XDefiant Review (Uplay/PC)

XDefiant Review, XDefiant, Ubisoft’s latest free-to-play offering, thrusts players into a high-octane world of intense gunplay and strategic warfare. In this first-person arena shooter, customization is key, as players tailor their loadouts with various weapons, attachments, and faction-specific abilities. Inspired by beloved Ubisoft franchises like Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, and The Division, XDefiant introduces specialized factions, each with its unique playstyle.

XDefiant Review Pros:

• Decent highly detailed graphics.
• Download size.
• Uplay achievements.
• Has full Uplay Connect support with rewards, and challenges.
• Full controller support.
• First-person shooter gameplay.
• Free to play.
• Cross-save across the platforms using the Ubisoft account.
• Cross and input-based play matchmaking.
• Two game modes – unranked and ranked (trial run).
• The game offers an optional welcome playlist for new players.
• Battle pass system in play with free and paid tiers.
• Base, daily, and major challenges.
• EXP earned bangs up on the screen as it’s earned.
• Each character has their own set of abilities and you pick which one to use.
• When dead you can change character or what ability your character is using.
• End-of-game showcase saying who is the MVP and then shows your squad and their best state from the game.
• Five Different game modes – escort, zone control, domination, occupy, and hot shot.
• Ten custom load-outs and you get default load-outs for each gun type.
• Player customisation – player card art, player animation, and emoji.
• Hotshot attempts a new mode, you collect bounties from enemies, and whoever has the most becomes faster and better at shooting.
• Five factions – Watch Dogs 2, Splinter Cell, Far Cry 6, Ghost Recon Phantoms, and The Division. Each faction has three characters with one available initially except for Watch Dogs 2.
• When there is no lag the gunplay is really good.
• Games just roll into the next.
• The levels are designed so you have a lot of choices in terms of routes to take.
• Earn exp with each gun to unlock new skins and attachments.
• You get a couple of free boosters for weapon exp.
• You can give emojis to your teammates at the end of a match for an EXP reward.
• It’s got better Division multiplayer than the Division 2 game.
• Once you learn that dying and respawning over and over is the gameplay loop and winning is just a side bonus then you will appreciate it more.

XDefiant Review Cons:

• Connection issues are everywhere and can strike at any time.
• Had the game crash back to the dashboard every few games.
• No sort of balancing so you are up against high-level players even in the welcome playlist despite it saying it had it enabled.
• In-app purchases are everywhere, expected but all purchases are real money.
• Watch Dogs 2 faction has to be unlocked/earned or bought.
• Has shortcut purchases like pay to unlock factions or exp boosters to level fast.
• There’s a lot of lag and it makes shooting and generally the whole game hard to play.
• Nearly everyone is the same character which is the Splinter Cell one as it enables you to see through walls and see people faster.
• For an average or below-average fps player, it’s a huge stressful grind.
• The EXP earned for the battle pass is slow.
• No pinging system.
• Spawn killing is common and very easy to pull off.
• It feels like the game doesn’t know its identity and what it is going for.
• The battle pass rewards are not great or desirable.
• You cannot really customize characters.
• Guns are not as customizable as you would expect from games with the Tom Clancy name.
• The quips of characters is far too repetitive and they say them over and over.

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XDefiant:

Official website.

Developer: Ubisoft

Publisher: Ubisoft

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