Congrats. You already beat my high score. Although mine is at 221 for me being solo freelance of just me using only grizzco slosher, Chewoomy's favorite weapon. 👏👏👏👏

WOAH you guys cooked!!

This game mode is such a terrible idea, it's sad you have to play it a fair amount to get the gold reward (top 5%). I have got 2 silver awards and 3 gold awards. First thing, it's got harder and harder to get gold so you have to grind a lot. And if you don't have friends who play this incredibly niche game mode (such as myself), you have to rely on randoms. And 95% of randoms have no idea what they are doing to get the best score, because there is no ranking system in this game mode. You can get matched with literally anyone. If you have one bad wave, that's it - no way of getting a new high score. But there's no way to reset if you do have a bad wave, so you have to slog out the failed run anyway and waste your time that could be spent on another run (unless everyone decides to reset and jump in the water which almost never happens). It gets repetitive and boring after a few hours having run after run die after wave 2 or 3. Usually I just try and play the instant it starts and good players will be in the team. After that, they all dip out and you're left with people who are happy getting a mediocre score.

5:00 didn't even know that existed!

I feel like if they had made it bi weekly or weekly it would be more interesting but once per 3 moths ain't it for this mode .-.

FINNALY Been waiting for this video for so long, glad to see you back :))

when eggstra work was first announced i was excited for it but i play solo usually and we all know what the solo eggstra work experience is like

Umami Ruins junping up in turf count truly reflects the glow up it received, genuinely became one of my personal favourite stages post-rework

I can’t believe you did all this with Machine instead of something like Swig or Aerospray. How torturous was this?

Damn, the fact that we got 2 and 3 on the same console still shocks me. Also that Mediocre Midworks diss…

Wow, what a long run this game has had. And what a crazy ride it’s been seeing the new maps fumble and cook, change beyond and below our expectations. From the tininess of mahi mahi, to the inkable turf behind solid walls. Glad we finished off the maps on a good note with giving maps like umami a chance to get out of the smallest map, and just having more fun with it all. Thanks for these two years of turfing!!

3:14 how I thought I got more terrain

2:02 booyah bomb OP lol

*Now do it with all the inkable walls*

this is the most satisfying and most terrifying thing I have ever seen. I am in awe

Drak’s controller after painting the maps: My time has come

Nice job I wouldn't have the patience to do this xD good job though!

Why it's so sad?

Yeah, it is absolutely terrible, and so damn boring to play over and over. I feel like the remedy for this is to just make it a part of private battles and instead of having it available for 1 weekend a season, let people play that one event whenever they can get a team together during the season. Let people play a few and come back later, and then at the end of the season announce the winners. This way the people who really want to perfect a run, have the space to dedicate time when it suits them and really max it out if that motivates them, and for anyone else it's there if you feel like playing SR but marooners bay is in rotation. But also dear god let us just start on wave 2 or 100% hazard. And don't bring tornado back again for it, that wave is boring even without it being guaranteed. - Also have a guaranteed King if you complete wave 5, but it only gives like half the scales. So you need to play 10 waves to get the usual payout - which is akin to over 3 normal games so not unreasonable to have a king that soon.

The one that just ended was the first one I've gotten to play and I kind of liked it, but I don't disagree with anything you said here. I only found it worth it because of the two extra superbonuses, I didn't even know I would get a badge and sticker for it lol

I feel like Eggstra Work might be more fun if they let us bring our own weapons. Like seriously, why do they insist on sticking us with garbage like the Hydra Splatling or the S-BLAST?

Honestly, im a completionist so i just play one game of eggstra work and boom im taking my leave n go, besides the participation stickers look better imo

Eggstra Work feels like a temporary training grounds for people who want to get better at Salmon, figure out how it works and train on different ways to help your team as the waves get harder, as the waves are scripted. However I could have sworn we could do practice shifts anyway. The reward thing is not worth it though…

Ill be real, i didnt even know where this mode even came from- just saw folks posting high scores and when "neat! ... anyways" Its.. i dont have the words to describe how just *bad* they executed this mode 😭

5:30 ...yeah, kinda... or not really. eggstrawork is by far my most favourite event in all splatoon. its so incredibly fun to strategize with your teammates to optimize a certain seed. I love the thinking it requires and the understanding of the game that you gain from it. i'm literally so in love with this mode. but yeah, I'm saying this as someone who played this mode serious with organized and prepared teams which like less than 1% of the playerbase does - I would guess. on the first eggstrawork I went with pick-up teams and yeah it does kinda suck that way. so yeah, objectivley eggstrawork work sucks... but for me its just <3

I liked it.

It is by far the most fun i have playing splatoon 3... I think the only valid criticism here is the lack of good rewards and how infrequent the event is. The fun of the mode itself is kinda like how people find speedrunning fun. Yes you play the same thing over and over, but you start optimizing and getting higher and more insane scores. It's not for everyone of course, so I'm not gonna say you NEED to find it fun, but I don't think it's a garbage mode at all. It just suffers from being incredibly underused... imo it could have been really cool if it was weekly or something.

I agree with you on this one tbh. This is probably the worst event in the Splatoon 3 ever. All waves, especially 1st wave and 2nd wave are very predictable and getting really boring thou. In this event I even got exactly 236 in just six games, especially i lost 4 games in the row during my solo freelance. Also I agree with you that not many people will have free time to do weekends in this event especially people are working on the weekends. Even Chewoomy told me that Chewoomy had played even less time in a big run even thou I had exactly the same high score as Chewoomy. Ps this is the first time i get to fully seen your video, and also 2 of your people friends have bump into me in salmon run. Great video.😀😀😀👏👏👏

One thing to mention, is that playing eggstra work solo is not a good experience either. When you play with friends, you can pick your weapon, but for solo, you get a random weapon. So if you aren't good with hydra (or one of the randoms that joins you isn't good at hydra but gets it), well good luck. Played for an hour in solo, never cleared wave 5... One can only carry so far

I wouldn't call eggstrawork offensively terrible. It's not great but it's a fun little something to hone in my skills and coordination. But in all seriousness, I think splatoon 3 has too many limited time events. Should've just stayed at Splatfest and big run. Challenges should be full 24 hours, instead of discrete 2 hour blocks. I think the best approach is to have 2 challenge modes available during the weekend when there's no splatfest nor big run event occurring. But that's a topic for another day, eggstra work really isn't that awful, really the only disappointment I have with eggstra work (which is more of an issue I have with big run) is the lack of super sea snails as rewards.

I would probably be more upset with eggtra work if challenges didn't exist, lol. Like as it is, everything about the mode is just inoffensive to me: the lack of any flair goes perfectly with the simple and almost speedrun-esque repetition, and it's the one mode I'm okay with being so limited since I'm not missing out on much if I don't play. It could be a lot more, but it's simultaneously way more than I ever expected them to do with salmon run in this game (I figured we were getting big run and nothing else, and if they were going to do more interesting stuff with salmon run I'd rather they spice up big run further anyway) Now challenges on the other hand actively frustrates me, because it's like if they fixed the repetitive issue of eggtra work but made the availability even worse somehow. Genuinely I've had more challenges where I forgot and got annoyed by the fact that I missed it than I have challenges where I actually got to play them and had fun. At this point even when I can play I often don't, cause trying to grind a whole 2 hours of a challenge because they only come up once in a blue moon sucks. Either you play at whatever arbitrary time the game decides to run a challenge whether you feel like it or not, or you never play them at all and they might as well not even be in the game.

Eggstra Work and Challenges have the same stupidly simple solution: Just make them permanent modes that also follow normal 2-ish day SR rotations. Every SR Rotation, the Eggstra Work seed and map would change, and for Challenges, the challenge itself would change every 2 days, but the map and mode would change every regular rotation, to keep things fresh and interesting.

Even though I got my first top 5%, I agree with you because doing the same thing over and over again just makes me feel bored. I kept going anyways because I wasn't sure if I had gold but I did get 244 eggs.

There’s no reason this mode couldn’t have been the leagues of salmon run-happens all the time, changes once every 2 days or so like regular freelance, happens in addition to regular freelance all the time, has its own public online leaderboards, etc. It’s not significant enough to only happen once a season. It’s dumb.

I like eggstra work but also you get more bonuses for playing it as well

They do give extra bonuses

I definitly know people who like extrawork bcs they like to grind the same rotation over and over to get the perfect score, for me its a little fun for like the first 5 hours or so then i get bored. the reason why i like salmon run is everyt game is different with different spawns different events and different strategies but yeah extrawork is pretty underwhelming for being so rare, to me it seems like the challenge equivalent to salmon run, and if thats the case then they should make extra work more fun like challenges One extra challenge could be getting the same sinario over and over and getting a reward for it, but there should also be ones like, everyone gets the same weapon, or everyone picks a weapon from a certain class, or infinite salmon run waves, or like only night waves. thats one way to fix it another way they could fix it is just have extra work happen more often, or maybe even just all the time and the sticker reward goes to the teams whos top 5% in any of the extra work rotations, just like regular salmon run have back to back new rotations, instead of just one rotation u grind, there could be any of the rotations for that season and its up to u to find the best sincario and grind that

I don't even think Salmon Run is a great fit philosophically for static enemy spawns. There are folks that do like to optimize and see how high they can score attack. The mode definitely caters to an organized player base who actively teams up. But I would argue one of the appeals of Salmon Run for many people is the random nature of it, where there is always a slightly different scenario to tackle. So Eggstra Work just becomes a boring Score Attack slog that isn't worth grinding out. Why learn the rotation when I have no idea if my random teammates have learned it? At least in Big Run, you get the novelty of randomness, new maps, and the ability to grind scales. I am still at the mercy of my freelance teammates but there is actually matchmaking for hazard level. It is so much better designed for Salmon Run.

I know what's worse being about to kill a king salmonid but you get a connection error