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Splitgate: An Interesting Take on the FPS Gaming Genre

This can be an entertaining game to play if you’re bored of generic First Person Shooter games.

Aiden (Owner of Illumination Gaming)
ILLUMINATION
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5 min readJul 25, 2022

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Purpose of the Story

In this article, my goal is to briefly introduce Splitgate to new players based on my experience.

What is Splitgate?

Splitgate is a fairly new FPS (First Person Shooter) game developed by 1047 games. It was initially released in 2019 as an early access game. But it blew up on social media platforms such as TikTok in mid-2021.

The game was still in its early access phase at the time. Therefore the developers didn’t need to allocate too many servers for it since they assumed the player base wouldn’t be so extensive.

Little did they know that the servers quickly became overloaded overnight due to so many people sharing the game on social media platforms.

They had no choice but to implement a queue system so that the servers wouldn’t overload and crash until they could expand their capacity.

Eventually, though, they caught up to the demand and currently no longer require a queue system. Now you might be asking what makes Splitgate different…

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Aiden (Owner of Illumination Gaming)
ILLUMINATION

Specialise in Media, Design, Filmmaking, Gaming. I support Illumination as an editor and YouTube coordinator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9DhuGQYbpI&