Ah yes there’s that classic cathartic cynicism we’ve all come to know and love from you DW. All jokes aside I haven’t actually played it yet, I’ll check it out this weekend.

I can't be the only one who has had it up to here with this fad of the AK47 without the top cover to make it look _rugged_

Free to play, no p2w, small file size, no sbmm and a decent amount of content especially for launch. Netcode is the only real ossue i have with it, otherwise its pretty good

I think they need to stop using a dead man's name just to make a game popular

If you told me that this is some Gameloft mobile game that was ported to PC and console, I would believe it. This looks like one of the most generic game I have seen in a while.

I enjoy the game. its fun to me.

It feels great to be back on your channel! Man I missed like 4 years of reviews(to get caught up on).

I've downloaded this twice now in the hopes it might click with me. Every time I've been annoyed by the announcer, the 'abilities' (wallhack), the characters and slow progression, resulting in me promptly uninstalling it again. I also can't help but wonder when Ubisoft will inevitability shut down the servers, making the treadmill grind all for nothing.

Before we discuss why everyone is calling Xdefiant a "COD Killer," let's go back to the question of why COD was a "Medal of Honor Killer." Infinity Ward was originally a developer for EA and worked on Medal of Honor. Before that, there was some conflict between developers and publishers. Two respected developers left EA and later joined Activision to create COD, a game that had the potential to overshadow the Medal of Honor. The last game published under the MOH brand was MOH Warfighter, after which the brand was discontinued. Before MOH met its end, the same developer from Infinity Ward left amidst controversy following the release of MW2. Subsequently, they departed from Activision and returned to EA to create Titanfall, a game that "almost killed Call of Duty but ultimately failed" due to its unique experience that changed many players' perspectives, albeit briefly. Call of Duty became a dominant force, establishing itself as the most developed brand in FPS history with over 51 games released. So, what I want to convey is that if Xdefiant manages to overthrow the COD brand, they will likely find similar for the next 20 years.

In regards to the Tom cpancy moniker, I think siege is at a point where it should drop both the rainbow Six and Tom clancy titles. I mean look at the game now, it looks like a mobile game nowadays, how tf did that happen?

I don't know why but Ubisoft could add the 101st airborne from their brothers in arms as a faction

Yeah I’m so tired of people glazing this game and legitimately thinking it’s on the level of cod4 and mw2

Not a fan of how the character models just clash with each other like you talked about. Wish they just went with Phantoms vs Splinter Cell or something and let us make our over custom character for each faction. Not really a fan of the super diverse character models they put in for DEI points. Also the guns looking like trash is so stupid. I wish they would at least have a mode without the super powers b/c I like basic shooters like this and I find the game modes pretty OK for the most part. We'll have to see if ubislop sticks with it.

I'm happy that there's competition in the free-to-play FPS games market. For those who may not be aware, there are several options available such as "Ironsight" and "Shatterline". "Ironsight" has been around for a while now and seems to be heavily inspired by BO2. However, they need to work on balancing the game and fixing the netcode issues. On the other hand, "Shatterline" offers a complete package with both PVP and PVE modes, abilities, mechanics similar to Xdefiant, and even a story mode for first-time players. Unfortunately, they seem to struggle with their player base. These three games are often compared, with some people dismissing them as mere COD clones. However, I believe that with continued development and time, these issues can be addressed.

I have never understood the internet losing its mind over SBMM. Just meaningless jargon to me. Some maps you win some, others you lose some. Same way it's been always. What changed is that now every modern shooter never lets you keep the same group of people and just load the next map when the game ends. Nope, it throws you back to the main menu to re-matchmake all over again which takes FOREVER, and never any server browser or even a number telling you how many people are matchmaking in this playlist. XDefiant is just as guilty of this as any of the post-2018 CoD's.

Some of those high level and pro players have online careers so they have reasons (money) to defend these games and the way the games play.

About the weapons, both Division games have a ton of weapons they could've repurposed and just made FPS animations for.

While I think no SBMM at all is dumb, (even if I would prefer unranked/ranked playlists), my issue with SBMM with the newest COD I've played, CW, is that the post-launch guns, namely the TEC-9 and LC-10 are oppressively overpowered. I basically have to quit a bunch of matches in a row after a victory spree because it's going to be nothing but people using the closest thing to hacks you can get without hacking the game. (Namely high damage, high accuracy submachine guns with literally no downsides that outshoot almost every gun in the game that isn't an instant kill.)

Ranked modes actually have a purpose with this model imo

The game feels like a Chinese CoD

Slop is right

I agree a lot with the video but with xdefiant being free to play and cod costing money, I've been playing it but with cod going to gamepass, we'll see if I stick with it.. but so far its pretty fun. great video as always. Look forward to the next !

People dont care much about cohesion these days, i got shot by snoop dog in cod then goku in fortnite. Compaired to that the cohesion is pretty solid, for now at least ..

I played XDefiant, then went right back to og MW3 on Plutonium, and the difference was night and day. Better graphics, way better map design, better gunplay, actually have server browser and stick to same server after game ends (imagine that), more game modes. I get it though. Not everybody has or wants to spend a lot of money on CoD. Activision have ridiculous prices. As a free 2 play, "B-movie" alternative, it takes the best visual ideas that COD already did and makes maps of them, but you do get what you pay for. It's a watered down, immensely derivative experience and if you've ever played any other CoD before, or any other AAA modern military shooter (i.e. the primary audience demographic) you're better off sticking with that.

I'm happy I'm not the only one who didn't like how they made some of the guns look all nasty and beat-up. Some are getting close to a Borderlands style with all the damage...lol...slight exaggeration but still. A guns appearance has always been key for me. Once and a while I'll use an attachment I have no use for just so the gun doesn't look so ugly (referring to CoD games) but in XD were kinda just stuck with it. Like how you mentioned the AK....its a good gun in XD but I don't like using it cause it's ugliness is just staring me in the face at all times.

I really like the game despite the usual Ubisoft trappings. I sure wish it had skill based matchmaking though. Everyone always whines about it, but the loudest whiners are those who hate being matched against people of similar skill level. As in they actually have to put in some work to do well. Minor issue really but sometimes it creates some truly boring matches where it's so one sided that you can't wait for it to be over. Another eternal issue I have with these kindsa games. Snipers. Someone make a cod clone but market it with "no snipers" and you'll have exactly one customer because people really do enjoy snipers due to some bizarre reason. While we're at it, some madman make a study on why stinky nerds like snipers. Get on it science team!

The fanbase didnt like BO3? We got 2 big championship events here in brazil for it and its often named as "the only futuristic one people liked", i thought it was quite enjoyed worldwide

When you gonna do ULTRAKILL?

Kernel-level anticheat :( i want to play it. But... it still creeps me out to endorse this trend with my playtime

The game is fun. I wanna see it flourish in the foreseeable future.

I think what the game might have going for it is the lack of alternatives. There aren't that many CoD clones out there and if I have to decide between spending 70€ and sacrifing 150gb of my harddrive or only sacrificing 30GB, the decision is rather easy. And I agree with most of your points, espially when it comes to the game feeling like Smash Bros, but without the coherent vision, and the weird weapon aesthetics, I disagree with others. Like the lack of named characters., With how the game presents itself, I don't feel like serious characters like Sam Fisher, Nomad, Aiden Pierce or even the Far Cry 3,4 and 5 main characters would fit in at all. The Watch Dogs 2 crew would, no questions asked, but everyone else would feel out of place, even more so than the already existing characters. And yes, I rambled about this before that the Cleaners absolutely don't fit the game lorewise, because they would never fight together with anybody else. But all in all, I'm glad the game exists, because, as I said, what other CoD alternative is there?

I couldn't tell if I was watching gameplay footage from Xdefiant or Call of Duty. I had to open a second tab go to KZfaq and look up Xdefiant gameplay just to be sure. Holy shit, it looks just like Call of Duty. Even down to the little x's that popup when you shoot other players. LOL It's a freaking COD clone. LOL

CoD's SBMM was never strong prior to 2019. You're being pretty disingenuous by saying it was a slow ramp-up and that "high levels running laps around low levels" was ever an issue in CoD, because it wasn't. Old CoD was genuinely great and the old form of very light SBMM was way superior of what we have nowadays. Before it would simply take a bunch of players and split them up into teams, that's it. Unless you were in the protected bracket of super low KD, you'd play standard MM. That's how it should be. Modern CoD is just utter ass and you're trying to gaslight people.

i know i'm in the minority but there's something that old cod games (old games in general) had that new games don't when it comes to identity, immersion and some level of authenticity and this really puts me off playing today's games. not to mention all the other bs we have to put up with.

Not knowing anything about those games it doesn’t bother me. I just wanna shoot shit lol. I was kinda disappointed that the other characters are just skins. Maybe they will give them some traits in the future. Something subtle.

I agree about pretty much everything you said, the only thing i disagree with is that the factions are balanced, Echelon isn't and the wallhack ability (not the ult) is way too strong for having such a little cooldown, but it's a very small thing that is pretty irrelevant with all the other issues this game has, which you pointed out, no identity, terrible netcode (You can even get hitreg issues in the shooting range since it puts you in a private server) and the overall gameplay being...painfully average. I have no idea what some people are smoking when they praise this game so much when it is really nothing special, also more than half the gamemodes don't fit the gameplay of the game, ESPECIALLY payload imo.

Just like the zipties on the magnum. This game is just there.

Listen, people like this game for a good reason. That reason being the lack of stifling algorithm breathing down youre neck constantly. That alone is good enough to excite the casual good player like myself. Im not usually tryharding, but I am significantly better than the average player. In cod, that means every match I play is like ranked, which is a mode i avoid since I hate stressing while playing games. In XD Im usually doing well, I feel rewarded for all the time ive put into shooters to not be garbage at them. For the first time, it doesent feel like something is working against me, it feels free and open instead manufactured. And that alone is a good enough reason to play a moderatly average game with decent mechanics. So I can reach that baseline of actually having fun. Thats how fucked pvp games are these days, I am satisfied if I am allowed to have even a smidge of fun. Crazy.

people say that Cod is souless these day's and it's true but xdefiant is just a corpse that never started with a soul lmao i'm hoping i'm wrong in the future but this game has zero reasons to play atm besides striving for gold camo....it's just not in a good spot regardless of what people say it has very little to do and they only keep you playing by making the weapon xp gain slow as all hell.

Think I played about 5 games and just thought it was utter rubbish.

i never understood why sweats dont want to play against other sweats. i see no problem with skilled based matchmaking.

The hammers being down are a pretty frequent blunder, and would only make sense for the quite uncommon hammer fired DAO handguns. I'm a bit more forgiving about it for games from the 90s and 2000s, but after that there's really no other excuse than ignorance/laziness with the abundant amount of information available on guns in text and video, accessible in a matter of seconds. As for the game, other than Echelon I don't give a damn about any of the factions, and even "NSA" seems to be phoned in, so the "best of (post 2010 aka idgaf) Ubisoft" motto is anything but impressive.Gunplay looks meh, the aesthetics are meh or outright ugly, gamemodes are also meh... With the backlog of games and other media I have, my free time these days is actually quite valuable, so a game being F2P doesn't really benefit me anymore. I'll pass.

It's funny how Call of Duty was pretty much dying off as a series when the older Millennials got older and people learned that the Call of Duty games after Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops 1 were mostly just garbage. Only to see the series get revived by Zoomers and younger Millennials.

Ubisoft should make a true French multiplayer game instead: where everyone's nonstop kissing and making cheese.

But DW 2mil players but DW its free hhh , Reality check for those ppl yeah Ppl gonna leave so fast , Free sure, endless grind , boosters , battle passes and all modern gaming bs. So punk moshpit blender style not working ... i am shocked. its gonna be gone in year or two . 2015or10 called and want its game back. this is joke no this is ubisoft.

Saying the COD fanbase didn’t like BO3 is just wildly inaccurate. Attributing BO4’s failure solely to the hero shooter stuff is also not giving the full picture. That game was very different and weird compared to most CODs, changing the health mechanics in a way that just made it feel like a different game entirely.

So...they have overwatch escort, overwatch point control, and destiny/destiny 2 supremacy. Wow...plus shitty cosmetics, a battle pass(plus a monetized version), and a progression system that sounds slower than a snail... Glad I didn't pick this game up.

This game is trash. The hit reg is awful. I get two shot kill. I unload a whole mag and enemy is still alive.

I just can't stand all the Call of Duty fanbois whining about their Ex, Call of Duty. The bland weapons and crap hit detection doesn't help either. No thanks, take Ubisofts cash-grab somewhere else.

What lobbies are you in 💀 Every one I join everyone slide hopping and bouncing around lmao

Xdefiant is great , you need to check out settings videos to get the most from it . Sbmm has made cod very hard to play for me .

Not gonna buy ANYTHING ubislop for years. Make the Dislike Button have meaning again!

Ehh most of your points just sound like you’re coming out as a hater tbh BUT you’re not wrong on some things. They said this game was suppose to be a fun arcade shooter which it is and it was never suppose to be a serious game but a game you can hop on and have fun with your friends and not worry about getting into sweat lobbies because one of your friends is really good and you’re not with that being said I agree that there isn’t a lot to work towards except like gold and leveling up and the intel suit needs a nerf fs. I like the vid tho at least you’re honest about how you feel

27:00 explanation clueless west cost hipsters

Wompwomp😂

You’re crazy xdefiant is goated

call of duty is already dead. most people play it for the first month of a new release and never go back to it.

Dawg, cod is actively dying as we speak.

why does bro have the hasan piker accent where his words either finish or fade away into a weird low groan type thing, it really gives the vibe of "I want to shit on this game" rather than "I want to be objective with my words to articulate why I believe this game deserves criticism and praise in aspects"

More like.....Xdeficient lol

I find it funny that you tried to make everything about the game negative and it quite literally highlighted 90% of the reasons why people are flocking to this game. Can't make everyone happy but someone has to complain about a free game without SBMM.

I wonder who r u watching ....honestly Ur really off ...

You soun😮d clownish cod is trash accept it

You are most probably a COD fanboy. There is so many things that this game does better than COD