They need to make it so you can push a button before it jumps on you so you can catch it and crush it. And have it be a quick window so if you miss it you’re screwed and if you’re quick enough you don’t get destroyed

This is literally bo4 and the prophet drone all over again 😂 they should’ve released it with a button press to counter it imo

Anyone else think the Intel suit needs to be only for the player, and not highlight for the whole team?? It's so annoying as soon as it says i'm exposed, i get lit up by anyone in the vicinity lol

I had a game last night where I felt like I spent more then half the game with the bot on my face. It was out of hand

I agree with you Ace. The spiderbot is fundamentally bad because of the imbalanced annoyance of the victim compared to the lack of fun for the owner.

Usually i enjoy the game wether im winning or losing but the spider bot spam is just obnoxious and pathetic. The spider bot should just be removed its just a pathetic free kill for the mouth breathers 😂

One very effective counter is Firebomb. If you see a Spiderbot coming, activate Firebomb and (assuming your timing is good) you're near guaranteed to get it off you or even kill it before it gets you.

I don’t know why they just don’t disable/remove the spiderbot until it’s fixed then add it back

I think in the beginning or an in-game update of XDefiant, there was a "bug" where the spiderbot only shocks you near your toes instead of blocking your entire face. Imo it was only the best way to counter it near your toes while shocking you. I either had to take the shock damage and hipfire my enemy or shoot the bug and stand my ground. I don't see why the spiderbot HAS to block your face.

Has anyone had any frame rate issues since s1 launch. I’ve noticed I drop frames more frequently than before (I barely dropped frames all through pre-season)

Everyone hated Prophet's Shock Drone in BO4. They must've been higher than my ping to think this was a good idea.

Just makes the spider bot to work like BO4's shock drone, giving a QTE prompt when the spider bot strikes, and you can try to hip fire at the bot if the QTE fails as you can't ADS (I would say letting the bot to become one hit down before it strikes, but that would make it too weak in comparison to other deployables in the current state).

I think they should make the writings of objectives lining up more transparent. Also the name of enemies popping up when killed should be smaller or more transparent. Sometimes I have a hard time seeing through all of this

I prefer looking down and firing to get rid of the Spider, sure it's a bug but i've got used to it, even when i know i can't do it anymore, i'm doing it instinctively.

Ubisoft PLEASE LET ME SAVE A WEAPON BLUEPRINT. It's insane it isn't already a part of the game

If I get a game with more than one spider bot on the other team, it’s an instant back to the lobby.

How do we get these calm lobbies? I have buuny rabbits and kangaroos constantly. I would also like to know how your screen is not cluttered. I have so many things showing on a hud that it is distracting

The problem with a hero shooter is that they need to limit the skill selection to only 1 per team!!

How do they even allow this half assed changes to go live? Like did they bother testing before releasing?

I think the way Prophets equipment abillity worked in BO4 was a perfect midway, If that drone got to you you had a QTE to press a button weither you got it or not you would still be hindered for a moment but if you missed the QTE it would last a lot longer

Dedsec + Hijacked is slept on fr. You can flip spider bots and mag barriers, cool down is quick and you have tactical resupply every 15 seconds. Honestly a very strong set up. Pushing points when a wall goes down and being able to hijack is so good and really fucks up the ops 😂

I really wanted to play Season 1 but im not getting on it until they fix the spiderbot bullshit

The worst thing is, that that thing also does 40 damage. I hate the feeling when I am wounded and that thing jumps on my face and I know I will die and I can do nothing about it and just wait for me to die.

If anyone remember in bo4, we had a sorta spider bot, and you pressed a button to remove it from your face

You know something is a major issue when a developer decides to reintroduce a bug to the game just to help somewhat alleviate the problem.

You’re leading KZfaq with this game. Keep pumping content. You can be the #1 KZfaqr for this game for sure

I honestly would rather have the spiderbot be the DedSec ult and get disrupted every 30 seconds if we have to keep the fucking thing in the game

Is it just me, or is the Echelon Digital Ghillie Suit harder to spot now after the most recent update?

This is one instance where Rubin isn’t reading the room correctly. The community hates the spider bot and it almost universally causes frustration - so why in the world keep it?

The spider drone is too op and needs a nerf immediately. Not being able to shoot it of your face is ridiculous The mag barrier cool down is too long now, for objective game modes it takes way to long to recharge. It was fine the way it was previously The frame rates on ps5 make the game unplayable There's also some weird sensitivity/ firing delay issue going on when you ADS ( at least that's the case on ps5 anyway) Game in its current state, is infuriating, I'm not spending another second on this game until these issues are fixed. Also its all well and good Mark coming on twitter and being open and honest, but wtf are the QA team over at Xdefiant doing. Like how is stuff being pushed to production unintentionally, i mean they accidentally released a map too early, and they seem to consistently be releasing code which they werent meant to. That is seriously poor from whoever is QAing and pushing things to production for such a massive game.

Were the muzzle booster and rapid fire barrel unintentionally buffing recoil control ever fixed? It definitely increased my recoil as intended when i did controlled testing in the firing range

They're messing up a lot in S1. I was using the Spiderbot yesterday to finish my final faction challenge. After the update, the cooldown timer didn't run for 40s. It ran for 25, TWICE, before I could use it again. I'd watch it count down to 0, only to see it start over at 25 instead of going active. I also, apparently, couldn't use it unless I was holding my tongue right or something. It would just buzz at me instead of deploying until I moved to a different spot. And then it would JUST EFFING STAND THERE sometimes, like it was contemplating the universe. And that's just the bot. The sniper flinch isn't a thing. I shoot a guy in the face with an M-16, all three headshots, I get one-shotted right after. The jumping monkeys can jump 5-6-7 times and still kill you at range. You can't shoot the bot off your face, but one melee takes care of the electrified razorwire. Apparently the block list does absolutely nothing, just like on CoD. I blocked a group of supersweats (AKA cheaters) with TTV or JTV in their names who were obviously squadded up, which I thought I wasn't supposed to have to deal with while playing solo. Twenty minutes later the same 4 guys are on my team. Oh, and you gotta pay them just to unlock the GSK major faction challenge. Forget that. Suckers paying to fully unlock is one thing. I can already see that since it's FTP they're going to nickel and dime every other little thing. I was actually enjoying the game pre-season, less than 12 hours before the update. Season 1, not so much. And WTF is this stupid Ubisoft Connect XP this popup box keeps telling me about? And how am I supposed to use it? (This is all on PS5, btw.)

i find it crazy that the spiderbot , that homes in and with no counterplay that pacifies whoever it jumps on even made it past playtest.

deadsec also refreshes lethals over time so you can use emp on a cooldown of sorts

This game needs to rework the 3 broken abilities. The 3 you’re thinking about right now.

Fun Game: Take a shot every time Ace says “SpiderBot” 😂

If you reach one million subs this year, this would be a great year

I feel like you should get a .5 or 1 second grace period before you get stunned when it latches on, when you can catch it with a melee. Pretty much a quick time event for it

Awesome video, appreciate it

I cant believe spiderbots exist in this game. Theyre not overpowered but lead to undeserved single kills. Being on the receiving end is so frustrating because like you said it interrupts the gameplay flow. I think the quicktime event is a great idea. In addition: 1) reduce the cooldown 2) make the spider a OSK or melee from any weapon 3) put all spiderbots on the map in real time, friendly and enemy, so it makes the user to think when using the ability and also lets the person on the receiving end know where the spider is so they can properly prepare for an encounter

Spider Mine should be reworked to be a stationary mine, to turn it into an anti rushing area denial ability, instead of just a random free kill.

I think if the spider bot did everything except cover the face, it would be fine as is. Maybe less shock time too but you can already still shoot while it’s happening so I don’t know if that would be needed.

So they accidentally programed a useful bug, then accidentally patched this bug and now they bring back the bug. GG😂😂

I've also noticed a bug, but abilities won't trigger either. I've tossed the bot out land it doesnt activate. This has happened on many of my other guys as well. Im not sure if this is purely latency or not but lag has felt like its been getting worse. I used to have a clean connection, 20 ping, very consistent. Now I push 50 with connection delays, frame drops, activation bugs, and worse hit reg. Its so... weird.

I would suggest to change spiderbot fundamentally, just as a shocker to the leg instead of face and then can taking it out by hitting some trigger.

Bro that spiderbot be scaring me just as much as if a spider landed on my face. The panic of knowing you cant do anything about it in the moment 😭

Any plans on doing the shotguns in-depth?

The spiderbot without having a quicktime button press action like BO4's tempest ability is such a major oversight. To be honest, I don't understand who thought releasing it like this was a good and fun idea. This is broken to the point it should be disabled until properly fixed and balanced.

The sentiment of "Willing to deal with things you don't like in a game." needs to be said especially with a game that openly marketed itself to CoD players paranoid about SBMM. I'm glad XDefiant is genuinely fun for people past the honeymoon phase.

9 times out of 10 that I get hit by a spider bot, I'm already in the middle of a gun battle with someone else.

they should just make it find a player and then follow it and make a noise or something. so you can use it as a tracker and you still have to actually fight the enemy

The spiderbot be giving me war flashbacks of Prophets shock mine 😂

i just hope the quick time event isnt also agency removing, it has to be a one hand slap while still being able to shoot

Would be cool if you could order the spider bot to stay in a designated area, giving it more of a defensive utility

Really love going on flanks as it's always been my style but people standing in spawn, throwing the bot and then running to me as I'm stunned with nothing to do

If they add some button press etc it needs to be really hard to pull off. Lots of the other abilities in the game have either no counters, or barely any good ones. You're just as screwed if not more when someone puts down a shield and you loose the gunfights due to that. Or you get scanned/wallhacked and then prefired etc. Keep the possiblity of shooting it of you're face and maybe lower the cooldown to 35 seconds or smth.

I like the idea of just hitting a button to get the spiderbot off tbh

Anyone else have this stupid bug where when you go to use an ability it just completely cancels it and disables the ability for the rest of the game?

Even with a bad patch this game still slaps

Libertad skin challenges are resetting to zero after every match. The bio thing is also becoming inactive randomly during the match. Also, I'm dying a lot more behind walls. Still getting melted it seems in many gun fights...I'm not a great player but I shouldn't die immediately when I'm hitting my shots. So frustrating.

It needs a slight reworking but i dont find it that hard to shoot and destroy. I think making it easier to hear coming would help. But I find every ability frustrating when I'm dying to it. I think its enjoyable to figure out how to outplay the team you are against. If theyre running a bunch of spiderbots there are ways to counter it your team plays smart.

Oof! Everyone was so excited for the buff that every game I played, half or more of the enemy was using them. And I think I was the luckiest on my team to get hit with all of them. It was nearly every 30 seconds. And it was a guaranteed death sentence for me, since I had no counter. With foot-step audio still being useless for me, I can't hear them or the player footsteps, so I'm just annoyed most of the time in games. But I stay because I still want to support the game and the dev team for the good they're trying to do.

Imo spiderbot not as bad as air strafe, but I have not had the time to play season 1 yet so im not sure with the changes. Kbm ability to change direction mid air makes it super cheesy.

Biovida for Libertad faction is bugged where once a game it doesn't activate then won't recharge unless you switch abilities and switch back. If u don't want to run EMPs use a sticky to throw on a wall and walk near it while facing it, the spiderbot will take the damage

Dedsec is a great counter for another reason: unlimited EMP grenades. You keep getting them back with their passive

For the QTE, I hope it’s a random face button, not just square/X like it was in BO4. Adds a little more spice (not a spider user haha)!

They also need to remove the fact that it does damage. It sucks when I’m on like Arena, Dumbo, or even Pueblito or Clubhouse, close quartered maps. I turn a corner kill someone and turn the next corner with low health and have a spider bot suck my soul and then I get triple teamed by sweats. It’s so inconsistent and unnecessary. Game needs more BALANCE

if they do the qte i hope its timing is reasonable. those spiderbots come out of nowhere. in my opinion i think having the ability to melee the bot before it jumps at you and during the effect would be better. also maybe reduce the HP of the bot so it can break in 2-3 shots and make the size of it a bit bigger too?

Holding a button would be more accessible to everyone and would be similar to interactions already in R6 Siege

I think they should just change it to be a heavy slowdown in a certain area or you are stunned in place until you shoot it or it time's out. I would completely remove the whole face grabbing I would completely remove the whole face obscuring part.

Good stuff

I think it should go all together, i understand the reason for it being in the game with it adding a layer of disruption to otherwise linear gunfights but if you see it coming towards you, you know that there is going to be an enemy waiting around the corner so they can get a free kill if you don't shoot it in time. Even with a quick time event it'll add another animation that'll probably only let you hipfire at best while you are stuck performing that animation like the shock drone in BO4, the only ability in the game i dislike

I like the Spiderbots. I'm a Dedsec main. To counter it they should just let you melee it own your face or off teammates face, instead of wasting bullets. Where there's no class that'll drop ammo bag to replenish ammo or 'Nades

That spider is much like the Black Ops 4 ability from Prophet that he will deploy the seeker mine and it will shock you but you press buttons to get the cable off you. thats the same deal with these spiders. some of the abilities we got in XDefiant are reminiscent of Black Ops 4 like Ajax's flash bang. or the sticky grenade that battery had (minus the additional clusters). All we need now is mesh mines much like Nomad. Recon's ability is already in the game with the scan suits. Tell me im wrong on these abilities being in the game in some way (mesh mine is basically the bouncing betty)

Anybody else feel like they would hate the spider bot less if it just strait up killed you?

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spider bot is just too oppressive if you are flanking. If you turn a corner right into one you are completely screwed.. I do agree with Ace were its not so satisfying to use vs the frustration you get when that thing jumps you.

Me personally, I want to give everyone a hug and this is the best way. 😊

yeah but hijack is still bugged... when you die, sometimes you can't use it again until your switch character, die again and switch back... I hope they fix it soon

spiderman is watching this proud

I want a reverse uno button for the spiderbot.

There are alot of abilities that resemble BO 4 again. The sticky bomb (battery), scan ability (Recon), Flashbang (Ajax) Bouncing Betty (Nomad's variation of a mesh mine), Spider (Prophet's seekers) and Libertad healing (Crash). Tell me im wrong

This spider bot only exists to annoy people and half of the time the user doesn’t even take the free kill. Remove the spider bot and replace it with something that actually helps the team. As a broader point, to my knowledge every ability for ever faction helps the users team in some way. Libertad heals, the Cleaners cleans objectives and enemy groups, Phantoms have their magwall, DeadSec can steal abilities, Echelon give their team wallhacks and the KSK lock down objectives. The closest comparison is the Phantom's shield, which at least theoretically can give teammates mobile cover and no one uses it anyway. The spider bot is a selfish ability that MAYBE gives the user a free kill, made even worse by DeadSec having a very powerful alternative ability. If for some reason the bot cannot be removed, it should be nerfed into the ground. Keep the shooting to remove it and make it more consistent, fix the melee counter and maybe add a QTE like Black Ops 4's drone had.

Which faction has the spider bot?

They need to nerf continous bunny hops and the phantoms health still. I played a team of phantoms and that's all they were doing was spamming the bunny hop with no penalties.

The deadsec hack is sort of a god send against spider bots at the moment but is sometimes inconsistent with tagging them.

Honestly the bug to look down was literally the saving grace against spider bot users so idk y they would remove it

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My way to destroy the bots was to shoot straight down right before it hits my face . Or I’d shoot in front of the spider so like shoot in front not at it . Always works . Only had a few times it not take any hitmakrers etc

Personally I feel the Spider-bot is overtuned given how much it does: it locks you in place, obstructs your vision AND it does 60 damage over its duration. The first two are bad enough, but the fact that it can eat up over half your life and it is autoseeking is too much. And finding out that the “counterplay” of shooting them off was a bug tells me that the devs didn’t think this through. Some people mentioned Prophet’s Seeker Drone from COD, but even then it was balanced better: it only stunned you, didn’t do damage, didn’t block vision and had an actual QTE to nullify it as counterplay, and there were still complaints about it. I honestly think they need to get rid of or severely drop the damage, and have either the QTE to stop it attaching or leave the previous counterplay in. Doing that would justify a shorter cooldown, because even with a longer cooldown as it is now (or at least should be), without any consistent counterplay it just feels cheap.

I think a skill check similar to dead by daylight would be a good way to deal with it. Hit the skill check it comes off. Miss the skill check and it stays on. That way both sides have the chance of things going how they want

The spiderbot should attach to the player's legs instead of the face and it should only take away the ability to move quickly and aim down sights. The player should still be able to hipfire, switch weapons, reload, use abilities/equipment, and move at 1/2 their regular walking speed. They should also be able to look down and shoot the spider bot off their legs. Alongside these changes the spiderbot should deploy similarly to how the incendiary drone deploys, going straight forward for ~15 feet. Once it reaches 15 feet or encounters an obstacle it will run around randomly like it normally does. I believe these changes would result in a much more fun experience for everyone involved. Skilled players would be able to outplay the spiderbot and spiderbot users would have a useful tool in their arsenal to attack objectives and throw enemies off their game. As it stands currently, the spiderbot is annoying for both the user and the victim.

The moment I hear that face hugger coming I’m throwing my EMP. Without question! And that’s worked just fine for me. And well I just face my except my faith if there’s another one.😂😂

when shooting in CQB legit frames jitter , MASSIVE issue to the point its unplayable hope they fix it

Even the Cleaners Firebomb is awful, it just gives you free kills.

I like the spider bot especially for that OP echelon special

All the burst weapons are bugged bro with their burst delay and input delay. Can you please put this into the light

Sounds like the mosquito in COD. It will just hover until it finds someone. Then boom.

I don’t see why they don’t do things like spiderbot can’t detect people using ghillie suit while it’s active or can’t attach through the phantom blitz shield

Glad they fixing that now if we can just get the intel suit to just work for the one person instead of the whole team lol