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I think we probably gave a false impression that we are prioritizing esports and competitive play over casual experiences. This is not the case! We definitely plan to add all sorts of fun party game modes like we had in Splitgate. Can't share specifics yet, but just know that party modes and more casual experiences are a top priority for us! But for our first alpha demo, we more wanted to focus on getting feedback of our core gameplay.

I was actually having a conversation about this 2 days ago with our Lead Anticheat Engineer Andreas! The reason this is tricky is because of a lot of the anticheat stuff we do is specific to windows and would not work or be as effective at keeping cheaters out on Linux. That said, it is something that is important to us and we are actively discussing options because we definitely want to be on Steam Deck and on Linux in general. Can't 100% guarantee yet, but it is actively being discussed now and we have a lot of steam deck users in our company who also want this!

Appreciate the question! I think our new announcers are closer to our original vision. Our vision (even in splitgate 1) was always to make a game that was a positive sporty future (I'm a huge NBA fan and my cofounder Nick loves formula 1 so we want to bring some of that energy to our game!) and I think the new announcer and in-ear coach is a bit closer to that vision. As for the old announcer, we have considered having some customization here (as well as for hitmarkers), but it's not something we have gotten to or committed to yet as it would require us to re-record everything and all the new lines with the previous announcer who we haven't actually talked to in years (so I'm not even sure he is still doing voice work). That said, as is the case with everything, we are always listening to as much feedback as we can and acting on it. I try to always read the comments in reddit, discord, etc. and so if this becomes a common request, you can expect it to jump higher on our priority li...

Thanks for the suggestion! TBH we haven't decided yet on this but its definitely been discussed and we hear you. And we want to hear what the community has to say and continue to get feedback. Right now our focus is to test the core gameplay, get feedback and iterate on it. That said, I always emphasize to our team that we need to be community first and listen to our players. If this is something that becomes a common request, we will act on it. But again, right now we are really just focused on testing and iterating on the core gameplay.

Actually, basically none tbh. We are lucky to have amazing investors who are in this for the long run and are very supportive in sharing our vision of remaining independent. Also fwiw, our board consists of 5 people with 3 being members of 1047, so even if they do have input, we are still in charge :) But in all honesty they are really supportive and have been great to work with! It also helps that they are gamers themselves so they get it.

Yes! And larger maps too. Ozone and Zenith are probably the smallest and least vertical maps in the game just for perspective.

Thanks for the question! And yes to your point, Splitgate 1 did not fail, it was a big success for us when we were a very small team! We view it as a stepping stone towards our larger goals, but a stepping stone we are very proud of!

That said, it obviously did not sustain itself and this really boils down to 2 major reasons. One of course was the servers and code base not being scalable. We were a team of 4 engineers at the time, so we really did not have the resources to handle that many players. But we also did not have things structured in a way where we could quickly iterate and pump out new content efficiently with a larger team. Our codebase and workflows worked perfectly well for a small team where everyone knew everything, but we needed to refactor and start over (especially since we are also in a new engine with UE5 now) to be able to have 175 people working on the same game at the same time without stepping on each others toes.

The other big reason wa...

Thanks for the great questions and feedback! I'll start by answering your last question about intention. Our intention has always been to make the most fun game possible. We don't really think of things in terms of what specific genre of FPS it is. We really just want to make the best game we can and something we at 1047 and our community love to play!

As for the classes/abilities comparison to Halo, I totally get where you are coming from. I love OG halo and was also one of the people complaining when they added abilities (although I did love Halo Reach, just not 4). I think candidly we probably didn't exactly convey what we were trying to build very accurately and that our trailers over-emphasized the abilities (because that is some of the new stuff). Our intent with the abilities is to add that icing on the cake and to add more variety, but we still want to make a game that is all about gunplay, portals, and movement. To me, there is nothing inherently wrong with abili...

Excited to answer questions Friday!