Anyone else feel like the game seriously lacks things to look forward to? We used to get pretty consistent “big” events sprinkled throughout the year to keep things interesting, with fusion events, fusion benches, workbenches and so on, but this new approach of completely ignoring most “big events” and just spamming a weekly brawl out of a stale pool of brawls kinda feels stale. It feels that it’s gone from quality to quantity.
You used to grind resources and coins and parts for these big events, but these days it’s just a lottery of which part is used in the mini battlepass workbench and that’s pretty much it. It’s all just gotten so stale. Instead of multiple week long things like steel championship and mayhem, we maybe get a 6-day recycled brawl with lackluster rewards for the most part and no fusions outside mini battlepass workbenches
Special brawls like crossout day and so on that gave people a chance to play all kinds of stuff they normally could not afford is a distant memory, now at most we get a “test prototype” brawl for a few days at a launch of a big pass, and it’s just a glorified advertisement for the current pass parts.
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Hey Kohtupora2,
I appreciate you taking time to post this discussion. Crossout is getting long in the tooth.
The BP events are to keep the lights on. As long as people buy those BP events and mini events the game will continue. Not sure a new innovation is the direction the Dev’s or the business will go. Shrug… we can hope.
For me I still enjoy building. Hope you find something that you can still enjoy while playing Crossout.
Cheers mate,
-MC-
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in my case, it’s just 5 patrol games a day for the dailies…enough for the mini BP legendary crate…other than that, it’s become a waste of time even to try…
so sad…a game with soo much potential going down the drain because of dumb management…
…i could manage it better…
its been this way for YEARS though. for me i wanted more in the game. more modes, etc but you know how the toxic baby players are. “itll split the playerbase waah waah waah!” meanwhile we got no significant updates in YEARS. the only updates we seem to get are “”“”“new”“”“” brawls now and then, recycled events, endless battlepasses, endless mini battlepasses and now what seems to be going forwards… a third battlepass. im just getting very tired of all this nonsense. usually games would have a giant update at least once or twice a year and crossout has had no massive updates in such a long time. for me its just do my dailies, maybe a raid or two then im done for the rest of the day. theres just nothing keeping me coming back. as much as i like crossout its just lacking so much. on top of that the devs never keep their promises to so theres that as well.
Instead of playing crossout, i made some music to sell on spotify, some books to sell on amazon, and some digital art on Etsy, what i look forward to now is some extra income with all this crazy inflation.
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Haven’t played XO for… a year at least, maybe more. To play some XO is already a thing to maybe look forward to for me.
Another thing is updates since haven’t brought anything to be looking forward to. Normally though when things get this stale better go play something else, or do something else. Problem is it’s mostly easier said then done, not so easy hopping and switching for most people, and times are dull now.
Practical example I can share though is prepping is quite cool hooby - packing stuff, then trying to pack lighter, considering different scenarios to be prepared for, learning logistics, some survival and repair skills… and then maybe go fishing or hiking and try to rethink and rebuild life to set priorities straight or something.
Sadly the only other game I feel interested in at the moment is the next gen of pokemon, but that’s next year. Not to mention I’d have to get a switch 2. I really wish they roll out a switch 2 lite I don’t want to buy a switch 2 in this economy
I had fun times playing Don’t Starve, Civilization V, ANNO 2070, did a quick walkthrough of Fallout 4 to maybe have a different perspective and experience after all I learned and I have. Some another go at Skyrim, some “few weeks a year” minecraft time, Mount and Blade: Warband. Been few years but worth mentioning Assassin’s creed: Odyssey and Origins(Meh story but cool atmospheric graphics and details+fun combat system). I stopped playing Fallout 76 a year+ ago and updates wasn’t great there but I have 2000+ hours on that game, was awesome building things, grinding uncompetetive stuff and having fun on PvE events. Even small game like Nuclear Throne is likely worth checking out.
With all of the multiple mini events along with the main B.P it has become overwhelming for me to think of “doing it all”. The mini events haven’t inspired me. Good for the younger clients though. After playing X.O from a month after its open beta was released. Being used to the old grind in factions was an incentive and looking forward to the two Battle passes a year allowing us to farm materials for the event in between event’s. Hence “A little was a lot” Now XO has become who has the latest crap. For me, A few patrols & that is about the extent of what Crossout brings me. The introduction of BW legs was a cool addition, Sadly they are vastly in dire need of tweaking as the issues are being taken advantage of. Yeah, what ever but still its BS when other movement parts were nerfed into oblivion. Thankfully I have several actual fun activites other than X.O that are all hands on and quiet rewarding . In a nut shell, It is sad to see the publishers of this once great game turning it into what they did to War thunder.
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I’m lucky then…
Man, if you are in need of a rest, than rest, and come back again…or don’t
because… of this
I’m still having problems in some aspects of the game, rewards e.g. and economy.
very different, another example premiums.
Before - A premium ship, you would buy it and go to battle, gold rule, never sell a premium ( you would receive only credits for it.
Now - you buy a shitty thing that costs a lot, so you overpay for a pile of smoking thing…to sell back for coin and keep what’s worth for the buyer…right…
I don’t think so.
I have my battleships and heavy cruisers not in looks but in essence.
Playing other game… the switching period sucks, your evolution will be slowed.
So i would suggest to rest when needed, for the time you think is necessary, if you decide to move on, burn the bridge and then move on to another game if you want.
You may struggle a bit in some areas, hey…
At first i was always talking about ships, now what was the last time i mentioned them ?
I’m not aware of your ship thing, what game is it even? Sounds like World or Warships(War Thunder doesn’t allow selling vehicles, only buying lol). I had this experience with World of Tanks though - same economic system and seem to had same problem you suggested - buy premium - find that it’s trash - sell it to salvage something - later find out you shouldn’t because either you figured some skills to make the thing work or devs balanced it to suddenly become playable again.
Although with those games I hit one same wall - I built perfect setup - lost interest entirely to whole game. Same with War Thunder. Getting to top league usually is just facing sweaty nerds and to win against them you just have to perfect annoying weird crap that just work in that game.
XO though - enough random and novelty that game never exhausts itself. I did though destroyed my whole stock to “burn the bridge” so that I would never come back to game… but did again and again because life just doesn’t work out either and it’s not so easy finding something better, and after some cool it’s somewhat fun again.
What I don’t agree on is mastery thing - the way you talk like “it’s bad slow time mastering the thing.” - as if the game is only fun when you pro on top of food chain. I actually left some if not most games once I “mastered it” - it just dumb doing same and same again when nothing new enough ever happens. And learning the new stuff isn’t that bad, it’s fun actually, it’s just the game must be engaging enough to be interesting.
World of Warships
I didn’t meant that way.
The transition phase sucked for me.
When i started playing crossout i was burnt out from Warships i was used to a game where positioning, awareness, how am i angled in relation to others, type of ammo i have in the chamber, changing direction and speed constantly ( anticipating torp attacks ) , detection mechanics, how to manage floods, fires and survive under fire. 30 knots, top speed ( ML200s speed ) and they were the fast ones, stay sharp for enemy moves, specially last known locations of certain ships ( we didn’t saw them all the time ) where and when to attack, and when to kite or simply go dark and so on. a match could go for 20 minutes
Here, a battle in 1 minute can be over, in the beginning i just didn’t have the time to watch the radar ( you should see my face when i saw builds covered in radars when decors were used as armour) there a radar ship was focused so hard by the other team, it was a priority target, without that ship our DDs could go in and spot for the entire team, if not we would be blind and the other team would spot us. Same thing as World of tanks.
My head wasn’t in the game, i didn’t take advantage of the starter pack, wondering why my white wheels kept falling off at 6 K PS, things like that.
Packs…one thing is to have a legendary ship, a ship that’s in history, to go out in it and do battle, to kick ass or see our ass be kicked…what’s a pack?
Packs in XO. When you buy set of parts and vehicle to assemble from it.
Never played World of Warships. The thing just looked too slow and boring for me.
I played dozens games I got used to switching and learning new stuff, just had to be fun enough. You sound like you really got used to Ships… Have you actually considered trying ships in War Thunder?
I have this experience that after World of Tanks playing tanks in War Thunder just felt somehow dull and boring, I prefered WoT arcade style. I did though played Armoured Warfare which is sort of WoT clone but with modern tanks - somehow that one was fun, although I mostly played recoon vehicles like light tanks in WoT. But that’s actually a clone project which was different enough and fun enough to play a while almost same thing.