Sanctum 2

Sanctum 2

Developers
	Coffee Stain Studios
macOS (OS X)	Ryan C. Gordon
Linux	Ryan C. Gordon
Publishers
	Coffee Stain Studios
Engines
	Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows	May 15, 2013
macOS (OS X)	August 14, 2014
Linux	August 14, 2014
Reception
Metacritic	77
IGDB	80

Sanctum
Sanctum	2011
Super Sanctum TD	2013
Sanctum 2	2013

General information

Sanctum Wiki

Another Sanctum Wiki

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
GamersGate
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Steam

All versions require Steam DRM.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Season Pass	Only contains the 4 map-packs
Road to Elysion	Adds 1 new area with 4 maps, 2 new enemies and one new boss, 1 character, 2 towers, 2 weapons and 6 perks
Ruins of Brightholme	Adds 1 new area with 4 maps and 2 new enemies, 2 towers, 2 weapons and 7 perks
The Pursuit	Adds 1 new area with 4 maps and 2 new enemies, towers, 2 weapons and perks
The Last Stand	1 new area with 4 maps, new towers and perks
Britech Skin Pack	4 skins, one for each of the 4 characters of the maingame
Original Soundtrack

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Sanctum2\SanctumGame\Config\
macOS (OS X)
Linux	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/common/Sanctum2/SanctumGame/Config/

This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Sanctum2\SanctumGame\SaveData\
macOS (OS X)
Linux	$XDG_DATA_HOME/Sanctum2/
Steam	<Steam-folder>/userdata/<user-id>/210770/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game general video settings.

In-game advanced video settings.

Graphics feature	State	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor			See Multi-monitor.
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		50-110°; use Flawless Widescreen for higher settings.
Windowed		Can also be toggled with F11
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Default is 4x; see Anisotropic filtering (AF).
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Uses MSAA, up to 8 samples.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS		Menues run around 30 FPS
120+ FPS		See High frame rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Multi-monitor

Set aspect ratio override
Go to the configuration files location. Open SanctumEngine.ini. Go to the [Engine.LocalPlayer] section. Find AspectRatioAxisConstraint and change it to read AspectRatioAxisConstraint=AspectRatio_MaintainYFOV Menus and some other elements are stretched.

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

High quality AF[citation needed]
Go to the configuration files location. Open SanctumSystemSettings.ini. Find MaxAnisotropy= line and set 16 as value

High frame rate

Change frame rate smoothing[citation needed]
Go to the configuration files location. Open SanctumEngine.ini. Search and change bSmoothFrameRate to FALSE or raise MaxSmoothedFrameRate value. Save file. For more information, see the Unreal Engine 3 page.

Input

In-game general control settings.

In-game key map settings.

In-game gamepad settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Shown as Mouse Smoothing
Mouse sensitivity		Sensitivity and mouse smoothing are saved in Steam save game data location in Profile.bin
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		Four different presets are available. To remap each button individually, see Remapping.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers

Remapping

Edit mappings[citation needed]
Go to the configuration files location. Open SanctumInput.ini. Scroll to Scaleform.KeyMap for controller, or Engine.PlayerInput for keyboard. Rebind as desired, then save your changes.

Audio

In-game audio settings.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		On by default. No menu option to disable for multiplayer.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Russian
Spanish

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
vorpX		G3D, Z3D User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play		4	Co-op Use Nucleus Coop & Unofficial mod.
LAN play
Online play		4	Co-op

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol	Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP	7777
UDP	7777

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues unresolved

Connection to host failed

Several players have reported issues when connecting to multiplayer servers.

Menu is locked to 30fps

Game itself works intended frame rate but menus are locked to 30fps. There's no solution to this and developers are aware of it

Issues fixed

Startup crash

Failed to Create the D3D9 Device! This can happen if the desktop is locked[citation needed]
Caused by the game trying to use a resolution not permitted. Add -windowed as a command line parameter, or edit SanctumSystemSetting.ini in the configuration files location to manually adjust resolution/fullscreen settings.

.NET installs before every launch

Delete install VDF and redist folder[citation needed]
Go to the installation folder. Delete 210770_install.vdf and the Install folder.

Linux - Doesn't start on Steam

If you see this error (when running Steam from a terminal):

/bin/sh: /home/labyrinth/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sanctum2/Sanctum2: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

the ^M indicates that the file is DOS-formatted, so the newline is confusing steam and/or Sanctum2. Various editors have ways of converting the newlines. Here's one way you can convert it using vim:

:e ++ff=dos
:setlocal ff=unix
:wq

If Sanctum2 still doesn't start, you have an additional problem.

Linux - Missing Textures

S3TC texture compression is patented and may be missing in open-source drivers such as intel; which may result in missing textures. This can be fixed by installing the libtxc_dxtn library for your distribution.

• Fedora: libtxc_dxtn
• Ubuntu: libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Linux

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP SP3	Vista SP2, 7, 8
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo 1.6 GHz	2.0 GHz Quad core
System memory (RAM)	2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB	4 GB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 9.0c compatible Shader model 3.0 support	Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 512 MB of VRAM