Ubisoft Call of Duty Rival XDefiant Gets Hefty Final Update Ahead of Shutdown Next Year

Ubisoft’s failed Call of Duty rival XDefiant has obtained a hefty remaining replace at present, December 18, forward of its shutdown in 2025.

The XDefiant X/Twitter account shared the patch notes, beneath, whereas govt producer Mark Rubin thanked followers and the event crew in his personal post for his or her dedication to the sport since earlier than and after its Might 2024 launch.

“I want everybody who labored on this recreation immediately or not directly the very best for his or her future endeavors,” Rubin stated. “And the identical goes for all of the followers who performed our recreation, who streamed it, or who labored to construct the XDefiant neighborhood.”

XDefiant’s remaining S3.0+ replace contains the beforehand introduced Assassins class, that are modelled after Murderer’s Creed’s titular heroes, alongside myriad extra options that have been deliberate for now cancelled future seasons.

This features a whole of three new factions, 13 new maps, a brand new expertise referred to as Tactical, a method of gaining expertise versus bots, new weapons, new development mechanics for Faction Mastery and Badges, and extra.

xDefiant is a free-to-play, fast-paced enviornment shooter that mixes intense gunplay with customized loadouts and specialised factions. However that market might be extremely brutal, and maybe after PlayStation enviornment shooter Harmony was shut down after simply two weeks available on the market, some followers of xDefiant grew involved for its longevity.

Whereas Rubin stated in September that XDefiant “is completely not dying,” Ubisoft introduced earlier this month it could be shut down on June 3, 2025.

XDefiant Update S3.0+ Patch Notes

Factions

New Faction: Assassins

• Hiding in plain sight by way of the centuries, the Assassins have waged a clandestine struggle towards their historical enemies, the Templars, to safeguard human freedom. Assassins mix rigorous fight coaching, unconventional weaponry, and a sixth sense to trace and take out their targets. Their signature Hidden Blade is a one-hit melee elimination.
• The Assassins obtain fight steerage from Rebecca Crane, the technical genius who developed the Animus 2.0, a complicated mannequin of the machine that lets Assassins relive genetic recollections. She guided some of the Order’s most well-known Assassins, together with Desmond Miles. With Crane’s help, the Assassins work at the hours of darkness to serve the sunshine, combating oppression with deadly power.

New Faction: Wolves

• Ex-special forces gone rogue, Wolves make use of an arsenal of Skell Tech drones for each offense and protection. The Wolves trait permits the pack to be a sight unseen, undetected by AI skills and gadgets. Their Legion drone acts like a homing proximity mine, whereas the Stolas is successfully a cellular turret. And their extremely, Drone Swarm, is the final phrase on space denial.

New Faction: Blood Dragon

• Tremendous-deadly cyber commandos from a darkish future the place cyborgs and mutants collide. Use your cyberstrength, throw lethal shuriken, strike together with your shock punch, or use the Killstar laser to deal large injury.

Fixes and Adjustments:

Cleaners

Mounted a pair of glitches with the Cleaners’ Incinerator Drone when Hijacked by a DedSec participant:

• The Drone not explodes subsequent to the participant who Hijacked it.
• The Drone now leaves a whole fireplace path again to its level of origin.

Echelon

• Now not have a 50% discount in flash grenade length debuff

Phantoms

• AEGIS – Addressed situation with photographs not registering at level clean vary.
• Blitz – Elevated motion velocity to really “Blitz” your opponent.

DedSec

• Spiderbots 2.0 – We obtained the message. Spiderbots, DedSec’s infuriatingly face-adjacent electro-minions, at the moment are much less in your face and extra of an area-of-effect menace. When activated, Spiderbots will now dutifully comply with their deploying participant for 30 seconds, emitting an electromagnetic pulse that disrupts all enemy tools inside a 10-meter radius. And with that, the period of Spiderbot facehugging involves an in depth.

Highwaymen

1. Mounted a problem that will lock the talent when activating proper after a weapon swap
2. This could now have injury dealt whereas on totally different elevations
3. Improved dealing with and reload velocity
4. Cooldown decreased to 40s

1. Elevated ammo depend
2. Addressed situation with injury inconsistency

Maps

New S3 Maps

• Mykonos (Area): Expertise the island of Mykonos like the traditional Greeks did, besides with extra rooftop firefights, on this new map for Season 3. Your itinerary contains sprinting by market stalls, looking for roof entry for the excessive floor, and leaping throughout boat decks in high-risk flanking maneuvers.
• El Barrio (Area)
• Jorvik (Linear)
• Animus Anomaly (Tactical): Historic worlds collide in Animus Anomaly, a brand new corridor-style map for Season 3. Hunker down amongst Viking castles, flank across the waterways of historical Greece, or exit with a growth within the new Defuse tactical variant of BOMB!.

New Future Maps – These maps have been scheduled for later seasons however have been an excessive amount of enjoyable to not launch!

Area

• Carlyle’s Lab
• Enchanted Forest
• Killstar Temple
• Razia’s Realm
• Skell Metropolis
• West Finish

Linear

• Skell Advanced
• Esperanza
• Himalaya

Fixes and Adjustments:

• Changes have been carried out to invisible collision and areas the place gamers have been capable of leap to locations which might be out of bounds for the map.
• Changes to some maps the place scrap turrets have been additionally being positioned the place they’re not presupposed to be.
• DUMBO has decked the halls to be extra festive for the vacations
• Gamers can not climb and leap their approach into what was presupposed to be an inaccessible space of some maps, the place they have been utilizing El Remedio to heal allies and doing different sneaky exploits.
• Many maps have undergone enhancements to mantling which ought to now be mounted in a number of map areas that beforehand weren’t.
• Map voting enhancements

Sport Modes

New Modes:

Defuse

• This season sees the debut of Defuse, a tactical and slower-paced model of BOMB!. Groups take turns planting and defending bomb websites, but all gamers solely have one life. Defuse is designed for play on a brand new “hall” kind map, on this case the Animus Anomaly created completely for this class.

Vs Bots

• There’s now a Vs Bots choice the place you’ll be able to face off towards various ranges of computer systems. You’ll even earn XP by battling bots. Though at a slower tempo with human enemies.

Lum Hunt

• Catch them should you can, Lums (beings of pure power possessing of a mindbogglingly sunny disposition) have been positioned across the Enchanted Forest map on this variant of Scorching Shot. Additionally accessible in Non-public Matches.

Tilt

• Now accessible in our Linear playlists, this mode is a simultaneous battle over who can push round Carlos essentially the most, poor robotic.

Turbo XD

• Tremendous leap your technique to victory on this gravity defying mode.

New Occasion Modes Playlist

• From one shot kill, to headshots solely, and even no abilities allowed, there’s just a little one thing for everybody on this playlist. With nobody right here to make names for them, we want you the perfect of luck to determine them out.

Fixes and Adjustments:

• Workforce balancing overhaul to make sure the fairest matches.

BOMB!

• A number of quality-of-life enhancements to BOMB! spectator cam.
• Planting and Defusing conduct improved to not battle with different recreation options like trying on the scoreboard.

Non-public Match

• Mounted a problem the place the foyer menu would turn into clean after one other participant accepts a non-public match social gathering invite.
• Now lets you choose the server you want to play on.

Ranked

Ranked BOMB!

• With Capability Restrictions nonetheless in place, we took it 1 step additional and you’ll solely be allowed to make use of your capacity as soon as per life.
• Spherical timer modified in Ranked BOMB! from 2 minutes to 1min 30s, plant and defuse instances adjusted, and Spherical 11 will go to highest scoring crew.

High 500 Leaderboard

• Season 3 sees the debut of the High 500 leaderboard, which showcases the highest 500 gamers globally every season as they progress by way of the ranks till the season’s finish. These prime gamers are displayed in descending order of whole Rank Factors earned within the present season. Highlighting a participant on the Leaderboard shows the next stats:

1. Present rank insignia and RP whole.
2. Win/Loss: Participant’s ratio of wins to losses.
3. Kill/Demise: Participant’s ratio of kills to deaths.
4. Common Rating/Minute: Participant’s common rating per minute.
5. MVPs: Quantity of instances the participant earned MVP.

Ranked Emblem in HUD

• Proudly show your ranked tier proper in your heads-up show for all to see.

New Ranked Rewards

• New S3 particular Ranked Rewards can be found (to everybody).

Fixes and Adjustments:

• Matchmaking ranges have been disabled and take part progress has been enabled in order that matches are simpler to search out.
• Decreased the forfeit timer length from 20s to 5s.
• Gamers are not pulled out of energetic Ranked recreation classes after accepting the Occasion invite for a Non-public Match.
• Added a brand new menu expertise, now gamers will be capable of seek for video games and leap again to the Ranked menu tab to view rewards, information, and the highest 500 leaderboard.
• Eliminated Domination and CTF from Ranked playlists.

Weapons

Assault Rifle

• FAMAS – The FAMAS is a burst-fire rifle just like the M16A4 however with sooner ADS time, motion, and charge of fireplace. It’s slower to reload, nonetheless, and inflicts much less harm per shot.
• G36K

Sub-Machine Gun

Gentle Machine Gun

• MG5 – Regardless of its shorter vary and decrease ammo capability than different belt-fed LMGs, the MG5 with its larger charge of fireplace makes it a robust and versatile choice for individuals who can grasp its difficult recoil.

Marksman

• M1A – An agile warhorse constructed for medium-range battles, the M1A presents a speedy charge of fireplace however offers much less per-shot injury in comparison with different marksman rifles.

Sniper Rifle

Pistol

Fixes and Adjustments:Sawed-off Shotgun Steadiness Adjustment

• The vary and injury potential of the Sawed-Off Shotgun have been adjusted to higher focus it on its supposed function as a short-range kill-finisher and stop it from killing full-health opponents with a single shot.

1. Brief Vary decreased from 8m -> 6m
2. Medium Vary decreased from 12m -> 10m
3. Brief Vary Injury decreased from 12 -> 11
4. Bullets Per Spherical decreased from 12 -> 9

• Tweaked smoke grenade results in order that some elements of beauty skins will not be seen by way of the smoke, whereas additionally enhancing the scale, form, and transparency of the smoke particles and radius of impact.
• Adjusted the digital camera shake in order that now it’s based mostly on distance to explosion. Eliminated pleasant explosion digital camera shake.

Attachments

Tapered Barrel

Launched the Tapered Barrel, an attachment for many weapons that will increase dealing with velocity however reduces injury. Listed below are the pluses and minuses:

1. 25 % enhance to sprint-out time
2. 15 % ADS velocity improve
3. 5 % motion velocity improve

1. 20 % short-range injury lower
2. 20 % medium-range injury lower
3. 10 % ADS strolling velocity lower

• In different phrases, this barrel will enable you to scoot across the map at a zippier tempo, however you may doubtless must land extra photographs than regular to get kills.

New Reticle Customization

• New for Season 3: Personalized reticules. Gamers can unlock new reticule shapes and regulate their colours (a useful characteristic for gamers with colorblindness). Customized reticules will likely be tied to particular person loadouts.

Fixes and Adjustments:

• Mounted a graphical glitch that permit gamers see components of their weapon barrel by way of the Reflex and Holographic sights.
• Mounted a lagging journal when participant reloads weapons.
• Mounted floating when utilizing left-handed abilities and reloads.
• Mounted a scope crosshair lacking when participant ADS in spectating mode.
• A number of skins have had their sights adjusted to match the bottom weapon getting used.
• Numerous visible enhancements

Development

Status System!

• Introducing Status, an optionally available new development system that rewards long-haul dedication with flashy cosmetics and indulgent emblems that showcase your expertise to different gamers. Accessible to anybody who has accomplished their Base Challenges, Status resets participant progress in trade for an eye catching Status Emblem. All starter and owned weaponry are locked – besides the M4, M9, and frag grenade – however might be earned as gamers earn XP and Status Tokens to entry their authentic gear plus new weapons till they full the present Status Tier and purchase the following eye-catching emblem. Gamers can choose out of Status at any time and recuperate their weapons, or they’ll decide to unlocking the ultimate Status Emblem, the last word show of dedication.

Badges!

• Badges are half of a mysterious new challenge-based development system the place gamers earn Badges for performing spectacular feats and interesting with the sport in artistic methods. All Badge challenges have hidden necessities, encouraging gamers to go surfing and have interaction with the XDefiant neighborhood. Badges also can evolve, requiring gamers to finish the problem a second or third time however with more difficult necessities for achievement.

Faction Mastery!

• Permits gamers to stage up characters, earn prestigious rewards, and monitor their development inside the recreation

Pristine Weapon Mastery Pores and skin

• A brand new Pristine Weapon Mastery pores and skin is unlocked at weapon stage 50 as an early reward to encourage gamers to pursue Weapon Mastery. These new Pristine skins are like unmarred, fresh-from-the-factory variations of these weapons. Pristine skins are retroactively utilized to any weapons which have already reached stage 50.

Day by day Rewards and Credit

• Gamers can now earn varied rewards only for logging into the sport. Larger rewards are granted each fifth and tenth login. The times don’t have to be consecutive.
• Credit are a model new in-game forex. Use Credit to purchase cosmetics from earlier seasons, providing you with the chance to get any skins you’ll have missed again then, however you’ve every part now, in order that’s good

Fixes and Adjustments:

• Some Challenges, significantly these associated to faction characters, weren’t progressing on the primary menu, however now they’re.

Audio

• Battle announcer strains have been tweaked for his or her frequency of play:

1. Strains asserting loss of life streaks (or dying a number of instances with out killing an enemy) will set off much less usually (now gamers must die 5 instances moderately than three, and the loss of life streaks will solely set off in the course of the second half of a match).
2. Strains associated to affected by fireplace injury (from the Air purifier, (Firebomb, Incendiary Drone–actually something involving the Cleaners) will set off much less ceaselessly.

• Phantoms – Blitz – Now has sounds for blocking a melee assault and for attacking others with a Blitz Protect.
• GSK – Hardhat – Audio improved for influence affirm headshot
• Highwaymen – M79 – Now has sounds for hit affirm and influence affirm with the M79.
• Different varied audio enhancements.

Miscellaneous

• New Murderer’s video on the primary menu
• New Profession Stats web page
• New Retailer Structure
• New Weapon Examine
• Enter-based matchmaking is now disabled by default for sooner matchmaking instances.
• Mounted varied crashes and errors

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.