Even prior to the Spicy versus Sweet versus Sour Splatfest, players could potentially find themselves in 100x or 333x battles, which give the winners a much larger boost than completing a normal match, as the names imply. However, in Splatoon 2, winners of 100x matches would find an image of themselves and their teammates in the square celebrating their victory for their team. This feature was missing in Splatoon 3, and the team recently announced that it would be rectified by creating something new: letting players board their team’s float, with the team-leading idol, and take pictures.
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The new feature is largely working normally, except for one oddity: Octoling players are discovering that their avatars have been transformed into Inklings during the float sequence. It’s not a 100% conversion, as the converted Octolings are still using their normal hairstyles, which are ordinarily inaccessible to Inklings. However, it’s easy to see that their faces have changed, with the telltale line between the eye masks indicating that they’re no longer normal Octolings, which don’t have this line, among other subtle differences.
Several Splatoon 3 players have reported this problem on social media, and it’s baffling the community as to how something like this could have been overlooked, especially with the game having longer-than-normal breaks between Splatfest events. Previously, a bug existed where players could forcibly make their Octoling or Inkling have hair of the opposite species, but only in shops and after following a specific sequence of steps. How this managed to happen during the event is unknown, other than it presumably boiling down to developer error.
While Splatoon 3 has been widely celebrated since its release and has sold extremely well for Nintendo, that’s not to say that it’s flawless. Players have been disappointed to see the connection issues from the prior games continue, and according to some, even worsen. Splatfests haven’t been immune either, as the game’s first post-release Splatfest had a glitch that allowed players to earn Conch Shells without first joining a team. Players who joined after earning at least one Conch Shell wouldn’t have their shells count towards their team’s score, which understandably upset many people. That issue has since been fixed, but with the current Splatfest underway, it’s unlikely that this new problem will see a solution until the next Splatfest.
Splatoon 3 is available now for Nintendo Switch.
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