
First announced back in 2021, XDefiant now has a confirmed release date on PS5. The free-to-play shooter, developed by Ubisoft San Francisco, recently wrapped up a bunch of open sever tests, and now it's ready to fully deploy on the 21st May.
The launch version will include five playable factions — including Dedsec from Watch Dogs — 14 maps, five game modes, and 24 weapons. A 'Year 1 Roadmap' has also been revealed, promising new modes, maps, and weapons across multiple seasons. There are seasonal battle passes as well, in case you were wondering.
We went hands on with XDefiant almost a whole year ago, and our takeaway was that it'll struggle to stand out in what can be an unforgiving multiplayer space, despite being quite fun to actually play. Obviously, a long time has passed since then, so we're hoping that the project's made some real progress.
Will you be giving XDefiant a shot later this month? Continue to question that name in the comments section below.
[source ubisoft.com]
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Jesus Christ that title is like a curse. Ubisoft. F2P.
And "xdefiant" is such an absolute corney name only Ubisoft could come up with thinking it's cool
DOA, having seen no gameplay
Didn’t they release an arena shooter a few years ago that got canned? Guaranteed that this will have “influencers” claiming it’s a COD killer and then never playing it again
I would love a BR mode to really start a fight with cod(warzone).
Heard good things about it ....so will give it a go
Looks about as generic a F2P multiplayer fps as you could get.
Ubisoft: ChatGPT, generate a free 2 play multiplayer looter shooter with a catchy name for the GenZ.
CharGPT: Certainly, here is Xdefiant.
I played it. The last player session they did seemed to improve the game and take into a better direction. That said, the movement was stiff and heavy, but the gunplay on its own was good enough.
I hope they really support the game, more competition for CoD is good for the market.
I'll likely give this a try. I'm not afraid to say I enjoy COD and pick it up every year, but the MP portion of it has become an absolute farce as of late and is more like military Fortnight than anything. Maybe this will be better? Heck, for free it's at least worth a shot.
lol , i give it until the middle of summer til it dies like the rest of the dime-a-dozen
anyone remember the finals?
Free to play, roadmap, battle pass...no thanks
I didn't like it when i tried it the hit detection felt off and it just felt like a cheap CoD clone.
"There are seasonal battle passes as well, in case you were wondering." I would never have guessed that a ubisoft game would have one..whatever next 😯
@nomither6 Wait, you're saying that it can live longer than Suicide Squad?
Comments here about pvp shooters and free to play games are always so doom and gloom lol… I wouldn’t write this game off… lots of people are playing it for the fact it has no skill based matchmaking… it actually has a fairly decent chance to make it long term… time will tell lol…
I’ll at least try it when it launches. It’s not like much else is coming out this month, you know?
@BossBE Why? Ubisoft has a terrible track record with BR games.
Hyper Scape was one of the worst-feeling shooters I've ever touched. And they couldn't even get the Ghost Recon one off the ground.
@Rangers420 I mean... it literally is.
To Ubisoft, this game is expendable. This game will probably last only a few months before they shut it down. Because of what happened to The Crew, I do expect a mass boycott of all of their upcoming games because they made it clear that they don't care about you about your time and money.
The word Roadmap gives me the boke.
Y'know what, I think I might play this a bit...
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