Crossfire: Legion News

DevBlog 14: 7 Days til Early Access

Greetings Commanders,

Time flies when you’re busy creating new units, commanders, modes, maps and more! Yes - our next big release is just 7 days away! Take a look at the below to find your local release time.

With 24 new units, 3 new commanders, our new payload mode, Campaign Act 1 and Co-op defense mode, plus 4 new PvP Maps, this release is a big one.

We’re dropping new units across Global Risk, Black List and New Horizon. Covering air and ground - battle with new tanks such as Global Risk’s Imperator. Launch air strikes with the Condor and Albatross, two new air units for Black list. Infantry, vehicles, tanks and air are all included in the release.

We’re also releasing Payload mode! Destroy the incoming crate drops to reveal the payload, and escort it safely, fighting off incoming attacks, to its launch point. You’ll need to successfully protect and secure three to win.

As well as three new commanders, we’re also releasing four maps, bringing the total up to eight. Explore Frostbite, Blacksite, Domination and Railyard, and defeat the enemy!

Our upcoming release will be fully available (Audio, subtitles and menu) in English, French, German, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, and Korean. Subtitles and menu only translation will be available in Spanish, Japanese, Polish and Russian.

It’s time to create your army, explore new maps and lead your troops to victory!

Here are the all important system requirements and cost:
Minimum Spec:

OS: Windows 10 64 bit
CPU: Intel Core i5-7400 @ 3.00GHz or AMD equivalent
GPU: GeForce GTX 960, 4 GB / Radeon RX 560, 4 GB
Memory: 4 GB
Storage: 10 GB of available space
DirectX: Version 11

Recommended Spec:

OS: Windows 10 64 bit
CPU: Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz / AMD Ryzen 5 3600
GPU: GeForce RTX 2060, 6 GB / Radeon RX 5700, 8 GB
Memory: 8 GB
Storage: 15 GB of available space
DirectX: Version 11

Cost

In Europe: 29.99 €
In the UK: £ 23.99
In the USA: ＄29.99
In Korea: 31000 ₩

Put your RTS skills through their paces and baptize the new units in fire with our ESL tournament. There'll be prizes to be won and competitive mayhem to be had with our three regional tournaments in Europe, North America and Asia. You can register up until June 5th.

An overview can be found here: https://play.eslgaming.com/crossfire-legion

The FINALS will be held on June 28th, join us and tune in here:
https://www.twitch.tv/primemattergg

We also have a Fan Kit available with artwork, unit cards, logos and all you content creators need here: https://static.kochmedia.com/yac_sites/crossfire/cfl_fankit.zip

Maintain your communication and surveillance networks by joining us here on:

Stay tuned, we're almost there!
- Your Crossfire: Legion Team

DevBlog 13: New Roster Units

Greetings Commanders,

We’ve 24 new playable units incoming to the battlefields of Crossfire: Legion!
That takes the playable options up to 45 units! Imagine the combinations.

Early Access on May 24th will bring this expanded unit roster for each faction for you to unlock and begin to experiment with. It’s your army to customize and lead to victory.

This video will help you get familiar with those units so you can best vanquish your foes.
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Let’s see what new additions bolster the ranks of Global Risk:

Infantry: the Grenade Trooper packs a powerful punch.
Infantry: the Shield Trooper, for defensive commanders who like to tank early fights.
Vehicle: the Gladiator was made for destroying air units.
Vehicle: the Marshal, delivers heavy blows from a distance while maintaining high mobility.
Tank: the Imperator will bombard from afar to create breaches in enemy defenses.
Air: the Rapier offers you air supremacy.
Air: the Halberd delivers surgical strikes.
Air: the Scepter rapidly transports your units across enemy lines.

In response, here’s what Black List commanders can bring to the fore:

Infantry: the Fire Ant and its flamethrower will decimate large groups of foes in close combat.
Infantry: the Jackal helps savvy commanders perfect their hit and run tactics.
Vehicle: the Beetle rapidly incinerates enemy structures by taking its flames on the go.
Vehicle: the Scorpion launches area denying gas grenades and will outrange most foes.
Vehicle: the Centipede uses its powerful electrical arcs to heal and boost allies, or slow enemies.
Air: the Prion hinders enemies with its EMP rockets.
Air: the Condor uses its explosive drones to pick off slow enemies and structures from afar.
Air: the Albatross aids rapid troop deployments with its expansive cargo holds and durability.

And New Horizon offers these AI enhanced tools to shake things up:

Infantry: the Ogre deals area of effect damage from afar
Infantry: the Minotaur wields hard hitting heavy energy cannons.
Vehicle: the Manticore’s dual cannons increase enemies' vulnerability to damage
Vehicle: the Cerberus’s powerful railgun punches through multiple targets in a straight line before it then teleports to a new firing position.
Vehicle: the Hades barrages ground and air targets with its explosive drones.
Mech: the Hyperion fires salvoes of explosives and can jump over obstacles.
Air: the Siren offers advanced support by creating a damaging and debilitating energy field around itself.
Air: the Charon reliably and rapidly gets New Horizon forces wherever they need to be.

You’ll need to unlock these units as you play and experiment with them to find the roster that will lead you to victory. We’re looking forward to seeing what units you’ll deploy to the battlefield on May 24th.

Want to test your command skills with the new units? Put them through their paces and baptize them in fire with our ESL tournament. There'll be prizes to be won and competitive mayhem to be had with our three regional tournaments in Europe, North America and Asia. You can register up until June 5th.

An overview can be found here: https://play.eslgaming.com/crossfire-legion

The FINALS will be held on June 28th, join us and tune in here:
https://www.twitch.tv/primemattergg

Stay tuned, next week we'll be revealing all the details of the game in our 7 days till release run up to Early Access. Stay frosty.

- Your Crossfire: Legion Team

DevBlog 12: New Game Modes

Greetings Commanders,
Here’s another DevBlog that gives you more intel on what’s arriving with our Early Access on May 24th.
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Payload introduces a new game mode and victory conditions for you to test your tactical prowess against. During battle, crate drops will parachute onto your choice of three special maps, Blacksite (3v3), Domination (3v3) and Rail Yard (2v2).

Race to these, because some will contain the powerful unit bonus, while others will contain the payloads. Fend off your foes, shoot the crates to open them and escort the payloads to their final firing position. Do this three times to trigger their launch and win. Alternatively, destroy your enemy bases in the traditional way.

Operation Thunderstrike allows up to three players to band together to fight off the forces of a rogue A.I. that is indiscriminately targeting everyone. How long can you hold the line?

In partnership with ESL, there'll be prizes to be won and competitive mayhem to be had with our three regional tournaments in Europe, North America and Asia. You can register up until June 5th.

An overview can be found here: https://play.eslgaming.com/crossfire-legion

The FINALS will be held on June 28th, join us and tune in here:
https://www.twitch.tv/primemattergg

Lots to look forward to and we’ll be back next week with details of the new units available to your Early Access army roster.

- Your Crossfire: Legion team

DevBlog 11: Developer’s Vision & ESL

Greetings Commanders,
With Early Access releasing on May 24th, we thought now is a perfect time to hear from the game (Maruice) and narrative (Maya) designers themselves and find out what they envisage for the game.

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We’re also proud to announce our partnership with ESL (Electronic Sports League).
Competitors will battle it out across one of three global regions:

Click each to learn more, while an overview can be found here: https://play.eslgaming.com/crossfire-legion

Battle will commence:

1st Qualifier on June 5th
2nd Qualifier on June 12th
3rd Qualifier on June 19th
4th Qualifier on June 26th
The FINALS will be held on June 28th with cash prizes for the winners.

And join us as we cast the finals here:
https://www.twitch.tv/primemattergg

Players looking to enter the competitive carnage can register here from today on the ESL website until June 5th.

This kicks off our competitive tournament plans. Stay tuned as we will announce more tournaments in the future, both sponsored and organised by the players themselves.

DevBlog 10: Early Access Delayed

Greetings Commanders,
In game development not everything always goes to plan but we have communicated with you the freshest news every step of the way. This continues here as we announce the delay of our Early Access to May 24th.

Delayed, but don’t be dismayed, there are good reasons for this.

This is a tough call, but we have had such a wealth of feedback from players during our Technical Test and Demo that we can now more comfortably implement these changes. This ranges from squashing bugs to optimising graphical performance.

Unfortunately, we must cancel the free play test (originally planned for April 21st) so that we can continue to focus on all the players feedback. And so while our current priority is getting the game ready for Early Access, once that’s released we can assess the possibility of a platform for free tests afterwards.

If you are unsure of the game, you will find many great Let’s Play videos on Youtube.
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We also now have more time to refine the game based on our work with the community council. As always we’re listening to all feedback because the game is ultimately shaped and driven by the players. This makes us open to suggestions; game development is an ongoing process and content updates post launch are the norm for most titles.

Like many of you, we are also looking forward to getting to grips with Dune: Spice Wars and Galactic Civilisation 4, which were also due to enter Early Access on the same day. My, what a good time to be a strategy game player. In the meantime we can now all enjoy more RTS :)

Here is our revised Road to Early Access:

DevBlog 11, April 28th
We take an exclusive look at the brains behind Crossfire: Legion with an interview with our lead game designer and senior narrative designer. We’ll learn more about their vision for the game.

DevBlog 12, May 5th.
We’ll introduce you to the ins and outs of PayLoad, our new game mode that’ll get you thinking about your RTS plans in a new way.

DevBlog 13, May 12th
Here we’ll detail the new units and commanders that you’ll be able to play with and experiment within your strategies upon Early Access release.

DevBlog 14, May 17th.
It’ll be only 7 days until Early Access releases. We’ll detail the release time zones, new content, price, tournaments and info about localization.

DevBlog 15, May 24th.
Early Access will be live and we’ll be taking you through all that’s new and what’s still to come.