Portal-style shooter Splitgate will remain in beta for now due to popularity

The shooter Splitgate remains in beta for now. The developers say the server capacity needs to be increased as the game is proving to be more popular than expected. The makers do not dare to say how long the beta period will last.

Splitgate gained so many new players in recent weeks that the company is struggling to maintain server capacity. The sci-fi first-person shooter that resembles Portal was initially supposed to leave the beta period at the end of July, but that has been postponed “to the foreseeable future.” In the meantime, the company wants to try scale up capacity for the high number of players added in recent weeks, CEO of developer 1047 Games Ian Proulx says in a press release, where PC gamer writes about.

The shooter is playable for console and PC gamers, and supports crossplay. In the first thirty days after the game became available as an open beta, the game was downloaded more than ten million times. In recent weeks, the number of simultaneous active players is said to have increased from 4,000 to 175,000.

Poulx says the company not only wants to increase server capacity, but also needs to scale up the game’s back-end. For example, the game itself must continue to run stably and ultimately the waiting time for online players must decrease. “We want to be prepared for huge growth when we officially launch, while providing the beta with updates, additional features and new server capacity.

The Beta Battle Pass ends on August 24, the developers say. The company wants to reveal more information about the future of the game during gamescom.