1047 Games has announced that it will be pushing the official launch of Splitgate at the eleventh hour, with the July 27th date now longer the release date. Instead, the official launch will take place at some point in August. However, the open beta for Splitgate will keep running. Since the launch of the beta over two million players have been hitting the Splitgate servers, sometimes overwhelming them. The reason the beta will keep running is so the team can keep scaling the server capacity for the game’s full launch. There will be an update tomorrow to Splitgate’s beta that will add three maps and new customisation options.
CEO and Co-Founder Ian Proulx said, “Our team has been blown away by the incredible reception the Splitgate community has shown us. With the steep and sudden increase in players trying to access servers, we’re having to sort out a myriad of technical issues that come with this level of insane growth. We’ve worked hard to provide a high-quality game and experience, and our biggest challenge is simply to have enough capacity to serve the entire community.”
1047 Games has recently completed a new round of funding with Human Captial leading the bulk of the invested $10 million. This will be used to pay for server upgrades and other infrastructure upgrades so that the player base do not run into queues to join games. Splitgate is a free to play shooter that supports cross play. The beta is available on PC, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PS4, and PS5.
Source: Press Release
