The winds of change have blown by means of tacto-coolo FPS Insurgency: Sandstorm. The clouds are pregnant with 5 new weapons, the sky awash with stability tweaks and high quality of life enhancements, and I’ve already ran out of appropriately stormy methods to explain the brand new mode. It’s a lightning bolt of… enjoyable?
Nah, it’s simply staff deathmatch – nevertheless it has swept in alongside a brand new arcade playlist that may spit out extra fascinating modes sooner or later.
This is Sandstorm’s first massive replace, which the lead game designer at New World Interactive insists is “a sign of things to come”. Guns, then. Guns are one of many primary issues to return.
That’s proper, it’s inscrutable gun quantity time! We’ve obtained the MP5A2 and the MP5A5, each apparently “perfect for close quarters combat”. We’ve obtained the M240B and MG3, “offering high-caliber damage and an absurd rate of fire respectively”. Then we’ve obtained the widdly little PF940, a handgun with a excessive capability journal. Widdliness is relative.
The new staff deathmatch mode works such as you’d count on, however with extra beneficiant gear limits and with out side-based gun restrictions. I loved my time with Sandstorm, however that’s not sufficient for me to reinstall. I’d do additional alongside the road although, if this line about how the arcade playlist “lays the foundation for adding fresh, new, non-traditional game modes” proves to be true.
There’s additionally a apply firing vary, choices for kicking folks from servers, and penalties for leaving aggressive matches. You can learn the complete patch notes here, which embody fixes to a couple issues that bugged me. Your minimap now tells you the place the out-of-bounds areas are, as an example.
I discovered Sandstorm too punishing to stay with for lengthy, however I’d nonetheless advocate dipping into it for the noises alone. Noises equivalent to these, as wot I highlighted in my Insurgency: Sandstorm review:
“Drones, jamming sound waves down your backbone like scalpels. Artillery that would shake continents, blanketing maps in smoke that units infantry coughing, splutters that don’t drown out these of the dying. War is hell, and hell hath no fury like a helicopter gunship scorned.
Then there’s the silence. Moments the place you’re alone, inching ahead, glimpses of rolling particles and rotating ceiling followers setting your coronary heart a flutter. False alarms, misfiring jolts of adrenaline that depart you too frazzled to reply when an enemy really crosses your sights.”
There’s a 20% low cost working till March sixth, that means you possibly can at present seize Insurgency: Sandstorm on Steam for £21/$24/€24.
