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XDefiant (2024)

Ubisoft San Francisco

PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 5 · Xbox Series X|S

2.89 from 46 ratings

99 members have it in their collection · 3 playing now · 14 backlogged · 13 wish listed

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!
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Details

Developers
Ubisoft San Francisco
Publishers
Ubisoft Entertainment
Genres
Shooter
Themes
Warfare
Event
Ubisoft Forward 2023

Release dates

  • Apr 13, 2023 (Beta) (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
  • May 21, 2024 (Full Release) (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S
  • Jun 03, 2025 (Offline) (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S

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guitarwolf5

Status guitarwolf5 Dec 8, 2024

After reading about the news this week, I have to say I am sad and disappointed an excellent shooter is being shut down. Given how algorithms have taken over gamer experience it was nice to play a game that embraced natural gameplay experiences from the PS3-360 era. Game wasn't perfect by any means but had the game been given more …

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After reading about the news this week, I have to say I am sad and disappointed an excellent shooter is being shut down. Given how algorithms have taken over gamer experience it was nice to play a game that embraced natural gameplay experiences from the PS3-360 era. Game wasn't perfect by any means but had the game been given more time and polish like R6 Siege got (do people remember that game was AWFUL for a while?) I do think it would of gotten a piece of the audience. Damn shame.

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NN010

Status NN010 Jul 2, 2024

So, the Season 1 update came out & I decided to try XDefiant again bc I had a theory that Nvidia Reflex may have been causing the jittering issues I was experiencing...

I was wrong.

Even trying that, the game still jitters like it drank too much caffeine. Not to mention Ubisoft made some... interesting design choices with the new …

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So, the Season 1 update came out & I decided to try XDefiant again bc I had a theory that Nvidia Reflex may have been causing the jittering issues I was experiencing...

I was wrong.

Even trying that, the game still jitters like it drank too much caffeine. Not to mention Ubisoft made some... interesting design choices with the new faction.

So, I'm well and truly out. Gonna just stick to MWIII instead.

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NN010

Review NN010 3/5 · Jun 27, 2024

Discount Call of Duty Just Doesn't Match The Real Thing (as of now)

It's definitely admirable that Ubisoft are trying to create a serious COD competitor in XDefiant and I hope they keep at it, but between the general "discount COD" feel, constant jitter on my system (regardless of if DX11 or DX12 is enabled) & the lacking movement compared to Modern Warfare III, I just can't play this game any longer …

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It's definitely admirable that Ubisoft are trying to create a serious COD competitor in XDefiant and I hope they keep at it, but between the general "discount COD" feel, constant jitter on my system (regardless of if DX11 or DX12 is enabled) & the lacking movement compared to Modern Warfare III, I just can't play this game any longer when I can just play MWIII instead. Again, I hope Ubisoft San Francisco can keep up the solid community engagement & responsiveness they've shown thus far and make this an even better COD alternative. Competition is always good for the consumer and COD having a strong, great competitor in XDefiant will only make COD better. But (for me at least), MWIII is the better multiplayer game & I can't imagine that Black Ops 6 will be worse either.

Maybe if this had managed to enter full release before MWIII came out, I'd be more willing to overlook more of XDefiant's shortcomings out of sheer desperation for an alternative to MWII, but... that's not the case.

Ratings:

Creative score (story, gameplay, voice acting, art direction): 6/10

Technical score (graphics, audio, performance)): 4/10

Business Practices score: 7/10 (about as respectable as can be expected of a F2P game)

Overall score (my thoughts on a game’s overall quality, does not consider the business practices unless they are detrimental to the experience): 5/10

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KP_Neato_Dee

Status KP_Neato_Dee Jun 17, 2024

Seems like a good F2P take on the short time-to-kill, Call of Duty style of competitive FPS. Not my thing, but if I wanted to play that style, I'd likely go to this.

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Malus

Status Malus May 21, 2024

It's okay.... There's no regular Team Deathmatch yet, so that's a real downer.

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Sir_Laguna

Status Sir_Laguna Aug 4, 2021

I wrote about the new Ubisoft game and how ridiculous it is that a Tom Clancy branded title is trying to be "punk".

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I talk a little about the politics of Clancy, what 'punk' was ideologically and how other games (Watch_Dogs 2, Umurangi Generation) represent the punk ideology better without branding themselves as such.

You can read it …

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I wrote about the new Ubisoft game and how ridiculous it is that a Tom Clancy branded title is trying to be "punk".

enter image description here

I talk a little about the politics of Clancy, what 'punk' was ideologically and how other games (Watch_Dogs 2, Umurangi Generation) represent the punk ideology better without branding themselves as such.

You can read it here (in spanish).

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