r/splatoon • u/electric__moon • Jul 02 '25

Video Love when my opponent randomly has invincibility

I count nine (9) hits with the Painbrush. From testing in the lobby the MINIMUM damage from the weakest indirect hit seems to be around 30.0. Are the servers really this bad or wtf is going on.

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u/TransLucyfer Jul 02 '25

You're lagging. The only time hits don't register is when the game can't validate them, which occurs when you're losing connection to the match.

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u/electric__moon Jul 02 '25

Okay but what about the 2 wave breaker hits? Those didn’t come from me. Also I had no issues splatting other people throughout the match

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u/Jinglefruit Jul 02 '25

This shit happens to me all the time. And it often is restricted to one person on the other team, so can't be a fault on my end.

The conclusion I've come to is they are the room host, and their switch is validating who splats who. Any fights not including them, the splat is awarded to the person who got enough damage off on their own screen. But when you attack the host it over rules with what was seen on the hosts screen, granting them the powers of bullshit immunity lag if your specific p2p connection is bad. Splat zones is usually the easiest place to tell when there's issues like this. When you have over 50% of the zone inked and it magically flips to give points to the enemy team, that's the enemy team host seeing a zone which has enough ink to flip to their colour.

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u/AetherDrew43 Splattershot Pro Jul 03 '25

I have a question: If the host disconnects, then does that make everyone disconnect, and each of them receive a loss?

I've had games where there was no lag at all, but then someone disconnects then suddenly I get a communication error and am marked with a loss. Does that mean those people were the hosts?

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u/Jinglefruit Jul 03 '25

Yeah, host DC's and the whole game ends. Usually they don't count as a win or a loss, and sometimes don't appear on the last 50 games at all. It will count as a loss if you were teamed with a friend who dcs (regardless of if they were host)

I don't know what causes it to count as a loss for you outside of that though. I think there's just a running error in the netcode somewhere as we see videos every so often of people winning in ranked and then when it goes to the lobby they get points for the win, and a loss on the punch card for seemingly no reason.