Last month, Splitgate franchise developer 1047 Games made some tough decisions regarding its arena shooter games. Aside from taking the recently released Splitgate 2 back into beta and temporarily stopping updates, it announced that servers for the original Splitgate would be shutting down to keep studio costs low. However, there is some good news now for fans of the original.
1047 Games has announced that the tentative plans it talked about last month about adding peer-to-peer play support for Splitgate have worked out. The company says that an update is incoming next week to add official peer-to-peer support for the free-to-play title, letting players host their games on their machines and consoles and letting others easily join them via the server browser. Even custom maps saved by the server host will be fully playable in these matches.
"You've invested time, energy, and passion into the original Splitgate, which deserves to be preserved," says the developer regarding why it opted for this route. "Our community is everything to us. While we can't keep the full online infrastructure running indefinitely, we can make sure the game itself lives on for anyone who wants to keep playing."
Alongside the server structure change, the studio is also bringing in a lot more content for players. Some of these will be drawn from unreleased content for the game, even incoming in unfinished stages:
- 13 WIP blockout arena maps, including some of the first maps shown in Splitgate 2.
- Simulation Juliet (an unreleased Takedown map).
- Everyone gets access to all cosmetics. For this reason, the Battle Pass, Rewards Center, Store, and Drops have been sunset.
The Splitgate dedicated servers will go offline just as the peer-to-peer system takes over on August 29. Some features that are being turned off entirely are achievements, leaderboards, playstreaks, and anti-cheat support.
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