Crossout is a modern online action game where you will constantly build new cool cars from hundreds of parts and fight with other players on them. You can choose from a large variety of parts and weapons: wheels, tracks, tank cannons, machine gun turrets, modules and shields, and much more.
The game was developed by the Targem Games studio and published by Gaijin Entertainment. The release date is May 30, 2017. Right now, Crossout is at the peak of its popularity. According to unofficial data, the number of players has exceeded 30 million, with gameplay details in our Crossout review.
Key Features
- Build cars, tanks, and robots from parts
- Hundreds of parts of different quality, strength, and power
- Multiple combat modes with rewards
- Seasonal reward chain with unique parts
- Exhibition with cool crafts that everyone can download
- Sea of weapons: missiles, flamethrowers, shotguns, lasers, etc.
- Over 30 million players worldwide
System requirements
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 7, 8, 10 – 64-bit only
- Processor: 4 cores, 3.0 GHz
- RAM: 4 Gb
- Graphics card: 1 Gb
- Disk space: 7 Gb
Recommended:
- OS: Windows 7, 8, 10 – 64-bit only
- Processor: 4 cores, 3.7 GHz
- RAM: 8GB
- Graphics card: 2 to 3 Gb
- Disk space: 7 Gb
Note: on a test setup based on Ryzen 3 (4 x 3.5 GHz) with Vega 8 graphics card (1 Gb of RAM video memory) and 8 Gb of DDR4 RAM game shows a stable 60 FPS on medium settings on a Full HD monitor. Screenshots of the graphics.
Gameplay Review
If you like building combat vehicles, you will definitely like Crossout. In this game, you will constantly develop and optimize your armored vehicles and hover tanks to do as much damage as possible, are easy to control, and have maximum survivability.
Crossout is cool. But don’t even try to win. To tell the truth, I have mixed impressions about this game because its gameplay is far from ambiguous, and the game mechanics is very strange in some places. But first things first.
Equipment Construction
Equipment construction is the main feature of Crossout. Earning in-game currency, you can buy on the market or build a lot of parts yourself:
- Cockpits (the main part of the machine),
- Generators (provide power),
- Engines,
- Radiators,
- Wheels / tracks / mechanical legs / turbines (hovers),
- Guns of all kinds,
- All sorts of parts for hull construction,
- Decorative elements,
- Many more.
Weapons are worthy of special mention. Crossout has flamethrowers, machine guns, tank cannons, rockets, mines, all sorts of fortifications and ramming spikes, blasters, plasmons, lasers, and much more. But, of course, all this will be revealed to the new player gradually.
Among other things, parts in Crossout have different levels of quality (a rarity) – a total of 7:
- Basic (gray),
- Normal (white),
- Rare (blue),
- Special (turquoise),
- Epic (purple),
- Legendary (orange),
- Relic (dark orange).
The higher the quality of the part, the more powerful it is and the harder it is to create. Also, any individual part can be painted with paints, which are also sold in the store.
Construction takes place right in the garage: click on the “Build” button at the top of the screen, and you’ll get into the free editor, where you can build anything you want. To immediately test the car in action, click on the “Test Drive” button. Then, you’ll be able to rush out of your garage without loading screens.
You can save up to 30 of your builds as blueprints. However, if you decide to recreate a modified car in the future, the system builds it automatically from your drawing. It’s very convenient.
You can draw inspiration from the “Exhibition” tab of the main menu. This is where players display their most incredible designs for all to see. For example, you can test any of the presented masterpieces with the same “Test-Drive” button, and we promise you’ll stick around for a long time.
Of course, you’ll be able to download other people’s drawings and share your own, give and get likes, and make new friends.
Combat modes and career
Once you’ve assembled your vehicle, you can go on PvE missions or engage in battles with other players. You can get different parts and resources to create better parts in the various combat modes. By selling these items on the market, you will earn in-game currency, which you can then successfully spend on anything that interests you.
Among the combat modes are:
- Every man for himself,
- Raid Against Bandits (PvE),
- No Rules Fighting,
- Battle with Leviathan,
- Adventure,
- The scuffle with Survivors,
- Events,
- Others.
And these modes are not available all the time, but replace each other at intervals. Clans and clan battles are also present in Crossout.
A little bit about Crossout donation
Can I play Crossout without donating? It’s easy.
The running currency is gold coins, which at any rate can consistently be earned simply by trading on the market. By the way, I was shocked when I discovered on the market new columns: “Profit” and “ROI”.
The developers have created them specifically for the “hawkers”, so they can trade and earn money. Isn’t it great?
My patience was only enough for the first couple of days, but I earned some of my first coins.
PVE and PVP gameplay in Crossout
PVP missions are the core gameplay of the game. And the worst thing you can do in the beginning is trying to ignore it. So there’s a reason I’m writing this. In my opinion, many players (99%) make a fatal mistake at the start and start developing in PVE first. That’s wrong.
You must understand that PVE in Crossout – raids (easy, medium, difficult), which you can go to at most a few times a day. That is monotonous, tedious, and highly boring content. In PVP, there are no limits on the number of battles, so it makes sense to develop it first and foremost but forget about it in PvE. For example, half an hour of a PVP game can easily rake in the same amount of gold as in PVE. It will be a little more complicated but many times more interesting.
The only reason to play PVE
In my opinion, the only reason to play PVE is the weekly assignments for Mechanic’s Badges. The point is that you can exchange these badges for unique construction parts from previous Battle Passes (300 apiece).
Of course, you can also trade them for resources you can sell for gold, but I would strongly advise against that for newbies. We’ll come back to this later. I’ll only say that 500 badges are given for 10 victories in two kinds of heavy raids. This is what I recommend you do. Raid of lower difficulty assign much fewer badges, so there’s not much point in doing them.
Another reason to play in PvE is that it’s easier to do Combat Pass season tasks there. For example, “Shoot 40 parts with so-and-so weapons 5 times in 1 battle. Obviously, it’s better to shoot these parts with bots. For such purposes I recommend light raids and as fast as possible.
The pain of PVP in Crossout
If we talk about PVP, in Crossout, it is implemented quite strangely. The first thing that has always confused me is the size of the maps. It seems that the game is about cars, speed, and adrenaline. So why are you, dear developers, trying to squeeze 16 people into a tiny space where one person can’t even turn around correctly? I’ll never understand this logic.
Sure, there are more or less spacious maps. But for the most part, of course, cramped to the point of horror.
That would be okay, but the problem is that this way, the developers encourage “standing” gameplay. The situation is aggravated by the fact that the faster you are, the more you are tricked by your enemies because people instinctively associate speed with danger. So it turns out that the slower you are, the easier it is to play.
Will it be easy? No. If I were to describe the gameplay in two words, those words would be “pain” and “suffering.
If you can still somehow take out at the initial levels because your teammates are slower, then at higher levels, they won’t let you do anything (of course, not intentionally and not consciously). They will ram you, block your view, and at the most opportune moment, they will even jump out right in front of your nose so that you shoot yourself on them with your missiles.
Sometimes even your allies torment you. For example, having played a month and a half of Crossout this year, I can confidently say that these people don’t know the “brake” button 😁. And God forbid you to get in their way – they won’t stop. So they’ll drag you through half of the map on their roof until you finally fall in some ditch with your wheels upside down. If you roll over, they won’t help you. So you give a signal, and they ignore you. So in this game, you’re on your own against everyone else.
But that does not mean that you can not enjoy the game. You can and should!
Stop building coffins!
It happens that the main advantage suddenly turns into a significant disadvantage. The construction system in Crossout is just such a case. The thing is that 99% of players are entirely crazy about the effectiveness of their crafting, and it is, as you know, fraught with consequences for the appearance.
Very effective – Just not enjoyable.
Ugly things like this are considered top kraft for clan wars and PvP. Guess why it’s so shaped? It’s simple:
- The wide frontal projection allows you to ram an enemy and keep them constantly in front of you, harpooned and flamethrower.
- The flamethrowers are hidden deep inside this gadget, making them harder to fire in combat.
- The sprawling size is because rockets, cannon shells, and other things have a blast radius. The farther the parts are apart, the fewer parts the blast will hit.
That’s it. Super efficient. But, hand on heart, is it really possible to get a real buzz out of the game while riding an ugly shapeless coffin like this? In my opinion, it’s the perfect way to kill your gameplay.
My main advice to newbies is: don’t disregard the look! Otherwise, you will lose interest in the game. You must like your car; you must enjoy every skid, shot, and moment of playing it. If not, you’ve already lost, no matter how much damage you do with your cyclopean cuboid.
And here I want to emphasize the importance of decor in this game. After all, if you take away the spoiler, fenders, exhaust pipes and everything else, you’ll be left with just a square coffin, which is not interesting to play with the word “at all”.
Conclusion
Will I continue to play Crossout? You bet I will. I like sinking at 180 on the boosters, and shooting course missiles left and right along the way. What other game can do something like that? But if you take that aspect out of the equation, which makes me biased, then the rest of Crossout is hugely boring. And I don’t see the slightest point in playing it on some homemade tank or, God forbid, hover. But that’s just my opinion.
And what do you think, dear reader? Write your review of Crossout in the comments. I’ll be interested to know if you share my impressions and what Krafts you play yourself. Tell me about your journey in Crossout, and whether it’s worth playing now.
