Multiplayer military FPS Insurgency: Sandstorm today received update 1.4. A look at its patch notes reveals a series of new additions, including an overhaul of the title’s main menu.
Insurgency: Sandstorm’s main menu is brought closer to its modern peers in update 1.4 through the introduction of playlists. A playlist “is a grouping of game modes or a single game mode we set for every playlist”, developer New World Interactive says.
Insurgency: Sandstorm Update 1.4 Patch Notes
Update 1.4 also brings limited-time playlists, which are meant as an iteration on Insurgency: Sandstorm’s Arcade system. You’ll find a list of available playlists, as per the update’s patch notes, below.
Official Playlists
- Co-op
- Normal
- Checkpoint Security
- Checkpoint Insurgents
- Hardcore
- Hardcore Checkpoint Security
- Hardcore Checkpoint Insurgents
- Frenzy
- Frenzy Checkpoint
- Versus
- Ground Battle
- Push
- Frontline
- New PvP mode, see the “New Features” section below for details.
- Point Capture
- Firefight
- Skirmish
- Both modes have been brought to 28 players as opposed to the 24 of Firefight and the 32 of Skirmish. Skirmish also now has smaller, tighter objective layouts. These changes were made to improve game flow, improve performance, and make the game mode experiences more consistent, especially within the Point Capture playlist.
- This playlist currently excludes the larger layouts of Precinct Skirmish, Refinery Skirmish, and Hideout Skirmish scenarios. We intend to improve these three scenarios for a future update and add them into this playlist once they have been changed.
- Competitive
- Firefight
- Competitive Firefight
Limited Time Playlists for September 2019
- Co-op
- Hillside Co-op
- Checkpoint Security
- Checkpoint Insurgents
- Features new snow map Hillside only
- Runs from September 10th - 25th
- Versus
- Frontline
- Features new Frontline game mode only
- All maps
- Runs from September 10th - September 18th </ul>
- Hillside Ground Battle
- Push
- Frontline
- Features new snow map Hillside only
- Runs from September 10th - 14th
- Hillside Point Capture
- Push
- Frontline
- Runs from September 14th - 18th
- After these September playlists are finished, new playlists with unique gameplay modifications and mutators will be added, including bolt-action rifles only, supply point gain by player score, and many more.
Insurgency: Sandstorm’s update 1.4 also introduces a new game mode, Frontline. Relying on tug-of-war gameplay, it’s a variation on the game’s two-way push mode. In it, teams must capture points one by one and destroy the opponent’s final weapon cache while protecting their own.
You can find more details on Frontline, the new snowy Hillside map and all the other changes in the full update 1.4 patch notes. While you’re at it, also have a gander at the rest of the free content planned for Insurgency: Sandstorm this year in its roadmap.
