Gaijin Entertainment has today released Crossout update 0.6.0 for its post-apocalyptic action MMOG.
In addition to new weapon customization options, there’s ability to select drivers to control vehicles that you’ve built. These drivers can also be levelled up and assigned skills and traits to help you in battle.
“The first driver available to everyone comes from the Engineers faction,” says Gaijin. “Players can unlock more characters by increasing their reputation with the different factions. As drivers increase in level, they learn new skills, this provides various benefits such as the ability to become more accurate when firing machine guns, recharge drones faster or increase armor protection of the whole vehicle.”
Customization kits have also been added allowing players to tweak the look of their weapons. These kits can be gained by buying them in the market, or increasing faction reputation. “Once customized, weapons can freely be changed to another customization if the player has unlocked or purchased the respective kit.”
Here’s the Crossout patch notes:
Drivers
• Now, before entering a battle, you can put your driver of choice behind the wheel of the armored vehicle.
• All drivers belong to in-game factions and become available after reaching a certain level of reputation with the faction.By default, the Engineers’ driver sits behind the wheel of an armored car.
• All drivers earn experience.
– Increasing the level of the driver gives him the opportunity to learn new skills.
– The driver gets experience directly in battle.
• Drivers have unique skills that affect the course of battle.
• Once-learned skills will always remain with the driver.
• Some skills require additional resources.
Weapons customization
• Customization kits can be obtained from a special container.
– The container can be manufactured with a new workbench of the Engineers faction.
– From each such container, the player receives one random set for customization.
– At the same workbench you can build a container with paints.
• The container and customization sets can be sold or bought on the market.
• One set is used to customize one weapon.The set is consumed after application, and the weapon changes its appearance. Use your sets wisely!
– After customization, weapons can not be put up for sale.
– After customization, weapons can be upgraded.Customized appearance with the upgrade is preserved only if the customized weapon is selected first.
• You can repeatedly use customization kits on upgraded weapons.However, with re-customization, the old appearance is lost.
Game Modes
Raids
Heist
Disable invisibility!
• Now, when picking up cargo, the player loses invisibility, if it was active at that time. In addition, the player with the cargo can not become invisible.
Escort
The more allies close by, the higher the confidence!
• Now the more players are near the truck, the higher its speed.
• If there are no players next to the truck, it stops.
• The critical distance to the truck is 75 m. If there are no players in the specified radius, then the truck stands still.
Cabins
Add even more personality to your vehicle!
• Added new welding points for the Duster cabin.
Tracks
Power, as it is.
• Increased tonnage of all tracks.
This is what all fans of tracked vehicles have been expecting!
• Fixed a bug with low reverse speed for tracked vehicles.
Dyes
• Paints issued to CBT participants can now be sold on the Market. This applies to paints:
– Tribal
– Crash Tester
– Snake
– Lone ranger stripes
– Lone ranger stars
Blueprints
• All blueprints from the Packs tab are now available for test-drive, and you can check out all the packs before purchasing them!
Packs
• ‘Thug’ starter pack (Humble Bundle) increases parts limit by 35.
Achievements
Need more incentive? Here it comes! Now the best players get special stickers.
• This applies both to the best player of the winning team, and to the best player of the losing team.
• To receive stickers, the player of the winning team needs to score the most points, and the player of the losing team needs to have more than half the points from the winning team’s best player.
Interface
Game login
• Added a login queue window for the game, which shows the estimated waiting time.
Battle/Map
No worthy ally will disappear without a trace.
• Now, for the convenience of players, you can immediately add players to your friends list using the map called with the TAB button.
Battle start
Show everyone that you are proud of your clan allegiance!
• For clan players, display of the clan tag in briefing and debriefing on the statistics screen has been added.
Debriefing/Statistics
• Improved window appearance.
• Added clan tags for clan players.
Chat
• Chat window width now depends on screen resolution.
• Added an interface with quick messages. These messages are visible to your allies and are shown in the list of current kills.
Trade
Convenience, accuracy and maximum simplicity are always important for trading.
• Added increase / decrease buttons for Price and Quantity fields:
– Price changes in 0.01 coin steps.
– Quantity changes in 1 pc. steps.
Upgrades
No more errors!
• Upgraded parts used to upgrade another part are now marked with a special icon.
Rested bonus
Information is our everything!
• Improved the bonus description.
• Now when the limit is exhausted, the icon does not disappear, but becomes grey.The corresponding description now appears when the rested bonus is exhausted.
Voice chat
Always stay in touch with your allies!
• Voice chat returns to the game.
• Activate voice chat by pressing and holding the Y button (default).
Descriptions and tips
• Increased font size.
Daily rewards
• Added a highlight for the font to improve readability.
Sound
Immerse yourself in the battlefield!
• Improved the sounds for driving across sand.
• Improved the machine gun sound of the wheel drone.
Miscellaneous
• Improved performance of the game client.
• Improved hit effects for acid, sand.
• More enemies — more diverse fights! Added new models of AI-opponents for Lunatics, Nomads and Scavengers factions.
• Improved the explosion effect when the car is self-detonated.
• Improved camera behaviour near walls.
• The ‘FPS-show’ function is now binded to F11 button.
Bug fixes
• Improved maps:
– Rock City
-Factory
– Power Plant
– Dead Highway
– Eastern Array
– Control-17
– Desert Valley
– Test-Drive
• Improved a number of text strings.
• Fixed relative loudness of enemy machine guns.
• Fixed a bug with acceleration for a cabin+engine combo.
• Fixed a bug with Spotter sticker description.
• Fixed bug with saving blueprints for screens larger than FullHD.
• Fixed a bug with the countdown sound for inactive cargo.
• Fixed a bug with missing sounds when driving through some bushes.
• Fixed a bug with exhaust effect positioning on Hell pipes.
• Fixed a bug with countdown display in Cargo race.
• Fixed a bug with shell casing sounds.
• Fixed a bug with several drones launched simultaneously.
• Fixed a bug with a draw in Race mode.
• Fixed a bug of tracks traction deterioration under fire.
• Fixed a bug where you could mount any part on the Headlight part.
• Improved stability of the game client.