Crossedland First Look Gameplay - This One Is Interesting
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Crossedland is an action RPG at heart but also has elements from several other genres mixed in. You’ll teleport into arenas to battle, gather, loot, and hunt then retire to your personal island for rest. You can bring back people you find and rebuild the ruins scattered across the island, unlocking new features, equipment, recipes, and upgrades as you go.
Combat can best be described as souls-like. It can be fast paced but is also methodical at times. It can also be very difficult if you’re not careful. Enemies (especially humanoid enemies) are incredibly deadly at most levels if you don’t pay attention to them.
Stamina plays a crucial role in combat. It is used to block and to use heavy attacks, reckless attacks, and block breaks. Managing your stamina will be critical to doing well in combat.
There are currently over 100 weapons to find or craft and 18 different fighting styles based on the weapons you use. From one-handed swords, quick thrusting weapons, and polearms to massive, slow two-handed weapons and bows.
More powerful enemies also await when you find the coordinates to boss locations. There are currently three available to challenge and each of them reward parts for upgrades on defeat.
Many enemies also have special attacks that can cause status effects. You can be poisoned, paralyzed, bleeding, slowed, frozen, armor-pierced, and set of fire.
Enemies also have their own factions and will attack any rival factions they get near. Humanoids will even loot items from whatever they kill, so, you might find some great loot on them!
You’ll go into a wide variety of arenas. Many of them will be open, sprawling areas, that can be several different biomes, where you’ll primarily gather resources to rebuild your island and create new gear and tech. These large arenas will also be full of enemies, too, so watch your back while you’re gathering resources.
If you die in the arena, you’ll lose everything you gathered in that arena. So, be careful if you’re low on health and see that shiny gold node off in the distance.
In the large arenas, there are also enemies that wander the arena and gather resources. Once they’ve hit their limit, they book it to the portal and escape, so keep an eye out for them. If you see them running somewhere, they’ve probably got a lot of resources on them!
Other arenas include cramped quarter combat arenas where your goal will just be to defeat the enemy and gameshows. Gameshows range from easy to complete to incredibly difficult but can have wonderful rewards.
Arenas feature time limits. Some are instant death but not everything is a hard end to the arena. Sometimes deadly robots will spawn, lasers will drag themselves across the landscape destroying everything in their path, invisible monsters will attempt to hunt you down, or orbital bombardments will randomly strike in large areas of the arena.
You’ll also have to contend with meteor showers, lightning strikes, gravity anomalies, and other threats while traversing the arenas.
There are 19 skills to raise. Most weapon styles have their own skills (some overlap) then each gathering type and crafting type have their own skills as well as a few others like athletics.
Skills are raised by using them. Raising your skills is important as the higher your skill, the more damage you do, the faster you gather, and the better you craft.
Hitting certain skill levels also unlocks one of the 29 abilities available in the game. Stat boosts, instant gathering, and a chance to instantly kill enemies with a headshot are just a few of the many available!
You’ll also find various bits of tech to bring back to Vex who will turn them into upgrades for you (free of charge, because she’s nice like that!) There are 11 upgrades to unlock currently including blink and double jump.
There are hundreds of crafting recipes available from weapon upgrades, fire enhancements, and armor to food that gives you buffs and furniture.
Food will play an important role in the arenas, especially at lower levels. Most prepared food will provide boosts to stats and regeneration. Try to always eat before heading into an arena.
Some recipes for meals will have to be found or bought out in the world but a lot of recipes will be automatically learned just from picking up the ingredients. You’ll even be able to grow ingredients on your farm!
Weapons and armor can be upgraded if you find the right recipe and the right materials to use. From increased stats and different colors to electric damage and poison.
Some of the islanders can even make you gadgets like grenades that instantly gather materials or emergency escape portals so you can get out of an arena quick!