The highly anticipated arena shooter with portals, Splitgate 2, has just been released across PC and consoles as a free-to-play experience. At the same time, the studio head appeared on the Summer Game Fest showcase's stage today with a surprise reveal, showing off a brand-new battle royale mode that is a part of the game and is also launching today for free. Watch the action-packed trailer above.
The sci-fi shooter franchise by 1047 Games has not breached the battle royale space before, but it seems the studio has been working secretly on the project all this time for this surprise reveal and launch.
The Splitgate 2 battle royale mode features 60-player showdowns, letting 15 teams, each with four players, compete with each other to be the last squad standing. The map is touted as being an interconnected, gigantic colosseum with five biomes, and players will have to go through massive World Portals to reach each of them and hopefully take down anyone on the other side.
"Choose where to drop in across Drought’s scorching desert, Glacier’s slick snowscape, Inferno’s active volcano, or Fracture’s cluster of asteroids," explains the developer. "After landing, players who stay in the match long enough will gain access to a fifth biome – the central area of Sanctum’s foreboding ruins, which offers special, powerful loot for those who can survive sparring to get it."
Being a battle royale, there are chests to loot for better armaments, fast-paced action, map events to change up the atmosphere, and plenty of quick action to jump into.
Aside from the new mode, with the Splitgate 2 full launch, the studio has delivered four new maps to the arena mode, a fresh map-creating template, as well as the Gravitas Shotgun as a brand-new weapon. It is also working on implementing a ranked mode, even more maps, map reskins, and more content as part of its post-launch support plans.
Splitgate 2 is now available on PC (Steam and Epic Games Store), Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, and PlayStation 4.
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