Season One Of Splitgate: Arena Warfare Begins Today
The mechanics of Valve’s Portal games were pretty cool. Wouldn’t it be equally as cool if you could use portals in the same fashion in other games? Good thing portals themselves are a public domain concept. 1047 Games has created Splitgate, a multiplayer first-person shooter where everyone has the power to create portals and move about the arena. And now there’s a lot more to Splitgate than just that. 1047 has launched the game’s first season, introducing a ton of new content and features: A new close-quarters map called Abyss set in an ancient temple and featuring a futuristic new melee weapon similar to Halo 2’s energy sword. A new Race mode where players compete to collect disco balls as fast as possible using portals on each map for bragging rights on the leaderboard. New daily and weekly challenges that award experience points. A fresh in-depth tutorial to better teach new players Splitgate’s major mechanics. Significant performance, graphics and lighting improvements. Every level has also been revamped with a “living