Developer and writer 1047 Video games has introduced that peer-to-peer help is coming to Splitgate, permitting you to proceed enjoying the sport on-line even after the central servers are shut down.
Again in July, 1047 introduced that so as to give attention to rebuilding Splitgate 2 (which is returning to beta following detrimental suggestions for its preliminary launch), servers for the unique Splitgate shall be closed down, however on the time, the devs mentioned they’d contemplate both offline play or peer-to-peer help.
Now, in a information publish on the official Splitgate web site, 1047 confirms that the route it is chosen to go down is peer-to-peer play, which implies you may nonetheless be capable of play with others on-line, though you may accomplish that through direct connection and never by means of a central server.
In addition to introducing peer-to-peer play, 1047 says it is made “beforehand unreleased, stockpiled, or work-in-progress” content material for Splitgate playable, together with 14 new maps so that you can gallivant round.
In essence, peer-to-peer play signifies that sure gamers will act as hosts, so the soundness of the sport will rely upon how robust their connection is. You can view in-progress Splitgate video games from the server browser.
You may even be granted all in-game cosmetics to get pleasure from, and your whole earlier development will stay intact as properly, so all the things you’ve got unlocked over the course of your time with Splitgate will nonetheless be accessible.
PC and console play will nonetheless be supported, as will cross-play, so you’ll play Splitgate alongside gamers on different platforms. Anticheat, nonetheless, is not going to be enabled, so there’s an opportunity you could come throughout extra nefarious conduct than earlier than.
You’ll be able to learn the total FAQ for a way peer-to-peer play will work in Splitgate through the announcement publish, and you may test the sport out proper now on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox.