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Changing my review following NWI's recent decision to remove the competitive gamemode.
Insurgency is a raw and non forgiving tactical first person shooter with immense potential.
Developers have always shown good support for the cooperative and multiplayer community at wide and have always been attentitve to their wishes.

-Competitive : There has always been a competitive community with insurgency, going way back to the mod days. The developers have always promised to support it and listen to our feedback.
The community has given everything to try and grow the playerbase (of the game as a whole), promote the game, stream regularly and supported the developers wherever possible. In return, they are now deciding to remove the in-game competitive playlist, essentially locking out any new comers who might realise what an amazingly competitive and rewarding game this can be. Their motive is to devote more time and ressources to popular gamemodes, except they never, ever devoted time to competitive at all. In fact, mostly they forgot to update it, frequently broke the gamemode despite our early warnings during CTE's and took months to make the simple fixes. They've lied about their intents all the way back from 2014 with this.
-The Competitive playerbase has always been small for Insurgency but that is 100% due to the devs breaking their promise and refusing to spend any developmental time or ressources on it.

We only ever asked for a more refined and ingame leaderboard and easier matchmaking system with the potential for rewards and ingame incentives for competing. This alone would have easily keep the gamemode alive and potentially thriving. What NWI has done is mislead an entire community for years and now decided to dump their support for them completely on the pretext we were costing them a single second of thought or money. Removing the playlist achieves them nothing but an angered and frustrated community.

There was great potential for little effort but they've blown it and ruined and wasted a lot of people's trust, time and effort.

Sadly we'll probably never see such a great competitive shooter for the realistically and tactically inclined. Nothing compares to Insurgency in terms of Gunplay. What a waste..

Best game I've ever played, amazing gameplay, pure skill based, (crazy high skill cap), amazing attentive developers and a competitive and upcoming esports scene !

Hope this game stays popular for many years to come