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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!

Sorry for the scare! You have not been banned! This is a known bug on the Xbox version of Splitgate. It can usually be fixed by force resetting the console by holding down the power button until it resets.