The game

Game types

Every game type of the original's waiting room, each played to its own rules by the server and drawn by the game: the objective under the clock, the pieces on the radar, the score tab with the type's own columns.

Game type	How it plays	Goal (default)	Clock (default)	Maps
Team Battle	teams; rounds; no respawn	5 rounds to win	3 min	26
Team Deathmatch	teams; one game; respawn	100 points	10 min	34
Single Battle	everyone for themselves; one game; respawn	30 kills	10 min	34
Sniper Mode	teams; one game; respawn	30 kills	10 min	6
Capture the Captain	teams; rounds; respawn	5 rounds to win	5 min	34
Captain Mode	teams; rounds; respawn	5 rounds to win	4 min	34
Horror Mode	teams; rounds; no respawn	5 rounds	4 min	3
Training	everyone for themselves; one game; respawn	none	30 min	35
Team Slayer	teams; one game; respawn	100 points	10 min	34
Occupy	teams; rounds; no respawn	5 rounds to win	4 min	1
Horror Mode 2	teams; rounds; no respawn	5 rounds	5 min	2
Pirate Mode	teams; one game; respawn	150 points	10 min	1

The defaults are the game's own; the host of a room sets the goal and the clock within each type's range. Team Battle's mission comes from the map: Destroy (set the bomb at one of two sites; it goes off 35 seconds later unless it is made safe), Take Back (carry the item home), Escape (reach the zone), or Dual (either side carries one item to its own zone). On Destroy, Take Back and Escape maps the sides change over once in a game. The game types guide has every rule.

Pirate Mode on the Pirate Ship: pirates and marines fight over three strongholds on the beach

Horror Mode 2 on Village Horror: an undead at arm's length, your health down to 43

Team Battle on Nerve Gas, a Take Back mission

Capture the Captain on Crossroad: you are your side's captain, with 1,000 HP

Captain Mode on Train: a captain's health is a share of the side's pool, 1,055 here

Horror Mode on Nerve Gas Horror: the undead close in

Horror Mode 2: an undead picks its class, here the Hunter

Occupy on the Silo: the score tab with the game type's own Capture and Sample columns

Pirate Mode's score tab: Point and Save beside the kills

Sniper Mode on Base Camp, the PSG-1 in hand

Maps

40 maps, each with its own loading picture, mission and briefing as the game's data has them. A room picks one, or All Random, or Hot Random from five. Click a picture to see it whole.

Art Center
Elimination
Base Camp
Elimination
Bridge
Escape
Punch through enemy line and escape to operation area.
Bunker Buster
Destroy
Destroy enemy's Bunker Buster.
Canyon
Dual
Recover the satellite modem and move to extraction area.
Crossroad
Destroy
Secure the access route of the armored unit.
Desert Camp
Destroy
Destroy enemy's next generation tanks.
EMP
Take Back
Seize enemy's EMP controller and return to base.
Factory
Elimination
Obtain 100 points by eliminating the players on the opposite team.
Fortress
Dual
Recover laptop and move to operation area.
Harbor
Destroy
Hospital
Take Back
Seize DNA sample from the enemy and return to base.
Jakarta
Destroy
KF815
Destroy
Destroy enemy's KF815.
Kill House
Elimination
Kinabalu
Dual
Retrieve black box and move to operation area.
Missile
Destroy
Infiltrate enemy missile base and destroy missile control.
Neo Missile
Destroy
Neo Shanghai
Escape
Punch through enemy line and escape to operation area.
Nerve Gas
Take Back
Seize enemy's nerve gas sample and return to the base.
Nerve Gas Horror
Take Back
Nighthawk
Destroy
Destroy the enemy's Nighthawk.
Nuclear
Destroy
Destroy enemy's nuclear plant.
Pirate Ship
Elimination
Plasma
Destroy
Destroy enemy's plasma transport.
Plasma Horror
Destroy
Predator B
Destroy
Destroy enemy's Predator B.
Satellite
Destroy
Destroy satellite dish and the control room.
S.Center
Elimination
Sentosa
Elimination
Shanghai
Escape
Punch through the enemy lines and get to the submarine.
Shanghai Horror
Escape
Silo
Elimination
Snow Camp
Destroy
Toy Tower
Elimination
Train
Destroy
Destroy the engine from the uranium transport train.
Tunnel
Elimination
Venezia
Escape
Punch through enemy line and escape to operation area.
Village
Take Back
Return to base after obtaining the laptop that has the secret information.
Village Horror
Elimination

Which game types each map offers

Forces and weapons

The 12 forces Soldier Front sells, each with the original's own moving speed, upper and lower defence and head-shot avoidance. Every new soldier starts in ARTC for free; the rest are sold in the Character Shop for SP.

ARTC
Delta Force
Force Recon
GIGN
GSG-9
KSF
Mulan
PSU
ROKMC
SAS
Spetsnaz
SRG

82 weapons: rifles, submachine guns, sniper rifles, machine guns, shotguns, pistols, knives and grenades. Their damage, rate of fire, recoil and spread are the game's own tables, and so are their scopes: how far each zooms, the picture you look through, how fast the aim turns while scoped. A scope goes straight to its full power; the AWP's alone goes in two steps.

A shot can go through a wall where the wall is thin enough: up to 60 cm for a sniper rifle, 48 for a machine gun, 40 for a rifle, 24 for a submachine gun and 20 for a pistol, losing damage the thicker the wall. The server measures every such shot itself. A kill through a wall has a mark of its own, Wall Shot, the one kill mark the original never had.

Wall Shot: our own mark, for a kill through a wall

The lobby

The original's lobby, drawn from its own page layouts and art: the server list, the thirteen channels, the room list, Make Room and the waiting room with its two team panels.

The waiting room: two sides of bots, the map's briefing and the room's five options

The first page: the server list with its All, Official, Community and Favourites tabs, and This PC to play and host on your own machine

Creating your soldier: a code name, and ARTC to start in for free; the other forces are sold in the Character Shop

The channel list: the original thirteen channels, beside the lobby's NEW and HOT tiles

Make Room: the map, the game type, the goal, the clock, day or night, third person and joining late

Loading Desert Camp: the room's soldiers, the map's briefing and its plan

In a match

The radar, the clock and the score, the original's kill marks, the radio in English, German, Korean or Spanish, bullet marks, spent cases, blood, grenades, smoke and flash-bangs. Third person when the room allows it, and a death card that says who killed you, with what, from how far and with how much health left.

Desert Camp in third person, which a room may allow: running past the truck

Desert Camp: firing beside the helicopter, with the four-kill streak's Special Force mark and the kill feed

Manning one of the Pirate Ship's cannons: fire shoots it, E leaves it

The match menu: resume, settings, report a player, a vote to kick, the staff panel, leave

A head shot's mark, the original's art from its kill-effect table

A smoke grenade at its fullest: drawn in full for everyone, whatever their options

The radio's General list, its line picked with the controller's d-pad

Damage numbers rising over a soldier you hit: an option of your own

A spray on the wall: one a life, with the T key

The shop

SP is earned by playing and spent in the Weapon, Character and Item Shops. Guns rent for 7, 30 or 90 days or are bought for good, and every gun is as the game made it: nothing is fitted to it or added to it, so an M4A1 is the same M4A1 in everyone's hands. The capsule machine turns for capsule coins, with each capsule's odds on the screen. Sprays go on the wall, one a life.

The Weapon Shop: each gun for 7, 30 or 90 days, or for good

Buying a gun: the length of the rental and its price, or for good

The Character Shop: the forces, and the parts each can wear

The Item Shop: boosts, name colours and the other items

The capsule machine: twelve capsules, what each holds and its odds

The Item Shop's sprays, by the day or for longer

The inventory's weapons, each slot's gun and its days left

How the shop works

Clans, friends and chat

A friend list of up to 100, whispers that wait in an inbox, and chat by lobby, room, team, clan or global. Clans have Owner, Co-Owner, Lieutenant, Member and Recruit ranks, are Open or Closed, keep a log, and wear an emblem: Soldier Front's own builder, or one of your own from the emblem maker, made in the game with nothing uploaded.

The emblem maker: a clan's emblem built from shapes and pictures, shown at 64, 32 and 16 pixels

A finished emblem: a skull over a snowflake on a shield

Join a clan: the clans there are, each Open or Closed

Founding a clan with Soldier Front's own mark builder: 48 backgrounds, 32 frames and 78 symbols

Rewards and events

A sign-in week, rewards for hours played, three quests a day, a Duffle Bag for every rank climbed, and events on the calendar with their own SP and XP bonuses, gift boxes and quests. Each box shows its odds before it is opened.

Rewards, Today: the week's sign-in days and the hours of play

Rewards, Quests: three a day, and what doing all of them pays

Rewards, Events: what is on, what comes next, and each one's bonuses

The inventory's Gift tab: a Duffle Bag and a Gift Box waiting to be opened

Replays

Every match is recorded on the server and kept 7 days. Anyone can have the recording of a match they played once it is over, keep it on their PC with a memo, and watch it again through a soldier's eyes or following them, winding it back and forth.