CrossOver: Roll For Initiative
Nominate us for The Steam Awards!
The annual Steam Awards are here, and we’d be honored if you would nominate Crossover for the Most Innovative Gameplay category!
By blending the classic Match 3 and Tower Defense genres with the strategic depth of Puzzle, RPG, and Strategy elements, we aimed to create a game that’s both familiar and fresh. Our goal was to deliver a truly unique experience.
Thank you for your continued support! It’s because of you that we were able to bring this innovative mashup to life!
v1.1.3 - Minor Update
- Fixed intro/win text for sci-fi Online Scenario #3 (thanks @QuanticFlux & @FoxHollowGames!) - it had the solo version text instead
- Reduced animation speed of Writhing Mass boss, it was a tad too jiggly
- In the fantasy Co-op Scenario #7, changed one of the d8 spells to a d10 one, since you had 3 x d8 attacks
- Restricted some thematically dubious encounters from certain locations. It's a tough balance between having an interesting variety of encounters across all the campaigns and having them "make sense" in the environment - usually I err on the side of just being a fun game, but a couple were a little too unsuitable (e.g. a cozy farm being in Crow's Claw)...
1.1.2b Addendum
- Missing Radius label on a rare encounter reward.
Just a text change, thanks to G.M. Powerlines again.
1.1.2b - Hotfix
- Encounter with choice of 3 rings fixed
Thanks to the great streamer G.M. Powerlines for finding the obscure issue!
v1.1.2 - Local Co-op Improvements & More
- Added sensitivity setting for Local Co-op gamepad control of the dice hand.
- Local Co-op now uses alternate campaign stages that have been tweaked to reduce delays between enemy spawns, providing a more engaging and smoother experience for the sheet player, instead of "dead air" periods since they no longer match dice during breaks. Thanks to my lovely wife/business partner, and Mr & Mrs Kazanski, for testing and feedback.
- Local Co-op dice player will no longer be blocked when sheet player is placing a mercenary (as blocker prevents placing it on the dice tray).
- Removed the Alien Duchess from the sci-fi Dice Defense and Endless modes. It was just too strong and was pretty much instant death when it appeared. The Duke remains for now... but watch out, it's unaffected by Vulnerable, which is trouble with its 75% Resistance to Personal Weapons - remember to switch nearby towers to Tactical damage!
- Enemies will no longer attack your Spells or Weapons if you only have 2 left. Previously, they would only stop when 1 remained. When this happened, due to cooldowns it just wasn't fun, particularly against bosses, some of which have the ability to destroy slots with one hit.
v1.1.1 - Local Co-op Balanced Wave Delay
- If Local Co-op is enabled, the delay between waves is cut to 3 seconds - from a suggestion by Kazanski to better balance the local co-op experience (since the solo player doesn't need that longer period to collect some dice while not being harassed).
v1.1 - Expanded Tutorial, etc
- Expanded Tutorial with additional topics covered
- Added option to toggle off hints/direction arrows for dice (h/t Kazanski's wife)
- Increased volume of Wave Starting, Wave Warning and Final Wave sounds
- Reduced volume of breath sound when casting spell
- Reduced volume of attack error sound (e.g. trying to attack while still cooling down), since it can be annoying when spamming it. It is slightly louder when hitting an invalid hotkey, since you won't be looking at what you're selecting so aural feedback is more important there.
1.0.9c - Minor Hotfix
1.0.9b Hotfix
1.0.9 - LOCAL CO-OP ADDED! Plus Remote Play Together for Online campaigning!
- Toggle on or off at any stage of a campaign from the main menu (just tick the box).
- 2nd player uses Gamepad ONLY. 1st player uses mouse.
- Gamepad can match dice and use Dice Ultras. Dragging dice works, as do the ultras' tooltips.
- Mouse will ONLY control the sheet, same as the online co-op. If there's no gamepad, you can't match dice if Local Co-op is selected.
- Hotswapping a gamepad in seems to work fine, though this may be pad/PC specific so I can't promise it will work for you.
- Online Co-op remains an exclusive non-local mode with its own special Scenarios and Endless mode. There is no local co-op Endless yet, I will see what demand is like for that.
PLUS I also enabled Remote Play Together in Steam as a way to give Online friends the full co-op campaign experience as well. I have not been able to fully test this yet so please bear with me, and send me feedback. Steam provides guidance on Remote Play Together here: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/0689-74B8-92AC-10F2 - however here is a quick primer:
- One player loads up CrossOver and enables the Local Co-op option.
- That player brings up the Steam Overlay (Shift+Tab), right-clicks the friend's name and invites them to "Remote Play Together".
- If they accept, they will then act as though they are playing on your computer, so their gamepad should work for Local Co-op.
It is somewhat reliant on bandwidth from Steam and I have no control over that, but I am hoping it is fast enough for most people.
Enjoy some local co-op fun, all!