{"id":111386,"date":"2020-04-09T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/04\/nintendo_tweets_about_splatoon_2s_april_update_then_deletes_it"},"modified":"2020-04-09T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T23:05:00","slug":"nintendo-tweets-about-splatoon-2s-april-update-then-deletes-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/09\/nintendo-tweets-about-splatoon-2s-april-update-then-deletes-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Tweets About Splatoon 2&#8217;s April Update, Then Deletes It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/10823fc73257b\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/10823fc73257b\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<header class=\"article-header\" readability=\"10.730158730159\">\n<section class=\"title\" readability=\"0.71140939597315\">\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p class=\"description\">Promises &#8220;minor adjustments to a variety of weapons&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"byline\">\n<ul class=\"article-author\">\n<li class=\" first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/users\/794\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"Damo\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"authors last\">by <a class=\"author-name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/Damo\">Damien McFerran<\/a> <span class=\"icon icon-time\"><\/span> <time class=\"date age \" datetime=\"2020-04-09T23:05:00+00:00\"><span>21 hours ago<\/span><\/time><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body body-text article-text\" readability=\"38.293351302785\">\n<section class=\"text\" readability=\"42.792156862745\">\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Splatoon 2\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/10823fc73257b\/splatoon-2.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/10823fc73257b\/splatoon-2.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Splatoon 2\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>It seems like someone at Nintendo HQ got a little ahead of themselves with regards to a social network post for an upcoming <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_2\">Splatoon 2<\/a><\/strong> update.<\/p>\n<p>A tweet went out today which mentioned a patch containing &#8220;minor adjustments to a variety of weapons&#8221; for the popular online shooter, but the tweet was deleted not long afterwards, suggesting that it was posted earlier than was planned. Nintendo had previously stated that another update for the game would be coming in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/splatoon_2_version_5_1_0_is_now_live_here_are_the_full_patch_notes\">April<\/a>, so it&#8217;s not like it&#8217;s a surprise \u2013 it&#8217;s just odd that the post was nuked.<\/p>\n<p>While Splatoon 2 is unlikely to get a massive update again, Nintendo is clearly continuing to tweak the game&#8217;s balance to ensure players remain happy \u2013 and tinkering with the myriad weapons available is naturally an ongoing process. The most recent update \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/splatoon_2_version_5_1_0_is_now_live_here_are_the_full_patch_notes\">Version 5.1.0<\/a> \u2013 arrived in January and was a multiplayer-focused update that changed a bunch of weapons in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Are there any weapons you&#8217;d like to see rebalanced in Splatoon 2? Let us know with a comment.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/nintendo-mentions-new-splatoon-2-update-on-social-media-then-deletes-post\/\" href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/nintendo-mentions-new-splatoon-2-update-on-social-media-then-deletes-post\/\">nintendoeverything.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com\/nintendo-switch\/related-info\/e3e2b92da8d500394a6d4570d53aabd7 @ 2020-04-10T19:49:58+01:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"see-also\">\n<dl>\n<dt>See Also<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\"><\/dd>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\"><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promises &#8220;minor adjustments to a variety of weapons&#8221; by Damien McFerran 21 hours ago It seems like someone at Nintendo HQ got a little ahead of themselves with regards to a social network post for an upcoming Splatoon 2 update. A tweet went out today which mentioned a patch containing &#8220;minor adjustments to a variety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}