XF: Football Arena - Beginner's Guide For Faster Progress
2021-10-28
XF: Football Arena is a new 3 on 3 football game from developers 9M Interactive, known for developing similar football games. Their latest release, XF: Football Arena, offers a real-time and fast-paced street football experience on mobile with a multiplayer feature.
You can unlock and collect unique players and add them to your team and challenge other players as well. The game introduces its own set of soccer rules that takes heavy inspiration from street football.
In this article, we'll be giving you a detailed beginner's guide on this game and what you can expect before checking it out. So without further ado, let's get into our beginner's guide for XF Football.
Getting Started
After installing this game, you're immediately taken to the pitch to be taught the game's tutorial in a brief round where you simply have to understand the basic movement, shot, and pass controls.
Pass and Shoot
The game starts you off with Ara, one of the playable characters. In the tutorial, you'll be taught how to pass the ball by tapping the A button. Up next, you'll be taught how to shoot and score a goal by pressing the B button. Like pretty much every soccer game, the longer you press a button, the harder or farther the ball will go. The tutorial was very brief, with basic controls. Afterward, you'll be redirected to the game's lobby screen, where you will then have to play a training match.
The training match will pit team you up with two other players and test your skills against an opponent. This is where you'll try out the controls you were taught in the tutorial session. The first team to score a goal wins the match as this appears to be the game's concept – The first team to score wins.
Skills
After the match, you will unlock a new skill named Dash which can be equipped ahead of your next match. You'll then have to play another training match against AI opponents to test out your new skill. The Dash skill allows you to superspeed past your opponents without them even noticing your movement. The game's control also allows you to use the skill in any direction you want.
There are tons of skills that you can unlock in this game as you play and progress to a higher level. Some characters also have special skills that only they can use on the pitch.
After your Dash tutorial, you'll be required to play one last tutorial match, this time to allow you to use your skills against opponents. It's hard using the Dash skill in an actual match, though, because of the nature of the game's controls.
Substitution
After winning the final tutorial match, you'll be rewarded with a new skill and a new character named Sophia. You will be then be required to substitute your current player for the newly acquired one. You can make substitutions from the lobby by tapping the Line-up button and choosing which character you want to bench. Sophia is a pretty good character, and she comes with a special sliding skill which you can also equip.
Acquiring Sophia brings the tutorial to an end, and you can now freely play matches and unlock new characters and skills.
Shop – Box Section
Since this game is still in the testing stages, there are very few modes available for players to play, and there aren't many available features either. So the game's shop is also pretty dry in terms of items you can buy.
There's a Box and Daily Deals section. You can get Daily Gold every hour from the Box section by watching an Ad, usually 30 seconds. There's also a Daily Booster box that gives you items that can boost your character's performance. You'll have to watch an Ad to get this reward as well.
Then you have two other boxes that you cannot open by watching Ads; you have to spend your gold on them. The first is a Random Box which you can open for 200 Gold. This box gives you various booster items such as Super Sliding Rare Booster, Power Shot Epic Booster, Charm Rare Booster, Normal Drink, and Teleport Rare Booster.
The last box is a Premium Random Box that contains top-level items, and you can open it by using 700 gold items, a pretty expensive box. But if you can cough out the gold to buy this box, then the rewards within will be worth it.
Those are the Box items you can buy from the store. The Gold Box that gives you 200 gold for watching an ad can give you more than 200 gold at times. And while the Gold Box can only be opened once every hour, the daily booster pack can be opened more than once after every hour simply by watching an ad.
Shop – Daily Deals Section
The Daily Deals section is where you can get some pretty interesting deals for a lesser amount of gold. You can purchase three booster items from this section: Charm Legend Booster, Power Charging Rare Booster, and Super Header Epic Booster. Boosters make your characters more efficient in a match and for a while. If you run out of boosters, your player will return to their original stats.
Pre-Season
This is where the current pre-season rewards are displayed. The reason for the reward isn't exactly made obvious, but it does appear to be for the ongoing pre-season. Like many of the game's features, the section looks basic because the game is currently in early access and is yet to be fully launched.
XF Football Arena has many potentials, similar to Extreme Football, another street soccer game from the same developer. We hope that there'll be more features and modes in the global launch of this game as right now, the game doesn't offer anything special.
