Insurgency: Sandstorm update for December 6, 2019 - Update 1.5 Now Live". SteamDB. December 6, 2019 . Retrieved February 12, 2020. Crossplay is a great way to connect with friends who might not own the same console as you! How to Play Insurgency: Sandstorm Cross-Platform? Unprecedented audio design with positional voice-chat for realistic teamwork, and heart pounding ambient audio to bring you into the battlefield. Sandstorm was originally supposed to feature a single-player story, in which the player is a female Kurdish freedom fighter. [8] However, the single player and cooperative story has been canceled for release, and will be considered again at a later date due to its high production requirements. [9] The text and images below are from http://newworldinteractive.com/insurgency-sandstorm-media-release

Fixed an issue where muzzle flashes may not render correctly after switching between primary and secondary weapons Frontline: Both teams must capture objectives one by one and then destroy the enemy cache, similar to Push. Players must capture enemy objectives while also defending their own. Dead players only respawn when their team captures an objective. The match ends if the enemy team is eliminated or the enemy cache is destroyed. [11] Kill enemies to get points. The player with the highest number of points at the end of a round wins. Gameplay [ edit ] A screenshot of the in-game firing range, set in part of the map "Farmhouse". The player is holding an "Alpha AK", based on the custom Kalashnikov rifles used by the Russian FSB's Alpha Group. Update 1.9, " Operation: Cold Blood", included a major overhaul of the co-op mode weapon availability which, prior to the change, allowed each faction to use the opposing faction's weapons; update 1.9 removed this, standardizing the weapon loadouts with the Versus modes. The community response to this change was very negative, leading New World Interactive to undo the change and release an apology on Steam. [33]Fixed an issue where the wire cutters displayed incorrectly in third person while defusing the bomb in Defusal mode Insurgency: Sandstorm was officially announced in February 2016 for Microsoft Windows. It was released on December 12, 2018, for Windows; the previously announced Linux and macOS versions of the game were cancelled. [3] The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions went through numerous delays [4] [5] and were released alongside PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S versions on September 29, 2021. [6] a b "Steam:: Insurgency: Sandstorm:: State of Production 4". steamcommunity.com. December 9, 2019 . Retrieved December 10, 2019. Engage in realistic modern firefights in the definitive tactical FPS! Battle in the war-torn environments of a contemporary conflict through a series of cooperative and multiplayer modes.

Skirmish: Like Firefight, there are three objectives that both teams must 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 enemy cache must be destroyed and all three objectives must be captured. Removed in update 1.4.1 due to low popularity, to decrease queue times, and to allow the developers to maintain other game modes. [13]Firing onto consoles after it's PC excursion, does this gritty FPS live up to the explosive noise? The Finger Guns review.

Insurgency: Sandstorm is the highly-anticipated successor to Insurgency, a game beloved for its intense and immersive gameplay. Powered by Unreal Engine 4, it promises an incredible visual upgrade along with exciting new features that will captivate fans of the original title. With its roots firmly planted in PC gaming, those dedicated players can look forward to transitioning seamlessly into this revitalized experience designed for console platforms as well. Insurgency: Sandstorm - Helicopter Takedown - YouTube". www.youtube.com . Retrieved January 7, 2021. Insurgency: Sandstorm supports crossplay across the following platforms: Steam (PC), Xbox One, XBox Series S/X, PS4, PS5 and Windows PC. But please be aware that Insurgency: Sandstorm has multiple crossplay combinations, which are mutually exclusive. This means that some platforms are not able to crossplay between each other. You can view the combinations of platforms that are crossplay compatible below.Also, Insurgency: Sandstorm is confirmed as working with crossplay between XBox Series S/X and Xbox One.