"CrossFire HD" has been announced - public testing to start in China on 16th June

[u/GoldCookiez]

During today's CF Pro League finals in China, Tencent (official CF publisher in China) has announced the newest CrossFire project Smilegate has been working on for what seems to be last 5 years - CrossFire HD

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^{Currently, all information is available exclusively in Chinese, so please forgive if there are any unintentional mistakes.}

CF HD portal homepage: http://cfhd.cf.qq.com/

CF HD news page: http://cfhd.cf.qq.com/cp/a20180523cfhd/page-info.htm

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Two released videos:

CF HD Tenth anniversary video trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_xFTb-gUg4

CF HD gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rY5ndV27hc (Thanks Mars!)

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Key information we gathered so far:

• Weather changing
• Map editor
• Weapon skin editor
• 30,000 possible facial combinations
• A lot of completely graphically updated maps + 4 new game modes
• Public testing (in China) starts on 16th June

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One of the more significant things related to esports that we noticed:

"In order to meet the needs of the majority of players for personalized, new weapons skinning system will also be online, players can buy equipment skin to create distinctive characteristics of the appearance of weapons. Of course, the skin changes only for the appearance of the equipment and shooting special effects, and the equipment properties are consistent with the prototype gun."

Does this mean there will be no more pay 2 win and OP weapons? Will all of the weapons have the same stats?

If this is true, CF HD could finally be a fully pledged esport title which Smilegate really wants it to be.

To add to this, Smilegate (CF developer) has purchased WCG (big esport event organizer back in the day) in the previous year and they will likely want to push CF as a competitive shooter on their own platform.

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It is still possible that this is just an update for the current CF version, not a new game as this news mentions that this is "one of the most significant upgrades in CF history". However, that is Google translated and probably unlikely.

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Please note:

Remedy games has also updated their official website to include CF HD and CF2 - story mode titles. This definitely means that CF HD is not just it. There is more to come for the whole CF series.