HUGE XDEFIANT UPDATE! Weapon Changes, Intel Suit Nerf, Spiderbot Changes & More... 

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Intel suit should be wall hacks for ONLY the player who activated it ONLY, giving the whole team wall hacks is ridiculous

I love that instead of nerfing guns in to the ground, buffing other guns to add more variety is the way! Keep it up!

This is what I've been waiting for. The amount of significant work they put in weekly is awesome. The buffing weak weapons as opposed to nerfing strong ones is a great approach to weapon balance not to be skimmed across

If net code and hit reg haven’t changed for the better,…this update doesn’t mean jack shit.

Man this game really needs the prestige system to come out already

They need to have a game mode with no abilities.

It just feels a little frustrating to see a new season and not really experience what feels like meaningful change with it coming out. I would really like to feel more of an impact of change when a new season drops in the future. Telling me to go grind like..... 80 levels in a battle pass for the only gun I am kind of sort of interested in feels bad.

Spider bot is like the worst or top 3 worst designed things in FPS history really needs to just be removed

Good on them for not nerfing the good stuff

1 faction per team for ranked needs to happen asap.

Im cool with the norm gun updates, but as a PC player the sniper changes dont make sense at all they are not an issue anywhere close to the MP7

FIX HIT REG!

Imma keep it a buck, I stopped playing this game a couple of weeks ago. It’s a good game, i honestly don’t know what it is. I just got bored

The M4A1 damage buff makes it so that it only takes 1 more bullet to kill a Phantom (it and the MDR were the only AR's that took 2 more bullets to kill a Phantom) but I'm pretty sure it doesn't change anything against non-Phantoms, so it's not a big buff. The MDR's damage buff matters more though. Now it can 5-shot kill non-Phantoms with either the Heavy Barrel or the Cleaners' incendiary burn damage, just like the MP7 and Vector. For the people who can control the MDR's recoil, it's going to be an absolute beast.

I wouldn’t be opposed to them getting rid of the spider bot

MDR short damage from 17 to 19. Which means heavy barrel is the way to go and with that it will be absolutely viable bcs you need one less shot to kill

Nerfing hip fire on snipers when the hip fire was already nonexistent is crazy

Neros they should fix the audio too because when I hear footsteps it sounds like they’re next to me but there below me what you think

the wider aim spread for snipers makes quick scoping harder. If you shoot before you get fully scoped in (takes longer now since the box is wider) you're more likely to miss.

I would honestly like a quick event feature (rapidly press a button 4-5 times) to disarm the spider bot. I feel when players get attacked by one and we have to look down at our feet, it still puts players in a bad spot from a visual queue. Why should we have to completely disengage from everything around us due to an “ability” that has no player interaction at all? Idk, that’s just my take.

I stopped playing. Got tired of bullets following me around corners

Is anybody’s abilities STILL locking out mid game?

Spider bot also shouldn't do any damage, its ridiculous that it does 40 damage.

I think the intel suit should only ping players for the player using the ability. The whole team being able to see you is a little much in my opinion especially when you have 3-5 intel suits on a single team

I don't know if this has happened to anyone else or it's just me but I've started to notice a lot more campers in TDM from people just leveling up guns faster

Am I alone or is anyone else starting to find the passive abilities that affect health to feel a bit unbalanced? (Phantom's extra 20 health & GSK's headshot Multiplier being one or less) I feel like the game would play a lot better especially in ranked if passive abilities didn't affect health but I Would love to know your thoughts.

they need to fix the chat where the voice comes through the TV not your mic no matter what settings you do

A bit salty about echelon nerf when phantoms are more popular but a bit bias. Couldve act more of a UAV for allies instead of allowing them to see through walls, but cant do much about it. Happy that they are buffing the weaker weapons instead of nerfing the good ones, cant wait to see it all implement and hope new bugs dont occur.

I would nerf the headshot multiplier on the MDR from 1.4 to 1.35 because as it stands you only need 3 headshots mixed with a body shot to get a 4 shot kill and that's a little too strong also i think the damage buff was enough I don't think the ads buff was necessary

One thing I’d personally kinda like to see the devs tweak a little bit is the visual recoil you get when shooting. XD seems to have quite a bit of it relatively-speaking compared to most arena style fps games, which I’m not against as I feel like it makes XD’s gunplay feel a little more unique, however it does feel like sometimes it can be a bit much, at least imo. There’s times where I have a hard time telling if my sights are actually even on target with how much they can bounce around. I’d like to see how the gunplay would feel if they toned it down even a tiny bit. Side note: maybe just me but I’m kinda glad they left the ACR/AK/MP7 alone for now. Yes they’re all very good weapons, but I don’t feel like they seem to be super OP to the point where they completely out-class every other gun to the point where they’re all unusable, like the meta weapons in cod tend to do

My grenade, mines constantly freeze mid throw and proceeds to give me some kind of error noise and disappear. That needs to be fixed. Oh and spider bot freezing you 2-3 seconds before it lands on your face also needs a fix. It sucks when your mid fight and your character freezes leaving you confused then 2-3 seconds later it latches on you and you die

This game is good, but honestly I haven’t touched it in weeks 😅 have no desire to go back to it

Spiderbot just needs to jump on your chest and give the shock effect but still allowing to fire weapon.

Leaving the mp7 and the ACR op af is crazy

I’m glad they buffed instead of nerfed things..let’s make everything good!

So... no server fix and hit reg again ranked still unplayble because off it and still no double weapon xp ? Ngl it suck when you accauly wanna play but cant

The third nerf to snipers, but still no adjustments to the MP7? I think I'm done with this game. I've been playing because it reminded me of the quick scoping days in MW2, but the constant sniper nerfs have ruined the experience for me. It's frustrating to get so much hate for being a sniper, but how would others feel if their favorite weapons got nerfed 3 times?

Keep the spider but rather than it jumping on your face it drops a flash or emp at your feet. Basically turn it into a homing flash.

I would love an attachment or an entire faction dedicated to minimizing hip fire spread on shotguns when jumping or sliding. I imagina that's one of tbe ways the devil keep shotguns in line but I wish we could minimize it somewhat. Idk where I heard it from but weapon unlock tokens would be good too so I could unlock the specific weapon in the battlepass I would like to use. I would love to ha e the sawed off before I get a sniper I'm likely not going to use often

Thanks for the breakdown! Excited for the m4 buff as well

Counter UAV for Dedsec sounds like a really cool idea.

i mean they just need to bring the weapon Xp from going on streaks to every game mode. Not limit it to just TDM, make it on every game mode, and maybe even add weapon XP from playing the objectives as well.

MDR with heavy barrel will be a 5 shot kill to the body up close and 6 shot to phantoms. Thats gonna be huge.

The water gun ACR Is one of my favorite skins hopefully they add more

The classic, “let’s give them something that originally was and always should have been tactic!” Like, giving us the option to somehow combat the bs spider ability, which they previously removed, so now it feels like a W! Super cool improvement man!

I think adding a little more flinch to snipers would have been better instead nerfing the sprint out time. That is all they need to do balance them out.

HUGE XDEFIANT UPDATE Dude, they mostly solved issues that was even working during preseason like abilities actually being able to be used xD

Dude, let's take a moment and respect the fact that xdefiant listens to their fans & they DELIVERED 💪 Make FPS great again👏

I stopped playing cuz disbanding lobby and takes forever to fill player in a new lobby after each match ,became annoying af

I enjoyed XDefiant but haven’t played since the pre-season, I don’t know, it just didn’t leave a big enough impression to return

People are forgetting the shock charge exists in bo2 and 3… that was equally as annoying

Ranked needs a complete overhaul to be score based and not based on win/lose. Ranked is unplayable as a solo player.

Need hard core... Casual 4v4 No ability mode Maybe a mode with all these together.

Love to see your video has more exact details then others.

What class is being used for the ACR. I have not found that awesome set of attachments yet, that I am confident I do not need to change.

seems they are3 going by the idea from old cod" nothing is overpowered if everything is overpowered" also the nerf to echelon suit is huge, essentially cut the ability effective time in half.

i would love to see a weapon statistics like cod has

Here’s my ideal patch based on how the game plays currently after this patch: - nerf the fire rate of the ACR by 5% - 7.5% - nerf the damage of the MP7 by 2.5% - Buff the LVOAs close range damage by 7.5% - Buff the SVD fire rate by 5% - melee attacks can remove the spider bot and it does only 20 damage and only needs 2 shots to be destroyed. - update the spawn logic & give like a 0.5 second spawn protection - have an AFK kick system

The problem with Spider Bot is not that it just blocks your vision, just stuns you, just does 40 damage and is just autoseeking; the problem is that it does ALL of that. Picking 1 or two of those attributes would be enough, much like the Seeker Drone from Black Ops 4 (where it only stunned and was autoseeking, and had a QTE to get it off quicker. It didn't do damage, it didn't blind you and it was larger), but not all of them. Plus it does seem like a very strange ability to have for a mostly disruption based faction. Unless this was one of the abilities in one of the Watchdogs games, it doesn't make a lot of sense. Even if it is, it would be better to have another ability that fits with theme better, preferably one that is nonlethal.

I'd nerf the MP7's max damage range to 12m, I'd increase the recoil on the AK and ACR a bit, I'd heavily nerf the mobility and handling of the TAC-50, I'd increase the 1911's magazine capacity by 1, I'd give the AA-12 a one hit potential out to 5m (requiring all pellets to hit), and I'd consider giving most ARs a short range 5 hit (5m to 15m depending on the gun).

People are sleeping on the m4 it’s one of the most underrated gun in the game

I would revert the flashbang animation change, buff the AA12, nerf the MP7, nerf intel suit by not giving your teamates wall hacks (just the user) and i would also remove spiderbot and give dedsec a different ability entirely. I also agree that objective score needs to give weapon xp. I love TD but i also love Domination and it is kind of a bummer that i have to play TD if im actually trying to level my guns up.

i wish the MK20 got buffed to where if you headshot close range that it should be a one tap

Alot of people like the spider bot so I wouldn't tske it out I would make it slightly larger so that it's easier to kill or make it so it's not able to turn around and just always moving forward

They should make the spider bots take less shots to break when it’s crawling to you

Just got the game cause I was looking for a game to play with my friend and I saw this and it looks sick

The season pass needs an overhaul, only 3 new maps and weapons per season is lacking severely. Especially if the seasons are 4 months long

Idk about anyone else but there are so many time I aim down sight with a sniper and pull the trigger for a quick scope only for my sniper to not fire until I’ve unaimed down sight. And that’s with attachments for ads speed and sprint to fire speed. So nerfing the sprint to fire is concerning

Buffing the non meta weapons is such a huge W. It’s clear they want faster gameplay.

They need to add some way to replenish ammo. There’s no ammo replenishment in an FPS. add ammo crates to the maps or give someone the ability to drop ammo or something

Spider boy should just be changed to like a scrambler that disables the ability for enemies to active their devices that is planted on the floor. Dedsecs phone should have a larger radius at which it disables enemy equipment.

I don’t think the mp5 needed a buff. It’s my favorite gun in the game and I just got it to max level. Pretty underrated gun.

Downloaded this game last night, might wait until update is out to give it a go

I hope they fix the mastery camo skins on the LVOA-C. The iron sights changed when you put on any of the the mastery skins

only things im sour about is the 125 passive health, shotguns not being buffed yet or reworked, and most of all, i didnt really feel the impact that i felt when the season 1 drop was quoted. along other things, otherwise amazing game

Update sounds pretty good tbh

I don't play it but buff shotguns damage and range suppressors and red dots in the map boots vest 😊

I like that they are buffing instead of nerfing right now. I think they'd get more push back if they started nerfing weapons people really like. Just buff others and people will expand what they use. I think the Echelon was fine. They could've just left it the way it was, but made it only visible by the user and not the whole team. I'm really happy they're claiming to have fixed the bugged abilities. I really liked using Cleaners on Dom to clear out spots and hadn't used them in a while due to the inconsistent execution of the firebomb.

Not touching the game until Hitreg and connection is stable and at least bearable but they are doin good with the game content wise

They need to make all xp you get count towards your weapon. I really just only play TDM because of the weapon grind, and I didn't mind it for the first 2 weeks when it was new, but now I just don't play the objective based game modes anymore that were the premise of this game: to have more of a community that would play objective instead of being a slayer.

Noti squad🥳🥳

Personally I'd try to make the game more fun, add dual wielding,badd funny game modes like capture the rabbid or toy soldiers like they did in CODWW2, add really cool events like horde mode for halloween or King of the hill but everyone is an elf fighting etc

Could we please have saved weapon loadouts? It’s a little bit frustrating to try and experiment with a weapon you’ve find already attachments you like - you always gotta remember which ones you were using before…

I always think that it is better to buff weak guns instead of nerf the strong ones, when overall similar level is reached through buffs then its great! (I used to play R6S)

Good stuff😀👍

Huge update? The biggest cap of this summer so far...

Am I the only not bothered by the fact that they havent done any weapon balancing changes yet? All things considered i never felt completely at a disadvantage using something that isnt an mp7, acr, ak... I know im only one perspective but i really thought the weapon balance was pretty decent. Of course ill welcome some buffs and nerfs all the same.

I say spider bots are good for the game, but it needs to be worked on, make them die to 1-2 bullets when their coming at you, make the hitbox slightly bigger, make reduce how much damage they do and time they stick to your face, and make the cooldown a bit longer

After taking a break from the game, here’s what i think they should do: Add a Scavenger system.

Great video! But question, whats that acr class setup?

All weapons should be buffed not nerfed ever just make them equally powerful not weaker.

mdr buff is kinda crazy ngl

This game wouldn’t be as fun and unique without the faction abilities.

Thanks!

Get that spiderbot and intel suit out of the game! They can replace the intel suit with a sweep of the radar like a UAV instead of giving precise positions and spiderbot could have been replaced with the trophy system or the emp granade instead of it being a device.

Finally a counter to the spider bot

Before I watch the video Hope they address the cheese 🧀 -Spider bot -Jump shot -Snipers And Overall guns balanced like the ACR & MP7 just being the best guns by miles

I just run hijack for the spider bots lol and i need better hit detection on ppl crouching and jumping.

Is it just me that still has issues with hit detection (dying around corners) and TTK no matter what attachments you use? Bc these two things are so bad for me that I can’t even make it through 3 games without rage quitting