You may recall that a few hours ago, Nintendo announced that Splatoon 3 would be getting a brand new update later tonight. They also released patch notes for the update in advance, which is something Nintendo likes to do often with Splatoon 3 updates.
Well, as promised, Nintendo has officially released the update. After you update the game, Splatoon 3 should now be on version 7.1.0. The main focus of this update is on bug fixes. If you missed seeing the update patch notes when they were released yesterday, you can see them for yourself below.
Changes to Splatfests
- Added a song to play during Splatfest Battles and Tricolor Battles.
- This song will play regardless of whether the player has downloaded the DLC.
Changes to Salmon Run
- For players not on the main multiplayer system, the time until those players pick up the golden eggs they touched immediately after laying or throwing another golden egg has been shortened.
This update focuses on adding a song for Splatfests.
The next update, which is planned for the middle of Fresh Season 2024, will make changes to things like battles.
Error corrections
Fixes to player controls
- Fixed an issue that sometimes caused shots to fly further than normal when a player Super jumped onto a distant target and attacked right before landing.
- Fixed an issue with the Order Brella Replica Canopy where the ink displayed on it relative to the damage taken was less than Splat Brella and Sorella Brella.
- Fixed an issue in Clam Blitz mode where, when you didn’t have a clam, it was possible to swing the rollers at shorter intervals than normal by alternating between swinging the roller and performing a clam toss action.
Sidebar fixes
- Fixed an issue where sometimes when players would clear the side order story and return to the square, a communication error would occur and prevent them from watching the scene to the end.
- A feature to replay this scene has been added to the Spire of Order entrance.
- Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented the player from controlling a character after a viewing scene in the Spire of Order.
- Fixed an issue where when playing Side Order continuously, the in-game music would sometimes stop playing.
- Fixed an issue when the player presses the + button to open the pause screen at a certain time after entering a floor, the floor music sometimes does not play when the player closes the pause screen.
- Fixed an issue where, for reasons such as activating a Broken-Armor Jump in the air, sometimes when staying in the air in a high-air position, the player would be treated as having fallen off the stage despite being in a position where they could return stage.
- Fixed an issue where the jump height when jumping from the bounce pad was not uniform.
- Fixed an issue where, when restarting after an error on the floor where the bonus challenge occurred, the icon in the upper left corner showing the bonus conditions would sometimes appear overlapping those that were different from the original conditions.
- Fixed an issue where the color of the mark indicating what you are aiming at would sometimes differ from the player’s ink color due to the Homing Shots color chip.
- Fixed an issue in Rotational.Floor where players would sometimes jump onto the field when stuck between Whirling Accelerando and the field.
- Fixed an issue where when the Parallel Canon touched the active inkrail, the player would sometimes be significantly blown away.
- Fixed an issue where when pressing the A button on the score screen at the end of a run on Spire of Order, the points earned displayed would sometimes be higher than the number of points actually earned.
Fixes for SplatNet 3
- Fixed an issue where the “Best Score!” which is displayed in the sidebar stats sometimes does not update correctly.
Other repairs
- Fixed an issue where badges could sometimes not be obtained based on rank X in Chill Season 2023.
- When your final rank in Chill Season 2023 meets the requirements, you will automatically earn a badge when you go online and go to the lobby after applying the updated data.
- You can check your final standings on SplatNet 3.
- Fixed an issue where pressing the left stick on the screen where you are asking Murch or Spyke to add equipment abilities would sometimes prevent you from performing further actions.
- Fixed an issue where the time limit could not be changed when using the Tableturf Battle Stage Randomization feature in multiplayer.
