[ Announcement ] Results of the big New Year poll 2024

Results of the big New Year poll 2024

Survivors!

Well, happy holidays! How are your festive dishes, have you eaten them all? While you’re relaxing after the feast, we’ve compiled the results of our big New Year poll. Let’s take a look at you, our magnificent survivors. And also compare some of the results to last year’s metrics. Spoiler: there’s not much change.

Let’s start with the basics: age. Most survivors in our community are between the ages of 18 and 25 (31%), but there are also some between 26 and 35 (26%). It’s interesting that last year we had less players under 35: 55% last year and 58% in 2024. We’re getting younger!

The vast majority of the Valley’s residents are men (98%). Women are only 2%. The numbers are the same as in the last poll results.

People come to the Valley from all corners of the world: most of the respondents said they are from Russia and CIS countries, Europe is the second popular answer, and North America comes third. But this year there was a noticeable increase in the number of survivors from South America and Asia.

49% of our community are working and 35% are studying, which is much more than 27% last year. And 13% are still successfully combining their studies and work. Respect!

47% of the survivors learned about the beautiful sights of the Valley through YouTube (45% last year). Recommendation from friends was the second popular answer, and advertisement was the third.

Last year we had 75% of experienced old-timer engineers (who have been in the Valley for more than 3 years), and this year we have 79% of them.

The most popular answer to the question “What armoured vehicles do you prefer?” was a vehicle with a medium cabin and something more heavy (33%). 18% are fans of light modules, and 12% love to drive the heaviest cars with cannons and artillery.

While you’re sleeping, 20% of survivors play non-stop. That’s how many Valley residents don’t log out of the game at all. Most still like to take a break from the Wasteland, but not for long. There are 47% of survivors who stay in the game a couple of days each week. The remaining 33% play a couple of hours per week.

Same as last year, 4% of survivors don’t fight at all, but perform the equally important task of staying in the garage and socializing. It’s great that Crossout has moral support specialists.

There are other games that don’t involve the Wasteland (but mentioning them is forbidden!!!). The split of answers about gaming in general doesn’t deviate much from last year’s result. 49% play games every day, and 26% play almost every day (5-6 days a week).

Here’s the top 5 survivors’ most favourite genres:

  • Action — 56%;
  • Strategy — 45%;
  • Fantasy RPG — 34%;
  • Cyberpunk — 28%;
  • Arcade games and platformers — 20%.

That’s it, survivors. We’re in for a foundational year, by the way. I don’t know why I wrote this…

Thanks so much to everyone who participated in the survey. Congratulations on the New Year 2025 and good luck in battles!

P.S. And as usual, a little bit of cuteness from our players:

  • “You are moving in the right direction. Way to go.”
  • “Thanks for your efforts!”;
  • “The game is developing into something really cool, I really like the move to more engagement with the community”;
  • “I hope the project will change only for the better, thank you for your work”;
  • “Dear developers! It is very pleasant to keep in contact with you going through these wonderful moments, after a while the game has really improved in a good way”;
  • “I like everything about the game, you’re doing a good job, devs! Happy New Year, and please do battle for uranium more often”.
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me neither , wth u talking about ?

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Ya, “foundational?” Does that mean they are about to change everything again? Crossout: Omni-charged 3.0? I was just starting to get used to things again.

Maybe it means they are done breaking stuff with massive, all-encompassing, overhauls of core game mechanics and peripherals, and will spend the next year tightening stuff up and perfecting the game, reeling in that sprawling architecture, and improving current game structures, rather than introducing new ones…after they bring us boats?

I like building, that’s mostly why I play this game, it reminds me of playing with my Legos. :smiley:

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id like to know who wrote this and how much weed and shrooms they were doing when they wrote this.

what efforts? the game has been the same thing for a long time now. barely anything new has been added over the past 3 or 4 years.

HAH NO IT ISN’T!! the game is stale and boring, metas are still running rampant and barely any new content has been released. everythings been temporary and if it is added permanently its very rarely.

declining player base says otherwise but they dont care apparently.

again, how many shrooms did this person consume before saying its been improving in a good way?

sounds like one of the devs or someone who really loves ass kissing.

this entire poll was pointless. why even bother making the same stupid poll? why not give us questions about the game itself and ways to improve it? ask people how they feel about helis and battlewalker legs, ask people what new modes or new features they want added to the game, ask people if they want adventure mode to be expanded, ask them literally ANYTHING except these stupid pointless questions that serve no purpose!!

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IDK, man. I can think of a lot of stuff. Say what you will about the content, like it or hate it, but there has been a lot of it added recently, and over the last year or two. Not all of it’s been popular, or universally praised, but there has been a lot of it. In fact, I’m hoping they slow down a bit this year, and back off all the new features and overhauls.

I’m not real sure what the latest META is. It all seems to be pretty lethal in the right hands, and nothing really stands out, IMO…except maybe auto-cannons. They seem maybe, arguably, too viscous at the moment? IDK.

I see a lot of active melee where I’m at, trying to make it go with sort of mixed results…cannons are back, but IDK if I’d nominate either of them as META.

I think cannons just stand out now because they sucked for so long, and now they totally don’t. They can’t just be ignored, like drones…which you can’t really ignore either these days.

I’ve enjoyed the hell out of this game over the past couple weeks, and to me it feels like it’s been a while since I did. I like where it’s at, I think, and I hope it stabilizes somewhere in here, and settles on something close to what we have today. I really can’t complain today. Maybe next week?

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I’m in it for the long haul, so I’m interested in what the Foundational Year will be about. Will a new faction be founded? Or will the Founders be found again? Will they rip up the dusty wasteland and plant some Kentucky bluegrass? (Probably not, never found much rain around there.) Will the twisted madman behind their criminal recycling program be found out? Staying tuned…

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I could probably get with a good farmer Battle Pass. I want this “FARMER” sticker from ExMachina…

The “FU” sticker might be fun too, but I can think of all kinds of Farm themed paints (Holstein cow) and decor (horns that go moo) I’d like to have.

I’d like a western themed BP, like New Vegas style cheesy space western with twisted murder tractors, revolver madness (fix my Manitou, please), and spurs for the new mech-legs…and a functional still; range decor that brews ethanol that can be used as fuel for raids and copper patrol…fertilizer bombs…a cow bell, gotta have at least some cow bell…a cattle-prod…a proper roll bar for the pick-up would be nice…how about that trailer hitch the bots get to enjoy but we don’t…I could go on.

Actually, you might be onto something - isn’t the recent lore about Syndicate trying to find the “Oracle module”? Well, the Oracle was a pretty big part of ExMachina’s story (and it even built itself a helicopter in one of the endings).
It was also located in an area with a lot of greenery (that could be an idea for a new style of maps) filled with robots on wheels - plenty of material to work with for potential future content!

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Founder’s season…?

Cyberpunk is a genre?