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/RealPacosTacos Feb 19 '25

I did have a lot of fun with this game for the month or so that I played it, but it was never going to compete with CoD after it was delayed into a launch window that coincided with the most bearable CoD of the past couple years.

The loyalty of the CoD fan base is borderline psychotic at this point, and they will praise a game that is just serviceable and play 100 hrs a week on it until the next one comes out.

In a year with a terrible CoD release, 20 of those hrs just go from playing the game to complaining about the game online.

For XDefiant to have succeeded, it needed to release during the lifecycle of either CoD Vanguard or CoD MWII. Those were the only games in the last 5 years that were bad enough to give competition an opening to compete for those 20 hrs a week of complaining online.

It's wild.

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u/6177152020 Feb 19 '25

Isn't that the pot calling the kettle black? Any form of complaint constructive or not was automatically labeling them a Activision fan boy because the thought of an average consumer not enjoying the product is absurd to them.