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Insurgency (2014) was the first ever FPS game I played. I remember the first day I played it, I joined a night map and was immediately dropped into darkness and gunshots. There were a few experienced players who taught me the very basics, how to use night vision etc.
Over time, Insurgency has always been the game I fell back onto when I wasn't playing anything else. I even tried making maps for the game. It runs on the Source engine, and the unwieldy Hammer editor always put me off. Or I would be so happy with the start of my map that I would keep playing it instead of actually finishing it!
The competitive side of Insurgency, once promising, is now all but non-existant. There used to be discord servers which would facilitate 5v5 skirmishes, there were a lot of wallbanging spots for someone with a machine gun to spray through at the start of the round. It was the Insurgency equivalent of Sniping Creaky Doors on de_dust2.
There are plenty of weapon mods for the game which are very well made (ripped assets!), but a lot of the custom maps are fairly low quality. You can still find PvE servers populated with these mods on. I have no clue who is still paying for a server on these games though.
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