Salmon Run Odds and Ends June 2019

0:00:00 Outpost: 55/60 mid normal (wave PB)
The rare excellent Outpost midtide sponsored by spawn RNG. Actually could have been 57 maybe! I notice that I'm not going back to the early Stingers, probably lost 2 eggs right there. And the other 3 missing ones are from the endgame Steelhead that doesn't get lured and killed anymore. You want the last spawns to be Maws or Scrappers -- all others will either mess with scores as a whole or just be hard to farm themselves.

0:02:13 147 Yard: 51 high / 47 cannons / 49 mid mothership (wave PB)
This rotation taught me that Dynamo actually doesn't contribute much to scores -- it's mostly an exploit when the stars align for good RNG at seeking and its holder doesn't mess up the trick. Never got a good seeking here, and about what you see in the video, it was my best game from the rotation (playing some guest games at the Guardians, more on that later) and I made a few bad decisions most notably at cannons.

0:08:55 143 Grounds: 39 low / 59 cannons (wave PB) / 45 mid
I promised some more stuff from that insane Grounds session where we lacked a 4th at the Lessers and got surprise special guest Marty to play with us. The regular waves here were kinda meh actually and I don't know why I didn't edit them out, so let me just direct your attention to the cannons wave: 59/66 -- 3 eggs short of the world record, and it wasn't even a wave 3. Coincidentally, Marty actually happens to have that record. It so looks like it would be up for grabs, but when the stars never align for it, nothing anyone can do. Terrible RNG can deny 50s at any time of the shift.

0:15:37 151 Grounds: 42 mid seeking (wave PB) / 57 high / 52 high
Second best game from that same session, featuring a lot of unfortunate decisions on my end that may have very well prevented it from being the best. Sometimes you're just a bit too slow to adapt to everchanging situations correctly.

0:22:20 127 Bay: 39 low / 38 mid / 50 mid fog (wave PB)
I am hellbent on getting Bay representation no matter how much everyone of us hates that fucking trash map. Here is that Bay representation. I notice this game could have been a few eggs better if I played less selfishly. After reading another of Marty's rants about player roles and playing more with different people, I want to change my playstyle to account more for what my friends are doing or trying to do.

0:29:00 151 Yard: 59 mid fog / 50 mid / 42 mid
"Dude, you had an egg!" It never ends... Anyway, the big farmyard comp of the month! Here's another 150 I got with my Lessers aside from my new map PB in the dedicated video. 59 w1 fog with a Trolldie is very good, unfortunately the game then went a bit yet another decline on all those regular waves. The comp isn't exactly bad at them or anything, but Tent and also Luna are slow enough to punish bad decision making quite a bit. And I'm still really not good with the Tent, a good way away from unlocking its true potential.

0:35:43 Yard: 101 with Princess LazyRookie
While Vallu was destroying this rotation the regular way with the Guardians, the rest of us agreed to meme it up for a while with some princess attempts. Man, I feel like I sucked throughout this whole session, and even in this best game of it, I do many things that aren't exactly helping anyone. Princess challenges are fun, anyway, everyone should try it at some point.

0:42:23 140 Outpost: 44 high fog / 54 cannons (wave PB) / 42 mid mothership
This was my first ever 140 on Outpost...full of memes and missed opportunities, followed by multiple other 140s within minutes but always missed the 150 because not good enough, you know. One of those days, man, one of those days...

0:49:04 160 Grounds: 58 high rush (wave PB) / 56 high / 46 low
Farming Grounds with Marty never gets old...quite literally now. He recently invited me (and a few better Lessers) to play with his team -- the amazing Guardians, big inspirational and driving force to all overfishing in the west -- more, and my first "official" session with them also gifted me with my first 160s.

0:55:44 151 Grounds: 45 mid / 64 low fog (wave PB) / 42 mid
The 60-flat low fog from LFG lobby before any overfishing teams has finally fallen, and got a better game around it too. About time!

1:02:27 151 Polaris: 48 high / 45 cannons / 58 low (wave PB)
1:09:10 153 Polaris: 41 mid / 51 mid mothership (wave PB) / 61 high (wave PB)
This was actually one rare awful Polaris rotation for many possible wildcards, and so even with the allmighty Guardians, there never was a real attack on my map PB that still stands strong. These were the only games that came within reach but just barely without the potential to actually make 160. Fun story about the second one: I knew the final result of it right at the start of wave 3 -- I saw Marty with Explosher ("the other cheat bucket", as he said), played right into that fact, and that was: my first ever 60+ on a day wave!!! Thank you Polaris farmtide, excellent ending to the rotation and the month!