Splatoon 3's 10.0.0 Update Is Here — Check Out the Patch Notes

Nintendo has deployed an update for Splatoon 3, improving however it looks and runs connected Nintendo Switch 2.

As good arsenic expanding the solution of images stored successful the Switch 2 album, Update 10.0.0. brings smoother on-screen question successful Splatsville, Inkopolis, Inkopolis Square, and Grand Festival Grounds, arsenic good arsenic improved animations for definite characters similar jellyfish, and the Salmonid erstwhile there's a ample fig of them successful the signifier successful Salmon Run.

In further to these show and ocular improvements for Switch 2, you besides get 30 caller limb kits from the Barazushi and Emberz brands (the Splatlands Collection), and the instrumentality of the Urchin Underpass signifier from the archetypal Splatoon crippled connected Wii U.

Nintendo said its adjacent update volition "focus connected multiplayer equilibrium based connected investigation of changes to the concern that travel with these limb additions."

Splatoon 3 update: Ver. 10.0.0 (Released June 11, 2025)

Added Features and Game Content Changes

• Made it truthful that the surface displays successful much detail.
• Made on-screen question smoother successful the pursuing areas.
  • Splatsville
  • Inkopolis
  • Inkopolis Square
  • Grand Festival Grounds
• In Salmon Run, smoothed Salmonid animations adjacent erstwhile there’s a ample fig of Salmonids successful the stage.
• Smoothed animations for definite characters, specified arsenic jellyfish.
• Changed the animation that displays successful the bottommost close of the surface erstwhile switching scenes.
• Increased the solution of images stored successful the Nintendo Switch 2 Album erstwhile screens are captured utilizing Photo Mode oregon the Capture Button connected the controller.

• Made it truthful that definite elements extracurricular the signifier and unrelated to conflict bash not show erstwhile battling successful Splat Zones/Tower Control/Rainmaker/Clam Blitz modes.
  • This alteration is to trim differences successful crippled cognition velocity arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable erstwhile compared with Nintendo Switch 2.
  • In Recon Mode, each elements volition show arsenic they person up to this point.

All different changes beneath use to some Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch.

Changes to Multiplayer

• Added a caller stage, Urchin Underpass.
• Added 30 caller weapons arsenic portion of the Splatlands Collection - Barazushi / Emberz.
  • These weapons volition beryllium disposable successful the shops aft applying the update.
    Splatlands Collection - Barazushi
• Added a Series Weapon diagnostic to Anarchy Battle (Series) for Rank S and higher.
  • In Anarchy Battle (Series) for Rank S oregon higher, Series Weapon Power volition beryllium measured for each limb players equip. They volition beryllium matched with different players whose Series Weapon Power is akin to theirs for the presently equipped weapon.
  • Series Weapon Power is the aforesaid for each 4 modes.
  • Players tin cheque their existent Series Weapon Power for each limb by pressing the ZL Button connected the Equip surface to show the weapon's details.
  • Series Weapon Power resets each clip the play changes, but the highest worth players person achieved volition beryllium recorded successful SplatNet 3.
• In Anarchy Battle (Open), accrued the magnitude of alteration successful Rank Points per conflict by astir 2.5x.
• Made it truthful that telephone signs, which are automatically determined utilizing factors specified arsenic equipped gear, volition show successful X Battles successful spot of nicknames.
  • After the conflict ends, you tin cheque players’ existent nicknames and IDs (the drawstring of numbers and letters starting with #) connected screens for checking results, specified arsenic the lucifer paper and the lobby terminal.
  • For X Rankings, players’ existent nicknames and IDs volition display.

Changes to SplatNet 3

• Players’ Best Nine volition present display.
  • “Best Nine” indicates the 9 weapons with the highest Series Weapon Power retired of each the weapons a subordinate owns.
• Best Nine rankings volition present display.
  • Best Nine rankings are rankings wherever players vie for full Series Weapon Power for their Best Nine.
• Notifications from SplatNet 3 volition present show successful the notifications container wrong the Nintendo Switch App.

Other Changes

• Increased the maximum worth for limb Freshness to 10★.
  • Players tin gain caller badges for weapons by achieving Freshness 6★ to 10★.
  • Once the update has been applied, weapons that had received XP beyond the maximum worth earlier applying the update volition person their Freshness summation aft 1 conflict by an magnitude proportionate to the magnitude of XP received up to this point.
• Added caller badges players tin get based connected the fig of weapons with Freshness ★★★★ oregon higher.
• Made it truthful that different players a subordinate has battled with successful Anarchy Battle (Series) and Splatfest Battle (Pro) volition not show successful the Users You Have Played With strategy diagnostic of Nintendo Switch/Nintendo Switch 2 consoles.

As a bonus update, successful this update we added weapons and a stage, accrued the maximum Freshness, implemented a Series Weapon diagnostic for Anarchy Battle (Series), added a telephone motion diagnostic to X Battles, and performed optimization of operations connected Nintendo Switch 2.

For Anarchy Battle (Series), we implemented a caller Series Weapon diagnostic targeted toward players Rank S oregon higher.

With this feature, the Series Weapon Power volition beryllium measured for each limb presently equipped, and players volition beryllium matched up against others with akin levels of power.

We implemented this diagnostic successful hopes that players volition bask battling utilizing a assortment of weapons, including the Splatlands Collection - Barazushi / Emberz weapons added successful this update.

Additionally, we made equilibrium changes to multiplayer battles.

For S-BLAST ‘92 and S-BLAST ‘91, we person made adjustments to springiness players warring against them much country to antagonistic because, from the opponent's constituent of view, determination seemed to beryllium nary openings astatine immoderate distance.

For the Crab Tank, we lowered the maximum harm of the cannon to alteration the frequence that the idiosyncratic being attacked is defeated without immoderate accidental to evade. We besides made it easier for different peculiar weapons to combat against the Crab Tank.

For Toxic Mist, we person reduced the magnitude of ink consumed to marque it easier to combat successful operation with main weapons. On the different hand, we person simultaneously extended the clip earlier ink begins to retrieve truthful that this alteration does not pb to tactics wherever players simply continuously propulsion their sub weapons.

This week, Nintendo announced Splatoon Raiders, a brand-new Splatoon spin-off exclusive to the Switch 2. The astonishment uncover was made with a trailer that was released archetypal connected the Nintendo Today! App. Nintendo failed to denote a merchandise window, but said to support an oculus retired for much accusation successful the future.

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