Highlights
- XDefiant’s latest update addresses social issues and miscellaneous bugs, improving crossplay settings and fixing party invite glitches.
- Some players were disappointed with the update, hoping for more fixes, especially regarding sniper rifles, but big changes are promised in the next patch.
XDefiant has just released a new update, fixing a few social issues and other miscellaneous matters. Since its launch, the XDefiant team has been responsive and attentive to player feedback, releasing updates to address most concerns.
XDefiant, Ubisoft’s new free-to-play FPS, has been a big success so far. At its launch, XDefiant broke Ubisoft records, attracting more than 500,000 concurrent users on launch day and three million unique users within 48 hours of its launch.
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XDefiant‘s latest update fixes some of these problems, mainly social ones. One of the fixes improves crossplay settings visibility when in a party, while another corrects social names displaying incorrectly in the XDefiant friend list. An issue was related to party invites for Xbox and PlayStation players. Instead of the invite coming from Ubisoft Connect, it was showing as if it was from the console network, which shouldn’t be the case. Finally, the update fixes a crash caused by spamming the View Party Invites screen.
Among the miscellaneous updates are various security improvements, a fix to missing terrain textures for players joining matches in progress, and a repair to a situation that allowed PS5 players to sneak into where they shouldn’t. Although every fix is welcome, some players were hoping to see more out of this update. Since launch, players have complained about the sniper rifles in XDefiant. The game’s executive director, Mark Rubin, commented on Twitter that an upcoming patch would address the weapon. Many expected this patch would balance the sniper rifle, but that wasn’t the case. According to Rubin, these big changes will come in next week’s patch.
As a free-to-play live-service game, XDefiant is highly dependent on player feedback. For example, the game has an in-game shop and battle pass, which supplies players with various cosmetics. However, some players have complained that XDefiant has no free skins, a feature traditionally common in other FPS games. The XDefiant team is very transparent regarding future updates, but they haven’t commented on the possible inclusion of free skins.
On social media, players have asked if the game will add a mode like Search & Destroy or a Killcam feature to it, and, at the time, the developers said yes, eventually, XDefiant will receive these two new features, along with many other additions and fixes. So there is still hope for other community concerns to be addressed as well.
XDefiant Y1S0.2 Patch Notes
Social
- While in a party, we now display the most restrictive Crossplay setting among the party members, as it applies to the whole party. Also fixed an issue where party members with differing Crossplay settings couldn’t matchmake.
- Fixed an issue with displaying incorrect player names on some Social screens.
- Fixed a crash caused by spamming open/close View Party Invites, but who would even do that, calm down.
- On consoles, Ubisoft Connect party invites could display as if they were coming from Xbox or PlayStation Network friends. Fixed that, along with some other weird invite-related things.
Miscellaneous
- Fixed some missing terrain textures when players joined matches in progress on some maps.
- Input-Based Matchmaking setting status now updates correctly after changing it on Xbox.
- Fixed a thing on PS5 where people could sneak into places they shouldn’t via PS5 Activities.
- Security improvements, various.