Splitgate: Portal/Halo, Free to Play, Consoles and PC, Launches 27th July

Last edited by Fade on Sat Jul 31, 2021 10:56 am, edited 1 time in total.

So this game is currently in open beta, you can download it right now (although the servers are getting hammered)

I was honestly astounded by how polished this game is, and just how well it plays. It's one of those games you can't quite believe is free to play, the only thing you pay for is cosmetics

So has anyone tried this yet? If so what did you think of it?

EDIT: My referral code is GCIV9M if anyone starts playing because they saw this thread

twitter.com/ImYourFEAR5/status/1419374087596609544

Example of actual gameplay

This looks good, will give it a go as it's F2P. Seems like you should be able to set up some crazy stuff with multiple portals if you coordinate.

OrangeRKN wrote:This looks good, will give it a go as it's F2P. Seems like you should be able to set up some crazy stuff with multiple portals if you coordinate.

Yeah you can do some super cool stuff. What I love is that it supports a bunch of different playstyles, you can play hyper mobile and skip around the map, or you can set up portals at unique angles and just fire through them.

It's got all sorts of modes as well, oddball, KOTH, swat (where headshots insta kill), gun game, shotguns and snipers. My fave is teabag confirmed, it's kill confirmed but you have to teabag to collect the tag :lol:

KOTH is really good as well though as it encourages so really interesting offensive and defensive strategies with portals.

I should note you can't see through anyone else's portal, apparently they tried that having to render the entire map and its occupants potentially 16 times made the game run like crap, so friendly portals are blue and enemy ones are red and if there is an enemy in front of the portal the centre will glow red so you don't get caught out. Oh also the only grenades you have in this game are used for closing portals so if someone sets a cross map portal up you can close it and force them to come and place it again.

Fade wrote:I should note you can't see through anyone else's portal, apparently they tried that having to render the entire map and its occupants potentially 16 times made the game run like crap, so friendly portals are blue and enemy ones are red and if there is an enemy in front of the portal the centre will glow red so you don't get caught out. Oh also the only grenades you have in this game are used for closing portals so if someone sets a cross map portal up you can close it and force them to come and place it again.

Ah this is really interesting. So you don't necessarily know where another portal connects to, but you can see if an enemy is on the other side which is useful. Being able to close portals is clever too.

OrangeRKN wrote:
Fade wrote:I should note you can't see through anyone else's portal, apparently they tried that having to render the entire map and its occupants potentially 16 times made the game run like crap, so friendly portals are blue and enemy ones are red and if there is an enemy in front of the portal the centre will glow red so you don't get caught out. Oh also the only grenades you have in this game are used for closing portals so if someone sets a cross map portal up you can close it and force them to come and place it again.

Ah this is really interesting. So you don't necessarily know where another portal connects to, but you can see if an enemy is on the other side which is useful. Being able to close portals is clever too.

Yeah, it's good for defensive play, you can run through your own portal as a form of cover and have an advantage because you know where it goes to where as they are going to be slightly disorientated.

I've also seen a couple of clips of people using them to bait people into falling off of maps but that seems quite hard to do, most people don't chase you though your own portals unless you're on low health.

You can also use the portals to teleport projectile (non hitscan) weapon fire, although that seems a bit gimmicky

No longer launching today. It's been so successful, some venture capitalists have thrown $10mn at them. So it's staying in beta for now, while they scale up and launch next month instead.

rinks wrote:No longer launching today. It's been so successful, some venture capitalists have thrown $10mn at them. So it's staying in beta for now, while they scale up and launch next month instead.

Yeah, a lot of their launch stuff is coming today still though, pretty sure they're just calling it a beta because they're going to have trouble meeting demand for a few weeks.

Fade wrote:
rinks wrote:No longer launching today. It's been so successful, some venture capitalists have thrown $10mn at them. So it's staying in beta for now, while they scale up and launch next month instead.

Yeah, a lot of their launch stuff is coming today still though, pretty sure they're just calling it a beta because they're going to have trouble meeting demand for a few weeks.

Just on this now and it wants a referral code, I thought as you made the thread that you could chuck me yours? Lemme know what it is and I'll use it.

Please.

Pedz wrote:
Fade wrote:
rinks wrote:No longer launching today. It's been so successful, some venture capitalists have thrown $10mn at them. So it's staying in beta for now, while they scale up and launch next month instead.

Yeah, a lot of their launch stuff is coming today still though, pretty sure they're just calling it a beta because they're going to have trouble meeting demand for a few weeks.

Just on this now and it wants a referral code, I thought as you made the thread that you could chuck me yours? Lemme know what it is and I'll use it.

Oh cheers, server's are offline at the moment but I'll post it in the OP when they're up again

twitter.com/Splitgate/status/1420498254744100865

Okay so the servers are back up now, although there is a queue time of about 10 minutes to get in

My referral code is GCIV9M if anyone starts playing because they saw this thread

twitter.com/VVildhart/status/1421627222088093706

I've been enjoying the hell out of this. I'm not going to know what to play more when Halo MP comes out!

I recommend joining their discord server, as they update the estimated queue times regularly.

I tried a few games of this last night. I was actually pretty impressed. The kind of "Rocket League-y" presentation isn't my cup of tea, but there's a solid game in there.

Just playing a few rounds of this now, this is a great shooter! I don't know if it's just beginner's luck but this game just feels right to me. Having a blast!

Dowbocop wrote:Just playing a few rounds of this now, this is a great shooter! I don't know if it's just beginner's luck but this game just feels right to me. Having a blast!

You get put in bot lobbies until level 10, it gets a lot less fun after that.

Fade wrote:
Dowbocop wrote:Just playing a few rounds of this now, this is a great shooter! I don't know if it's just beginner's luck but this game just feels right to me. Having a blast!

You get put in bot lobbies until level 10, it gets a lot less fun after that.

Oh...

I'm level 9 - anyone want to give me their referral code before I get to level 10 and can't enter it? First PM wins...

Wow, the game is staying in beta, but they’re selling a £21 character skin. Milky milky.

Splitgate: Portal/Halo, Free to Play, Consoles and PC, Launches 27th July

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