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. Microsoft Windows. December 12, 2018. PlayStation 4, Xbox One. August 25, 2020Mode(s)Insurgency: Sandstorm is a developed by and published. Temple run 2 game play. It was officially announced in February 2016, for,.

The game is a sequel to the 2014 video game. It was released on 12 December 2018 for Windows, with a delayed release for console, macOS and Linux builds of the game. However, in December 2019, it was announced that the Linux and macOS builds were cancelled.

The game received critical acclaim for its realistic gameplay, level design, sound design, atmosphere, graphics and fluid animations, but was criticized for its technical issues and optimization. Contents.Gameplay Similar to, Sandstorm features a minimal, lacking a health bar, ammunition count,. The Insurgency series has 'slow' and realistic gameplay, with moments of intensity.

Weapons are accurate and extremely deadly, putting an emphasis on teamwork. Improvements from Insurgency include the addition of a player progression system, character customization, and cosmetic unlocks, as well as larger maps and driveable vehicles.Lead designer Michael Tsarouhas aimed to 'find a balance' between games, such as, and such as, to provide both action and realism.At the beginning of a match, players can choose classes. Players have supply points to spend on weapons & modifications, impacting physical weight & speed. Players are separated into two teams: 'Security', based loosely on United States and, including, and 'Insurgents', based loosely on, though both factions are fictionalized. Game modes There are a total of six online game modes and one co-op game mode.Online Game Modes. Push: The attacking team must capture three or four territorial objectives in sequential order. For every objective captured, more reinforcements are made available and more time is given to capture the next objective.

The defenders must protect the objectives from the attackers. If the attackers are able to capture all three or four objectives, they must find and destroy the cache. At this point, the defenders only have one life to fend off the attackers. The game ends when either team runs out of reinforcements and players or time. Firefight: Both teams must battle each other to capture all three territorial objectives. Each player only has one life and can only respawn after their team has captured an objective. A team wins when either the entire other team is eliminated, or all three objectives are captured.

Frontline: Described as a 'two-way push mode', the teams have to capture objectives one by one and then destroy the enemy cache. Each team has to capture the enemy objective, while also defending their own.

Every time an objective is captured, the capturing team will gain reinforcements waves and will respawn their team. This game mode was added in the 1.4 update.

Domination: Similarly to Firefight, there are three objectives which can be captured at all times. However, teams receive victory points for each objective held, and the team which reaches the point threshold wins. On death the players respawn immediately on a random location on the map. This game mode was added in the 1.5 update. Competitive: Firefight in a 5v5 ranked queue, with higher equipment costs and different class structure.

Limited time playlist - Added in update 1.4 and intended as an iteration of the Arcade Mode. This playlist features a different game mode every week. The game mode is usually an already existing one, however modifications are added such as 'bolt-action rifles only' or 'drop a live grenade on death'.Cooperative Game Modes. Checkpoint: Players are grouped into one team and must complete mission-based objectives against AI.

Every completed objective will grant fallen players another life.Removed Game Modes. Skirmish: Like Firefight, there are three territorial objectives that both teams have to capture. Each team also has a cache to protect. If the caches of both teams are destroyed, the game will be played like Firefight. To win, the cache must be destroyed and all three objectives captured. As of patch 1.4.1 this game mode has been removed. The developers claim the Skirmish playlist hasn't been very popular with the player base, and removing it would decrease queue times, and would allow the developers to focus on maintaining the more popular game modes.

Arcade: Arcade includes casual modes that are rotated out with updates, such as Team Deathmatch. This mode was replaced with 'Limited Time Playlists' in update 1.4.Reception Insurgency: Sandstorm received acclaim from critics for its realistic gameplay and atmospheric sound design.

Rated Sandstorm as 'one of the best multiplayer games of the year', giving repeated praise to the voice acting: 'I’ll never forget the screaming.' Sandstorm received an 88/100 from, writing 'it nails the balance between realism and fun', though it criticized unclear map boundaries. Rated the game 85/100, calling it 'terrifying'.Sandstorm's optimization received some criticism, with Worth Playing writing 'In the heat of an intense battle, your processor will also put out some heat.' A more critical review came from, who felt the game was 'behind the times in both theme and looks' with 'nameless locations with nameless conflicts', lamenting the removal of the planned story campaign, which would have featured 'two Iraqi women crossing a war-torn land' - 'It’s a shame to miss out on a potentially refreshing perspective.' Insurgency: Sandstorm received 'generally favorable' reviews according to review aggregator. ReceptionAggregate scoreAggregatorScore(PC) 78/100Review scoresPublicationScore7.75/108.8/1085/100References.

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You have-Terrible and inconsistent AI that can switch from dumbasses that can't shoot a barn to terminators with aimbot noscoping you behind a wall with a pistol a mile away making the coop mode really just dice rolling for a bad opponent-Performance issues even on high end machines that gives you inconsistent framerates even if you turn down the settings. I even remember when I turned down the settings to the lowest and it actually reduced my overall framerate.-Terrible gun play. Whoever thought of the idea of the hipfire mechanic needs to revert that change and actually fire a real gun. I can snap on to my targets faster than my ingame dude does because I have to fiddle with the wonky hipfire mechanic that forces you to ADS everytime you see an enemy. Thats not how real life CQC works, and this promotes unhealthy gameplay where you want to camp corners and relying on grenades or your commander to open up a defense. And using grenades is slow as ♥♥♥♥ and clucky cause your dude takes 10 seconds to take a grenade out of a pocket and throw it.

And don't even get me started on MGs being useless on foot so it promotes even more campy gameplay.-Heavy armor is ♥♥♥♥ing useless, you run like a turtle, for the ability to survive 1 extra ♥♥♥♥ing shot from a 5.56mm round. Everyone is wearing light armor and they can die from 1 shot, which just reinforces unhealthy gameplay where no one wants to run out because they get killed instantly.- the tons of bugs in the game, weapons and magazines dissappearing, the infinite reload glitch where you can't reload your bolt action sniper rifles and makes you put infinite rounds in but can't shoot, bullets just not hitting enemies even if the barrel is shoved in their face and you pull the trigger.Ok so we identified the problem, now we just need to fix it. But wtf are the devs doing?Heres what they are doing after 1 year of coding;-Add stupid ♥♥♥♥ing gamemodes like that frenzy gamemode-Added one map, and 4 weapons that are just reskins with some numbers changed-Release an optimization patch that didn't really fix anything-Reduced your exp gain so you earn the ingame money less so you have to grind more to get more customization options. Its the developers fault.On the first launch, the game had 8k players.Sure some arcade lovers left and we were stuck with still 5-6k players.Then developers decided to go on a 2 months new years holiday and leave the game to survive on its own. The game was filled with glitches bugs and was terribly unoptimized).People started to drop off one by one.Consequently the average playerbase dropped to 1k average.And when players gets disappointed and drop a game once, they tend to not move back on it.Its the Devs fault. Originally posted by:You have-Terrible and inconsistent AI that can switch from dumbasses that can't shoot a barn to terminators with aimbot noscoping you behind a wall with a pistol a mile away making the coop mode really just dice rolling for a bad opponent-Performance issues even on high end machines that gives you inconsistent framerates even if you turn down the settings. I even remember when I turned down the settings to the lowest and it actually reduced my overall framerate.-Terrible gun play.

Whoever thought of the idea of the hipfire mechanic needs to revert that change and actually fire a real gun. I can snap on to my targets faster than my ingame dude does because I have to fiddle with the wonky hipfire mechanic that forces you to ADS everytime you see an enemy. Thats not how real life CQC works, and this promotes unhealthy gameplay where you want to camp corners and relying on grenades or your commander to open up a defense.

And using grenades is slow as ♥♥♥♥ and clucky cause your dude takes 10 seconds to take a grenade out of a pocket and throw it. And don't even get me started on MGs being useless on foot so it promotes even more campy gameplay.-Heavy armor is ♥♥♥♥ing useless, you run like a turtle, for the ability to survive 1 extra ♥♥♥♥ing shot from a 5.56mm round. Everyone is wearing light armor and they can die from 1 shot, which just reinforces unhealthy gameplay where no one wants to run out because they get killed instantly.- the tons of bugs in the game, weapons and magazines dissappearing, the infinite reload glitch where you can't reload your bolt action sniper rifles and makes you put infinite rounds in but can't shoot, bullets just not hitting enemies even if the barrel is shoved in their face and you pull the trigger.Ok so we identified the problem, now we just need to fix it. But wtf are the devs doing?Heres what they are doing after 1 year of coding;-Add stupid ♥♥♥♥ing gamemodes like that frenzy gamemode-Added one map, and 4 weapons that are just reskins with some numbers changed-Release an optimization patch that didn't really fix anything-Reduced your exp gain so you earn the ingame money less so you have to grind more to get more customization options.Go Play COD or CS-GO, it looks like this not the game for you.