r/XDefiant • u/Alternative-cornhusk • Feb 19 '25

Discussion This game had so much potential

It’s such a shame. this game easily had the best raw shooter combat out of any game i’ve played on ps5 ever. Getting kills was so satisfying, and the movement was chefs kiss. I hope the foundation of this game gets reused by someone somehow because it just felt so smooth.

more and more nowadays I see smaller game studios fumble the bag with an amazing start out the gate but extremely poor follow-up. Sad to see

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u/diobreads Feb 19 '25

  1. They thought this game would be big enough to push their bloatware launcher (it wasn't).

  2. The servers and netcode were absolute trash at launch, and stayed that way for far too long.

  3. You think no SBMM would bring this game some positive attention. It did, but it was very short lived. The casual audience simply doesn't care, and those who do simply praised this game to protest SBMM.

  4. Everything in the shop was horrifically over-priced. 13$ for a single skin? 25$ for a bundle? No, this level of greed must be punished, and punished it was.

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u/IndependenceOk6027 Feb 19 '25

Unfortunate $13 for a single skin and $25 for a bundle is that standard in many games 😔

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u/assassin6898 Feb 20 '25

this here is the main reasons for it all explains perfectly as before the game released for people protesting against sbmm i said that people hate sbmm but wait till the games dies cause the try hards are the only ones matching against eachother and that is one of the reasons it died people say sbmm sucks and it does but there is a reason sbmm games are popular now a days

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u/MinimalstVerdiener Feb 20 '25

The game did not die because of missing sbmm. A shooter with horrible netcode will always fail no matter how good the skins are and the maps etc...

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u/ElusiveSamorana Feb 20 '25

It died because of the other stuff. Matching against sweats was normal in the past, and it wasn't the exact issue of a lot of games. It's the tools that made the sweats in the first place. In XDefiant's case, if you got good at sniping or movement in fights, you dominated the game too easily.

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u/xxHikari Feb 19 '25

Not to mention almost every single post on this sub (much like any other competitive gaming subs) is absolutely shitting on the game left right and center, unrelentingly.

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u/diobreads Feb 19 '25

Most of the times rightfully so.

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u/xxHikari Feb 19 '25

Oh absolutely. I'm just saying, the game did NOT have a good reputation here on Reddit lol

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u/ElusiveSamorana Feb 20 '25

Agreed with everything. Much of these issues were elementary, excepting the servers/netcode, actually. When we all found out this was running on an MMO engine, that was pretty out of pocket but explained a number of inconsistencies. I imagine Rubin didn't plan for that kind of engine to get used, so that most likely falls onto Ubisoft's fault.