Crossout Spin-Off Game 'Interlace Frontline' Censors Store Art Overnight Day After Launch — Players Smell a Cover-Up

Server crashes on Day 1 blamed on hackers, store art censored on Day 2 overnight — Interlace Frontline (交错战线) has truly earned its reputation as the 'Myanmar scam center of gacha games.'

Here's what went down: Interlace Frontline launched and immediately faceplanted into server meltdown. The devs quickly issued a statement blaming hacker attacks (黑客攻击). But literally the next day, eagle-eyed players spotted that the game's TapTap storefront promotional images had been quietly swapped out for 'more clothed' versions — characters were significantly less exposed. The OP dug up before-and-after comparison images from TapTap forums, and the difference is pretty obvious.

Here's the interesting part though: the actual in-game character art apparently hasn't been touched yet. Some players confirmed that 'the in-game stuff looks unchanged,' but the TapTap storefront art has been fully replaced. One commenter (post #12) added a batch of screenshots showing TapTap's promotional images were all censored, while Bilibili's version remained untouched for now.

The comment section reaction was overwhelmingly sarcastic. Post #1 dropped a meme and declared 'Game's dead, I told you this would get censored ages ago.' Post #4 went full real talk: 'Playing the CN server version of any gacha game these days is basically self-inflicted pain.' But the real killer was Post #5's quip: 'Oh so it was the ARTISTS who were busy, not the programmers' — a savage jab implying the devs were secretly rushing to alter art while pretending to fix servers.

The most spicy take came from Post #11: 'So the Taiwan hackers got dragged out again to take the fall for NRTA (广电, China's media regulator)?' — directly suggesting the 'hacker attack' narrative was just a smokescreen to buy time for forced content compliance. Post #17 dropped another bombshell, claiming the censored versions of the art were 'already prepared' — implying this entire censorship move was pre-planned, with backup assets ready to go before launch even happened.

As for what exactly got censored — Posts #14 and #16 had a hilariously confused exchange. Two players were initially baffled about why 'Queen Bee' (女王蜂) would need censoring, or 'even a flat-chested character gets censored?' Only after looking closer did they realize it was the COMBINED/TRANSFORMED version of the character art that got the censor treatment. Post #18 added that the 'fix' involved adding black stockings (黑丝) to the thigh area, then deadpanned: 'but it wasn't even remotely sexy to begin with,' questioning the logic behind the censorship.

Current status: store promotional images have been fully replaced, in-game character art remains unchanged for now, and the Bilibili channel hasn't been touched either. But given how fast this unfolded, in-game changes are probably just a matter of time. As Post #1 put it: 'If they don't give us the uncensored (神秘模式, 'mystery mode') version, just wait for the overseas server' — probably echoing what a lot of players are thinking right now.