Splatoon 3 'Chill Season 2022' Update Announced - New Weapons, Stages, Game Modes And More

Looks like the Salmonids will be merry this year!

So I guess Splatfest might be bimonthly, like Big Run in December and Splatfest in January? I really hope Big Run has snails for rewards. I’ll miss the monthly Splatfests like in the last game.

completely missed the new shooter and roller subclass at first lol.
i think the shooter seems to shoot extra smaller pellets, the roller rolls a wider spread of ink i think?

Looking pretty slick! About time for Big Run too. Wonder how much that will actually differ from normal Salmon Run, aside from the stage.

They're already adding different weapon kit variants, I'm surprised.

Got my hopes up a bit seeing 'game modes' in the title when it's just stuff we already knew about - the Big Run thing should be fun but I still feel Splatoon 3 is lacking its own brand new mode that's playable all the time rather than just during certain events. But still, looking forward to the new stages and weapons.

This looks so fun! Just wish they would add more hair styles face changes, things like that.

But will they fix the pesky COMMUNICATION ERROR issues? We’ll see. (Likely not.)

Awesome news! Looks like Splatoon will follow a Seasonal pass regarding the updates! This game still needs a proper voice chat though, let alone the Switch in general. It would be neat if they would post the number of players who participated in Splatfest. It would actually be smart of Nintendo to use events like Splatfest for advertising! Not annoying sponser ads but how cool would it be if they premiered trailers for new games during these events. Would be kind of cool to watch mini trailers while your awaiting matchmaking in between matches. All in all this game will be a much different game by next summer! It deserves its recent success, there’s a player on my friends list who’s hit 550hrs already and it’s only been out 2 months!…this update only ensures their family will likely never seen them again lol

X Battle is lost certainly not for me but if Big Run is going all Kaiju mode count me in.

I only played about 10 matches of Splatfest this weekend. Won the first 2 fairly evenly,then 6 lopsided losses in a row - never good when a team your racing says "7 match win streak" - then 2 disconnects in a row. I took the 2nd as a sign to give up. Wasn't really feeling either of the 2 areas either, felt too similar, big, open and 2 dimensional.

Babe wake up, pencil gun just dropped in splatoon 3

I had blown through my Super Sea Snails from the last Splatfest long ago, and having 2 months in between events really left me waiting. Especially considering that it can cost an entire fest's worth of winnings just to max out 1 piece of gear.

That being said, I'm really hoping Big Run doles out more silver/gold scales. The Salmon Run scale grind is TOUGH and a quicker way to earn them is more than welcome.
(Also really dig the cello music from SR playing the mish-mash version of the normal theme)

Seems like everything that's actually new is gated off. X battles unavailable for most players, Tri-color battles are super rare, and Big Run is another time limited splatfest style mode...

Big Run, so hyped for that event.

Big Run is real!

I can’t wait for Flounder Heights to return. I was my favorite stage in Splatoon 1. Brinewater Springs looks great too. I’m so excited!

I got burnt out after I made it to S+, so it'll be nice to return with X rank and more stages/weapons in the winter.

@Sequel At least one of the 2 new maps is Flounder Heights from Splatoon 1 so we know that’s good. The open air bath map looks like it’s in-line with their current ‘flat’ map design philosophy that they started in Splatoon 2. (which is why I’m not a fan of Spillway) I’ve definitely noticed the decline in map quality.

@chardir How so? X Battles sure, but Tri-Color is luck of the draw (with your chances of playing being greater if you’re an Attacker), and Big Run looks to be just regular Salmon Run with possibly a guaranteed Cohozuna battle, but using one of the rotation maps. So anyone should be able to play when it becomes available, and difficulty will probably be a separate event-related rating.

Big Run is Salmon Run on regular Turf War/ranked maps? Seems intriguing enough to me.

I just hope we don't have to wait this long again between updates. I burned myself out on the game after the first month when the content became dry as hell. Gotta keep it fresh, Nintendo.

I'm happy to see the return of Flounder Heights, it was always my favorite map from the first Splatoon. Some of the new weapons also look neat, even if none of them really speak to me. Call me boring, but I just want variations of the Aerospray with different specials.

The Omega-3 remix of Clickbait has me more hyped than anything. That's so sick!!

...I heard the game is having serious crash issues now...I dunno, I stopped playing this game a while ago as expected. They still haven't fixed the problem I have with Salmon Run, ugh, wished I never bought this game. -.-

I really hope there are new music tracks as well

Ooooh, I'm looking forward to some new weapon/sub/main combos. I'm still trying find one that works for me. Pretty excited for some new stages too!

New stages look great, but at some point we need Moray Towers readded to the selection. That stage alone is my all-time favorite. It defines the game in a lot of ways and is so iconic, it's the one they pulled from to add as a stage to Smash Ultimate.

Early Christmas!

Hope they fix the racism that people post. Tired of seeing it

Really disappointed about Flounder Heights. They just chopped the top off of the map. Kind of hard to call it Flounder Heights when it's pretty much as tall as every other stage...

@Nico07 Moray Towers is my favorite as well. I love the verticality of it. And how I can sneak through enemy team so easily when no one is paying attention. lol

I can't wait for the brand-new Tokyo stage! That one looks interesting. I want to see if Nintendo listened to the feedback people gave on the new stages and returning stages.

@Hajilee i feel they chopped a whole floor off the middle and removed a couple walls and flattened the features on the rooftops. It’s like they’re afraid of verticality or something.

Big up for Flounder Heights' return! One of my favorite maps from the original game

@Rainz
I am personally against vc, I have no desire to listen to 12 year olds pretending to have sexual relations with my various family members. If you want vc with people you actually trust with it, just use a 3rd party app.

I hope the update that comes with Chill Season doesn't fix the locker object rotation glitch. Things like the squid plush and skateboards are better displayed at a tilted angle, and Nintendo should honestly just make this a feature where you can freely rotate objects instead of being restricted to 90° rotations.

@Sequel
Yeah out of all the Splatoon 1 maps they picked to return they picked Flounder Heights which was one of my least favorite stages. They even managed to ruin some of the Splatoon 1 stages like Mahi Mahi resort. I want them to add unique maps like Moray towers and kelp dome but I’m worried they’d just make them boring.

@masterLEON Exactly, I'm going to miss the original Flounder Heights. Every stages in Splatoon 3 is shaping up to be very similar. I'd hate to see what they'd do to Moray Towers xD

@Hajilee Every map is turning into Humpback Pump Track, lol. Moray’s gonna end up with the whole mid landings gone and you’d go down 2 ramps to get to the middle XD

@masterLEON True, I really wish they'd get their map design in check lol.

@BenAV thats a good idea to take a little break from it I've been playing pokemon scarlet