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XDefiant | PS5, XBS, PC | rinks reports "it's actually pretty good"
Posted: Thu May 02, 2024 10:42 pm
by jawa_
Title XDefiant
Platform PS5, Xbox Series, PC
Release 21 May 2024
Developer Ubisoft
Publisher Ubisoft
Official game website ClickUbisoft wrote:Ubisoft's worlds collide in a free-to-play, first-person arena shooter where you compete to be the best in fast-paced online matches!
Join an always-evolving experience with regular updates bringing new playable factions and a growing collection of maps, weapons, and game modes. With cross-play, you will be able to join your friends across available platforms.
Preseason starts 21 May 2024 and will run for six weeks, with seasons then commencing.
> Game overview trailer (13-Apr-2023)
> Comeback gameplay trailer (13-Apr-2023)
Re: XDefiant | PS5, XBS, PC | Preseason starts 21 May
Posted: Thu May 02, 2024 10:43 pm
by Jenuall
This just encapsulates everything in gaming that has zero appeal to me
Where did all the love go? It was sucked away by soulless stuff like this
Re: XDefiant | PS5, XBS, PC | Preseason starts 21 May
Posted: Thu May 02, 2024 10:46 pm
by rinks
Shut down by November when it fails to hit like Fortnite.
Re: XDefiant | PS5, XBS, PC | Preseason starts 21 May
Posted: Fri May 03, 2024 9:03 am
by Moggy
"Free to play!"
"Preseason/seasons"
strawberry float off.
Re: XDefiant | PS5, XBS, PC | Preseason starts 21 May
Posted: Fri May 03, 2024 9:44 am
by Preezy
Dead on arrival.
Re: XDefiant | PS5, XBS, PC | Preseason starts 21 May
Posted: Fri May 03, 2024 9:57 am
by jawa_
It's starting to sound like we may have enough players here in GR to setup multiple clans
.
Just from looking at the trailer I'm not sure that I like the mixed-franchise characters approach; it seems a bit messy. Then again, Fortnite includes a huge variety of characters so maybe it'll work. It's
free-to-play free-to-start so I'm guessing that a fair number of people will try it?
Re: XDefiant | PS5, XBS, PC | Preseason starts 21 May
Posted: Fri May 03, 2024 10:04 am
by Victor Mildew
Moggy wrote:"Free to play!"
"Preseason/seasons"
strawberry float off.
Re: XDefiant | PS5, XBS, PC | Preseason starts 21 May
Posted: Fri May 03, 2024 11:11 am
by Trelliz
I wouldn't mind a traditional COD multiplayer style game I can play for 5-10 mins at a time that doesn't require hundreds of gigs of space for stuff I don't care about. I'll probably download it and give it a go a couple of times and then forget about it.
Re: XDefiant | PS5, XBS, PC | Preseason starts 21 May
Posted: Fri May 03, 2024 4:54 pm
by Ironhide
Everything wrong with modern gaming, summed up in a single game.
Re: XDefiant | PS5, XBS, PC | Preseason starts 21 May
Posted: Fri May 03, 2024 5:14 pm
by OrangeRKN
So it's basically the expanded Tom Clancy verse + the other Ubisoft games that are close enough to be confused for Tom Clancy IP.
It would be much funnier if one of the factions was Rabbids.
Re: XDefiant | PS5, XBS, PC | Preseason starts 21 May
Posted: Fri May 03, 2024 5:33 pm
by jawa_
OrangeRKN wrote:So it's basically the expanded Tom Clancy verse + the other Ubisoft games that are close enough to be confused for Tom Clancy IP.
It would be much funnier if one of the factions was Rabbids.
I think that elements of other Ubisoft franchises are included... I was watching a vid and I'm sure that I saw a Rabbid!
Re: XDefiant | PS5, XBS, PC | Preseason starts 21 May
Posted: Tue May 21, 2024 8:26 pm
by rinks
Reminder that this launches today. But apparently there are server issues, so I’ll leave it for a bit.
Re: XDefiant | PS5, XBS, PC | Preseason starts 21 May
Posted: Wed May 22, 2024 11:46 am
by rinks
Server issues seemed to be fixed by the time I tried it last night.
It's actually pretty good! I'm useless at these kinds of games, so maybe not the best judge, but it seems as good as CoD, only free. And thankfully not another Battle Royale. I played a couple of matches in the introductory playlist, and had a go at escort and area-control types. Obviously nobody knows WTF they are doing yet, so it's pretty chaotic.
And no egregious forced microtransactions (yet). There are plenty of challenges, and there's a battle pass that I didn't feel particularly compelled to look at.
Re: XDefiant | PS5, XBS, PC | Preseason starts 21 May
Posted: Wed May 22, 2024 5:22 pm
by Trelliz
Gave it a go too - runs nicely, i'm definitely hanging out for the wooden spoon award pretty much every game but its fun enough. The intro playlist gives you loads of extra stuff you don't have if you play the "normal" ranked/unranked modes, so is a good showcase but then you have to put the grind in to get access to them later. I've seen various "ultimate" abilities go off but have never got even close to filling the meter to using one myself, mind.