Nintendo is banning Splatoon 3 cheaters before the game even releases

An Inkling in Splatoon 3 summons an item, but that item has been replaced with a Super Smash Bros. hammer.

Nintendo summons the almighty Banhammer.
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turn 3 Fans were treated to a nice surprise last weekend when Nintendo staged a special splatfest Event before the game’s official release. This gave people a chance to download and play a demo of the colorful shooter ahead of the September 9 release date. However, gamers brave enough to “play around and find out” have certainly figured it out, as apparently Nintendo’s anti-cheat system has started banning the Switch consoles of Splatfest players who have attempted to advance by modifying the game.

According to well-known Nintendo Switch dataminer OatmealDome, the game’s anti-cheat system was indeed active over the weekend. That turn 3: Splatfest World Premiere, which ran August 27-28, offered three teams to choose from – Rock, Paper, or Scissors – as well as a variety of equipment and weapons to experiment with. You’d think that would be enough to tide people over while we all wait together for the game’s official launch in a couple of weeks. But some still stepped out of bounds by downloading and using a user-created patch who skipped the tutorial and granted early access turn 3Test area of ​​, a kind of practice lobby of the game. The patch worked, but players using it soon found their switches getting locked.

It’s unclear if these bans represent a total ban on the Nintendo Switch Online service — OatmealDome now suggests the ban may just prevent affected players from playing more turn 3 on their console – but it certainly doesn’t seem like something you want to test out.

“When I saw reports on Twitter of people getting banned because of this one patch, I was completely taken aback,” OatmealDome said my box via Twitter DMs. “Patching the game’s code would [also] get blocked turn 2.

“Nintendo takes cheating seriously this time,” they said. “[whereas] splatoon and [Splatoon] 2 were both completely unprotected when they took off.”

However, they note that “a number of high-profile incidents” were involved turn 2 prompted Nintendo to get more serious. “This led to turn 2 implement a pretty decent anti-cheat solution, and it seems pretty effective so far,” they said. “Nintendo wants to continue that turn 3.”

my box has reached out to Nintendo for comment.

We have learned a lot about it turn 3 Thanks to the 30-minute Direct Nintendo that took place on August 10th. Alongside the return of fan-favorite stages like Hammerhead Bridge, the colorful shooter will have you rolling out of ink, still refusing proper in-game voice chat and features a ton of new weapons I’m pretty excited about this game. turn 3 Coming exclusively to Nintendo Switch on September 9th.

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