Topic: Rocket League Nintendo Switch 2 player split screen not working after update

Rocket League just updated on my Nintendo Switch, and now we can't play 2 player split screen. When we try, it says both players need to be level 20. Or it says all players need to log in.
We have a family Nintendo account. I tried creating a new user, but when I try to play with that user, it asks me if I want to link to a Nintendo account. If I try to link it, it says the switch is already linked to an account. If I cancel the link message, it take me in, but I can't play online. It says I have to log in first.
This just started yesterday (2/7/24) after an updated.
Has anyone else seen this, and is there a way around it so we can play two player split screen?

@SideShow I'll boot mine up without updating, and then update it and try it, to see if I can confirm the split screen issue.

There was a time in the past year or two, where split screen (switch) got removed with an update, and psyonix was aware of the issue. They fixed it and brought it back with a future update 1-3+ months later (I forget how long it was).

When you start a new switch user profile game (save file) for Rocket League, I recall you could skip linking to a nintendo account, even though prompts weren't offering the option. You just had to keep hitting B to back out or skip it, I think. (unless something has changed).

Also, since Rocket League is free to play, you don't need an NSO sub (disregard if you already knew that)

Anyway, I'll back back to you soon.

Edit: two player worked without the update (that was version 1.8.9), but if I turned on wifi, the game says and update is required. So, I'm updating.

@SideShow Update complete. Now it's 1.9.0. Two player split screen still works!

So, maybe you're goofing setting it up, or that xp level is the issue?

menu tree:
Play/Play Offline/Exhibition/Create Match

After you hit 'create match', a "Choose Team" screen opens. On that page, sync the player two controller to the switch. You'll get a prompt wanting you to select a switch user profile, pick a different switch user than player 1.

If it didn't work, then maybe that second switch user profile does need to be linked to a nintendo account, and or needs to have hit xp level 20. My #2 switch user profile is linked to a nintendo account & I've already played Rocket League with that user profile over the past few years. When I select Profile(on rocket league menu), and then avatar borders, it does have avatar border rewards up to xp level 50. So, I believe that means that profile has gotten past xp level 20.

@WoomyNNYes, I appreciate you help with this. I restarted the switch but still same issue. My understanding is that you can only link one user profile to an account. So I have one user profile linked. We used to be able to play completive matches by using the one user profiled linked to an account, and another user profile where we just hit cancel every time it asked us to link to an account. That no longer works. Now, if I log in with the user profile that is not linked, it only have the option to play offline. So I can't play Casual or Competitive. When I try, all the options say "Unavailable" and at the bottom, in red, it says "NOT LOGGED IN. PLEASE LOG IN TO ACCOUNT AND TRY AGAIN."
So, it looks like, after the update, you can only play with a logged in account. And you can only have one logged in account on a switch. Which means there is only one user profile on the switch that can play Rocket League.
Am I missing something? Is there a way to log in with the 2nd user profile without messing up the one that is working?

@SideShow I've had two nintendo accounts/switch users for Splatoon 2 since 2018-ish. Later I used that second switch user/nintendo account for a second Rocket League account. So, you should be able to have a second rocket league account on a switch. I just checked to see if my second rocket league account worked since the update, and it did.

Maybe what you need is to be linked to an Epic Games account for your second player. The nice thing is, when you go to create a second Epic Games account from within the Rocket League game (I think that's how I did it), it will let you create an account by signing in with an existing nintendo account user & PW. (so you dont' need to invent a new user & PW for Epic Games)