Crossout: Build your own Armed Vehicles and Battle in Multiplayer Arenas

Crossout is a free-to-play, online vehicular combat MMO set in a post-apocalyptic world where players build their own heavily armed vehicles from scratch and battle in fast-paced multiplayer arenas. The game emphasises deep vehicle customisation, tactical combat, and player creativity, blending the feel of Mad Max-style chaos with a modular engineering sandbox.

Plot and Setting

The world of Crossout is set in the aftermath of a mysterious global catastrophe that has left society fractured and the Earth scarred. Civilisations have collapsed, and survivors now roam the wastelands in makeshift vehicles—half-tanks, half-hotrods—competing for resources, survival, and dominance.

Factions have emerged from the ashes, each with its own aesthetic, technologies, and ideologies. Players can align with these factions to gain access to specific vehicle parts and perks. Though not driven by a conventional story, Crossout’s lore unfolds through seasonal events, faction wars, and world-building details in the vehicle components and locations.

Gameplay Features

Custom Vehicle Crafting
- Build your own battle machine from the ground up using hundreds of parts: armor plates, engines, turrets, wheels, drills, rockets, hovers, and more.
- Every part affects performance—vehicle weight, balance, speed, and firepower all depend on your design choices.
PvP and PvE Combat
- Engage in chaotic 8v8 player battles across wasteland maps.
- PvE missions, raids, and co-op scenarios allow players to earn resources while battling AI enemies.
- Clan wars and ranked seasons offer more competitive play.
Weapon Variety and Strategy
- Use an array of weapons: machine guns, rocket launchers, shotguns, flamethrowers, energy weapons, stealth modules, drones, and more.
- Target specific parts on enemy vehicles—blow off their wheels, cripple their steering, or take out their guns.
Progression and Crafting System
- Salvage resources from battles to craft new parts.
- Join factions to unlock unique blueprints and tech trees.
- A player-driven marketplace allows buying and selling of parts and weapons.
Events and Community Content
- Regular in-game events, limited-time modes, and seasonal updates keep the game fresh.
- Creative players can showcase vehicle builds and compete in design contests.

Themes

Post-Apocalyptic Survival
- In a shattered world, survival means engineering the most brutal and efficient death machine possible.
Creativity Through Destruction
- Crossout rewards player ingenuity, allowing you to build, test, and destroy endlessly customizable vehicles.
Factions and Wasteland Culture
- The game explores tribalism and ideology in a ruined society through its different factions, each representing a vision of post-collapse life.

Visuals and Audio

Crossout boasts a rugged, post-apocalyptic art style filled with rusted metal, scorched landscapes, and cobbled-together war machines. Maps range from deserted industrial zones to canyon outposts and irradiated ruins. The visuals focus on mechanical detail and destruction physics—vehicles lose parts dynamically in combat, and explosions are frequent and satisfying.

The sound design supports the chaos with roaring engines, gunfire, and clanging metal, immersing players in the dystopian battlefield.

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