Splitgate 2 Relaunches This Month as Splitgate: Arena Reloaded

Today, 1047 Games revealed that Splitgate 2 is relaunching arsenic Splitgate: Arena Reloaded connected December 17, 2025. It volition beryllium disposable arsenic a free-to-play crippled crossed PC, Xbox, and PlayStation.

This comes pursuing the motorboat and "unlaunch" of Splitgate 2 earlier this year. Splitgate 2 released successful June to middling reviews, controversy, and a accelerated drop-off of players arsenic disapproval of the crippled grew. In response, 1047 "unlaunched" Splitgate 2, announcing successful July it would temporarily upwind down enactment for it portion the squad worked connected a caller mentation of the crippled with "big, sweeping changes."

We spoke to CEO Ian Proulx astatine the time. During our conversation, helium explained that Splitgate 2 arsenic it was astatine motorboat was "not a finished merchandise yet," and that fans were clamoring for a crippled that was person to Splitgate 1. At the time, helium assured the squad would beryllium focused connected updating the crippled successful accordance with subordinate feedback, including adding "basic features" similar a leaderboard and amended progression, much portal walls, and adjustments to crippled modes.

Proulx besides said helium wanted to marque the play walk and monetization successful wide little confusing portion keeping the crippled free-to-play. At the time, Proulx projected the update would instrumentality spot successful aboriginal 2026, truthful this December merchandise is sooner than expected.

So what, then, is Splitgate: Arena Reloaded? According to a property release, it "reimagines everything from halfway combat to UI." Here's an overview provided by 1047 of the large updates:

• Removed Factions, Abilities, and prime instrumentality to refocus connected classical arena combat
• Rebuilt progression from the crushed up and overhauled the Ranked system
• Introduced 5 new, and 6 fully-reworked maps, 3 caller Primary Weapons and 1 caller Power Weapon: the Railgun
• New Arena modes, playlist selection, and a existent Classic Arena mode with adjacent starts and powerups
• Reduced store prices, simplified the Battle Pass, and improved wide cosmetic quality

An accompanying video featuring erstwhile Rocket League crippled manager and existent 1047 plan manager Josh Watson besides notes that Arena Reloaded includes the summation of subordinate stats, leaderboards, and a vocation system.

We initially gave Splitgate 2 astatine motorboat a 7/10, calling it "a decent successor to the archetypal that expands connected it, but ne'er truly surpasses it."

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