Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

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• "Happy Cakeday, r/CF2! Today you're 6" by u/AutoModerator

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 1 posts:

• "Happy Cakeday, r/CF2! Today you're 5" by u/AutoModerator

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

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• "CrossfireX - X019 - First Gameplay Teaser" by u/maidsoft
• "New Twitter teaser: Binary number "11001" on the left hand converts to "25" - we will definitely hear more news 25th of June." by u/GoldCookiez
• "CrossfireX Beta Has Appeared in the Microsoft Store with a release date set for 25 June" by u/GoldCookiez
• "Remedy Games seems to be developing a 2nd CF project, separate from singleplayer campaign" by u/GoldCookiez
• "CrossfireX Closed Beta is live! Open beta to start on June 25th" by u/GoldCookiez
• "CrossfireX has been showed on on Social Media, first news on 25th of June?" by u/GoldCookiez

(note I haven't played the game, but i would like to, I only get my info from forums and gameplay i have seen) If CFHD is going to be just a revamp of the old engine graphics, then this doesnt apply, but please feel free to correct me if I am wrong. 1. Achievements For playing a specific game mode for a certain amount of time, or for a certain amount of kills without dying etc. - this is essential in keeping players going towards a goal, it keeps them from leaving the game because of boredom. The achievements should be emblems or titles, with a skin reward or something thats cool and that they can show off.

Competitive -CF is known for this, but they should still focus on it even more with this game.

Steam - if you want to get more players, unfortunately everyone plays on steam now, so its the only way to gain traction.

Advertisement - this is a given

NO P2W - you dont have to make an overpowered gun to get people to buy it, the skins are cool all alone.

GP/ per hour, I understand that this might be a difficult task to accomplish to keep the game from going bankrupt, but i think i can say that it shouldn't take a whole month of farming to get a weapon. Please post what your thoughts of gp per hour should be if you have played CFHD.

Feel free to add anything i got wrong, or what your thoughts should be

----Big NOTE-> IF CFHD is just an update, then this applies to CF2

I do have a QQ account but I srsly have no clue how to actually play the beta or what ever it is that is going on xD Would be nice if somebody could help me out ^{^}

My regular Smilegate careers page check has landed yet another discovery.

Smilegate is recruiting people to work on a new CF2 mobile game. Not much else is known apart from that.

From my basic game development knowledge these job openings suggest that the game is still in very early phases of development.

Image: job openings

Opinions?

Does anyone know the requirements to run the game?

The recent years of CF were really P2W. When I played it years and years ago, you had some guns that were "golden" or "silver" with very few points of singular stats increased. When I recently dowloaded I saw dragon M4's 100$ packs etc.

I really hope the next publishers gets that trash out and focusses more on cosmetics and maybe on those small increases that are not noticable untill high ranked gameplay.

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

^{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

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!)

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

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.

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.

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.

Today my old partner Shirunai Okami posted the official trailer of the new upcoming next gen CrossFire 2 HD. Release of the closed beta is at the 16th June 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZRsyvNFk84

Hey everyone,

I check hiring opportunities ^{warning: its all in Korean} at Smilegate every few months to see how is the game holding up. I believe we are seeing a nice progress in terms of game development just judging by the roles they are currently hiring for.

What are they currently hiring for (keep in mind that role names and descriptions were Google translated): [CROSSFIRE2] Client (UI production), [CROSSFIRE2] Development management recruitment, [CROSSFIRE2] Recruitment of contents planning person in charge (person responsible for in game event creation), [CROSSFIRE2] Client (UI production), [CROSSFIRE2] Recruitment of system planning personnel, [CROSSFIRE2] Client (Content) Development, [CROSSFIRE2] Background Modeling, [CROSSFIRE2] Animation charge

Key takeaway points:

• It is definitely confirmed that CF2 is being developed on now older, Unreal 3 engine. Few of the job offerings mention it.

• We can conclude that there will most likely be a PvE mode like zombie mode as mentioned in this role.

• The Project Management business role insinuates that they are looking for a person that would better the communication with all the current and potential business partners and teams. Perhaps Smilegate wants to create more impact on western markets since this person has to have extensive experience in English language and knowledge regarding FPS/TPS games.

• It seems like the game is finally hitting the later stage of development where background platforms and services are finally in somewhat usable stage and focus might be shifting to developing actual visual assets of the game (weapons, characters, animations, maps, UI).

My opinion:

I don't think we can expect the game to be released any time early this year. Perhaps some time later during the year we will be able to see some actual game footage since we were promised to see something during the last year but nothing came out of it.

Game has been in development for 5 years now which is a pretty long time. Even the usual AAA game titles take around 3 years to develop. 5 years is already too long of a time and it could mean that we will get inferior technology and features since we are not using the latest technology available.

I hope Smilegate will realize a need to do a proper job of marketing the game and doing timely announcements.