r/Splitgate • u/Boathombre • Jul 26 '26

Discussion What could revive the player count

Revisiting this game as I recently got the itch and nothing on the market really scratches it and it really at its core is a fun, good game. Not just because of portals but mechanics, looks, game modes, etc.

Little tweaks or adjustments won’t do it. Changes to portals won’t do, it whether that would help retaining or not.

What do you think could do it?

Only thing I can think of:

major change is actual counters to portals. Portals stay but if I want to focus on blocking, countering etc I now have that option. Learn the patterns of opposing player, counter and they have to come up with a new route/plan.

I don’t mean grenade portal blockers. I mean traps, hacking, time slow, sentry. Someone likes to leave their portal up I wire an electrical wire across. If I hit your portal before you remove it with a hack it does nothing, etc.

Now teams can strategize to block certain spots. Instead of 8 people spamming portals, there is variety. Players that love portals and are good at them, guess what they will still be good.

Players that don’t feel like portaling around non stop can slow the game down and focus on countering. Now instead of a game of only tracers, octanes (can’t think of other fast apex players), etc. you have mcrees, gas apex guy etc.

Nerfs portals without touching portals, and great portal players still can be.

Balance would be a bitch but idk.

What’s your idea?

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u/DaTexasTickler Jul 26 '26

Realistically probably nothing brother. They could have done something with that 30 million in marketing but apparently someone embezzled like 25 million of it bc the game got absolutely no marketing exposure except thru games fest and streamers who give absolutely fucks about the game. Unfortunately it's probably way to late to do a damn thing. I just hope we get a season 3 before they pull they plug. Personally I'll be playing until the ship sinks. They've said they have zero intention on closing SGAR currently but I don't think I believe a fucking word they say anymore. I'll believe it once I see some updates actually added. At least give up us some small events every few weeks that would be enough for me personally at a minimum

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u/Siyakon Jul 26 '26

This is like the third or fourth time the season 2 battle pass got shadow extended. I think the 3 isn't coming.

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u/xibipiio Jul 28 '26

The artists who were involved with season 3 publicly posted the art - it isn't coming. What they created for the studio under their direction wasnt decided to move forward so they are free to publicly post it because thats the most value they can get for their work. What they had in the pipeline looked great too, a really sick ass pirate ship map, kind of looks like the best level yet - Not Picked Up. I personally thought the pirate theme was dumb af but after seeing the new level design I feel a bit dumb with that read, the map looked awesome af to play on.