(Not yet available - scheduled for release later this week)

Gear-based matchmaking BETA

• Matchmaking will now consider the gear score that is combined from the trampler compartments installed and the items placed into the outfitting
• If matchmaking fails to find enough players at the matching player level, it will widen the search range.
• This system is in BETA, and changes to the matchmaking might be made based on your feedback and information that we’ll see on our backend
• These changes to matchmaking might also slightly increase the time required to find a match
• BUT Even during the least player-saturated hours you will get matched eventually because the Matchmaker will throw everyone into the general queue no matter the Gear Score at certain point, so you won't be stuck because of it

New Additions

• 3 new [REDACTED] for the trampler
  • Can be unlocked in the Tech Tree
• 3 new types of shells
  • 70mm [REDACTED] / Shrapnel Shell - Shot as a singular projectile. [REDACTED] and creates a burst of shrapnel on the other side
  • 80mm Subcaliber Shell - Has 100% Penetration Chance - Can penetrate multiple compartments in a row
  • 40mm Low Heat-Optimized Shells - Reduces the Overheat Buildup while shooting Autocannons by 50%
• There are 4 types of shell hits:
  • Hit - the projectile hit, dealt damage, and was destroyed
  • Ricochet - Shell deals 20% of its damage and gets deflected into the other direction from the compartment that it hit. The deflected shell can still deal its full damage if it hits something else on its way
  • Penetrate - Shell deals 50% of its damage to a compartment and keeps flying until it hits another obstacle (Basically you can deal 150% of shell's damage in one shot)
  • Clean Through - can be seen when the shell passes through destroyed compartment. It Doesn't deal damage to it and doesn't get destroyed. It just goes cleanly through it. (This mechanic was always there, we just added a notification to make it less confusing when shell flies through the trampler.)

Trampler Reactor changes

• Reactor now visually show their health status and boost effects
• It reddens when it loses HP
• All reactors now have 50% more HP
• Shooting at the back of the reactor will deal critical damage
• Reactor smoke VFX reacts to gear, boost, and reactor state

Anti-cheat false positive fixes:

• Fixed when driving towards the island and grabbing the ladder during the jump
• Fixed when driving towards the island and starting parkour during the jump
• Fixed issue with turret shooting giving “Suspicious Activity” message

Item changes

• “The Great Silence” is now a large item and can’t be stored in the character's inventory
• Repair Kit can now be reloaded, so it no longer is destroyed after being fully used
  • Fuel for the Repair Kit is dropped from the ironclads
  • Empty Repair Kit can be purchased in the Storage
  • Repair kit taken to the expedition now starts with 0 fuel
  • Repair kit extracted from the expedition gets automatically unloaded, and its unloaded fuel gets extracted separately

Fixes & Improvements

• Refactored Trampler Editor to support [REDACTED]
• Additional VFX improvements
• Updated model of the energy rods
• Possibly fixed an exploit when a cheater could steal items from the box in your hands remotely
• Fixed an exploit where an installed turret could be duplicated at the end of extraction calibration
• Fixed an exploit where default ammo could be changed into special ammo type
• Possibly fixed situations when a trampler can move through another trampler on collision
• Fixed the issue where trampler legs would be in incorrect position after reentering the game
• Fixed the issue that the weapon didn't have animation and recoil while shooting and activating the flashlight simultaneously
• Fixed the issue when Upiors positions could be different between client and server

Known Issues

• The character cannot enter the Expedition if the Invite has been accepted at the Tutorial pop-up background
• Items may be displayed inside the character’s body in some cases
• Large items may float around the character
• Character may become invulnerable to melee damage while interacting with turrets or the steering wheel
• Bullets can pass through the character on speed-boosted trampler
• Shotgun might not deal damage at close range distance
• Ironclads can be triggered multiple times by reentering the trigger area
• Item prompt in Storage has too many hotkey options
• Blueprint can’t be deleted
• Character can become occluded in some cases
• Character might get broken animations on turrets and steering wheel after using Orbital Strike on Smuggler control scheme
  • Walkaround: get any tool or weapon in hands or respawn
• 3440×1440 resolution is not available

Anyone know the best way to use the peppermill in close quarters? Do you ADS or just let it rip from the hip?

I’ve been getting hit by a lot of 300 scrap ship zero to hero boarders and maaaaaaan does it suck to get one shot over and over. I use the peppermill as well but sometimes it feels like my shots just aren’t connecting.

I know hit reg is an ongoing problem in the game but was just wondering if anyone has a good feel for the peppermill and can offer any tips.

Lastly, I play on US West servers but I live in New York. Game says my ping is 5ms but I’ve always assumed that’s a bug. Would ping be playing a large roll in this? Lemme know. Thanks guys!

If you want to be stealing tramplers atleast be honest about it. Humanity is lost

How do you go about designing a large-scale model train?

I don’t really see the point in using a Royal chassis or similar.

I’d love to see your best creations.

Sand has been on my wishlist for a while now, and since it's on sale right now, I was wondering if it's worth the purchase or not. What's better than having the honest and clear opinion of its community? I would like to know if it's fun and entertaining, if it gets repetitive in any way, and also if it's well balanced, in other words would you suggest me to buy it or look for something else

Just got into the game, noticed the discord is pretty sterile.

Are there any communities, mostly discord but also others are fine, that have come up and are welcoming of new players for this game?

My last 3 raids solo storm dive Ive gotten teamed up on by 3 people each time. When are they going to do something about this?

As per the title.

The only thing I can interact with is the console to take over the trampler. When I do this, it tells me I have lost my trampler.

Alt + F4 and re-joining does nothing to rectify this.

They charged for this game, by the way.

Managed to keep my trampler from getting stolen at extract by keeping a red Barrel in my captains cabin and charging the filthy pirate while holding it. He missed his first shot and I stayed close enough to him to keep him from going for another and he fled when my trampler got picked up and I made it to the rope before he could plug me. 10/10 play.

Arc Raiders and some other games recognize when the player model is "stuck," which then prompts the user if they want help to relocate.

Obviously, different game means different requirements, but I've lost a couple tramplers to getting stuck. I've heard about Tramplers getting stuck more from other players.

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Last night was only my 2nd time having a Trampler stuck, not a big deal when we still made over 250k in like 3 hours. Stuck ontop of one of the Rauchwolke docks. But, that fat Trampler we captured and got stuck, had a whoooole lotta armor plates and Engines on it. I wanted to extract with it, too! (Tried turning the reactor on/off, even rammed it with one of our other captured Tramplers, but it wouldn't budge, at all).

The real kick in the gonads happened just under 2 weeks ago, I lost a 6-man Storm to getting stuck, and there was Dreadnought, but very little to 0 competition left in the Storm! That stuck Trampler continues to live rent free in my memory as one of, if not, the most aggravating losses I've ever had in Sand.

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Otherwise? Losses to players, cheaters, dupers, teamers, Sophie servers just kind of roll off my back by the time I'm back at Lobby, and just re-gear up.

But a stuck Trampler? My sorry butt spent 30+ minutes on both Tramplers, breaking/fixing legs, turning trampler on/off, etc, hoping to get unstuck. Not as fun as losing due to an actual fight, or at least having my gear reimbursed when server takes a dump, lol.

Are they going to combine NA servers?

Are they going to do something massive by next update?

Anyone else also have this happen to them and maybe know a work around for it?

Inserting Energy Rods prompts the animation, but does not consume the Rod, nor give it energy. Because of this, I was only able to get 40 Computing Modules despite having more Black Boxes available to convert. This is the first time I've had this happen to me.

TLDR; Rauchwolke Factory Reactor for creating Computing Modules ran out of energy and could not be refilled.

Just wondering if anyone has the inside scoop on what location is best for red food/shell crates for mah leather, and also if voyage is any good for red crates.

so the last update came out and everyone just stopped playing all together or were banned, and for 5 days sand lost about 70 or 80% of its player base and now looking they all came back a few days ago ALL OF A SUDDEN, this dosent seem a little "sus" to anyone? i know back when i played it was cheaters and teamers every game. i might get one "decent" fight an hour if i was lucky and i KNOW its not gotten better just reading through the forum and seeing all the complaints, are those just cheaters and teamers coming back from a ban wave because i dont understand how such a mass influx of players unanimously left and returned at the same time without some kind of new content or something dropping, what is that all about?

With the widely known issue of pre-teaming in matches, people have voices solutions to fixing this easy to recreate, yet powerful, exploit of the matchmaking system. But it will take time for the devs to implement anything. So in the meantime, what can we do to fight back?

One thing that comes to my mind is fighting fire with fire, or pre-teaming too, but hear me out on this one

Rules apply to not become a part of the problem:

- players won't abuse this exploit in order to gain an advantage over anyone, but rather to equalize the chances in case bad actors are present

- if either or the pre-teaming players decide on a PvP approach, the other does not interfere and just watches, making it CLEAR to the other party

What do you think of this approach? Certainly questionable in terms of rules, and can even get you banned if someone misunderstands the situation, but would it be fine, as long as these two rules are being rigorously followed by the teamers in question?