it's something called "crippling microtransactions". if you aren't gonna reward me well for gameplay, might as well not reward me at all. the daily chump change made me want to avoid playing as much as possible. edit* oh yeah, their servers died for like the first week so half the people who wanted to play couldn't and people didnt want to cue up for halo with portals.
@Jude Kissinger But their servers didn’t die?! They just didn’t have enough capacity and too many people were trying to play so there were long queue times.
Hey MewZe, I'm actually a gameplay dev at 1047 Games and wanted to say thanks for the thought provoking video and the stroll down memory lane! The '21 launch was definitely chaotic with the servers, but also a lot of fun to be a part of (it's crazy how much we've grown as a company since that launch). Sadly I can't give out Splitcoin, but if I could, I'd toss some your way for the great vid 😂Big fan of your channel and editing style, and please keep up the great content!
in a fair world this game would be still be going strong, because it's better than any currently active fps in my opinion. well maybe with the exception of tf2, but that gave is way past its expiration date
This is David (really) who is wearing a black shirt (seriously). You flat-out gave me a heart attack. I cannot explain the moment of pure terror that infiltrated my soul. My heart is still pounding, lol. And this is the first time I've ever watched your channel, too.
The jetpack in splitgate is one of the most overlooked aspects, *elevating* the movement to another level. It's not enough to be used as a mobility tool by itself, but it has enough juice and gives the player enough control that it works really well with the high velocity gunplay, and helps conteract the pretty high TTK
should be noted that this game was basically a pet project between a few guys for years, and it was able to blow up. now that the devs have proven themselves and have much more resources (and people) at their disposal, we should all be looking forward to what they release next.
The skill gap was insanely huge. And many people just thought it was too difficult. I’ve personally just put in the effort of practicing maps until I was smooth at traveling all around the map and be able to shoot at the same time while mid travel. And it truly makes you invincible at the game, and you eventually can see the actual skill gap with each player you fight.
Very true imo, as someone who consider himself to have pretty shit aim. I were able to often just out play people with better aim though the use of good movement and portals. The game clicked for me the moment i just started using portals to traverse and take fights as much as possible.
@@SilasPT Same for me. It was really unexpected to me how well portals would click in a shooter, but I'm fucking glad it did because it's one of the funnest ways to play a shooter now in my opinion.
Splitgate was one of the greatest experiences of me watching a game grow into something amazing. This game went from some basement dudes into an amazing AAA level title in less time than it took 343 to make Halo Infinite playable (still pending). Jokes aside, I love this game, and I think the people who made it have good hearts.
this game fucking suck ass dude, you got shit taste in video games. if it were realeased by a AAA game, it wouldve been clowned on till the end of the century
I imagine the game died because a bunch of young children got to it, I remember being able to consistently get a 20+ kill streak and I'm not that good at shooters.
I saw the thumbnail first, then I proceeded to Re-Install "Splitgate", now I'm watching the video as soon as it finishes I'm jumping on this masterpiece.
I remember dominating servers by placing a portal on the ground and then placing another portal on an elevated surface and just flying through the air shooting at unsuspecting enemies. Good times.
A friend recommended this game to me like 2 weeks ago and I've had a ton of fun with it. I genuinely thought it was something new and slowly gaining traction, pretty funny to think I wandered into a graveyard and just started partying.
I don't really consider Splitgate "dead", that's just an exaggeration. When a game "dies", it mostly means that the servers have been shut down due to a bad direction and lack of identity (take Battleborn for example). If Splitgate's servers are still up and a good handful of players still logging in to play, I consider that enough for it to be alive in my eyes. Just my opinion.
As one of the most active players in the game at this time, I'm incredibly sad that it fell off like that. I'll just keep hoping that the new game revives it, thank you for this video!
You realise it's still popular, right? I played since 2020 - when there was like 100 - 200 players and it was PC only. It was a miracle it even became this popular, the console release really gained momentum! That's not to say it didn't deserve it, it's a quality game, just unexpected! Still play it from time to time!
I am someone who still plays Splitgate regularly and I enjoy it! Whether a game is popular or not should not dampen any reason why you yourself enjoy what 'you' play.
I remember when this game had blown up into a triple A title. I played around 100 hours of it, and hoenetly I'll probably play more, the game is still a lot of fun. I'm just glad the devs are actually working on a new game, being in the SplitGate universe. I think this is a good direction. Making a new game on a new engine (I think), that may be more mainstream and easier to update, I think a new game is a good option, but at the same time, I feel that building on what you have makes much more sense. This was the shooter that got me into FPS games again on PC. It's just a lot of fun.
Your comedic delivery and timing is top-notch! I recently started playing Splitgate and been curious about the state of the game. Thanks for making this video! (Just like with the game, I'm late to this video too.)
I guess splitgate is an example for how important branding is. If your game is known for having the characters from halo, the portals from portal and the battle passes from fortnite, then it's no wonder how unrecognisable this game is, despite how fun the gameplay may be
Definitely have not forgotten this game. I still play custom maps people talk about. All though I don’t play anymore like I use to, I am excited to see the next game for split gate and I hope it will be as amazing as this game
I’ve seen this happen to so many games before and it really does suck. They really fumbled the bag with this game but I have hope someone out there will make something similar for those that miss splitgate.
I will never forgot this game because it was almost designed perfectly for me. I love fast pace shooters with complex mechanics that require skill. Spending hours on the range to practice portal techniques and then test them in game to stomp my enemies. It was only game where I can confidently destroy stacked teams while I had handicapped players, simply due to how well I knew the portal mechanics, map layout, and having great aim as well.
I just started playing this game yesterday and my god im hooked. The gunplay, the portals, the momentum, everything is amazing. Sucks that the game has stopped being updated
Legitimately one of the most fun shooters right now and everyone is sleeping on it. Ranked takedown was an absolute blast. Ah well, can't wait for splitgate 2.
@@Th3D4nny The splitgate community is fucking amazing man, I did a hunt the devs event (a bungie bounty in the destiny 2 community) the first time i got there and I won the event and got a code. Afterwards I stayed with the community and now Im one of the event helpers who host the official events on their discord. It a really great community and I try my best to be there for anyone in need to help out in the game.
I was so dissapointed when the game lost steam, I wasn't a super active player just because I don't tend to invest a lot of time into pure pvp shooters, but I was one of the original group to play it in 2019 and have always really enjoyed the portal mechanics and feel of gunplay, it was just so crisp
I found this game fairly early in it's development and was genuinely in love with the fact that it offered a truly "new" aspect to the FPS genre. Hoping some day we all come back to this game and understand what we really missede out on :( RIP Splitgate
My favourite mode is domination on the custom Industrial map, theres 3 hills and the map is perfectly designed: Point A can he reached from C and vice versa, point B is open on all sides but is isolated form the rest while still having good defendability, and the map itself is insanely well suited to Splitgate's movement tech, the jetpack being am incredibly useful tool that should not be forgotten!
@@blvckl0tcs750 I have yet to see a more inventive FPS that perfectly balanced daily/weekly/seasonal challenges with great rewards for those that just played for dree and good rewards for BP purchasers. And actual live service support. Hasn't been a AAA game that can hold a candle to them in that regard from my experience. Either too greedy, not enough free content to make it worth it, too grindy, not enough content in general, too much content(pay to win) slow support, bad updates, game sucked to begin with and missed the mark and then took too long to come into it's own.
@@jakboling cause your view of fps is so limiting youve trapped yourself in live service. The introduction of CS2, Valorant, Halo infinite does a great job but it's issue is content drought. I don't care about times rewards, but more on how the game plays which is exactly why split gate died off in the first place. Hell even apex and cod does the same thing you speak of. Realistically coop fps are a great field with so few investing.
@@blvckl0tcs750 halo flopped so hard it's not even funny. They are only just now sort of getting to a point it's good. Over a year and a half after launch. To the point player base just isn't there. They moved on. They definitely didn't have a truly live service game. And barely do now. I personally don't love the live service movement right now. It basically is allowing developers to launch unfinished projects and to forever remain in a "beta" state. Splitgate included mind you. Which for a small studio like 1047 was ok but 343? Give me a break. Or dice with BF2042. At least splitgate FELT good from the get go. Gun play was on point as was weapon balance vs player skill and had no crazy attachments that gave you huge advantages. Class based fps is getting boring at this point really. There are sooooo many and none of them do anything that different from others really. Its a worn out sub genre of fps. Hell drg is the best class based fps PVE game out there imo compared to any of the other big ones.
@@blvckl0tcs750 chill bro, this is just his opnion, you have no reason to attack him, everyone has an opinion and it should be respected, just as I respect yours
I really loved the game and I got pretty damn good at it, triple portaling and almost always coming in first and all that. I remember being creative with flank routes and how I was crossing the map. It felt really rewarding and fun. There wasn’t anything like it man. Then I found out that as the game started to lose its popularity I was fighting against all bots and took away all satisfaction from getting kills and using portals in unique and interesting ways. In the beginning I knew I was winning because I was being more creative than my opponent. Then it was just because they were bots and had no clue what they were doing
I never played this game when it was popular but I still had fun when trying it (probably playing with bots idk). As both a halo infinite and portal fan it's just so good. I am very sad.
I believe the game died down because of the lack of consistent updates and gameplay variety. The game is simple and fun, but it’s like only playing the base Halo PvP modes and nothing else. A game like this can only thrive on community support and tools like Forge and custom games browsers
I was top 50 on ps5. The game was so good, but the fact there wasn’t way to turn off cross play in ranked was so bad. Splitgate is a PC dominated game. All the highest ranked players are PC. You will beat other console players, but you just won’t be able to swing around like you can on pc
I still play this game on a daily basis being the highest player with almost 700 day playstreak and being a splitgate MVP, Really enjoyed this video! great refresher to hear for sure
I remember playing this when everyone else did and I had a good time. Sadly the gameplay loop just kinda fizzled out. There was nothing to really drive you to play more. The battle pass didn't offer much of value and the Twitch drop items were much more interesting cosmetic wise.
From what I saw, the biggest problem was that the skill factor was almost completely negated by portal peeking. So even if you did spend time getting good at the mechanics of the game, it didn't really matter. It reminds me a lot of Apex Legends, where there's all of this crazy, fun movement but the game tends to come down to who can hide better.
I came into the Splitgate Community late, close after they announced the end of it's development. I still play it at least once or twice a week simply because I know that even if I'm not good, I can still learn from others and have fun with the ridiculous ways they've killed me. Several times now I've had fights where we take each other out simultaneously with BFBs.
I didn’t forget about it. Kids just started getting too sweaty with the portals. Just like when kids got too sweaty with building in fortnite lol. It was enough to make me stop playing.
I want to add that splitgaye shot up in popularity when the hype for halo infonite was kicking up. It felt like split gate was the halo fix for a moment there.
as someone who loved this game, I've been playing arena shooters since unreal tournament 2 on ps2. after 20+ years this genre has died out unfortunately. this game would've flourished if they developed a BR or resurgence game mode, but the devs were adamantly against that
i actually liked splitgate a lot but i noticed my matches were FILLED with BOTS. i just can’t feel like i’m playing a competitive game if i’m just Doming bots around every corner. it was ez mode.
One aspect that I think held it back a bit is that being good at traditional shooters isn't good enough for it. Most shooters are very focused on reticule placement and predicting where an enemy's head will get when they come around a specific corner. The portals in splitgate are at variable height and you are often shooting at them blind. In addition the fun flying through the air movement is actually pretty bad at a higher level of play. As you get better you begin to realize that straying more than a foot or two from a portal is a great way to get yourself killed. The best players can move between any two points on a map in 3-5 portals which can take a second or two. Working with teams is even more difficult as when your movement gets better it's difficult for teammates to keep up. There's a ton of depth here, but I don't know that it translates to the same crowd that likes Halo and CoD. I personally think it's a better game for that, but you can imagine why some players would fall off.
Personally, I never played it because it felt like players (from clips I saw online) became unreasonably good and sweaty instantly. Don’t get me wrong, players getting good is part of any gaming experience, but the skill chasm looked so great/daunting to a new/potential player that the idea of trying to hop in and learn the game was very unattractive. There was no ramping learning curve that looked immediately apparent. Obviously this is just my own experience and an EXTREMELY hard one to do anything about as a developer since again, players getting good at a game is only natural, but the rate at which they started tapping the skill ceiling was a little too quickly for me to ever want to try it.
While playing splitgate, i put hours and since i had gotten the game years before it became popular i felt as a long time player i would actually be looked at as more trustworthy, i one day after grinding ranked for hours was met with a ban , no thanks
Splitgate felt like a really cool tech demo that made into a complete game. The maps and characters have absolutely no personality and there was no reason to keep grinding other than the gameplay, which is definitely the best part but it’s not good enough
I can speak to a few game design aspects that led to Splitgate's rapid falloff after the 2021 hype: 1. Gimmick Mechanic - The portal mechanic is cool for a while, and it served really well to advertise the game to new players, but after a while the luster and cool-factor of it wears off, and it can't carry a game by itself. At the end of the day, once the portal mechanic sinks into the back of your mind, the game blends in to other shooters (especially Halo 5) in terms of visual and weapon design, so it's identity wears off. This occurs especially because the objectives of the game (usually kill people, either directly for points or to hold an objective against them) isn't achieved directly by using portals, so the gun-play becomes more important than the portals. *How do you fix this?*: By placing more importance on the portal mechanic. This however, is a difficult issue because if you design around this mechanic first, then the gun-play won't get as much work, or the players will feel like the portal mechanic is hamfisted in. 2. Competitive Design - From the level design (literally being placed in a competitive arena), to it's weapon, damage, and movement mechanics, and even many game mode types, are all designed to encourage and carry competition. While there is some goofy stuff, it mostly ended up being secondary and cosmetic to the competitive-first design present throughout the game. This is unappealing to casual audiences, who prefer usually to start up games just play with friends without getting sweaty. *How do you fix this?*: By redesigning the identity of the game and introducing more casual friendly game modes. Take the game out of a literal arena with an audience cheering in the background. While Contamination and Fiesta are good ways to start, the rest of the game's design kinda drowns out their silliness. 3. Boomer Shooter Imbalance - Ever try to go back and play any of the arena shooters that were born in or from the 90s or early 00s? You'll probably get your cheeks clapped by people who have been perfecting their skills since the game was released, and for most casual players, that's discouraging. The longer a game is alive, the closer it will come to the inverted bell curve of the boomer shooters, where you have many players of a really high skill level, and many players of a low skill level, but very few players to close the gap between the two islands of skill, which makes it extremely difficult or even impossible for new players who play more competitively to get better without getting discouraged. This is the state that Splitgate fell into shortly after it's fall-off. *How do you fix this?*: This is a remarkably difficult problem to fix and it will always occur if a game lives for long enough, however, making sure to keep pulling in new players somehow will keep the issue at bay. 4. High Multitasking Load - Players who can multitask in Splitgate are going to be some of the best players, period. While multitasking is a requirement in most FPS games, it's even more important in Splitgate because of the portal mechanic. You need to manage both your sightlines through the portal and around you, and focus on if your opponent is using portal tricks while you're fighting them, and this is right at the edge of the mental load for most players. You've probably seen it for yourself while playing Splitgate, a player staring through a portal getting shots off, completely oblivious to you behind them, or they completely miss that you put a portal behind them which allows you to get them from behind. Pushing this load onto players will mentally exhaust them much quicker than other similar games without portal mechanics. *How do you fix this?*: This is another difficult issue to fix, however, you can mitigate and reduce mental load using "blinder mechanics" that keep the player focused. In Call of Duty for example, the blinder mechanics are aim down sights (focused towards killing), sprint (focused towards chasing and escaping), and crouching or going prone (focused towards waiting and ambushing), which makes it easier for their players to achieve the specific objective they're focused, explicitly knowing that they're going to have to transition to the other objectives. Splitgate would need a similar blinder mechanic for portals. All of these aspects come together to create a game that appeals mostly to a very specific type of player, who is competitive and dedicates a lot of time to perfecting their skills and are able to keep up with the high mental load. This just isn't a game that someone can start up and relax with after work or school, which is what 90% of people really want a game for, so if somebody is looking through their Steam library after work, they are more likely to choose a slower, less competitive game to play in their free time. Edits: Spelling and grammar.
It didn't bring enough to the table to keep me interested. Played about 20 games and bascially said why am I playing this when I have the MCC right here
this is basically every trendy game of the last 5 years . the cycle is someone makes a game , sponsors some streamers to play it for a week , the game all of the sudden is top 10 on steam , the sponsorship ends , streamers stop playing it , dies , repeat . remember a good while ago when friday the 13th the game released and it took the world by storm ? servers have shutted down 2 years ago . remember fortnite ? now it has like a 1/50 of a community of what it used to have . among us has 1/50 aswell , pubg might actually be the only exception to this even if that one too compared to its peak it has like nothing now but that game manages to have six figures daily still . all of this wouldn't happen if people didn't just see a guy on the internet play a game and then automatically go download it or buy it and assume that its the best thing in the world just because a random guy on the internet got payed to play it for like a week .
I loved this game, played with friends on stream a few times. Considered getting competitive with it but first ranked game I get stuck in a wall, couldn't kill myself/respawn, was just stuck there. Tried disconnecting and hopefully reconnect, wouldn't let me, because of that bug we lost. That horrible first ranked experience and the playing with bots (actual bots) made me stop playing. I figured if they haven't got the competitive system fleshed out yet, something simple like reconnecting, they wouldn't have done proper matchmaking. I'd wait until they fix those before revisiting it, unfortunately now they've stopped developing.
Splitgate doesn’t have any stupid system that force you to play against certain players on certain times, like SBMM and other systems. Which rarely these days. My best casual FPS game that I can play it with having an actually fun (losing or winning), instead of finely programmed frustration.
This game was super satisfying to play. The Halo Infinite launched I think had a part in killing off the player base. Everyone shifted their attention to the OG arena shooter, and once they played that for a week and realised how bad it was and how long they had waited for it, everyone was just left with a sour taste for Arena shooters in their mouth and kind of just forgot about Splitgate, moving back to the Battle Royal genre, which was more popular at the time. Such a shame. I really had a lot of fun playing this game on PC. It wasn't abused by console aim assist like in Halo because it required too much movement and turning around when entering portals etc... Which made it enjoyable to play on PC.
i uninstalled after the announcement from the studio expecting the servers to go offline but if you're able to solo queue that fast with under 250 players online i'm reinstalling, i have 100 hours and fucking love this game
Two interesting things I like about this game are the the fact I can customize the crosshairs and that I can jump in and out of the water in the resort map and be a sneaky little rat
I'll never forget playing Splitgate for the first time because it genuinely gave me a new experience with gaming that I hadn't felt in YEARS, genuinely shocked this game never served as a spiritual successor to replace Halo, if anyone hasn't tried shooting fools through portals or seeing how much that can influence how one plays an FPS I highly recommend giving this game a look
UPDATE: I received a DM from an actual developer of 1047 Games, and apparently Epic Games never actually attempted to purchase Splitgate. My bad!
Ok
Sure
i still play this game
it's something called "crippling microtransactions". if you aren't gonna reward me well for gameplay, might as well not reward me at all. the daily chump change made me want to avoid playing as much as possible.
edit* oh yeah, their servers died for like the first week so half the people who wanted to play couldn't and people didnt want to cue up for halo with portals.
@Jude Kissinger
But their servers didn’t die?! They just didn’t have enough capacity and too many people were trying to play so there were long queue times.
Hey MewZe, I'm actually a gameplay dev at 1047 Games and wanted to say thanks for the thought provoking video and the stroll down memory lane! The '21 launch was definitely chaotic with the servers, but also a lot of fun to be a part of (it's crazy how much we've grown as a company since that launch). Sadly I can't give out Splitcoin, but if I could, I'd toss some your way for the great vid 😂Big fan of your channel and editing style, and please keep up the great content!
Guessing the game is still being worked on. That said keep up the good work.
@@christopherrogers532 half the video is literally wallowing why its not. what?
@@christopherrogers532 No it's not. 1047 is working on a new project at the moment which is why there is no dev support for Splitgate anymore.
Don't give up We stand with you!
in a fair world this game would be still be going strong, because it's better than any currently active fps in my opinion. well maybe with the exception of tf2, but that gave is way past its expiration date
This is David (really) who is wearing a black shirt (seriously). You flat-out gave me a heart attack. I cannot explain the moment of pure terror that infiltrated my soul. My heart is still pounding, lol. And this is the first time I've ever watched your channel, too.
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I read this specifically as he was saying it
LMAO
SAME HAHA
Oh there you are 😂😂😂
The jetpack in splitgate is one of the most overlooked aspects, *elevating* the movement to another level. It's not enough to be used as a mobility tool by itself, but it has enough juice and gives the player enough control that it works really well with the high velocity gunplay, and helps conteract the pretty high TTK
Splitgate truly is an underrated game
It's mid as fuck bro
If it was a triple A game, it'd be trashed by people
I havent played it in a year and will be 2 years once it hits September, but i also came back bc i might redownload
@@MisterChief711 Honestly the gameplay is like pixel gun 3d somehow
@@MisterChief711 in your opinion, name a comparably better experience that isn’t “mid af bro”
@@restructible9298 Halo infinite (like it or hate it)
No man's sky
MCC
Destiny 2
Any fucking popular multiplayer game
should be noted that this game was basically a pet project between a few guys for years, and it was able to blow up. now that the devs have proven themselves and have much more resources (and people) at their disposal, we should all be looking forward to what they release next.
The skill gap was insanely huge. And many people just thought it was too difficult. I’ve personally just put in the effort of practicing maps until I was smooth at traveling all around the map and be able to shoot at the same time while mid travel. And it truly makes you invincible at the game, and you eventually can see the actual skill gap with each player you fight.
Skill gap might be large but the game is so easy to pick up it was no time for any of my friends to get good and start winning matches.
yeah. devs forgot todays gaming community is full of normies, lazy toddlers who just refuse learning those games....
Yh
Very true imo, as someone who consider himself to have pretty shit aim. I were able to often just out play people with better aim though the use of good movement and portals. The game clicked for me the moment i just started using portals to traverse and take fights as much as possible.
@@SilasPT Same for me. It was really unexpected to me how well portals would click in a shooter, but I'm fucking glad it did because it's one of the funnest ways to play a shooter now in my opinion.
Splitgate was one of the greatest experiences of me watching a game grow into something amazing. This game went from some basement dudes into an amazing AAA level title in less time than it took 343 to make Halo Infinite playable (still pending). Jokes aside, I love this game, and I think the people who made it have good hearts.
this game fucking suck ass dude, you got shit taste in video games. if it were realeased by a AAA game, it wouldve been clowned on till the end of the century
It's super sad tho that people stopped playing the game
@@chillbizz74 yep, very sad. It's ok though, now we at least get a sequel coming!
but halo infinite is good now though
@@maruf7956 halo is dead
splitgate 2 gameplay revealed. actual masterpiece in proximity
I remember having fun with this game and thinking it has so much potential, glad someone's acknowledging its existence.
I swear to god it feels like a fever dream or something
it's back to it's original player base, I play it daily and honestly they nailed the networking and fun factor for an arena shooter it's a great game.
I imagine the game died because a bunch of young children got to it, I remember being able to consistently get a 20+ kill streak and I'm not that good at shooters.
1:57 Glad to have helped by teabaggig your for that clip!
I saw the thumbnail first, then I proceeded to Re-Install "Splitgate", now I'm watching the video as soon as it finishes I'm jumping on this masterpiece.
I remember dominating servers by placing a portal on the ground and then placing another portal on an elevated surface and just flying through the air shooting at unsuspecting enemies. Good times.
The (non existent) skill gap everyone is talking about
@@donwackyaids1771 The skill gap is enormous
A friend recommended this game to me like 2 weeks ago and I've had a ton of fun with it. I genuinely thought it was something new and slowly gaining traction, pretty funny to think I wandered into a graveyard and just started partying.
I love this game so much, The portals are so well made and its so uniqe. Its truly sad its dead
Wasn’t this game beating Halo Infinite for a while?
@@Electroid5
*_yep_*
@@Electroid5 what game wasnt
guys it is dead because they are making another game in the same universe
I don't really consider Splitgate "dead", that's just an exaggeration. When a game "dies", it mostly means that the servers have been shut down due to a bad direction and lack of identity (take Battleborn for example). If Splitgate's servers are still up and a good handful of players still logging in to play, I consider that enough for it to be alive in my eyes. Just my opinion.
Arena shooters need to come back and be mainstream, is a so much fun genre
I felt threatened at 7:14, ngl
You mean David wearing the black T-shirt
@@ashton.s____ yeah I'm wearing a black t-shirt
He is coming for you
Really looking forward to their next project. Hopefully it doesn't take forever to release or get canceled
You making this video really had me remember all the fun I had with my cousin in it. It’s really too bad it won’t be updated any longer.
Literally same Here. Downloaded bc my cousin showed it to me and we played lots
@@glabrg5378 well that makes 3 of us
"live service"
they're making a free sequel since the original games code would have needed to much work.
damn it breaks my heart to not se you having more subscribers, your definetly underrated asf your editing skills are up there man!
As one of the most active players in the game at this time, I'm incredibly sad that it fell off like that. I'll just keep hoping that the new game revives it, thank you for this video!
the performance decreased though
It was ruined by the braindead bots the devs disguised as real players by not telling they bots in the gamer tag
@@mariobadia4553 aint no way
You realise it's still popular, right? I played since 2020 - when there was like 100 - 200 players and it was PC only. It was a miracle it even became this popular, the console release really gained momentum! That's not to say it didn't deserve it, it's a quality game, just unexpected!
Still play it from time to time!
@@mariobadia4553 fortnite and cod did same thing. sucks
I am someone who still plays Splitgate regularly and I enjoy it! Whether a game is popular or not should not dampen any reason why you yourself enjoy what 'you' play.
I remember when this game had blown up into a triple A title. I played around 100 hours of it, and hoenetly I'll probably play more, the game is still a lot of fun. I'm just glad the devs are actually working on a new game, being in the SplitGate universe. I think this is a good direction. Making a new game on a new engine (I think), that may be more mainstream and easier to update, I think a new game is a good option, but at the same time, I feel that building on what you have makes much more sense. This was the shooter that got me into FPS games again on PC. It's just a lot of fun.
retro mode would be so good if more people still played the game.
the guns alone feel so clean.
My friends and I played this for several months and absolutely loved it. What a shame it has no more players.
ATLANTIS HOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Your comedic delivery and timing is top-notch! I recently started playing Splitgate and been curious about the state of the game. Thanks for making this video! (Just like with the game, I'm late to this video too.)
This video is making me want to get back into the game now. Sucks they stopped development though.
I guess splitgate is an example for how important branding is. If your game is known for having the characters from halo, the portals from portal and the battle passes from fortnite, then it's no wonder how unrecognisable this game is, despite how fun the gameplay may be
Definitely have not forgotten this game. I still play custom maps people talk about. All though I don’t play anymore like I use to, I am excited to see the next game for split gate and I hope it will be as amazing as this game
I’ve seen this happen to so many games before and it really does suck. They really fumbled the bag with this game but I have hope someone out there will make something similar for those that miss splitgate.
I started playing Splitgate after it "died" and have been loving it for a while now! My friends and I still hop on!
I will never forgot this game because it was almost designed perfectly for me. I love fast pace shooters with complex mechanics that require skill. Spending hours on the range to practice portal techniques and then test them in game to stomp my enemies. It was only game where I can confidently destroy stacked teams while I had handicapped players, simply due to how well I knew the portal mechanics, map layout, and having great aim as well.
What else do you play? I'd love some recommendations because I'm the same
Dude had the same experience its almost as if splitgate combines all the cool mechanics i like from other games
@@DhruvBurman titanfall 2 is pretty good
I just started playing this game yesterday and my god im hooked. The gunplay, the portals, the momentum, everything is amazing. Sucks that the game has stopped being updated
bros late
@@notsuoh7233 late to the party yeah, but that doesn't change my opinion on how the game is.
@@Chree1s I stg the game was so fun before it got popular, then for some reason it just wasn’t fun anymore
Legitimately one of the most fun shooters right now and everyone is sleeping on it. Ranked takedown was an absolute blast. Ah well, can't wait for splitgate 2.
@@Th3D4nny The splitgate community is fucking amazing man, I did a hunt the devs event (a bungie bounty in the destiny 2 community) the first time i got there and I won the event and got a code. Afterwards I stayed with the community and now Im one of the event helpers who host the official events on their discord. It a really great community and I try my best to be there for anyone in need to help out in the game.
I was so dissapointed when the game lost steam, I wasn't a super active player just because I don't tend to invest a lot of time into pure pvp shooters, but I was one of the original group to play it in 2019 and have always really enjoyed the portal mechanics and feel of gunplay, it was just so crisp
Man this game was awesome. I’m really sad they stopped working on it
I found this game fairly early in it's development and was genuinely in love with the fact that it offered a truly "new" aspect to the FPS genre. Hoping some day we all come back to this game and understand what we really missede out on :( RIP Splitgate
My favourite mode is domination on the custom Industrial map, theres 3 hills and the map is perfectly designed:
Point A can he reached from C and vice versa, point B is open on all sides but is isolated form the rest while still having good defendability, and the map itself is insanely well suited to Splitgate's movement tech, the jetpack being am incredibly useful tool that should not be forgotten!
When this game first came out I played it like every day. I fr need to play this masterpiece again
I still play it. The longest it takes to get into a match is 15 minutes.
I didn't even know this game existed untill this banging video. Good job Mewze. Enjoyed.
Wait I think I edited the comment and then lost the like from Mewze. Oh crap.
@@BigSmokes1 u seem like the type of guy that plays apex but has never heard of titanfall.
Dont play it. 99% of "players" you see are braindead bots the game doesn't tell you are bots
@@acct4600 That's scarily accurate
@@BigSmokes1 welp
5:30
Halo 2's battle rifle is godlike mate
AGREED! Best game in the last 10ish years I'd say. Hope the next installment they come out with plays as good.
lmao absolutely not. you gotta be living under a rock to make that kinda statement.
@@blvckl0tcs750 I have yet to see a more inventive FPS that perfectly balanced daily/weekly/seasonal challenges with great rewards for those that just played for dree and good rewards for BP purchasers. And actual live service support. Hasn't been a AAA game that can hold a candle to them in that regard from my experience. Either too greedy, not enough free content to make it worth it, too grindy, not enough content in general, too much content(pay to win) slow support, bad updates, game sucked to begin with and missed the mark and then took too long to come into it's own.
@@jakboling cause your view of fps is so limiting youve trapped yourself in live service. The introduction of CS2, Valorant, Halo infinite does a great job but it's issue is content drought. I don't care about times rewards, but more on how the game plays which is exactly why split gate died off in the first place. Hell even apex and cod does the same thing you speak of. Realistically coop fps are a great field with so few investing.
@@blvckl0tcs750 halo flopped so hard it's not even funny. They are only just now sort of getting to a point it's good. Over a year and a half after launch. To the point player base just isn't there. They moved on. They definitely didn't have a truly live service game. And barely do now.
I personally don't love the live service movement right now. It basically is allowing developers to launch unfinished projects and to forever remain in a "beta" state. Splitgate included mind you. Which for a small studio like 1047 was ok but 343? Give me a break. Or dice with BF2042. At least splitgate FELT good from the get go. Gun play was on point as was weapon balance vs player skill and had no crazy attachments that gave you huge advantages.
Class based fps is getting boring at this point really. There are sooooo many and none of them do anything that different from others really. Its a worn out sub genre of fps.
Hell drg is the best class based fps PVE game out there imo compared to any of the other big ones.
@@blvckl0tcs750 chill bro, this is just his opnion, you have no reason to attack him, everyone has an opinion and it should be respected, just as I respect yours
I really loved the game and I got pretty damn good at it, triple portaling and almost always coming in first and all that. I remember being creative with flank routes and how I was crossing the map. It felt really rewarding and fun. There wasn’t anything like it man. Then I found out that as the game started to lose its popularity I was fighting against all bots and took away all satisfaction from getting kills and using portals in unique and interesting ways. In the beginning I knew I was winning because I was being more creative than my opponent. Then it was just because they were bots and had no clue what they were doing
I never played this game when it was popular but I still had fun when trying it (probably playing with bots idk). As both a halo infinite and portal fan it's just so good. I am very sad.
I believe the game died down because of the lack of consistent updates and gameplay variety. The game is simple and fun, but it’s like only playing the base Halo PvP modes and nothing else. A game like this can only thrive on community support and tools like Forge and custom games browsers
Plus the bots that devs tried to trick you into thinking are real players
I was top 50 on ps5. The game was so good, but the fact there wasn’t way to turn off cross play in ranked was so bad.
Splitgate is a PC dominated game. All the highest ranked players are PC. You will beat other console players, but you just won’t be able to swing around like you can on pc
Splitgate is underrated ngl
YES
So underrated
I still play this game on a daily basis being the highest player with almost 700 day playstreak and being a splitgate MVP, Really enjoyed this video! great refresher to hear for sure
I remember playing this when everyone else did and I had a good time. Sadly the gameplay loop just kinda fizzled out. There was nothing to really drive you to play more. The battle pass didn't offer much of value and the Twitch drop items were much more interesting cosmetic wise.
Still play it weekly with the boys. We still here
From what I saw, the biggest problem was that the skill factor was almost completely negated by portal peeking. So even if you did spend time getting good at the mechanics of the game, it didn't really matter. It reminds me a lot of Apex Legends, where there's all of this crazy, fun movement but the game tends to come down to who can hide better.
I got so scared when he said David, then I realized I’m not wearing a black shirt. Also my name isn’t David.
This is just one of those games that is pure fun. No boring, drawn out missions, no waiting around, no grinding, just pure, fun action
I came into the Splitgate Community late, close after they announced the end of it's development. I still play it at least once or twice a week simply because I know that even if I'm not good, I can still learn from others and have fun with the ridiculous ways they've killed me. Several times now I've had fights where we take each other out simultaneously with BFBs.
I didn’t forget about it. Kids just started getting too sweaty with the portals. Just like when kids got too sweaty with building in fortnite lol. It was enough to make me stop playing.
Its crazy how massive split gate got for like 1 month and than just died it was so random of a blowup and just as fast if a blowdown
Splitgate Would Pop! If it was Split Screen...but Because it's not local Split screen, In Splitgate, splitgate Had to Split Up.
The moment the announcer said "Killection Agency" I was in love😂
I actually loved splitgate for like 1.5 years, but when i installed halo finally, i just deleted it.
I might get back on
7:14 why is that so specific and why is it so on point bro. I legit had a bruh moment
I want to add that splitgaye shot up in popularity when the hype for halo infonite was kicking up. It felt like split gate was the halo fix for a moment there.
7:15 scared the shit out of me
as someone who loved this game, I've been playing arena shooters since unreal tournament 2 on ps2. after 20+ years this genre has died out unfortunately. this game would've flourished if they developed a BR or resurgence game mode, but the devs were adamantly against that
Sometimes I just go into a map by myself and fling myself around like it's a skate park.
played this game for over a year it is one of my favourite games and should have been a real competitor
Splitgate’s a lot of fun, I really kinda wish they’d make a campaign update
i actually liked splitgate a lot but i noticed my matches were FILLED with BOTS. i just can’t feel like i’m playing a competitive game if i’m just Doming bots around every corner. it was ez mode.
SplitGate is Portal, Halo and COD in one. Nothing gets better than portals, jetpacks, no gravity and different versions of team death matches.
One aspect that I think held it back a bit is that being good at traditional shooters isn't good enough for it. Most shooters are very focused on reticule placement and predicting where an enemy's head will get when they come around a specific corner. The portals in splitgate are at variable height and you are often shooting at them blind. In addition the fun flying through the air movement is actually pretty bad at a higher level of play. As you get better you begin to realize that straying more than a foot or two from a portal is a great way to get yourself killed. The best players can move between any two points on a map in 3-5 portals which can take a second or two. Working with teams is even more difficult as when your movement gets better it's difficult for teammates to keep up.
There's a ton of depth here, but I don't know that it translates to the same crowd that likes Halo and CoD. I personally think it's a better game for that, but you can imagine why some players would fall off.
Personally, I never played it because it felt like players (from clips I saw online) became unreasonably good and sweaty instantly. Don’t get me wrong, players getting good is part of any gaming experience, but the skill chasm looked so great/daunting to a new/potential player that the idea of trying to hop in and learn the game was very unattractive. There was no ramping learning curve that looked immediately apparent. Obviously this is just my own experience and an EXTREMELY hard one to do anything about as a developer since again, players getting good at a game is only natural, but the rate at which they started tapping the skill ceiling was a little too quickly for me to ever want to try it.
0:42 "Now I'm gonna read the title dramatically"
While playing splitgate, i put hours and since i had gotten the game years before it became popular i felt as a long time player i would actually be looked at as more trustworthy, i one day after grinding ranked for hours was met with a ban , no thanks
really good editing .p.s. bring back splitgate
Started playing it this week w 4 friends and we all loved it, Action packed and w lots of movement
devs said the abandoned the game to focus on a sort of remake on UE5, so splitgate isn't dead, it's just sleeping
Splitgate felt like a really cool tech demo that made into a complete game. The maps and characters have absolutely no personality and there was no reason to keep grinding other than the gameplay, which is definitely the best part but it’s not good enough
My name is david and i was wearing a black tea-shirt so i will be redownloading this game
I started playing Splitgate on Monday, and I can say that this game lets players do something that most games today don't
Have fun
I can speak to a few game design aspects that led to Splitgate's rapid falloff after the 2021 hype:
1. Gimmick Mechanic - The portal mechanic is cool for a while, and it served really well to advertise the game to new players, but after a while the luster and cool-factor of it wears off, and it can't carry a game by itself. At the end of the day, once the portal mechanic sinks into the back of your mind, the game blends in to other shooters (especially Halo 5) in terms of visual and weapon design, so it's identity wears off. This occurs especially because the objectives of the game (usually kill people, either directly for points or to hold an objective against them) isn't achieved directly by using portals, so the gun-play becomes more important than the portals.
*How do you fix this?*: By placing more importance on the portal mechanic. This however, is a difficult issue because if you design around this mechanic first, then the gun-play won't get as much work, or the players will feel like the portal mechanic is hamfisted in.
2. Competitive Design - From the level design (literally being placed in a competitive arena), to it's weapon, damage, and movement mechanics, and even many game mode types, are all designed to encourage and carry competition. While there is some goofy stuff, it mostly ended up being secondary and cosmetic to the competitive-first design present throughout the game. This is unappealing to casual audiences, who prefer usually to start up games just play with friends without getting sweaty.
*How do you fix this?*: By redesigning the identity of the game and introducing more casual friendly game modes. Take the game out of a literal arena with an audience cheering in the background. While Contamination and Fiesta are good ways to start, the rest of the game's design kinda drowns out their silliness.
3. Boomer Shooter Imbalance - Ever try to go back and play any of the arena shooters that were born in or from the 90s or early 00s? You'll probably get your cheeks clapped by people who have been perfecting their skills since the game was released, and for most casual players, that's discouraging. The longer a game is alive, the closer it will come to the inverted bell curve of the boomer shooters, where you have many players of a really high skill level, and many players of a low skill level, but very few players to close the gap between the two islands of skill, which makes it extremely difficult or even impossible for new players who play more competitively to get better without getting discouraged. This is the state that Splitgate fell into shortly after it's fall-off.
*How do you fix this?*: This is a remarkably difficult problem to fix and it will always occur if a game lives for long enough, however, making sure to keep pulling in new players somehow will keep the issue at bay.
4. High Multitasking Load - Players who can multitask in Splitgate are going to be some of the best players, period. While multitasking is a requirement in most FPS games, it's even more important in Splitgate because of the portal mechanic. You need to manage both your sightlines through the portal and around you, and focus on if your opponent is using portal tricks while you're fighting them, and this is right at the edge of the mental load for most players. You've probably seen it for yourself while playing Splitgate, a player staring through a portal getting shots off, completely oblivious to you behind them, or they completely miss that you put a portal behind them which allows you to get them from behind. Pushing this load onto players will mentally exhaust them much quicker than other similar games without portal mechanics.
*How do you fix this?*: This is another difficult issue to fix, however, you can mitigate and reduce mental load using "blinder mechanics" that keep the player focused. In Call of Duty for example, the blinder mechanics are aim down sights (focused towards killing), sprint (focused towards chasing and escaping), and crouching or going prone (focused towards waiting and ambushing), which makes it easier for their players to achieve the specific objective they're focused, explicitly knowing that they're going to have to transition to the other objectives. Splitgate would need a similar blinder mechanic for portals.
All of these aspects come together to create a game that appeals mostly to a very specific type of player, who is competitive and dedicates a lot of time to perfecting their skills and are able to keep up with the high mental load. This just isn't a game that someone can start up and relax with after work or school, which is what 90% of people really want a game for, so if somebody is looking through their Steam library after work, they are more likely to choose a slower, less competitive game to play in their free time.
Edits: Spelling and grammar.
Aww the babies are reminiscing about their toys, how cute.
I could never figure out why my friends all stopped after we had so much fun for a week or so 😢
It didn't bring enough to the table to keep me interested. Played about 20 games and bascially said why am I playing this when I have the MCC right here
“For the first time in history a burst rifle is good” this is mad lad like the br in Halo is the most goated burst of all time
mewze for class president 2012
this is basically every trendy game of the last 5 years . the cycle is someone makes a game , sponsors some streamers to play it for a week , the game all of the sudden is top 10 on steam , the sponsorship ends , streamers stop playing it , dies , repeat . remember a good while ago when friday the 13th the game released and it took the world by storm ? servers have shutted down 2 years ago . remember fortnite ? now it has like a 1/50 of a community of what it used to have . among us has 1/50 aswell , pubg might actually be the only exception to this even if that one too compared to its peak it has like nothing now but that game manages to have six figures daily still . all of this wouldn't happen if people didn't just see a guy on the internet play a game and then automatically go download it or buy it and assume that its the best thing in the world just because a random guy on the internet got payed to play it for like a week .
I loved this game, played with friends on stream a few times. Considered getting competitive with it but first ranked game I get stuck in a wall, couldn't kill myself/respawn, was just stuck there. Tried disconnecting and hopefully reconnect, wouldn't let me, because of that bug we lost. That horrible first ranked experience and the playing with bots (actual bots) made me stop playing. I figured if they haven't got the competitive system fleshed out yet, something simple like reconnecting, they wouldn't have done proper matchmaking. I'd wait until they fix those before revisiting it, unfortunately now they've stopped developing.
I didn’t forget… I just don’t have a pc. Rip
I remember playing this at my brother’s house and loved it. Looks better than recent games
I've started playing it recently and I love it. The only thing I'm missing is the option to slide(and in a perfect world Wall-running as well)
I still really like to play splitgate every so often, it is actually SO FUN
I revisited the game again and its still holds up
I got addicted playing this game for like a few days last year. Didn't know it is dead now :(
Splitgate doesn’t have any stupid system that force you to play against certain players on certain times, like SBMM and other systems. Which rarely these days. My best casual FPS game that I can play it with having an actually fun (losing or winning), instead of finely programmed frustration.
This game was super satisfying to play. The Halo Infinite launched I think had a part in killing off the player base. Everyone shifted their attention to the OG arena shooter, and once they played that for a week and realised how bad it was and how long they had waited for it, everyone was just left with a sour taste for Arena shooters in their mouth and kind of just forgot about Splitgate, moving back to the Battle Royal genre, which was more popular at the time.
Such a shame. I really had a lot of fun playing this game on PC. It wasn't abused by console aim assist like in Halo because it required too much movement and turning around when entering portals etc... Which made it enjoyable to play on PC.
i uninstalled after the announcement from the studio expecting the servers to go offline but if you're able to solo queue that fast with under 250 players online i'm reinstalling, i have 100 hours and fucking love this game
Two interesting things I like about this game are the the fact I can customize the crosshairs and that I can jump in and out of the water in the resort map and be a sneaky little rat
I'll never forget playing Splitgate for the first time because it genuinely gave me a new experience with gaming that I hadn't felt in YEARS, genuinely shocked this game never served as a spiritual successor to replace Halo, if anyone hasn't tried shooting fools through portals or seeing how much that can influence how one plays an FPS I highly recommend giving this game a look
It's sad this game doesn't work on Steam Deck anymore. I would still play it.
Reminds me of Dirty bomb, another shooter with amazing gameplay that just faded into obscurity