The GSK passive is going to be massive for headglitching wheter you attacking/defending objectives

They could simply change the intel suit to only the person using it can see the people or limit the amount of players per team that can select that character.

It appears that you can no longer shoot the spiderbot off of your face. I have been hugged by many spiderbots tonight and I couldn't shoot even a single one off of my face.

PSA: Apparently you need to activate the challenge for unlocking GSK, or your score won't count towards the 700 000 score required! (I noticed this when it still said "0/700000" after a couple of matches)

2:10 I’ve been kicked for inactivity at least twice. There’s definitely a timer.

Would have taken a flat jacket passive instead of the "no headshot"

Really need the shotgun's consistency to be improved

I play on PS5, has anybody else been suffering frame rate drops with the new patch?

Ive seen alot of people whine about the headshot passive but i think its cool that a game actually made balistic helmets actually stop a fucking bullet.

Easiest way to balance the Intel suit is to make it ping the players. You can still see them through walls but you can’t track the like a wall hack. Ping them every 4 seconds like a submarine sonar.

The Biovida is bugged! You can only use it like 3 times in a match and then it's greyed out no matter what you do for the rest of the match.

Wooo more xdefiant content!!

Bunny hooping is still ridiculous overpowered and need's a proper nerf

Showing my support. Thanks for the good work you put out for this game so far!

Pretty excited for "additional crash fixes"

Right when I needed it, my man!

The amount of times I've ALREADY headshot the sht out of a GSk and lost the gunfight with them at less then 10hp is INFURIATING! And for some odd reason I'm dying even further behind cover then ever before!!! Love the game, but GOT DAM SON! AND yall be careful the sweats are out HARD today!

Looking forward to hopping on after I get off work!!

I’ve had multiple games in a row where I can’t call in the radar ability and where my grenades don’t explode while using the same faction

Kinda sucks they accidentally removed the kill counter to let you know what kill streaks you are on.

As someone who often is "that guy" with the spider bot. I have played deadsec a lot more than any other faction, and only 2 games or so with highjack. Even I think they buffed the spiderbod too much! And this has nothing to do with the patch notes - but something that I find very problematic! Mark is on record for saying something along the lines of "There will be no stealth nerfs or buffs, we will tell you about everything" But here we have a significant change to gameplay, and I have seen almost no one talk about it, and certainly nothing from the Xdefiant team about it! It used to be, if the spider bot jumped you, you could look down, shoot, and get it off that way. Even that would still take you of the game a bit, but a lot less than if you waited and let it do its thing. Now this don't work. So when I as a deadsec follow my spiderbot around and it jumps someone, I know they are fucked! Then add they wont ignore ppl because they jumped them before, and wont be wasted if a teammate also have the bot. Adds up to a huge buff! And even though I cant send out as many as I used to, 40 second cooldown, still leaves me a lot of bots to send out. I know. You can shoot it if you see/hear it, some say you can even melee it if times right, you can emp and hack. But often you are sprinting around this game, and you meet it right at a corner with no way to react. I really the feel the oportunity to shoot it off was nice, even if it wasn't a planned feature, it was something we all learned to do, and a good way to do it. They could also add some button mash combo you had to push to grap it off your face and throw it away. I have never really chimed in on the whine about spiderbot, because while annoying, it wasn't as bad as ppl often made it out to be - but now... Now I am on team "Fuck spiderbot"

For echelon I think they should have kept it the same cooldown. But for friendlies they should have changed it to just a map scan. Or change it to a snapshot like valorant scans, instead of a tracking scan.

My biggest thing is I just wish there were more challenges

Looking forward to trying out the new content.

Thank you for covering this game. I used to watch you when I played COD but don't like the new COD games so I have missed you. Hope you're doing well.

Does the end of match xp even matter? Ooohhh my number went up. It means nothing

No matter how many nerfs you hit Spiderbot with, people are still going to use it until hijack can affect most abilities. Hijack is vicious against GSK but useless against Echelon, Cleaners, and ehh, against Libertad and Phantoms.

Im so sad Search and Destroy did not make it.

S1 looks awesome

I somehow got into a match of CTF on Rockefeller and that map is something else, probably the most fun I had since the game came out!

New content is great, but there are 2 huge issues. 1) New bugs with the update: • Several abilities glitch out almost every match and won't recharge for the rest of the match. I've had this with Intel Suit and BioVida today, which are the only abilities I used. • Spider Bot can't be shot from your face once again. • Significant frame drops on PS5. • Increased game crashes on PC. 2) The competitive side of the game is underwhelming: • Ranked has some maps and modes that are not suitable for competitive play. • There is no Faction Draft, which I expected to be a no-brainer. No-one wants to play competitive with 8 Phantoms. • Top ranks have a max party limit of 2, which makes no sense for a teamwork focused game. • Custom games are still not here, which means that competitive teams can't practice or compete.

My inspect button is not working

I think a good change to the spider bot would be. Instead hugging the face it should wrap around your leg and disable your sprinting and jumping.

I was using the M-16 after patch maybe it was just me it seemed weaker or not shooting as fast

Honestly as someone who mained Zero in BO4 seeing hijack buffed for Dedsec makes me happy

Damn that faction got that new helmet from the acolyte.

Why did they remove the headshot multiplier for the Faction from the game with a one shot headshot 😅

Phantom ult can no longer destroy another phantom ult in one shot and maybe a glitch but rn sometimes the ult cant break the mag barrier, spiderbot can no longer be taken out shooting the floor, rapid fire on the ar's are still glitched, the flash will be black but still white from the afterimage, to get the new operator you have to select it to do the challange and idk if its me but it feels like AimAssist feels much more sticky

they also removed the killstreak counter unless I’m mistaken but I didn’t see it in game

Flippin finally a head shot icon I the kill feed. Been asking or it since day 1

Man I started using the dude who has the phone for the damn spider bots

Ya know.. I genuinely forgot XDefiant was a thing until my PS5 notified me that XDefiant had finished updating 😂😂

I love using the spiderbot so much fun

Have you noticed that they have fixed the rapid fire attachments on the ARs or not?

my connection got way worse and I also some games cannot use my Ability like the BioVida Boost. I have to change the fraction lol. The countdown/cooldown just gets missing

I think there is a kick counter. Ive seen it one time or another. 😬

Been using the LVOA-C a fair amount and it seems like there might be a bug to do with the attachments that impact vert and horizontal recoil, e.g- using the muzzle brake decreases horizontal recoil as intended but increases the magnitude of the vert recoil quite significantly. Also, does anyone know if the rapid fire bug has been patched too?

They added Bandit, Jager and Blitz's abilities from R6 lets goo haha

I've been a Hijack main since i unlocked it week 1, and have been waiting for some help. its so incredibly useful when the right situation arises. However, bc of the cooldown it always feels better to hold it for a worse situation. I have counted in TOTAL only 3 other players in any of my games so far playing hijack as well (lvl 75 ive played a bit) For those unfamiliar with the power behind Hijack, its not as simple as it sounds. When you use the Hijack ability it will hack EVERY HACKABLE PLACEMENT IN LOS (line of sight) In an escort match I had run into a full mag barrier squad and managed to hack 4 of those walls with one hack on a couple occasions. Needless to say each time 4 of their placements became mine.... my team swept those poor souls 😂

Anyone else having performance issues on ps5?

Aches is a big fan of you, I’m sure you’ll get a creator code.

I haven't played just yet since I got stuff I need to do and also one other game from 2016 was on sale (Its called SUPERHOT for anyone who is curious, great game. 10/10 IMHO) so I had to play that again, but I also think the GSK passive is just gonna be freaking OP and needs not a nerf, but just a complete change. Removing headshots from all guns is just simply stupid. No other way to put it frankly. Only way I could see it even remotely working is by making some add health thing to it like 10 extra points to the head, but even then the better ability would of just been something like a Tac Mask or Flak Jacket thing. Not a complete removal of being able to deal headshots to those players. Headshots should always be something that is rewarded, and its already bad enough with Phantoms with certain guns. But snipers in particular should always be a one shot kill to the head. I just don't see this working and honestly for competitive play this is even more stupid. Hope they switch that around in the future.

Great that activating the 2X XP work like Battlefield. New season looks great but the matchmaking isnt really doing it lately, sometimes its severely off balance.

liked and a comment for the xdefiant algorithm

Enemy footsteps location seem better, unless they're above/below you lol

Have the rapid fire barrel and muzzle been fixed yet?

3:10 ace mate let me fix that up for you it's a jager ads from r6 siege

Faster battle pass progression is major cap... in pre season I could get up to half a level after a good match (without 2x battle pass XP), now I'm going 50 in 6 and get less than 1/5th of a level...

Stealth Nerf: The Phantoms energy shotgun in his ult seems to have shorter range.

Yes sir

I am going to hold off playing this game more, I am waiting till it's more ironed out. They still haven't added prestige mode yet as well, it's still being worked on

Been having a very frequent bug since the season 1 update. Almost every game my faction ability will be greyed out and unusable. I can use it maybe once or twice in a game, and then it won't let me use it for the rest of the game. I noticed it happens more often with the Echelon faction

05:00 The "WEEEEEEE" Ace button you were looking for

Thinking about playing this until black ops 6. Does it get boring quick?

when i hopped on, my game was stuttering quite a lot and dropping frames, not drastically but enough to be annoying and disturb when tracking, was wondering if anyone else has that?? it was completely fine right before the season launched. also i think there's been yet another change to weapon levelling no?

Might just be me but i hope they make the shield deployment for phantoms able to shot through but with reduced damage because nobody even uses them for obj and just uses it to get a cheesy win in gunfights.

Very excited!! Great changes in my opinion

the most problems i have are hackkers and leavers. Sooo many times i get headshoted by a sniper when i was shooting them , and people can leave and get 0 penalty, people doesnt care about the exp so they just leave if they see they are loosing

I would like to see a damage drop off for the smgs as they can outgun most weapons in mid range due to their higher rate of fire

Spam jumping still needs looked at, I honestly think that the sweet spot is two jumps them penalty sway sets in, not three then penalty.

I get kicked if im afk all the time. There are instances where i dont wait to get back the main menu and step away from my pc cuz i got sidetracked. Come back to a notification on the main menu saying i got kicked for inactivity

They destroyed the MK SSR. You now have to pull the trigger at exactly its fire rate's speed, otherwise it won't register. Most incosistent gun i've ever used.

So, the "nerf" to mid air directional changes while bunny hopping was definitely them having a laugh? Or did I miss where they made a single mid air directional change cost your accuracy dearly?

Changes seem decent. I wish they could slightly buff the damage for the M4A1, MP5 and the pump action shotgun as they can all seem weak at times. Also, I wish they could do it where there is a max of one faction ability per player (so there isn't a spam of Intel Suits and Spider Bots every game). I don't like the fact that the GSK faction doesn't receive a 1 shot kill from snipers. Maybe this was done to counter snipers, maybe especially quickscoping, but all I see it doing is creating inconsistent situations. :/ I also wonder how the connection is after this update, if it got any better.

the gsk passive is just stupid... it makes no sense that certain guns deal LESS damage on headshots, not to mention that this is the opposite of how r6 siege plays, where 1 headshot=instant death, makes sense... I thought IQs ability opf seeing equipment through walls wouldve made a whole lot more sense.

The game feels really bad right now for some reason. I have massive framedrops, get shot around corners way more then before. The game felt way better before the update

There’s an afk timer I’ve been kicked a couple times and the only annoying ability is the spider bot

Has anyone had sniper flinch before being shot? I had that happen a few times or so it seemed

I think GSK would feel better if you can deploy the wire quicker, it takes 2 melees to take one out, and you only get 2 charges

Hey ace do you know anything about bad fps drops on ps5?

I got put into a game on Rockefeller? Anyone else ?

Great update. Only issue is that the game is litterlay unplayable on PS5. Got shot so many times around a corner and everytime im in a gun fight my frames drop to like 15. Hope they fix that soon.😅

FOUR BARRELS FOUR BARRELS FOUR BARRELS FOUR BARRELS

The irony of the GSK taking less headshot damage. For those who remember old siege before the hitbox changes

Gsk headshot multiplayer is amazing i do not have them unlocked and ive noticed myself aiming for the head only to lower my shots back onto the chest to hit a bigger target then going back to the head for other factions it makes the headshot meta be a conscious thing now and though slightly changes how i play and i enjoy that slight change its honestly cool to see how i react when 2-3 enemies are nearby and i have to change from headshots to body shots cuz of 1 gsk player

Wait, Battle Pass tiers require less exp? I mean, I'm not going to complain but I blitzed through the pre season's pass without double exp in like 4 days. It's probably because the earnable weapons are pretty spaced out.

This is a good season.

The lack of a changes to how echelon wallhack works is pushing me away from this game . For real who got an idea to make this work for A WHOLE TEAM . Footsteps were too loud before S1 and I've got a feeling they buff it even further headphones gives heavy advantage and I can't use headphones as I suffer fatigue from sound that my character make moving around I just can't play in headphones in this game . I'm giving up on this game for Fev months if they sort out their problems I'll be back .

Yo they didn't fix the emp challenge bug😢

Would have been nice to get a hardcore mode or at least a mode with less health

So whats going on with the broken fire rate attachments? They must know about it surely

To be honest, I think it is still very much a early we should not criticize. We should let it develop naturally but I do like the gameplay loop in dom and everything that is done with the game. But the Spider-bot man but I wish the M4 was buffed like higher damage higher everything but more recoil tbh I wonder if they will be a battle Royale x defiant type thing maybe they can bring back old Warzone but that’s a big stretch I wish they would add more guns and perks to the game and a bigger more complicated gunsmith I wish they would add more stuff to it

Well. I told myself I would play season 0, and then leave if they don't drastically change the Intel suit. 10 seconds ain't drastic enough. I'll be back next nerf. Thanks ace!

anyone else getting latency issues now? also, anyone else notice that a lot of the sweaty players are running phantoms? Edit: TDM is in the game, they have it on the next page…

They really cooked with this update, but they still need to focus on fixing the issues where players get shot through walls/cover or the damage ramp-up due to desync though. Shame they didn't nerf/rework the firebomb wich to some people (including me) is more frustrating sometimes than spider-bot.

Has there been any word on making objective score apply to weapon xp? I love playing objectives but it feels unrewarding to do so when all that counts for your gun is kill xp.

guys...ithink...ithink we're witnessing the beginning of something that might tip the scale...could Co....nvm.. .....

they couldve nerfed the acr and mp7 but nooo fuck with the snipers for no reason the only plus side that came from this is the removal of downwards flinch

Man I'm torn between "Wow, the new camos look nice" and "I want my firearm to look like a normal firearm"

Netcode and Phantoms are still my biggest gripes with this game. Their healthpool is massive by comparison, and it's insane how many shots it takes to down ONE of them if you're not sniping and away from the objective. I've also had multiple insta down situations (with ar/smgs), while on my end, I'm dumping headshots, and it still takes a while to down someone.