC
It's a very battle oriented game of tug of war.
At the beginning, no one has a lead, so everyone scrambles for clambles, and this is where most of the chaos happens. Once people start collecting clams, more often than not, people will start splatting to top off their clam trails and grab a superball.
Once someone has the FOOTBALL! they'll start pushing to the enemy goal to score. Once a superball is introduced to the field, this is where the game starts in earnest. If your team has one, protect it! Treat it like you would the rainmaker, get that ball to the goal and jam your clams in as hard as you can.
Once your team has done what it went to do, play defense, chances are, at least one enemy teammate is avoiding his homebase hootenanny to get a superball of their own to either begin a counter assault, or at the very least, to change which goal is exposed. If you return to play defense instead of tarrying til the tide turns terribly, not only will you be guarding against enemy progress, but they will also be bringing ammunition straight to your door to prepare to launch another barrage of clam jammery.
1) Stay together!
2) Score your points and return to defense
3) Splat the attackers, take their clams, rinse and repeat.
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You have to be much more clever about what you're doing than the other modes. Take into account your team's state (do any of them have power clams?), the other team (where are their power clams?), how you can get to the goal with a power clam without them noticing you (which, given that the power clams put a giant target on you is tricky at best), when to pick up clams and when it's better not to (you have 9 and you're halfway across the map, better try and get that last one closer to the goal), etc.
I've been playing goalie, sticking to my base and defending - good team mates take the hint and gather clams.
Its hit and miss right now but it's a new mode and a lot of people jump in without reading the rules. Give it a week or two it'll get less chaotic.
Also you might enjoy joining the discord channel and playing league. Voice chat helps a lot.
I tried that a couple times, and the team just figured I had it covered and ran off, leaving me to get destroyed by 3 people.
Well it's not going to work every time. Bad luck if you get players who don't take the hint.
this! very hard to beat a team with good defender. Someone's gotta be the mutombo of the team and get those clams outta here
Gotta Luongo your way to victory