New Battle Pass Like Watching Paint Dry

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That’s a good point, and it reminded me of how much work they’ve done on other aspects of the game…and still managed to get the Battle pass out the door. The tail end of it looks a little rushed, probably, but it’s all good. Whatever. $9.99. Fine.

It would be easier to accept if I didn’t dislike some of the new features so much, like the new build interface. I liked the old one better. Lots better. I miss it. I wish they hadn’t done that, but I do like the new sound files they’ve picked for the build feature. It’s where I like to spend most of my game time, so having that horrible “CLANK!” replaced with the new audio is very much appreciated by me.

I find the alternating rattles of the paint can oddly satisfying. It just feels good for some weird reason. The Stickers “feel” good too.

Those are the kind of things that I like about Crossout, and why it’s so hard to just quit.


I mean, really? That’s a lot of attention to detail. I love that stuff. The haunted mannequin that roamed about the garage was great, I thought. I know a lot of people might not care, and just want to get to their META-mobile and pwn some noobs, but I do. It’s the alternate universe I want to be a part of, and I love thier style at Crossout. The score board matters less than the immersion, to me…unfortunately for me they are often intertwined in a thing they like to call “The Grind.”

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Oppressor just got a buff actually (it’s now the fastest engine in the game). Put a couple hulks on a harpy with a flywheel and some buggy wheels to buff the oppressor.
You could do that with a two energy generator to keep your PS low, with a listener and epic ammo pack.
I guarantee you’ll have some fun with that combo.

Did you get the BP with hadron? If so, try it with a king and two fatmen. Very fast reload means you can just keep pounding people and throwing them around. The king is mostly there to buff the reload, but is also helpful when the dogs and wedges find you. Retreat and drop mines.

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Hell yeah, already been building with this puppy.

I know we where talking about it in another thread, but I’m not sure many people realize it is the fastest engine now.

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Grinding vs. Playing for fun…

If there were no challenges to complete, I’d often just log in and build something silly or cool looking. I’d take it into Adventure to see what got shot of, adjust the build a bit, then take it into patrol… Adjust it a bit… Then eventually take it into PVP.

Once it was good, I’d probably ditch it and start over. That’d be fun. That’s what I would do FOR FUN.

To progress in the BPs or even collect resources even remotely close to feeling like your accomplishing anything, you’re NOT doing what I listed above. The challenges are designed to coerce you to play matches repeatedly with different builds and accomplish different things every day.

Cannons may be fun, but I’d rarely ever choose to play them. Other styles are much more fun to me.

Winning badges like “Death From Above?” Really? So, now I be to go around intentionally jumping off crap while shooting?

They’ve introduced a BP you literally cannot complete - no matter how many challenges you do.

This is the grindiest game I’ve ever played - by far. If you’re not intentionally chasing challenges, playing for an incredible amount of time each day and week, AND/OR paying a ton of money into it, you simply do not progress at all.

Re-read that last paragraph.

If that doesn’t ring true to you, you’re probably doing one, two, or all the of them.

No judgement on that, but at least don’t pretend like the grind in this game is legendary. If you think otherwise, I can’t help but think our definitions of “grind” are wildly disparate.

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Did anyone complaining in this thread have plans to quit before October? And if so are you sure you are complaining about a real issue?

I mean if you didn’t plan on quitting by October… wtf difference does it make, you were going to log in and play anyway.

And if you were going to quit the game before then, why do you even care?

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I have come to the conclusion that I must like to grind, becuase all the games I have played for a long time are ultra-grinds.

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small tracks are locked at 90…poor me :sob:

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That does suck, Maybe time to change to wheels?

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i got tracks to push corpses…i have 6 shivs upgraded, i use them from time to time :crazy_face:
‘but i love the small tracks’ :hugs:

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For what it’s worth, I don’t think I have ever said I’m going to quit over how grinding the game is. The only thing I think I have said I would quit over is if the game got to the point where hovers are the only thing that works. Even then, that’s not a do this or I leave point of view. It’s just I’m not going to play something I don’t enjoy. I keep trying hovers… maybe one day I’ll find them fun.

Luckily, I think hovers have largely been fixed.

The thread is about how obnoxious the length of this battle pass is. Very grindy. How long were the early battle passes? Weren’t they like 45 days or something?

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Something like that, and it was much nicer when it was shorter.

But… also the long wait between BP’s sucked then.

Kind of 6 in one hand and half a dozen in the other.

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There’s another bad part about the short battle passes. I remember struggling to get everything done in that short little window if the battle passes hit in a period when life was busy. That being said, I think the pendulum has definitely swung too far in the opposite direction.

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I’ve just modded up a leviathan floating around my clan that has an Oppressor and I’ve added 6 Buggy Wheels in addition to some Hermits. Oppressor is good! I’ve rarely used it before and never used it since the perk change. I really want a fuse for + speed to get +24 KPH.

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I was thinking the same thing the other day.

This is on my todo list.

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you… dont have mammoths or mastodons? no tsunamis or typhoons?
i honestly didnt find the cannon challenges challenging at all. a little tedious yes but it wasnt that bad. my mastodon just shreds through armor with that heating shot followed up by that second shot. the mammoth only adds to the “screw you” damage. i got 40 parts destroyed in no time on my challenges. (this is PVE mind you)
but its also probably because im very good at shot leading to. i dont really use my typhoons at all… kind of disappointing but if the new legs turn out good i might make a build with them. wouldnt mind getting 4 additional legs but we will see.

its why i dont do brawls or anything like that really. i hate the challenges on them. “win 2 games of this” and meanwhile im losing every single game im in for over an hour and i just end up quitting and saying “F THIS CHALLENGE!!!”. most of the time when i do brawls i always end up on the losing team ALOT. so its why i never do the challenges. plus i hate pvp also, im a pve person BUT the one pvp event i do enjoy is the dronepocalypse. its a SHAME that its only a temporary mode much like everything else they released the past 3 years…

seriously nothing really significant has come out. its just been battle passes and armors, cabins, wheels, skins, modules and weapons. yeah we got a few maps but NO NEW MODES. everything in here is temporary and my patience is running thin with this. they added adventure, they killed adventure by taking out its casings and not adding new content into it. raids have become harder with some factions being more unbearable then others. dronepocalypse is only temporary… :unamused:

im only level 19 in the battle pass right now. the thing is i dont want to pay 47 dollars for the season pass with the additional 15 levels. regular battle pass for me is 13.50 CAD. its just pointless.
if you reached level 75 doing all the challenges and buy the battle pass for 47 dollars it gives 15 additional levels. well that gets you only 180 lighters. on top of that you only get 475 lighters from the standard 75 levels. so adding them together nets you 655 lighters. enough for ONE FUSED LEGENDARY…
you tell me if thats worth the price cause i really dont think it is.

if you use the proper engine, the Golden Eagle, they go to 100. though the golden eagle is a bit bulky.

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I’ve run small tracks on Golden Eagle at 100. It was pre 2.0 but they were extremely squirrely and twitchy. A wrong turn at high speeds and you went flying end over end. I haven’t driven the new Small Tracks but maybe be glad they aren’t faster than they are.

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No. It didn’t make sense to me to put a huge investment into a play-style I really ain’t into.

I didn’t. Time to bust it out then, eh?

That sounds like the ticket for me. If I can just motivate myself to do it.

That ultimatum seems flawed. I’m thinking I have more moderate choices than that.

If the BP was more interesting, I think might log on more often and play longer. So far this pass hasn’t given me anything to tinker with. It’s been rather uneventful and looks like it’ll stay that way for a while. I couldn’t even tell you what it is that I’ve earned so far, or would have earned had I bought into it already.

Ya, but you had a bunch of cool new stuff to tinker with while you were waiting for the next one. Right now I’ve gotten nothing, the forecast is also mostly nothing, and so I’m hoping for a mini-pass to come out and fill the void.

If this pass had been a bit more swift, they’d probably already have my money. As it sits, I’ll probably wait until it’s mostly over to kick down that scrawny $9.99, and by then, I may not be interested any more. I’ve practically lost interest already. It’s pretty watered down. You can ruin a good beer this same way…suddenly I want a good cold beer. Maybe that’s really what I need. It’s been a while.

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You expressed a valid point. Just, none of that impressed me. The Parsers were released so OP, I really never wanted to touch them, hate OP stuff. All that stuff you listed would just raise my Power Score. I play the game 5000-7000 using Rare and Special Drones and grind away. I like the grind, came from WoT. That is why it took 14 days into June to turn my Donut into a 6. My clanmate paid for Alpha and started Beta the first day, while I am on Wot wondering where everyone is for 2 weeks. They finally tell me about Crossout and my addiction to WoT was destroyed or replaced. I like grinding, get some Drones and grind!

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I know you love drones Tutor, and that’s cool, but it’s a much easier grind if you use other weapons.

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IDK, it’s a pretty care free way to go about PVP. It’s hard AF to MVP with’em these days, but if you’re just farming it can be fun.