1047 Games released Update 2.2 for Splitgate 2, introducing a new 24-player Arena Royale mode alongside multiple weapon timing changes, two new Arena maps, Map Creator fixes, and a host of performance and bug fixes. Arena Royale mixes arena combat and battle royale rules. Matches support respawns but a team is eliminated if every member dies at once. Respawn timers shift based on combat: kills shorten timers and deaths lengthen them, and timers also grow as a match progresses. Each match lets players vote for one of four biomes to play in: Outskirts, Glacier, Drought, or Fracture.
The mode adds proximity chat, upgrades that can be purchased from inventory using credits, and recurring arena events. Each round spawns one of three events (Firecracker, Hotzone, Splitball), winning an event grants a large credit payout to the whole team. Several mechanics from the original battle royale return with changes, including revived players spawning with their selected loadout, team-wide credit gains from kills, automatic opening of chests and airdrops, persistent armor and portal gun upgrades, staged circle closure, and disabled respawn timers in the final match moments while teammates can still be revived if opportunity arises.
Weapon balance in 2.2 alters timing and damage across many guns. Multiple burst pistols, burst rifles, carbines, and LMGs receive faster shot or burst timing. Several burst pistols and rifles were slowed, one carbine had its rate reduced, and a pair of SMGs saw damage or firing-rate reductions. Maps and biomes were expanded. Two new Arena maps were added: Trihard and Runway. Runway will join playlists starting on January 29th. The Outskirts biome was added to Arena Royale, and Inferno, Sanctum, Glacier, Outskirts, Drought, and Fracture are now available for play in onslaught custom games.
Map Creator received fixes and extra customization for item pads, including an Xbox texture corruption fix and a sun position save fix. Performance work covers general improvements, changes to indirect shadow rendering for small objects, more streaming room for virtual textures on low/medium settings, and numerous skin fixes that were harming performance. Arena Royale specifically gets large framerate and streaming improvements by loading only one biome per match and using optimized geometry for biomes.
General fixes address voice chat visibility and hearing issues, progression UI showing unlocked items as locked, incorrect first-person visuals appearing in third-person, and awarding of the Banana Split medal on portal kills.
PATCH NOTES
The notes below reproduce the official Update 2.2 changelog.
- Weapon Balance
- Buffs
- Burst Pistols
- Snare: Time between bursts decreased from 0.31 to 0.30
- Burst Rifles
- Jackhammer: Time between bursts decreased from 0.31 to 0.30
- Carbines
- Cadence: Time between shots decreased from 0.35 to 0.33
- LMGs
- Velocity: Time between shots decreased from 0.086 to 0.083
- Strata: Time between bursts decreased from 0.15 to 0.14
- Barrage: Time between shots decreased from 0.183 to 0.180
- Burst Pistols
- Nerfs
- Burst Pistols
- Juke: Time between bursts increased from 0.36 to 0.39
- Tetra: Time between bursts increased from 0.38 to 0.39
- Burst Rifles
- Pulse: Time between bursts increased from 0.36 to 0.39
- Quantum: Time between bursts increased from 0.38 to 0.39
- Carbines
- Hyperline: Time between shots increased from 0.235 to 0.24
- SMGs
- Sprinter: Base Damage decreased from 8.8 to 8.6
- Sprinter: Headshot Damage decreased from 10.4 to 10.0
- Phasma: Time between shots increased from 0.080 to 0.083
- Burst Pistols
- Buffs
- Game Modes
- Bot Arena playlists no longer counts towards weapon mastery progression
- Added “Arena Royale” – a new 24-player gamemode that is a hybrid between an arena mode and a battle royale
- Be the last team standing – respawns are enabled, but your team is knocked out if everyone is killed at once
- Kills reduce respawn timers, deaths increase them
- Timers also increase the longer the match lasts
- Vote for one of 4 biomes to play in each match: Outskirts, Glacier, Drought, Fracture
- Proximity chat
- Teammates can hear you from any distance, enemies can hear you (without any directionality or distance indication) when nearby
- Upgrades
- Weapons, equipment, armor, and the portal gun can now be upgraded on the fly from your inventory when you have enough credits
- Arena events
- Every round, one of three possible arena events spawn (Firecracker, Hotzone, Splitball)
- Win the event to earn a large amount of credits for your entire team
- Updates from our original battle royale
- Being revived after your death box has been looted now spawns you with your selected loadout instead of just your fists.
- All players on your team now earn credits when you kill someone, meaning every kill helps your whole team progress rather than just you.
- Chests, airdrops, and enemy death boxes now open automatically, and most items (aside from weapons and equipment) will now be picked up automatically.
- Armor and portal gun upgrades no longer drop when you die – once you upgrade, there’s no fear you’ll go back down a level.
- The circle now closes in stages and can even “move” in the last round before closing entirely.
- New respawn timers become disabled in the final moments of a match
- Teammates can still be revived if you find an opportunity.
- Be the last team standing – respawns are enabled, but your team is knocked out if everyone is killed at once
- Added “Teabag Confirmed”
- Teabag enemies to score points, teabag allies to deny the enemy team points.
- Teabag Takeover Event will be launching on January 23rd.
- One in the Chamber
- Added non-event variants that use the Goliath Heavy Pistol
- Changed from 4v4 to FFA
- Maps
- Added “Trihard” Arena map
- Added “Runway” Arena map
- Will come to playlists starting on January 29th
- Added “Outskirts” Arena Royale biome
- Inferno, Sanctum, Glacier, Outskirts, Drought, and Fracture have been made available for play in onslaught custom games
- Map Creator
- Fixed texture corruption/z-fighting issue on Xbox
- Fixed issue where sun position wasn’t getting saved between sessions
- Item pads now offer more customization options
- Performance
- General performance improvements across the board
- Indirect shadows no longer render when objects are too small on the screen, boosting performance without sacrificing quality
- Virtual textures (largely comprising landscapes and lightmaps) now have more room to stream on low/medium settings
- Numerous bug fixes to character and weapon skins that were hurting performance when you couldn’t even see them
- Arena Royale
- Massive performance improvements over the original Battle Royale
- Biomes are now loaded in their entirety as only one is needed per match, reducing hitches caused by having to stream the world as you move through it.
- Biomes now use a much more optimized representation for geometry which improves loading time, memory usage, and overall framerate.
- Biome art has been given a once-over across all biomes to improve framerates and memory usage
- General
- Fixed issue where players would sometimes not be visible in voice chat despite hearing their audio
- Fixed issue where players sometimes couldn’t be heard in voice chat or seen in text chat
- Fixed issue where some frontend progression tracks would have unlocked items shown as locked
- Fixed some cases where first-person visuals for some cosmetics would appear in third-person
- Fixed Banana Split (portal kill) medal not being awarded if you died
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Splitgate: Arena Reloaded
Developed by 1047 Games
Portal into the action as an elite Ace in Splitgate 2, the only free-to-play shooter where you can teleport across the map to outsmart your opponents. Team up, customize weapons, and master portaling skills as you compete for glory in epic showdowns.
- Genre: Shooter
- Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One
- Modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative
- Release: 2025-06-06
- Publisher: 1047 Games
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Age Rating:
ESRB T / ACB M
- IGDB Rating: 80.0/100
