This game was so popular due to it being f2p and that the system requirements were quite low so internet shops in Asia could install them and attract kids who grew up playing this game.
The game debuted way back in 2007, it was basically marketed as a F2P alternative to Counter-Strike and it's widely played and continues to get supported till this day especially in the eSports scene which is seriously impressive.
@@DarkZerol cs never really got a good foot hold as the staple fps in Asia. Most copies of cs was probably a pirated version and any sort of online scene was non existent. There were other fps games before cf but it seems cf was the better one.
There are hundreds of thousands of F2P FPS with low system requirements. This game became popular for the same reason as Counter Strike: it is old and has become a classic.
As a brazilian, I can asure that this game used to be huge in here. I spent 5 years of my life play this game, and watching this gave me a mixed fellings of good sensations remembering how good it was to get kills and make beatiful plays. And bad sensations of remembering the amount of rages caused by a bad net code, poor hit reg and hackers ever now and then.
Lembro até hoje de ter ficado até as 3 horas da manha assistindo a BD na final do campeonato mundial. Nunca joguei CF, mas comemorei muito com aquele título
Same here, Bruno. I spent 2 years playing this gams. I used to love the ghost mode because i was too bad to shoot. Good memories. It was the first fps I played a lot.
Crossfire is one of the household FPS name in Indonesia. Even to this day, this and it’s direct rival, Point Blank, is still common to be found among gamers here.
Brazilian here. I used to play this game all day when I was younger. My PC was too bad and couldn't run the first version of CSGO, so crossfire was the alternative. Had tons of fun during the time I was playing. This game will forever be on my heart.
This was the most popular FPS Games in the Philippines, I hope they create another game similar to this. I hate how newer FPS games tend to have just 2-3 modes.
This game was stupid popular when I was still a kid living in China. I was the weirdo who was playing Halo 3 with foreigners online with my friend's Xbox while all my classmates were wondering why I don't play Crossfire if I'm into FPS games.
it was the exact opposite for me here in germany, only one friend of mine who introduced me to the game was playing crossfire, besides that it was (for most of the people) only fifa call of duty or battlefield
I actually remember putting some time into Crossfire when i was younger, mainly because my only PC was a crappy laptop that couldn't run almost anything, CS:GO ran in like 20fps on 800×600. And yes, it's microtransactions were incredibly awful, and the frags did feel satisfying
@@avoidthevo1d not such much back then there was not even pistol only and sniper only back then 2007 xD i was just looking for new game after warrock began to get to much cheaters beta was so funny has ghost in gm u could use a cheat where u can shot wiht the knife xD
I miss this game with a passion. There is something so satisfying about the simple graphics, sfx and vfx in this game. I wish more people in NA liked this game, i want to play it, but the NA servers are barren or slot reserved.
I would agree with you if it was 2007 to maybe 2015 version. CrossFire 2.0 is plagued with terrible matches, unbalanced gameplay, god awful map design, netcode issue, etc. GP shop weapons are obsolete. Sure, there is some good stuff in the Mileage shop, but it's still nothing compared to VIP/ZP weapons. Back then, I used to rock with an M16 and Desert Eagle against ZP players and would get called a cheater. Now I need to farm for craft/upgrade for my weapons or buy shit in the black market for coupons to go toe to toe with ZP players. Luckily, I completed an event that earned me an M4A1 Proto; it's overpowered as the VIP/ZP M4s. There's even a character than could cancel sniper recoil by kicking. The CrossFire that we used to know is not there anymore. I miss the time when I could just login and play the game. I fucking hate farming for shit just to get even; I feel miserable playing after coming back 1 month ago. There are far better free-to-play first-person shooters out in the market than this. Since Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is now also free-to-play, there's no point in coming back to CrossFire anymore. Unless you just like its aesthetics.
Switch to Asia server bro literally at least 3 people in the internet cafe play this game all the time. Everyone I know plays or has played crossfire in their life here in Asia 😂
@@Paterq This is not the case. Crossfire has over 500 weapons, over 50 different game modes, over 100 different scenarios, and so on. In terms of content it is far superior to Counter Strike.
@@Paterq But when it is your first game, in 2008 with f2p hay good online server, you can easily enjoy it you know. Especially when you compare with Counter Strike Online.
I play crossfire west everyday Everyday I enjoy ghost mode Basically it's for real real real pros Black list ( Ghosts ) can do tricks to move invisible Global risk ( Defenders ) can hear ghost's breath detect and pinpoint them and kill them But if they walk you can see them It's basically an advanced search and destroy mode where ghosts try to plant C4 or kill GR it's so satisfying in an incredible way
I was pretty good at being a Ghost back in the day. I don't know what its called anymore but there's this mechanic that I practiced everyday back then that allows you to jump without revealing yourself.
@@cloudynguyen6527 agreed, since child i think ghost more bringing jumpscare but in reality CS zombie is way more jumpscare no matter how much i play the game compare to crossifire
As a german "allmost-pro" in crossfire, let me tell you about some stuff we had to go trough: 1. When Crossfire Europe wasnt released, we had to play on "NA", but we couldnt crouch because the keyboard layouts were programmed so badly, we had to switch to US-Layout, switch the keyboard settings ingame and then switch back. 2. 1000hz polling rate isnt supported, or at least lets your mouse go up and down while aiming left-right. 3. You could click your mouswheel on the scope/right-click button in settings menu, when you played AWM (AWP in csgo) or any other sniper, you could just press shoot button and instantly quickscoped which is btw. very strong in csgo because there is no cooldown of precision. 4. China-Walk was a technique of walking sideways (key A/D) and fastly pressing forward/backward(w/s). It made you faster and people couldnt hear your steps (i think it was possible to switch ws / ad arround. 5. Bunnyhopping was really easy, it was the fastest way to go from A->B and also didnt make noice if done right. 6. you could "high-jump" onto things by hitting jump right before landing, experienced players could easily do it while running whout having to stand infront of the "target". 7. You could glitch into boxes by standing on a corner of a box and slightly fastly going forward/backward and left/right... at some point you just sank into the crate and in some maps this allowed you to go to extremely weird places. 8. Crossfire comp scene started by "forbidding" BP (Bulletproof helmet and vest) which allowed you to dodge a headshot with many weapons (m4), later they allowed to because the m4 was a little too strong, problem is that BP is a real money exclusive, or at least back in the days hard to get. 9. If you aim at a player trough a smoke, the name pops up in red on your crosshair, making it easy to get kills trough smokes. 10. you could avoid fall damage by bunnyhopping. 11. walking of an elevation totally didnt affect your precision, making it very easy to hit insane 360° "Dropshots". (Jumpshots were a little harder, but way easier than csgo f.e.) 12. Many edges let you aim and shoot trough them, this allowed you to kill enemies trough whole buildings with a little timing. 13. there was a error message when: Glitching into boxes, having unstable internet, sometimes random that made your game crash or at least kick you out of the game. Made it very unplayable at some times.
ist das spiel noch aktiv ? sieht aus wie etwas auf das ich bock habe weil ich immer csgo aber mit asiatischem feeling spielen wollte, und wenns aktiv ist wuerd ichs mal ausprobieren
I love in the Philippines and this game alongside Soldier Front and Point Blank were probably the three biggest free to play FPS back then, now I think it's just Crossfire surviving since computer shops are still alive in the Philippines and again you don't need a beast PC to run this game
Current NA Crossfire player here! Wasn’t expecting to see anything on the game anytime soon, but it’s good to see some attention shone on the scene. It’s very small, but if you play the game, you won’t ever escape. Something alllllways will drive you back.
@@pupuchi5842 the eu server is almost full *during eu peak hours*, though its cap is 3000. Most of it is non snd matches, but u wont struggle to find a game with alot of people. Im from NA too, luckily east coast and only get 86 ping. Still a blast, holds up to games like csgo, if you can get a good connection that is. No other server is alive and people from other regions join us with high ping since the game shutdown in their region, its annoying but i dont blame them for wanting to play a game they love.
@@zip3704 thats great to hear, i used to play the game religiously along with roblox back in 2011-2016 because i had a shitty laptop and thats about everything i could play, along with "Shadowgun:deadzone". Mostly played zombies or snd, had a blast back then. Lets see if i remember my account details lol
Great video. A lot of what you said hits the point. There are some more things you could have mentioned, but i think overall the most important things got mentioned.
Ah yes, I remember playing this FPS with my friends at the internet cafe in front of my school after school 10 years ago. So many played the game that the school directors has to forcefully close the internet cafe (idk how they did it but the cafe closed). So many memories.
I loved this game as a kid. I more grew up on Combat Arms, so my heart really lies with that game. But I'm oddly always attracted to games like Crossfire. The aesthetic, speedy gameplay, and non-english community has fsr become my favorite aspects of Korean-made F2P shooter games. I came to this video after a conversation with a friend. And while it is a shame that this game isn't very playable in the US it seems, I'd still love to give it another try after all these years to see if it's held up in any regard, or if it's not worth it in the US.
as someone living in thailand this is a name i honestly hear way too much. its rlly popular among local kids, mostly the mobile battle royale nowadays tho
I played this game a lot with my friends in Canada. I enjoyed it a lot, especially the Ghost game-mode which no other game has managed to recreate. Unfortunately, there was an unchecked hacker problem for far too long, and it made us all quit the game. Lots of good memories of this one though.
I've played in this one in 2012 and it was a reason why i failed some of my exams in university. I still remember these cool zombie modes, mechanics, maps and how satisfied it was to kill enemies and find a right position on a map. I think only bf3 cranes death match can compare to it in a way of emotions in close combats
I played this growing up, till all of my friends played cs and none of them wanted to give it a try and I finally switched over. Had a good time with it :)
Ghost mode was such an awesome game mode, with a high skill ceilling for both sides, bunnyhopping on the ghost side to be able to blitz around the map literally unseen, and pinpointing from the other side to be able to find them by sound and proximity alone. Its so sad that i tried to get into it again a couple months ago but literally couldnt get a single ghost mode game on NA, you are either from the eastern side of the world or you just cant play.
Ghost mode disappeared from NA server, there was a few ghost mode lobby in the EU but that’s it. I used to play ghost mode a lot, bunnyhopping through the whole map already gives me satisfaction
I have hella memories of ghost mode. Especially on the map with the trains. The mechanic of hearing them by audio and seeing them when they were close was neat.
I just came back to this game and it gave out like 3-4 vips for free, for being a 12 years player and returning rewards are goated. The server might have been so low with players these days i still came back to this game from time to time to enjoy a quick fun.
I played this game religiously since I was 8 (2008) back in Vietnam. Then I moved to NA and I never got to play the game like I used to play anymore. Good video sir.
So nostalgic, I remeber going to a internet cafe and playing this in 2008, back then Garena was very popular since Steam didn’t have Pesos and other SEA currency update
Player of month one of Indonesian CF release here: 1. CF didn't take off in here because another korean fps was released before this game called Point Blank. Nevertheless it lived on until 2020 when it was shut down from low CCU, while said game is still strong 2. Continuation from number 2, unfortunately the game was abandoned by the publisher and went into maintenance mode around late 2019 until eventual shut down. 3. We get around P2W weapons by farming more or less same version but from PVE modes, it drops temp weapons that is good enough. And when MP shop came out, we made new accs to farm MPs on so that we get better weapons from shop. As time goes on some P2W weapons, including VIP weapons were given out for free both temporarily and permanently as event weapons, to the extent that P2W players were mad that their rare and or expensive weapon collection is now worthless since everyone who did the event has it.
As a guy who’s a super try hard player in CrossfireX lobbies along with my comrades, it’s really struggling playing one map(Black Widow which takes notes from Dust 2) over and over again with no variety. It’s tiring but we still here and will be here till the game is no more. Hell we waited over 48 days since the March update came out which fixed those imbalances and added more QOL updates you mentioned. Not perfect as more maps are needed which are teased and coming but it’s weird love hate relationship. Want the best for it after the horrible launch and first impression but communication between devs and players is limited. The team wants it be great but they’ll have to live up to their word.
Im not a semi pro but im playing in lan tournaments too in ph some tournaments they follow the international rule(which is the CFS RULES) about the gun and also the character we just use the default character and default gun(we call it CFS GUNS/CS GUN) but some tournaments they dont but they use the community rules Like Open for all guns but just use male characters. Btw even u have the VIP GUN(Which is you gonna pay with real money) the ak47 still one tap headshot even deagle so
YOU'LL GET CAUGHT UP IN THE... You hear a lot about Crossfire here in Australia given how close we are to Asia. Not players to my knowledge, but a lot of our casters have done Crossfire stuff. Elfishguy and Sandman come to mind.
Grew up in this game, there were times that we even escape our parents just to go to a nearby computer shop just to play this. Back then only few have VIP weapons but now it is very common as a result this may sometimes create an imbalance as VIP weapons are much stronger than your classic weapons.
i still remember the times where they had no vip weapons... having an m4 crystal was kind of the best you could have, back in the day, really good times.
It's so interesting to me to see this game covered! I played it for 4 years more or l as daily and for 4 more years every so often. Played scrims, spend all my money into it and made alot of friends with clans and TeamSpeak. Sadly nowadays a pretty trashy game, but it sure holds a special place in my heart!
Man this bring back so many memories. I remembered that it was so easy to cheat in this game that the internet cafe near my house has the cheats installed in every PC. It was harder to find a lobby without a cheater than ones without. Loved the zombie mode tho
Man I still remember playing this game around 2010 when I lived in China. Pratically everyone in my class and neighbourhood played it. I also remember the best weapons being stupidly expensive lol.
I grew up playing this game as a kid in the US. I didn't have a computer that could run super strong games. I love Crossfire though, and I still come back to it a few times a year.
American here, I definitely heard of this game and played it all the way back in 2009-2010. Loved ghost mode but I wouldn't go back to it ever because the of the pay to win model. It took tons of hours of grinding just to be able to get a single gun that was better than the starting gun without having to pay real money.
What a rollercoaster, was thinking "oh wow it was that popular? cool. oh it's still going? I thought it died like a decade ago, woah still getting invested into? ok ok. oh it's unplayable outside of asia, damn.."
I don't think a lot of people realise that CS 1.6 pretty much spawned an entire sub-genre of FPS. There are a ton of games like Crossfire that were also popular in Asia (although nowhere near as huge) and they all pretty much have the same graphics and gameplay of a more arcade-y, run and gun CS. It was kinda funny to see people malding over Valorant being a cheap CS ripoff when it came out when CS clones have been a thing for over almost two decades.
@@Hi_lm_V the community are equal toxic as Indonesian point blank community from 2009-2018 after many mobile phone brand release with cheap prices, you would never reach 100.000 minimun active player on any single PC games, i wish i could reverse this shithole mobile market to my NA market
My Mom and Dad once own an internet cafe/shop (computer shop) and hell this was one of the games I've always played and never got sick off, there we're tons of fun game modes too unlike FPS games this days which only have few. This is the greatest and will always have special place in my heart. I remember how nice everyone was about the game, the trash talks weren't excessive, and when it is, the trash talks are basically just hilarious (at least in my place back then) I remember people letting me borrow their accounts in the internet cafe when I was a kid and the hype of playing the game more after getting the kill is just, incredible
This game is very popular in asia especially in southeast. Im a filipino and this game is very popular here every kids play this game in local computer shop.
Soldier Front(Special Forces here in Philippines) and CrossFire are one of the two first online FPS F2P I've played. Man, I miss playing those two games, been playing them up until in the middle of my Highschool. After that I switched to CSGO.
My god I played this wayyyy more than any counter strike. TDM, Mutation Mode, Zombie Mode... you name it, never knew it was this big, but glad it is, and it's still kicking.
Cf is a well-known game in China, I have been playing it since I was about 10 years old (I am 22 now). This game carries the youth of most young people in China!! Now, 10 years later, CF is still there, but the people who played cf together have gone their separate ways.
This was one of the best and one of my most played games of all time. CF NA (the OG) was one of the best experiences I've had. Clan Wars, the people and the game modes....The customizability of your character was so cool. The items, the gear and the uniqueness... Not only that but the game could literally run on anything. You could find a pc in the trash and it would run the game with 60fps at least. This game gave me one of the best momories in my gaming "career" period. I'll always remember this game as one of the best and the one that made my teenage time so awesome.
Jokes on you, i knew that game. Was still playing with an ISDN connection, but it worked just good enough, as long as i wasnt in a call with my buddys. One of my greatest and first online gaming memories was playing ghost mode on the stargate map with friends. I stood in the window by the upper gate and shot into the window across the map and got the greatest BS kill of my live. That was like 2012 or so. Eventually some ass hat managed to gain access to my account, which killed the game for me.
As a filipino who just came back to playing the game i can show you the things i love about this game -Generously gives vip weap for a limited time sometimes -Can run on my trash laptop -Hero mode Extreme -Found in com shops -The feeling of using a vip weap for the first time. -Nostalgic gameplay really reminds you of cs 1.6.
As a Filipino who played this game since the launch from our country, this game was the first competitive FPS game I've ever played. And the game is still alive here, but not like the old days. I played this game for like a decade but stopped because of the P2P aspects, unbalanced guns and gameplay, and so many cheaters/hackers. I played CS:GO for like 7 years and now I'm currently playing Valorant. It's sad to see what Crossfire had become but it is still fun. I still remember the good old days me and my friends playing in Clan Wars and winning most of them just to get recognition and to get our own clan logo. At that time you need to work hard inorder to get your own clan banner. But now its easy if you have money. I still remember my inventory almost completing the whole characters and VIPs weapons, but now I realized I wasted like $1,000 of my money. Either way, great video it brought me nostalgic. Keep up the good work!
Hello my name is Emmanuel and I'm from Philippines, CrossFire was the very first computer game I played back when I was just in grade school, I was probably like 9 years old at that time. The first time I played I was hooked immediately, I liked the voice system when you throw a grenade which is "fire in the hole". In short I liked everything in this game and it was a popular game here in the Philippines
Here in Philippines many people here playing crossfire even your 6 7 8 9 everyone is playing but now everything is gone because of pandemic,when this game became popular there are trashtalk,bets,and also 1v1.i missed the old days.
My friends in high school used to cut class just to play this game, it's very famous here in PH alongside Assault Fire and Kill on Sight (KOS) back in the day
bruh i remember skipping class every afternoon along with my classmates just to play this game. VIP weapons were the big dreams of mine while grades were in the brink of collapse and almost couldn't passed 9th grade. the good old memories.
Since i have been playing crossfire in most of my life im really happy to see a channel like this mentioning it, the game might not be the best well made game there is but it really is fun playing for all these years and its still going on strong till this day in every aspect of it, you might have missed some more in depth stuff but overall your review was on point, really glad you talked about this game!
This game was so popular due to it being f2p and that the system requirements were quite low so internet shops in Asia could install them and attract kids who grew up playing this game.
The game debuted way back in 2007, it was basically marketed as a F2P alternative to Counter-Strike and it's widely played and continues to get supported till this day especially in the eSports scene which is seriously impressive.
@@DarkZerol cs never really got a good foot hold as the staple fps in Asia. Most copies of cs was probably a pirated version and any sort of online scene was non existent. There were other fps games before cf but it seems cf was the better one.
@@plokplot8900 It was the closest to CS, whereas other games try to look way too different. That's why it become the best
That was stated on the video tho. But okay
There are hundreds of thousands of F2P FPS with low system requirements. This game became popular for the same reason as Counter Strike: it is old and has become a classic.
This game is like the runescape of shooters. You never really quit, you just take long breaks.
True, I come back to this game almost every year
That’s how I feel about CS
True lol
Sounds about right.
Actually back rn, grinding on diamond
As a brazilian, I can asure that this game used to be huge in here. I spent 5 years of my life play this game, and watching this gave me a mixed fellings of good sensations remembering how good it was to get kills and make beatiful plays. And bad sensations of remembering the amount of rages caused by a bad net code, poor hit reg and hackers ever now and then.
It's true, although i never played it myself cause i was stuck with Warface
Lembro até hoje de ter ficado até as 3 horas da manha assistindo a BD na final do campeonato mundial. Nunca joguei CF, mas comemorei muito com aquele título
came to see if any brazillians had commented cf was definetely huge here and was the introduction of fps to a lot of people
Same here, Bruno. I spent 2 years playing this gams. I used to love the ghost mode because i was too bad to shoot. Good memories. It was the first fps I played a lot.
Where there other problems thar caused its decrease in popularity?
The melee weapons in this game hits different. I could play melee-only mode all day long.
FR, axe one shotted with left click on head it was so cool hahahahaha
sameeeee
play super smash bros melee
The axe is just og, but the kukri, Katana, or the AK Bayonet 😂 just goated
@@thieftactician9989 As it should be. An axe to the head, you're fucked.
Crossfire is one of the household FPS name in Indonesia. Even to this day, this and it’s direct rival, Point Blank, is still common to be found among gamers here.
I miss point blank, good to hear it’s still going strong!
Point blank is filled with cheaters XD
never played crossfire, is it as p2w as point blank?
@@suluhwidyotomo7942 cash weapon tends to have more ammo + lit skin
If you watch nowadays CF esports they still use basic AK / M4
@@adsdads3990 sooo, slightly more f2p friendly than point blank? it's been 10+ years since my last point blank match, i can't recall correctly
This game is a part of my life, even after releasing better games in terms of graphics, it is still my favorite for 10 years.
Bro, i know what you mean!
Best game ever
Never stopped playing it since 2009
> better graphics
> bruh
@@matteoclementiwow
I remember playing this game in a computer shop in the Philippines it was so fun, I'm glad to see this get recognize again
my dad owned a computer shop in phillipines(luzon) it had the game so i played alot but the mp was so sweaty so i just played zombies lmao
first multiplayer fps game you played i assume
@@eisendrag were you the type who cheezes zombie with a friend or the one who gets into glitch spots?
@@jiekendinner haha nope we we where to stupid
6:09 tang ina
Brazilian here.
I used to play this game all day when I was younger.
My PC was too bad and couldn't run the first version of CSGO, so crossfire was the alternative.
Had tons of fun during the time I was playing. This game will forever be on my heart.
this game makes EA and Activision look like charity groups
How
Microtransactions
Begging for money. This game not
@@kuchikibyakuya7697did you not watch the video?
Tencent is always good at making money with games so...
This was the most popular FPS Games in the Philippines, I hope they create another game similar to this. I hate how newer FPS games tend to have just 2-3 modes.
现在crossfire在菲律宾依旧受欢迎吗，我想知道菲律宾现在为什么没有CFEL联赛，当地没有游戏代理商吗
Crossfire tournament is still exist in Philippines@@zeyu-mu6vj
@@zeyu-mu6vj its barely popular in philippines now. many teens play valorant more than this game nowadays
This game was stupid popular when I was still a kid living in China. I was the weirdo who was playing Halo 3 with foreigners online with my friend's Xbox while all my classmates were wondering why I don't play Crossfire if I'm into FPS games.
现在在中国还是挺流行cf的
十年老兵报道
Your decision is still right
it was the exact opposite for me here in germany, only one friend of mine who introduced me to the game was playing crossfire, besides that it was (for most of the people) only fifa call of duty or battlefield
@@Petnwurst Extra funny since nowadays gamers in China call COD “Crossfire for Americans” as a joke
I've been playing this game for 10 years already. The nostalgia is strong
Same here 11 years bro....
Same bro, 14 years of playing this game
hi, if you have the 2007 version, can u share please? i have looked extensively and seems like it have been vanished :/
@@diogene1985 hi, if you have the 2007 version, can u share please? i have looked extensively and seems like it have been vanished :/
hi, if you have the 2007 version, can u share please? i have looked extensively and seems like it have been vanished :/
I actually remember putting some time into Crossfire when i was younger, mainly because my only PC was a crappy laptop that couldn't run almost anything, CS:GO ran in like 20fps on 800×600. And yes, it's microtransactions were incredibly awful, and the frags did feel satisfying
Pay 2 win?
@@thadex454 Yes, pretty much. If i remember correctly, even different variations of the same gun could have gameplay differences
@@thadex454 P2W guns that did a bit more damage, P2W character skins that appear smaller (not sure if reduced hitbox)
@@avoidthevo1d not such much back then there was not even pistol only and sniper only back then 2007 xD
i was just looking for new game after warrock began to get to much cheaters
beta was so funny has ghost in gm u could use a cheat where u can shot wiht the knife xD
nothing wrong with the microtransactions
I miss this game with a passion. There is something so satisfying about the simple graphics, sfx and vfx in this game. I wish more people in NA liked this game, i want to play it, but the NA servers are barren or slot reserved.
I would agree with you if it was 2007 to maybe 2015 version. CrossFire 2.0 is plagued with terrible matches, unbalanced gameplay, god awful map design, netcode issue, etc. GP shop weapons are obsolete. Sure, there is some good stuff in the Mileage shop, but it's still nothing compared to VIP/ZP weapons. Back then, I used to rock with an M16 and Desert Eagle against ZP players and would get called a cheater. Now I need to farm for craft/upgrade for my weapons or buy shit in the black market for coupons to go toe to toe with ZP players. Luckily, I completed an event that earned me an M4A1 Proto; it's overpowered as the VIP/ZP M4s. There's even a character than could cancel sniper recoil by kicking.
The CrossFire that we used to know is not there anymore. I miss the time when I could just login and play the game. I fucking hate farming for shit just to get even; I feel miserable playing after coming back 1 month ago. There are far better free-to-play first-person shooters out in the market than this. Since Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is now also free-to-play, there's no point in coming back to CrossFire anymore. Unless you just like its aesthetics.
Switch to Asia server bro literally at least 3 people in the internet cafe play this game all the time. Everyone I know plays or has played crossfire in their life here in Asia 😂
@@Forgottentwice你是哪个国家的
This is the game that started my gaming passion. I can never forget this game
me too gaming carrer gaming passion
Whycwoykd someone play this cs rip off. It is worse on every aspect
@@Paterq This is not the case. Crossfire has over 500 weapons, over 50 different game modes, over 100 different scenarios, and so on. In terms of content it is far superior to Counter Strike.
@@Paterq But when it is your first game, in 2008 with f2p hay good online server, you can easily enjoy it you know. Especially when you compare with Counter Strike Online.
I play crossfire west everyday
Everyday I enjoy ghost mode
Basically it's for real real real pros
Black list ( Ghosts ) can do tricks to move invisible
Global risk ( Defenders ) can hear ghost's breath detect and pinpoint them and kill them
But if they walk you can see them
It's basically an advanced search and destroy mode where ghosts try to plant C4 or kill GR
it's so satisfying in an incredible way
I recommend you try it with your friends.
i had goosebumps playing this mode as a kid, but my parents limited me playing cf one hour a week, so i never played this enough
I still play this mode up to this day!
true its underrated
I was pretty good at being a Ghost back in the day. I don't know what its called anymore but there's this mechanic that I practiced everyday back then that allows you to jump without revealing yourself.
I can't believe that you talk about CF without talking about the Zombie mode
Ghost > Zombie
There are zombies mode in CS and they are more fun imo. In CF, zombies aren't that threatening -_-
crouch and jump spam .. i'member
@@bookofnamzays9477 bhop 👍
@@cloudynguyen6527 agreed, since child i think ghost more bringing jumpscare but in reality CS zombie is way more jumpscare no matter how much i play the game compare to crossifire
Who’s here from Secret Level
and im still confused lol
we're the good guys
Secret Level is gonna drive so much views to this video. Had literally never heard of this game before the episode
still not sure what it got to do with game
As a german "allmost-pro" in crossfire, let me tell you about some stuff we had to go trough:
1. When Crossfire Europe wasnt released, we had to play on "NA", but we couldnt crouch because the keyboard layouts were programmed so badly, we had to switch to US-Layout, switch the keyboard settings ingame and then switch back.
2. 1000hz polling rate isnt supported, or at least lets your mouse go up and down while aiming left-right.
3. You could click your mouswheel on the scope/right-click button in settings menu, when you played AWM (AWP in csgo) or any other sniper, you could just press shoot button and instantly quickscoped which is btw. very strong in csgo because there is no cooldown of precision.
4. China-Walk was a technique of walking sideways (key A/D) and fastly pressing forward/backward(w/s). It made you faster and people couldnt hear your steps (i think it was possible to switch ws / ad arround.
5. Bunnyhopping was really easy, it was the fastest way to go from A->B and also didnt make noice if done right.
6. you could "high-jump" onto things by hitting jump right before landing, experienced players could easily do it while running whout having to stand infront of the "target".
7. You could glitch into boxes by standing on a corner of a box and slightly fastly going forward/backward and left/right... at some point you just sank into the crate and in some maps this allowed you to go to extremely weird places.
8. Crossfire comp scene started by "forbidding" BP (Bulletproof helmet and vest) which allowed you to dodge a headshot with many weapons (m4), later they allowed to because the m4 was a little too strong, problem is that BP is a real money exclusive, or at least back in the days hard to get.
9. If you aim at a player trough a smoke, the name pops up in red on your crosshair, making it easy to get kills trough smokes.
10. you could avoid fall damage by bunnyhopping.
11. walking of an elevation totally didnt affect your precision, making it very easy to hit insane 360° "Dropshots". (Jumpshots were a little harder, but way easier than csgo f.e.)
12. Many edges let you aim and shoot trough them, this allowed you to kill enemies trough whole buildings with a little timing.
13. there was a error message when: Glitching into boxes, having unstable internet, sometimes random that made your game crash or at least kick you out of the game.
Made it very unplayable at some times.
ist das spiel noch aktiv ? sieht aus wie etwas auf das ich bock habe weil ich immer csgo aber mit asiatischem feeling spielen wollte, und wenns aktiv ist wuerd ichs mal ausprobieren
@@Linda- cf west ist definitiv noch aktiv, hab vor 1-2 monaten mal wieder reingeschaut, war echt erstaunt wie viele das game noch zocken^^
@@Linda- Jap ist noch aktiv und gibt auch noch viele deutsche die immernoch aktiv spielen wie sn0x oder die Leute von PENTA etc.
Can you still do some of these? Or are they all fixed? I'm a noob/new CF player so I'm looking for some tips lol.
@@CookieSunglasses pretty sure, the general rule for crossfire is to not fix stuff
-Crossfire
-Special Forces
-Point Blank
-Assault Fire
These are the games that me and my friends would play in Internet Cafes
I love in the Philippines and this game alongside Soldier Front and Point Blank were probably the three biggest free to play FPS back then, now I think it's just Crossfire surviving since computer shops are still alive in the Philippines and again you don't need a beast PC to run this game
One of the best fps games out there for me.. i still come back to it even after 10+ years .. i love it
Current NA Crossfire player here! Wasn’t expecting to see anything on the game anytime soon, but it’s good to see some attention shone on the scene. It’s very small, but if you play the game, you won’t ever escape. Something alllllways will drive you back.
So true. I came back after not playing for 4 years. Cf west.
Ign: River
@@Josh-wp5tm are the servers still on a decline?, last time i played only servers with players were stuff like eu
@@pupuchi5842 the eu server is almost full *during eu peak hours*, though its cap is 3000. Most of it is non snd matches, but u wont struggle to find a game with alot of people. Im from NA too, luckily east coast and only get 86 ping. Still a blast, holds up to games like csgo, if you can get a good connection that is. No other server is alive and people from other regions join us with high ping since the game shutdown in their region, its annoying but i dont blame them for wanting to play a game they love.
@@zip3704 thats great to hear, i used to play the game religiously along with roblox back in 2011-2016 because i had a shitty laptop and thats about everything i could play, along with "Shadowgun:deadzone". Mostly played zombies or snd, had a blast back then. Lets see if i remember my account details lol
ah the last hope of na cf mr.LiXR
Great video.
A lot of what you said hits the point.
There are some more things you could have mentioned, but i think overall the most important things got mentioned.
Ah yes, I remember playing this FPS with my friends at the internet cafe in front of my school after school 10 years ago. So many played the game that the school directors has to forcefully close the internet cafe (idk how they did it but the cafe closed). So many memories.
sounds like a story from my home city in indonesia too 😂, where are you from dude?
I loved this game as a kid. I more grew up on Combat Arms, so my heart really lies with that game. But I'm oddly always attracted to games like Crossfire. The aesthetic, speedy gameplay, and non-english community has fsr become my favorite aspects of Korean-made F2P shooter games. I came to this video after a conversation with a friend. And while it is a shame that this game isn't very playable in the US it seems, I'd still love to give it another try after all these years to see if it's held up in any regard, or if it's not worth it in the US.
as someone living in thailand this is a name i honestly hear way too much. its rlly popular among local kids, mostly the mobile battle royale nowadays tho
I grew up with this game. Back in the days when around 2013-2014, my entire school was playing this game. Was my childhood and felt good about it.
I played this game a lot with my friends in Canada. I enjoyed it a lot, especially the Ghost game-mode which no other game has managed to recreate. Unfortunately, there was an unchecked hacker problem for far too long, and it made us all quit the game.
Lots of good memories of this one though.
hackers is not often as you make it to be
@@oneplay5570 Perhaps not anymore, but when I was playing regularly in 2011 hackers were present in almost every public game.
@@Solofhreaper ah i see i played since 2012 when i was a very young kid, did encounter hacker but that phase out couple years later.
@@oneplay5570 yeah, nobody is going to deal with a hacker problem for literal years. It was fun, but its like a fish out of water.
@@Google-Username yeah
Still got my Crossfire poster that I won in a local tournament. Much love.. Nostalgic.. Beautiful.
Game was huge part of my childhood growing up. Great to see a vid like this for the nostalgia factor.
I've played in this one in 2012 and it was a reason why i failed some of my exams in university. I still remember these cool zombie modes, mechanics, maps and how satisfied it was to kill enemies and find a right position on a map. I think only bf3 cranes death match can compare to it in a way of emotions in close combats
It's still very much alive and gets updated frequently. Millions of people still play this game in Asia server
I remember playing Crossfire on a shitty laptop as a kid.
Since it was free and easy to mod, my friends and me loved it.
I started playing this game in 2011 and I still play it. Love the nostalgia
I played this growing up, till all of my friends played cs and none of them wanted to give it a try and I finally switched over. Had a good time with it :)
Here I am playing it again about a year before this upload. Games nostalgic without AS MANY hackers as other older games.
Ghost mode was such an awesome game mode, with a high skill ceilling for both sides, bunnyhopping on the ghost side to be able to blitz around the map literally unseen, and pinpointing from the other side to be able to find them by sound and proximity alone.
Its so sad that i tried to get into it again a couple months ago but literally couldnt get a single ghost mode game on NA, you are either from the eastern side of the world or you just cant play.
Ghost mode disappeared from NA server, there was a few ghost mode lobby in the EU but that’s it. I used to play ghost mode a lot, bunnyhopping through the whole map already gives me satisfaction
I have hella memories of ghost mode. Especially on the map with the trains. The mechanic of hearing them by audio and seeing them when they were close was neat.
lol i came back from the game just to play ghost mode kekw
I just came back to this game and it gave out like 3-4 vips for free, for being a 12 years player and returning rewards are goated. The server might have been so low with players these days i still came back to this game from time to time to enjoy a quick fun.
I spent so many hours on this, the progression was painfully slow but it could be a very fun shooter at times
I played this game religiously since I was 8 (2008) back in Vietnam. Then I moved to NA and I never got to play the game like I used to play anymore.
Good video sir.
This, along with Point Blank, is a staple for any net cafes here in Indonesia. I'm surprised you guys know and decided to cover it.
Maybe because an Indonesian is in their Discord server and recommended the topic... 🙃
I still play it to this day! I play it whenever I wanna chill out and I got a buddy who still plays it in 2023 with me
I learned about “p2w”, “cheating” and “loot boxes” when i started playing cf
This game is very popular here my country, anytime you enter a pc shop almost every kid are playing the same game
So nostalgic, I remeber going to a internet cafe and playing this in 2008, back then Garena was very popular since Steam didn’t have Pesos and other SEA currency update
Player of month one of Indonesian CF release here:
1. CF didn't take off in here because another korean fps was released before this game called Point Blank. Nevertheless it lived on until 2020 when it was shut down from low CCU, while said game is still strong
2. Continuation from number 2, unfortunately the game was abandoned by the publisher and went into maintenance mode around late 2019 until eventual shut down.
3. We get around P2W weapons by farming more or less same version but from PVE modes, it drops temp weapons that is good enough. And when MP shop came out, we made new accs to farm MPs on so that we get better weapons from shop. As time goes on some P2W weapons, including VIP weapons were given out for free both temporarily and permanently as event weapons, to the extent that P2W players were mad that their rare and or expensive weapon collection is now worthless since everyone who did the event has it.
As a guy who’s a super try hard player in CrossfireX lobbies along with my comrades, it’s really struggling playing one map(Black Widow which takes notes from Dust 2) over and over again with no variety. It’s tiring but we still here and will be here till the game is no more. Hell we waited over 48 days since the March update came out which fixed those imbalances and added more QOL updates you mentioned. Not perfect as more maps are needed which are teased and coming but it’s weird love hate relationship. Want the best for it after the horrible launch and first impression but communication between devs and players is limited. The team wants it be great but they’ll have to live up to their word.
Blackwidow is great starting point for new players.
I used to play this in Costa Rica back to 2010, my clan had people from over América. What a great time to remember! Thank you for the vídeo.
Semi-professionell player here, we actually had some ways to get around the gun buying feature
Do elaborate
What is it?
by using the stock gun the majestic "M16"
Im not a semi pro but im playing in lan tournaments too in ph some tournaments they follow the international rule(which is the CFS RULES) about the gun and also the character we just use the default character and default gun(we call it CFS GUNS/CS GUN) but some tournaments they dont but they use the community rules Like Open for all guns but just use male characters.
Btw even u have the VIP GUN(Which is you gonna pay with real money) the ak47 still one tap headshot even deagle so
make a new fresh account get the account to sergeant you can guarantee a broken gun in mega lotto
I've just come back from a trip to The Philippines and that's when I saw people playing this game.
YOU'LL GET CAUGHT UP IN THE...
You hear a lot about Crossfire here in Australia given how close we are to Asia. Not players to my knowledge, but a lot of our casters have done Crossfire stuff. Elfishguy and Sandman come to mind.
CROSS FIYAAAAAAAAAH!!!
Grew up in this game, there were times that we even escape our parents just to go to a nearby computer shop just to play this. Back then only few have VIP weapons but now it is very common as a result this may sometimes create an imbalance as VIP weapons are much stronger than your classic weapons.
i still remember the times where they had no vip weapons... having an m4 crystal was kind of the best you could have, back in the day, really good times.
@@PetnwurstI played like 4 years ago and I remember everyone itching and begging to get a vip on cf
It's so interesting to me to see this game covered! I played it for 4 years more or l as daily and for 4 more years every so often. Played scrims, spend all my money into it and made alot of friends with clans and TeamSpeak. Sadly nowadays a pretty trashy game, but it sure holds a special place in my heart!
Ahhhh sometimes i just remember crossfire days and watch it on TH-cam, good old times
Man this bring back so many memories. I remembered that it was so easy to cheat in this game that the internet cafe near my house has the cheats installed in every PC. It was harder to find a lobby without a cheater than ones without. Loved the zombie mode tho
I remember when i go to a full lobby but no one even in the map they go underground and shoot each other
I'm in the video! Lol @ 9:22 right side team playing for Black List "KGB" ROLF!
This was popular in Philippines alongside Special Force. I think it's still being played to this day
Yes but I'm playing codm now
Man I still remember playing this game around 2010 when I lived in China. Pratically everyone in my class and neighbourhood played it. I also remember the best weapons being stupidly expensive lol.
现在中国网吧很少看见有玩cf的了，基本都是在玩genshin和lol
@@ミァサ 网吧玩原神的很多吗，我以为它主要还是手机端
I grew up playing this game as a kid in the US. I didn't have a computer that could run super strong games. I love Crossfire though, and I still come back to it a few times a year.
American here, I definitely heard of this game and played it all the way back in 2009-2010. Loved ghost mode but I wouldn't go back to it ever because the of the pay to win model. It took tons of hours of grinding just to be able to get a single gun that was better than the starting gun without having to pay real money.
All of current modern giant game industry company turned to greed microtransaction lock DLC evil now, even EA weren't as good as decade 2000 EA
What a rollercoaster, was thinking "oh wow it was that popular? cool. oh it's still going? I thought it died like a decade ago, woah still getting invested into? ok ok. oh it's unplayable outside of asia, damn.."
Played this game way back in the day on my Windows Xp, was quite fun at that particular time. :)
this is the first fps i ever played. I' m not that old but heck its incredible that when i played it minecraft didnt even exist yet.
6:07 Just one letter away from a cuss word.
CF is really big in the Philippines, China and Brazil
I don't think a lot of people realise that CS 1.6 pretty much spawned an entire sub-genre of FPS. There are a ton of games like Crossfire that were also popular in Asia (although nowhere near as huge) and they all pretty much have the same graphics and gameplay of a more arcade-y, run and gun CS.
It was kinda funny to see people malding over Valorant being a cheap CS ripoff when it came out when CS clones have been a thing for over almost two decades.
I never thought Valorant was a CS ripoff, I knew it was an Overwatch ripoff
@@Halfort57 its a ripoff of everything that worked in other fps games pretty much
People call valorant a rip-off but interestingly enough, valorant is doing better than the games riot "ripped off".
I think more people were unhappy about the utility being revamped completely......
@@Hi_lm_V the community are equal toxic as Indonesian point blank community from 2009-2018 after many mobile phone brand release with cheap prices, you would never reach 100.000 minimun active player on any single PC games, i wish i could reverse this shithole mobile market to my NA market
To this day, the CF Esports scene is alive and well. It was even played as an olympic sport in South East Asian Games.
dang this is so nostalgic. i remember playing this in cyber cafe when i was still in junior high
My Mom and Dad once own an internet cafe/shop (computer shop) and hell this was one of the games I've always played and never got sick off, there we're tons of fun game modes too unlike FPS games this days which only have few. This is the greatest and will always have special place in my heart.
I remember how nice everyone was about the game, the trash talks weren't excessive, and when it is, the trash talks are basically just hilarious (at least in my place back then) I remember people letting me borrow their accounts in the internet cafe when I was a kid and the hype of playing the game more after getting the kill is just, incredible
That’s awesome.
@@Akshonesports I know right! Game's been really a huge part of me cuz it's always been there ever since I was still a baby too
This game is very popular in asia especially in southeast. Im a filipino and this game is very popular here every kids play this game in local computer shop.
What is a computer shop? You pay to play their computer for a few hours?
@@mr6462 Yep, You pay to rent their computers for certain amount of time like 0.28$ for 1 hour and 0.55$ for 2 hours.
@@funking4569 Oh I see, thanks for explaining. Here we call it Internet cafe.
@@mr6462 We also called it internet cafe but we are more used to call it computer shop hehe
@@funking4569 I see I see
Honestly it just looks like counter strike nexon
Don’t forget CSNZ.
Those were the days!
This game was part of my childhood lmao
I played this from 2009 through 2019 ~ I quit because it's basically a Pay-2-Win now 😢
lmao "now". it's always had been pay to win
@@martakolol6526 yeah fr.. I just gave up at some point lol AND THE CHEATERS TOO OMG..
Soldier Front(Special Forces here in Philippines) and CrossFire are one of the two first online FPS F2P I've played. Man, I miss playing those two games, been playing them up until in the middle of my Highschool. After that I switched to CSGO.
As a filipino i used to play this back in 2012-2016 from computer shops
Zombie modes in this game is so good, especially when players starts chasing you and u just starter doing parkours to avoid em
i remeber playing crossfire back in the day. back when you could blink and find MMO's all over and f2p shooters.
wait no, it was combat arms.....awww man we going back in time
Combat arms was the goat of the f2p shooters. I wish they reverted to their old state
@@AlexFBauer To me combat arms was the best f2p shooter at the time.
Played this game more than a decade ago on my low end PC from Romania. I absolutely enjoyed it
A really fun, nostalgic, and exciting game of all time imo. Unfortunately, cheaters are everywhere.
My god I played this wayyyy more than any counter strike. TDM, Mutation Mode, Zombie Mode... you name it, never knew it was this big, but glad it is, and it's still kicking.
rip crossfire
Crossfire Ghost mode was my shit back in the day lmao.
The zombie mode was so fun in this.
Cf is a well-known game in China, I have been playing it since I was about 10 years old (I am 22 now).
This game carries the youth of most young people in China!!
Now, 10 years later, CF is still there, but the people who played cf together have gone their separate ways.
ive heard of it actually, kinda sad it didnt take off in the us ect.
looks very simmilar to csgo.
Gameplay wise it's pretty much more like CS 1.6, which makes it kind have a cult following.
because combat arms already existed when cf came out so no wonder
This was one of the best and one of my most played games of all time. CF NA (the OG) was one of the best experiences I've had. Clan Wars, the people and the game modes....The customizability of your character was so cool. The items, the gear and the uniqueness...
Not only that but the game could literally run on anything. You could find a pc in the trash and it would run the game with 60fps at least. This game gave me one of the best momories in my gaming "career" period. I'll always remember this game as one of the best and the one that made my teenage time so awesome.
Jokes on you, i knew that game. Was still playing with an ISDN connection, but it worked just good enough, as long as i wasnt in a call with my buddys.
One of my greatest and first online gaming memories was playing ghost mode on the stargate map with friends. I stood in the window by the upper gate and shot into the window across the map and got the greatest BS kill of my live.
That was like 2012 or so. Eventually some ass hat managed to gain access to my account, which killed the game for me.
nah this is literally my childhood
As a filipino who just came back to playing the game i can show you the things i love about this game
-Generously gives vip weap for a limited time sometimes
-Can run on my trash laptop
-Hero mode Extreme
-Found in com shops
-The feeling of using a vip weap for the first time.
-Nostalgic gameplay really reminds you of cs 1.6.
Bro it was so satisfying when you were making multiple kills because it had that animation on the bottom of the screen
Man you could not imagine the noise of the local internet cafe near me when people would host local matches where people can bet for the teams lol
As a Filipino who played this game since the launch from our country, this game was the first competitive FPS game I've ever played. And the game is still alive here, but not like the old days. I played this game for like a decade but stopped because of the P2P aspects, unbalanced guns and gameplay, and so many cheaters/hackers. I played CS:GO for like 7 years and now I'm currently playing Valorant. It's sad to see what Crossfire had become but it is still fun. I still remember the good old days me and my friends playing in Clan Wars and winning most of them just to get recognition and to get our own clan logo. At that time you need to work hard inorder to get your own clan banner. But now its easy if you have money. I still remember my inventory almost completing the whole characters and VIPs weapons, but now I realized I wasted like $1,000 of my money.
Either way, great video it brought me nostalgic. Keep up the good work!
Hello my name is Emmanuel and I'm from Philippines, CrossFire was the very first computer game I played back when I was just in grade school, I was probably like 9 years old at that time. The first time I played I was hooked immediately, I liked the voice system when you throw a grenade which is "fire in the hole". In short I liked everything in this game and it was a popular game here in the Philippines
Here in Philippines many people here playing crossfire even your 6 7 8 9 everyone is playing but now everything is gone because of pandemic,when this game became popular there are trashtalk,bets,and also 1v1.i missed the old days.
My friends in high school used to cut class just to play this game, it's very famous here in PH alongside Assault Fire and Kill on Sight (KOS) back in the day
bruh i remember skipping class every afternoon along with my classmates just to play this game. VIP weapons were the big dreams of mine while grades were in the brink of collapse and almost couldn't passed 9th grade. the good old memories.
Since i have been playing crossfire in most of my life im really happy to see a channel like this mentioning it, the game might not be the best well made game there is but it really is fun playing for all these years and its still going on strong till this day in every aspect of it, you might have missed some more in depth stuff but overall your review was on point, really glad you talked about this game!
Poly you are amazing!!!!
@@shrimpxd9772 xdd
In Romania, this game was dope.
I grew up playing this game on the computer shop
I don't know why the video sounds nostalgic, but then I realized it's CF's BGM I listened to for 7 years when I was playing the game