Splatoon 3 fans got a nice surprise this past weekend when Nintendo hosted a special splatfest event before the official release of the game. This gave people a chance to download and play a demo of the colorful shooter ahead of its September 9 release date. However, gamers bold enough to “fuck and find out” certainly found out, as it appears that Nintendo’s anti-cheat system has now started banning the Switch consoles of Splatfest players who tried to get ahead by modding the game. .
According to prominent Nintendo Switch data miner OatmealDome, the game’s anti-cheat system was active over the weekend. the Splatoon 3: Splatfest World Premiere, which took place from August 27 to 28, offered three teams to choose from: rock, paper, scissors, as well as a variety of equipment and weapons to experiment with. You’d think this would be enough to help people out as we all collectively await the game’s official release in a couple of weeks. But some still went out of limits when downloading and using a user-made patch which skipped the tutorial and granted early access to Splatoon 3‘s Proving Ground, the game’s practice lobby. The patch worked, but players who used it soon began to find that their Switches were banned.
It is unclear whether these bans constitute an outright ban on the Nintendo Switch Online service. OatmealDome now suggests that the ban can only prevent affected players from playing more. Splatoon 3 on your console, but it certainly doesn’t sound like something you want to try.
“When I saw reports on Twitter about people being kicked out because of that patch, I wasn’t surprised at all,” OatmealDome said. Kotaku via Twitter direct messages. “Patching the game code would be [also] get you banned splatoon 2.
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“Nintendo is taking cheating seriously this time around,” they said. “[whereas] splatoon Y [Splatoon] two They were both completely unprotected when they were released.”
However, they point out that “a lot of high-profile incidents” that affected splatoon 2 it made Nintendo more serious. “This led to splatoon 2 implementing a pretty decent anti-cheat solution, and it seems to be pretty effective so far,” they said. “Nintendo wants to continue that in Splatoon 3.”
Kotaku has reached out to Nintendo for comment.
we have I learned a lot about Splatoon 3 thanks to the 30-minute Nintendo Direct that took place on August 10. In addition to the return of fan-favorite locations like Hammerhead Bridge, the colorful shooter will let you out of the ink, yet turn down proper in-game voice chat and has a lot of new weapons I’m pretty stock for this game. Splatoon 3 comes to Nintendo Switch exclusively on September 9.
