History Videogame / Crossout

* JackOfAllStats: Machine Guns have a quick learning curve and are very forgiving when it comes to aiming and shooting at targets. Their fast traverse and instant hitscan allows them to remain versatile even in games with vehicles boasting high-end Power Scores.

* PainfullySlowProjectile: Although Infrared Missiles have the nice convenience of being fire-and forget-weapons, their missiles travel slowly enough to allow players to take cover or even try and shoot them out of the sky.

* KillItWithFire: The "Firebug" Flamethrower.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Despite the fact that Gaijin.net has 3 million registered users, Matchmaking still has trouble finding players in queue and will set up matches where both teams have only four players and four bots.

Short version of the backstory is that in 2021 a mysterious viral epidemic known as the ‘Crossout’ swept the planet, countries and populations simultaneously began to fall at an alarming rate all over the Earth. Those who did not die in the first few days, were plagued by hallucinations and headaches, many people went mad, others and committed suicide. The source of the disease could not be detected but the cities that were once the vibrant social and economic beacons of humanity were left ravaged and deserted.

Of course, none of that matters to actual gameplay where there is no story content. Instead, the main focus is on player created and driven vehicles, which range from barely functioning TheAllegedCar to a SpiderTank, armed with everything between machineguns and missiles and artillery pieces.

* ArbitraryMinimumRange: The Mandrake Artillery Howizter provides a long-range area-of-effect attack that can be devastating when it hits. The catch is that it's heavy, costs a lot of energy to mount, and is completely useless for defending yourself against a melee build.

** Orange for Legendary items that can be crafted from Epic items, an even smaller amount of scrap, plus a higher amount of copper, wires, and electronics.

* ItemCrafting: At the start, the player only has access to the Engineers' workbench, which produces white (common) items like weapons and driver's cabins from scrap. However, producing higher-tier (rare and above) items requires a stockpile of more scrap, a certain amount of common items, enough copper (obtainable only through participating in raids or purchasing the resource on the online market), and a workbench rental fee that can only be paid via the in-game credits (obtainable by selling excess items in storage or [[BribingYourWayToVictory buying in-game credits with real money]]). The player also has to pay separate workbench rental fees for the other factions if one wishes to craft something from them.

* PlayEveryDay: Like its stablemate ''VideoGame/WarThunder'', ''Crossout'' encourages this via daily log-in rewards, and white (common) loot crates given as a reward for playing at least two hours a day. And then there's the blue (rare) loot crates that one can get for playing a minimum of 14 hours a week.

*** The "Rumble", "Redbird", and "Dragon" Customization Kits make your weapons look like they were tricked out by Chaos Space Marines. The "Pirahna" Customization Kit gives off an Ork-y vibe by putting spikes, which look like a lower jaw of teeth, on the gun mount.

Crossout is a free-to-play post-apocalyptic VehicularCombat MMO developed by Creator/GaijinEntertainment. The game first launched on April 6th 2016 and entered open beta on May 30th 2017.

!!Crossout provides examples of:

* TheAllegedCar: The [[StarterEquipment starter vehicle]] from the Engineers. Its machineguns have the lowest damage in the game, the driver's cabin provides the lowest amount of Energy Points (and hitpoints), and the wheels have low traction. The player eventually upgrades this scrapheap with additional equipment, additional ImprovisedArmor, better cabins, better guns, better wheels, and a snazzy paintjob.

* BottomlessMagazines: The basic weapons such as the shotguns and machineguns have unlimited ammo but instead operate on a heat system.
* BribingYourWayToVictory: The principal sticking point in Crossout is that people who pay cash for in-game credits can get better items and and make better vehicles much sooner than people who can only get a trickle of in-game credits from just grinding for surplus items to trade on the market.

* CoolCar: Creative players can build some really unique and powerful machines. Uncreative players can slap lots of guns and armor on their vehicle and give it a kick ass paint job.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to the ''Videogame/{{Robocraft}}'', Crossout's [[DuelingGames Dueling Game]].

* DesignItYourselfEquipment: The whole schtick of the game is building your own weaponized car and pitting them against other people's creations.
* DuelingGames: With ''Videogame/{{Robocraft}}''. Although Crossout has less options to offer in customization, it provides a breath of fresh air to those that are unhappy or discouraged by the developments with Robocraft.

* FactionCalculus: Game has five factions, with each one preferring certain style of combat. These effects are most visible in PVE games. Of course, players are free to ignore these preferences and make their own designs.

** Nomads: Subversive, prefer speed and rapid fire guns to shave off opponents parts.

* JackOfAllStats: Machine Guns have a quick learning curve and are very forgiving when it comes to aiming and shooting at targets. Their fast traverse and instant hitscan allows them to remain versatile even in games with vehicles boasting high-end Powerscores.

** Given the "[[DesignItYourselfEquipment design it yourself]]" game mechanic, it only takes a matter of time, creativity, enough Energy Points, and a truckload of decent parts for players to make [[WeaponizedCar weaponized vehicles]] or even improvised [[TankGoodness tanks]] that reference other media.
** There are some subtle homages to Warhammer 40,000 if you know where to look.

*** The Level-13 Blueprint of the Lunatics Faction is simply named the "Waaaghhh!".

* StuffBlowingUp: Comes with the territory of the genre. However, especially volatile parts such as fuel tanks, ammo crates and generators will explode in spectacular fashion when destroyed and will likely take most the attached vehicle with it.

* TankGoodness: The Steppenwolves faction has access to full on military vehicles like APCs and artillery pieces.

*** The Lunatic's Level-13 Blueprint is simply named the "Waaaghhh!".

* DuelingGames: With ''Videogame/{{Robocraft}}''.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: The principal sticking point in Crossout is that people who pay cash for in-game credits can get better items and and make better vehicles much sooner than people who can only get a trickle of in-game credits from just grinding.

* PowerLimiter: The aptly-named "Power" system, which limits the amount of weapons and equipment one can fit into a vehicle. Power can be increased by getting better driver's cabins or installing generators in the vehicle.

** Given the "[[DesignItYourselfEquipment design it yourself]]" game mechanic, it only takes a matter of time, creativity, and a truckload of decent parts for players to make [[WeaponizedCar weaponized vehicles]] or even improvised [[TankGoodness tanks]] that reference other media.

** One achievement that you can get in-game is called "[[WebComic/OnePunchMan One Punch Man]]", which requires the player to deal 5,000 in physical damage by [[RammingAlwaysWorks ramming]] opponents.

** One achievement that you can get in-game is called "[[WebComic/OnePunchMan One-Punch Man]]", which requires the player to deal 4,000 in physical damage by [[RammingAlwaysWorks ramming]] opponents.

* StuffBlowingUp: Comes with the territory of the genre. However, especially volatile parts such as fuel tanks, ammo crates and generators will explode in spectacular fashion when destroyed and will likely take most the attached vehicle with it.

Crossout is a free-to-play post-apocalyptic VehicularCombat MMO. The game first launched on April 6th 2016 and entered open beta on May 30th 2017.