XDefiant Update Seemingly Made a Faction Far Better Than It Deserves to Be
DedSec seems to have received quite the upgrade in XDefiant's latest update.
Even as Ubisoft’s XDefiant struggles to keep its players hooked despite a bunch of changes to the game, the company has not given up on trying to make its Call of Duty killer click with its players.
While XDefiant’s take on the first-person shooter genre can be considered a breath of fresh air compared to its competition, with factions taken straight from the best of Ubisoft’s extensive library of successful franchises, the game has struggled to retain its players and attracts a lot of negative feedback about many of its in-game mechanics.
Can Watch Dogs’ DedSec Revive XDefiant?
Ubisoft’s efforts to bring its declining player count back to acceptable levels in XDefiant have met with varying levels of success. The game has faced a lot of backlash from disgruntled players ever since it was released earlier this year, with producer Mark Rubin seemingly at his wit’s end on how to make it work for its players.
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However, a recent update to the game has potentially made DedSec from Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs quite powerful overall and particularly effective at helping players win the game’s Linear Mode missions like Escort and Zone Control, which many players have found too monotonous to play.
Hacking Their Way to Victory
Unlike a few players in other titles using hacks to gain an advantage over their enemies, XDefiant’s DedSec faction uses its talents in a different way but achieves similar results.
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Players who choose the notorious faction enjoy several special abilities that they can then cleverly use to clear out enemy teams with minimal effort, as showcased by the Reddit post below.
Other DedSec players have responded to the original post, agreeing with how easy it is to use the faction’s Spider Bot and Fabricators to create minefields that their opponents have found quite hard to successfully navigate.
Other players address a seemingly endless stream of complaints about the game with a humorous resolution.
Although Ubisoft may have to take responsibility for many of XDefiant’s issues, even as other problems could be arguably out of its control, some players are pointing out legitimate issues that could be fixed to make the game better, with DedSec’s new improvements exposing serious balancing issues in the game.
Perhaps paying attention to what its players have to say could help Ubisoft set things right with XDefiant and allow the game to live up to its full potential as a shooter with a very unique premise.
It could certainly help the game fix its declining player count while getting more people to join in on the fun once the game reaches a better place than the unfortunate one it currently finds itself in.
