Splitgate Dev Tracker

Great question! I think we have 3 key advantages here over most other companies struggling with remote work, and overall I actually think we are significantly more efficient as a result of being remote.

1. We have been remote since day 1. This has allowed us to slowly grow and iterate on what works as a remote company over time vs having to pivot from in person to remote over night like many companies had to do.
   
2. Just like how we are always listening to feedback and improving/iterating on the game, we do the same with our company. One of our company values is "Feedback is a Gift" and this applies to everything. It has allowed us to build an amazing culture at 1047 that values excellence, integrity, and fun, and it has helped us build a great remote working environment.
   
3. We are a video game company! This actually helps a lot because our entire company are gamers, so we have an easy time "socializing" with each other by playing video games toge...

It's a balance but we do have more maps that are closer to SG1 coming. I think Bypass and Eden are good examples of where our heads are at for a good balance of lots of portals and some verticality, but also not too friendly to portal camping. We want more maps like Stadium and fewer maps like Crag if that makes sense. But we are always looking for feedback and adjusting accordingly, which is why we added more portal walls and floor portals to Ozone, Frontier, and Zenith. You can expect us to continue to adjust and iterate based on the feedback we get!

Guns forsure. Factions probably not, but depends on what the community wants. If you want more factions, you will get more factions in the future! If you don't, you won't! From what I can see so far (and from how we designed the game), we think 3 factions is the right amount.

A LOT. For one, our company has gone from about 15 devs for SG1 to over 190 of the best devs in the industry and counting. So the speed, quality, and quantity of content that we can hit is SIGNIFICANTLY more in every way than SG1. You can expect 3 month seasons, with large monthly updates (maps, modes, etc) and new things (featured modes, events, challenges, and more) every week. We will have more specifics to share on this soon, but if there is one thing we have improved over SG1 dramatically, it's our post launch content pipeline.

To be honest, we are still experimenting with this. We are trying to balance making sure we have good variety and good player choice while also making sure queue times are fast and no one is getting bots. Part of the tradeoff here though is we probably won't have quite as many playlists active 24/7 as SG1 because that leads to longer wait times and/or bot games, which is a worse experience that we really don't want. Even if/when we have a ton of players (which we are confident we will have when we start our big marketing push closer to launch), there will still always be playlists that are not super active in certain regions at certain times of day (think lower population server at 3am with crossplay turned off). This is why games like Apex and Valorant only have a few playlists even though they have large playerbases. We plan to have more playlists than them, but not quite as many as SG1. What exactly those playlists look like is TBD, and will be based on what the community wants....

Haha you pretty much hit the nail on the head. I'd say movement is inspired by Halo mixed with a little Titanfall 2 mixed with a little Black Ops 3. Gunplay is def mostly inspired by the older Halos though with our own unique take. Definitely trying to stay true to our original vision and what made the first Splitgate special (gunplay, movement, portals) while taking it to the next level with the additional resources and learnings that we now have.

haha we have all been playing throughout the alpha! (I have played over 20 hours). I am gonna personally log on as soon as this AMA is done (or maybe after I eat something quick)

Probably not. Certainly not at launch but there is a world where we add more factions post launch. I am leaning towards not doing that though and the game has been built from the ground up with 3 factions in mind. That said, we are always looking for community feedback, so if that is the direction the community wants, that is likely the direction we would take (I don't think that is what the community wants though from what I have seen so far).

Not ready to share specifics of modes that have not yet been revealed, but if you have been playing the alpha, you will see we have a lot of control over the variables and rulesets of our various modes, and we have been testing a lot of different modes and playtests like low gravity chaos modes, 4 teams of 2, hardcore modes, no respawn modes, etc.

One thing we did not yet have for the alpha though which we are working on now is the ability to have custom loadout overrides. This will allow us to do a lot with game modes like shotty snipes for example.

(kidding) but internally yes. Will share more soon. It will be before November.

Yes.

Great question, I can neither confirm nor deny these allegations. But I will say there is a 100% chance that we MIGHT be. Jokes aside, not ready to share specifics of future maps, but just know there are A LOT more maps coming.

SOON(ish). 2025. Happy to confirm it will not only be before December, but also before November :)

Not launch! Just alpha. This is less than half the game but significantly more than the previous alpha which was more of a pre-alpha demo

Not yet! But we will have 120fps (and less input delay) by launch! More optimizations coming :)

Hello MufflesTG,

Could you please DM me your steam profile link so I can take a look? Thanks.

The vast majority of our marketing will happen closer to launch don’t worry! We haven’t spent even 10% of our marketing budget. Right now just focused on making a great game!

We’re not trying to generate hype (yet). These playtests are purely for getting feedback and iterating (which is why they aren’t streamable). The vast majority of our marketing will happen closer to launch don’t worry! We haven’t spent even 10% of our marketing budget yet.

I’m so excited! Gonna be playing all weekend haha

It’s rounds but you can respawn and replant! Round 5 is neutral bomb though with no respawns. Makes for pretty epic endings!