• Checkpoint maps in co-op mode
  
• + Medic, Engineer & VIP Classes
  
• 18 humans vs 120+ bots with suicide bombers
  
• Balanced difficulty

No racism, sexism, trolling or griefing. That’s all.

Bending the rules - for instance, shouting, “I’m being attacked by brown people!” over and over will get someone kicked or banned, should they persist when asked to stop.

If you ever feel that an admin has treated you unfairly, bring it up on Discord[discord.gg] or here on the forums. To dispute a ban, see the Unban Requests subforum.



Engineer

• Build destructible ammo caches, sandbag walls, barbed wire, stairs & IED jammers
  
• Sandbags and barbed wire temporarily block enemies from advancing
  
• Stairs grant access to previously inaccessible areas of the map
  
• Jammers reduce our respawn timer by 30 to 40 seconds, so drop those jammers!
  
• Jammers prevent nearby suicide bombers from detonating their IEDs

Engineer Build Menu: To open this menu hold out your knife by pressing the 3 key (above and between W and E), or scroll the mouse wheel. Then Ctrl+Shift+F. Choose a number / deployable from the menu and do not move while deploying. It takes 1-2 seconds to deploy something. If you move or get bumped while deploying, you must start over (3, then Ctrl+Shift+F again). You only have so many engineer credits per capture point, so spend your credits wisely.

Medic

• Heal and revive downed teammates, a serious responsibility!
  
• Hold Ctrl+Shift+S to drag bodies, or F to push them. Any class can drag or push bodies. For this to work, Ctrl and Shift (crouch and run) must not be set to toggle.
  
• Hold your paddles out (#3) to revive or heal others. Reviving and healing are automatic, so there’s no need to press the mouse attack button.
  
• Medical kits heal damage faster than paddles. Medkits thrown to the ground heal players in a small area to 40 HP, but they heal to 100 with a medic nearby. Thrown medkits cannot be retrieved.
  
• Though they rarely top the points chart, medics are the real heroes of Sernix. <3

VIP *
The VIP class does not get a primary weapon and must scavenge from the dead. The purpose of the VIP is to be there when the team captures or destroys a point. If the VIP is on point when it’s capped, or if he destroys it, then everyone gets supply points to spend on better gear. But if the VIP is not on point when it’s capped, or if he doesn't destroy it, then nobody gets any points.

* VIP and associated supply points are on server #3 only.

Juggernaut (AI)
This chap wears dark blue heavy armor and a dark, full-face helmet. A walking fortress, it takes several headshots to drop one. Sustained body shots inflict just enough damage to draw its ire, and its aim, your way. It takes a mag and a half of M4 to drop a juggernaut with body shots, enough time for it to kill several players.

Suicide Bomber (AI)
This disturbed soul roams the map muttering Allahu Akbar, that's how you know he's close. When you hear him scream Allahu Akbar, you're probably about to die. Dying suicide bombers toss their IEDs in random directions at the moment of death, unless they are dropped with a headshot...but there's a catch. Headshots have a 90% chance of preventing an IED from detonating. So even with headshots there’s still a 10% chance IEDs will detonate.



Ignore armchair generals. Every now and then a person will join Sernix and start telling people how to play. Ignore or mute them & play your way. Report any verbal abuse.

Report technical issues. Use this Discord channel[discord.gg] to report map crashes and similar concerns that we can address. Use the Bug Report subforum for serious bugs.

Avoid speed capping. There's no rule against it but most Sernix players don’t speed cap. The faster we cap a point, the tougher the bots respond, and the greater their reinforcement numbers. You've been warned! :)

Use the compass. Found under Settings, Key Bindings, Communications, Toggle Compass. Using the in-game comms (C), we call out enemy locations with cardinal directions: northwest, south, and so on. When someone spots an enemy using comms, everyone's compass displays a red arrow in the enemy's direction.

Use ammo caches. Hold your knife + R over a cache to resupply, and to heal to 100.

Become a Donor. If you want to contribute to continued development, that is. You get a Donor tag in-game, and can even get into full servers to play by typing a console command. No more waiting forever in the lobby! :)



Get all of our custom maps (use a download manager)
http://104.153.108.50/sernix_custom_content/custom_maps/maps/
Download every .bz2 file, unzip and move them to the game’s maps folder.
The default folder location for Steam on Windows is
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\insurgency2\insurgency\maps
For Linux the path may be ~/.local/share/Steam or ~/.[Ss]team, depends on the distro.

Enable the console
Go to Settings, Key Bindings and scroll to the last section, Miscellaneous.

Sound is messed up
Change Speaker Configuration under Settings, Audio to a different value. Change it back again if needed. If this doesn't work, you can try typing snd_restart in console.

Stuck in terrain and cannot move
Type !stuck in global chat (Y by default). If this doesn’t work, you can type kill in console and let a medic revive you.

Missing textures
Type retry in console. You will disconnect/reconnect and the missing textures will load.

“Error Vertex File for...” spam fills the console
Solution by Daimyo follows:

To fix this problem once, open the console and paste:
con_filter_text_out "Error Vertex File for" [then press the Enter key]
con_filter_enable 2 [and press the Enter key again]

To potentially fix the problem permanently, go to your "\insurgency2\insurgency\cfg" directory. Create a file called autoexec.cfg. In the file, paste those 2 con_filter... lines above. Save and close the file. Start the game and those errors should no longer appear. This is just suppressing the errors. This may still help though as your console does not have to render the text spam and thus may save on frame rate and reduce crashing.