I am new to the crossout community and i need some assistance for getting a good start, any tips?
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delete the game, and iām not even joking, itās not worth it
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Buy a maxwell or doppler and stay with the blue guys.
Bind a button to : marker attack.
Set permanent ally ping display distance to 500 in settings/interface.
Donāt listen to the guy with the scribbly letters in his name.
First off, get the 5 free car packs and 1 free copter pack so you have something to work with. You can find them here.
Build and test your vehicles in combat against the robot cars (āPatrolā & āBack on Patrolā). Learn the basic game mechanics before playing against live players.
If you decide you really like the game, then consider buying a coupla packs in the store, especially when they are discounted (several times year, usually). You donāt need to jump for the most expensive packs; youāre still learning the game. As your engineer rating grows, youāll be able to build bigger cars (use more parts). Buying packs gives you more parts, weapons, modules, more coins to spend in-game, and jumps up the amount of parts you can build a car with (max is 80). If you get duplicate items like engines, more wheels than you can use, more radiators than you need, you can sell them for coins or salvage them for building resources.
Doing the daily missions will net you scrap/copper, and doing the weekly challenges will net you engineer badges which you trade for even more building resources (scrap/copper/wires.etc) and unique structural parts. You can go beyond just doing the minimum daily missions (read: grinding) to get more building resources.
Consider joining a clan. If youāre lucky and alot of the members are āactiveā, youāll all share in the extra engineer badges the clan earns (as long as youāre active, too).
Play the Adventure. Itās an epic saga that lets you earn more experience and resources and teaches you stuff you might not learn in the missions. Having problems completing some of the missions in the adventure, because your car is still sorta weak? āFriendā some people and go in as a group, and they can help you accomplish them. Alot of the folks who play the āBedlamā mode are friendly guys and will help newer players out. (Just donāt go in there and shoot at everyone on sight, getting them all riled up).
In fact, āfriendā at least 5 people and drive around your garage yard daily; when you see their cars riding around (controlled by robots), honk at them (or alternatively, kill them) and theyāll give you some gifts of varying value. Every little bit helps.
If after all this, you really REALLY like the game, then maybe consider buying mid-tier or better car packs (wait for them to go on sale, unless you have a sugar daddy bankrolling you).
My suggesting for buying packs notwithstanding, keep in mind, you DONāT have to spend money on the game; you can grind your way up the ladder, but it WILL take a long, long time.
Enjoy the game!
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Or you can just grind, and buy all the items from the market, no money is required.
this game has BS physics that can make you randomly die because youāve flipped on literal air.
this game has a p2w problem. every single new item is locked behind a battlepass paywall (technically free but you have to stock on items from previous battle passes), unless you want to spend an absurd amount of in-game currency bying it from other people that paid for it.
this game has a meta problem, out of literal HUNDREDS of non-deocrative items youāll have a problem with a few dozen of them, others are just viable, mid or weak. guess what youāll constantly see?
this game has a bad dev/player communication. devs just donāt care what youāll say as a common player.
this game has a realy steep learning curve.
this game has metas that are COMBINATION of items (movement part, cab, weapon and modules). if at least ONE part is wrong then your combination will suck.
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still wanna play this?
donāt. save your sanity and just delete it. play something else instead, there are lots of games with developers that actually care for their product.
i have a friend that returned after about 4 or so years. wanna know his reaction when iāve said about meta BfU / CC builds?
āi remember you could make a whole meta CW craft for this much money and farm uranium, wtf?ā
and yeah, iāve recommended a raijin + satori + fin whale + jackie combo. which is like 20k money lol (remember that this is a RETURNING player that HAVENāT PLAYED FOR 4 YEARS)
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Itās not a perfect game, but itās the only one Iām interested in playing.
If you have the right attitude, itās a lot of fun. But you kind of have to accept it for what it is, and not obsess about what you want it to be.
Despite the flaws, itās my favourite game that Iāve ever played, and Iāve been playing games since the early 80s.
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by far the best tip for any new player is: play only the low tiers (aka around 9000 PS)
if thats not the plan, then i would say dont even start.
as the other guy said, this game has issues that you will discover sooner or later, and arent possible to ignore unless you really dont care about the gameplay
As a 7+ years player, best tip is that even if you pump in loads of real life money, get involved in uranium fumbling and drama-I mean clans, gain many epics and legendaries, it will still be as frustrating as it was before doing any of that. That feeling of struggling against unfairness will be always there, no matter how much you think you ar progressing. You will either struggle against the problem or join the problem like everyone and their mother does, and yet still your problem gets counterproblemed by someone else with deeper pockets than you. Even if you go full cheese and sealclubbing once your frustration goes to the max, there will be someone else who does that harder than you can with your current skills or inventory, and you are once again feeling like that newbie build getting tossed around by angry vocal-in-chat children with rich parents who are sadly 30-year old āadultsā
There will always be some easywin cheese or blatantly op weapon at every powerscore, high or low, no they never do anything about it, itās always been this way. The only point anything gets nerfed or changed is when they already have a backup to take itās place. The matches will be generally as unfair as they feel like for new players. No matter how high or low you play in ps. there will always be cancerous group players running easywin metabuilds that just powerhouse through an entire enemy team. The game will do everything in itās path to try to force you to pump in real money into the game, if by nothing else then at some point that good epic or legendary weapon that was your singular answer to all the metahomos will get nerfed, so you have to get a new one from a pack sale or current battle pass.
The game is nothing but release new battle pass with blatantly OP part, let it be OP or boost them to be OP if people are not buying new passes, nerf a few weeks into the next pass when there is a new flavor of the season OP gun so they can milk more money from the playerbase. Bugs, problems, poorly performing weapons, trying to make the game fun and enjoyable, everything is pushed to the side in favor of just milking money out of the playerbase
tl;dr pumping in money and buying passes wonāt automatically make the game any more fun, while it shortens the grind, the length of which an equal rigid phallic object should be inserted up the anus of anyone responsible of this game, you will still feel the general frustration you did even before sinking money into the game. It wonāt make the game better for you, you are stuck with what you are already experiencing
This is what Iām talking about in terms of mindset.
If you try to approach Crossout as a serious competitive sport, you will be frustrated.
If you treat it like a fun arcade game with infinite character customization, it can keep you entertained for a long time.
Iām not trying to say the competitive types are wrong, just that approaching the game that way will leave you disappointed. Itās just not that kind of game, and never will be.
I think the trick is to learn how to have fun even when your car gets blown up. Whether you win or lose, the rewards arenāt that different, unless you go down the Clan Wars rabbit hole.
Also, keep in mind that the majority of the people who post on the forum are not here to share information, but are instead here because they have become frustrated with the game and need a place to complain about it.
Some of us will offer lots of advice, but most people here just want to yell about how the game is broken.
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Itās hard to have fun when all the fun guns/builds canāt last longer than 10-20 seconds into a battle or canāt even engage an enemy because the guns fall off and your build turns into swiss cheese while trying to do something very specific just for an off chance to do something, if the enemy even looks in their general direction. Any fun idea I have with builds, any abstract weapon or strategy idea, all get nullified before any fun is to be had 9 times out of 10.
Not to mention some options that nobody uses, are plain frustrating no matter what, even if theyāre performing to their utmost ability
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If thatās your experience, then maybe you need to be asking for tips here, instead of just complaining about the devs.
Iām hardly a competitive player, and only play things I think are fun, and itās very rare that I make a car that canāt last 15 seconds.
You have your experiences with the game and I have mine, and neither of those will be the definite edition no matter how much you try to play the āLol your opinions are wrong because you are bad at the game but mine opinnionoids are right because I am betterā card
Itās not that you are wrong.
We just have different attitudes towards the game, and my attitude allows me to enjoy it a lot more than your attitude does.
Anyway, I feel bad that this thread got derailed so badly so quickly, so Iām going to try to get it back on track.
Here are some things I wish someone on the forum had told me back when I started:
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Do not try to advance too quickly. When I was new, I made the mistake of trying to go from rare to epic items too quickly (we didnāt have the special tier back then), which meant that I was raising my PS too much and trying to compete against much more experienced players who had way more structural parts to build with. It felt like I was swimming with the sharks. Keeping your PS as low as possible is important if you want to be competitive (other than in Clan Wars).
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Make sure you are attaching every important part to either your cabin, your frames, or parts that let damage pass through (buggy floors, gun mounts, etc). When possible, follow that rule even for your armour pieces. If you canāt do that, try to attach your heavy armour pieces that way, and then attach lighter armour to those pieces. You want to avoid situations where an explosive weapon destroys a light armour piece that has multiple other armour bits attached to it, causing a cascade of destruction.
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Hide your explosive items (ammo packs, generators) under your cabin or behind it. Some players will do the opposite with ammo or fuel tanks, and attach them to sticks hanging off the back of the build, so that if they get destroyed, they donāt do any damage to the build. That is also a useful strategy, but I hate the way it looks.
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Do your daily and weekly challenges as often as possible. Itās unlikely youāll complete all the weekly challenges (unless you play a lot), so just try to be aware of them and play modes that are contributing to completing them. Joining a clan will unlock additional weekly clan challenges. Not only will you get additional resources from the daily challenges, but the badges can be exchanged for structural parts or resources. New players should spend their badges on structural parts, because the more you have, the more building possibilities you have. It is hard to make a competitive build without a lot of structural parts.
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Related to the last point: use flags and/or decor to max out your experience rewards, so that your can level up your factions quicker and unlock more structural parts.
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Contrary to what the grumpy gamers on the forum will tell you, you do not need to spend money on the game to have a good time. But if you enjoy the game enough to want to spend money on it, the Battle Passes are by far the best value for your money. Iāve bought them all, and never regretted any of them. If you want to advance even faster, the mini Battle Passes are a good way for newer players to catch up on items from old BPs.
The blacklist does not take away playing with the people you have blacklisted, for the better or worse. The downside of that is that you canāt stop yourself from running into some players, like for example some guy who never fights at all and just SD (self destructs) at the beginning of a match, or players who otherwise you would not play with if you could choose not to.
All the blacklist does is block their messages from being visible and receiving any DMs from said player. Which means that you can blacklist people left and right al you want, for example if there is a ātop tierā player whoās a notorious vocal a-hole in the battle chat, but gives you free victories if you end up on the same team as them, you can blacklist them all you want, and still enjoy those easy victories but without having to see anything they spam the chat with.
So you can message-block people as much as you want with the blacklist without any downside to doing it. In fact itās recommended to do, it makes the game a lot more enjoyable when you donāt have to look at them cry loudly in the chat over everything imaginable or try to backseat drive their teammates and getting angry when theyāre ignored.
You wonāt make your cue times longer by having a ton of people in the blacklist, you do not have to read their messages just to play with them. If you need to use it, do use it, you yourself suffer no negatives from it
As someone who has almost 12,000 hours in game, just play and have fun, build crazy stuff and remember you dont need to spend money, plus if your getting wrecked in pvp just do pve like many of us that do now a days, just enjoy the game
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just to help alittle for u.
just play casual, join a clan of 20 for the badges to trade,try out weps on exhibition you like,have fun- āits the only reason we playā there is nothing to get in game u need to stress over for.
and tbh, they broke the alot of weps like the mace shotgun that now shoots up in the sky when pointed at blank range at the enemyā¦
game was more fun 7 years ago lol ā¦
i see your on PC, if i get an open spot in my clan i will invite youā¦
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Thank you all for your help! This will help greatly when I play again!
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Good luck young padawan, may the force be with you.