That’s exactly what I was thinking yesterday. I was like: „why am I even playing this“. It’s truly such a lame game

My god the FPS genre is stuck in a rut, just the same old shit in slightly different package

Why does every game have to have some dumb skills for the operators? I'm not interested in playing that kind of game. Why can't someone just make a traditional decent fps game. Always this hero shit

I've played 4 hours of it today, and I'm already over it. Looks like I'll just go back to playing Battlefield 4 or something until the next Battlefield releases. Hoping that it's not trash

The recipe is simple: small/medium maps with classic 3 line cod design, easy gunplay, a lot of customization, streaks ( especially a nuke ), free to play, no sbmm, no hero bullshit abilities, no pay to win. Thats it you have yourself a "cod killer".

The Finals "dead as a doornail"?😅 No problem getting a match in any game mode almost instantly atm.

the whole hero-ability-shooter stuff is killing the FPS franchise. this industry is FUBAR..

Xdefiant looks like a mobile game feels like a mobile gane and plays like a mobile game

ah man… it wasn’t just 5-6 months ago…. the last test was 10 months ago in june 😭😭😭😭

the only selling points this game has going for it are no SBMM in casual playlist and communication and "transparency" from the devs

Sadly, I gotta agree.

"I can place a shield and have a DMR that 2 taps anyone across the map" *Titanfall 2 Hardwall Scout flashbacks*

The Inertia when a d strafing is so wierd

After the last test were biggest problem was hit detection, we now delayed the game around a year but didnt fix hit detection. We made even worse. After this test we now know see its still a problem, so we have to delay and do nothing, again.Sincerely Ubisoft

But what isn’t mediocre…….the finals.

6:08 Enders Morty can’t hurt you, he isn’t real! Enders Morty:

It’s stale and boring. 120 health, snipers, bunny hop spam, hit detection or lack thereof, bullets around ten feet of corners, tiny maps, and your wonderful recoding is mind boggling Ubisoft.

The M4A1 took 7 bullet to kill chest in 10 metres. Which kinda unbelievable horrendously

6/10 was my exact same review. I knew this game wasn’t for me when I went 28-4 and felt nothing. I didn’t feel good because the game itself doesn’t feel good. I like that it’s reminiscent of older CoD but it feels like a butchered version of old CoD. Mobile game graphics, terrible movement riddled with bugs on terrible servers. It’s close to being a good game but this build of it isn’t the best it could be at all.

Looks like all those korean mmofps CoD clones.

im curious for your thoughts on the out of action game only has a demo but i think its a nice fps feel with it, only made by one person too!

I think they should have skipped the goofy fortnite crap, sadly that seems to be standard in every FPS today, skins that cater towards underaged children.

FUCKING THANK YOU. I've been waiting for someone with a brain to call out this game's issues.

I tried the game again today since the April Beta in 2023... Uninstalled during my 2nd match. I genuinely don't know why people enjoy this game, this has got to be the most copium inducing, honeymoon phasing game I have ever played with the fanbase acting like it is going to kill COD as well as be the Helldivers 2 of the FPS genre. I'm sorry to talk truth, but it's not!

Ubisoft always disappoints

Which the best fps game to buy or downloed plz ❤🙏🏻 and why

Ubisoft motto is ''Painfully Mediocre''

This game had promise, then they missed their launch window by a year or more, and somehow made the game worse than it was during the beta I played LAST YEAR. I was excited for this game, but it has slowly turned into a complete lack of interest. This game will be DOA unless major changes are made to the experience.

The Finals has 18,483 playing right now, how is it "dead as a door nail" exactly?

Felt exactly the same weird crap yesterday while playing ( on PC, mouse + kbd ), hit register, dying around the corners or even behind the covers, if you stand still and shoot, you are dead, if you move and shoot, recoil pattern feels randomized every damn time. While other people are literally laser tagging me. 15 minutes after the launch, one or two players from the enemy team are already having between 40 and 50 kills, like come on, that's not legit. Flamethrower gun is a total nonsense, as well as firing bullets and drones... Game almost identical to the one 6 months ago, and there's way too much things to fix at first, and than balance the game and remove stuff that do not belong to an FPS.

I felt like that last night, seemed exactly like the last time I played, and I can't put my finger on it but the aiming feels oddly jerky and not smooth. I was excited because they talk about all these changes they've made and then you play it and it feels exactly the same.

Ngl I still want to play this on release

I think it's safe to say that the industry is creatively bankrupt at this point, at least in the AAA departament.

shatterline was shit, worse netcode than any fps ever.

"A Ubisoft game" xD what did you guys expect. Ubisoft literally one of the most garbage game companies out there

The game is just another controller paradise hero shooter that has a cod fliter on it

Let’s face it, generic sells… and it’s free

3 days since launch and this is still true...a painfully mediocre and generic borefest

This might be the sweatiest game I’ve ever played. No SBMM so where are the casuals? Every lobby is virgin neckbeards going 50/2.

I tried to give the game a chance but there’s too many gadgets involved in every gunfight to be enjoyable.

The bunny skins will be a nice touch once they get the store up and running.

2 new cods prob a new bf before they launch this thing

I think we gotta face it games may never be as good as they were 10 years ago. If we do end up being good its gonna be 10 years from now. The hero gadget gameplay I'm over it they need to keep that on valorant. At least battlefield pushed the player count to 64v64 and I assume that will be the staple large scale that they will stick with so I'm excited for the next game. Everyone was hype for this game but it looks shit IMO and maybe competitive games could be cool to watch but I don't see this game sticking. People growing up that wanted to be game designers are now designing our games for a quick cash grab. I don't see any passion anymore

Being forced to play counters is annoying. If someone runs x and then you must run y or lose hard, this just sucks. It's not good balance to force people into specific skills, gadgets, heroes, whatever.

Can I Play xdefiant on ps4?

Im not sure how it managed to get worse, netcode is so bad for me

well I think I'll go back squashing some bugs on helldivers2...

Ah, the spider bot that made me Alt+F4 and uninstall the entire Ubisoft launcher :)

2024… when people start complaining when games copy the good bits from other games 😂 C’mon man, seriously?

2 shots in the chest like the fucking SVK of 2042 -_-

That title… so it’s perfect for Cod players!

man, shatterline had so much promise :(

Why does every modern shooter have to feature annoying broken unfun to play against Le Epic abilities

Try to make a simple fps game challenge is impossible in 2024

The art direction for this game is so poor as well. Every other room is just a mish mash of styles with no coherent or overarching theme for the maps themselves. Just makes the game look ugly and doesn't help with visibility either. Even something like Shatterline (or as you said Gundam Evolution) fares much better in that regard.

i'm in the position that i havent had a good fps game in a lone time (COD, apex, battlefield, overwatch ect) I think Xdefiant feels different, Arcady and fun. Even when i lost games i still had a good time. I think i'm lucky i didn't have any issues in any of my games. But yeah i genuinely enjoyed myself. I will say this playtest is my first time playing it.

How do you rate BF 2042, if you rate XDefiant 5.5? 🤔

I could played it yesterday it said error MIKE 01

If you spam jump you win what a waste of opportunity

Im having fun!

ITS OUT???

I agree with your recent tweet, Shatterline was better and I, too, am so done with hero shooters. This new generation of hyper-monetized yet low quality releases has to be the worst that has ever happened to gaming.

Yes there was desync issues . They have implemented new netcode build from scratch that's why this server test session for to test it on large scale it was obvious it will have issues like this . At least ppl who understand what it mean having system build from scratch stresstested first time on large scale

It’s cod made by Ubisoft right?

See I have the same view for different reasons... Objectives - It's just... overwatch... like almost all of it's modes are watered down versions of Overwatch missions. But atleast Overwatch knows that you can't force 2 escort missions back to back on a casual playlist... they save that for competitive so that non-ranked games don't become tedious slog fests. Heroes - It's one of the most lack luster rosters for the 'hero shooter' genre... and I don't even meen in choices. I like the factions thematically and on paper the concepts are cool... however... HOWEVER in practice they're pretty bland and there are some that are just out of the box unbalanced and they've known about it for the last couple play tests and did NOTHING... yet some how they are the most responsive dev team in the FPS genre according to some... Mechanics - It's just a CoD clone outside of the objectives and factions. I understand not every title needs to innovate... but... the genre has been stagnant for about 10 years now which is why it gets so much backlash. Being CoD isn't good anymore... you need to be better... or atleast different. SBMM - Now I do not like the SBMM that has existed post Cold War (I never played cause I stopped playing CoD after BO3 but I keep up with gaming news). The current CoD SBMM is a PROBLEM. But removing it is also a problem. SBMM on it's own isn't bad... despite what some people want you to think. Having a STRICT sbmm is the problem... BO2 and MW2 struck a nice balance and even the Welcome Playlist in xDef struck a nice balance... but once I got off that SBMM playlist I stopped having fun... not because I started getting stomped... I would go negative but because CoD kiddos don't understand objectives I would get 1000+ ob score and win most of my matches I had something like a 4.0 win rate with a 2.0 k/d when I uninstalled this game... no the lack of SBMM drains me... I have to constantly compete with super sweats and I have to try my a** off in a game that until this point was fun and casual... once the Welcome Playlist went away... it got boring. Every match was full of echelon. Every match was 4-5 chuckle f@@ks running around not doing the objective and farming kills. SBMM in this game made it fun for actual casual players... the removal of it turned it into a boring slog. Since uninstalling the game I have returned to Valorant and had SO MUCH more fun with a unique objective based gamemode (Though having only 1 mode is... tedious...), I enjoy the actual diversity in kits despite only having 5 or 6 different types of abilities (Smokes, blinds, heals, traversal, turrets). MY ONLY complaint about Valorant is a little looser of an SBMM... too many of my games do I stomp and then all the sudden get inept children on my team vs an Immortal derank and it's just a garunteed loss because the SBMM forced it upon me. Even the game I enjoy more is not without issues but Valorant and even Overwatch are better examples of the game that xDefiant is trying to be.

Just yesterday I was thinking about downloading the game for the playtest. Even if I had watched this video without sound I wouldn't download now (except all my friends were going to). As an artist I have to say it doesn't even look compelling.

Hey enders wanna try playing enlisted? It's a free ww2 fps game

I just don’t why games like these get hype up then as time goes on. The games don’t get attention anymore. It’s like a waste of money and time to make multiplayer online games that won’t skyrocket from other well known games

"The COD killer" lol

3:55 that’s exactly what I’ve been doing in XDefiant 🤷🏻‍♂️

Ubisoft called it original whereas they just made a overwatch game but even more movement and horrendous maps. Overwatch at least had some decent maps and characters to play this has non. Played two rounds with 3kd and already bored FFS. Ubisoft pls make an actual game bro 🤦

I played this playtest for about 15 minutes and its really Meh. I got really fed up of getting 1 shotted by every sniper rifle

Couldn't agree more and it feels DOA

The maps are solid with good cover and ranked is 4v4. You were given everything as well in the play test. The game is solid and fun to play it might not be a main game for a lot of people but will be a game people come back to to play often

Game not even out but already dead damn that must be some kind of achievement

They can always fix it in patch notes. It's a ok game but man I can not get hits on target to save my life. It's very clumsy feeling.

Why Do They Keep Making Hero Shooters

Playing this game made me appreciate The Finals again.

I agree I played 2 rounds and then deleted it off my PC, really badly let down at how slow paced it was in my opinion!

Invisibility just doesn't belong in PvP, one of the main reasons I don't really bother with The Finals is because of invisibility.

Played it for 4 or 5 hours last night and dealt with the exact same issues you brought up. It just feels so wonky. It's not fluid enough and correct me if I'm wrong, but it sure feels like they increased TTK on some weapons. M4 being one of them. IDK. Then, you go watch people playing it on PS5 and it looks like the game is running amazingly and their characters are moving at Apex speed or faster. I'm sick and tired of investing time and money into PC gaming, upgrading parts, building new PC's etc., to turn around and watch a god damn console be more optimized. It's a slap in the face to the gamers that are on the very platform that they use to create these freaking games. It's getting old AF.

The create a class is what is too basic. No overkill... ffs

The hardest of facts

This game crashed and burned before its official release.

I don't understand why they pretty much copied bo4/bo2 type game. And every game is doing abilities now lmao like wtf

Jesus it’s the demo who knows what can happen next time

And it has Ubitrash servers, the worst servers known to man.

Had more fun in Shatterline and Combat Arms (a mobile PC port 💀)

Shot a guy 2 times "at least" from 10 meters with sniper without hitmarker😂 Multiple times… And other times killing people that i shouldn’t be killing at all😂

This game is actually fun. I dropped a video on KZfaq and it felt fresh playing it. Attachments on guns are nice, most game modes are fun and mechanics are pretty fluid for a beta. Take time to appreciate games and look at the potential. You don’t know if they will implement different changes or not when it drops. That might be why they took a year to postpone it. The finals in my opinion was such a bad game and died out so fast. I truly feel like people will play this game. We’ll see though.

Hit detection goes a little rogue sometimes and spawns are a little janky. Overall its a fun game to play, the abilities and ultras feel good except phantom ultra. Its an original arcade shooter with great gunplay and movement. I feel like 85% of the people that say this game is just bad are crying because they're too used to COD and expect this game to kill COD. Ive had the more fun on this game in a weekend than the last 3 years of COD.

I mean Xdefiant is from Ubisoft... that company hasn't known how to do ANYTHING even coming within lightyears of original for well over a decade. It's almost an entire prerequisite to be a Ubisoft game that you do absolutely nothing that at least 10 other things haven't done before.

exactly how i felt, mobile port vibes.

Guess I'll go back to playing battlefield 4

The abilities are so op with some of the characters, plus where is tdm. Maybe add a s&d style game mode. I got a lot of kills but really wasn't enjoying the limited movement. All the KZfaq people were hyping this up like it was a cod killer

The maps are fresh

At least there is no sbmm

Ultimately everyone is tired of the cod,bf,halo, etc and just want something that can be the next big thing. This game more then likely just won’t be out

I was hopeful for a long time but it’s been such a troubled ride I just wish them the best at this point. Typical Ubisoft bs…

The lag is bad in this game. To me it just feels like an Ubisoft version of black ops 2