The primary goal seems to be making us buy packs with the required item. In the previous such cases, the pack with that item would go on sale the next day. This time, a discount was applied the moment the contest started. Marketing a player-designed pack would be a secondary goal. Those packs aren’t even that great. It’s almost like trolling. The main selling point of those packs could be the 4000 coins they include.
Of course, this new version of the Clash of Engineers contest is a travesty. It’s also confusing, because you can either build something more likely to win the main contest, or something to win the 10K coins, and it’s harder to build something that could win both. I tried building soemthing fun, but it didn’t even make it into the top 100. Meanwhile, these are the PC winners:
That frog doesn’t even move. So it looks like it didn’t matter what we built. Despite this:
So if someone understood they had to build an actual car, such as on four wheels, resembling a car, that was good looking and useful in combat, it didn’t matter at all.
Can we get some screenshots of the XBox and PS winners?
There were similar issues with the summer contest marathon. A handful of wins in the consecutive contests seemed to be awarded lazily, at random, or possibly to friends of the jurors. It didn’t matter that someone made grammar mistakes, wrote “crossout,” or reverted the Crossout logo, or even submitted an AI picture with something that vaguely resembled the logo. Here you go, a set of the ultra-rare green lamps!. That marathon was an insult to Crossout, and to those that actually put in the work to deliver quality art. I managed to end up in Tier 1, just like in the winter marathon, but it it was hard. It’s even possible that the English version of the contest was used to ‘gift’ some rare items to a few Gaijin volunteers, who’d normally participate in the Russian version of the contest. So there may actually have been 5 instead of 10 actual Tier 1 winners, but that doesn’t make it feel any better.
In one case, 2 Long green lamps were awarded for writing: “Happy bday crossout , we had a lot of fun together; now where’s the cake???” There were a few more of similar quality - just in the writing contest; the trend continued for the entire duration. In two of the minor contests, the tasks were direct translations from Russian, ans so were the correct answers. How could non-Russians know that two whales with a crossed swords symbol between them mean “Whaler” and instead of “Narwhal”?
It turned out that’s the literal meaning of “whaler” in Russian. That was used as a riddle in the English version of the contest.
The entire contest section was deleted from Discord 2 or 3 days after the marathon ended, despite the winter one staying online until May. Perhaps to hide something? It’s as if Crossout can’t have a fully transparent contest.
How much does it cost to keep those contests online indefinitely, to celebrate these important events in Crossout’s history? As well as for transparency.
