Recent reviews by Ichiro Skywalker

I used to love all kinds of DIY ARtS games (I'll use the Robocraft slogan "Build, Drive Fight" as it was the most successful of this gene and call all this kind of game as "BDF" games onward), so when I'm finally fed up with the RC's dev and their goofy ahh changes, I picked this game as my copium.

This was a great BDF game, until Targem and Gaijin decided to sabotage it.

First, they released 2.0, which added Camera-Steering mechanism as default for all strafe capable movement parts (basically your vehicle will turn to whichever you aim at). Guess why I was fed up with RC? THIS EXACT GOD D*MN THING.

Addition of Camera Steering by default drastically lowered the skill floor of using hover thrusters as movement part when they're already quite superior in Clan War thanks to their mobility and insane acceleration.

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And the next thing that really triggered the boiling point of the players:

Before they revoked the weekly challenges, here's the list of the old weekly challenge rewards in Engineering badges.

• Win 8 scrap missions: 100 badges.
  
• Win 10 wire missions: 100 badges.
  
• Win 12 battery missions: 350 badges.
  
  
• Complete 40 daily tasks: 400 badges.
  
  
• Win 6 Easy raids: 100 badges.
  
• Win 8 Normal raids (1/2): 120 badges.
  
• Win 12 Normal raids (2/2): 180 badges.
  
• Win 8 Hard raids (1/2): 400 badges.
  
• Win 12 Hard raids (2/2): 600 badges.
  
• Win 10 battles in "Invasion": 175 badges.
  
  
• Score a prized position in brawl 9 times: 175 badges.
  
  
• While in "Adventure", complete the harder version of the mission once: 50 badges.
  
• Complete 20 side or group missions in Adventure mode: 100 badges.

And finally the only Clan part:

• Win 5 times in Clan War: 450 badges.

If you run the calculation, solo players could've get 2850 badges per week, and 3300 if they have a clan and win 5 CWs.

But then, Targem/Gaijin suddenly decided "F*ck the solo players, force them to join a clan and play Clan War!"
https://crossout.net/en/news/2483-announcement-planned-changes-to-clans-and-weekly-challenges/
https://crossout.net/en/news/2494-announcement-planned-changes-to-clans-part-ii/

Basically now you're force to either join a clan (and worried about being kicked if you have no interest in Clan Wars), or spend 200 scrap metal to form a "band", or spend 500 gold coins to form an actual clan, just to unlock the challenges.

And after a long bombardment on platforms including Steam (here), Reddit, and their official Gaijin forum, Gaijin/Targem finally kind of yielded, but they still flipped us a middle finger:
https://crossout.net/en/news/2543-update-small-update-31-08-2023

Now solo players can earn:
100 + 200 + 50 + 100 + (40 + 50 + 60) × 3 + 100 + 100 = 1100 badges.


And to make them look more awful, take a look at this:
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fzdvn13rkvelb1.png%3Fwidth%3D824%26format%3Dpng%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Df1c904239eb198c89b38fd3523fc6b072ee1aeab
The upper one is a meme made by the community of how heavy builds being bullied left and right by the current game meta, and the one below is official photo used by the announcement. Gaijin/Targem literally said "Year damn rignt, F*CK YOU AND YOUR HEAVY BUILD go buy our packs and thrusters already" with this thumbnail.

This is probably the worst response I've received from a game publisher and/or devs, even worse than the Blizzard's "Do You Guys Not Have Phones" response.

I was kinda sad when I'm financially forced into playing F2P, but with all these scumbag move from Gaijin and/or Targem, THEY CAN SUCK ON DEEZ NUTS. OMEGA L.

I downloaded this game and finished it in two days .

Let me briefly state the pros and cons.

1. large variety of outfits customization, including underwear, stocking, hair style and colors, and accessories.
2. the arousing breast jiggling physics.
3. well developed story-line.
4. Easter egg (sort of) relating to the other creation of the same dev, and
5. A side line that teases Han Kuo-yo with a liar who lost his pants. Some referral news link here: https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwans-former-presidential-candidate-han-kuo-yu-removed-as-kaohsiung-mayor-by

I love whoever flip a bird towards pro-sino dipcraps (even the creator does post a disclaimer saying everythng similar to real life person is coincidence. ). Shut up and take my money!

However, I have to say this game isn't perfect.

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1. The most serious issue imo, is that the key binding for particular functions is limiting. In the game it sets "F" key as dodge (hold it with WASD to dash) and "Left Shift" key as blocking, but my computer will periodically minimize my game and pop out a question if I should set my "Left Shift" + WASD movement as quick key, which drives me mad. What's worse is that, despite being mapped as default blocking, "Left Shift" key along with "Left Control" cannot be re-mapped into other functions.
2. The mini-map that is supposed to guide the player towards missions and story line, cannot be expanded by any means, you have to walk through some distance to glance the edge of the map. I think the developer should at least add some kind of indicator at the edge of the mini-map to show which direction should the player go for the objectives.
3. In terms of Body Modification, Breast slider is all you got. No hip slider, no waist slider, nothing else. Only breast slider. I think this is something across all of this dev's creation, and I do hope there are more options towards the body customization.
4. When it comes to capture and torturing targets, Every side line has a designated torture room instead of filling which ever room is empty.
5. The City maps doesn't seems to have any wandering NPCs, but considering rendering all those NPCs around the map might greatly increase the requirement of running the game, I might temporarily let it slide.

Overall, I will give 8 out of 10. If you're those who hate what has CCP done, than I'll say 9.5 out of 10.

This game starts out to be a simple puzzle game, and you simply need to reach the finish within the given movement count to complete it.
Or, you can skip it for most of the time.
At the near end however, you will encounter a boss fight which, the entire game become an action game --- "THERE IS NO ESCAPE!" so, deal with it.

You get to own a lot of sharply dressed demon waifus at the end.

If you managed to collect some special codes (3 in total) and do some special move at the ending scene, you will unlock a special ending along with the secret password to the artbook that is otherwise, available as DLC. You can get that for free but I personally bought the DLC anyway as some love toward the dev.

I won this in a discord server, and tbh out of 35 games 7 of them are trivia and about 12 of them are mobile games ripoffs so I doubt if this one is any good.

It turns out to be better than I thought. Apart from some minor bugs and "Why the hell I have to keep holding right key to avoid crashing into the spiral of the level advancement?" it is fine.

Worth a try.