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For every objective captured, more reinforcements are made available and more time is given to capture the next objective. Push: The attacking team must capture three or four objectives in sequential order.Both teams also have access to both explosive and smoke artillery Security fires fewer rounds with greater precision, while Insurgents fire more rounds with less precision. Insurgents can call for an improvised drone strike, rocket artillery, an IED drone that seeks enemies and explodes when in range of one, or a chemical gas strike that kills anyone in its radius without a gas mask on. Security can call for close air support, such as an A-10 strafe, or for an AH-64 Apache or UH-60 Black Hawk to fly over and attack visible enemies, though both of these helicopters can be shot down by enemy rocket launchers or anti-materiel rifles. Returning from Day of Infamy is the fire support system, which may be requested by a Commander if a friendly Observer is within 10 meters of them. Players may also change their armor and carrier, which affects their survivability and available ammunition and equipment respectively, though both impact weight and movement speed. Gas masks, night-vision goggles, rocket launchers, plastic explosives, and various types of grenades are available as equipment. Players can modify their weapons with attachments, such as weapon sights, laser sights, bipods, muzzle attachments, suppressors, and foregrips, with additional attachments available for specific weapons and classes, such as underbarrel explosive grenade launchers for Demolitions. Players have limited supply points to spend on weapons and equipment. Players can choose from eight classes with varying armaments: Rifleman, Breacher, Advisor, Demolitions, Marksman, Gunner, Observer, and Commander. Security primarily uses modernized weaponry originating from NATO countries, such as the M4 carbine, G36K, L85A2, AUG, and MP7, while Insurgents use a mix of older and cheaper weaponry, ranging from Russian and Chinese weapons like the AK-74, TOZ-194, QBZ-97, AS Val, and PKM to outdated World War II-era weapons like the Welrod and the M1 Garand.

Players are separated into two teams: Security and Insurgents. Improvements from Insurgency include updated visuals, fire support, character customization, cosmetics, weapon skins, a player progression system, larger maps, and drivable technicals. Like its predecessors, most game modes in Sandstorm do not feature instant respawns instead, dead players must spectate and wait for their team to complete an objective in order to respawn. Weapons are accurate and can kill in very few shots, placing emphasis on using teamwork and cooperation to survive.

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The Insurgency series has 'slow', tactical, realistic gameplay, with moments of intensity. Similar to Insurgency and Day of Infamy, Insurgency: Sandstorm features a minimal HUD, lacking a health bar, ammunition count, or minimap. The player is holding an 'Alpha AK', based on the custom Kalashnikov rifles used by the Russian FSB's Alpha Group. Insurgency: Sandstorm 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, with some lamenting the cancellation of the planned story campaign.Ī screenshot of the in-game firing range, set in part of the map 'Farmhouse'. The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions went through numerous delays and were released alongside PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S versions on September 29, 2021.

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It was released on December 12, 2018, for Windows the previously-announced Linux and macOS versions of the game were cancelled. Insurgency: Sandstorm was officially announced in February 2016 for Microsoft Windows. Set in an unnamed fictional Middle Eastern region, the game depicts a conflict between two factions: 'Security', loosely based on various world militaries (namely NATO forces United States SOCOM the armed forces of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria Kurdish YPG and YPJ and Western private military companies), and 'Insurgents', loosely based on various paramilitary and terrorist groups (namely ISIL, the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Security defectors, and implied Russian mercenaries).

The game is a sequel to the 2014 video game Insurgency.

Insurgency: Sandstorm is a multiplayer tactical first-person shooter video game developed by New World Interactive and published by Focus Home Interactive.

PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S.

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