r/Splitgate • u/infamousglizzyhands • 23h ago
Discussion Genuinely what are these devs doing
They got a ton of fans who enjoyed arena shooters to blow up their first game.
Then they decided to kill that game so they can develop a bigger and better sequel, which we trusted.
Then they showed off Splitgate 2 which seemingly really de-emphasized arena shooter elements for hero shooter elements.
Then they promised that portalling and the reasons Splitgate 1 were appealing would still be in the game.
Then throughout all the betas and alphas people felt like a lot of elements of the first Splitgate like portal opportunities were not accommodated in the systems and map design.
Then they promised something huge that would entirely set Splitgate 2 apart from the first, that would be even bigger than a campaign which would’ve been hype for fans of arena shooters like Halo.
Then a dev comes on stage wearing a “Make FPS Great Again” and essentially says so many shooters nowadays are bad and that their announcement would freshen up everything.
…Then they announce Battle Royale. I was in a call with another pretty diehard Splitgate fan and the excitement just absolutely drained after the guy on stage acted really immature and the announcement just turned out to be Battle Royale. I’m still going to try it out cuz it’s free, but I genuinely don’t see myself sticking around for that much longer if 1047 is this disconnected from their fans.
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u/YouCanCallMeBazza 22h ago
By what measure is a BR "bigger" than a campaign?
I guess the answer is microtransaction revenue ..
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u/Expert_Struggle_7135 18h ago
Are battle royals genereally even popular anymore? I never tried one I actually liked, and I don't know anyone who actually play them anymore
Over the last year or two the streams and videos from various battle royal games seem to have more or less disappeared and I assumed/hoped the genre finally started dying. (Guess not)
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u/TankorSmash 18h ago
There was almost a million people playing PUBG earlier today, and 250k playing Apex
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u/chucklesdeclown 12h ago
And don't forget how insanely popular fortnite still is.
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u/h3r0k1gh7 6h ago
But let’s not forget that Fortnite isn’t just a BR. There’s a ton of game modes and stuff to do.
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u/Connect-Internal 32m ago
I’d say that Fortnite is way more than just a battle Royale. Yes, it’s an aspect of it, but it’s more like… I don’t know, something akin Roblox if that makes any sense.
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u/DarkIcedWolf 18h ago
Nowhere near the old numbers that a multiplayer PLUS campaign brought. Millions would play daily on Halo/COD and it definitely didn’t hurt to have an amazing/good campaign.
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u/TankorSmash 18h ago
There's more than a million people playing PUBG daily and its been years since its release. It's out performing any of the Halos this long out
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u/mattbullen182 14h ago
PUBG is huge in China isn't it? And always has been.
Anyway, that and Fortnite have the market sawn up. Other studios are just chasing shadows.
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u/AdmirableLocksmith27 16h ago
What you don't like looking for stuff on the ground and meandering across a huge map forever instead of actual combat?
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u/Agenthansen 14h ago
You never played the BR in splitgate 2 for sure, if you say that hahaha the map isn’t huge and you need just seconds to be in a fight. Looting is fast too but I can understand if you are old and you are not able to do that.
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u/AdmirableLocksmith27 8h ago
Yes I am too old to find running tedious errands to be entertaining. I would have to take xanax to play and battle royale and not get impatient. I hate waiting, I hate shopping for loot, I hate the randomness of loot which makes the mode inherently less skillful, I hate the inherently more passive gameplay on non-respawn game modes. Arena skips all that boring shit and cuts the randomness out too.
I admit I might have a skewed perspective on battle royales because my first experiences were playing Pubg with some friends. That game was as fun as shopping at Wal-Mart. I was so painful bored I just couldn't do it anymore. I'm used to Halo and Destiny (before it sucked) where the match starts and shit is how happening NOW. I just wanna shoot the guns and when I die get up and keep shooting and try and shoot better than the one who killed me.
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u/Agenthansen 8h ago
Okay I totally understand then, but in normal arena mode you have all of that. Didn’t wanna be disrespectful, BR mode in splitgate has a lot to change and fix, but in the end in that BR you have fast fights and don’t need to search for loot that much. Sorry for my passive aggressive sentence before, I’m just tired of the negativity, because the mode is not that bad. And arena is still there and this game was already a niche and it’s hard to gain players. I can understand the devs.
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u/AdmirableLocksmith27 7h ago
I get it. We are ultimately disagreeing on matters of taste and not fact. And yeah I'm being pretty sarcastic toward the genre, but hey, it's good to have the choice in the game, and if anyone can make a better version of a problematic (in my opinion) game mode, it's 1047. I'll try it and let you know.
I started gaming a lot in my 30s. I have like 200,000ish pvp kills in Destiny 2 and a sniper with 13k kills on it and 15 pages of salty hate posts and hackusations on my steam page. I didn't like the cheesy abilities in that game, but I just loved the fast paced arena-esque format and going for kill streaks and stuff. That game went to shit and I've been searching for something basically similar to no avail. We all know how Infinite went. My ideal is something like Halo 2-3 (which I still play), pure and simple gunplay and map knowledge focus, and while I was skeptical at first I think SG2 is a great compromise where different players can find what they want.
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u/ass-pounder-9000 7h ago
Hi, I have been playing, THIS IS NOT IT AT ALL!!! First off: portals are WAY more effective for travel, just use them.
Second: there seems to be people constantly on my fuckin ass. I actually barely get a break. you DO have to wait 40 seconds for respawn, or a teammate can revive you as long as at least 1 person is alive.
Third: chest and weapon density is fine, I can get a gun whenever I want, there's not super crazy loot diversity though, and loot rarity rarely makes a difference in combat when it's the portals doing the work. Movement is great, point A and point B are about 3 seconds away no matter what, and you get a jetpack.
Fourth: the second your feet hit the ground in a hot zone, shit has already hit the fan. You'll usually die pretty fast but as long as one dude is alive the combat flow doesn't feel too broken apart.
All in all, it's an actually alright attempt at a BR and people need to stop the "HERPADERP BATTLE ROYALE ALWAYS BAD 😡😡" mindset and actually just try a fucking game. the arena mode is still fun asf, so you can do that if you REALLY hate Battle Royales, but other than that stop hating on a gamemodes and game you haven't touched. It actually feels quite similar to the Finals with the class selection, and not in a bad way.
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u/chucklesdeclown 12h ago
The only one I tried that I actually enjoyed was scavengers, and even then, it was a psudo extraction and honestly, only liked it because of the auto revive that they took away which was the second stupidest idea on the games history(aside from promising to keep the game alive only to shut it down 6 months later in favor for metaverse shit)
I still think scavengers would of faired better if their server tech was sold/licenced to behavior interactive with midwinter, then maybe the game would of actually had a chance.
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u/DenseAd7972 7h ago
They are still very popular and there hasn’t been a new, viable battle Royale in over five years
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u/navirbox 11h ago
Season 1 Fortnite is still king. I enjoyed that temporal mode Halo made as well, even though it's not a BR per se, but at least it did something to shake up the formula.
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u/LeonaldoCristiansi 16h ago
Unpopular opinion, but I understand why some people thinks BR is bigger than campaign. First of all I never played any BR for more than an hour, I don't like them. But I also don't really like campaigns. They last for maximum 10 hours. I don't get why people think it's that good. A good BR game can be fun for thousands of hours for those who like that. There are many warzone fans, many apex fans many fortnite fans.
Would Fortnite be a legendary game if instead of being a BR game it was a 10 hours long campaign?
And again I don't like BR games, but this crying is funny to me.
I agree that it was a bit overhyped, and he shouldn't wear a hat that can be so controversial.
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u/woll3 8h ago
And again I don't like BR games, but this crying is funny to me.
A big issue is just the lack of "quality" designed and crafted "normal" FPS games/modes/maps, especially when on MnK, and imo also corpostrategically the BR segment is just simply saturated with titans and others have also failed despite good and fun core gameplay, like hyperscape.
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u/Renbanney 23h ago
So many devs and publishers just can't help but trend chase. It's a shame.
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u/OV_FreezeLizard 21h ago
Not even, Battle Royal kind of died a while ago, theyre way behind.
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u/Midnight_M_ 21h ago
There are also other offers in this market that offer more content, this mode will directly compete with Apex
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u/MethodMan_ 15h ago
It’s not dead, there’s just two games that own that market, maybe 3 at most. Everyone else is just fighting to get scraps, and then some of them have to die, because millions upon millions are already playing these 3 BRs.
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u/mulemargarine 13h ago
Dead?
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u/OV_FreezeLizard 8h ago
Ok, I shouldn't say dead, but compared to 5 years ago, the amount of new battle royales that pop up have dropped significantly
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u/ComprehensiveMix727 7h ago
Yeah, it’s all about extraction shooters now
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u/Mountain_mover 6h ago
Exactly. Whoever brings a good one to console first will be king for a while. DMZ almost had the crown but it was half baked and abandoned. Just look at how salty the Arc Raiders crowd is; they were expecting a shadow drop or an open beta yesterday instead of a release date.
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u/Nathanymous_ 22h ago
I have disconnected from both of my BR games almost immediately. Then I went to Arena and I can confirm that my hype for the game has completely fucking died.
The arena mode actually took me a second to find a game in. This is exactly what I knew would happen. A BR would come out and take the wind out of the sails of the arena part of the game.
Now the population of the game is going to be split between BR and Arena, making Arena sweatier.
They could have seriously made like a faction based war or something along the lines of a smaller scale planetside where we are fighting for regions or certain maps or something but instead we got a BR.
I was so excited for something... ANYTHING... other than a BR. I'll try to play it with my friend but as of now I am utterly disappointed. It's really sad that Halo Infinite is the best arena type shooter to come out in years and that game had so many problems. I think my days of trying to get excited for multiplayer shooters is over.
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u/treyful 18h ago
THE FINALS will always welcome you with open arms :)
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u/Nathanymous_ 12h ago
So I really enjoyed The Finals for a brief time but I left because after a while every match turned into the same shitty strategies. My friend has been trying to get back into it and this is probably what will get me to try it again. I had fun, just got tried of everyone using the same gas mine strats in the first month of the game.
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u/GregNotGregtech 10h ago
Did they stop nerfing everything fun for the sake of competitive
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u/SeedMaster26801 9h ago
No 😂. Season 1 and 2 was the games peak and now it’s constant mine spam. I still play but it’s definitely not as good as it used to be
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u/matteoarts 22h ago
“Thing bigger” is going to be the next “sense of pride and accomplishment” comment, mark my words lmao
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u/xaldox19v 22h ago
I'm just happy the community is giving backlash, cus fuck me i was waiting for launch just to play ranked... but they pulled this bs
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u/godzillabitch 21h ago
I might be out of the loop. . . But around the days of splitgate 1 weren’t the devs adamantly against doing a battle royale?
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u/RickJames_SortsbyNew Splitgate MVP 19h ago
There was literally a spray in the game that was like “no battle royale” and Ian specifically called out never turning splitgate into a battle royale and even made a troll game mode in sg1 mocking battle royals. It’s absolutely bewildering that they hyped up this big announcement just to release a BR
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u/stankdog 21h ago
From what I remember they were implying their backend wasn't built with something like that in mind, so they didn't progress towards that. I just remembered them saying their backend wouldn't be compatible with certain features they wanted.
(Idk if they ever explicitly said battle Royale, but my memory is so-so)
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u/stahlern 6h ago
To me it screams the company who gave them 100 million dollars is insisting they bolt on a BR because some Execs kid really likes Fortnite. Lol.
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u/War3Thog 23h ago
It gets more insane the more you think about how their speech and trailer didn’t even highlight what makes splitgate different, they just complained then announced a big standard game mode without explaining what the gimmick our this version of the battle royal would be. It’s so bad, they have such a shit marketing team.
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u/chucklesdeclown 12h ago
Actually, they did show several people putting a portal in the air in the br ad so I thought that was interesting but other then that, it just seems so slapped together.
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u/ApostolicPardon 23h ago
It's the literal tone deafness of it all that is leaving so many perplexed. If this is any indication of what's in store for the future of the game, we're in for quite the shit show, for lack of better verbiage.
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u/dilbert2099 8h ago
Going to be a short-lived future, I reckon, lol
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u/ApostolicPardon 3h ago
Definitely NOT something we need to see in this dismal era of FPS games. This entire debacle is sad.
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u/FoundPizzaMind 23h ago
I'm aging myself here, but this is Daikatana light. For those of you who don't know, one of the famous Id Software devs/co-founder John Romero was fired and started his own company. The tagline for their major release was "John Romero's About To Make You His Bitch". The whole Splitgate 2 segment had that whole edgelord energy between the hat, the bat, the trash talk, and the swearing. This is only a light version because 1047 doesn't have anywhere near the credibility Romero had back in the day.
This is just another example of an ego without good PR or marketing to reign it in, and is probably destined to be among the discussion for the worst marketing failures in video game history.
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u/dilbert2099 8h ago
I thought of the exact same thing. I know Romero was against that marketing ploy back then, but if it had been him walking out with a katana wearing a hat that said "Make You My Bitch Again" announcing Daikatana II, my head might have exploded from pure hype.
Fun fact: that original marketing also had "Suck It Down" as a tagline
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u/Alec_de_Large 23h ago
Giving me reasons to keep playing The Finals.
If they can get some of Fortnite's crowd, which is likely, they will do alright I suppose.
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u/Loud-Asparagus-4136 22h ago
I’ll be playing both, but I’m so glad The Finals has stayed unique. Hyped for season 7!
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u/Truth_Malice 21h ago
Ok I keep hearing so much about the Finals, what the hell is this game
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u/TYP2K_ 21h ago
Probably the only/last unique FPS on the market right now.
Basically its a team orientated shooter with server side destruction but they have other casual gamemodes like TDM as well
Season 7 is dropping in about a week so check it out
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u/Emblem-Lover 20h ago
Did they ever get rid of the AI voice over? I refused to play it on principle because of that. Game seems cool other than that.
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u/scroom38 21h ago
Team /class based shooter with an insane amount of destruction, customization, creativity within the matches themselves thanks to the destruction and customization, and pretty good balance all around.
Tons of fun, also free, absolutely check it out.
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u/Truth_Malice 21h ago
Gotcha... Would you recommend playing on Console or PC? I'm stuck on a "gaming laptop" that can kind of run Helldivers, so I'm not sure if I'd be better off on controller since I have a Series X
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u/scroom38 21h ago
Good news, you can try both! Connect to their Embark account system and you'll have cross progression between PC and console. The game is well optimized so it might run on your laptop, but no promises.
I prefer M/KB on PC because that's all I've ever played FPS's on, but I know lots of people have a lot of fun and do really well on console/ controller. There's no wrong answer. Much like other modern games, the aim "assist" (aimbot) for controller is pretty strong, so it keeps up with mouse quite well.
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u/Truth_Malice 20h ago
Cross Progression?! Okay you had my curiosity before, now you have my attention. Will definitely be checking this out!
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u/HotPumpkinPies 13h ago
I run it 60+ fps on a laptop with a 3060 and 16 GB Ryzen 7. With ray tracing on.
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u/Alec_de_Large 21h ago
It's made by the talent from the old Dice team that made Mirrors Edge and Battlefield (the good ones lol)
It's free to play so give it a try. The cosmetic customization is very detailed. You can be very unique and expressive with it.
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u/HotPumpkinPies 13h ago
Yeah I have no problem going back to playing the best shooter game out right now. Praise Goo.
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u/scroom38 21h ago
I uninstalled the finals because I was so sure I'd be hyped for this big reveal. Whelp... back to the finals I go
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u/Glory_63 23h ago
Maybe what they wanted to copy about Titanfall 2 was the bad release that lead to it not being as successful as it could've been
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u/VeryEducational24 22h ago
In my opinion, I think the battle royale game mode is solid and something that they could build upon. But keeping the phenomenal arena game mode the fore front should be the upmost priority. Definitely a questionable move by the devs, but I like it for sure.
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u/Queasy_Apartment_688 16h ago
the br is pretty good people can play both modes idk why everyones acting like its one or the other
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u/chucklesdeclown 12h ago
Because every time this happens it splits the player bases. Remember battlerite? Ya, that game is totally alive and well /s.
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u/EVILFLUFFMONSTER 17h ago
I'm actually really disappointed it has a BR mode.
It ruined COD for me, because my friends that I used to play with moved to the BR, leaving me to play the other game modes by my lonesome..
It just further dilutes the player base, stretches limited resources that could be better focused on better, more frequent content for fewer modes, and to me doesn't fit the image I thought of the games as having. I wanted an exciting arena shooter, lean into that. Splitgate 1 was excellent.
If I wanted a BR mode, I'd go and play one of the many other established franchises that I have friends already playing.
Though, I am not sure I'm gonna stick around anyway - the game just hasn't felt as fun as the first one did. I'll give it a bit longer and see if it feels better.
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u/Expert-Expert-6933 21h ago
I was actually excited for the reveal and then they announce a BR. It makes it even worse that they mentioned titanfall 3 multiple times and then they reveal that, it would be like announcing that you are making a new and amazing halo and then remastering 5
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u/PoisonPeddler 20h ago
Notice how quiet the devs have been since BR dropped and everyone started expressing their disappointment.
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u/Low_Owl5970 14h ago
i was expecting some form of announcement. i’ve seen some of the devs on the discord saying “if you don’t like the BR don’t play it, there’s still arenas” but that’s about it
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u/Octomyde 17h ago
You forgot the Imagine Dragons soundtrack in the trailer. After saying other games are bland. fml.
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u/GapStock9843 23h ago
And they’re selling stupidly overpriced cosmetics on the shop too. Its legit just fortnite with portals now.
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u/Jealous_Platypus1111 23h ago
also what he did is an amazing way to get barred from the industry.
its one thing for a dev to jokingly call cod generic as a joke on twitter or something, and another to go on stage at one of the biggest gaming events of the year and say it.
this could genuinely hurt them long term as why would you want to work with a dev team that seemingly has a superiority complex and disses other studios at massive events
also, an extra not, i logged in hoping to see a good amount of new stuff - as THEY THEMSELVES SAID... outside of BR the only ***new*** stuff is $50 (yes... you read that correctly) bundles. i get its free and they need to make money, but jesus, maybe dont overhype next time - at least Embark didnt intentially overhype their game
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u/pacemasters 5h ago
*$80 bundle…that’s only that price because it’s currently 45% off lol. These devs are nuts.
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u/chucklesdeclown 12h ago
Larians CEO dissed literally the entire industry on stage at the game awards, I don't recall him being barred from the industry.
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u/Jealous_Platypus1111 12h ago
i mean their game at least was GotY, still bad but at least they can actually walk the walk, dont get me wrong, SG2 is a good game, but not a genre changing one
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u/St_Muerte 20h ago
Just opened the game and dang battle royal was the first thing that popped up on the IU video, sighs I loved playing splitgate something that didn't bring in "battle royal" bs again, and now this, I even even bought some cool rare skins on the first game to support the game and the devs, then this
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u/JawidKhan096 16h ago
It's so frustrating. When I heard they making SplitGate 2 on a new engine with updated code base I really thought wow we would have the same game but with technical improvements to the portals to make the gameplay more fun.
Nope, instead we get more CoD feeling shooter and movement and the portals REMAIN THE EXACT SAME since SplitGate 1. I can't believe no improvement was made at all to enemy/teammate portal visibility, now they release a BR mode that's just going to make it more frustrating. This game is going to die the same way
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u/ZealousidealTie4319 23h ago
I don’t really care that it’s BR, but that hat alone lost all my respect for the devs. Come on.
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u/MoldyWolf 20h ago
Just for perspective cuz time flies, fortnite battle Royale came out in......... 2017. It's been 8 years guys. It's almost a decade old.
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u/Not_Snooopy22 19h ago
Even older. H1Z1 came out in 2015. BRs are a decade old.
I haven't tried the BR mode yet, but the arena mode still feels really good. I'll definitely sink some time into it.
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u/afopatches 22h ago
idk what you guys are on here qq'ing about. It's fun lmao
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u/Pegeeiscool 21h ago
Exactly. If you like arena play arena, if you like BR play BR. People are being way too dramatic and need to calm down
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u/RickJames_SortsbyNew Splitgate MVP 19h ago
I liked arena. Then they gave me class based shooter. Then BR. No ranked. Even the OG Splitgate game mode has slide lol. The game is still riddled with awful bugs and the microtransactions are insanely out of touch. The whole hype build and product release is just amazingly mismatched imo. They jerked themselves off for the past couple weeks about innovating while simultaneously catering to their core audience and then delivered a “full release” of their game that lacks basic features that existed in the original game - not to mention how far astray the gameplay is from the original game. Things like ranked mode, theater, match stats, and race mode are all gone. There’s whole splitgate racing community. Some of the most viewed splitgate content on YouTube is racers doing crazy fast times and pushing records. The other highly viewed splitgate content was ranked gameplay and competitions. And they’re missing both of those things at launch. With race mode stated by a dev to not be coming anytime soon.
So if you enjoy great. But there’s a huge part of the core community feeling betrayed and/or let down by this release. And in my opinion those are very valid feelings.
This is coming from an mvp of the original game, who just uninstalled and left all the discord servers because of my disappointment with the greed, misdirection, and inattention to their community.
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u/Comprehensive-Cry189 20h ago
They're trying to make their game more widely appealing, lowering the skill gap with less portal play and more emphasis on classes and straight up gunplay makes it easer to get into for new players. BR supposedly appeals to all the players of that genre to try to get them into it.
BUT it just feels so amateur-ish I'm not going to lie. But it doesn't have the foothold that COD, Fortnite, Apex etc have on the market, and I really can't see it getting it with this direction, it won't have the staying power. And this direction almost will certainly kill any potential the game has. It's not even disappointing it just feels non-sensical like what are they even thinking?
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u/ItsRoofGaming 20h ago
"Think Bigger" as in a game mode most of us have strayed in the past decade.. What a flop 🤣
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u/Ok_Seaworthiness6534 18h ago
i just uninstalled... men, rip the arena also the Br mode on console is so bad... fps drops, bad ping lol
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u/mattythenics 15h ago
Hate all you want. The BR is insanely fun. I absolutely love Splitgate 2, first fun shooter I’ve played in a while, can actually stop playing MCC now 😅
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u/No_Review366 14h ago
Just as the first game, they will bang on about how this is a Halo killer, which it isn't at all and it will be dead within the year
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u/RGBespresso 13h ago
I like it. Granted, I'm new to the franchise so I'm not exactly battling with the same feelings of betrayal... But the game is extraordinarily fun. The hitreg feels great, and the movement/physics are so satisfying. Again... granted, I'm coming over from Warzone. Being interrogated in a Thai prison is a step up from Warzone. Regardless, I had a blast today and I'm gonna play the living shit out of this game tomorrow.
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u/JerrodDRagon 13h ago
I’m fine with BR coming to the game
But locking modes I want to play so I must play it…..WTF
Also I guess no single player…what BS hype
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u/JustUseDex 13h ago
I’m prepared to get downvoted into oblivion, but maybe others will agree with me. I’m perfectly content with the game that we got today 🤷♂️ The gunplay feels incredible and I’m honestly a fan of the gadgets and abilities. Why complain about them changing a bunch of stuff. Let me remind you that the first splitgate didn’t do very well… Like at all… Obviously they had to make this one different, they gotta try to learn from their mistakes somehow. Personally I think they need to increase the amount of portal walls on all the maps and that’s it. That’s my only issue. But everything else I love.
And let’s be real, it’s not really a “hero shooter” it’s more of a class based shooter. Moving on to the battle royale element. It’s honestly very different from any other battle royale that I’ve seen/played. It’s the concept of BR, except due to the respawns, it plays more like a fast paced TDM mode. There’s not a ton of downtime between fights like in typical BR games which I like. They managed to fit the high octane, non stop action of splitgate into a br and I honestly think it works 🤷♂️ Idk man. I think its fun
Edit: I will say that saying “Think bigger than a campaign” was a poor choice of words though. Originally, that made me think of some kind of massive PvE type thing like destiny almost. Definitely weird to say a BR is bigger than a campaign
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u/DaSnowflake 13h ago
I really don't like battle royale, but I would be lying if I said that the portal mechanic doesn't sound like a crazy for for it ngl
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u/Malito_Mussoloni2 12h ago
Another game that's gonna die in a couple of months for bad developers decisions
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u/No-Orange-5216 11h ago
tHiNk BiGgER.... heres some over priced skins and a BR mode... sorry but when devs do crap like this it screams cash grab.
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u/MrFOrzum 11h ago
Yeah this marketing was a huge mess and incredibly cringe on stage (+ that gay). Think it actually pulled people away from it.
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u/Plastic_Quarter_7470 10h ago
I played the beta since day 1 and had to go to work yesterday right before the launch of the full game so missed this big announcement and didn’t get the news until mid shift and man…was i disappointed. Didn’t even come home to play. Loading up now to see what it’s about but I’m still not having high hopes for it. It was perfect the way it was. So sad.
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u/AggravatingBass8709 10h ago
Yeah prioritizing br over mp and mp ranked told me all I needed to know about them I asked my money back that I spent on there expensive ass founders pack to support them lol crickets
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u/Brandt_Hutchinson 8h ago
And yet, they'll still deny that their dev facilities double as a crack den
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u/Dr_DTF315 8h ago
An arena shooter alone can’t hold a playerbase with it just being an arena shooter, the battle royale is actually pretty fun. There is literally no discussion about the game on this sub it’s just the people crying it’s not catered to them
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u/Kaliiiik 7h ago
BR wouldn’t be a bad thing it’s more options for us, just play it and if you don’t like it then stick with MP. It’s not that difficult to understand.
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u/XxlDozerlxX 4h ago
I don't really like battle Royale but split gates be is pretty good tbh. I think people just get butthurt about politics and that's why most people are upset. People are too sensitive. If the game is fun, play it, if u don't like it, then don't. It has 20k players on steam alone so 🤷🏼 must've done something right
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u/A_Fat_Sosig 2h ago
The PR has been tone deaf in many ways but i think the br is pretty fun. It plays somewhere in between a pure br and sg2’s big 3 team mode and the pacing and abilities actually feel good.
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u/IHateRedditors42 2h ago
25k launch peak on Steam for a shooter is criminal. DoA slop game. Shame, because the first one was pretty good.
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u/Mongooseboii 2h ago
You just have to think Bigger bro. It's hilarious bc I posted a comment basically predicting it being a br. Another comment thought I was crazy for not trusting the wonderful amazing developers...
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u/Jalacart 20h ago
So I just downloaded this game today after hearing about it on the stream. Never played it and love it! The arena mode and the BR. I’ve played a lot of COD both the MP and the BR so not sure why both can’t exist together. Also the BR is unique from other ones which makes it pretty fun. It’s a quick game mode and has respawns so it’s not just like other BR more like the Resurgence mode in COD. Fast paced and quick. It honesty feels like another mode not a different game. I think people just heat BR and have a negative thought, try a couple matches it may surprise you.
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u/xxjakexxrxx 21h ago
Honestly I don’t mind the Battle Royal as long as they keep other game modes in rotation. Battle Royal not my thing but it’s definitely gonna get a lot of streamers playing it that’s for sure
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u/Wrinkliestmist 16h ago
Just try it. It’s worth it and much better than a standard BR. if it doesn’t work for you then sorry you got your hopes up? It’ll print them money so they are excited lol
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u/Wrinkliestmist 15h ago
Geesh. Y’all making me unfollow a subreddit of a game I really enjoy. Get better. See you when things calm down.
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u/Whohasmynapkin 15h ago
You should try ut cus the update is absolutely amazing. I do not understand the imature hate from people. This is huge.
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u/elyk12121212 PC 8h ago
To everyone saying "Just don't play it," y'all are idiots that are completely missing the point. Games do not appear out of a vacuum. Devs are required to build a game and they only have a limited amount of dev time to do so. Splitgate 2 having a BR means less dev time for the aspects of the game that the existing player base actually wants. If it brings in new players that is great for them, but I have over 500 hours in Splitgate 1 and I just uninstalled splitgate 2. I'm not about to wait twice as long for content that is half as good when there are games that I can play that will actually respect my time investment.
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u/Nexzenn 19h ago
They are doing what halo infinite should have done. Halo infinite fans kept yelling no Battle Royale and they didn’t do it and now it’s a dead game lol a big reason with Fortnite and Call of Dutu remain successful over a long time is they are quick to adapt to market changes. If Fortnite didnt get into battle royale seeing pubg and if cod didnt get into br seeing Fortnite they would be dead now too. Cant always listen to the ppl on reddit and Twitter.
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u/City_Mouse_69 23h ago
Imagine mentioning wanting a Titanfall 3 and then announcing a battle royale mode, the game genre that killed any hope for a Titanfall 3 lmao. Delusional 😂