SAND: Raiders of Sophie Update #11 Adds Lobby Browser, EMP Weapons, and New POI
Update #11 for SAND: Raiders of Sophie arrives as a dense mid-cycle patch, with the developer noting that a major content update is also expected later in the same month.
The headline addition is the Recruitment Office — an in-game lobby browser that lets players post and browse expedition ads, complete with tags to filter by playstyle or intent. It surfaces inside the team player list via a set of blue buttons, addressing one of the more persistent friction points in cooperative survival: finding strangers worth trusting with your sand-crawler.
What Changed
- Recruitment Office opens for finding or joining teammates, with taggable ads
- New items (found exclusively in the Suspicious Pile of Sand for now): EMP Grenade, EMP Rocket, V1 Repair Patch, and Advanced Repair Kit Fuel
- New POI: POI Archipelago, visible on the map but intentionally unnamed like other islands
- "Take All" mechanic: press F on a container to collect every item at once
- Rum car trunks now contain loot
- Stationary, one-time-use medkits added to islands and forts
- Climbable vines added to select islands and forts
- Slight world generation improvements for more terrain variety
- VFX improvements and optimizations
- Multiple bug fixes: Captain's Compartment placement exploits, character hitbox during turret operation, held large items disappearing on the Trampler, input lockouts after turret or staircase interactions, and a crouching clip with the M78v Embrasure
The EMP weapons in particular suggest new strategic options against vehicle systems, though the source does not elaborate on their mechanics beyond their names.
For regular players, the "Take All" shortcut and the recruitment browser alone represent a meaningful reduction in friction across both solo and cooperative sessions.