Gaijin Entertainment and Targem Games, the twosome behind popular World War Two MMO War Thunder, are uniting again to multiplayer vehicle combat game Crossout to PC. It’s another Mad Max-style effort about strapping miniguns to the front of your car, and blowing enemy vehicles into scrap metal. There’s certainly been a resurgence lately, hasn’t there?
Not that I’m complaining. It makes a change from shooting Nazi zombies. Currently in pre-alpha, Crossout will use a free-to-play model, and will have an emphasis on crafting, upgrading and customising your four-wheeled death machine of choice.
“Crossout is about customization, the freedom to construct the most destructive vehicles to wage war against your enemies”, explains Anton Yudintsev, CEO of Gaijin Entertainment. “Trading, earning or purchasing parts and upgrades for vehicles, survivors can build the perfect fighting machine to their own preference, taking into account how each new addition affects the whole vehicle’s performance”
Vehicles range from dune buggies to huge, off-road monstrosities, and can be fitted with such lovely tools as chainsaws, power drills and machine guns, rocket launchers, flying drones and stealth generators. Inevitably, there’s an ‘advanced damage model’ to simulate the effects of all those toys.
Crossout’s closed Beta testing starts this Summer. To be in with a chance of taking part, head over to the game’s official page to register.
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Key Features:
Unique vehicles, crafted by the players using a wide range of available parts: from nimble buggies to heavily tracked off-road vehicles or combat platforms on antigrav fields.
Complete freedom of creativity and thousands of possible combinations. Create vehicles of any shape using dozens of parts, wide variety of armour and weapons as well as support systems.
Advanced damage model: destroy any part of an enemy machine and it will affect the vehicle's performance immediately.
Huge arsenal of weapons. From chain saws, power-drills over machine guns to rocket launchers, flying drones and stealth generators.
Your own workshop: create new, advanced parts and auction them at the in-game marketplace.
Trading options between players: every piece that you have gathered in the battle can be sold to other players
Choose your own battle strategy! The only thing that matters is the Survival and Victory!
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