Splitgate News

Game Modes
- New Game Mode: VIP - Available to play in Social and Custom Games
+ One player from each team is designated as the VIP.
+ The goal in this game mode is to protect your VIP, while fragging the enemy VIP.
+ The twist is that only the VIP can use portals!
- Reduced match length to 8 minutes
- Capture the Flag: Reduced score limit to 3
- Domination: Reduced score limit to 500
- Replaced SAW Stadium with Outpost in ranked CTF map pool
- Fixed incorrect FFA placement when ties were present

UI
- Introducing the Event Center - Home to game news and daily check-in rewards
+ Daily Check-In Rewards
+ Daily Check-In features a week of rewards varying between XP Bonuses, Double XP and Disco Balls
+ Check in every day of the week to receive all the rewards
+ If you missed a day, you can still receive the missed rewards for 50 Disco Balls
+ Rewards reset every week
- Added ability to toggle viewing locked items in the locker
- Text Chat Muting - If you mute a player in game, it will mute both their voice and text chat
- Moved Reward Notifications to Main Menu
- Adding Challenge Complete notifications
- Showing names as greyed out when people quit rather than removing
- Fixed bug where enemy health remaining would incorrectly show as 0 sometimes on killed by banner
- Several Quality of Life UI improvements and bug fixes

Balancing
- Sniper Body damage decreased from 70 to 65
- Removed Sniper no-scope inaccuracy and made sniper no-scope bullet radius smaller
- Rocket speed increased from 4000 to 5000
- Rocket damage falloff reduced from 1 to .72
- Rocket explosion radius reduced from 500 to 350
- Fixed bug where rocket explosion would do half damage to self instead of full damage

Maps
- Several Collision and Map Glitch fixes on Highwind, Atlantis, Olympus, Pantheon, and Helix
Voice Chat
- Voice Chat bug fixes and stability improvements

Gameplay
- AI Improvements
- Fixed bug where weapon pickups could become desynced on server/client when a portal was placed under them
- Fixed bug where weapon pickups couldn’t be picked up sometimes
- Fixed rare bug where the BFB wouldn’t kill the enemy in one hit
- Fixed bug where teabags didn’t register near portals
- Fixed desync issue with rockets that could result in an explosion near an enemy without applying damage

Audio
- Fixed bug where enemy weapon audio would sometimes play from the wrong location

Misc
- Decreased the size of the Game by 10 GB
- Upgraded Unreal Engine to the latest version which includes performance and stability improvements

- NOTE: This update is a relatively large update due to the upgraded version and the reduction of size
- Fixed stuttering issues with videos (intro and tutorial)
- Fixed issues with Railgun visual effects on lower graphics quality settings
- Other minor bug fixes and improvements

UI
- Adding Name Tags/Flair UI to in-game scoreboard. Currently only supports Developers/Partners. More Updates Coming Soon!
- Ranked Leaderboards - Head over to the career tab to see how you stack up with the best of the best. Also includes list of ranks along with corresponding XP values.
- Fix to incorrect killfeed entries when joining a game in progress.
- New custom crosshair added.
- Hit marker scale increased for oddball/flag

Gameplay
- Sprint Control Updates:
- Pressing the sprint input while sprinting no longer stops sprinting, if toggle sprint is enabled.
- The player now immediately stops sprinting when the move forward input is released, if toggle sprint is enabled.
- Crouching when toggle sprint is disabled no longer completely cancels sprint. Instead the player crouches, stops sprinting, and continues sprinting if the sprint input was still being held down when the player uncrouches.
- Fixed bug where player wouldn't sprint when holding sprint input before move forward input
- Fixed bug where player wouldn't sprint again when holding sprint input, aiming/firing, and unaiming/stopping firing, etc.
- Fixed bug where sprint would toggle off when moving forward and doing large 180ish degree turns
- Fixed bug where portal kills would register even if you landed on the ground before dying.

Game Modes
- Fixed bug where flag would get stuck in ceilings
- Reducing CTF announcer spam by removing “Flag Dropped” and only playing “Flag Taken/Stolen” when taken from spawn
- Fixed bug where animations would stop working when going through a portal with the flag while swapping weapons
- Fixed bug where flag couldn’t be picked up sometimes

Replay
- Fixed bug where incorrect victory screen would be shown at the end of replays.

Online
- Introducing Happy Hour. During Happy Hours, Ranked games will give you double XP. Happy Hours occur twice a day.
- FFA Fridays and 2v2 Tuesdays. On Tuesdays and Fridays, the ranked playlist will rotate to Team Doubles and FFA, respectively.
- You will now receive a SAW Pack if you finish all daily challenges in a given day (resets every day)

Game Modes
- No Tier 1 Weapon Pickups (other than the Sniper Rifle) in Team Doubles
- Fixed Bug in CTF where a dead character would return flag faster if overlapping

Gameplay
- Fixed issue with toggle sprint where pressing sprint input again wouldn’t cancel sprint
- Crouching now cancels sprinting
- Fixed bug where bots could sprint when sprint was disabled in custom game settings
- Fix to server crash that could occur in TBC
- Fixed network delay issues with LAN games

Maps
- Pantheon: Replaced AR pickups with SMG pickups
- Olympus: Replaced AR pickups with SMG pickups
- Abyss: Greatly increased number of spawn points

UI
- Custom Game UI Overhaul and Quality of Life updates
- Added Damage Dealt to post game summary screen

Audio
- Fixed bug where VOIP audio didn’t mute while minimized
- Fixed bug where VOIP volume setting didn’t take effect after restarting the game
- Increased default VOIP volume

Spectator/Replay
- Toggle Replay UI now also toggles all character outlines
- Toggle Observer Mode input added that allows players to toggle always seeing enemy nametags/outlines through walls
- Fixed multiple bugs with toggling replay UI
- Fixed bug with duplicate projectiles spawning

Dear Splitgate community,

For those who don't know, Splitgate started off as just a couple of college students (1047 was the address of our dorm) with an idea to combine two of our favorite games, Halo and Portal. We've put our heart and soul (and personal savings) into Splitgate, and it has turned into something far beyond what we ever originally imagined. We are proud of what we have accomplished as a new game studio, and we have learned so much that we think will enable us to grow in the future and establish a healthy playerbase.

Our community is filled with very passionate and positive Splitgate supporters and for that we thank you all. We take every piece of feedback seriously, and we love reading your comments and ideas. The feedback from the Season 1 update has been very positive and retention has greatly improved. So now, we just need to build on that.

In addition to continuing to improve the PC version of Splitgate and developing for consoles with a target release of Q1 2020, one of our fall projects is to raise enough money to give Splitgate the marketing push it deserves and give the community the player base it deserves.

In the meantime, please keep playing and spreading the word. We aren't going away any time soon, and we hope you won't either.

Love,
1047 Games

We have spent the last 3 months working harder than ever to bring you this update. Without our awesome community and all of the feedback none of this would have been possible. You guys have pushed us to improve the game every day (we've added 50,000 lines of code since last update and a lot of new content), and we are so excited for you all to see what has changed.

• Splitgate - Arena Pass: We have added a new progression system in our Arena Pass. Progress through over 100 levels throughout Season 1 to earn some sweet, SWEET cosmetic gear!
  
• Races: We created Splitgate "Races," where you can compete against your friends and global leaderboards by speedrunning the maps in these timed trials.
  
• Daily and Weekly Challenges: Complete these daily and weekly challenges to gain XP towards your progression level and your Arena Pass level. Do you have what it takes to tackle these challenges every week?
  
• New Weapon: You can now use the BFB as a one-shot melee weapon in Splitgate! Run around the map with a GIANT BAT whacking enemies into a swift death.
  
• New Map: Abyss is now playable in Season 1! Abyss is an underground cave with a large open center. Since combatants fight underground, even the Rocket Launcher cannot be heard form the surface. Fight with caution. If you parish at Abyss, you may never be found.
  

• Overhauled Graphics: We improved the graphics in every area of the game, from inspecting your skins to playing on the new maps.
  
• Improved UI and custom crosshairs: We improved the look and feel of Splitgate. From the main menu to the in-game UI, Splitgate now looks better than ever! You can now have more control over your crosshairs by selecting the design and color from our templates.
  
• Performance Updates: Splitgate is now more optimized than ever. Hop into Splitgate for some smooth gameplay now for Season 1.
  

• We have revamped our matchmaking/ranking systems to veer from the 1-50 Ranking system of old. We have moved to an ELO-based system which will more accurately match players based on skill. This will allow both new users and dedicated users to have better games while playing Splitgate.
  

Find the full patch notes here: Season 1 Patch Notes

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Hope to see you in the Arena for the Season 1 updates!