Developer 1047 Games has announced that its beta for Splitgate 2 is coming to an end on December 4. Along with this, through a post on Steam, the studio also confirmed that the relaunch of Splitgate 2 will be happening later in December.
The end of this beta run for Splitgate 2 also means that the Beta Season and the active Battle Passes in the game will be ending. Players who took part in the beta will also be losing their seasonal rank progress.
Aside from the fact that Splitgate 2 is relaunching in December, 1047 Games hasn’t really revealed any details about what this new release will look like. The studio will have obviously made quite a few changes after taking player feedback into account ever since it first announced the rework for the multiplayer shooter back in July.
When this rework was first announced, the developer had noted it would be taking player feedback into account for the relaunch of Splitgate 2. However, the studio ensured that the title would remain available to players in its current state, with all of the content releases that were planned also getting release, including the at-the-time upcoming Chapter 3 update. However, the studio had noted that the relaunch of Splitgate 2 would be happening some time in 2026.
“This doesn’t feel like a launched game as much as we want to pretend it was, and obviously we said it was,” said 1047 Games CEO Ian Proulx at the time. “It feels like a beta. There’s bugs still. There’s features that are missing that — obviously not every game has to have every feature — but there’s certain things that should be in a finished product. There’s too many bugs, and we’re hitting the reset button.”
The core focus of the reworks for Splitgate 2 would revolve around three things: “basic features” like leaderboards and improved progression, more walls where portals can be opened up in a match, and adjustments to game modes. While the first two might be more obvious, Proulx wasn’t quite sure about what to make of the last point.
“A big focus of ours is getting closer to just that classic arena game mode experience,” he said. “I don’t know exactly what that’s going to look like, but I think we’ve done a lot of round-based modes, and we’ll still have some round-based modes, but players, they want to play the game and shoot stuff and have a good time and maybe play the objective.”
The announcement that Splitgate 2 would be going back in to development to get a relaunch came just a day after the studio had announced a round of lay-offs. While it hadn’t confirmed an exact number of employees that would be affected, the announcement noted that it was “a small group” of “valued” team members.
Splitgate 2 was launched on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. The upcoming relaunch will be coming to PC, and will likely also target the same console platforms as its initial release. For more details about the game from when it first came out, check out our review.
