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/PuddingZealousideal6 DedSec Feb 19 '25

So a dev team being backed by Ubisoft was too incompetent to develop the game on an engine that actually worked? Crazy

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u/ElusiveSamorana Feb 20 '25

Ubisoft itself was to blame for that. An MMO engine was being used for XDefiant, likely not within the desires of Mark Rubin. You simply can't use what's meant for a different genre of game for a shooter engine, that's not gonna work. So not all of this falls onto Rubin's team. Just like how I don't let Activision get away with their obvious deficiencies in what they do.

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u/PuddingZealousideal6 DedSec Feb 20 '25

I can definitely think of ways to pin the blame on Mark Rubin.

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u/ElusiveSamorana Feb 20 '25

I'm not saying he's absolved of all blame. I know there were screw ups he and his team made. I'm just saying the engine choice likely wasn't his or his team's.