Crossout Info how-to

If you saw me on this forum, you’ve probably saw me showing some kind of stat card (like this one!)
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People were wondering what’s this, how to use it (and even how it’s fake since it doesn’t show all of their matches). So i decided to make a topic/guide for those who are interested (and also so i can link it further instead of individually explaining what this thing is).

So. This is Crossout Info. Essentially, you upload your combat logs, and you can later view things like:

  • average damage
  • winrate
  • rounds played

for specific weapons, gamemodes or for your account as a whole.
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You can also view specific battles, how many damage you, your teammates and enemies did,
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as well as how much damage you’ve recieved, or damage types dealt in that individual battle.
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Now, concerning how some people see this site as fake. You must understand that this is a community-driven, non-official thing and not in a way a tool from Targem / Gaijin themselves - so some data might be missing.

The way it handles the data is, when you get a player in your battle that uploads their battle log, that particular battle would be logged - the performance of all participants from that battle are available for viewing, so these hundred battles or so out of tens of thousands you’ve played are exactly that if you don’t upload the battle logs yourself.

This is mostly a you-know-what-measuring thing, but you can also view the data under “Seasons” tab to see what’s currently good or bad in a particular gamemode.

Or you can analyze what performs best. Like, what build of yours tanks more, or deals more damage, or has more winrate.

Now, there are two ways of uploading the battle logs - we’ll use the manual method as it doesn’t require downloading anything.

All you need to do is to input

–cvar cl_combatLog 1

into the launch options. (Logs were turned on by default, but devs removed that feature. sadge.) If everything is done correctly, next time you launch Crossout, there should be a “combat.log” file inside the С://Users/{Username}/AppData/Local/Targem/Crossout/logs/{Date} directory. You should upload that file, and the battle log will be available.

Hopefully that helps and clears some confusion.

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What i’ve also gathered from using it for a little bit more than 3 years (3 years and 3 months, to be exact!) :

  • It’s highly unlikely to edit the combat.log file in a way that will skew the data without the website detecting that and flagging the log as tampered with. Of course, there isn’t such thing as “impossible” in a programming world - but so far there weren’t such incidents.
  • If you leave the battle without it ending (aka it doesn’t show as Victory / Defeat in-game battle history), the battle wouldn’t be saved in your copy of the log. Theoretically you could skew the data by leaving the unfavourable battles so they wouldn’t be in the uploaded log… but if any other player from that battle remains for the result screen and uploads their log, your result, along with everyone else in that battle, will be registered, so it doesn’t have much impact.
  • It can’t analyze and store patrol battles. sadge.
  • Your logs directory can only store 10 latest log-ins. So you can’t upload all the battles you’ve played in all your years, unfortunately. (but hey, that means you can start from a clean slate!)
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