This FPS had EVERYTHING going for it and now it's DEAD

Crossfire X was a sequel to the biggest game of all time and is shutting down a year after launch.
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[BigfryTV]

Why do YOU think CrossfireX is dead? Let me know down below👇 Leave a like on the video if you enjoyed it and I'll see you on the next one!

[drizztcat]

The fact that I haven't even heard of Crossfire X shows that it had major problems beyond execution of a good game. I literally never heard of it.

[RedBeardMortis]

I never heard of these titles until today and tbh, I can see why CrossfireX never hit with a mainstream audience. Overhype trailer mixed with cutting edge graphics seemed like a formula to success; but making it an Xbox ONE exclusive is what inevitably killed it off.

Great video as always bro!

[angelayala]

I remember playing this and the aiming felt horrible. It felt like a controller emulating mouse movement. I remember this being a common complaint

[shperax]

Failed to launch on the most important system. PC master race. That's where their fan base was and they chose to ignore them.

[GrandMastaKiwi]

The original crossfire was my Literal VERY FIRST multiplayer shooter I ever played. I used to play it on my family's original family dell laptop in the late 2000s at our family's old business that had wifi (before we officially got wifi at our house in the early 2010s) so hearing that a new iteration of the very first MP game I played was coming got me hyped.

Loved the trailers that came out, and in general was stoked that the xbox was getting yet another Xbox exclusive multiplayer title. Especially when I heard that remedy was making the single player component.

When I finally got around to playing it, it was a bummer dude.

Crossfire X was probably THE WORST video game I ever played since probably Aliens Colonial Marines & Duke Nukem Forever.

The graphics were advanced but looked cheap at the exact same time. The gun mechanics and gameplay lacked balancing because every gun (back when i stilled cared to play it) dealt the exact same amount of damage, making them all worthless and lacked any uniqueness. Controls were janky as hell, thus making movement felt weird when playing with the controller (I'm sure it controlled better on PC).

That's not even mentioning the confusing as hell gun load out screen when selecting which weapon you want to choose (if you were even able to do so since there was a glitch that prevented me from doing so). As well as the random screen tearing glitch that would occur on the non classic "competitive mode" when using the guns.

This game was broken beyond belief, and even if they were to fix the bugs and issues, it wouldn't stop it from being a boring game. It just wasn't fun to play from the start.

Hell, the 2020 beta they released during the covid pandemic felt more tame than what actually came out on launch day, and even then that beta highlighted some of those issues I noticed with the official release version.

They screwed up this game hard, and honestlyz there should have been ZERO excuse for it to release in the state that it did.

I'm sad that the game is shutting down, but at the same time I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. It was brain dead from the start, and with them shutting down the servers this upcoming May, all they're doing is pulling the plugs on its life support.

Dam Shame, but it's a "it is what it is" scenario. No one is to blame other than the incompetence of the higher ups that pushed this game out too soon for release.

[suntzu]

"Spectre" mode is not a new mode. It is the "Ghost" mode of the original Crossfire.

Fun mode to play in the past where a player really needs skills in order to pull off being a ghost. As the ghost, there are multiple of tricks that you can do, most famous is the bhop, where you can move fast and invisible by timing your crouch jumping backwards, advanced version is you still jump backwards then turn around to jump forward while keeping the invisibility and momentum to gain large distance. As the Global Risk, you just need to know the usual spots of the ghosts and also, the breathing. Ghosts have loud breathing that it will reveal their general direction and the player will just blindly shoot in that direction until they hit someone. Good Global Risk players will most of the time be called a "cheater" because they know how the ghosts works and the spots.

[Beefyrulz]

If they brought it to PC I would've absolutely played that.
Been dying for a good new shooter.
They died because of exclusivity more than anything I feel.
Bugs and some bad design certainly doesn't help, but far and away the worst thing you can do is limit your market pool so severely especially with such a renowned IP.

[FebiMaster]

I used to play crossfire a lot in middle school, even skipped school mid day to play this in cyber cafe with my friends, one of defining moments of my childhood, sad to see its sequel dead.

Tho rightfully so, they choose to ignore their biggest fanbase

[yesiahrivera]

It being an Xbox exclusive wasn’t the entire reason for its fail, I played it when the beta first came out and it was honestly so refreshing and brought back the nostalgia of what made the old FPS games great, the problem they seem to had in my opinion was the multiple year delays and horrible controls they had on launch, those may not seem so bad but there was no advertisement up until like a month before the game released and the game seemed completely different from beta to launch ( In a bad way).

[TheFirstDoofus]

Maybe. Just MAYBE if they put the game on pc maybe it would have survived a little bit longer.

[CallMeBlackout_]

This goes to show that a company of making hits in the past can always find a way to fail in the future.

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[kingcobragaming]

The moment i heard one of my childhood fps's was coming back i was so happy until i realized it was only for xbox and not pc which left me both very confused and depressed as why they didnt pirotize pc although now that I've seen how quick it died and how buggy it was we prop dodged a bullet anyways

[Deliveredmean]

I instantly forgot about the game after a day or two... Especially since the Single Player bug not being able to play it... But I am glad I didnt try it, the jank controls on MP was rough to get around it, so I imagine how bad it is for SP as well. This is quite unfortunate, sadly.

[Munishin]

This is exactly why I wanted them to drop it on PC. Can't say they didn't kinda invite this. Sucks to see it go either way though.

[defaq]

The fact that he's surprised about the pay to win proves that he had never played the original Crossfire, where said gatling gun can only be obtained via lottery with 1% chance per roll.

[megamaggotmrh]

A lot of people say it only failed because it didn't release on PC. I can tell you for a fact that is wrong. Crossfire X was a mess from start to finish. The campaign was... I'd say maybe a 5 out of 10 max. But it had no heart. That was not Remedy. No idea why they had their name on it. The multiplayer was unbelievably pay to win. I haven't seen a non mobile game this pay to win since the Xbox 360/PS3 era. The bugs were so bad, it made Battlefield 2042s launch look like it should be industry standard. Imagine doing fairly well in the game and then suddenly the game bugs out and everyone including your own team is invisible.

I gave the game some on again off again time seeing if it would improve. Even as recently as November 2022 because of all the sponsored videos getting advertised on YouTube saying "This game will KILL Modern Warfare II." I knew that wasn't true but thought that meant they atleast did some bug fixes. Nope! They added some content, and new bugs.

It did not die because it wasn't on PC. This game probably would have bricked your PC.

[AverageTESEnjoyer]

It's so sad because this game LOOKED really good. I really liked the visual style!

[incredibil]

1:51 the original game launched in february 2008 in the west, I've been playing it for 14 years...

[lordkoalaz]

i remember playing the beta for it and loving it but then once the beta closed I never heard of it after that. I really enjoyed it especially the CS style game mode they had. I feel if they were to release this again but have it on the PC and take away the ptw parts it could be a really good game