Trivia / Insurgency: Sandstorm

• Ascended Fanon: A number of Sandstorm's new firearms were popular model replacements in the prior game.
• Fake American: Adam James, the actor for the Spec Ops voice, is a UK native.
• Screwed by the Lawyers:
  • The beta test featured the Glock 17 as one of the handguns for the Security side, but it was removed from the final game due to legal threats from Glock GmbH. The first content update for the game added a Suspiciously Similar Substitute in the form of the PF940, an aftermarket replacements part kit compatible for the Glock frame that exist in real life.
  • Originally, the Humvee was to be featured in the game, but the ongoing (at the time) AM General v. Activision lawsuit over the usage of Humvees in the Call of Duty franchise caused only the generic technical to be implemented.
• What Could Have Been: The single player went through two iterations before being dropped - the first was a Flash Back and Flash Forward between the 2004 Invasion of Iraq and the modern-day fight against ISIS from the viewpoint of a military vet. The second interwove this with female Kurdish fighters rebelling against ISIS rule in their village, then starting a resistance against the organization. The campaign was dropped in favor of the multiplayer (which returned to a non-specific Middle Eastern conflict) after the lead designer left.