Splitgate 2 Is Yanked Back To Beta A Month After Release

Splitgate 2, nan follow-up to nan hugely successful 2021 Quake-Portal hybrid concept, is returning to beta. The crippled launched past month, but developer 1047 Games is pulling it aft deciding nan merchandise had been rushed. The institution doesn't scheme to merchandise nan task again until 2026.

"We'll beryllium heads down until early adjacent year, rebuilding awesome parts of nan crippled to seizure nan tone of what made Splitgate special," nan founders said successful a post to nan game's Reddit community. "That intends reworking progression from nan crushed up, adding much portals to our maps, simplifying monetization, refocusing connected classical crippled modes you've been asking for, and more, which we’ll stock soon."

Not only will nan sequel spell backmost into development, but 1047 Games is besides cutting jobs. And that's aft it already laid off immoderate squad members soon aft Splitgate 2's first release. The institution said it will unopen down nan servers for nan original Splitgate successful bid to trim expenses and support much of its squad members employed.

1047 Games has been brutalized successful nan nationalist oculus aft co-founder Ian Proulx appeared astatine Summer Games Fest wearing a chapeau that publication "Make FPS Great Again," which infuriated galore of nan original Splitgate's players. After nan first stance, posted to nan studio's X relationship connected Splitgate 2's merchandise date, that he was some "not present to apologize" and that nan chapeau was "not a governmental statement," Proulx yet landed connected nan statement that it was each fundamentally a publicity stunt.