We Just Figured Out How These Medals Work 

Yeah, recording stuff in tenths or hundredths is a *really* common trick to get sufficient precision without dealing with floats. Money in the US is almost always recorded as tenths of a penny, for instance.

I had the suspicion it was something like this, but I didn't know the specific terms for it, you deserve top comment :)

Oh, that's probably how Side Order lets you get such high damage numbers. It's just displaying the raw damage numbers, which is also why nothing deals decimal damage in side order

This also explains why the damage in Side Order is so much higher, they simply don't display the decimal point there.

@@TsuchinokoIsARealAnimal Oops, posted at the same time. ^^;

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Makes sense to use the existing point system than making a completely brand new one.

Weird seeing you outside of a you know who stream. Figures it'd be here.

THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE WITH THE DIGITAL AESTHETIC

Mind-blowing. And taps into the “game’s code” vibe of stuff.

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kinda weird that it works like that. i mean, why is someone getting awarded for their defenses being broken??

@@vibecatwastaken i would assume it's because of the utility of the chumps (especially in ranked). super chumps are especially good as a diversion tactic - if you use it on a splat zone, it can easily make the enemy team lose control or even capture the point right? so, if someone is busy trying to destroy all super chumps, they could easily be ambushed or... say if your team was splatted, you could buy your teammates time to regroup while the enemy team is distracted by the chumps. imagine the same with all other modes and how it can be used to essentially keep people away from an objective. Basically, measuring how many were destroyed means you used your super chumps in a way that successfully put pressure on the enemy team. Otherwise, you could spam super chumps without rhyme or reason in a way that wouldn't actually do much and get a medal. that'd be rewarding the player for lack of meaningful participation

@@vibecatwastaken I've always thought that Super Chump was supposed to be a distraction tool and not a splatting tool.

@@FROSTALI what you guys say makes sense. I've been staying away from ranked and only as of last season have been getting into it. thanks for your insight :)

@@FROSTALIYeah thats a good way to put it, if your Chumps positioning was so bad that the opponents can just ignore it, then it makes perfect sense for how the medal is awarded.

Well, it's so complicated bc just putting out the most specials is not necessarily the most effective way of using them, nor the most desirable metric of utilising a special. The reward shouldn't go to the biggest special spammer, but the most effective one :) ofc, it might have been better to make this knowledge more public

I mean, it's not like the #1 special user medals do much. They only give you 1 point in Series, so you're better off going for gold medals.

​​@@wutadam it doesn't matter much how valuable the medal is in this conversation, after all even if it's worth nothing, it's still important that it measures things correctly

@@elnchou I think I replied to the wrong person (and in the wrong thread lmao oops), I meant that it's not really necessary for it to be documented by Nintendo since it's not that important in the long run

@@wutadam Oh I see, the comment you replied to did say that at the end so it was probably fine, I misunderstood haha But yeah, my guess is they would have documented it if they actually had some place to do it, but I don't think an indepth manual or anything exists, so many of those details just go unmentioned

I think it's just kinda common to "perform" better if you activate the special more. So since it is very common for the player that activated the special the most to get the #1 medal we just assumed that's how it worked.

​@Breeze926 but if you pop the special and don't hit hardly anyone, it's not indicative you're performing well. 4 opposing players are still there and while it's important to move them where they don't want to go, the game is likely looking for damage numbers. The game believes you're did a poor job because your special never connected.

Ye, but it is also very likely that the person that got more specials is a better technical player so they would deal more damage. I'm just saying that factors like this made it so we just assumed it was number of specials popped and not a more specific metric.

Yes but, chumps performance is measured in how many of your chumps were intercepted, which is... weird. I guess it confirms the intention of the devs, that chumps are meant to be a distraction.

Almost everything in splatoon has terrible explanation, specifically the abilities. For intensify action it doesnt even mention how it reduces shooter jump rng

I think Nintendo is under the impression that not actually explaining the systems prevents players from exploiting them. This is of course completely wrong.

That's just how Nintendo tends to operate

@@Achamelo tbh I *still* don't quite know what IA does exactly. All I know is that at launch a handful of people on reddit/the discord claimed it increased accuracy and damage when jumping which made me absolutely BURN IN the muscle memory to jump anytime I start firing. It is such a hard habit to fight against now, I hate it so much.

For as long as I can remember, the data that’s helped players in games has all come from the hard work of the community and not Nintendo.

the most important thing they do of course!

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Plus ints are perfectly precise, unlike floats

But what is a float?

@@placeholder2937 0.3 1.5 1000000000.5 32423.49587349857 1.000 Basically a number that you want to be able to express as not an integer

@@placeholder2937 A float is how computers deal with numbers that aren't integers (outside of programming tricks such as 'an integer that gets displayed with a decimal between the tens place and the units place') - They consist of two parts, an integer, and an exponent (In most cases, computers use base 2 for this). So, for the example on Wikipedia example, if you're working in base 10, 12.345 would be stored as an integer - 12345 - and an exponent -3. It's called 'float' as an abbreviation of 'floating point' because the decimal can shift anywhere from the left to the right It has issues because it's more computationally expensive, they're usually huge compared to ints, and there are some weird rounding properties (particularly since humans - At least those who use the arabic number system (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) - tend to think in base 10, while computers naturally deal in base 2 so usually computer implementations of floating point use base 2 as their base) - They only have so much precision, dictated by the size of them, and that can cause... Oddities... To occur.

That's exactly what they do, and the order is in Lean's database linked in the description. They look at every medal to see if you're eligible going top down, starting with the golds. If they have three actually good medals to give you, you don't start getting the real dregs and consolation prizes like #2 Belly-Button-Lint Picker.

Probably the highest points out of minimum of three categories. If you did well on more than 3 categories, then it probably chooses the catagory at random. If anarchy, it might be pulling data from multiple games and averaging them out.

I’m not sure about any medals being mutually exclusive, can’t think of any that could conflict like that. As for priority, the game will always look to give you any possible gold medals before a silver. The exact order can be found in Lean’s database

Popular target is a measure of how long the enemy team's cameras are oriented toward you, whether you're next to them or the entire map away

why? It makes perfect sense. Having the number 1 user be the person who did the most with thier specials, instead of the person who fired off the most makes sense

@@LuckyOwI777 then i think they should change the medal name or something. the calcution for #1 special user implies that they used it the most.

@@Rose-df4ep Not really. Nothing about the name says anything about quantity. It literally says this person was the best at using whatever special the medal is for

@@LuckyOwI777 I'm not sure why you're trying to argue the point...to me in my mind, it sounds like who used it the most. the language is vague, it can be interpreted multiple ways. gem made this video because the language confused him too, and he wanted to clarify it for everyone. if it was as simple as you claim it is, or if nintendo explained it themselves, i don't think this video would exist.

@@Rose-df4ep As Gem explained in the video. the reaosn lots of people thought it was based on numebrs, is because the vast majority of the time, the person who fired the special off the most will have done the most work with the special. That's why it was confusing, and people just assumed and took it for granted. Again, there is nothing in the name that says anythign about quantity

most damage dealt via waves.

For what it's worth, integers are much easier for computers to handle than _float_ values in terms of resource allocation.

@@729MendicantTide Okay, that’s understandable.

Dmg is .0 in the training room though as in a shot from a fall off of a 52 gal being 45.3dmg etc

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