After years of marketing, delays, betas, and name changes, XDefiant from Ubisoft is finally here and...
things aren’t going very well so far. Players are currently unable to find matches as the game’s servers can’t seem to cope with the large influx of people. XDefiant —out now on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC—is Ubisoft’s big-budget free-to-play Call of Duty -like first-person online shooter.
The FPS has had a long road to release. It was first announced back in July 2021 as Tom Clancy’s XDefiant , but in March 2022 the game dropped the “Tom Clancy” bit and expanded to include characters and locations from various Ubisoft-owned franchises, like Far Cry and Watch Dogs . In 2023, it got its first big open-beta playtest and I enjoyed its fast-paced, Black Ops II -like gameplay.
Later that year, it was delayed twice . But now, after all that, XDefiant is out. You may struggle to jump in and play it, however.
Poking around online, XDefiant isn’t completely broken. I’ve found streams online of people playing it. However, in my testing on Xbox, I was unable to join a match and was stuck in a lobby waiting for something to happen.
And even players who do get into matches have reported long waits to get into another. We’re aware that some players are unable to join a game- please bear with us while we look into servers and matchmaking! — XDefiant (@PlayXDefiant) May 21, 2024 At 1:30 pm EST , the official XDefiant Twitter account posted that it was aware that �.
