Ubisoft's free-to-play shooter XDefiant experienced a remarkable player rise during its launch, with 1 million unique players within just two and a half hours of going live. At the peak of the launch day, the game recorded an impressive half a million concurrent players logged in simultaneously. While the huge player turnout at launch caused server issues and long wait times, the problems were fixed within 8-10 hours.
XDefiant is reportedly Ubisoft's quickest game to reach 1 million unique players As per , Ubisoft's free-to-play shooter XDefiant is the publisher's fastest-ever game to reach 1 million unique players. In just 48 hours since its launch, XDefiant has amassed over 3 million unique players and boasts around 300,000 concurrent players across all platforms. It's hard to say how successful XDefiant is, but Apex Legends, a very popular game, got 1 million players in 8 hours and 2.
5 million in 24 hours when it launched in 2019 on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. However, players have spotted cheaters in XDefiant. XDefiant employs BattlEye anti-cheat, the same system used in popular games like Rainbow Six Siege and Escape from Tarkov.
Escape from Tarkov and Rainbow Six Siege are known for their cheating issues which often results in bans for those who try and exploit the mechanics of the illegally. Since XDefiant is also a free to play game, banned users can simply make a new account and they're good to go again which means players would have to keep on just reporting them and tha.
