(posting this here because i feel like more people should know about this)

(originally from my tumblr 'cause i'm more active over there than i am here)

So lately I've been seeing a bunch of discourse about the splattercolor screen and how it's been affecting people playing the game. Now personally I'm not affected by this special in a negative way, but I still sort of think this special shouldn't have had the effects it has. Ever since the reveal of this special, I kept wondering "why is this gonna be in the game? won't this cause problems for folks playing the game?". And sure enough, that's what's happening. Almost a week or so into the update and problems are already surfacing.

I feel like this special shouldn't have been handled the way it was. It's clearly causing issues in the community and I hope something is done to fix this problem soon.

In the meantime, I offer a few solutions to the splattercolor screen problem that don't involve completely deleting the special:

• Instead of turning the screen black & white, the fog effect from Salmon Run should be applied to the splattercolor screen. The fog in Salmon Run makes it hard to see salmonids, so if this is applied to the splattercolor screen, it'd make things harder for the enemy team to see the special's user but it won't cause them much harm besides, you know, not seeing the enemy team. This is a solution I've seen folks online talk about a lot.
• Making it appear that there's more members of the enemy team than there actually is (so basically spawning clones when you come into contact w/ the splattercolor screen). Since the splattercolor screen's gimick is basically disorting reality for a bit, maybe instead of causing the screen to go black & white, the screen can cause players who come into contact with the splattercolor screen to see things that aren't actually there, like extra enemy team players. There wouldn't be much of an effect on the screen like with the current splattercolor screen; it's just that it'll appear that the enemy team has more players.
• Turning the enemy's ink color into your own team's color. Basically if you come into contact with the screen, it'll appear that you're surrounded by nothing but your team's ink when in reality alongside your ink there's enemy ink in the area. Yet another take on the splattercolor screen's reality disorting abilites.

Those were just a few solutions to this whole splattercolor screen situation. I feel like if this special had a completely different effect it'd work perfectly, but as of now the problem with splattercolor still stands. If the Splatoon devs attempt to fix the splattercolor screen I hope they keep the idea of disorting reality in mind, just not in a way that might harm people in some way. But hey, those are just my two cents on this situation. If anyone experiencing problems with this special is reading this feel free to share your experience with this special and if anyone has a suggestion on how this special can be fixed feel free to tell me what you have in mind in the comments.