Gamemodes
Deathmatch
Free for all with no teams or objectives, you are pitted against all the other players in the server. You can access the buy menu and buy any modern weapon in this mode.
Gun Game
Each player spawns with an M249. Once a player receives a kill with the weapon, the next weapon in the list spawns in their hand and they must earn a kill with it. This process continues until a player has killed another player with the knife. There are 26 gun levels.
This is a free-for-all mode, so players are encouraged to kill anyone they see.
Players cannot buy in this game-mode.
The upgrade list goes as follows:
- 1: M249
- 2: Saiga-12
- 3: M4A1
- 4: AK-47
- 5: AUG A3
- 6: FAMAS F1
- 7: P90
- 8: UMP-45
- 9: PP-19 Bizon-2
- 10: MP5-N
- 11: Mini-UZI
- 12: Barrett M99
- 13: AWP
- 14: G3/SG1
- 15: Kar98k
- 16: SPAS-12
- 17: M590
- 18: Sawed Off Shotgun
- 19: Desert Eagle
- 20: Revolver
- 21: Five-Seven
- 22: TEC-9
- 23: Beretta M9
- 24: Glock 18C
- 25: M1911A1
- 26: Knife
WW2 Gun Game
Same as Gun Game, but with WW2 weapons instead of modern weapons.
One in the Chamber
A special version of Deathmatch. Every player spawns with a Golden Deagle that has one single bullet. Each bullet instantly kills another player, and every kill awards one bullet.
So if you miss, you're out of ammo completely. However you have a knife as a backup, and can attempt to get a kill and another bullet. You can use the knife over and over again to gain plenty of ammunition. However, If you die, you get reset back to one bullet, so be careful.
You can shoot 2 bullets without reloading by putting a mag in so the chamber has a bullet in it and putting in a new mag with its own bullet.
Search and Destroy
The Search and Destroy game mode consists of 2 minute rounds. Players have one life per round, the "Terrorist" team has the objective of planting the bomb on one of several bomb locations, while the "Counter Terrorists" need to defend the bomb locations or defuse the bomb. Winning can also result if everyone on a team is eliminated. If the "Terrorists" plant the bomb before all "Terrorists" are killed, "Counter Terrorists" will still need to defuse the bomb. First team to 10 wins will win overall. Bomb Arming and Defusing
The Bomb has an LCD screen and a number pad. To arm the bomb, 4 digits are required to be input into the Number Pad in the correct sequence. The number required for input can be found on the upper left corner of the LCD screen. An incorrect number will reset the sequence. Once the bomb is armed, a green light will turn on indicating that the code has been input correctly and the bomb is now armed. Now place it on the Bomb outline at the bombsite to start the timer. Failing to put the Bomb on the outline within roughly 5 seconds, the Bomb will reset, requiring you to reinput the code. Defusing the bomb requires 8 numbers to be correctly input into the number pad.
Counter Terrorists may purchase Wire Cutters for $800, which allows a bomb to be defused by clipping the 3 wires atop the bomb. This allows Counter Terrorists to defuse the bomb much quicker.
Money
All players start the game with $900.
Players are awarded money based on their team performance, losing streaks will increase the amount of money received:
Loss:
- 1st Loss: $1500
- 2nd Loss: $2200
- 3rd Loss: $2600
- 4th Loss: $3200
- 5th Loss: $4200
Win:
- Win bonus: $3250
Each kill a player receives depends on the weapon used as well as attachments on the weapon.
Players receive round win/loss bonus regardless of whether or not players survived the round. This differs from Counter Strike where Terrorists get no loss bonus if they lived without planting the bomb.
Terrorists are rewarded $500 for planting the bomb.
The kill bonuses can be found here: Kill Bonuses
Note that the new Prone feature in Shack is currently disabled for SND for balancing reasons, so your model won't be able to go prone even if you do.
Team Deathmatch
Two teams are pitted against each other with the goal of accumulating the most kills of the opposite team. Spawn times are short and players may purchase weapons until they move too far away from where they spawned.
Players start with a random weapon and $4900, each kill earning $300 and each respawn earns $4000.
Any weapon purchased will disable random weapons and upon death, you'll spawn with the weapons equipped/holstered to you upon death.
killing a teammate, yourself or pressing the suicide button gives -4 points(hurting but not killing them will not effect the score in any way and does NOT count as an assist for either side if they die later), dying does not effect points (however will award the opposing team 2 points), getting an assist awards 1 point and killing an enemy player awards 2 points.
Tank Team Deathmatch
Similar to TDM, but with WW2 weapons/skins as well as tanks. You can't buy weapons in this mode, instead you are given a random "loadout" when spawning in.
King of the Hill
Both teams compete to take and hold one objective. When your team has the highest number of players inside the objective, you gain points and each team has to compete to a set number to win.
In some KOTH maps, the objective can move to different locations after a period of time, and often times a "loot crate" will spawn in the middle of each objective containing useful weapons and items.
TTT
TTT has a variety of roles under the following three categories, Innocent (Innocent, Detective, Tank, Sheriff, Mercenary, Survivalist, Glitch), Solo (Lone Wolf, Jester), and Traitor (Traitor, Assassin). It's a roll of the dice who gets what. Innocents far outnumber the traitors, and need to kill all non-innocent roles (Watch out for the Jester though). Solos are one of a kind, and can only win for themselves instead of a team. Traitors have to kill everyone else in the match.
Failure to commit to your roles may reduce your karma, if you kill anyone you're not supposed to. Achieve too low of karma and you'll be kicked from the game.
Innocent roles:
- Innocent
You didn't do anything wrong, and there's no reason to start now. Karma will come back to bite you. Just survive as long as you can. Maybe you can help, but you must be certain you're hurting the baddie.
- Detective
A weight has been placed on your shoulders. You have a gaggle of mouthy individuals in your town and they all claim to take no part in this. Someone is lying, maybe more. Thankfully, the department has issued you a plethora of instruments to aid in the defense of your peoples (even if you don't particularly like them).
- Sheriff
Same as the detective, but spawns with a taser and handcuffs.
- Tank
Same as detective, but spawns with 200 health.
- Mercenary
You have 1 credit to buy an item with, but can't gain more.
- Survivalist (No longer in Shack RC, will be removed from PC soon too)
You start with no credits, but can loot credits from dead bodies of detectives, mercenaries, or traitors to spend in your buy menu.
- Glitch (No longer in Shack RC, will be removed from PC soon too)
You appear with a red T above your head to traitors, but you're actually innocent. They can still see you're not a T if they look at the scoreboard or don't see the T above your head through the environment, so watch out.
Solo roles:
- Jester (Currently not in Shack RC, as the role is getting a major overhaul. Will no longer end the round if a player shoots them.)
Your goal is to have any Innocent player (Any of the roles in the category above) kill you, whilst at least one antagonist (traitors, assassins, and lone wolf) is still alive. However, you can't use your weapons. If all antagonists or all innocents are killed, your objective becomes the same as the Lone Wolf role below. Also dying to an innocent will no longer allow you to win if all antagonists die first.
The Jester can be safely killed with a Golden Deagle, without causing the Jester to win.
- Lone Wolf
Your goal is to be the last man standing and kill everyone else in the round. The Lone Wolf will also have 2 credits and access to the detective's buy menu. (Both Detective and Traitor buy menus in Shack)
- Psychopath (Shack only, might come to PC soon if the role is well received)
Your goal is to kill all other players, kind of like the Lone Wolf. However, everyone in the server knows you're the Psychopath and can see the icon above your head, and you're automatically given a radar to ping the location of all other players. The Psychopath also has the same level of damage resistance as the Tank. You don't have access to any buy menus.
Traitor roles:
- Traitor
These innocents aren't your friends. They must be eliminated carefully. There is more of them than there are of you, so stealth is the key. You have many tools at your disposal but you're funds are limited. See another red T above a player's head? They're on your side, but keep communication on the down-low.
- Assassin
You get given a list of targets, and if you kill them all you instantly win. Winning as the assassin counts as a win for both traitors and assassins. If a player on your target list is killed by another player, you can no longer win as the assassin. If a target leaves the game you will lose a target but can still win by killing your remaining targets. However you can still win as a traitor and help your team.
Zombies
You and your teammates must survive endless waves of zombies, the amount of zombies that spawn will go up every round until round 21 and on where the cap is 999 zombies, you cannot buy at anytime in this game-mode and when you respawn you will get a random weapon, head-shots are instant kills since zombies do not have armor. At the end if every round you may randomly get an attachment, painkillers, or a syringe.
This game-mode is very hard because it's easy to get overwhelmed, but if you and your team work together it will work out just fine, just be weary of friendly fire!
Shoving
By using either your fists or your weapon, you are able to hit zombies to push them away, while seemingly useless, this may save your life in some situations. There are many ways you can use this to your advantage, whether it's pushing a zombie while running or saving a teammate, you can use this in most situations where shooting would cause more harm than it should.
Painkillers and Syringe
To use Painkillers, Hold the Trigger and it will open the bottle, tilt so painkillers are upside down and the pills start falling down, and aim near the head, this will heal you over time in 3 bursts. You do not need to take all of them, as a few will heal you, so take some, check health, then take more if necessary. If health is dangerously low, take the entire bottle. To use a syringe simply hold trigger while the needle is in someone and it will revive them, this can be used three times.
Loot Crates
After every wave, a crate will usually spawn, there are 6 types of crates that can spawn and 2 other upgraded versions of existing crates.
- Pistol Crates which spawn after wave 1 contain a Glock 18, Five-Seven, Revolver and a Deagle.
- SMG Crates which spawn after wave 2 contain 2 UMP-45's, 1 Micro-UZI and a FAMAS, The SMG crate gets upgraded after wave 3 and it will spawn with 1 MP5-N, 1 Micro-UZI, 1 Painkiller and 1 Syringe.
- Rifle Crates can spawn any time after the SMG crate contain 2 AK-47's and 2 M4's, then just like the SMG crate the rifle crate gets an upgrade, now spawning with 1 Syringe, 1 Pain-killer, 1 AK-47 and 1 M4.
- Mixed Crates can spawn instead of the SMG crate, it contains 1 Kar98, 1 M590, 1 UMP-45 and 1 Micro-UZI.
- Heavy Crates spawn with 1 M249, 1 Saiga-12, 1 Spas-12 and 1 G3 Semi-Automatic battle rifle.
- Attachment Crates spawn with 2 Sights, 1 Suppressor, 1 Grip.
Meta
There are many places in maps where zombies cannot go, you can easily take advantage of some of these places and camp for as long as you want! You could also carry 2 saiga-12s or 2 m249s, one on your back and one in your hand, making an easy switch without the trouble of reloading, great for tight situations.
The Hidden (aka Hide)
One team consists of 1-4 powerful players who are 99% invisible, has blades attached to their arms, moves fast, can jump and grab onto ledges, can see through walls, and can heal by stabbing dead bodies. The other team is full of soldiers who have to either kill the monsters or survive until the timer runs out. Throughout the duration of a round, there are objectives that soldiers can work together to capture by occupying them. Once captured, the monster will groan in agony and it's visibility will be increased. Soldiers have access to special items such as tripwire alarms, adrenaline shots, bandages, and special flashbangs that only affect the monsters and not your fellow teammates. A soldier will normally spawn with 4 different items: A primary weapon, a sidearm, and two miscellaneous items like a flashbang, bandage, adrenaline, or tripwire.
This mode has a scaling number of monsters. With less than 10 players, only one monster will spawn. At 10 players, 2 monsters will spawn. At 16 players, 3 monsters will spawn. And at 22 players, 4 monsters will spawn.
Tripwire alarms will show a blue line that, when a monster passes through them, will beep and explode, damaging nearby monsters and soldiers. Adrenaline shots can be used once and will give you a temporary speed boost and 20 health as a shield that you will lose when the effect wears off. Tear and use the trigger to use bandages which will heal you by 33 health, and flashbangs will temporarily blind the monster and cause it to make a noise that can be heard by soldiers to find it's location. It's best to throw flashbangs high into the air as the effects (at least the noise the monster makes when affected) will work on any monster that isn't blocked by objects between where the flashbang goes off and where the monster is.
Infection
Note that this gamemode as well as Push and Prophunt are currently only available on dedicated servers, and aren't playable in standard lobbies.
One team consists of visible Hiddens, the powers of which are the same as above but without any invisibility. At the start of a round, one random player is selected as the Hidden, and has to kill all other soldiers. Each soldier killed will become a Hidden themselves, and the Hidden team have unlimited lives. The first Hidden will always spawn with a grenade.
The soldiers don't spawn with any of the special Hidden items like they do in The Hidden, however they do have the same gun loadouts, minus the tranquilizer loadout. Their goal is to survive until the timer runs out, before all of them become infected.
Push
One team defends multiple sets of objectives, and the other team has to attack these objectives. The attackers have a limited number of "Tickets", and lose one ticket for every player who dies.
Players cannot buy weapons in this mode, and instead must choose a loadout in the spawn room. Push maps can have a maximum of 7 different loadouts, each with their own number of slots per class.
Arming the bomb requires you to spin the rod then pull down, and disarming requires you to spin the rod and pull outwards away from the bomb.
^ Directions on how to arm or disarm the bomb can be found in the spawn room for each team, with pictures to help you understand if this explanation isn't clear. ^
Prophunt
One team consists of players who can transform into various props and try to blend in, and the other team consists of soldiers trying to hunt these props down. Props will automatically taunt every 90 seconds, and there's a timer on your scoreboard which shows how long you have left to taunt. You can also manually taunt using your buy menu button, which will reset the auto-taunt timer.
As a soldier, you lose 5 health for every non-player prop you shoot, so try to only shoot props that you believe are players. You also gain a small amount of health upon killing a player prop.
(Shack only) Capture the Flag
Two teams have a flag in their base that they need to defend, and must try to capture the enemy team's flag.
Note that this gamemode is pretty buggy according to reports and only available on dedicated servers for Shack. It was removed from PC for not working well, so keep that in mind before playing.