Ian Proulx, CEO of 1047 Video games, has revealed that the new Splitgate recreation is “a giant enterprise and won’t launch in 2022 or 2023” in a Reddit AMA. This makes 2024 the earliest that it’ll launch from what we all know up to now. It’s unclear if the sport will probably be referred to as Splitgate 2 or one thing with the Splitgate title, nevertheless it’s been confirmed that it’ll at the very least be set within the Splitgate universe. The AMA was made as a part of the developer’s announcement on Twitter that Splitgate function growth can be ending in order that it could actually focus all its efforts on the brand new recreation.
Extra particulars on the brand new Splitgate recreation
Essential announcement from 1047 Video games about the way forward for Splitgate: pic.twitter.com/5E0YG1DWQm
— Splitgate (@Splitgate) September 2, 2022
The developer guarantees that the brand new recreation is not going to stray too removed from Splitgate as it can even be a free-to-play portal-based shooter. On the identical time, it needs to make a recreation that “no shooter fan will be capable to ignore,” in line with the FAQ on this announcement. To that finish, the brand new recreation will probably be constructed on Unreal Engine 5 as a substitute of Splitgate’s Unreal Engine 4.
Additionally within the FAQ, it’s revealed that the participant’s “efforts and time” in Splitgate will probably be rewarded within the new recreation too. How that may work has not been determined but.
Within the Reddit AMA, Proulx shares that he had concepts for the sport privately for a yr and that the workers, which now consists of 100 workforce members since final week, transitioned to engaged on it in early July. When requested if the studio will discover a writer this time round, he responded by saying that it’ll keep “most definitely impartial.” In any other case, Proulx stays tight-lipped on the sport’s mechanics, marketing campaign, and PvE mode, although “lore will probably be a a lot larger a part of the subsequent recreation.”
1047 Video games ensures that Splitgate will nonetheless obtain iterative, smaller updates and bug fixes for the foreseeable future. Its on-line servers will stay on, with the developer having no present plans to take them down. However there might “come a time when [its] stance wants to alter.”
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