After Its 'make Fps Great Again' Controversy, Splitgate 2 Is...

Splitgate 2 is also coming back sooner than expected: Instead of early 2026, the relaunch is now slated for December.

Troubled team-based shooter Splitgate 2 is coming back earlier than expected: Rather than re-launching in 2026 as originally planned, developer 1047 Games says the beta servers will be taken offline on December 4, and a full-on re-release will follow later in the month.

"Thank you to everyone who participated in the Splitgate 2 Beta!" the studio announced on Steam. "On December 4th, the beta season and active battle passes will be ending, alongside your seasonal 'rank' progress. We will also be taking the beta servers offline on the 4th to prepare for relaunch later in December."

A quick refresher for those who, like me, had completely forgotten about Splitgate 2: After showing early promise as a significant step forward from the original Splitgate: Arena Warfare (which we quite liked), Splitgate 2 launched into open beta in May and faceplanted hard, for two reasons. First, there was the predictable: The servers blew out when the open beta went live.

Then two weeks later came the unpredictable, when 1047 Games CEO Ian Proulx went onstage at The Game Awards in a MAGA-style hat. As PR moves go, it wasn't great, and Proulx's subsequent efforts to "clarify" the situation only made things worse. How much of an impact his ill-considered lid had on Splitgate 2's fortunes is impossible to say, but the reaction sure wasn't the sort of thing you put in an accolades trailer.

Less than two months after Splitgate 2's launch, the wheels came off. 1047 reverted the game to a beta state, laid off a bunch of people, and announced the closure of Splitgate 1 servers because they cost too much to continue operating—although to its credit, the studio rolled out peer-to-peer support in August, enabling fans to continue playing.

1047 said when it announced the beta reversion that it would be "heads down until early next year, rebuilding major parts of the game to capture the spirit of what made Splitgate special." But apparently it didn't need all that much time to get the job done. And it sounds like Splitgate 2 has been significantly overhauled: 1047 said in a blog post last week that it's "rebuilt the entire foundation around what makes Splitgate special: portals, movement, and pure gunplay."

"We removed factions entirely and reimagined abilities as power-ups," the studio wrote. "We brought back classic roundless modes like King of the Hill, Domination,

Source: PC Gamer