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. While the reasons for the shutdown were not given, the CrossfireX team said that "coming to this decision was not easy" and thanked players for their support.ĬrossfireX is the latest in a number of online and live service games to be shutdown this year, with others including Apex Mobile, Knockout City, Rumbleverse, Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai - A Hero's Bond and Crayta.CrossfireX’s multiplayer feels like a first-person shooter you might play at a Dave & Buster’s arcade. However, a new blog post reveals that all support for CrossfireX will end on May 18, 2023, with no new content set to be released before that date.Īll sales of the game have ceased, and any purchases made with the 14 days ended February 3 are eligible for refunds. The string of online and live service games scheduled to close continues with CrossfireX, the multiplayer shooter for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.ĭeveloped by Remedy in collaboration with South Korean publisher Smilegate, and a spin-off of the latter's hugely popular Crossfire, the first-person shooter was released on February 10, 2022. Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox
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