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Insurgency: Sandstorm Beta Thread - August 9 to August 13 (PC Only)

abracadaver

abracadaver

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Nov 30, 2017
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Insurgency: Sandstorm closed beta starts today!

In 2 hours to be exact

This is Beta 1! Beta 2 is planned for August 30

Key Features
  • Sequel to the indie breakout FPS Insurgency, now with 5 million units sold. Sandstorm is reborn, improved, expanded, and bigger in every way.
  • Character and weapon customisation to show your battle-hardiness.
  • Unprecedented audio design with positional voice-chat for realistic teamwork, and heart pounding ambient audio to bring you into the battlefield.
  • Peek around corners, tactically breach doorways, use smoke to cover your team's advance, and call in air support.
  • Battle across expansive maps in up to 16-versus-16 player game modes, or 8 player co-operative against AI, now with machine gun mounted drivable vehicles.
  • Competitive multiplayer features including matchmaking, broadcasting UI, and replays.
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FAQ:

When does the beta start?
18H00 CEST, 12H00 EDT, 17H00 BST, 9H00 PDT

Is there an NDA for the beta?
No. You are free to stream or post screenshots and videos

How do I get access to the beta?
Pre-Order Insurgency: Sandstorm on Steam

Is there a loyalty discount if I own the first Insurgency?
Yes. Owners of Insurgency on Steam will get an additional 10% discount

How many maps are in the beta?
3 maps: Hideout, Farmhouse, and Refinery

What game modes are in the beta?
PVP: Push, Firefight, and Skirmish
PVE: Checkpoint

When will this game be released?
PC version in September 2018
Xbox One and PS4 in 2019

What are the system requirements?
Not announced yet



http://insurgency-sandstorm.com/
 
Iyagovos

Iyagovos

Verified
Jan 18, 2018
198
Hey all,

Community Manager for Focus Home Interactive here - it's going to be VERY busy today, obviously, but i'll do my best to answer any questions you have when I have chance :)
 
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abracadaver

abracadaver

Banned
Nov 30, 2017
1,469
Seems like you can download the beta now!

It needs almost 40GB on the hard drive and the download size is 15.9GB


Didn't expect it to be that big
 
Bunta

Bunta

The Fallen
Oct 26, 2017
2,270
Not seeing good reports about performance so far. :/
Hopefully it improves into the next beta and for release.
 
CloseTalker

CloseTalker

Member
Oct 25, 2017
30,658
What's the background of this game, why are people excited? The gameplay video in the OP looks pretty rough
 

Owarifin

The Fallen
Oct 27, 2017
1,741
What engine is this on?
Sorry can't watch the trailer right now, probably has it in there...
 
dmoe

dmoe

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
2,290
Played just 2 rounds. Definitely has potential. I feel like they sped it up a little much though. The last one had so much tension and slow combat. This one when you are running felt like call of duty/socom you are just full speed turbo around the map.

Optimization obviously needs a little work, but so far i am impressed. Will be ready for full release for sure
 
SpinlyLimbs

SpinlyLimbs

Banned
Feb 1, 2018
914
I love the original Insurgency. Just by the 3 or 4 games I've played of the Sandstorm beta haven't really enjoyed it. I don't know if it's the performance or what but shooting and movement feels really off compared to the first game. Might just be performance though.
 
Bunta

Bunta

The Fallen
Oct 26, 2017
2,270
SpinlyLimbs said:
I love the original Insurgency. Just by the 3 or 4 games I've played of the Sandstorm beta haven't really enjoyed it. I don't know if it's the performance or what but shooting and movement feels really off compared to the first game. Might just be performance though.
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Yep, it needs to be optimized performance wise. It also feels janky, currently. The movement is off and shooting isn't as smooth as the original.
 
Bunta

Bunta

The Fallen
Oct 26, 2017
2,270
Just had a developer in one of my matches and a couple things he mentioned is they aren't using LOD yet and CPU is currently the bottleneck.
 
Maneil99

Maneil99

Banned
Nov 2, 2017
5,252
Squad, Rising Storm, Insurgency and Post Scriptum. It's good to be alive. Wish Arma 3 wasn't such a shit show online. Half the servers are role play and other half are loaded with scripts and frame rate destroying scenarios or AI and not PvP
 
Emick81

Emick81

Member
Jan 17, 2018
973
Played it for 2 hours yesterday. The gameplay is fun but is needs to be optimized a lot. Everybody was complaining about framerate problems.
IT ran pretty good on my 6700K with GTX1070 but there still were too much dips in the framerate. Even when being in a small room with nothing going on and FPS went down a lot.
This needs to be solved or it will cause players to stop playing, A constant fluid feel is key to a multiplayershooter, especially to a hardcoreshooter like this.

Also noticed some heavy Spikes were the pings went up like crazy. This also had influence on the movement etc.

PVP mode - I wish you could just stay in the same lobby after a game and load a new map. Searching for new games/players takes a lot of time.

Co-op mode - Was fun, the AI puts up a pretty good fight. An option to revive other players was welcome at times, but I understand that it is not included from a hardcore gameplay perspective.
It was frustrating waiting in the deathroom to see the last player not even trying to play the objective. Game over assured.

Good things - Gun sound! They sound scary and satisfying.
Graphics are good enough assuming the performance will be improved in the future.

It is a BETA of course. the potential is there, but being in the current state only a month from release it has me a little worried.
 
LossAversion

LossAversion

The Merchant of ERA
Member
Oct 28, 2017
10,712
The original Insurgency is fantastic. I hope the PS4 port of Sandstorm turns out ok because Insurgency is probably the closest thing to SOCOM that we'll get in the foreseeable future.
 
CozMick

CozMick

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
1,242
I'm having a really hard time believing this game will run @60fps on consoles, its a complete shitshow on pc at any setting.
 
Bunta

Bunta

The Fallen
Oct 26, 2017
2,270
The sound is great. The potential is definitely there, I just hope they can polish things up in the month before release.
 
Bunta

Bunta

The Fallen
Oct 26, 2017
2,270
The co-op is pretty damn fun. Running breacher with C4 is kind of hilarious if you're quick enough to reach a point and either take out the objective or a ton of enemies.
 
dmoe

dmoe

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
2,290
Id like to see kill notifications added. I hate games that dont show you if you killed someone
 
Bunta

Bunta

The Fallen
Oct 26, 2017
2,270
The hitboxes seem to need some work on prone enemies. There's been times a bot has been prone and I've shot him almost point blank with a pistol and nothing happens.
 
kaospilot

kaospilot

Member
Oct 25, 2017
697
I was thinking about ordering it but read it runs like crap, how bad is it? I loved the first game.
 
Emick81

Emick81

Member
Jan 17, 2018
973
The second Beta runs better than the first. There is definitely improvement, but it it not as smooth as the original game (yet).
 
kaospilot

kaospilot

Member
Oct 25, 2017
697
Caved in and bought it anyway, me and my friend are really looking forward to playing it so we're going to have a go tonight. The first one ran a bit shit for me, FPS was all over the place on most maps and changing settings etc didn't help. 4770/16gb/GTX1080/SSD so hoping the jump to UE4 will sort that out once it actually launches.
 
kaospilot

kaospilot

Member
Oct 25, 2017
697
Had a few games tonight, real fun game, me and my buddy loving it so far. Looking forward to release which will hopefully fix the optimization, 100+fps - 30fps isn't too great.
 
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