{"id":7944,"date":"2022-02-16T01:35:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T01:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/crossfirex-multiplayer-review\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T01:35:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T01:35:01","slug":"crossfirex-multiplayer-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/crossfirex-multiplayer-review\/","title":{"rendered":"CrossfireX Multiplayer Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Note: This review covers the multiplayer modes of CrossfireX. Read our <\/em>CrossfireX Single-Player Campaign review<\/a> for more.<\/em><\/p>\n

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CrossfireX\u2019s multiplayer feels like a first-person shooter you might play at a Dave & Buster\u2019s arcade. It\u2019s 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\u2019s birthday party to stop hogging them. 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. There\u2019s a whole array of issues that made every match an agonizing tribulation. It\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

CrossfireX 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. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the shooting mechanics themselves, which are some of the sloppiest and inaccurate I\u2019ve ever gone into battle with. Aiming accurately is a painful ordeal, as your weapons sluggishly wiggle from place to place with almost no consistency. Even when adjusting the aiming settings and the various levels of aim assist, I could find no setting that feels good in the slightest. It\u2019s astonishing that a shooter could get something so fundamental as aiming so wrong in 2022.<\/p>\n

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All of that is made worse by a massive bug that drops you in and out of aim-down-sights (ADS) when firing your weapon, which happens almost constantly. Smilegate has already said it plans to address this bug, but in the days following launch it\u2019s something you\u2019re likely to experience multiple times every single match \u2013 and remember, that\u2019s on top of gunplay that already feels pretty awful to begin with.<\/p>\n

My teammates and I lovingly named him King Chonkus.<\/section>\n

Of course, the ADS bug isn\u2019t the only issue you\u2019re likely to encounter playing CrossfireX online. I\u2019ve 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). The weirdest bug I encountered regularly, though, is the fact that the main menu itself is completely unstable \u2013 its framerate hitches all the time and it\u2019s even crashed to the Xbox dashboard altogether a few times. I\u2019m reminded of Halo: The Master Chief Collection at its notorious launch, where a bunch of different experiences made by different teams were forced together all on one menu and UI, which seems to be a good way to make said menu and UI buggy as heck.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n