New World Interactive has announced that starting on Friday, December 7 and running through the weekend, an open beta period will invite everyone to try Insurgency: Sandstorm for free on Steam. Insurgency: Sandstorm is the FPS sequel to indie smash-hit Insurgency, brings action-packed, nerve-wracking modern military combat to PC that is scheduled for a December 12th release.
To get potential players ready, the new Gameplay Overview Trailer commented by developers breaks down all the ways Insurgency: Sandstorm is unique, from the high lethality gunplay, to an atmospheric minimal HUD, to Commander-Observer tagteams calling in fire support, to the extensive character and weapon customization, to the very design of maps, modes, and even sound.
New World Interactive’s lead game designer Michael Tsarouhas narrates the action, explaining every movement, explosion, and pull of the trigger. Across eight minutes of gameplay footage he explains how New World Interactive combined the best of shooter fundamentals with a realistic approach to ballistics, equipment, and other gameplay factors, creating an incredible FPS experience. Everything you see – from weapons to vehicles to maps and modes – will be available in the Open Beta for everyone.
New World Interactive are currently putting the finishing touches on a massive update to deploy when the Open Beta starts, representing a big content upgrade on the current Closed Beta offering. This includes the full map pool, character improvements including new voice lines, an optimization pass, and much more.
Enjoy!
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Can’t wait to try this out. World War 3 is a mess in optimization so I but that down for now due to the insane fps drops during combat (definitely revisit it in a few months).
Anyone here played this yet? I refuse to ever pre-order anything (especially just to try a beta).
It’s fantastic, its finally a modern hardcore shooter unlinke all the mainstream trash we’ve been forcefed. If you like Insurgency (Source) or Day of Infamy you’ll feel right at home.
I haven’t experienced any bugs.
Thanks I’ll definitely check it out. How is performance? What kind of rig do you?
performance isn’t fantastic, but its getting better. I get roughly 100fps on 3770K @ 4.5ghz GTX1080 @ 1080p
Ok doesn’t some too bad. I have 9700k 1080ti and I usually game at 1440p mid/high settings so I should be fine.
Looking forward to trying this out.
That’s.. a shame really. The game is incredibly fun to play but those drops in fps just killed it for me (and I have a high end rig).
Have you played the game recently? Has it improved in any way since the first 2 weeks?
From playing the game in EA, the game needs another few months of development to be anywhere near playable state for mass consumption. The game has been broken for pretty much several weeks now because of a patch, and it crashes constantly. I had to refund it because it just wasn’t good enough. There is also virtually no real distance between this and the first Insurgency and the game-play is far too similar to be worth money; they didn’t really change enough of it. While there is a “If it works, why change it?” design going on, it’s not exactly a good philosophy to have with a sequel to a game. It desperately needs new game-play that doesn’t feel so absolutely dated.
They need to go back to the drawing board and rework the game massively. Even with the few months they took to introduce performance fixes and supposed crash fixes, it doesn’t seem to have really done much.
The weapon and environment/explosion sounds in this are INCREDIBLE!