Vehicle Concept Designer -LambertPRO
Within the engineered spectacle of Splitgate 2, an arena where dimension-bending combat and kinetic traversal define the battlefield, the presence of the Altes Hovercar marks a deviation from the ordinary. Designed by Rene Mitchell, working under the conceptual design identity LambertPRO, the Altes is not merely an environmental element or ornamental shell—it is a materialized thesis of precision, authority, and speculative transportation. It is a digital artifact of contemporary vehicular imagination.
Appearing in both the cinematic trailer and across multiple gameplay maps, the Altes stands not as a utility transport but as an intentional fixture in Splitgate 2’s visual and architectural universe. Marketed and positioned as a Luxury Unlocked model, it represents upper-echelon vehicle design translated into the aesthetic logic of a near-future combat platform. Every panel, every thruster, every contour affirms its role as a storytelling object—form meeting environment, motion meeting fiction.
Design Conception
The Altes began not with performance specs or functional utility, but with silhouette. The original design sketches explored a hybrid between sports-class contouring and military-grade hovering infrastructure. The silhouette was drawn low, wide, and grounded—suggesting speed without requiring motion, and control without ornamentation.
The decision to build the design around a hover-based propulsion system rather than wheels or treads freed Mitchell to remove ground-based constraints, allowing more expressive articulation of surfaces and volumes. The end result is a body suspended on directed-energy thruster fields—hover pads affixed under the load-bearing frame, drawing on gravitational control logic found in speculative aircraft engineering.
The vehicle is bookended by a curved armored canopy, a tri-thruster rear assembly, and a set of forward aerodynamic stabilizers mounted low for proportional symmetry. While the Altes never lifts into full flight, its posture and detailing suggest capability far beyond its game-assigned functionality.
Visual Language and Geometry
The Altes is drawn with controlled aggression. The design favors horizontal lines, long surface tapers, and hard-edged panel junctions. Its geometry resists curvature in favor of planar breaks and sharp material transitions. Rather than flowing, it asserts. Rather than gliding, it projects forward.
The vehicle’s nose features downturned ventral plating, punctuated by two discrete frontal intakes. These are suggestive of cooling ducts or inertial dampener inlets, though their in-game function is visual only.
The cabin canopy is composed of a single molded glass-fiber composite, finished in anti-reflective vapor coating. The glass subtly shifts in hue with surrounding light sources, providing environmental responsiveness for cinematic rendering. The design implies a sealed interior environment with full AI-assisted navigation and haptic control systems.
Every element of the geometry speaks to a fictional but cohesive engineering logic. Mitchell’s experience with spatial visualization tools and procedural modeling is evident in the junction detailing, especially where panel seam meets surface depth—each transition implying manufacturing intent, not digital convenience.
Material Application and Surface Character
Digital materials in the Altes design go beyond shader assignment. They were layered, hand-mapped, and procedurally weathered to suggest age, weight, and interaction. The goal, according to LambertPRO internal documentation, was to create a hovercar that felt driven, not just spawned.
Core materials include:
- Satin-finish polyalloy composite for the outer frame and stabilizers
- Cerametalic reflect panels on underside hover plates
- Directional carbon skin along the side flanks
- Cold-rolled graphene shield glass for the cockpit dome
Each texture includes evidence of contact: faint carbon scoring along the undercarriage, rotational micro-abrasion near thruster housings, chipped matte around loading bay magnets. These details were embedded directly into the base mesh, not simply painted on during post-processing.
In particular, the stabilizer fins—rendered with subtle reverse-curve chamfers—include thermal bloom along their lower edges, implying extended periods of stationary hover in heat-intensive zones. This detail, although minor, adds mechanical credibility to the fiction, granting the Altes a life independent of its screen time.
Hover System and Structural Framework
The hovering capability of the Altes is dictated by a set of four electromagnetically stabilized thruster pads, arranged in a quadrilateral footprint to provide multidirectional balance. These pads do not animate individually in-game, but are fully rigged to respond to lighting and terrain elevation, enhancing environmental realism.
The thrusters emit a low-light displacement aura when active—blue-white glow fields generated using a volumetric shader with distortion layers to simulate heat drift and ambient light bleed.
Beneath the primary frame lies a latticework substructure, fabricated in virtual modeling with stressed polygonal compression zones to imply vehicle weight distribution. The strut layout beneath the belly is visible only in cinematic renders, but informs the design’s sense of mass and load-bearing plausibility.
The front canards operate as dynamic stabilizers, offering visual balance and suggesting directional pitch control. Though their movement is not animated in-game, Mitchell’s blueprint includes actuator nodes that could feasibly allow for small deflections during high-speed hover transitions. The geometry of these forward fins is tight and planar, contrasting the more open bodywork of the aft section.
Cockpit Configuration
Though never entered by the player, the cockpit was fully modeled to maintain consistency in reflective surfaces and cinematic framing. The interior space is minimal but technically rich. Its orientation mirrors the design logic of a single-seat fighter aircraft, complete with:
- Center-line control yoke with holographic interface arc
- Shoulder-height interface nodes lining the pilot’s flanks
- Aft display panel composed of real-time telemetry projections
- Reactive seat gel harness suspended on tensioned dampeners
All UI components are integrated into the cockpit environment—no traditional screen clusters or analog readouts. This reinforces the split-universe digital aesthetics of Splitgate 2, where interaction is as much gesture-based as it is hardware-driven.
Light within the cockpit is ambient-responsive. Scenes showing the Altes in dim environments show only dim glow traces from seat seams and console outlines. In brighter environments, reflections on the interior glass shift dynamically based on angle, maintaining physical fidelity.
Map Integration and Cinematic Function
The Altes makes repeat visual appearances in several of Splitgate 2’s key multiplayer maps. Most notably, the hovercar appears in:
- Orbital Drift – Stationed on a raised loading platform, bathed in green industrial light
- Sanctum Delta – Docked beside a war-briefing structure in a broken transport bay
- Midnight Ascent – Hovering idly near a communications tower, partially obscured by smoke and fire trails
These placements are not interactive but environmentally framed, allowing players to see the vehicle from varied elevations and angles. The inclusion of volumetric fog, directional lighting, and motion blur further increases the cinematic presence of the vehicle.
In the cinematic trailer for Splitgate 2, the Altes is granted a three-second hero shot: it descends from a carrier pad with thrusters firing, canopy sealed, and particle trails dancing across its magnetic lift field. This visual centers the Altes as a luxury-class drop vehicle—delivered, not summoned—designed for individuals or factions with resources, purpose, and political weight.
Design Intent and Philosophical Framing
Rene Mitchell’s approach through LambertPRO prioritizes the readable future—designs that imply functionality without requiring complete understanding. The Altes Hovercar is a manifestation of that philosophy: a recognizable vehicle platform extrapolated into an unfamiliar mode of movement and interaction.
Rather than exaggerating its fictionality, Mitchell grounds the vehicle in design principles that recall real-world high-performance craft: fighter jets, electric concept cars, and low-orbit landing vessels. This results in a design that is immersive because it feels tactile, not because it is flamboyant.
The title “Luxury Unlocked” is not simply a marketing tag—it refers to the notion of high-performance exclusivity. In Splitgate’s lore, the Altes is not a battlefield vehicle but a privately-owned, limited-distribution model afforded to off-world mercenaries and interdimensional tacticians. Its appearances are signals—moments of wealth, strategy, or deployment hierarchy.
Impression
The Altes Hovercar, as envisioned and executed by Rene Mitchell of LambertPRO, stands as a benchmark for in-world vehicle design in contemporary video game environments. From its hover system and canard stabilization to its cockpit articulation and cinematic framing, every element has been constructed with intent and continuity.
Its presence across Splitgate 2—both in trailers and maps—establishes it not only as a functional environmental object but as a character in itself: silent, commanding, and distinct. In the increasingly saturated field of sci-fi vehicle design, the Altes does not compete by shouting louder. It resonates by staying complete, credible, and visually sovereign.
It is, in every sense, a Luxury Unlocked.
