This is why older cod games and older battlefield games were unstoppable because no sweaty ass sliding and hopping around. We are using guns in the game not kung fu ffs...
Modern shooters just don't get this. Feels only smaller indie devs try to make shooters like that but never get much traction, or they try to be so hardcore it doesn't bring in any casual players.
@@wolfboy20 Yeah, when you compare that to newer shooters it doesn't seem bad at all. I don't think you could even shoot while jumping in BF3. Comparing that to the newer Battlefields where people are jump spamming into slides constantly and can launch themselves away during firefights with grappling hooks and wingsuits. It's not even close.
I played this game again after the April test in 2023... Uninstalled it after two games, unfair and unbalanced abilities that turns the skill issue argument into ash. Like, how can you tell that someone can heal themselves, see you through walls, send a spider after your ass and make stun grenades in COD look better. These meat riders keep acting like there being no sbmm means the better game, while I don't disagree with that, these guys also sweat casual like it's ranked. It's not going to be the Helldivers 2 of the FPS genre, I'm sorry to say, but it's not!
100 percent correct. game devs need to let go of this obsession with hero shooters with abilities. literally all we want is good gun play and maps nothing extra. maps are also convoluted and cluttered.
@@armanromana1580 The hero shooter mechanics and abilities are arguably the worst part of the game (minus the netcode/hitreg). The stupid abilities are either really difficult to counter (spider bot, self heal) or impossible to counter (firebomb, wall hacks Echelon). This makes it really annoying when you just popped off on a nice streak to die to someone at the bottom of the scoreboard who firebombed you on the objective while you were holding it. I do enjoy XDefiant enough to play it a for few hours here and there, but it’s not my favorite FPS.
2:00 I feel like not enough people talk about this. High skill players like Jev constantly praise the movement in this game, but for anyone who doesn’t play the game 24/7 it is going to constantly feel like a sweatfest bc while I just want to run around and shoot my gun Mr. 24.63 k/d is going to spam movement tech and ruin it for all the general players.
The server test is likely more sweaty since it’s going to be the diehard FPS fans trying it out. But I see this being even more of a sweat fest than cod when it releases
@@GhillieMaster Yeah, and at that point it wont matter if there isn’t SBMM because all thats gonna be left are the sweatlords who only use meta weapons ;-;
@@Km5454O4be careful when voicing a negative opinion about complex movement, you might wake up the 600lbs sweaty sunlight-phobic and cheetos-covered nerds who will shout "just git gud lmao" 😂
Hell even then you got people that do 40+ button combos for a kill, but all I need to do is press two and still kill them. To me it doesn't even scream "skill". It screams "pointless"
Everything you said. Literally everything. I despise hero shooters because theres always some uneven OP bullsh*t that leaves you with a target on your back and no amount of skill will matter. A lot of people loved this server test but for me, same experience as the betas. Input lag. Getting shot around corners. Bullets not registering. Just terrible. Great vid. The guerillas will remember this day forever! LOL sorry had to throw that in there.
its the muuhh sbmm bad crowd who are eating this game up cause there isnt any sbmm in the game and the has ex cod devs and pros working on it. sure sbmm sucks but sucking off horrible and mediocre gameplay cause you hate cod is dumb
The net code/hit detection is god awful and isn’t even on COD Mobile’s level, yet it’s going to kill the COD franchise which is a household name 😂😂🤣🤣. No free-for-all or team deathmatch either. I don’t see this game lasting long honestly.
"No sbmm" - True, but the gameplay for this game makes it feel no different. I hopped back on months after trying it and it still feels exactly the same as CoD.... Honestly tired of every FPS game being relentlessly based around e-sports, where you can't even enjoy yourself in a casual lobby anymore without feeling like you're competing for 100k dollars.
You forgot to mention the "Slower-Than-Dirt" Matchmaking times, which combined with the fact that the lobby disbands after each match, makes it feel as if you are spending more time waiting to play than actually playing!
Man I really wanted this game to succeed not as a COD killer, but as COD competitor so that Activision would finally be forced to try and add new better things to their Multiplayer modes, but alas.... seems like they'll keep shoving MP to the side and only cater to Warzone once again. 😭
Didn't they add like 5 new maps in cod mp and 3 game modes 😂😂😂 yet you think they only care about warzone. talk about being a dumb ass. And just talking out ur ass lmfao still can't believe ppl are this fuckin stupid crazy yall let y'all hate for cod make y'all say shit like this.
@@MazeMaker4Lifeit’s actually crazy like why not just make it a big aoe overheal for your team and not do anything to the regeneration I feel like that would be fine
Oh, I forgot to mention the daily challenges not tracking. I just got finished getting 31 kills using the ACR and I need 25 for my daily challenge. Only 6 kills counted out of my 31 total kills. I was destroying using the acr getting full kills. I know I also got 3 grenade kills and 5 pistol kills but I should definitely have more than 6 AR kills.
That map reminds me of The Division 1, which reminds me of THAT gameplay trailer that wowed us and then we ended up getting what we got. I wanna cry. It's 2024 and we still dont have THAT GAME! 😩
Worst experience I’ve ever had in an FPS. The hit reg and net code is as bad as the 2021 beta. It’s mind boggling how many times I get nothing but hits then instantly melted.
I gave this game a try today. Played two games, saw the god awful hit detection, lag compensation and dying behind cover. Promptly quit and uninstalled. I will not be playing this stinking pile of shit.
They need to just scrap the hero shooter element all together and go with viable kill streaks. Did they NOT pay any attention to Battlefield 2042? The fact that I'm nearly every single comment online, this is the 2nd biggest gripe behind the desync and hit registration issues, yet they refuse to listen, makes me think that this is going to be a MWII situation all over again. I've been feeling like that since last September after Mark went AWOL and only FINALLY responded to anything after 7 months of silence when Tom Henderson released the article with inside Intel from disgruntled Devs. That really put a bad taste in my mouth. Then to pay it this weekend, thinking that all is the issues would finally be cleaned up only to discover that LITERALLY NOTHING AT ALL had changed, with all that time to fix it during the delay, 100% confirmed what those disgruntled employees were saying. Now we are hearing that they scrapped everything that the have worked on for the past 6 months and went back to the same build we played in September that had so many issues. Why the heck did they do that??? All of it! I honestly want to see them swallow their pride and show us what the have cooked for the last 6 months because it sounds like the actually added kill streaks and the things we have asked for. We were given a copy and paste of the same thing we played in September and it's not looking good. Truly makes me upset and sad.
I played the last tech test and I just felt like people were just lying about the game. Saying that the movement was some of the best, no SBMM, and felt good to play. When I played it, it was nothing but the sweatiest of sweaty rounds, leaving mid match just to find myself going up against the next CDL tryout… I feel like they have recently ever since they said something in their blog post about SBMM in COD it’s been more chill, could be just me but it feels nice to play. Then the movement just felt off the entire time I was playing, it just didn’t feel right. At the time I said it was like siege movement, but it’s actually worse than that… It’s sad because I want a competitor to COD to light a fire under their asses and make good games again. MW3 is a good multiplayer game (I’ll never forgive them for that campaign though) and is a step in the right direction, I hope it keeps going that way. But yeah, XDefiant just isn’t it sadly.
I think people forget that this game is free Call of Duty. As someone who doesn't live in a developed country, it will be nice to have a game with an actual playerbase.
"free" but all the skins and pay2win weapons/operators will be in the in game cash shop - and it'll have an intermediate premium currency cos Ubisoft and modern gaming. I bet $5 on it EDIT: also can't forget the god damn battle pass that plagues every cursed game these days. Demanding the player to spend money for the chance to earn all the rewards is a very manipulative business strategy that enforced FOMO and sunken cost fallacy all in one spicy package. Dx
Yeah its the epitome of mid. Already played this shit in COD and Ironsight , better versions of the same. Bringing this in 2024 with nothng new wirh reused assts frim Div1 and atill struggling to release says everthing.
Honestly XDefiant is what made me finally see what’s wrong with hero shooter elements with how limited and boring they are, like straight up if they copied some of COD’s perks it would be way more interesting than having specific characters tied to abilities
Ubisoft has been notorious for having awful servers and their own services in the way of connections like Uplay. Even if they fix their stuff. People in less populated regions like Oceana will still suffer as a result. The game looks good but the specialist stuff and excessive movement won't be fun to play against. I didn't even bother purchasing mw2023.
Damn, I thought that was an XclusiveAce video so hearing Ghillie's voice as soon as I clicked on it made me raise my eyebrows, and the funny thing is this isn't the first time it's happened to me
Yeah I agree. I'll be honest here and say that I only played Gina for her looks but really never cared about any ability. This game really needs a mode without any of that bullshit just like bo4 had on cod.
Server test thoughts: The shotguns are absolutely miserable to use, ARs and SMGs are the primary weapon classes you should be using, the Hero Shooter trend needs to die down. I didn't mind basic movement in games like CoD, lest the games are Titanfall or Exo CoD.
@@GhillieMaster agreed. Operators are just incredibly boring, bring back nameless grunts that changed depending on your weapons and perks. You could tell a guy was using ghost or had a shotgun just by looking at him. If they really need to monetize player customization, just go the Ghost route with different pieces.
People really are just praising the game just for what it stands for. The no sbmm classic cod devs that’s it. The game itself is so bland and generic and a clunky mess. That’s why I say I don’t care about the whole sbmm talk. If the game isn’t polished or good then the lack of sbmm won’t help it. Cod is 1000x more fun to me compared to this even with the amount of sbmm bs going with it
So what your saying is, even without sbmm, annoying sweaty players still exists?🤔 I thought it was supposed to make the game chill??🤔 seems like what I’ve been saying all along is true. Removing sbmm is not the answer. Top players are better than most of the player base so naturally any match they Que into (without sbmm) they be better than most of the lobby. Essentially without sbmm only good players get to have fun. No sbmm will kill off the casual players which is the most important demographic in FPS games. Once that happens it leaves only the sweatiest of players, playing eachother which is the exact opposite of what people want. Sbmm needs to be in modern gaming.
I understand what you're saying about this game, but in the modern CODs, i still die when i get behind cover because in the kill cam, it still shows me before i get to cover. (Im not defending Xdefiant by saying this just in case someone thinks that).
Funny seeing a non overwatch player get rightfully frustrated at a god mode ability in a shooter game, because we've had a character with a bullshit god mode ability for years now
I def agree with the net code issues and allat after so long there still an issue 10 months later isn’t a good look but let’s not act like gameplay wise the game isn’t good is cap I think gameplay wise it’s good and mw3 remastered is shit let’s take the tinted goggles off for a sec every cod after Cold War has been and is ass , bad , dogshit , horrible , POS , like do I need to say more?
WW2 was shit , MW2019 was shit , vanguard was the worst cod ever , mw2/mw3 remastered were also a dumpster fire and were all getting hype for gulf war as if cod isn’t gonna shit the bed with that too 😂
3:16 Please stop saying CoD has SBMM when it doesn't. It has EOMM (Engagement Optimized Match Making), which is so, so much worse. Overall skill has nothing to do with it. The matchmaking in CoD goes off of recent preformance and either throws you into ultra sweaty lobbies or into a lobby of bots, more often the former. It's specifically designed to keep you playing while also keeping your KD at as close to 1.0 as possible. Calling it SBMM instead of EOMM is exactly what Activision wants because their EOMM system only works if players don't know just how much it's manipulating them. That said, honestly, if XDefiant can fix it's netcode and gets consistent updates, it does have the potential to rival cod simply by not having EOMM. Rn tho, it's nowhere near that level.
You nailed it I don’t want the skill ceiling to be movement maxing that shit is so lame they need to nerf movement and make the left stick have you go forward more like cod cuz that shit feel wack asf rn. If they did fix the networking an movement and hit detection and removed abilities it would be the best arcade shooter since bo2 sadly I don’t think they will atleast not in the next couple years
After watching XclusiveAces video I’ve officially lost faith in Xdefiant. Idc what you glazers say, they’ve had a year since the last beta, this is ridiculous
I played it today and I can say that this game is so bad. None of my shots counted. It doesn't have sbmm but it kinda feels like everyone is sweating, much worse than cod. I do not recommend wasting your time playing this game.
I wouldnt hate the game if the movement wasnt so terrible . On your side it feels slow and clunky . On their side its like instant and they jump from one spot to another in 3 frames with no momentum to project theyre moving . Its fucking ass
Game has many issues. I don't think that net code will be fixed, it's probably the same peekers advantage as it is in R6... Another thing that it's bad in this game is wasting time... I checked that I have only 50% time spent in game while playing... Long time to search a game, long time to load, annoying 30s pre/mid/post round breaks... They should honestly cut those annoying breaks and make faster matchmaking ... Last thing is aimbot(console) players... Really annoying, when I noticed when someone was killing me too much, too fast, often while jumping... yeah they were console players... Aim assist is insane in this game...
I’m sorry, I really don’t wanna have to be that guy. I agree with pretty much everything you said and agree that the doctor ability is OP as hell… but… You clearly missed the second DB shot at 5:20
Only valid thing you said was the net code, it is like COD is paying all the mid yt channels to hate on the game. You didn't even increase your fov and you're a mf gta content creator. Do not find you as a valid source on FPS shooters
Just me or any Ubisoft game is just average next to whatever is on the market..? The only multiplayer game that they made that’s somewhat unique and dare I say good is Siege. Ok I’m probably really much so way too harsh, but there’s practically no soul nor personality to most of their games as well. Too many gaming genres under one house if you ask me
I'm a the division main player here. I always have my doubts about xdefiant. I don't even needed to play the beta to know this Ubisoft at its mediocre and out of touch ideas. Just from watching content creators play one match was enough for me to make up my mind about this
XDefiant lost their best launch window with MWII being in such a unenjoyable state. And with MWIII having the best Multi support in recent years, and the hype for Gulf War will most likely overshadow XDefiant if they launch Their best launch window would probably be when Incompetent Ward drops another stinker to get the same hype they had in the beginning
In the days of SBMM, egregious microtransactions, and recycled content I'll gladly accept "mediocrity," especially if that product closely resembles the days when today's problems didn't exist. Old school feels fresh when "innovation" has made modern products painful to play
Me personally the only issue I have with the game is getting shot around a corner but everything from the movement and gun play is enjoyable and I’m loving this game
Honestly surprised you aren't glazing it like everybody else. It had potential yea definitely but it's issues and the largest being the delays after delays isn't helping at all but either they risk releasing a half baked hardly able to compete game or a fully baked game and hope that they fix it enough and make my good enough for people to want to play it over cod and hopefully give cod some competition. Unfortunately with the delays after delays my hopes for this game being a competitor to cod are dwindling 💀💀💀 Rip XDefiant dead even before release
Honestly it's knock off version of cod this hilarious I have a friend who says it's good I told her yeah you have fun with that she's still mad at me. Also no good story in xdefiant which is the Main thing. It's like GTA with God Mode 📳.
I enjoy the game enough to play it for a few hours here and there, but it is definitely not ever going to be considered my favorite FPS. The abilities and hero mechanics absolutely suck some of the fun out of the experience for me, especially on some of the abilities that cannot be countered whatsoever (firebomb, wall hacks, instant self heal). I really think the ONLY truly casual FPS left is Battlefield. In a game with 64-128 players, there can never be EOMM or SBMM, meaning that you have 5-10 really good players on each team, 25ish average players, and 5-10 low skill players. Everyone gets to play against a variety of skills, and there are many ways for players to contribute other than getting kills (support, medics, vehicle drivers, pilots, gunners, etc.). Yes, 2042 did introduce some “hero” mechanics, but they have fortunately gotten rid of most of those over the course of the game’s lifecycle. There are absolutely sweats (I’m probably considered one), and the game has a skill gap, but it is not a competitive shooter by any stretch. Overall though, Battlefield really is the last truly casual game that nearly anyone, regardless of skill level, can hop into and find something to enjoy.
Movement is awesome but whats not ok is that your inputs like shooting the sniper get blocked but things like crouching and than your gun shoots after the animation finishes... it feels so bad... and the abilities are just annoying as fk... unlocking guns is to easy but lvling guns is such a boring grind...
The janky movement, animations and aiming turned me off already. The stupid abilities were just topping on the cake. I had way more fun with MWII than I'll ever have with this. It feels like whenever ubisoft tries to copy something it becomes the same but worse
I think the game is free to play and I personally didn't have a problem with hit detection.. It gives us another option of something to play.. This game will get better and better
Its funnny that one side just wants straight gunplay like old cod. And the other side doesn't want heavy emphasis on shooting or gunplay and want og overwatch before they tried to appeal more to the shooter audience where your abilities mattered more than landing headshots like it does now. And the gamung studios think they can appease both at the same time like nah you cant, yall just gotta make seperate games that target audiances instead of trying to slap everything into 1 game to capture everyone 😂
The Finals clears im afraid..... No but fr playing a few rounds of this made me realize how good we have it over there, ubisoft make a good game challenge impossible edition
I enjoyed the first beta as it was during the same time period as mw2 it was good with barely any bunny hoppers or sweats in the server test i actually felt like they implemented sbmm or something as i been getting into matches where most of them are jumping bunny hoppers and when they are on my team they start to do crappy also plus they removed the echelon due to a bug issue so thats a plus but other the abilities are way too bullshit and broken especially the shield
Getting shot while being around the corner still happens to this day on siege so don’t expect them to fix it in this either 😂
That's just latency. Lmao
Literally every shooter dude
Yeah! Doesn't happen in Halo or DOOM mp
It feels like cod mobile and battlefield had a deformed offspring
💀💀
More like Cod and Overwatch. I can't find any Battlefield dna here.
😂😂😂😂 it does look like cod mobile
Cod mobile looks better .. and with controller is more funnier
COD and Battlefield are so much more fun.
This is why older cod games and older battlefield games were unstoppable because no sweaty ass sliding and hopping around. We are using guns in the game not kung fu ffs...
Modern shooters just don't get this. Feels only smaller indie devs try to make shooters like that but never get much traction, or they try to be so hardcore it doesn't bring in any casual players.
To be fair, BF 3 did have bunny hopping but it wasn't as horrible as it is in Xdefiant...it can also be countered easily with good aim/reflexes
@@wolfboy20 Yeah, when you compare that to newer shooters it doesn't seem bad at all. I don't think you could even shoot while jumping in BF3. Comparing that to the newer Battlefields where people are jump spamming into slides constantly and can launch themselves away during firefights with grappling hooks and wingsuits. It's not even close.
@@falcoon_f_zero9450 oh yeah you're right. You couldn't shoot while bunny hopping in bf3 lolz
They are still prefered and played by many and have their own community mod projects like H2M for Mw2. So that just proofs your point.
I played this game again after the April test in 2023... Uninstalled it after two games, unfair and unbalanced abilities that turns the skill issue argument into ash. Like, how can you tell that someone can heal themselves, see you through walls, send a spider after your ass and make stun grenades in COD look better. These meat riders keep acting like there being no sbmm means the better game, while I don't disagree with that, these guys also sweat casual like it's ranked. It's not going to be the Helldivers 2 of the FPS genre, I'm sorry to say, but it's not!
100 percent correct. game devs need to let go of this obsession with hero shooters with abilities. literally all we want is good gun play and maps nothing extra. maps are also convoluted and cluttered.
@@armanromana1580 The hero shooter mechanics and abilities are arguably the worst part of the game (minus the netcode/hitreg). The stupid abilities are either really difficult to counter (spider bot, self heal) or impossible to counter (firebomb, wall hacks Echelon). This makes it really annoying when you just popped off on a nice streak to die to someone at the bottom of the scoreboard who firebombed you on the objective while you were holding it.
I do enjoy XDefiant enough to play it a for few hours here and there, but it’s not my favorite FPS.
@@theitechlab correct
I’m gonna be honest, I was hyped for this game and then now I completely forgot this game even existed
Until I saw this video I thought Ubisoft dumped the game 😅
2:00
I feel like not enough people talk about this. High skill players like Jev constantly praise the movement in this game, but for anyone who doesn’t play the game 24/7 it is going to constantly feel like a sweatfest bc while I just want to run around and shoot my gun Mr. 24.63 k/d is going to spam movement tech and ruin it for all the general players.
The server test is likely more sweaty since it’s going to be the diehard FPS fans trying it out. But I see this being even more of a sweat fest than cod when it releases
@@GhillieMaster Yeah, and at that point it wont matter if there isn’t SBMM because all thats gonna be left are the sweatlords who only use meta weapons ;-;
Thought it was only me who thought this
@@Km5454O4be careful when voicing a negative opinion about complex movement, you might wake up the 600lbs sweaty sunlight-phobic and cheetos-covered nerds who will shout "just git gud lmao" 😂
Hell even then you got people that do 40+ button combos for a kill, but all I need to do is press two and still kill them. To me it doesn't even scream "skill". It screams "pointless"
I really do not like how the game feels after my first time playing a couple nights ago. I dont see myself playing this game at its full release
Everything you said. Literally everything. I despise hero shooters because theres always some uneven OP bullsh*t that leaves you with a target on your back and no amount of skill will matter. A lot of people loved this server test but for me, same experience as the betas. Input lag. Getting shot around corners. Bullets not registering. Just terrible.
Great vid. The guerillas will remember this day forever! LOL sorry had to throw that in there.
I remember the days when people said this game would kill Cod 💀🤦🏻♀️
Same 💀
And I was like "do you really think a lowly ubisoft title is going have its David vs goliath moment? Goliath wins, always"
its the muuhh sbmm bad crowd who are eating this game up cause there isnt any sbmm in the game and the has ex cod devs and pros working on it. sure sbmm sucks but sucking off horrible and mediocre gameplay cause you hate cod is dumb
That's because y'all expect it to be like cod. Jesus look how ghillie is playing with the bunny hops😂
I feel like it won't kill cod but if it was successful then it might encourage COD to become f2p too
Cod is already dead tbf
The net code/hit detection is god awful and isn’t even on COD Mobile’s level, yet it’s going to kill the COD franchise which is a household name 😂😂🤣🤣. No free-for-all or team deathmatch either. I don’t see this game lasting long honestly.
Ubisoft will screw eventually the game with a stupid decision, im 100% sure of that
The sweats will continue to play
Worst hit detection in a mp game period
i like how everyone complained about cod maps but nobody said anything about these maps. the maps are too cluttered. and the hit reg just sucks
This game was trash im sorry the graphics look like a ps3 game and it feels janky
"No sbmm" - True, but the gameplay for this game makes it feel no different. I hopped back on months after trying it and it still feels exactly the same as CoD.... Honestly tired of every FPS game being relentlessly based around e-sports, where you can't even enjoy yourself in a casual lobby anymore without feeling like you're competing for 100k dollars.
You forgot to mention the "Slower-Than-Dirt" Matchmaking times, which combined with the fact that the lobby disbands after each match, makes it feel as if you are spending more time waiting to play than actually playing!
Why does lobby disbandment exist?
I'm so confused as to why everyone is going on about how good it is? Like it's fine. It's not great its not bad I don't understand.
Man I really wanted this game to succeed not as a COD killer, but as COD competitor so that Activision would finally be forced to try and add new better things to their Multiplayer modes, but alas.... seems like they'll keep shoving MP to the side and only cater to Warzone once again. 😭
MP has been getting treated better this year imo
@@GhillieMastermostly thanks to how sledgehammer handles feedback. They fix a lot
The only new things they add to their games is the amount of BS skins etc in the cod points store.
Literally all the franchise is now
YES OMG
Didn't they add like 5 new maps in cod mp and 3 game modes 😂😂😂 yet you think they only care about warzone. talk about being a dumb ass. And just talking out ur ass lmfao still can't believe ppl are this fuckin stupid crazy yall let y'all hate for cod make y'all say shit like this.
long story short - don’t play it just play Roblox phantom forces 🖤
Steve Rogers at the end of Endgame: No. No I don’t think I will.
every ubi game has questionable hit detection
oh that “healing” ability would make me shatter a window
I'm genuinely surprised the Devs put it in, tested it and said "this is good"
@@MazeMaker4Lifeit’s actually crazy like why not just make it a big aoe overheal for your team and not do anything to the regeneration I feel like that would be fine
MWIII > XDefiant
it should be renamed sweat jump kids with guns lmao
And they said this game was to going to be a cod.killer
They shouldve known ubisoft wasnt going to have a chance against cod in any way shape or form.
Oh, I forgot to mention the daily challenges not tracking. I just got finished getting 31 kills using the ACR and I need 25 for my daily challenge. Only 6 kills counted out of my 31 total kills. I was destroying using the acr getting full kills. I know I also got 3 grenade kills and 5 pistol kills but I should definitely have more than 6 AR kills.
That map reminds me of The Division 1, which reminds me of THAT gameplay trailer that wowed us and then we ended up getting what we got.
I wanna cry. It's 2024 and we still dont have THAT GAME! 😩
Yeah it has a lot of assets from the division games which I instantly recognized haha.
i mean that's the theme of the game, you will see a lot of maps from different Ubi games : The division, AC, WatchDogs which in theory sounds cool
Getting killed in this game is so bad I rather deal with COD's sbmm
True
Worst experience I’ve ever had in an FPS. The hit reg and net code is as bad as the 2021 beta. It’s mind boggling how many times I get nothing but hits then instantly melted.
I gave this game a try today. Played two games, saw the god awful hit detection, lag compensation and dying behind cover. Promptly quit and uninstalled. I will not be playing this stinking pile of shit.
And the game is still badly optimized
They need to just scrap the hero shooter element all together and go with viable kill streaks. Did they NOT pay any attention to Battlefield 2042? The fact that I'm nearly every single comment online, this is the 2nd biggest gripe behind the desync and hit registration issues, yet they refuse to listen, makes me think that this is going to be a MWII situation all over again. I've been feeling like that since last September after Mark went AWOL and only FINALLY responded to anything after 7 months of silence when Tom Henderson released the article with inside Intel from disgruntled Devs. That really put a bad taste in my mouth. Then to pay it this weekend, thinking that all is the issues would finally be cleaned up only to discover that LITERALLY NOTHING AT ALL had changed, with all that time to fix it during the delay, 100% confirmed what those disgruntled employees were saying. Now we are hearing that they scrapped everything that the have worked on for the past 6 months and went back to the same build we played in September that had so many issues. Why the heck did they do that??? All of it! I honestly want to see them swallow their pride and show us what the have cooked for the last 6 months because it sounds like the actually added kill streaks and the things we have asked for. We were given a copy and paste of the same thing we played in September and it's not looking good. Truly makes me upset and sad.
Just downloaded this on a whim, excited to try something new. Uninstalled after 2 games. Mediocre is the perfect descriptor. No innovation whatsoever.
I played the last tech test and I just felt like people were just lying about the game. Saying that the movement was some of the best, no SBMM, and felt good to play.
When I played it, it was nothing but the sweatiest of sweaty rounds, leaving mid match just to find myself going up against the next CDL tryout…
I feel like they have recently ever since they said something in their blog post about SBMM in COD it’s been more chill, could be just me but it feels nice to play.
Then the movement just felt off the entire time I was playing, it just didn’t feel right. At the time I said it was like siege movement, but it’s actually worse than that…
It’s sad because I want a competitor to COD to light a fire under their asses and make good games again. MW3 is a good multiplayer game (I’ll never forgive them for that campaign though) and is a step in the right direction, I hope it keeps going that way. But yeah, XDefiant just isn’t it sadly.
oh yeah this is a thing. thanks for covering it my dude. hope you are doing well.
I mean is it really that surprising for a Ubisoft game?
I think people forget that this game is free Call of Duty. As someone who doesn't live in a developed country, it will be nice to have a game with an actual playerbase.
"free" but all the skins and pay2win weapons/operators will be in the in game cash shop - and it'll have an intermediate premium currency cos Ubisoft and modern gaming. I bet $5 on it
EDIT: also can't forget the god damn battle pass that plagues every cursed game these days. Demanding the player to spend money for the chance to earn all the rewards is a very manipulative business strategy that enforced FOMO and sunken cost fallacy all in one spicy package.
Dx
@HoorNon-dr2ii to pay for the CEO's third yacht.
I feel like Team Fortress 2 is really needing to be revived at this point
People still play it and get into games fast.
What are you talking about? TF2 is still alive it just has a really bad cheater problem is all.
@@TheGreatOne-gw7xh when was the last time TF2 was updated
@@legomaniac601 That is completely irrelevant to the fact that tf2 is alive and well.
I 100% agree. TF2 was the best game for me growing up 😢
Would love to see your opinions on The Finals. It's a very welcome departure from CoD and it's imitations.
Finals was pretty fun from the few times I played it.
@@GhillieMaster the Devs are actually listening to player concerns too. Recently removing a problematic wall hack ability, similar to XDefiant's.
The Finals is probably one of the best shooters available IMO. Would love to see his take on it
Yeah its the epitome of mid.
Already played this shit in COD and Ironsight , better versions of the same.
Bringing this in 2024 with nothng new wirh reused assts frim Div1 and atill struggling to release says everthing.
Honestly XDefiant is what made me finally see what’s wrong with hero shooter elements with how limited and boring they are, like straight up if they copied some of COD’s perks it would be way more interesting than having specific characters tied to abilities
Ubisoft has been notorious for having awful servers and their own services in the way of connections like Uplay. Even if they fix their stuff. People in less populated regions like Oceana will still suffer as a result.
The game looks good but the specialist stuff and excessive movement won't be fun to play against. I didn't even bother purchasing mw2023.
i don’t wanna be that guy, but i’m not surprised that a Ubisoft title is pretty mediocre lol
Damn, I thought that was an XclusiveAce video so hearing Ghillie's voice as soon as I clicked on it made me raise my eyebrows, and the funny thing is this isn't the first time it's happened to me
Game is pure dogshit lmao
I was so uninterested in this game the minute I found out there was no killstreaks in playing my first match last year.
I honestly would prefer it if they took out the abilities and made them killstreaks instead lmao
I installed it yesterday morning, not even halfway through the beta. It's just soooo barebones.
Just started watching the vid, but just wanted to point out that on the first clip (0:52) you actually died to fire and not a shot behind the wall
Fire bullets are another thing I didn’t even mention. Causes trading in gunfights. None of the class abilities make the game fun. They make it worse.
Yeah I agree. I'll be honest here and say that I only played Gina for her looks but really never cared about any ability. This game really needs a mode without any of that bullshit just like bo4 had on cod.
Server test thoughts: The shotguns are absolutely miserable to use, ARs and SMGs are the primary weapon classes you should be using, the Hero Shooter trend needs to die down.
I didn't mind basic movement in games like CoD, lest the games are Titanfall or Exo CoD.
I just want a game like BO2 again. Idk how people say this game is like old school cod when old school cod had none of this stuff
@@GhillieMaster agreed. Operators are just incredibly boring, bring back nameless grunts that changed depending on your weapons and perks. You could tell a guy was using ghost or had a shotgun just by looking at him. If they really need to monetize player customization, just go the Ghost route with different pieces.
People really are just praising the game just for what it stands for. The no sbmm classic cod devs that’s it. The game itself is so bland and generic and a clunky mess. That’s why I say I don’t care about the whole sbmm talk. If the game isn’t polished or good then the lack of sbmm won’t help it. Cod is 1000x more fun to me compared to this even with the amount of sbmm bs going with it
XDefiant makes me appreciate COD’s gunplay so much more.
There’s just something about the game that looks cheap and I think it is the movement if the movement was better it would look a bit better
So what your saying is, even without sbmm, annoying sweaty players still exists?🤔 I thought it was supposed to make the game chill??🤔 seems like what I’ve been saying all along is true. Removing sbmm is not the answer. Top players are better than most of the player base so naturally any match they Que into (without sbmm) they be better than most of the lobby. Essentially without sbmm only good players get to have fun. No sbmm will kill off the casual players which is the most important demographic in FPS games. Once that happens it leaves only the sweatiest of players, playing eachother which is the exact opposite of what people want. Sbmm needs to be in modern gaming.
I understand what you're saying about this game, but in the modern CODs, i still die when i get behind cover because in the kill cam, it still shows me before i get to cover. (Im not defending Xdefiant by saying this just in case someone thinks that).
Killcams aren't exactly accurate a lot of the time with what the opponent actually sees.
I just played 1 game and uninstalled. Feels so dated... there are much better options out there, like The Finals for example
This game reminds me of a game that came out around 15yr ago 😂😂😂😂😂🎉🎉
lol modern warfare 2 is so much better than this x defiant trash..
Funny seeing a non overwatch player get rightfully frustrated at a god mode ability in a shooter game, because we've had a character with a bullshit god mode ability for years now
Well I know not to try Overwatch now 😂
@@GhillieMaster Good. That one god mode ability isn't even the only one. It's also one bullshit mechanic in a sea of many. Steer clear ghillie
I def agree with the net code issues and allat after so long there still an issue 10 months later isn’t a good look but let’s not act like gameplay wise the game isn’t good is cap I think gameplay wise it’s good and mw3 remastered is shit let’s take the tinted goggles off for a sec every cod after Cold War has been and is ass , bad , dogshit , horrible , POS , like do I need to say more?
WW2 was shit , MW2019 was shit , vanguard was the worst cod ever , mw2/mw3 remastered were also a dumpster fire and were all getting hype for gulf war as if cod isn’t gonna shit the bed with that too 😂
"Hey phantom nice weiner!"
Now that's the kind of team encouragement I need!!
😂
3:16 Please stop saying CoD has SBMM when it doesn't. It has EOMM (Engagement Optimized Match Making), which is so, so much worse. Overall skill has nothing to do with it. The matchmaking in CoD goes off of recent preformance and either throws you into ultra sweaty lobbies or into a lobby of bots, more often the former. It's specifically designed to keep you playing while also keeping your KD at as close to 1.0 as possible. Calling it SBMM instead of EOMM is exactly what Activision wants because their EOMM system only works if players don't know just how much it's manipulating them.
That said, honestly, if XDefiant can fix it's netcode and gets consistent updates, it does have the potential to rival cod simply by not having EOMM. Rn tho, it's nowhere near that level.
You nailed it I don’t want the skill ceiling to be movement maxing that shit is so lame they need to nerf movement and make the left stick have you go forward more like cod cuz that shit feel wack asf rn. If they did fix the networking an movement and hit detection and removed abilities it would be the best arcade shooter since bo2 sadly I don’t think they will atleast not in the next couple years
1:01 man you instantly reminded me of that one pivotkid85 video I just had to watch it again
After watching XclusiveAces video I’ve officially lost faith in Xdefiant. Idc what you glazers say, they’ve had a year since the last beta, this is ridiculous
That’s wassup, play what you like
I played it today and I can say that this game is so bad. None of my shots counted. It doesn't have sbmm but it kinda feels like everyone is sweating, much worse than cod. I do not recommend wasting your time playing this game.
I tried to give the game a chance but there’s too many gadgets involved in every gunfight to be enjoyable.
it looks average. even if it was perfect but the same game it is. it looks boring. same thing over and over. maybe more modes will b better.
Isn’t this game basically a fps crossover game with a bunch of Ubisoft games?
when the net code is good this game feels amazing hopefully they can work it out for release
I wouldnt hate the game if the movement wasnt so terrible . On your side it feels slow and clunky . On their side its like instant and they jump from one spot to another in 3 frames with no momentum to project theyre moving . Its fucking ass
It feels like cod mobile but a little worse
great vid ghillie. like the complete transparency
Game has many issues. I don't think that net code will be fixed, it's probably the same peekers advantage as it is in R6...
Another thing that it's bad in this game is wasting time... I checked that I have only 50% time spent in game while playing... Long time to search a game, long time to load, annoying 30s pre/mid/post round breaks... They should honestly cut those annoying breaks and make faster matchmaking ...
Last thing is aimbot(console) players... Really annoying, when I noticed when someone was killing me too much, too fast, often while jumping... yeah they were console players... Aim assist is insane in this game...
I’m sorry, I really don’t wanna have to be that guy. I agree with pretty much everything you said and agree that the doctor ability is OP as hell… but…
You clearly missed the second DB shot at 5:20
Missed it but it hitmarkered? Either way they would have survived the shot
@@GhillieMaster You are probably right. That shit was ridiculous and he had more than half health after the first meatshot. Great video overall 👍
@@donovanjoseph737Yeah not to mention he gets instant healing in that circle too so any damage is just healed within a second
thats a stupid spot to put the sonar notification anyway
Only valid thing you said was the net code, it is like COD is paying all the mid yt channels to hate on the game. You didn't even increase your fov and you're a mf gta content creator. Do not find you as a valid source on FPS shooters
I wish COD paid me to hate on the game bro 😂. I did increase my FOV, been playing arcade shooters since the early COD days.
@@GhillieMaster your gameplay says otherwise...
Just me or any Ubisoft game is just average next to whatever is on the market..? The only multiplayer game that they made that’s somewhat unique and dare I say good is Siege. Ok I’m probably really much so way too harsh, but there’s practically no soul nor personality to most of their games as well. Too many gaming genres under one house if you ask me
Wow another Ubisoft game being shit this year, who would have thought
they have a riot shield in the game ? ;D wtf
I'm a the division main player here. I always have my doubts about xdefiant. I don't even needed to play the beta to know this Ubisoft at its mediocre and out of touch ideas.
Just from watching content creators play one match was enough for me to make up my mind about this
XDefiant lost their best launch window with MWII being in such a unenjoyable state. And with MWIII having the best Multi support in recent years, and the hype for Gulf War will most likely overshadow XDefiant if they launch
Their best launch window would probably be when Incompetent Ward drops another stinker to get the same hype they had in the beginning
In the days of SBMM, egregious microtransactions, and recycled content I'll gladly accept "mediocrity," especially if that product closely resembles the days when today's problems didn't exist. Old school feels fresh when "innovation" has made modern products painful to play
Me personally the only issue I have with the game is getting shot around a corner but everything from the movement and gun play is enjoyable and I’m loving this game
Anything Xdefiant gives will be better than current cod games
Crazy how cod has the same issue with hit detection as well
Honestly surprised you aren't glazing it like everybody else. It had potential yea definitely but it's issues and the largest being the delays after delays isn't helping at all but either they risk releasing a half baked hardly able to compete game or a fully baked game and hope that they fix it enough and make my good enough for people to want to play it over cod and hopefully give cod some competition. Unfortunately with the delays after delays my hopes for this game being a competitor to cod are dwindling 💀💀💀 Rip XDefiant dead even before release
Honestly it's knock off version of cod this hilarious I have a friend who says it's good I told her yeah you have fun with that she's still mad at me. Also no good story in xdefiant which is the Main thing. It's like GTA with God Mode 📳.
I enjoy the game enough to play it for a few hours here and there, but it is definitely not ever going to be considered my favorite FPS. The abilities and hero mechanics absolutely suck some of the fun out of the experience for me, especially on some of the abilities that cannot be countered whatsoever (firebomb, wall hacks, instant self heal).
I really think the ONLY truly casual FPS left is Battlefield. In a game with 64-128 players, there can never be EOMM or SBMM, meaning that you have 5-10 really good players on each team, 25ish average players, and 5-10 low skill players. Everyone gets to play against a variety of skills, and there are many ways for players to contribute other than getting kills (support, medics, vehicle drivers, pilots, gunners, etc.). Yes, 2042 did introduce some “hero” mechanics, but they have fortunately gotten rid of most of those over the course of the game’s lifecycle. There are absolutely sweats (I’m probably considered one), and the game has a skill gap, but it is not a competitive shooter by any stretch. Overall though, Battlefield really is the last truly casual game that nearly anyone, regardless of skill level, can hop into and find something to enjoy.
Movement is awesome but whats not ok is that your inputs like shooting the sniper get blocked but things like crouching and than your gun shoots after the animation finishes... it feels so bad... and the abilities are just annoying as fk... unlocking guns is to easy but lvling guns is such a boring grind...
It's a Ubisoft game. What did you expect? Lol
I get killed on the corner all the time, I dumped entire mags in few guys couldn't kill them instead they got me
Hate how every character has a special abilities and different health bars and the character skins are all clones nothing different
The janky movement, animations and aiming turned me off already. The stupid abilities were just topping on the cake. I had way more fun with MWII than I'll ever have with this. It feels like whenever ubisoft tries to copy something it becomes the same but worse
it’s crazy that there’s already cheats for the game & it’s not even out yet 😑
> Game looks like it has potential
> See who made it
"Ah... Nevermind"
I think the game is free to play and I personally didn't have a problem with hit detection.. It gives us another option of something to play.. This game will get better and better
Its funnny that one side just wants straight gunplay like old cod.
And the other side doesn't want heavy emphasis on shooting or gunplay and want og overwatch before they tried to appeal more to the shooter audience where your abilities mattered more than landing headshots like it does now.
And the gamung studios think they can appease both at the same time like nah you cant, yall just gotta make seperate games that target audiances instead of trying to slap everything into 1 game to capture everyone 😂
hit detection is still terrible i also played the early test not much has changed
It's like they did NOTHING for a whole year
Anyone wanna point me to the funny xdefiant video where they make fun of the punk rock mosh pit
The Finals clears im afraid.....
No but fr playing a few rounds of this made me realize how good we have it over there, ubisoft make a good game challenge impossible edition
Cod can't be kill its literally a unstoppable juggernaut
I enjoyed the first beta as it was during the same time period as mw2 it was good with barely any bunny hoppers or sweats in the server test i actually felt like they implemented sbmm or something as i been getting into matches where most of them are jumping bunny hoppers and when they are on my team they start to do crappy also plus they removed the echelon due to a bug issue so thats a plus but other the abilities are way too bullshit and broken especially the shield
They need a hardcore mode no abilities no bullshit less hp and less ttk