XDefiant Is A Mediocre Experience... 

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 😂

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...

It feels like cod mobile and battlefield had a deformed offspring

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!

I’m gonna be honest, I was hyped for this game and then now I completely forgot this game even existed

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

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.

Worst hit detection in a mp game period

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.

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.

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!

MWIII > XDefiant

I remember the days when people said this game would kill Cod 💀🤦🏻‍♀️

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. 😭

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.

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.

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.

every ubi game has questionable hit detection

I feel like Team Fortress 2 is really needing to be revived at this point

oh that “healing” ability would make me shatter a window

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! 😩

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.

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

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.

oh yeah this is a thing. thanks for covering it my dude. hope you are doing well.

This game was trash im sorry the graphics look like a ps3 game and it feels janky

i don’t wanna be that guy, but i’m not surprised that a Ubisoft title is pretty mediocre lol

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.

long story short - don’t play it just play Roblox phantom forces 🖤

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.

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

I installed it yesterday morning, not even halfway through the beta. It's just soooo barebones.

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.

I mean is it really that surprising for a Ubisoft game?

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

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.

Would love to see your opinions on The Finals. It's a very welcome departure from CoD and it's imitations.

1:01 man you instantly reminded me of that one pivotkid85 video I just had to watch it again

when the net code is good this game feels amazing hopefully they can work it out for release

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

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

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 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.

great vid ghillie. like the complete transparency

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?

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).

thats a stupid spot to put the sonar notification anyway

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

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

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...

Crazy how cod has the same issue with hit detection as well

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

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

I was so uninterested in this game the minute I found out there was no killstreaks in playing my first match last year.

I just played 1 game and uninstalled. Feels so dated... there are much better options out there, like The Finals for example

I tried to give the game a chance but there’s too many gadgets involved in every gunfight to be enjoyable.

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

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.

it should be renamed sweat jump kids with guns lmao

Isn’t this game basically a fps crossover game with a bunch of Ubisoft games?

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

I get killed on the corner all the time, I dumped entire mags in few guys couldn't kill them instead they got 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

Anything Xdefiant gives will be better than current cod games

It’s coming out this month on the 21

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

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.

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 played this last weekend and the experience was awfull the hit reg is super inconsistent, the latency issues are way more notorious than other shooters and the movement is super broken there a just jump-courch spammers every match , the slide distance and speed is excesive and there is almost no flinch for snipers what make them broken no matter if you started to shoot waaay before the sniper with any other weapon you are dead and the balance of habilities another thing that need work the medic that heals themselvers are almost inmortal in 1vs 1 and 2 vs 1 and the phantoms shield have too much HP if this is the state of the game after years of testing closed betas the future of this looks so short and bad

"Hey phantom nice weiner!" Now that's the kind of team encouragement I need!! 😂

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

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

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

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 📳.

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 like they did NOTHING for a whole year

they have a riot shield in the game ? ;D wtf

This game reminds me of a game that came out around 15yr ago 😂😂😂😂😂🎉🎉

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 they’ll fix it. Day one patch.

Halo infinite and apex still have these problems since launch especially halo

2:34 Ayo lmaooooo😂

hit detection is still terrible i also played the early test not much has changed

Sbmm is king and should NEVER go away

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.

Never seen a game get dunked on do hard 😂😂😂😂😂 all that hype

Wow another Ubisoft game being shit this year, who would have thought

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

Damn! Shots fired! And not in the game cause it's broken

Hate how every character has a special abilities and different health bars and the character skins are all clones nothing different

It feels like cod mobile but a little worse

So what you're saying is, there's no cookies 😢😐

It looked mediocre and not really thought through since the first alpha. I would love this game to be good but for me it’s just not enough to make me come back for longer than like a day or two

Moving on

Cod can't be kill its literally a unstoppable juggernaut

Can’t find a Shooter game anymore that’s decent

It's a Ubisoft game. What did you expect? Lol