Despite strong pre-order sales and positive feedback from players during the Beta, developers New World Interactive has announced that they will be delaying the release of Insurgency: Sandstorm until 12th December. However, for those who pre-order, the pre-order Beta will be extended until the game’s release.
Despite the extremely positive feedback during the pre-order Beta, New World Interactive are aware of certain issues that need to be addressed plus they also want the extra time to give it the polish that the game deserves.
In a press release to the community, the developers revealed what they wanted to spend the extra time on…
“The major goals we aim to achieve with this extra time are as follows:
- Upgrade to Unreal Engine 4.20 and continue optimizing
- Improve the character models, textures, and animations in the game
- Improve the “scoped” experience for both high and low-quality scope settings
- Improve the level visuals, gameplay and optimization
- Add more cosmetic item variations and a new forearm tattoo cosmetic type which can also be seen in first person
- Expand in-game server options to include a server browser, community-run server support, and a custom games system allowing users to specially configure games hosted by our server infrastructure.
- Refine the game to the point it has far less bugs, glitches, visual inconsistencies and other issues.”
Insurgency: Sandstorm will be available to pre-order on Steam with a 10% discount until the game’s new release date.
