Was worried TDM wouldn't play well on these maps, but it feels good to me. Game really does feel like older CoD's. Really enjoying it.

I’ve been having so much fun with the game. It’s the first time in ages where I’m really excited to hop on and just chill.

Two main issues I have are shooting immediately after respawn due to shooting when I died and the other issue is with sniping, for some reason after quickscoping and pressing the shoot button the shot does not register until I’m no longer aiming down sight

As a COD player of over 20 years I haven't touched COD since Xdefiant released except one night to catch up with friends to tell them I am no longer playing COD.

For me the main thing that's bothering me right now in Xdefiant is the Intel suit wall hacks ability like you said in the video. I feel like there's no real counter to it I feel completely helpless whenever I get pinged on my screen. You can try hitting them with an EMP but that can be extremely difficult given you don't know exactly where they are and Everyone else on the opposing team can see you as well. you're at such an overwhelming disadvantage in my opinion. Even the Spiderbot while Super irritating to play against I can shoot it, EMP it or play the operator that allows me to hack equipment. I think if for the same amount of time as the constant ping it was a sweep or added a counter It would be far less oppressive to play against.

Reduce spider bot health so it can be destroyed in 1 shot

I hope they rework that spider bot, It's way too OP as of right now, people argue that it's not that hard to kill and that it's not even that good, but the reality is that it's very buggy right now, half of the time even when you do try to shoot it by shooting to the ground, it doesn't work, sometimes you get hit by the animation twice, and even when you manage to kill it you wasted ammo and revealed your position to the enemy, you have less HP so you are an easy target. Plus there are other use case you can use it offensively and defensively, you need to heal and you are scared the enemy is going to jump you hide in a corner and deploy it. You want to get intel on where enemies are drop it and follow it, You want to avoid enemies drop it and avoid it. And in objective game mode in offense if there is more than 3 spiders you literally can't do anything to get the edge, last time I played escort and we were unable to even reach the bloody thing, eitheir we were killed by campers and snipers (which is ok for an obj gamemode) or we would reach the objective and get stunt by a spider and die.

Me & My friend who are long time cod fans both have played this game. I'm ADDICTED and he has dropped the game completely and doesn't enjoy playing. For me, I love this game because of how satisfying the gun-play is. The guns feel better than anything I've every experienced in cod, (outside the OG Black Ops trilogy). The movement is SO FUN and Addicting (I like to slide around corners, jump, strafe and I can use every single gun class and compete. The specialists are both fun and kinda free kills at the same time, I enjoy using them and trying to maximize each ones effectiveness but sometimes encountering them checkmates you no matter what you do but overall I enjoy the operators. I feel like no gun is in an unusable state (however the Tac-50 is still too easy to use, I never snipe in any fps and it's my best gun on this game and feels bs) My friend dropped the game because he felt like the netcode was awful (I still die behind corners very regularly), feels the specialists are OP and spammable and hates their passive perks (120 hp phantoms, incendiary rounds, wall hacks, spiderbots), hates the spawns, map designs and the sliding, jumping meta

Dedsec class phone ability should have a counter tracker where if you use the phone after getting Intel pinged it instead pings the location of the person who pinged you as a counter. That would also add some more viability to it as well as an interesting counter. And it would make sense like a hacker tracking down the location of someone trying to track them just like in the Watch Dogs games.

Other than fixing the bugs, I would make the spiderbot's hitbox bigger, because currently it's frustratingly difficult to shoot before it actually jumps onto you. Another ability that lacks any kind of counterplay is firebomb, it's just a free kill every time and it's especially unfair on Occupy. I also feel like the fuse timer for the sticky grenade is inconsistent sometimes. Regardless, I love the game, and I know it will get even better once they sort everything out, especially in the hands of devs that actually listen to their community and act fast.

I’m the “Spiderbots are for noobs who can’t win a fair 1v1”-Button

I’m hoping with season 1 they nerf the bunny hopping after the 2nd jump, rework the echelon’s intel suit & sonar goggles, make the spider slower & have 1 hp & louder so you can hear it coming, implement a mercenary playlist for us solo players since the team balance is straight up ass, stop making maps more vertical meaning get rid rid of windows & 2nd floors altogether, and most importantly upgrade the netcode & add in more servers

Will you bring back the gun guide series for XDefiant?

@TheXclusiveAce Found an issue, testet in the gun range with the SSR (used Holo sight) and found out that the bullet shoots slightly to the right of the reticle. Could be part of the hit res issue!

Since playing XDefiant I have not felt the need or desire to go back to MW 3. It has kept me engaged and enjoying an FPS multiplayer so much more now. This is very surprising given there is no SBMM , however I think we see as a community our feedback being listened too and more importantly acted on

Here’s my suggestion for the spider bot counter-play: You should have a short window to press and hold a button on your controller where you can prevent it from latching. If you miss that window, then you get punished. Kinda like the seeker mine in BO4

Can someone help me out? I've seen in these videos when Ace gets flashbanged, his screen goes black instead of white. Is that an in-game setting? I've looked for it but can't find it.

I've been loving it so far and no SBMM. Everything you said is pretty spot on. I'm an above average player and it's so nice to actually feel like one again!

Net code sucks......pretty much every game I use half a mag to kill, but die in 2-3 bullets. As much as I want to play this game, I just can't with what I'm experiencing which really sucks.

ACE you play with 120hz ingame? because i have the option in PS5

Just started playing yesterday and I’ve been enjoying myself. I see some balance issues already but it is what it is. I’ll need more time with the game obviously but I think they took the MW2 route and prioritized fun over balance. I like feeling powerful and each class does what they should do well and each had felt fairly powerful at times. Good base to start off with just wish I had more feedback other than I'm having fun so far lol

I love this game and became addicted to it, theres always a feeling of wanting to come back and play it and I can play it for awhile without getting tired out. I agree with everything discussed with the video, im just very excited to see more content, improvements and features to the game.

Ace, can you address the really bad issues of lag / rubber banding in COD multiplayer since the update as I can’t play the game on my Xbox one as it’s soooo bad. Thanks.

Is there supposed to be a delay when trying to use grenades and abilities after everything or is that a bug?

1. Some cases, it is not possible to shoot the spiderbot of your face. It also recharges quite fast and has quite a bit of health. 2. Wallhack ability charges a bit too fast and is too powerful. 3. I still get sniped quite often even though I a shooting at them. I think it should not really happen. 4. Getting ghost hitmarkers and dealing no damage. 5. Dying around corners, but a lot less now. 6. Team balancing is sometimes way off. Doesn't matter if I get 40 kills in a TDM, I'll still lose and this happens quite often. 7. Not enough stuff to unlock. I have most guns gold already and all challenges done. I guess they'll fix that tho. 8. Shotguns are penalized too much after jumping or sliding, since you gotta do that sometimes anyways. AA12 is trash even without that. With that said, I still love the game after 70 hours :D

I quit due to the poor hit detection and netcode issues. The inability to consistently fight back against the opposing team destroys my enjoyment of the game. I may redownload the game and play it again if they fix these issues.

I like xdefiant, I am having more fun on mw3 though. Sledge has been doing great this year, xdefiant would have been better to launch last year with mw2. Xdefiasnt doesn't have sbmm, but the team balance can be so strict it can basically feel similar or worse to cods eomm. Especially for solo players with good stats. I have a 2kd, 4k skill rating and the team balance can be so punishing. Then you play parties on top of that, and it won't even tell you you're against a party!? Would love to see a mercenary playlist in XD, I'd play it much more with a mode for solo players.

I’m really loving the game as a casual. It really scratches that itch cod hasn’t since BO4

Cool think with the updated thoughts. You played against some of the same people me and my buddy played against. It's super fun and great nostalgic vibes seeing the same people in different lobbies. Brings back local rivalries again.

I'm a 42 year old long time player of COD, CSGO/2 and most everything else. For the past 15 or so years since I've been playing fps's online this is the hardest game I have ever played. I keep quitting and coming back, but I think pretty soon I'm gonna uninstall if something doesn't change with the netcode, crazy movement and all that.

I noticed a lot of hitching in the gameplay. I played today and didn’t see any of that thankfully. Do you think that may have been your connection or just the servers you were getting?

I think the way to fix the intel suit is to make it only give maybe that one snapshot for the teammates but display them on the minimap to the team, regardless of range, for the duration of the ability. Frankly, I don't find the minimap very useful at the moment since we don't have UAVs, except for knowing where teammates are. And when the time's almost up the dots and highlights should start to flicker off and on. Also, a real problem I personally have with the intel suit highlights has to do with the map's color palettes. When they're behind cover and solid red, that's fine. But when they're in line of sight, the shading often camouflages them more than they would have been without it. (Also, that damn silver Phantom player skin is almost like a permanent Digital Ghillie Suit. What's up with that? If I was gonna buy a skin, it would sure as hell be that one.) All in all, though, I gotta say that the game is pretty good. It sure doesn't feel as rigged as CoD and I've been able to go off in some matches like I haven't been able to in CoD for a very long time. And that's what I would have asked for kind of boils down to.

Any word on if they'd fix Recoil Recovery?

Still playing and loving this game. Old school COD gamer who quit long ago and I'd agree this definitely has an old school COD feel. I've been primarily playing hotshot, such a fun game mode and a nice twist on "kill confirmed" that we see in COD a lot. My biggest 2 issues with the game are the spiderbot that's so incredibly annoying to deal with and I feel the sniping is still too overpowered. You don't run into as many snipers in hotshot but if I go over to escort or zone control it can get obnoxious. The flinch still seems to not affect enough.

I just wish I still had the ability to aim slightly after the spiderbot jumps on. Maybe give me a tighter hip fire stread for the trade-off of the visual, audio impairment, and the movement penalty. So that way you still have a chance at defending yourself in close range.

I kind of stopped playing this game. my reasoning for not playing so much is cuz I'm waiting for ranked to come out. At the time struggling to get attachments like you said hurt me liking it cuz everyone stayed with mp7 or ACR. No sniper flinch. intel suit spam and spiderbot bug. if I notice people with spiderbot. I'll throw the Emp grenade at my feet and spiderbot gets destroyed

It's definitely good! Went on a 10 win streak last night, no party just playing challenges, I haven't felt this good since bo2

Dose anyone else keep getting a delta 24 error? I'm on PC and was wondering if its a known issue or something on my end

Can we get bullet bleed thru on our teammates???

the echelon needs some work and same with phantom the fact that they have extra 20 health on top of a shield is stupid, i run into those players 80% of the time and the other 20 is split between other 3

Loving the game so far and it's 1000x better than COD - my one big request would be a nerf to the Cleaner's faction Dying from incendiary bullets even though you killed them is frustrating alongside the fire bomb essentially being a panic button that requires no skill to activate yet can kill you instantly - other than that loving it

If I were in charge of balancing abilities: spider bot should attach to your feet, damaging you (less than it currently does) and slowing you, but not obstructing your vision or your ability to ADS intel should snapshot position instead of following the player. That, or be on a minute cool down. these are my biggest gripes with the game. i think Mag barrier is a little strong but not in need of a nerf, instead I'd like to see the lesser used abilities buffed.

I'm still loving the game. Haven't enjoyed an FPS this much for years. Personally I'm very optimistic for the future. It's so nice to have a CoD-type arcade shooter without having to, y'know... deal with CoD.

I’m in your same boat, only get to play 2-3 hours a week, not a fan of staying inside during my the summer months, but even then, I really enjoy playing this and gives me that old school BO1/MW3 vibes! Game is great, and once summer is over and I personally have more free time, I’ll be on this game 24/7

I think they might want add a “penalty” if the team are all using the same abilities. Like if more than 2 people are using the same ability the cool down so increase to avoid spam

I feel like you had some good points on some of the issues like netcode and spiderbots. Other issues I find with the game are the firebomb, the grenade hit marker blocking my reticle making shooting harder, and would also like to see grenades on a timer instead of respawning and having one again which causes grenade spam.

Ace - It’s about high time you switch from aim assist to KBM. There’s no excuse anymore to continue using aim assist now that PlayStation doesn’t have rights to CoD early releases. If you don’t want to switch, I’d love to see the video explaining why!

spider bot: What I so heavily dislike about it is how unpredictable and uncounterable it is 1) make it a one shot kill from any weapon and increase its hitbox, 2) when its on your face you dont need to look down with a short barrel gun to get it off. Maybe you can just melee it once 3) reduce its movement speed 4) make all friendly and enemy spider bots visible on the maps at all times so we can better prep for a spider bot encounter. i think if all these points were met, I wouldnt find spider bots so annoying, and they would still be just about as viable

Thanks for the vid! I will say, as someone who used to love CoD, but stopped playing, I love the airstrafe mechanic. It's an EASILY accessible mechanic for all players to learn that isn't quite like jetpacks (because some will hate that), but adds a little spice to each engagement that discerns this from a strict CoD clone. I love that for now, but we will see! I think for people who understand L-stick aiming, this mechanic is very intuitive as well. It provides a small skill gap that everyone can use!

I do love the game. It just feels so fun.. I actually care about winning and can feel my impact on every game

I noticed if you use invisibility power spider can’t track you. So if it comes near you activate the power and spider will go for someone else.

having a blast, cant wait for season 1

Agree on the echelon ability, that the wallhacks should only be for the player using the ability and not the whole team. As for the spider bot, the most annoying part is that it sometimes doesn't work to look down and shoot it off. I guess it must be a glitch?

I live in the middle east, & Ubisoft have servers in Bahrain, so my ping in r6s is 50-70ms. But for some unknown reason they didn't utilize these servers in this game, so the ping hovers between 140-270ms & the queue times are absolutely horrendous, i love this game, i just want a chance to fully experience it.

I'm level 80, I played quite a lot. I play less now than 3-4 weeks since most of my friends stopped playing. They stopped playing because they are NOT Call Of Duty fans. They never play COD, so them playing XDefiant with me for a few weeks was a surprise :)

When they said they messed up and were going to fix it in an upcoming patch I took a little break. Now that the weapon xp came back feeling really good and there was a double xp weekend I was playing a lot. Season 1 coming I'm about to play a lot of it then too. The game feels just a little lacking in the rewards and content department and that led to fatigue as well

Loving it! Although I tried to play with a friend and the social queue system is currently quite terrible. We gave up trying to play together

yes... but the stability with the net code and the boot back to matchmaking with every match makes the game drag.

I played one of the betas a while back and felt a little meh about it overall. A couple friends invited me to try it with them ~3wks ago, and I'm _hooked_ now. It feels like such a breath of fresh air after _years_ of the player-abusive CoD cycle and soul-sucking, variety-squashing EOMM. In an average game, pretty much any weapon or utility feels viable, and you're forced to adapt on the fly because you actually encounter diverse lobbies. Why on earth would I go back to CoD? I do not miss sweating my cheeks off with meta builds to go dead even every game. That's what ✨ranked✨ is for.

Didn’t know you recently had a baby there Ace, congratulations man- hope everything is going well with the little one

What makes the spiderbot so annoying is that it: 1. blocks your view; 2. stuns you and slows you down (even before it attaches to you); 3. deals damage to you; 4. shows no indication on how to escape from it. And that is simply way too many benefits for an ability that has a 30 second cooldown. What I'd like to see changed is one of the followig: 1. Can be destroyed in 1 shot, either slow you down or deal damage, but not both. Keep cooldown at 30s. 2. Can be destroyed in multiple shots, either slow you down or deal damage, but not both. Change cooldown to 45s. 3. Can be destroyed in multiple shots, can slow you down and deal damage. Change cooldown to 60s.

Congrats on the baby 🎉🎉

Been playing since day 1 and still loving it currently like level 86. They had a me a bit worried with the xp change but after the patches and everything I’m very much looking forward to season 1

Playing xDefiant almost daily still. 2800ish skill level for reference for folks, and the most annoying thing is the spider bots without a doubt. They are buggy, you need wayyy too many shots to shoot them on the ground, they do too much damage when they're on you, and they just retract so much of the smoothness and flow of the game whenever you're playing against a team that has them. I've learned that any more then 2 players on the opposing team running spider bots just makes the experience terrible. Would love to see some big overhauls there. Otherwise, the wall hacks are annoying but you can outplay folks with those with phantom walls from what I've found. The wall hacks give folks a sense of immunity where they'll put themselves in bad positions to push you and prefire you, just to come jumping around a corner and you have a phantom wall deployed and you can just melt them. They are annoying if you have more then half the opposing team running them, but overall they aren't terrible...at least as much so as the spiders. Overall loving the game still, and the lack of sbmm and old school cod feel keeps me coming back day after day

Just started playing a couple of days ago and I have 6.5 hours in, 1,8kd and 2,5W/L. Biggest issue with this game for me is that the characters feel weightless. The way you move can either be described as clunky or as if the characters are floating on the map. You do get used it it pretty quick though. EDIT: They REALLY need to add SND.

Ranked, and Search and Destroy with new Weapons and Maps dropping in 2 Days with Season 1.

My biggest issue is I can't seem to get into a match at all. Been trying for a few hours

Regarding the wall hack balance. I 100% agree. I honestly think they should increase the range and duration slightly but only have 1 pulse go out if that makes sense. It really feels like 3 pulses of it is wayyy to much time for the pace this game plays at and I really think it should be one of the more powerful abilities with a much longer cooldown time. Also 100% agree with the spider bot (god it is so annoying). They need to make the spider bigger and way easier to hit for starters. Second it shouldn’t even be doing damage if we are being honest. The amount of times I’ve been spiderbotted and gotten the kill only to watch my health drop by 2 ticks until I eventually die just feels off. I won the gunfight but I still lost? It wouldn’t be a problem if it didn’t happen all the time but when it’s literally every game where someone’s using spider bot it gets annoying. Also I know the cleaner passive has a similar concept but it’s slightly less op since we can actually still see our screen, aim, and move.

I stop playing, I can not play,the R3 button it's too sensitive. Every time I'm in a fight, the Melee activates.I dont have this issue in COD.

Spider bots are great, they start affecting your aim before they latch onto you, they do 40 damage (thought they did 20), they always hug you (anyone else recall the boys shooting a taser?) idk it needs a redo on that whole ability it’s no skill. Also firebomb for cleaners is a pain because regardless how 1 you get the enemy they don’t take any damage although they kamikaze a decent aoe with no punishment (just annoying doing 60-70 on a cleaner for them to turn around lock eyes with you and say “COME ‘ERE BOY”

I completely agree. An extra couple things i would add are the bug where you shoot on respawn from buffered input is annoying, especially with a sniper. I also think biovida boost is too weak as a standard ability, and the healing ult is a bit too strong.

What pushed me away was the weapon leveling slowness. I haven’t gone back since the change but will likely come back for season 1

I hope season 1 optimizes the CREATING MATCH process that is like an IRL stun grenade for the menus, lol.

I don’t think it’s you get what you get. I noticed it takes about 3-5 minutes to get a game and half the time I load into a game on a loosing team. An example I joined a game today and within 1 minute I tripled my teams kills /support/ and obj time. This happens more often than not. Not that I’m some kinda pro by any means it’s just strange how it happens back to back. I have all inputs on also the bottom 2 people also rotate out over and over , so our team is almost always down 2 people.

Glad some people enjoy this, hopefully it stays afloat long enough to get the netcode fixed. If they can do that, a lot of us would come back to it

This game launched at a perfrct time. I honestly dont know how this is going to go down in the next 3 to 4 weeks with other releases coming. In the FPS genre BO6 has the possibility of taking alot of the stage away from them. But... if they can fix the hit detection and netcode i think itll last. Im over 24hrs and its starting to bore me. The weapons being imbalanced makes it irritating to use anything but the 3 to 4 guns that actually work. If your up against a ACR or a MP7 with anything else your pretty much done for from the getgo. Like honestly i get the hype, i understand COD is becoming more and more ugh to the orginal fanbase, but dont ignore that this game has major problems. That will actually kill it lmao. The only real thing this game has going for it , its free, its in a dryspell, and it has some unique ideas. Fix the shit or im dropping it soon

Every time I'm frustrated: "Phantoms don't get frustrated"

I really hope they add custom button assignments for controller (Console, not sure if available on PC), it a basic feature for almost every other FPS game I've played and its really annoying not being able to customize the controller the way I want it to be without the presets. (If they've said they are adding it I haven't heard about it yet).

I can say so far I haven’t had the best of luck with the game yet but I’m willing to keep giving it a try. My main thing is the spider bot and also I don’t know if anyone else is having issues with lagging but I get it big time. Also, I literally just got the game so I’ll give it some more time

So hyped for season 1 especially for content purposes im definitely a ranked enthusiast!

I feel like XDefiant is actually just well made. Everything annoying is mostly that, annoying. Nothing is a deal breaker. Sure, jump and crouch spam is still prevalent, sniper flinch doesn't feel as impactful and some abilities feel overused, but overall it's still enjoyable. I think the only flawed design is that EMP grenades are basically required to play in higher skilled lobbies. It just provides too much utility for how over centralized abilities are. I also do think most issues come from the server, not the game. Like people have issues with the spiderbot. You can just look down and shoot but sometimes it visually doesn't latch on your face. And snipers not flinching much when you shoot them but that's probably more because the server didn't register every hit before the sniper took the shot. If the servers get an upgrade to their tickrates, these issues will go away.

Honestly can't stop playing the game. 80 hours play time and I've improved so much. Skill rating above 2800 and 2.0 KD with a 1.2 win loss. All this with solo play since day one, only thing I need is console only crossplay as PS5 is a much better experience than Xbox in UK.

I got to play two matches when it first came out. I've tried three times since and can't find a match. Ranked and unranked, I tried every game mode. It searches for about 10 seconds and kicks my back.

Haven't played a CoD since BO3. Super fun so far and its revived my video game addiction. I wish there were more penalties for jumping and squatting while shooting.

I'm not judging qol until its actual launch. First season is on its way

Hey, I dont know its no server in my region or less players, but I face really loong queue times.

It feels nice to have a dev team so passionate and actually care about the playerbase unlike cod who tell us to go shove it

Intel Suit should only scan 3 times, and have a longer cooldown (45 secs min). I think that alone would make it much more bearable.

It has become the only game I play...still drop into warzone to play with the boys on weekends but I'm hooked on X!

After tweaking my dead zones on controller for xbox, I have a way better time with movement and aiming, makes a huge difference to the feel of the game.

It's been really fun. Would like some rebalancing between the different factions, and the servers are not perfect even if better than launch. But still having an absolute blast playing it.

Largely agree with everything you said, Ace. One other thing I'd add that they need to fix is player collisions. For some reason, player collisions are off for enemies but on for teammates, which just seems backwards. Also, not something I expect they can fix at this point, but: Domination on Mayday is absolutely broken. I've found that it is very easy to defend B if your team is spawning behind the plane (and very difficult to push B if you're spawning on the other side), so whichever team happens to start there almost always wins the match unless you can force a spawn flip

It’s something to play with friends for a few games after work but haven’t played since Elden ring dlc and probably won’t go back 😅

I agree with what you said about SSBM. Honestly, I think they should keep SSBM in ranked play.

When XDefiant came out I dropped CoD, 4 days later I dropped XDefiant

Really enjoying the game overall but feel it's missing decent customisation e.g. camos and skins that aren't part of the battle pass or store bundle. I would also love some form of showing off a achievements like the old COD calling cards, maybe for things like the player kill screen. Perhaps this will change with more seasons but it feels like everyone has the same stuff currently

We need an operator to counter intel suits, it’s kinda crazy when going against a whole team with echelon they basically have wall hacks the whole game.

Making spider bot be killed in 1 shot and and didn't take effect before it's even on your screen would be perfect

I stopped playing less as Elden Ring dlc came out, but I would suggest they add some kind of multiplier when shooting echelon players as 120 health just makes them op in certain scenarios

I hate playing Echelon HQ because of Intel Suit ping, but... the best counter I've found is SpiderBot and shotgun. Having good headphones help locate a bit better.