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A year has passed since the beginning of closed combat testing Crossout (intermediate stage between alpha and beta). It's time to look at how it has changed during this time.
The game is preparing players by the time when the lion's share of the world's population will die out due to wars and technogenic disasters, and the remaining will fight each other for survival. This is a harsh post -apocalyptic world, and the main value in it is combat vehicles. The cooler the "car", the higher the chance to climb to the top of the local food chain.
Remember how you collected a machine from improvised materials from improvised materials? I don’t give a damn that they were all like a Frankenstein monster: wheels of different sizes and the design “where I could, and stuck there”. Rides, and okay.
► I blinded him from what happened, and then what was, and shot it.
Crossout will make these skills remember. Here you have to become an engineer-designer, since there are no more factories and you can rely only on your own. Local engineers, of course, can get details and drawings, but the resulting car is suitable only to create your own model on its base. But you can completely assemble a car from scratch.
Life in Crossout begins with a garage, and it will have to spend no less time in it than in battles.
Get together, rag, you're a car
► The warehouse of a novice raider looks like a Russian cottage: a lot of trash is stored here, which is not clear where to put, but it is a pity to throw out.
To assemble the car you will need several dozen details. In theory, you can simply put a body, engine and wheels on the frame, and such a machine will go. But the first shot will break off the life of this miserable creation. Therefore, in the appendage, it will not prevent the body with armor and install a couple of machine guns.
The role of armor will play any trash (post -apocalypse): pieces of fence, bars, parts of other machines and even aircraft and much more. Any detail can be attached to another. It turns out, as a rule, peculiar designs on wheels and caterpillars. But the drawings of the created machines can be saved and used in the future.
Moreover, in March, the developers added a new option: from now on everyone can put their car for public display in a special section and share a drawing with other players. Having downloaded such a drawing, you can recreate someone else's car in your garage. Of course, provided that there are all the parts you need for this.
► Creators were clearly inspired by the Warhammer orcs. All Waaaagh!
You can get details in several ways. Firstly, with each level of reputation (here they replace the character levels) they will be issued by a faction for which you work.
By the way, there are four fractions. The first is common for everyone, and the first ten levels need to be hunching on it. Then you can choose one of the other three. Each of them has its own set of parts and weapons: for light, medium and heavy machines.
Secondly, the details are issued if your team won the battle and your contribution to this victory was significant. Thirdly, they can simply be bought in the in-game market. Well, fourthly, do it yourself.
Her behavior in battle depends on how the car is assembled. For example, if the back is heavier than the front, then after the first shot the car will simply overturn. Therefore, you need to make a long base with many wheels or weight a "nose". The balance of the structure affects everything: maneuverability, speed, chance to roll over and so on.
► You don't have to do this. Unless, of course, you do not want the whole fight to admire the sky.
► almost the same car disassembled. Now she looks like a bunch of garbage scattered in the garage.
Each machine has several main parameters. “Power Glasses” is a conditional indicator talking about how seriously the car is equipped. "Structure" determines the "health points" of your four -wheeled (or caterpillar) friend. The higher the "energy", the more deadly toys can be hung on the housing, and the behavior of the machine in battle depends on the "weight".
The task of everyone in Crossout is to find the perfect balance between these indicators in accordance with the tactic in battle. You can create a light and fast machine with light weapons or a real tank. Here who likes what more.
► It is not easy to destroy such a colossus, but because of its slowness and slowness, it can become easy prey.
Why is it all?
The battles themselves are divided into three types: missions (PVP), raids (PVE) and brawls (PVP Deathmatch). The latter added only a few months ago, but they have already gained popularity. True, in brawls, players are not yet divided into teams by levels, so there Betti Casino is a great chance to meet the enemy for a reason.
Sixteen players participate in missions – eight in each team. If people are not enough, the game adds bots. By the way, this is a good option for beginners. Experience and bonuses for computer enemies give the same amount, and destroying them is much easier.
AI is lame yet. Real players neatly move forward on the map, but the bots with a cry “on the barricades!»Fly in the crowd of enemies fly, where they find an inglorious death in the first minutes of the match.
► The car is not always similar to the product of the fantasy of a crazy orc. Some design masters manage to create decent samples in appearance.
PVP mines are not enough diversity. Now in rotation with a dozen cards, four of which were added after the start of testing. The mode, in fact, is one – the capture of the base, enemy or neutral.
Another minus over which Gaijin It remains to work – the system of accruing points. For example, if during the battle you did not inflict significant damage, you did not destroy anyone and did not capture the base, then even in case of victory of the glasses of glasses, you will not get. At all.
But the glasses for the destruction of opponents will be accrued regardless of whether your team lost or won. Victory or defeat affect only the possibility of obtaining parts. The loser will not receive anything for sure, but the winner can.
There are more tasks in PVE raids: the destruction of armed towers, escort, seizure of cargo, protection of objects and the like. The group of players will have to complete the main task and at the same time fight the bots. In raids, as in missions, they accrue reputation points (experience), and they give unique materials for the victory that no longer get.
From the very start of testing, the developers have tightly taken up this direction, and now players are waiting for many different tasks, most of which are also available at three difficulty levels.
► Bumblebee is not the same. Here he does not need to hide the guns under the casing.
The most valuable in Crossout resources and details. There is also money, but you can spend it only in the market, it is also auction. The players put up objects that they managed to create or get somewhere to get. The economy and how the donat affects it is difficult to evaluate. It is unlikely that after the release of the full version of the game, the market will remain the same.
How is it all happens
Fight in Crossout fun. Any detail on the car can be destroyed. To disable the enemy, it is not at all necessary to destroy his car – just shoot the guns or wheels. Having lost the wheel, the car will begin to roll, and if there are no wheels from any side of the wheels, then it will be difficult to continue the battle.
At the same time, if the car is shot on the one side on the one hand, the balance of weight will change and it will just begin to disgusted herself when turning. In general, by the end of the battle, survivors usually look like a team of battered pirates: without wheels, guns and half of the details.
► His battle is clearly coming to an end. It is hard to survive without weapons and half the wheels in Crossout. One thing remains – to run away.
► Smoke from the engine, two wheels are no longer there, and in the store the last cartridge. But victory is still possible, the main thing is not to give up.
The only thing that is somewhat knocked out of general mechanics is the lack of damage when falling from a height. From the collision, the parts can fall off, from the shot too, but if you collapse from a twenty -meter height, nothing will happen to the car with the car.
Porridge from an ax, or how to make a gun
Developers make a large bet on craft. It is even put into a slogan: Craft, Ride, Destroy!
True, now the craft system seems primitive and illogical. To make a blue, rare thing, you need several ordinary white details. On a lilac, epic, it will take a few blue, on the heroic orange – several lilac.
White details can be obtained in PVP mines, and then, already starting from them, to create things with a level higher. And something is simply shocking in this, the imagination. For example, to make a gun, you will need a cab (!), wheel (!!) and a piece of fence (well, at least you can kill). Such porridge from the ax leaves.
And recently developers have updated the craft system. From now on, you can connect three identical details, receiving one, but with a random improved parameter. Thus, for example, you can create a gun that will be more accurate to shoot or heat more slowly.
► We take a couple of cabs, a pair of wheels and three guns. From this we will succeed … no, not a bike. New gun!
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The world and atmosphere of Crossout are delayed and fascinated in their own way. For a closed beta, the game holds well as well as: several cards have small problems with textures, but only. Separately praise the developers for optimization: with the current number of players, everything literally "flies".
Already now, the game is able to captivate for several tens of hours, and after the release of the full version in it it will not be a shame to spend even more time.
Unless, of course, the developers do not overdo it with the Donat.
By the way, the developers are already working with virtual reality technology in full swing. It will be possible to play in Crossout in the VR-Hatter at the Igomir 2016 exhibition, namely, at the Intel stand in the Hi-End computers zone.
► Leviathan – Nightnaya nightmare of anyone in Crossout.