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:
Developer: Ubisoft
Publisher: Ubisoft
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