Splitgate 2 dropped today, during Summer Games Fest, meaning that the multiplayer title has now fully launched. The developers had another surprise up their sleeves, though, as they also revealed and released a new and unannounced battle royale mode alongside it.
Splitgate: Battle Royale, features:
- 60-Player Showdowns: Each match challenges 15 teams of four to work together while shutting down the competition to emerge from no-holds-barred firefights as the lone winner.
- An Expansive, Interconnected Map:Matches are hosted on Split Worlds, a gigantic colosseum with five unique biomes linked by massive World Portals allowing teams to get the jump on their competition.
- Choose where to drop in across Drought’s scorching desert, Glacier’s slick snowscape, Inferno’s active volcano, or Fracture’s cluster of asteroids. After landing, players who stay in the match long enough will gain access to a fifth biome – the central area of Sanctum’s foreboding ruins, which offers special, powerful loot for those who can survive sparring to get it.
- Strategy Shifting Events: Mid-match scenarios challenge teams to think quick and adapt even quicker, like the Portal EMP Event’s shutdown of portaling or the Drop Frenzy Event’s tide-turning upswing in the frequency of Air Drops.
- Immense Variety and Replayability:With lootable chests, chances for eliminated players to return to the fray, and events preventing matches from playing out the same way twice, Splitgate: Battle Royale revitalizes the classic thrills of battle royale with Splitgate 2’s distinctly thrilling portal-based FPS action.
In addition to Splitgate: Battle Royale, the launch of Splitgate 2 also brings the debut of:
- All-new maps: Academy, Grit, Sanctum and Simulation Hectic
- A new water-themed map creator template
- A hard-hitting new power weapon, the Gravitas shotgun