![]() Weirdly, there doesn’t seem to be any kind of obvious separation between what CP and GP are used for – different items and cosmetics just tell you which currency must be spent to unlock it. In addition to starter packs and a season pass that are commonplace in free-to-play games, CrossfireX also has two currencies that can be purchased with real money: GP, which can be earned in-game or purchased, and CP, which must be purchased to be obtained. I’m reminded of Halo: The Master Chief Collection at its notorious launch, where a bunch of different experiences made by different teams were forced together all on one menu and UI, which seems to be a good way to make said menu and UI buggy as heck.ĬrossfireX features a whole host of microtransactions that are both confusing and dubious. The weirdest bug I encountered regularly, though, is the fact that the main menu itself is completely unstable – its framerate hitches all the time and it’s even crashed to the Xbox dashboard altogether a few times. I’ve seen all-manner of bizarre bugs in my dozen or so hours with it: one time a menu popped up over my screen and locked me out of controlling my character until the match was over, or the time a ridiculous giant alien spawned in the middle of the map and twitched in and out of reality for the entirety of the match (my teammates and I lovingly named him King Chonkus). Of course, the ADS bug isn’t the only issue you’re likely to encounter playing CrossfireX online. It’s astonishing that a shooter could get something so fundamental as aiming so wrong in 2022. Even when adjusting the aiming settings and the various levels of aim assist, I could find no setting that feels good in the slightest. Aiming accurately is a painful ordeal, as your weapons sluggishly wiggle from place to place with almost no consistency. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the shooting mechanics themselves, which are some of the sloppiest and inaccurate I’ve ever gone into battle with. It’s chock-full of ill-conceived modes, cringeworthy maps, laughably bad controls, and bizarre bugs that are somehow the best part because they made me laugh during an otherwise extremely depressing time spent playing.ĬrossfireX can trace its lineage back to the hugely popular PC shooter from 2007, CrossFire, but developer Smilegate has seemingly taken very little care in translating that success over to the Xbox ecosystem. There’s a whole array of issues that made every match an agonizing tribulation. While it tries to capture the old-school magic of Counter-Strike on console, it ends up playing like a low-budget, poorly thought-out satirization of it instead. ![]() ![]() It’s the kind of thing you would only pay half attention to while you hold a beer in your free hand and keep one eye on the basketball hoops waiting for the children’s birthday party to stop hogging them. ![]() CrossfireX’s multiplayer feels like a first-person shooter you might play at a Dave & Buster’s arcade. ![]()
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