Current Events > Splitgate is the best new shooter in years.

(+) Yeah! (+)

simple yet complex. anyone else playing this? it's free.

discuss

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I thought about trying it

Is it on PC only?

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Played a few rounds

It was nice
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No one uses portals though. There was a clip of a dev playing and doing insane shit with the portals to go all over the map but youd need to memorize the maps to do tjat shit.

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it's okay

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Chicken posted...

No one uses portals though. There was a clip of a dev playing and doing insane shit with the portals to go all over the map but youd need to memorize the maps to do tjat shit.

No you don't. I started using them on day 2 its really simple and honestly boring if you dont use portals.

simplest method is setting up a far portal when you see a guy across the map and shoot him from behind.

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and dont you memorize maps in every shooter?

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My kids are addicted to this game. Definitely has the whole Halo vibe down.

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it's super addictive reminds me of the older shooters where you keep rematching

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@yemmy get on it

I searched the topic on CE because I'm enjoying it


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Oddball is hilarious with portals

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What keys do you have portals on? I still find it awkward

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it's complete trash, but my friends like it.

It has the same problems as older shooters (what it copies) that have been largely replaced by battle royales, and tactical shooters like CS GO and valorant.

It's problem? Camping. Pure camping. And you SHOULD camp. and are incentivized to do so.

This is caused by a couple things.

One, the absolutely ridiculous radar that shows anyone moving. This makes it impossible to flank anyone.

Two, moving inherently is a large risk compared to not moving. See WW1. There is no reason to move in Splitgate.

Three: The high TTK makes it about who sees the other player first wins. This makes camping even worse.

Four: Portals. This is unique to splitgate, and actually hilarious because you'd think portals would reduce camping due to increased mobility (and you can get a couple cool flanks) but the probelm is that portals just give campers a premade escape tool that they know the location of and their attacker does not. This makes a flanker have to find an enemy player twice (or kill themselves by following through a portal)

Overall, it just plays like old school COD with portals for camping in two places at once. Arena shooters are much better when you are using alien weapons with weird travel times and you can literally dodge bullets. See unreal tournament or even old school doom.

Winrawr posted...

it's complete trash, but my friends like it.

It has the same problems as older shooters (what it copies) that have been largely replaced by battle royales, and tactical shooters like CS GO and valorant.

It's problem? Camping. Pure camping. And you SHOULD camp. and are incentivized to do so.

This is caused by a couple things.

One, the absolutely ridiculous radar that shows anyone moving. This makes it impossible to flank anyone.

Two, moving inherently is a large risk compared to not moving. See WW1. There is no reason to move in Splitgate.

Three: The high TTK makes it about who sees the other player first wins. This makes camping even worse.

Four: Portals. This is unique to splitgate, and actually hilarious because you'd think portals would reduce camping due to increased mobility (and you can get a couple cool flanks) but the probelm is that portals just give campers a premade escape tool that they know the location of and their attacker does not. This makes a flanker have to find an enemy player twice (or kill themselves by following through a portal)

Overall, it just plays like old school COD with portals for camping in two places at once. Arena shooters are much better when you are using alien weapons with weird travel times and you can literally dodge bullets. See unreal tournament or even old school doom.

private match me

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refmon posted...

What keys do you have portals on? I still find it awkward

Default works for me

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Chicken posted...

No one uses portals though. There was a clip of a dev playing and doing insane shit with the portals to go all over the map but youd need to memorize the maps to do tjat shit.

I completely break the map with portals and I'm a n00b

Just shoot one in the distance, the other close to spawn, and pick a few ppl off

If nobody uses it, their loss. Can also run away that way

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notice he ran away after i said that

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TroutPaste posted...

I completely break the map with portals and I'm a n00b

Just shoot one in the distance, the other close to spawn, and pick a few ppl off

If nobody uses it, their loss. Can also run away that way

this not using portals basically means your playing timsplittersa

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I'm having a ton of fun with it. I agree that it's one of the best shooters in years. Dunno the last time I've had this much fun with an FPS tbh.

Gotta say though, I always forget which key is which portal so I'm often fucking that up lol
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it reminds me of the older FPSes. it's simple as hell, but the portals give it a truckload of replayability and breed creativity. also will help weed out noobs as people get more technical with them.

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Smashingpmkns posted...

Gotta say though, I always forget which key is which portal so I'm often fucking that up lol

I do too the fact that there's no cooldown just means I'm constantly using them on different spots and scouting. you can basically keep watch over the whole map from a fixed point lol

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bump

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GregShmedley posted...

Are you looking for someone to play with?

pause

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Friend code?
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I love it, but like every other online shooter there are still issues I have with it.

1 - The rounds end so fast there is no point in typing when the game ends.
2 - Sometimes when your trying to report someone their name just doesn't show up. It's like you haven't played a single game with them, despite just playing with them.
3 - No Team Death Match 4v4. They keep making a note of "we have TDM in 4v4 ranked, but I've played maybe 50 games of it and have never seen it in the rotation once.
4 - The replay system is very off. It will replay someone killing me maybe once every 7 or 8 kills.
5 - Some of the guns need animation tuning. Either the reload goes on for far longer than it should, or I can't scope.

Other than that I have a blast playing Big Head Sniper.

I like it a lot, thanks for the rec TC.

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@Ivany2008 I play team deathmatch 4v4 all the time. and yeah the replay system is bugged

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Trickfinger posted...

@Ivany2008 I play team deathmatch 4v4 all the time. and yeah the replay system is bugged

rated or unrated? I know its in the unrated grouping, haven't found it in the rated yet.

ah yeah I play unranked

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I mapped the portal buttons to the extra buttons on my mouse and it's a game changer.
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Smashingpmkns posted...

I mapped the portal buttons to the extra buttons on my mouse and it's a game changer.

ew, your a Keyboarder?

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I dont have the DONGle I need to connect my Elite controller (otherwise I'd use that) and k&m is way better than the DS5
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