I like BT, but that video was a nothing-burger with a little "trust me bro" on the side. Tom Henderson has far too much to lose to not do his due diligence before breaking a story that big. BT said, "Well, the content is already done, so why wouldn't they put it out?" On the heels of Concord's shutdown, we know that the game has over a year's worth of cinematics done and had a television show in pre-production. I love xDefiant. I want to crack open a nice can of copium and pray the game will be just fine two years from now, but we as a community have to help the dev team find those rotting issues and respectfully report them. Just like we've been doing with OBJ XP, lack of progression, faction balancing, lackluster cosmetics, and the pricing structure of said cosmetics. The maps are awesome, the weapon balance is fine, I find matches quickly, and I rarely die behind walls. This team is damn committed to fixing the issues, so we shouldn't shield them from criticism when they are willing to address it. When the game is where it needs to be, it'll have to be a joint effort between us, the players, and Ubisoft to signal boost it. The mainstream audience rarely gives anything an opportunity to make a 2nd impression and I do believe Ubisoft SF has more work to do before I can personally go to bat for it and get my friends to re-download it. I'll keep playing, but ultimately, I trust Tom Henderson more than BT on proper journalism being conducted.
All I care about is that the game is fun. I have noticed that my average KD in this game is like 3 something, whereas I've been stuck at a 1.7 KD in Modern Warfare III. I also tend to win most of the game I play, especially if I really push myself to win. Most of the time my teammates do suck, but at least I am not going against CDL players on the enemy team because the game isn't trying to keep me at a 1.0 KD and a 1.0 Win Loss. I do not believe that this game is dead, COD will always be bigger, they have been around of decades, XDEFIANT just pulled up this year. They don't have a set Formula yet. They don't have decades of nostalgia behind the game like COD does.
I'm not sure if it's just down to experience with the Cod series but I have an inverse K/D with Cod at 2.0 with strict SBMM but XDefiant is only 1.2. I think my game sense is just more attuned to Cod since I played it occasionally for 20 years. But yeah Cod is way more sweaty as far as matchmaking goes, going up against full parties playing solo happens way more often in COD than XDefiant for me.
@jonathanmatos714 @AJakofAllTradez I enjoy both and rotate games, but tend to jump back into xDefiant, because I love the feel of movement, factions, maps, and gun feel. It feels so much more special when I get an MVP in xDefiant.
To me i think bt is full of copium shit. Why would Activision wanna shut down xdefiant? Xdefiant is already one foot in the grave and not to mention Ubisoft is already nearly a walking corpse. Now I do enjoy both games both have its goods and its down right awfuls.
what i said lol and truth has been doing this BS for ten plus yrs lol and why would Microsoft and activision risk billions on a game thats already dead and all the fault of the devs and company not cod. theres nobody over on cods end talking crap about X its the X players being toxic and pushing blame on cod and not the devs and need to stop using bo6 which was a beta and start pushing blame on the devs talking and doing nothing but braking the game more and more. this coping is sad and since when is it ok or ever been ok to wait for any game to be fix in a year at the latest and cyberpunk doesn't count cause broken the game was still great not like this nothing lol
Yea this game is dying by itself, blaming cod or activision is soo huge of a cope . Them “listening “ disgruntled cod players didn’t work as they thought it will. Blaming competitors for game’s fault is just stupid.
It's crazy that anyone would believe Blame Truth over one of the gaming industries' most trusted sources, especially when BT is incredibly biased. This is insane cope by Xdefiant fans.
@@TheSparkynuts I know what you mean, you said “anyone who would believe blame truth” The question is did you watch blame truths video, cause BT didn’t say that Tom was wrong nor did he slander Tom , but instead pointed out discrepancies between the information and said take with a grain of salt his tin foil hat idea.
@kazkatgamer6722 yes I did and he indicated tom had sources that were paid off by activision, which would be an incredibly stupid mistake for Tom to make as a reputable insider who has to be 100 percent sure of his sources before reporting on them
Thank you for the kind words and the support. This channel's success depends on XDefiant, so it's not guaranteed by any means. But whatever happens, it's been fun so far
I refuse to believe Tom Henderson would lie for Activision he’s got a solid track record and he usually is pretty unbiased with his reports I much rather believe him over BT who quite literally has a channel that hates on CoD every video so he has a lot more to gain by saying these are lies. Is the timing with the BO6 beta funny? Sure but in my opinion that’s why someone in the inside reached out because they’re concerned for when BO6 comes out and want to put pressure on Ubisoft to hopefully put more effort to save XDefiant before it’s too late.
Why has tom Henderson pinned the xdefiant article to the top of his page like it’s the most important or relevant story he’s covered recently when that not close to true and on top of that why was he plugging bo6 beta codes?
I got to play this against Blame Truth. And....bruh, we got demolished lol. I'm in it for the long haul as a casual player. My friends and I boot up a few times a week and get slaughtered. I'd rather lose matches and have fun than have 3 40+ kill games and then be nerfed as I did on the BO6 beta.
This game sucks and the way it has been handled by ubisoft from the start should tell everyone how it will end. This wont be successful. Yall keep coping playing this trash. Remember the more money yall give ubisoft for these silly skins inflates their ego even more.
They are not camping like Call of Duty, but trying to figure it out. I don’t want to alienate any gamer that wants to play xDefiant. This game has been my favorite of 2024 and would love to see it going strong for many years to come ala R6 Siege!
And this attitude is why xdefiant is shutting down. Y’all are too dumb to realize the “cod players” are mostly casuals. Thats why no one plays the game
The games answer to keep casuals playing was to add content like challenge camos which have exclusively been sought after by non casual players. Cod and battlefield the two biggest casual shooters have scorestreaks or killstreaks or vehicles that fill the void but all these other games wanna copy everything but the streaks for some reason
If it's true, i'll play xd til its end. I'm really not a cod guy, more of cs but always wanted a game similar to cod (the attachments hooked me in). So i'm gonna enjoy this game til its last.
I think the player count and lack of microtransactions is true but the game losing support if player counts don't get better by season 3 I now don't believe to be true now after Mark Rubin tweet saying they're in for the long haul.
Anything can happen just because he says they are in the long haul does not mean it can keep going. In Ubisoft eyes if they deem it a failure, then it's a failure and shut it down.
Bro have you not seen how cod fanboys react 🤣 they literally asked for no large maps then get what they asked for then bitch about it. Never understood why someone wants competition to die it only makes games better
To be fair, if I am given the choice between : 1) coping to believe XDefiant is going to get better or 2) coping to believe COD is going to get better... ...then imma suck that XDefiant cope tank DRY.
If you want some additional insight that backs up BT from an esports perspective i can discuss it with you. I worked directly with blizzard and other companies as a 3rd party so i would sit at meetings where stuff was discussed. I'm long past my NDA and everyone i worked with has since been laid off. Could lend some additional info as to how they did do things at the time that BT hinted at in his video. This is primarily why my first thoughts aligned with BT when the news broke as i had already seen them do this before. he likely has as well.
XD should succeed. After all R6S did, but it also has recognized name in the franchise. Conspiracy? Rare chance. I think the date of the XD article Game Informer did was to get views / clicks and higher chance the editor told the write to publish. Another side to look at is it gave air time to XD. It was pointed out Ubisoft behind the time limit / consideration of shutting the game down, letting the gamers know XD's situation and this allows ppl t0 petition Ubisoft, ask ?'s to the Devs, etc, return to the game to check it out with new stuff etc. Also Blame T has a lot of drama, headline grabber, sensationalist approach and a heavy dose of COD hatred, so he isn't helping XD by saying its conspiracy, and he just offered his opinion it instead of his reasons why / careful thought process. It was Activision is evil for destroying COD and money hungry, and lawyering up for H2M (I think if H2M would have done a GitHUb/ source forge, nexus mods instead of official / semiofficial remaster advertising and showing up in lots of game media prior to its launch) I think main reason ppl left (also why our group left) was net code and hit reg issues. Yeah its better but XD had a beta and that should have been mainly ironed out by launch, but Devs have that as 1 priority. B0 6 beta had issues, but I remember XD launch time it was worse than 806. WIth no SBMM, the netcode is easier to figure out since XD is ping based. Hit Reg, could be engine choice (they used rpg recycled engine. they had $$ to go UE 5 so why not?) 2nd reason XD is fun, but game feel / gun feel doesn't differentiate from MW 3 (reboot). It also is more fun b/c XD has far (i mean far like in a galaxy far away) less cheaters than COD MP III and Warzone, and ppl were figuring out the game, so sweats were rare. 3rd was slow content, map design (some maps you could spit your team camp lanes and prevent one side from accessing the rest of the map), also balancing of the classes, but that can be given a pass, and that stupid spider face hugger, its novel, yeah its alien, but annoying and you want games fun not annoying. 4 is Ubisoft, guns grind struggle is real, and Ubi is known for grinds in its games. The timing of release when they could have worked hard and released it last year. This year was black ops 6. Its going to be harder since new battlefield is rumored for 2025 and is supposedly going back to its roots of BOF3 but with modern features updates, gamer input and not having gripes of COD etc. Take moveis, the Mission Impossible was supposed to be 2024 but Dune second half came out so they pushed for 2025.
I really don’t understand why there has to be shade thrown in any direction. If you love COD then play COD. If XDefiant is the game you love then play that. I’m still playing XD bcuz I enjoy the game. I’ve been playing COD for almost 20yrs and in the last 5-7 yrs it’s been a chore. I’m not great at either game but I feel that when I get stomped in XD it’s bcuz I need to get better. In COD I’m left trying to figure out why I was melting ppl the previous game and now I’m shooting at sponges. COD is a synthetic experience for me. It’s still the best looking FPS, but the algo has ruined the game for me.
You’re just wishful thinking Ubisoft is going out of business or shareholders are backing out. They’re trying to lynch the CEO that Star Wars game flopped you got a free to play game. People don’t know if it’s gonna be around nobody’s buying skins not making any money a bunch of games and a bunch of people are gonna be gone by November, how much you wish that it’s gonna do good or Activision involved or not I got assassin Creed shadows coming up a black gay samurai. It’s gonna do real good not so the company is pretty much gonna go belly up and when it goes.x defiance going to Africa goes private. They have to buy out the shareholders which were they getting the money for that wake up guys wake up.
Blame Truth is absolutely sponsored by Ubisoft. He is the biggest channel simping for Xdefiant. Remember that creators are not required to disclose there sponsorship, most disclose for morality.
@@bakes1324 Tom Henderson is just a well known but trusted tech leaker. This is more about how Ubisoft shares are tumbling daily and the shareholders wanting to close down studios and projects.
Blame truth is right the call of duty fan boys are the ones saying xdefiaint is trash they don’t want the game to succeed it’s basically call of duty vs xdefiant at this point
I like BT, but that video was a nothing-burger with a little "trust me bro" on the side. Tom Henderson has far too much to lose to not do his due diligence before breaking a story that big. BT said, "Well, the content is already done, so why wouldn't they put it out?" On the heels of Concord's shutdown, we know that the game has over a year's worth of cinematics done and had a television show in pre-production.
I love xDefiant. I want to crack open a nice can of copium and pray the game will be just fine two years from now, but we as a community have to help the dev team find those rotting issues and respectfully report them. Just like we've been doing with OBJ XP, lack of progression, faction balancing, lackluster cosmetics, and the pricing structure of said cosmetics.
The maps are awesome, the weapon balance is fine, I find matches quickly, and I rarely die behind walls. This team is damn committed to fixing the issues, so we shouldn't shield them from criticism when they are willing to address it. When the game is where it needs to be, it'll have to be a joint effort between us, the players, and Ubisoft to signal boost it. The mainstream audience rarely gives anything an opportunity to make a 2nd impression and I do believe Ubisoft SF has more work to do before I can personally go to bat for it and get my friends to re-download it. I'll keep playing, but ultimately, I trust Tom Henderson more than BT on proper journalism being conducted.
Trust Tom Henderson more than Mark Ruben?
@@admiralalyssa Bro says the same thing every video. And the “Proof” LulZ 😂. This clown talks a lot but doesn’t say shit.
@@ChevyRedneckGFX actually same. I trust tom more than mark.
All I care about is that the game is fun. I have noticed that my average KD in this game is like 3 something, whereas I've been stuck at a 1.7 KD in Modern Warfare III. I also tend to win most of the game I play, especially if I really push myself to win. Most of the time my teammates do suck, but at least I am not going against CDL players on the enemy team because the game isn't trying to keep me at a 1.0 KD and a 1.0 Win Loss. I do not believe that this game is dead, COD will always be bigger, they have been around of decades, XDEFIANT just pulled up this year. They don't have a set Formula yet. They don't have decades of nostalgia behind the game like COD does.
Yes as long as the game is fun, that's what matters most
I'm not sure if it's just down to experience with the Cod series but I have an inverse K/D with Cod at 2.0 with strict SBMM but XDefiant is only 1.2. I think my game sense is just more attuned to Cod since I played it occasionally for 20 years.
But yeah Cod is way more sweaty as far as matchmaking goes, going up against full parties playing solo happens way more often in COD than XDefiant for me.
@@TheJakOfAllTradez
this is why even after 100+ hours, I still want to play daily and for long periods.
I love XDefiant and i also love COD…. I can play and enjoy both
@jonathanmatos714 @AJakofAllTradez
I enjoy both and rotate games, but tend to jump back into xDefiant, because I love the feel of movement, factions, maps, and gun feel.
It feels so much more special when I get an MVP in xDefiant.
To me i think bt is full of copium shit. Why would Activision wanna shut down xdefiant? Xdefiant is already one foot in the grave and not to mention Ubisoft is already nearly a walking corpse. Now I do enjoy both games both have its goods and its down right awfuls.
what i said lol and truth has been doing this BS for ten plus yrs lol and why would Microsoft and activision risk billions on a game thats already dead and all the fault of the devs and company not cod. theres nobody over on cods end talking crap about X its the X players being toxic and pushing blame on cod and not the devs and need to stop using bo6 which was a beta and start pushing blame on the devs talking and doing nothing but braking the game more and more. this coping is sad and since when is it ok or ever been ok to wait for any game to be fix in a year at the latest and cyberpunk doesn't count cause broken the game was still great not like this nothing lol
Because he is a grifter who spouts nothing so he can pay his bills
Yea this game is dying by itself, blaming cod or activision is soo huge of a cope . Them “listening “ disgruntled cod players didn’t work as they thought it will. Blaming competitors for game’s fault is just stupid.
Cause corporations only care about money.
This. Activision doesn’t need to bother with XD because XD isn’t a threat to them. It just isn’t.
It's crazy that anyone would believe Blame Truth over one of the gaming industries' most trusted sources, especially when BT is incredibly biased. This is insane cope by Xdefiant fans.
But, why do you care?
And you are a sign of a person who doesn’t watch a video all the way through, and if you do, it seems you like to cherry pick.
@@kazkatgamer6722I'm talking generally not specifically about jack
@@TheSparkynuts I know what you mean, you said “anyone who would believe blame truth”
The question is did you watch blame truths video, cause BT didn’t say that Tom was wrong nor did he slander Tom , but instead pointed out discrepancies between the information and said take with a grain of salt his tin foil hat idea.
@kazkatgamer6722 yes I did and he indicated tom had sources that were paid off by activision, which would be an incredibly stupid mistake for Tom to make as a reputable insider who has to be 100 percent sure of his sources before reporting on them
This is hilarious that tom Henderson tried to sabotage bo6 but yet now everyone trashing on bo6 and heading to xdefiant
LMFAO
“Heading to xdefiant” 😂 less players than skate 3
I will standby supporting this game mark my word. Never doubt the underdog
He got free money off yall pretty much lol.
YOUR ON YOUR WAY TO THE BIG LEAGUES MY BOY KEEP UP THE GOOD VIDEOS
Thank you for the kind words and the support. This channel's success depends on XDefiant, so it's not guaranteed by any means. But whatever happens, it's been fun so far
no deadass tho
Yo I still can’t believe I played against THEJackOfAllTradez last night. I wanted to be on your team bro
Blame truth is not going to help grow your channel! Just saying!
He’s just covering Xdefiant news, which while coming from Blame Truth is still news worthy of covering.
For once I think he's right about it though
@ByFrezcoh Neros Cinema is a better XDefiant news channel than BlameTruth Grifter COD Father
@@SgtTankDempsey i honestly like both
OHHHH THE DATA WONT SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE DATA MWAH MWAH MWAH
I refuse to believe Tom Henderson would lie for Activision he’s got a solid track record and he usually is pretty unbiased with his reports I much rather believe him over BT who quite literally has a channel that hates on CoD every video so he has a lot more to gain by saying these are lies. Is the timing with the BO6 beta funny? Sure but in my opinion that’s why someone in the inside reached out because they’re concerned for when BO6 comes out and want to put pressure on Ubisoft to hopefully put more effort to save XDefiant before it’s too late.
Why has tom Henderson pinned the xdefiant article to the top of his page like it’s the most important or relevant story he’s covered recently when that not close to true and on top of that why was he plugging bo6 beta codes?
BT didn't suggest that tom henderson was the one lying but rather that his sources were paid off or unreliable.
I don’t want to say there is sabotage. But i do find it a little bit of a coincidence that article comes out a day before the BO6 beta
Killer instinct mentioned 🗣️🔥
I grew up playing the original back in 94/95 so yea 2013 made me go crazy when they announced it at E3.
I got to play this against Blame Truth. And....bruh, we got demolished lol. I'm in it for the long haul as a casual player. My friends and I boot up a few times a week and get slaughtered. I'd rather lose matches and have fun than have 3 40+ kill games and then be nerfed as I did on the BO6 beta.
I'd love to play against BT
You weren't nerfed lol there's literally no way Activision could actually implement those conspiracy theory systems into cod
This game sucks and the way it has been handled by ubisoft from the start should tell everyone how it will end. This wont be successful. Yall keep coping playing this trash. Remember the more money yall give ubisoft for these silly skins inflates their ego even more.
If XDefiant wants to be on top, it needs a good controversy. The more edgy, the better.
I don’t want too see cod players in my lobby’s on xdefient 2-3 months time I will absolutely ruin your time on this game 😊😊
I feel like they’re already infiltrating cause I’ve noticed way more low levels and they’re camping likes it’s MW
They are not camping like Call of Duty, but trying to figure it out.
I don’t want to alienate any gamer that wants to play xDefiant. This game has been my favorite of 2024 and would love to see it going strong for many years to come ala R6 Siege!
Don’t worry about it nobody will be coming back😂
And this attitude is why xdefiant is shutting down. Y’all are too dumb to realize the “cod players” are mostly casuals. Thats why no one plays the game
The games answer to keep casuals playing was to add content like challenge camos which have exclusively been sought after by non casual players. Cod and battlefield the two biggest casual shooters have scorestreaks or killstreaks or vehicles that fill the void but all these other games wanna copy everything but the streaks for some reason
If it's true, i'll play xd til its end. I'm really not a cod guy, more of cs but always wanted a game similar to cod (the attachments hooked me in). So i'm gonna enjoy this game til its last.
Guys it’s a direct competition for COD it obviously being burned from the inside
I enjoy COD for Campaign/Zombies and XDefiant for Multiplayer
I think the player count and lack of microtransactions is true but the game losing support if player counts don't get better by season 3 I now don't believe to be true now after Mark Rubin tweet saying they're in for the long haul.
Anything can happen just because he says they are in the long haul does not mean it can keep going. In Ubisoft eyes if they deem it a failure, then it's a failure and shut it down.
I'm missing smokes on the game man.
why did i call that Blame Truth the CODfatherless was gonna put the blame on Activision that Xdefiant was gonna lose players, what a grifter
The XDefiant fanboys are going beyond coping and going to straight to insane.
Bro have you not seen how cod fanboys react 🤣 they literally asked for no large maps then get what they asked for then bitch about it. Never understood why someone wants competition to die it only makes games better
To be fair, if I am given the choice between : 1) coping to believe XDefiant is going to get better or 2) coping to believe COD is going to get better...
...then imma suck that XDefiant cope tank DRY.
@@alicedescartessame.
But, why do you care?
It's going to be interesting to see how things turn out.
If you want some additional insight that backs up BT from an esports perspective i can discuss it with you. I worked directly with blizzard and other companies as a 3rd party so i would sit at meetings where stuff was discussed. I'm long past my NDA and everyone i worked with has since been laid off. Could lend some additional info as to how they did do things at the time that BT hinted at in his video. This is primarily why my first thoughts aligned with BT when the news broke as i had already seen them do this before. he likely has as well.
XD should succeed. After all R6S did, but it also has recognized name in the franchise. Conspiracy? Rare chance. I think the date of the XD article Game Informer did was to get views / clicks and higher chance the editor told the write to publish.
Another side to look at is it gave air time to XD. It was pointed out Ubisoft behind the time limit / consideration of shutting the game down, letting the gamers know XD's situation and this allows ppl t0 petition Ubisoft, ask ?'s to the Devs, etc, return to the game to check it out with new stuff etc.
Also Blame T has a lot of drama, headline grabber, sensationalist approach and a heavy dose of COD hatred, so he isn't helping XD by saying its conspiracy, and he just offered his opinion it instead of his reasons why / careful thought process. It was Activision is evil for destroying COD and money hungry, and lawyering up for H2M (I think if H2M would have done a GitHUb/ source forge, nexus mods instead of official / semiofficial remaster advertising and showing up in lots of game media prior to its launch)
I think main reason ppl left (also why our group left) was net code and hit reg issues. Yeah its better but XD had a beta and that should have been mainly ironed out by launch, but Devs have that as 1 priority. B0 6 beta had issues, but I remember XD launch time it was worse than 806. WIth no SBMM, the netcode is easier to figure out since XD is ping based. Hit Reg, could be engine choice (they used rpg recycled engine. they had $$ to go UE 5 so why not?)
2nd reason XD is fun, but game feel / gun feel doesn't differentiate from MW 3 (reboot). It also is more fun b/c XD has far (i mean far like in a galaxy far away) less cheaters than COD MP III and Warzone, and ppl were figuring out the game, so sweats were rare.
3rd was slow content, map design (some maps you could spit your team camp lanes and prevent one side from accessing the rest of the map), also balancing of the classes, but that can be given a pass, and that stupid spider face hugger, its novel, yeah its alien, but annoying and you want games fun not annoying.
4 is Ubisoft, guns grind struggle is real, and Ubi is known for grinds in its games. The timing of release when they could have worked hard and released it last year. This year was black ops 6. Its going to be harder since new battlefield is rumored for 2025 and is supposedly going back to its roots of BOF3 but with modern features updates, gamer input and not having gripes of COD etc.
Take moveis, the Mission Impossible was supposed to be 2024 but Dune second half came out so they pushed for 2025.
I really don’t understand why there has to be shade thrown in any direction. If you love COD then play COD. If XDefiant is the game you love then play that. I’m still playing XD bcuz I enjoy the game. I’ve been playing COD for almost 20yrs and in the last 5-7 yrs it’s been a chore. I’m not great at either game but I feel that when I get stomped in XD it’s bcuz I need to get better. In COD I’m left trying to figure out why I was melting ppl the previous game and now I’m shooting at sponges. COD is a synthetic experience for me. It’s still the best looking FPS, but the algo has ruined the game for me.
It's proof that XDefiant is dying,all it takes is a little research
You’re just wishful thinking Ubisoft is going out of business or shareholders are backing out. They’re trying to lynch the CEO that Star Wars game flopped you got a free to play game. People don’t know if it’s gonna be around nobody’s buying skins not making any money a bunch of games and a bunch of people are gonna be gone by November, how much you wish that it’s gonna do good or Activision involved or not I got assassin Creed shadows coming up a black gay samurai. It’s gonna do real good not so the company is pretty much gonna go belly up and when it goes.x defiance going to Africa goes private. They have to buy out the shareholders which were they getting the money for that wake up guys wake up.
Read what you just wrote out loud please.
@@La-Li-Lu-Le-Loo I didn’t have my glasses on did I.
It really doesn’t matter, this game is done. Unfortunately they won’t be able to get the player base back.
Cap
Blame Truth is absolutely sponsored by Ubisoft. He is the biggest channel simping for Xdefiant. Remember that creators are not required to disclose there sponsorship, most disclose for morality.
Ok and Tom Henderson is simping for cod. He was literally handing out beta codes.
CCs are 100% legally required to disclose sponsorships. People have been taken to court for less
@@bakes1324 Tom Henderson is just a well known but trusted tech leaker. This is more about how Ubisoft shares are tumbling daily and the shareholders wanting to close down studios and projects.
Blame Truth is a grifter he spouts bullcrap because his bills are due and knows it get views
Blame truth is right the call of duty fan boys are the ones saying xdefiaint is trash they don’t want the game to succeed it’s basically call of duty vs xdefiant at this point
I do think its 🐕💩
Cod is king will always be king of the fps genre
Cope harder
r6 was dogshit at the beginning but now its ok