BEGINNERS GUIDE: How To Build A loadout - Don't Waste Points! - Insurgency Sandstorm 

Follow me on Twitch, nerds: twitch.tv/sacrilicious__ In depth weapon reviews: ru-vid.com/group/PLBdLh65TLRL5jOIdTv02XzYYIVOW6o_UT Hey just a quick side note: there is such thing as TOO MUCH smoke. So like i said in the video, feel free to change out the smoke for a grenade or flash bang. But if you're attacking, some sort of smoke is a must. What an original video idea amirite. Wanted to make this one short and straight to the point. i didnt wanna flood the new players with too much information. You're gonna hear multiple opinions about armour, my dudes. So in the future, I plan on breaking down how armour works, it's strengths, it's weaknesses etc etc in a really in-depth video. So stay tuned for that. I've been having a lot of fun streaming lately, so come say hi. twitch.tv/sacrilicious__

I have to disagree with the fact that he rarely uses a secondary because getting caught while reloading is basically a death sentence

I disagree. Take light armour. You will survive a grenade if its far enough away. Also you can survive 2-3 more hits. Its only 1 point. Also take a carrier and try to spend your points on utility as much as you can before spending points on a gun. Don't cheap out and skip the secondary. Always take a pistol. It will save your life more then you realise. (Switching to your pistol is faster then reloading. ) You can take a masterkey instead of a pistol but i only reccomend it if your defending. Its also 2-4 points more. As always: -glhf -always double check before going in -check those corners. Everyone camps. This game needs a class that can drop an ammo station and a class that can recon the area. The issue with push on both sides is a lack of intel. It would help the game so much

I haven’t played this game yet, but my brother bought it for me and I’ve been out of town working. I’m so ready to play it tonight!! I’ve seen a lot of your videos ty for helping me out 😁

"Armor is very expensive" Is *literally* 1 point bruh, the rifle plates of light armor take you from dying in 1-2 hits to 2-3, and increase of 50-100%. Heavy armor just adds greater protection in the form of soft armor for explosives, fragments from bullets through walls, etc, and has a place for defenders. I can't justify not running light armor most of the time.

I would say the Smoke Launcher is pretty much a must on attack, especially if you take a carrier because it only costs 1 point and you can get at least 1 smoke out of it, up to 3 for the same cost.

Here's what I learned playing both insurgency games for some time now: 1. Light armour is the best protection for the price, as it will increase your survivability against pistol calibers like 9mm and .45ACP. 2. Always take light carrier. When playing demolitionist it's wise to take heavy carrier for the extra 40mm grenade and extra rocket. 3. Flash hider is useless. The maps are relatively small compared to other FPS games and players rarely rely on visual cues to spot an enemy, but rather audible gunfire. If you are getting shot at, you will die trying to see where the flash of the gun is. It is wiser to seek cover and determine the location of the enemy by their gunshots. If you are trying to be stealthy, use the suppressor, it will not only make your gunshots quieter but also hide your flash. For higher caliber guns with a lot of recoil use the compensator. 4. Pistols are only viable if using a machinegun or a bolt action sniper rifle. Otherwise they are nothing but added weight. By the time you will pull out your sidearm you will already be dead. If not, you could've already reloaded your primary. You will most likely die before running out of primary weapon ammo. Unless you are a camper, and in that case fuck you. If you ever actually landed in a situation where you needed to engage someone with a pistol head on, your chances of surviving against an opponent with a rifle are slim. 5. Grenades: flashbangs for CQB like Ministry, smokes for push mode, frag grenades are always worth having. Incendiary & molotovs are only useful for destroying caches. 6. Weapon attachments: I personally find 1.5x PKAS and 2x-1x holographic sights the best, for sniping 3x-6x. Best grips are aiming grip for faster ADS and recoil grip for higher caliber rifles. Extended magazines will save your life more times than you think, use them instead of a sidearm. Use tracers if you're an idiot and you want enemies to find you.

Additionally, it's very worth it to get a heavy carrier on Observer. Seeing as you'll be staying safe to be ready to call fire support with the Commander, having a heavy carrier can allow you to have 6 smokes in total. 3 smoke grenades and 3 smoke rounds from your underbarrel launcher. Pair that with the M16A4 and a 1x-2x or 1x-4x sight and you're golden!

This is a fantastic digestible video. You really know how to get to the point with the most info as possible. Fantastic!

I love how this is exactly the video I was looking for and it’s just been uploaded

Bought this game a few weeks back on steam and came across your channel on here, top work dude, you have honestly helped me play better with your load out tips and weapon reviews, I love sandstorm and see myself playing it for a lot longer. Thanks for your good work bro 👍

Flash hider and gasmask save your live a thousand times more than armour Also, if you are prone, do not take a backpack, it will nearly triple your silhouette when prone, snipers don't need more ammo, and gunners can instead use galil+drums since you get 3 of them w.out a backpack

I got the game a couple of days ago on xbox noticed alot of these things like coughing when in smoke and muffled voice when useing a gas mask really helped alot.

Just picked this up on Xbox and never played it before so this was hugely helpful, thank you

Very helpful informative video! Going to watch subscribe and watch a lot more Insurgency videos now I’ve just started playing it!

Thank you for this. Loved the music also 👌

If you have a few points left, already has your loadout of primary, secondary, utility and equipment ready, you should spend your extra points on attachments as they don't add weight to your character

Great video. Didn't wanna watch a 25 minute guide on how this works. Just bought it on Xbox and it hard but I want to learn how to play well. Subscribed

Excellent summary!

Short and sweet, thx

Very helpful video bro. Thank you. Best one I've seen by far. Just subbed homie

Very helpful. Thanks.

First day playing it, even training i got to say, I love that everything is available, you can practice and get good and firing every gun and test drive the vehicles as well as fight your own style of bots to get you ready for PvP

I will always say take a light carrier just so you have another second to get put that callout or to fire back at pistols. I also always Carry a sidearm bc unless I'm playing breacher the gun length can get you killed in certain situations

I’m waiting to play it, my internet has been down for 3 weeks but I bought it anyways hoping I won’t have to wait for so long to play it, been looking at your videos and it’s fair to say I can’t wait to finally play, and also ignore everything you said and spend all my points on cool attachments

Good tips!

dat lounge elder scrolls backtrack made me like it

As rifleman I usually try to use a rifle with 7.62mm caliber, because it can kill in one shot even with armor, and in longer distances. On Insurgent side it's AK 47 or FN FAL, On Sec side it's usually TAVOR I think. When attacking more smoke. When defending more frag or inci. Light armor is always on, and usually light carrier. Also flash hider and nice scopes depending on map. As sniper the lower class primary like M24 usually does one shot kill. Just use 7 or 8x scope. In contrast the SASS cannot kill with one shot on long ranges, so it's far worse, even with faster fire-rate. Add a nice sidearm. Also supressor. As gunner I opt for higher caliber, and magazine size, 1-4 scope and flash hider.. With heavy carrier, or extended mag with light carrier. For observer I don't bring much smoke, because commander cannot call fire support through smoke. For commander I bring basic rifle and 6 smokes, including launcher and heavy carrier. For breacher I rarely play it, but faster fire rate SMGs are preferred for me. For advisor I prefere higher caliber rifles with best scopes. And some smoke during attack.

Thank for the video Already have it Pre download on the PS5 2 more day to go

Thanks for the tips

Am I tripping or is that Skyrim music in the background😂 Got me so confused for second. Anyways, nice video for new players. It’ll be interesting to see how Insurgency does on consoles, if we’re going by the viewcounts on recent Insurgency videos it looks like it might be a hit.

Can’t wait to play this tomorrow. Great vid thanks 👍🏼

This is awesome! Thanks!! Can you please make a video of each gun and their technical analysis ie recoil, damage, best use situations etc. I know you said g36 and Aug best beginner's but I've been into fps long and can handle recoils (smg11 in rs6) so that will help, thanks!!!

If your playing slow taking your time,and watching your corners then armor is almost always worth. Armor has saved me in many a gun fight.

Good Video :) !

And before going full bonanza with 'nades, go and practice throws on bots - if you go solo there's no problem of flashing teammates, obsuring view or burning teammates 1 bad smoke can cancel out attack, 1 molotow can kill/burn/block one attack

Is that the skyrim music in the background😂 good video man helped alot

Nice work 👍 Just what I needed before jumping on Insurgency for the first time. May just help me survive the first 60 seconds of PvP 😂 Hope the PS5 does it justice.

I literally just downloaded the game and played 3 matches. I actually haven’t finished a match cuz assholes keep voting me out of the game. Gotta give me a chance to at least get used to playing the game so I can at least slightly get good at it

thank , i was very helpfull

I’ll never understand why people don’t carry a secondary…I think using a pistol can even be fun sometimes but they come in handy in CQC when you are getting pushed and don’t have time to reload…gotta hit shots though

Anyone else wear the level 1 armor just for the aesthetics of a plate carrier instead of the normal vest?

good buff to the armor would be capable to carry 3 extra mags, 3 center mass 7.62 or 55 6 50% chance to completely deflect in stacked impact of the round, one extra frag, and a utility of small explosive breach, 15 overall hp gain...

I never use a secondary or grenades. I just max out my rifle according to if I need phos NVGs or not

heavy armor will save you from a bullet that would otherwise kill you. since it only need 1 or 2 bullets to kill your enemy, armor will play a significant role of whether or not you would survive from a bullet to the chest (very important atleast for me). i'd go for light at the start of the match so i could go to obj faster then switch to full armor on the next respawn.

Correct me if I'm wrong but in regarding the gas mask tip, I believe uncontrollable voice lines (RELODING, ENEMY DOWN, etc) are team sided. Optional voice lines in the scroll wheel (INTIMIDATE, ENEMY THAT WAY, etc) and observers calling in fire support are global. I don't know if I'm misremembering this but I think that's the case.

I cannot get my friggen sensitivities changed for my controller, cannot fine tune at all. Every time I change my ads sensitivity, look on x and y, etc, I hit x to apply, and nothing changes. Any ideas?

The problem I’m having is I make my classes in the customize screen at home but they just sent there when I get into a match

Loved all the tips except no secondary?? You wild. Saved my ass so many times now.

Wait, is the Dragonborn theme from skyrim playing as background music?

The Dragonborn theme in the back 😂👌

The Skyrim music got me

console push is gonna be great on day one with a lobby full of riflemen only

Light armour stops a one shot torso from 7.62 nato, it’s useful. I wouldn’t use heavy armour though

Would you recommend new players to go straight into PvP or try going against A.I first to get a feel of the game ?

HELL YEAH PLEASE MAKE MORE I.S VIDEOS!!

Gonna pre order deluxe edition 🤘🏽

Skyrim background music is cool

I wear mid tear armor cause the plate carrier is slick AF...

After playing ins2 since 2017, I decided to buy this game today

Nice

I tend to hate the smoke, so I normally carry 1-3 Flash bangs and just bang the absolute shit out of the obj

Very glad snipes sent me here

Honestly you can toss away the gas mask if your doing PVP which is sadly the only way to get challenged in this game, PVE has been nerfed to all hell, and your more likely to be shot by team mates instead anyways. You don’t need a gas mask, use it for other stuff

yoooo what's the song in the background I know its Skyrim but what's this mis called?

How’s everyone doing with the game? Just started playing I’m trying to learn as much as possible

All I know is that we have to keep our player base alive! Only 3k people on at any given time

had to buy this now.. fcking love this game

I only disagree with not carry a secondary, its fast to change when you run dry in cqb situation

Is sandstorm coming out midnight the 29th or in the day the 29th?

What about the gun stats, no videos mention those, I have no clue what caliber means and horizontal recoil or vertical

Buts is this for coop or versus ?

What about a night map? What should I do for the night vision?

Do you get points back if you unequip guns or attachments or do you have to earn points?

I refuse to wear a gasmask at all times. I want to see the game as it is not through a gasmask, so I only use it when close to enemies or in smoke.

Is it a waste if i use a m4a1?

This game supposes to be realistic but sometimes it makes no sense. Like when a guy killed me with 2 pistol shots while I was in heavy armor(and it wasn't headshot) while in reality, he would do close to no dmg even with a full magazine. Sometimes enemies go down with 1-2 riffle bullets and sometimes I see the enemy, I start shooting first, I see bullets hitting him but he still manages to stop, aim and kill me first:(

plz make a graphic settings video i feel llike ppl are seing me when i cant see them from a distance even if im looking at them

Hey how do you get the UI for attachments to be a list

I think armor is very useful for gunners.

I really disagree with the armour argument. Turning a 1-shot kill into a 2 or 3-shot kill is an absolute godsend when every bullet is lethal. It gives you way more time to react, especially against slower firing weapons like the AK or QTS. Works great on pistol calibers too, even if the fire-rate is jacked.

wait why do you have the Skyrim theme as the background music

After almost 1000 hours of gameplay I have to say that I don't really agree with a fair amount of the statements made in the video. Lighweight armour is utterly useless, yes. But heavy armour is definitely not. Being able to survive 2/3 extra bullets and explosions makes a huge difference, even if you cannot move as swifty. Either go with heavy armour, or nothing at all. I prefer to be protected though. The same goes with carriers. As you said, smokes and grenades in general are your best friend. Being able to carry 3 of them is a huge advantage, as well as having the ability to supress with fire. You can only do this with a heavy carrier, 3 points very well spent. In regards to primaries, I always recommend getting used to either not using a scope, or using the one who's less space-invasive (MRO, 2x Red Dot and the like). Using a large scope cripples your ability to play 90% of the times. Using Compensator+Recoil grip is the best loadout if you want your weapon to be really effective. And yes, always carry a secondary, even if it's the cheapest one.

step 1: uzi done

How to get night vision I almost lost my shit in a night map

I agree.. ARMA.. Just isn't worth it, this is where it's at

Would it be a must to attach recoil grip for controller use on console?

Can we just appreciate the Morrowind Low-fi. (Don't quote me on that it might not be Low-fi.)

Wait so why can’t we use all classes at the start of the game

Listen closely, is that Dovahkiin in the background

Thought I recognises Skyrim music

I'm still trying to figure out how to throw grenades on the ps5 🤣

How do u get more points to customize your load out

Can you get more load out points??

Is there no suppressors in this game?

I bought a helmet but it doesn’t let me equip it, does anyone know why?

4:35 Did he just scratch his as*?

Always remember Extra Magazine plus extended Magazine and Speed Reload Double Tap R. You are welcome. Insurgency SandStorm is basically Run and Gun but use cover frequently and you will be fine. Oh And I'm level 400 so don't worry im no cod fan nor a battlefield fan and not bias to this game.

I spawn in with 0 points

Am I the only one who is disappointed with graphics on xbox series x, also needs 120fps