XDefiant Has Managed to Make an Iconic Throwable Broken, Useless, and a Waste of Time
Changes to factions, attachments, and throwables have worked in tandem to derail Ubisoft's efforts to make XDefiant live up to its potential.
XDefiant continues to be a source of woe for Ubisoft. The game’s unique premise of bringing the best of its franchises together into a shooter that promised unique mechanics and an exciting gameplay loop when it was launched is now a hotbed of complaints from players who remain disappointed with its mechanics and execution.
Despite Ubisoft’s attempts to deliver on the experience that XDefiant initially promised, recent updates to the game have only served to open up a can of worms with regard to its balancing, with several disgruntled players expressing their discontent with how varying factions and weapons serve only to ruin their matches instead of elevating them.
XDefiant’s Baffling Decisions Keep Going
Despite producer Mark Rubin’s efforts to bring XDefiant back on track to be the successful shooter it was intended to be, the game continues to suffer from poorly executed weapons and tools that have been heavily criticized by its players. It’s an issue that has been further compounded by game modes that players have found boring and stale to the extent that the game has faced a rapid decline in its player counts since it launched earlier this year.
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The latest in a series of complaints against XDefiant updates nerfing useful weapons is aimed at a tool that most players would find very handy in a game that requires them to eliminate their opponents as quickly and efficiently as they can. Taking to Reddit to express their frustration, players are wondering how Ubisoft could have chosen to make this particular throwable so redundant during matches.
XDefiant’s Best Weapons Work Against It
In the aftermath of Barrels being nerfed into oblivion, Ubisoft has now trained its guns on Flashbangs – and its players are having none of it.
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The Reddit post below showcases just how annoying players are finding the latest changes made to what could have been a great tool for them to use in their arsenal.
With inaccuracies in its aim as well as its tendency to work against the player who uses it, the Flashbang has become the latest thorn in Ubisoft’s attempts to fix XDefiant. The response below from another player showcases just how bad things are for those trying to use Flashbangs during matches.
The Flashbang’s effects have also been called into question, with many players of the opinion that their effects should not last as long as they do in the current version even as they do not seem to work the same way against opponents.
While some players have learned how to work with Flashbangs in their current form, the fact remains that Ubisoft needs to listen to its players and make drastic changes to XDefiant to make it measure up against its competitors.
Until then, however, it seems that XDefiant is going to continue bleeding out, losing the few players it has left despite being a title that still has a lot of potential to be among the best.
