Honestly an absolutely awesome game, was cool to see it update through alpha and stuff.
Just give it some time though. It's definitely not 100% polished, but you have to note that we're still in Beta. Wait until the full release before dropping your negative reviews over lack of content.
Let's just keep this one more alive than the first one long enough to get out of Beta please.

Edit: server issues are not a reason to rate a game negative when it's launch day of the literal open beta lol.

fun but guys chill the game JUST DROPPED. you dont need to negative review it that fast

(I should have elaborated before, I more of meant don't go and call the game ass, do give feedback. I'm just saying cause I saw a few reviews calling the game overall trash, sorry for misunderstandings that may have happened due to lack of explanation. I am apologizing.)

**Not going to factor in the server issues for this review**

In Splitgate 1 the entire game was centered around the portals. There were portal surfaces EVERYWHERE and you could control which color portal you placed and which color portal you wanted to shut behind you. You can go in the settings and change back to the SG1's portal controls but most people will never do that. In this game they've dumbed down the portal system and dialed back on the amount of portal surfaces in the maps. I admit that people got really really good at SG1's portals and it was hard for new players to come in and learn from the ground level. But now in SG2 there are some rounds I just entirely forget that I have portals because the use cases are much more niche now. On top of that if you're at all decent at FPS games it's generally a better idea to just try and out-aim your opponent. The TTK in this title seems to have been reduced a bit since SG1, giving you less room to try and set up a quick portal to turn the tables. The first few matches people were using tons of portals, but the more I play the less I see them being used.

In Splitgate 1 I was constantly using the portals to traverse the map and get up and down between levels. Typing that out also reminded me that the maps back then were a lot more vertical in general, with more opportunities to do crazy stuff like portal jumps and ceiling portals. Most of the times in SG2 when I use portals it's just to save myself a few seconds of sprinting to the objective. It's also way easier to punish people for using portals with the way grenades work in SG2. It genuinely feels like we're being actively discouraged from using the core mechanic of the game. I hope future maps incorporate more surfaces for portals and more genuinely useful portal routes.

I hate to rag on an "open-beta" but you can already buy hundreds of dollars of crap in the shop. I've learned the hard way to not buy this junk since I know that all these live-service games have an expiration date and all my purchases will one day be deleted. They've completely massacred any real sense of cosmetic progression unless you pony up for the pass and generally just missed the mark on customization. In SG1 you could get individual armor parts from different sets and make a whole completely new and fresh design by mixing and matching pieces. Granted this was also mostly stuff you had to buy or find in crates, but now in SG2 you just get a full body skin with no room for personalizing, F2P players also get basically nothing in this new pass, I think we get one emote and a handful of purple coins, There is basically no cosmetic progression whatsoever if you are a F2P player, if there is I haven't found it yet.

I also kind of don't like the signature skills each class gets. Some skills are just flat out better than others and it doesn't feel fair. The shield wall is a literal gamechanger, meanwhile the time slowing dome does next to nothing lol. Also skins are tied to the three factions, if you buy a skin for Sabrask and you want to use that skin, you have to pick Sabrask, which means if someone else on your team doesn't want to play the other factions you guys will be missing out on team synergy perks.

Overall the game feels like a sanitized version of SG1 that is trying to reduce its skill ceiling to appeal to a wider audience. It adds some hero shooter mechanics and has a lot of the monetization systems that we have all come to universally hate. Instead of innovating on the things that made SG1 unique, it is trying to be more like other popular games. The game is fun for a while, but it doesn't have it's hooks in me like the first game did.