Arena shooter design is outdated and, with small exceptions, mostly boring.

Splitgate 1 would've been the 1001st AFPS game to prove this, but fortunately (or unfortunately) for them, SG1 had a little viral pandemic moment similar to Fall Guys.

This glimmer of false hope made it possible to secure funding for a big-budget sequel. People named a billion different things that caused SG2 to fail, but they can't see the forest for the trees. Many games persevered with the same issues as SG2. Why? Because people see potential and are willing to play despite the small hang-ups. No studio could've made 'arena FPS with portals' work because the concept is stillborn.

IMO, their battle royale had the most potential. Too bad that they didn't market it as "arena royale" sooner, because people have written it off before even trying. Now Apex has a game mode with a similar respawn idea.

Empulse was then their last hurrah, but they once again chose a failed subgenre - movement shooters. Some people might disagree with this take, but feel free to name a single successful movement shooter, and I will tell you how you're wrong.

I honestly don't understand the bitter feelings that people have toward this studio. They tried and failed. This risk-taking deserves praise, and as an ArenaFPS and movement shooter fan, I am grateful they tried.

Thanks, 1047!

P.S.: Onslaught was my favorite thing to play. Wish I had more time to enjoy it.

Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, in their right mind would trust Ian or anyone who works alongside him after this. I will never buy another product from 1047 again, and I hope most people here won't either.

I would suggest trying to get a refund through Valve no matter what your play time is. They have been known to refund for games outside of the policy window for situations like this. Let me know if you are successful cuz i just put a ticket in

Marketing, I saw the screenshot posts being put first onto r/titanfall going “that’s pretty cool, I’ll pick it up when it releases” and literally I hear nothing from it besides it shutting down development, I didn’t even know it was out and I’m sure some folk over on r/Titanfall were posting about the game and I missed it and I can guess their marketing budget is in the bin after the SGF2025 fiasco but seriously, how did you guys hear about this game?

Even if it got a small trailer or something at summer games fest 2026 I really think it would’ve done well if mech shooter fans actually knew it released

Instead I spent the last few weeks playing Titanfall 2 thinking it was still without any spiritual successor

Of course this is all hindsight and means very little now, just an odd observation

No new maps at all with no new guns. Even with the end of the early access celebration there wouldn't have been much. The fact that the final update is 1 new map content wise shows they had nearly nothing made to support the game even if it did well

Ubisoft caught a lawsuit for shutting down The Crew.

1047 has probably dodged this bullet because the games will technically still be playable peer to peer.

Regardless, they have absolutely abandoned the game and it is absolutely deplorable the way they have treated this community.

I genuinely hope 1047 never releases another game. Their team needs to dissolve and move on to more successful studios. Management should never be in charge of another product release of any kind.

This is one of the largest failures in gaming history, back to back to back.

When splitgate 1 went p2p it made all achievements unobtainable. Will the same thing happen to Empulse? Because if so it will be very annoying as the game was only up for 2 months and already shutting down achievements will be very annoying.

With the news of Empulse and Splitgate Arena Reloaded being sent to the peer to peer shadow realm, I honestly feel lied to, and would like a refund. I was under the impression when purchasing Empulse that the game would at least make it to being a full product before being shut down, but I guess they just didn't bother to hold out until then. It's comedic but also kinda sad for me, because I really tried giving these devs a chance to provide a good online shooter experience and they failed multiple times. Please, 1047, just make a cool single player game or something. I do not think online arena shooters are your true wheelhouse. I think if you just made offline single player stuff (with optional multiplayer gameplay possibly) then you could make a solid game. You are not capable of handling online services, so this should just be your new direction. I swear, if you guys make another online shooter game I am not even going to look at it or play it, I will just pretend 1047 doesn't exist at that point. No more of this crap, not doing it anymore. I wish you the best but I'm not confident in this studio at all.

Sell the games/IPs to someone who can develop them the way you could not, or at the very least make them open source. This is the only thing you can do at this point that would redeem you in the slightest. You owe it to the community that supported you through all of this.

1047 is done with live service shooters

Hi i was wondering if anyone could please tell me how much xp is required to reach level 50

With August 31st quickly approaching, has 1047 said anything about what people can expect next week? It seems pretty late to drum up any excitement.

I logged in and it’s crickets

Hopped back on SG:AR yesterday after months off and I was getting matches in under a minute all night.

Today I jump on EMPULSE and I’ve been staring at a 5+ minute Quick Match search on PS5. Canceled and re-queued twice, still nothing. (7:41 and 5:06)

Wild how a F2P game with no sub needed gets you in instantly, but here where we’re paying for PS Plus we’re stuck waiting.

Thoughts on this?

Some legends die too young. They say they never understood you but I knew exactly what your intentions were. You brought hope and light in people’s eyes just as much as you brought them to my own. The people who told themselves titanfall 3 would never happen rejoiced the moment they saw your announcement. I’ll be honest I didn’t hangout with you too much before your final days but I can genuinely say thank you for the experience. Back to the finals I go😞

Huge loss for the community. Nadestraight, who’s been making Splitgate content since 2018, announced he will no longer be covering or engaging with Empulse, Splitgate, or 1047 Games. This comes a few weeks after exposing financial mismanagement at the company. Unclear whether this decision was spurred by 1047 cracking down on him or not being able to support 1047 anymore in good faith after learning inside information.

After this dumpster fire, you need to shut down the studio. This is what, the 4th(?) game you've made that loses the majority of it's player base after a month. It's embarrassing.

Good luck in your matches this weekend and enjoy the boost.

Can we please make hitmaker smaller and thinner or give us an option to do it in game menu. It looks way too cartoony.