New Insurgency game on UE4 also coming to consoles

Insurgency sold 2.3 million and the devs are now teaming up with Focus Interactive to make another one in Unreal Engine 4 with a story mode and also for consoles. It will be coming out in 2017. I hope they take advantage of Unreal Engine 4 and put in more destruction.

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Sweet. I bought the first one on Steam and really liked it. My only gripe was that most of my friends play in consoles, so I was mostly playing alone.

I stick to CS:GO the elite FPS

Good for them

thats cool, though I am pretty bored with the middle-east as a setting, I hope they make maps in more interesting locations

Ditching the Source engine in favor of the Unreal 4 engine is a great move.

Say goodbye to complexity.

Time to move anyways.

Great game with great devs, you could get the game literally for free multiple times and the devs just keep adding stuff to it and for free!

Insurgency is definitely not getting the attention it deserves.

I like the game, but I have barely played it. I have too many games to play and a lot of them don't get the attention they deserve. Rest assured that I will be dedicating more time to Insurgency before playing junk like COD again.

This is quite the common problem, many good games left unplayed because there's simply no time to play them all. I tend to only play Insurgency with friends these days because that's when you really get the most out of it, playing solo you feel wasting potential.

@howmakewood: Unfortunately as is the old pc story, success makes a developer quick to forget when the landscape suddently becomes panoramic.

Like your favorite game the Witcher 3?

Very happy with this news. New World Interactive is one of my favourite developers at the moment.

> PC gamers don't buy games
> Insurgency sold 2.3 million copies

@howmakewood: Crysis 2 was the primary candidate that came to mind, but now that it's been brought up, certainly.

Gimped graphics to facilitate consoles. Console UI. Controls clearly designed for a pad, irredeemable on M+K. Paid for DLC. Inflated price point.

All in all it's an exemplary example of what we would coin "a bunch of sellout pricks..."

Especially taking into account just how obnoxious CDP, as a company, has been in lauding PC gaming. Now outright claiming the game couldn't be made without consoles.

PC gamers still pucker up. muewaaa muewaaa!

Pathetic really.

Insurgency's Graphics compared to Insurgency: Sandstorm's Graphics [Screenshots]

I'd rather have seen this use Source 2. Love playing Insurgency but this doesn't interest me running on Unreal 4. Graphics are nice, but I think a majority of us got hooked by the game mechanics. I hope they don't lose focus on the game over graphics. The main worry I have about the new Ins being made on UE 4 is that we might lose the 'feel' of insurgency. Valve need to release Source 2 already.

The more people who can play, the better although bringing this to consoles is making me a bit nervous. According to IGN, Destiny has 25 million registered users as of November 2015. Insurgency is like CS making it playable on consoles would be hard, it doesn't play like mainstream console shooters. This announcement unfortunately seems to go further down that arcade path since they will have to design for consoles.

For anyone looking for a somewhat similar but more realistic modern PC fps also on UE4, check out http://www.groundbranch.com/ . A playable build will be available within the next few weeks according to the devs. The weapon system is probably the one of the best I've ever seen in a shooter. I'm thinking this will scratch the small to medium size battle itch where Squad will fulfill the large scale battles.

@kozio:

We basically have no game to go on how Source 2 looks. There was the DOTA update... and that's it.

I love the source engine. But if Valve can't support the Source 2 engine with its own games, I don't see why others would take interest (perhaps its free like Unity ?)

Another example is Chivalry, which from moving from source to Unreal Engine, did not lose the feel of Chivalry. And I doubt this game will lose its feel, but it's too soon to say.

Good to see some screenshots though :)

@R4gn4r0k: The most exciting part is that the "eSports features" will be coming to the Source version of Insurgency before they release Sandstorm! Hopefully that means actual competitive matchmaking / team support :) Historically, smaller studios seem to have trouble when it comes to optimizing UE3/4 games - especially for lower end PCs. See ARK, Hatred, Dirty Bomb, Squad...Because just from past experiences, when a small studio releases a game on UE4, it usually is not optimized at all. Nothing wrong with UE4 in general, it's a powerful engine that works especially well with first person games. We'll just have to see if the devs can make it run - one of the big selling points of games like CS:GO and Insurgency is that they run on older machines as well. Then again, a game like Insurgency not being held back by the outdated source engine, and coupled with the insane modding capabilities of the unreal engine, that's a lot of potential. On the current source engine, it 'feels' fast paced, smooth and really easy to pick up and put down. I don't want the new Ins to 'feel' heavier and clunky a bit like how Squad feels, I wouldn't mind something similar to battlefield. But would prefer it to be kept or a very minor difference from what it is now. As for Campaign (75% of the budget xD) , if they do it right and can create a story for the game. I reckon it'll be a smashing success.

Unreal 4 is free to use but i think Epic Games still gets its 5% cut of your royalties. Valve said that Source 2 would be free for developers, and there would be no royalty charge for using the engine. The good thing is the Valve VR titles are Source 2 based, also Vulkan is the preferred render for Source 2. I hope the new GMod is on Source 2. GDC will give more news, maybe even a release but it's Valve so who knows.

"HL3" and "L4D3" mentioned in strings in the SteamVR Performance Test, along with a high quality model of Dog.

No please. Not this again. :D

That CDPR $ statement and Crysis 2 left bitter taste in the mouth. Insurgency is one of the online FPS that I still care about. I've been burned far too many times by anything that tried to cater to the console audience. This is what happens: http://webmshare.com/1R0V3 I really hope that this won't turn to shit but I have a feeling that it will. The other thing I'd be worried about though is Focus Home Interactive intervening in the development process and removing content for any number of reasons (e.g Future DLC, console catering, disagreements, etc).

The name of game. the theme of game about soldier fighting war in brown desert scream utterly generic. the new SP will be just tack on i bet.

@ghosts4ever: The irony being, beside Red Orchestra 2, this is literally the only tactical shooter around.

Some people will say "Ohhh ohhh Rainbow 6"o, that's a microtransaction simulator.

@kozio:

I think Valve just puts these lines in there just to **** with people's heads now. I mean Half Life 3 and Left 4 Dead references go waaaaaay back, several years in fact. So if there were references back then and we still have to see one single screenshot, I say that says enough.

I don't consider Valve a game developer anymore. Source engine is a great engine though, it runs a lot of my favourite games. And I have been playing Insurgency since back when it was a Half Life 2 mod.

So I hope Source 2 will be a good engine. But I don't expect it to run a new Half Life, Portal, Left 4 Dead or Day of Defeat even if I would want it :)

You know the saying: "Don't judge a book by its cover" ?

Im not much into realistic shooters. I prefer fast paced twitch shooters.

but they should atleast pick a better name and theme. insergency is most generic name i have heard for video game. whats next? a game name modern war only? or The Soldiers? or the Patriotic?

Rainbow six was a cool game thought before ruined by ubisoft.

it means writer must be lazy to make a good cover of book because if he can. he can write excellent book.

Oh look, another modern military FPS set in the Middle-East. *snooze*

@kozio: Probably. Assuming the worst (which is always the logical approach with gaming), it wouldn't be surprising to see microtransactions pop up, influenced, as many games are, by Valves insidious apocalyptic vision.

Which, (incidentally), is what Source 2 was designed around.

In Valves own words, "Microtransactions add up"

https://www.steampowered.com/steamworks/microtransactions.php

I really liked Insurgency's DLC model. It's such a breath of fresh air in an industry selling you half a game upfront and asking to get the rest of the game through DLC, microtransactions and season passes.

I don't feat that Paradox will ruin NWI, but you never know.

thats probably what my reaction was. "but but but its Hardcoorz realistic shoooter"..'

its generic, name is generic, theme is generic, its been washed out.

then why are you in this thread

Ground Branch is a true tactical shooter and spiritual successor to the original Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon games. The devs are a spiritual successor to Red Storm Studios. Good riddance Ubisoft xD and good thing about Squad is free from Evil Arts. :D

I also like Verdun guys. Putting AAA games to shame with free DLCs during development. Thanks to the team that is making this it keeps getting better.