SAND: Raiders of Sophie Update #11 Adds a Recruitment Office and EMP Weapons

The patch also adds POI Archipelago, a Take All action, a gamepad control beta, and the game's soundtrack on music streaming services.

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SAND: Raiders of Sophie Update #11 graphic over an interior ruin scene

SAND: Raiders of Sophie Update #11 is available now, giving crews a new way to find teammates, more tools for dealing with machines, and another point of interest to search. Hologryph and tinyBuild detailed the changes in the Update #11 Steam announcement.

The recruitment office is the most direct addition for players who do not want to enter an expedition alone. It lets you find teammates for your own expedition or join someone else’s, with tags available for recruitment ads to make the search easier. The office is found beneath the player list in the team menu, represented by blue buttons.

New tools and places to search

Update #11 adds the EMP Grenade and EMP Rocket, along with the V1 Repair Patch and Advanced Repair Kit Fuel. The V1 Repair Patch instantly fixes damaged patches and pipes, while the advanced fuel repairs compartments faster. All four items currently come from Suspicious Piles of Sand.

POI Archipelago is now part of the world generation and can be spotted on the map. It does not have a name in the same way the islands do. Terrain generation has also received small changes that should make the landscape a little less predictable from one expedition to the next.

Looting has a quicker option as well. Pressing F while opening a box now takes all of its contents. Rum cars have loot in their trunks, one-use stationary medkits are available on islands and forts, and greener climbable vines have been added to some locations as an alternative to ladders.

Controller users are receiving a beta control rework with new button mappings and options for reload behavior and long-action timing. The update also warns that keyboard and controller settings might reset after installation. Players may see freezes or frame-rate drops during roughly the first 20 minutes of a match while shaders compile, with improvements planned for future updates.

The SAND soundtrack is also available through music streaming services, giving the game’s Austro-Hungarian-inspired audio a place outside the expeditions.

Patch Notes for SAND: Raiders of Sophie Update #11

Update #11 focuses on recruitment, new EMP and repair items, a fresh point of interest, faster looting, controller changes, and fixes for Trampler construction and interaction problems. The official notes also list several known issues, including shader compilation stutters and controller actions that may not work as intended.

Changelog

The recruitment office is now open!
- At the recruitment office, you can find teammates to join your expedition or theirs
- You can add tags to your recruitment ad so you can easily find players
- You can find it under the list of players in the team (blue buttons)
Small improvements to world generation so terrain is slightly more variable
New items:
- EMP Grenade
- EMP Rocket
- V1 Repair Patch – instantly fixes damaged patches and pipes
- Advanced Repair Kit Fuel – fixes compartments faster
- For now, those items can only be found in the Suspicious Pile of Sand
Added POI (POI Archipelago)
- It can be seen on the map, and it doesn’t have a name like islands
Added “Take All” mechanic
- Now you can press F when opening a box to take all items from it
Rum cars now have loot in their trunks
Added stationary medkits on islands and forts
- They are one-time use
Added climbable vines to some of the islands and forts
- They’re greener than others and can be climbed similar to ladders
VFX improvements and optimizations
Fixed an issue where Captain’s compartment could be placed in hard-to-reach places if the door is located above compartments with smoking pipes
Fixed an issue where Captain’s Compartment is highlighted as valid in the trampler editor even when it was blocked
Fixed an issue where the character’s hitbox didn’t change position while operating the turret
Fixed an issue where the held large item disappears after swapping it with another large item on the moving Trampler
Fixed a clipping issue with moving toward the window while crouched inside the M78v Embrasure
Fixed an issue where the game wouldn’t respond to user inputs:
- After using a turret with a box placed on top of it
- While using a steering wheel if there is a staircase in front of it
Fixed an issue where KF “Vershyna” Crow’s nest ladder remained flying in the air after destroying the compartment
Fixed an issue where some items had “+1” displayed near them on the expedition results even though no additional item was extracted
Fixed an issue where Join by code stops working after opening another menu
Fixed an issue where the Trampler blueprint couldn’t be deleted
Your keyboard and controller settings might reset after installing the update
You might notice freezes/FPS drops in the first ~20 minutes of your match. This happens because of the shader compilation. In future updates, we’ll try to improve the compilation process so it doesn’t affect gameplay.

Rework of the gamepad controls – Beta

We started reworking gamepad controls to support new features
Changes to the button mapping:
L3 – Sprint
R3 – Scope/Melee
X|A – Jump
O|B – Crouch
Square|X – Reload/Interact
Holding Square|X – Interact
Triangle|Y – Change Weapon
Holding Triangle|Y – Change Ammo Type
L1|LB – Inventory
R1|RB – Ping
L2|LT – Scope/Hip
R2|RT – Shoot/Melee
Additional options added:
Flip Reload and Interact (Off by default (Short Interactions for reload)) – Flip long interactions with short. Reload triggers when you hold the reload button.
Gamepad Long Action Time – Slider with a min value of 1 sec and a max value of 5 sec. The default position is at 1.5 sec. Will allow you to choose how long the holding interaction should be
Changes to the inventory controls:
X|A – Take Item
Square|X – Take All
Circle|B – Drop item
Triangle|Y – Split
R2|RT – Change Inventory

Known Issues

Some actions on the controller might not work as intended
Names of the players might disappear
There may be graphical issues and artifacts when playing on Intel GPU’s
The character cannot enter the Expedition if the Invite has been accepted at the Tutorial popup 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 a speed-boosted trampler
Shotgun might not deal damage at close range distance
Ironclads can be triggered multiple times by reentering the trigger area
Character can become occluded in some cases
Character hands are “broken” when they carry energy rods
There’s a big black shader inside Fort Tarnopol

Players can report problems and share feedback through the game’s Steam Forums.

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In an alternate 1910, scavenge the sands of Sophie in towering Tramplers. Build your highly customizable walking base. Squad up or go solo. Gather loot, weapons, precious artifacts. Clash with other players in a brutal procedurally generated desert forged by history and chaos.