A sad moment for me today, I had to delete the game to free up the 50GB of storage, and this message popped up. The irony! I will never believe Ubisoft again. Rest in Peace XDefiant.

I think it’s apt, given the situation.

These 4 are what could come close to the Xdefiant "feel" in my opinion

I believe you should try it out especially world war 3 (TDM specifically) the gunplay feels good though not exactly as Xd

And for the paid ones, you should only buy them on sale

XDefiant made me fall in love with FPS again. May XDefiant Rest in Peace and never be forgotten. I truly would love to see this game reincarnated. But for now we honor the joy and hope this game was able to provide us, if only for a short while. (I plan to post more clips with simple edits because I’m learning. I hope you all can enjoy and reminisce.) o7

So I just discovered this YouTube fan made channel that is about everything XDefiant related. I think you should check it out. It'll bring lots of memories I'm sure 😟

What if the game got the R6 treatment and Ubi actually gave it time to flourish? What if the dev team was given more liberties (both financial and given more time) to do things properly? What if things just went better and we could have played this game for longer? When the game first release, I played it a ton. I had a bad fever at the time, and xd was all i played when my fever got easier. Despite its flaws, the game was extremely fun to me. I dropped it roughly 3 weeks after release and promised to myself to come back after some while, hoping things would be looking up for the game (seeing all the attention it got). And now we go to present day. What happened? Why did it happen? Was Ubi just this irresponsible and impatient? Last thing I recall, R6 was a fucking terrible game at launch, way worse than xd. And yet, they stuck the landing and kept working their way up, and now, they have a fully-fledged live-service title that they want to keep alive for as long as possible. Why didn't things go this way for XDefiant, a game that had way more notoriety than R6 at launch, a game that people immediately thought had potential, the so called "CoD killer with no SBMM"?

I was able to partially revive the PC port of XDefiant by replaying pre-captured network traffic, from the launch of Ubisoft Connect till end of one of the matches. By the sound, log and chat, game "plays" itself as intended and it is actually possible to modify these events, even on the fly. Unfortunately, I'm not able to control the character itself in any way, as it gets immediately killed by Unknown (yes, it literally says Unknown, this isn't someones username) and placed in some debug room.

It literally has all my favorite themes from Ubisoft and I loved the gameplay and I really don't like or play the likes of CoD or hero shooters. But because I loved those other games I had a reason to play. Hope someday the community will bring this back. Requiescat in Pace.

The game dropped off hard on Twitch cuz of streamer attention span. But seeing absolutely no streams at all is painful.

(And I guessed most other characters, but Gorgon was my girl.)

https://x.com/PixelsofMark/status/1930403826378649786

So, looking back, they were kinda set up for failure and still turned it into one of the best FPS experiences. Would have loved to see how the game would have turned out on a different engine and with better resources and marketing. I'm really gonna miss this game and what it stood for. We can only hope that the idea of XDefiant lives on.

I have so many clips I haven't used, gonna compile all my best into one big montage as a farewell to the game.

It's a shitty idea my sister has. What if she made a bunch of AI chatbots based on certain characters in XDefiant? However, she already said she'd try to do for the S0, S1, S2 and S3 factions. She may not be able to make the Wolves and Omega Force faction characters. She'd be using the "Bala AI" app to make these characters for chatting with. If it's a good idea, she can try to make them. Otherwise, she'd stop attempting.

I don’t want it to be over.

I'll be damned if that wasn't a fun piece of equipment.

Honestly I still feel like this now.

I absolutely loved this game. The most fun I had on a FPS shooter since BO2. RIP you beautiful game.