150°

XDefiant Closed Beta Announcement

Ubisoft writes" We're excited to announce the XDefiant Closed Beta! We've learned a lot through our Insider Session program over the last year and are ready to open the doors wider.

Let's get the biggest news out of the way- this test will have NO NDA. We know many of you are excited to create content for XDefiant, and you will be able to start Day 1 of the Closed Beta. Additional details are below, and we will be updating more as we get closer to the Closed Beta date.

Server Opens - April 13th @ 10 AM PT

Server Closes - April 23rd @ 11 PM PT"

monkey602798d ago

Oh wow! I thought they'd killed this thing!

KyRo797d ago (Edited 797d ago )

Ubi have fallen from grace but with the state of CoD right now and the backlash it's getting from casuals and even it's most loyal content creators, now is best time for any company to try and make a COD rival. People are even flocking to a Roblox creation that's a knock off of COD. It's got that bad and I'm one of those who still plays CoD

ThichQuangDuck797d ago

I agree with rival but you can't rival someone while cloning them for the most part. Like Ubi needs to play ot their strengths rather than imitate others. Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow, chaos Theory aysmetric Multiplayer was the future . Creed multiplayer we see in games like Deceive Inc. Ghost Recon could fill the void left by Socom. I just don't know if on their first fps multiplayer venture like this they will or can dethrone Call of Duty. Rainbow Six Vegas 1 and 2 also great third person. Like Siege is booming but on the side they could have dropped another Vegas like first person, third person cover game.

Whatever someone creates to join the likes of fortnite, call of duty, apex needs community support which often is a map creator or allowing them to make game modes or find the true fun.

Inverno797d ago

May as well announce it's shutting down date too, cause we all know it'll die in a year.

Dirtnapstor797d ago

I got an invite for an alpha playthrough. It wasn't half bad. Gunplay was tight. Maps provided some good gameplay.
As with any f2p, they'd better really bring it if they want gamers to stay onboard.

60°

“It Feels Like We [Were] Just Making Up the Rules,” Ubisoft Insider Details XDefiant Development

We recently spoke to one of the embedded QA testers who worked on XDefiant, and they detailed what the development process was like and how the team hated the Hot Shot game mode.

Read Full Story >>
gamesandwich.com
telgou1d 14h ago

Who approved this article, this site has a fake cloudflare page that tells you to run a powershell command !!!

130°

XDefiant and former CoD lead quits the games industry after Ubisoft killed their shooter

Mark Rubin, the lead designer of Ubisoft’s now-dead free-to-play shooter XDefiant, has left the games industry following his project’s death.

Goodguy017d ago

Going to ubisoft was your mistake

TheColbertinator5d ago

So much wrong with Xdefiant. At one point they started using the worst ideas for their game and FPS fans saw it in the previews.

SpacedDuck5d ago

No offense but if Xdefiant represents your best the industry is better off for it.

thorstein5d ago

"We had other issues though as well that we tried to be transparent about. For one we had crippling tech debt using an engine that wasn’t designed for what we were doing...Another issue we had was having the right resources to make content for the game."

Ubi set them up for failure out of the gate. And he says they had stuff in the pipes that should have been at launch means Ubi rushed it out and the devs didn't.

Show all comments (6)
60°

Here's a reminder of all XDefiant refunds you can get as the game shuts down

Ubisoft multiplayer XDefiant has only one day left until servers are shut down, leaving players a short time to claim refunds.

jjb198110d ago

I knew it was DoA. They had their chance when the entire community hated MW3. It bounced back and did a dropshot 360 no-scope on XDefiant. That was it.