As an XDefiant dev that worked 6 months on this game, thank you! Thanks for your videos, your dedication and your passion for this game. This news is really sad for me and I wish the game had the chance it deserved… I will keep looking for your next videos, but yeah thanks a lot for everything. 😇
Ngl, I feel really bad for you guys. I can tell you really wanted this game to grow and it had so much potential. This game brought me into FPS of 6v6 and I actually enjoyed it, even ranked. I wish you guys got given the chance you deserved instead of Ubisoft shutting it down after it was Ubisoft who crippled it's release in the first place. I hope you guys can get better treatment later and the love you deserve for your games because your passion was great, communication was welcome, and as someone that has never gotten into this genre, it was a fun and interesting game that I will miss.
Thank you for making a game that shows that games dont need to be rigged to be great i appreciate everything you have done sincerely thank you very much
No they sure didn’t but the company is doing very poorly so it’s not a shock they dropped something they deem not profitable. Shame. Literally no online fps out there I want to play after this
they’ve come really far, but they didn’t do their best that’s for sure. i personally gotta say this was the only fps i really liked, mainly because i didn’t have to spend 70$ to get it and 70$ for the ps plus(honestly a bigger scam than cod) and seeing it shutting down is a misfortune. i spent like 100+ hours on the game and had a lot of fun, i might have time to complete the mastery challenge on one weapon, leaving it as a a good old memory. sadly everything comes to an end, especially if they don’t return the necessary profit. so long XDefiant🫡
While I'm kinda shocked they aren't even giving Prestige mode a chance before deciding to pull the plug, I also understand. In the last 4 sessions, I played xD, I was put on US East servers for the majority of my matches, and I'm in California. I haven't had a multi-player game engage me like xDefiant did since Destiny 1. I refuse to touch the newer CoDs out of sheer principle and like you said, Halo is in the gutter with 343. Our only hope is Splitgate 2, although that game has a massive risk of being overtaken by sweats. Ultimately, Ubisoft failed this team. The marketing was non-existent, the MTXs were overpriced, and people were complaining about the art team since day 1. Unfortunately, everyone not in the know is going to blame the death of this game on NO-SBMM and we're all going to suffer for it. Truly a sad day. o7
What a depressing waste.. Ubisoft rushed the game out then proceeded to not support it nearly enough and then give up on it in less than a year this isn’t the way.
The game was first announced in 2021 and they gave the devs another year to just work on the game, which still released with the same issues. It needed more time, but at a certain point it needs to start making money. The blame falls on both the devs and ubisoft
What I did appreciate about what you did with Xdefiant was being honest about it, you DID talk about the problems, you DID talk about the uncertainty with the game. You did not do what so many Xdefiant UA-camrs did do (BT funny enough) which is deny everything, sweep it under the rug because of no SBMM and tell their viewers it is not going to die. Thank you for being honest about this game
As unfortunate as the news is, I hate to say that I saw it coming and I'm not surprised. I was there for Hyper Scape, I was there for the whole Crew situation as most people were, and was even there for Ghost Recon Phantoms back in 2016. I've just kind of learned to not grow too close to anything that Ubisoft publishes if it is online only. They'll neglect and eventually kill whatever it is that you hold near and dear someday. It's just sad to see that XDefiant never really got much of a shot unlike the other games I mentioned, Hyper Scape and GRP both got two years under their belts before the decisions were made. Glad I got to be along for the ride, even if it was short. I'll definitely be putting more time into the game before the servers close. Edit: Random thought as well, besides the Singapore deal being the only reason it exists at all, I have NO IDEA how Skull and Bones managed to outlast XDefiant.
I found you through xDefiant, but I’ve come to enjoy your commentary and gameplays! Consider myself part of the “1%” remaining post-xDefiant! It’s definitely a shame seeing the game go down this way …
genuinely after finding out this news today im quitting gaming and focusing on irl stuff now gaming not like it used to be back in the 2000s im done bro. ❤
@ArasTwitchTV Yeah, the only good thing about xdefiant was that it had no sbmm. It was marketed as an og like cod, but we ended up with a poor man's version of Bo4.
I am a 3D artist and solo game dev. Just finishing my art portfolio with the idea of creating some free work for XDefiant, stuff like Skins, Weapon skins... the usual microtransactions this kind of game would have. Very sad to hear the news I was really enjoying the game. If they ever make a decision to keep this game alive I would most definitely be willing to do some free work for the game
This is a very sad day, this was the BEST Call Of Duty clone to hit the market in years. I appreciate every developer that worked on this game, you guys are truly awesome. I will play XDefiant until shutdown to show my support. Love your videos Jak!
I will not, i did support it until they anounced to shut it down, all my will to support it is gone. Keep in mind how many times they did tell us it wouldnt shut down and we did defend it against the toxic cod Community, i feel betrayed.
This sucks man I could tell you put so much heart into this, and for it to be so sudden before a big season launch makes you think they knew they were going to fall short with features wanted this season and didn’t want to deal with the backlash again from season 2
Personally the gun fights were okay, i enjoyed playing objective based for a few days only when the game dropped only getting kills and wins wasnt fun to me aftera short while. I enjoy getting killstreaks but dont get confused because i do not play cod anymore. Im just genuinely telling you how i felt. I play alot of siege and the adrenaline you aquire clutching a round or the feeling of getting a chopper gunner isnt replicated in any way in the game. Biggest miss of the game and why i Personally. Stopped playing. I also do not know if killstreaks was even possible copyrights wise. There was just no rah rah and adrenaline giver to this game. Imo.
I literally don’t know how you people are still saying this… even after after they announced they are pulling the plug… It the game was GENUINELY better than COD, people would have played it more and they wouldn’t be shutting it down. It’s really that simple.
I feel scammed, I put money into this game and now its all for nothing. I am never trusting this greedy company ever again. I liked this shooter, but I guess the cod shills are super happy now. We're not allowed to play a game that isnt cod apparently.
Thats exactly what im thinking man. Fuking cod shills, the haters, must be throwing a party over this news. I don't want to go back to cod man, I just dont :(
What has cod got to do with it. Ubisoft had a good chance and shot theirselves in the foot. A game in their universe and not including their franchises favorite characters as playable? They didn't even try
I was so excited to the community events you were planning. Loved watching the streams. Man, I’m so sad. Games are supposed to make us happy, not feeling down. Thanks for everything you’ve done brother.
Feel like Ubisoft kinda put this to the back of their minds, then didn't really care for it any more. GGs and farewell. Haven't even gotten the smoke bomb yet. Tbh, XDefiant was my favourite FPS game that I've come across, mainly because its the only one I've played
Well I said if they didn't drastically change how matchmaking worked this would happen, and I don't mean adding SBMM/EOMM but being able to select a region or a ping limit. Having crossplay and mixed input on by default to increase the player pool in areas that are more remote or have smaller populations. I was spending literally hours looking for a game some days and as I said on many creators videos, Australia is a litmus test for an online games health, many did not believe me, but I have been gaming online for 30 years and know exactly what I am talking about. Not launching on last gen when there is a cost of living crisis worldwide didn't help either, especially considering the hardware requirements for this game are extremely low and it would run on last gen with relatively decent performance.
I'm so sad that it had to end like this; just before the third season. After this it is probably over, at least for a few years, in regards to fps games for me. XDefiant made so many things good and in the worst case will be a bad case for people to not make a game like this again. :( RIP XDefiant and let's enjoy the remaining time we have with this game.
Really wish I had found this game earlier, just started playing pretty regularly only a few weeks ago. Bummer that it is shutting down, even worse it is shutting down on my birthday next year 😢
Start all over again with Delta Force: Hawk Ops releasing today I think. Xdefiant was my comeback to online fps shooters since America's army about 20 years ago. I made it to lvl 156 so far in Xdefiant and I really like it. It's a shame this all goes away... Greetings from Finland :)
At this moment in time idk if there’s another online fps appealing to me. Hopefully Delta Force or something, I remember playing those in the early 2000s lol. Idk. Single player games here I come
gg this morning stubbled on you channel by algorithm. sucks but was expected from my take after the play test. a lot of us saw it lasting 8 months but... fun for a while keep grinding you will find something.
For us gamers always sucks when game shuts down XDefiant was really the only fps i played for the like the last year i quitted cod the only reason i kept playing is because there was no other game like it with XDefiant being released i really played that i have less that 200 hours as writing this on the game but that is not because i did not like it i was experiencing and fps burnout and i was trying other genres of games but still i wanted this game to success and not shut down
i think a lot of your viewers are here for you more than you think. I bet if you decide to cover another game the audience you've built here will follow.
I'm so depressed with this news! This game has been so much fun. I wonder if they'd give us double xp as standard to level our guns before June, I'd like to finish my camo grind.
BT hit the nail on the head. As someone who is the same age as him, COD4, Halo 3 I loved those games but today's FPS player is just an addict... I don't understand when people complain about muh content and progression. They have no attention span and just addicted to the grind. We used to hop on the game because it was fun and we were having fun with our friends, just playing cuz we loved the game
@bc454irocz89 it's not that half the game was missing per se. There was some stuff like prestige and more modes, but it was mostly there in terms of multiplayer. The problem was that everything felt unfinished. Like they got something working and didn't bother to polish it.
@@skeletor2994 yeah i know what you mean.. thats why i was looking forward to season 3.. When will these game companies realize not to rush things out every single time?
A god damn shame. A much better game than CoD at its core. It just needed more things to grind for. This game was killed before it even had a chance to spread its wings.
I really wanted to like this game, but I just wasn't getting any better and I felt forced to play in a style that I didn't want to. I like semi-automatic and burst fire guns and I was always out-gunned. While the maps were good, the movement (mainly air strafing) to me killed it and I moved on. I applaud your channel for doing so much for this game. I watched most of your videos and I hope you keep making them for another game possibly?
Hey Jack I hope you read this comment, the whole COD being rigged thing is way way way blown out of proportion and watching blame truth is like watching a raving lunatic. The man is unhinged and going way to deep and also a cheater who literally admits to 2boxing ect... Which is not fighting back against or removing skill based its simply beating up on new players to fuel his ego. I have played competitive games at a high level for years now and black ops 6 is honestly a great time and if you dont take pubs to seriously you will have a good time ESPECIALLY with friends. I was lowkey a cod hater until this year but im having a great time and as long as you dont care too much in pubs and please dont by into tge skill based damage conspiracy (thats insane) youll have a good time and I feel its probably your best shot at retaining your audiance. But of course do what makes you happy sorry about the XD shutdown must be hard for someone who built their channel around it.
Cool bro, but the game still has a lot of hackers that Activision plans nothing to do about, so BO6 and the next 10 CODs could be perfect, but as long as this issue is still present in the game no one can't say that the game is good or in a healthy state without being biased. People can focus on SBMM all they want, but the main issue that has been ruining COD all these years has been cheaters and Activision is just watching.
*sigh half an hour ago I opened up my discord and saw one of my friends posted "wait I'm confused. Are they shutting down the game in June or is that just a conspiracy theory?". I then responded with "wtf are talking about" basically, fully assuming this man was trying to troll me again. I open up UA-cam 20 minutes later completely forgetting that interaction with my friend on discord and this is what I see? I don't even know what to say man, this sucks on so many levels. I'm just incredibly sad. This was the first fps to bring me so much joy for the genre I haven't experienced in a long time. I can't go back to Cod man, I don't want to! Like wtf do I do now for my fps fix. Just say bye bye to the genre all together? I don't know what upsets me more, the game going away forever, or knowing how happy all the haters are at this news. Those fuking pricks must be throwing a party, popping champagne bottles over this shit. I've got 462 hours played into this game. I've recently slowed down because, hey I've put in my hours and im just playing some of my singleplayer games. I guess i should just scrap that idea because my time is limited now. And I feel bad for channels like yours too. Building a community off a game just to have that game taken away. Man I wish you the best of luck in the content creation department, I really do. I cannot promise I'll be there, wherever you decide to take this but I wish you success. Im just so fuking upset man. As im writing this down I'm just wishing and praying that this isn't real, that this was just one big joke, but then I remember it is NOT April so why would this be a joke. Like i'm in full blown denial now. Okay I'm done now.
I'm bummed about this. I enjoy this game quite a bit. But I'll stay subscribed. I appreciate the videos you've made. Maybe Delta Force could give you another chance?
As much i too loved the game, it was held back. By lack of content, the rampant hackers, bunny hopping, hit reg, & net code. It was a fun game though..
This BS, I don’t understand what’s the rush to announce this ? couldn’t they have waited to few weeks after season 3 ? Couldn’t they wait and see how season 3 performs? this very disappointing. My only hope is that Ubisoft sells this game to another studio giving this game a fighting chance
The game was struggling to reach 10,000 players concurrently globally across Xbox, ps and pc combined months ago it’s probably even lower now. That’s really bad for a f2p game from such a big publisher. Ubisoft has lost a lot of money on many projects they literally can’t afford to keep running non profitable projects because they don’t have money
they didn't do anything about the sweats which caused the noobs and casuals to leave cause nobody, i repeat, NOBODY likes to go against try harding bunny hopping sweats all the time, so all that is left is sweats that play day in and day out cause of useless stats they never fixed the matchmaking problems (it took me 10 to 15 minutes of waiting before i gave up and that was a week after season 1 launched) didn't release it at the right time (if it released before mw 2023 released, they could have stolen players, but instead they released it after mw 2023 released and close to bo6's annoucement which was a bad move) ubisoft didn't do anything and handled the game poorly, i knew the game was going to not last long after i started running into sweats in 99% of matches i played, so i gave up and left. infact and ironiclly enough, the sbmm mode that went away at level 25 was somehow less sweaty than the non-sbmm modes, that is strange.
@@VOLDGAMER1 that’s because sbmm keeps bad players around they got stomped on xdefiant and just left and never come back so it was just basically sweats left
@@Ukzgamer1 bad players still want to improve tho, i was a bad player when i started yet i kept going and got better cause when i started to play mp games, sweats barley existed. now you got matches where you have to put up with false gaming sweats all the time that abuse op weapon over and over again while they are in a party all the time. a noob or bad player doesn't enjoy getting pub stomped all the time, so they leave. i used to see christmas noobs in bo4 4 years ago, now all i see is master prestige sweats.
@ yeah I think XDefiant’s failures is more on Ubisoft than the actual game itself You can have a great game but if the publisher sucks the game isn’t going to last
Welp… sadly the possibility of this happening became a realization to me Two weeks ago. I have around 300 hours played and i enjoyed the game but with every update something else broke whether it be classes not working properly or netcode taking a hit. This last update made the Netcode take two steps back after it was actually in its best state since launch. That was the last straw for me and i deleted it 4 days ago. Now ill just stick to Single player games and hopefully the next Battlefield title is what its community really wanted.
Wow, I purchased the Ultimate Founder’s Pack and didn’t expect to get my money back. I enjoyed the game and wish it had legs to stand on and stay for years to come with updates/QoL like Rainbow Six Siege and For Honor got over the previous years.
You could try out Splitgate 2 next year when it comes out I've heard from people that have early access to it that the gameplay feels were similar to XDefiant 8:33
my buddy at work plays alot of r6 he made fun of me and told me this game was gonna die I kept telling him how much I liked it he kept saying it will die it’s a$$ and I will still be playing the game until shutdown it’s sad man this game gives me a good vibe one of the best shooters I’ve played in a while
This is so sad this game had so much potential and just amazing gunplay i honestly think Ubisoft shoulded of marketed the game as a cod kill they should of just tried to make the game it's own thig 😔
am in the same boat bro am not interested in any other fps shooter or even br's, so its actually really frustrating for me and all my +600h is going into the oblivion all that camo grind too i have like 4 more guns to get pyro on all guns, GOD DAMN IT UBI-SHIT YOU HAD ONE F'ING JOB FFS 🤦🏻♂💔
Yeah man I haven’t played since BO6 came out! I want to give the new signal map a try. It’s so unfortunate that we will no longer get this game. They should’ve kept Division Heartland active but they bombed that 🤦🏾♂️ I was looking forward to that game and many others were too.
This makes me really sadi don't have that much hours of gameplay , only around 140, but it was my favorite game.... and it ran in Linux perfectly so it was a win win situation for me. Well, no alternatives for the genre (CoD is not one), gonna go back to single player games!
Funny enough I got paired with Jak here and after him bunny hopping all match long that made me never want to play this game again. The devs failed by not fixing the hit reg making a simple hopping motion almost unkillable among other awful mistakes. Shame this game had potential.
Just came around recently, but you got a great personality and such a great passion towards content creation. Would love to see ya stick around if that's something youll be doing! Have you looked into Delta Force at all?
They were told numerous times to get rid of the bunny hopping and one shot body/foot/arm shots. They didnt listen they catered to the wrong class of gamers and this happened. We who buy these Ubisoft games dont fing bunny hop. We dont do it in the Division series...AC series...Far Cry...Wildland...Ghost recon. Sad but when you dont listen to your core Ubisoft gamers this is what happens. Maybe try again with another FPS and leave the rabbits at home.
We always knew that there was a possibility that this day would come, and while its sad, it was a good run. GGs
Appreciate the XD content throughout the year brother really was a pleasure to watch 💯
you could try R6 it has a very similar fan base because there both ubisoft and trust r6 is ubisoft baby there not getting rid of it
@@iColbey not a fan of shooters like that
@@TheJakOfAllTradez if you like games like overwatch try marvel rivals comes out the 6th personally looking forward to that
Maybe DrDisrespect or Elon Musk could buy the game. It's a great game. Make gaming great again!
As an XDefiant dev that worked 6 months on this game, thank you! Thanks for your videos, your dedication and your passion for this game. This news is really sad for me and I wish the game had the chance it deserved… I will keep looking for your next videos, but yeah thanks a lot for everything. 😇
thanks for your hard work friend. i hope you find lots of success 👍🏽🙏🏾
@@JF_Girard thank you for working your hearts out for the community
Ngl, I feel really bad for you guys. I can tell you really wanted this game to grow and it had so much potential. This game brought me into FPS of 6v6 and I actually enjoyed it, even ranked. I wish you guys got given the chance you deserved instead of Ubisoft shutting it down after it was Ubisoft who crippled it's release in the first place. I hope you guys can get better treatment later and the love you deserve for your games because your passion was great, communication was welcome, and as someone that has never gotten into this genre, it was a fun and interesting game that I will miss.
Thanks a lot everyone for your kind words, that means a lot!😇
Thank you for making a game that shows that games dont need to be rigged to be great i appreciate everything you have done sincerely thank you very much
Ubisoft didn't even try.
No they sure didn’t but the company is doing very poorly so it’s not a shock they dropped something they deem not profitable. Shame. Literally no online fps out there I want to play after this
@@Weather_Nerdit fr is dry af out here but this game was not it either
they’ve come really far, but they didn’t do their best that’s for sure. i personally gotta say this was the only fps i really liked, mainly because i didn’t have to spend 70$ to get it and 70$ for the ps plus(honestly a bigger scam than cod) and seeing it shutting down is a misfortune. i spent like 100+ hours on the game and had a lot of fun, i might have time to complete the mastery challenge on one weapon, leaving it as a a good old memory. sadly everything comes to an end, especially if they don’t return the necessary profit. so long XDefiant🫡
@@Weather_Nerdwhat about this delta force game?🤔
@@Weather_Nerd
Try The Finals, really fun!
This is so fuckin sad man this game had potential
While I'm kinda shocked they aren't even giving Prestige mode a chance before deciding to pull the plug, I also understand. In the last 4 sessions, I played xD, I was put on US East servers for the majority of my matches, and I'm in California. I haven't had a multi-player game engage me like xDefiant did since Destiny 1.
I refuse to touch the newer CoDs out of sheer principle and like you said, Halo is in the gutter with 343. Our only hope is Splitgate 2, although that game has a massive risk of being overtaken by sweats.
Ultimately, Ubisoft failed this team. The marketing was non-existent, the MTXs were overpriced, and people were complaining about the art team since day 1. Unfortunately, everyone not in the know is going to blame the death of this game on NO-SBMM and we're all going to suffer for it. Truly a sad day. o7
This is most mature and realistic take I've seen on these comment sections.
We truly are in the darkest timeline
What a depressing waste.. Ubisoft rushed the game out then proceeded to not support it nearly enough and then give up on it in less than a year this isn’t the way.
The game was first announced in 2021 and they gave the devs another year to just work on the game, which still released with the same issues. It needed more time, but at a certain point it needs to start making money. The blame falls on both the devs and ubisoft
I knew it was coming to and being exclusive to Ubisoft connect surely didn't help the game and lack of advertising also
What I did appreciate about what you did with Xdefiant was being honest about it, you DID talk about the problems, you DID talk about the uncertainty with the game. You did not do what so many Xdefiant UA-camrs did do (BT funny enough) which is deny everything, sweep it under the rug because of no SBMM and tell their viewers it is not going to die. Thank you for being honest about this game
Was literally about to hop on XD, but just check youtube real quick before, and this is the first video I see.. Absolutely gutted..
As unfortunate as the news is, I hate to say that I saw it coming and I'm not surprised. I was there for Hyper Scape, I was there for the whole Crew situation as most people were, and was even there for Ghost Recon Phantoms back in 2016. I've just kind of learned to not grow too close to anything that Ubisoft publishes if it is online only. They'll neglect and eventually kill whatever it is that you hold near and dear someday. It's just sad to see that XDefiant never really got much of a shot unlike the other games I mentioned, Hyper Scape and GRP both got two years under their belts before the decisions were made.
Glad I got to be along for the ride, even if it was short. I'll definitely be putting more time into the game before the servers close.
Edit: Random thought as well, besides the Singapore deal being the only reason it exists at all, I have NO IDEA how Skull and Bones managed to outlast XDefiant.
This is actually heartbreaking what a waste of a great game man honestly loved the multiplayer such a refreshing experience
It was very solid
I had 115 hours on XDefiant
welp, this was the only shooter I was playing with a controller on pc
back to battlefield games I guess
Jak it was fun while it lasted my friend, XDefiant has a great community and I’ll continue watching your streams.
We have only a few months to try and save XDefiant, sign the petition
I found you through xDefiant, but I’ve come to enjoy your commentary and gameplays! Consider myself part of the “1%” remaining post-xDefiant! It’s definitely a shame seeing the game go down this way …
genuinely after finding out this news today im quitting gaming and focusing on irl stuff now gaming not like it used to be back in the 2000s im done bro. ❤
Bro there is so many great games there besides you 6v6 shooters lol. But I like your idea. Taking a break might be good...
You have to be delusional if you think this game had any form of staying power.
@@skeletor2994you also have arguments or just empty phrases?!
@ArasTwitchTV Yeah, the only good thing about xdefiant was that it had no sbmm. It was marketed as an og like cod, but we ended up with a poor man's version of Bo4.
@@skeletor2994 thats not an argument buddy. Be specific what you mean.
I am a 3D artist and solo game dev.
Just finishing my art portfolio with the idea of creating some free work for XDefiant, stuff like Skins, Weapon skins... the usual microtransactions this kind of game would have. Very sad to hear the news I was really enjoying the game.
If they ever make a decision to keep this game alive I would most definitely be willing to do some free work for the game
goat 😭🙏🏾
Nah, first of all they would need to let new players do new acvounts but they dont even give them access to the game anymore it seems
Appreciate the love you’ve shown to the community since day 1 Jak. Really look forward to seeing where you go from here. Much love my man❤️
This is a very sad day, this was the BEST Call Of Duty clone to hit the market in years. I appreciate every developer that worked on this game, you guys are truly awesome. I will play XDefiant until shutdown to show my support. Love your videos Jak!
I will not, i did support it until they anounced to shut it down, all my will to support it is gone. Keep in mind how many times they did tell us it wouldnt shut down and we did defend it against the toxic cod Community, i feel betrayed.
Unfortunately the team was working at Ubisoft
Jack was so upset he didn't do his intro 😢
This sucks man I could tell you put so much heart into this, and for it to be so sudden before a big season launch makes you think they knew they were going to fall short with features wanted this season and didn’t want to deal with the backlash again from season 2
This was better than COD and just getting better. What a shame.
It’s wasn’t bro thats why it’s dead
@Super.5th
Your right it must be CODs great maps, spawns, sbm, hit reg, gas lighting, and every other thing they screw you over with.
@@Super.5thu sound like npc lol
Personally the gun fights were okay, i enjoyed playing objective based for a few days only when the game dropped only getting kills and wins wasnt fun to me aftera short while. I enjoy getting killstreaks but dont get confused because i do not play cod anymore. Im just genuinely telling you how i felt. I play alot of siege and the adrenaline you aquire clutching a round or the feeling of getting a chopper gunner isnt replicated in any way in the game. Biggest miss of the game and why i Personally. Stopped playing. I also do not know if killstreaks was even possible copyrights wise. There was just no rah rah and adrenaline giver to this game. Imo.
I literally don’t know how you people are still saying this… even after after they announced they are pulling the plug…
It the game was GENUINELY better than COD, people would have played it more and they wouldn’t be shutting it down. It’s really that simple.
Imma stick around to see what you have for the future, you were a great XDefiant channel and I think you’d be good with other games!
I feel scammed, I put money into this game and now its all for nothing. I am never trusting this greedy company ever again. I liked this shooter, but I guess the cod shills are super happy now. We're not allowed to play a game that isnt cod apparently.
Thats exactly what im thinking man. Fuking cod shills, the haters, must be throwing a party over this news. I don't want to go back to cod man, I just dont :(
You’ll get a refund.
@@InTheeU only ultimate founders pack and purchases made 30days
What has cod got to do with it. Ubisoft had a good chance and shot theirselves in the foot. A game in their universe and not including their franchises favorite characters as playable? They didn't even try
Poured money into a shit game? have some buyer beware dude.
I was so excited to the community events you were planning. Loved watching the streams. Man, I’m so sad. Games are supposed to make us happy, not feeling down. Thanks for everything you’ve done brother.
Feel like Ubisoft kinda put this to the back of their minds, then didn't really care for it any more. GGs and farewell. Haven't even gotten the smoke bomb yet. Tbh, XDefiant was my favourite FPS game that I've come across, mainly because its the only one I've played
Well I said if they didn't drastically change how matchmaking worked this would happen, and I don't mean adding SBMM/EOMM but being able to select a region or a ping limit. Having crossplay and mixed input on by default to increase the player pool in areas that are more remote or have smaller populations. I was spending literally hours looking for a game some days and as I said on many creators videos, Australia is a litmus test for an online games health, many did not believe me, but I have been gaming online for 30 years and know exactly what I am talking about.
Not launching on last gen when there is a cost of living crisis worldwide didn't help either, especially considering the hardware requirements for this game are extremely low and it would run on last gen with relatively decent performance.
I'm so sad that it had to end like this; just before the third season.
After this it is probably over, at least for a few years, in regards to fps games for me.
XDefiant made so many things good and in the worst case will be a bad case for people to not make a game like this again. :(
RIP XDefiant and let's enjoy the remaining time we have with this game.
You have a good personality dude. You are entertaining. Don't let one game stop you from entertaining the people.
Really wish I had found this game earlier, just started playing pretty regularly only a few weeks ago. Bummer that it is shutting down, even worse it is shutting down on my birthday next year 😢
I’m sorry to hear that, that sucks. On the bright side you got to enjoy it for a few weeks. I’m bummed as well
Start all over again with Delta Force: Hawk Ops releasing today I think. Xdefiant was my comeback to online fps shooters since America's army about 20 years ago. I made it to lvl 156 so far in Xdefiant and I really like it. It's a shame this all goes away... Greetings from Finland :)
@@darienfox82 no interest in that game
already feeling nostalgic. was such a good game.
What a sad day what we gonna play now
Sad day indeed brother 😕
That’s what I’m wondering. I will not go back to COD
@@Minx717same ill probably go to delta force or try to find a different shooter
At this moment in time idk if there’s another online fps appealing to me. Hopefully Delta Force or something, I remember playing those in the early 2000s lol. Idk. Single player games here I come
You should try to play hell let loose
You should check out the finals. The gameplay is smooth honestly, and I hope it doesn’t see the same fate
ubisoft destroyed themself with all their aaa game flops
Man, I hear you I feel you, maybe try Delta Force alongside xDefiant
It's been fun brother. I hope you find something else you are passionate about. Would be sad to "lose" you too
Ubisoft didn’t even try to save this game
gg this morning stubbled on you channel by algorithm. sucks but was expected from my take after the play test. a lot of us saw it lasting 8 months but... fun for a while keep grinding you will find something.
For us gamers always sucks when game shuts down XDefiant was really the only fps i played for the like the last year i quitted cod the only reason i kept playing is because there was no other game like it with XDefiant being released i really played that i have less that 200 hours as writing this on the game but that is not because i did not like it i was experiencing and fps burnout and i was trying other genres of games but still i wanted this game to success and not shut down
i think a lot of your viewers are here for you more than you think. I bet if you decide to cover another game the audience you've built here will follow.
@@BronzFor appreciate it, but there is no other multiplayer game I'm interested in.
@@TheJakOfAllTradezwhat about battlefield
I'm so depressed with this news! This game has been so much fun. I wonder if they'd give us double xp as standard to level our guns before June, I'd like to finish my camo grind.
BT hit the nail on the head. As someone who is the same age as him, COD4, Halo 3 I loved those games but today's FPS player is just an addict... I don't understand when people complain about muh content and progression. They have no attention span and just addicted to the grind. We used to hop on the game because it was fun and we were having fun with our friends, just playing cuz we loved the game
Agreed the fact that this game died only after a year is pretty sad while for honor didn't have the best launch either but it gets to stay
The difference is cod4 and halo 3 were complete games. Xdefiant was half baked at best.
@@skeletor2994 What was the missing 50% in your opinion?
@bc454irocz89 it's not that half the game was missing per se. There was some stuff like prestige and more modes, but it was mostly there in terms of multiplayer. The problem was that everything felt unfinished. Like they got something working and didn't bother to polish it.
@@skeletor2994 yeah i know what you mean.. thats why i was looking forward to season 3.. When will these game companies realize not to rush things out every single time?
A god damn shame. A much better game than CoD at its core. It just needed more things to grind for. This game was killed before it even had a chance to spread its wings.
And cods morality died
I really wanted to like this game, but I just wasn't getting any better and I felt forced to play in a style that I didn't want to. I like semi-automatic and burst fire guns and I was always out-gunned. While the maps were good, the movement (mainly air strafing) to me killed it and I moved on. I applaud your channel for doing so much for this game. I watched most of your videos and I hope you keep making them for another game possibly?
So sad to see this Jak. 😢 I am going to play this game while I can.
I’d recommend The Finals and Battlefield to any XDefiant refugees
Do what you want to do Jak if the people like it they will stick around, just pursue your own passions and interests in life man
A WHOLE LOT of people owe Tom Henderson a fucking apology. He was the only person who actually told us the truth.
They should load it up with double XP so everyone who still plays it can max out camo challenges before the game is gone forever.
Damn shame man
Ill stay around jak
Sad to see this happen. It was a fun alternative to cod that’s for sure
In my opinion we need a video game like the one in the 80’s
u should try the finals. Its super fun and Season 5 is about to drop in in like a little over a week
Man if this game had released in 2025 with 4 seasons of content to start we wouldn't be having this conversation
Hey Jack I hope you read this comment, the whole COD being rigged thing is way way way blown out of proportion and watching blame truth is like watching a raving lunatic. The man is unhinged and going way to deep and also a cheater who literally admits to 2boxing ect... Which is not fighting back against or removing skill based its simply beating up on new players to fuel his ego. I have played competitive games at a high level for years now and black ops 6 is honestly a great time and if you dont take pubs to seriously you will have a good time ESPECIALLY with friends. I was lowkey a cod hater until this year but im having a great time and as long as you dont care too much in pubs and please dont by into tge skill based damage conspiracy (thats insane) youll have a good time and I feel its probably your best shot at retaining your audiance. But of course do what makes you happy sorry about the XD shutdown must be hard for someone who built their channel around it.
Cool bro, but the game still has a lot of hackers that Activision plans nothing to do about, so BO6 and the next 10 CODs could be perfect, but as long as this issue is still present in the game no one can't say that the game is good or in a healthy state without being biased.
People can focus on SBMM all they want, but the main issue that has been ruining COD all these years has been cheaters and Activision is just watching.
*sigh half an hour ago I opened up my discord and saw one of my friends posted "wait I'm confused. Are they shutting down the game in June or is that just a conspiracy theory?". I then responded with "wtf are talking about" basically, fully assuming this man was trying to troll me again. I open up UA-cam 20 minutes later completely forgetting that interaction with my friend on discord and this is what I see?
I don't even know what to say man, this sucks on so many levels. I'm just incredibly sad. This was the first fps to bring me so much joy for the genre I haven't experienced in a long time. I can't go back to Cod man, I don't want to! Like wtf do I do now for my fps fix. Just say bye bye to the genre all together?
I don't know what upsets me more, the game going away forever, or knowing how happy all the haters are at this news. Those fuking pricks must be throwing a party, popping champagne bottles over this shit.
I've got 462 hours played into this game. I've recently slowed down because, hey I've put in my hours and im just playing some of my singleplayer games. I guess i should just scrap that idea because my time is limited now. And I feel bad for channels like yours too. Building a community off a game just to have that game taken away. Man I wish you the best of luck in the content creation department, I really do. I cannot promise I'll be there, wherever you decide to take this but I wish you success.
Im just so fuking upset man. As im writing this down I'm just wishing and praying that this isn't real, that this was just one big joke, but then I remember it is NOT April so why would this be a joke. Like i'm in full blown denial now. Okay I'm done now.
I would have played it, but without a solo option, I simply couldn't do it.
I'm bummed about this. I enjoy this game quite a bit. But I'll stay subscribed. I appreciate the videos you've made. Maybe Delta Force could give you another chance?
As much i too loved the game, it was held back.
By lack of content, the rampant hackers, bunny hopping, hit reg, & net code.
It was a fun game though..
This BS, I don’t understand what’s the rush to announce this ? couldn’t they have waited to few weeks after season 3 ? Couldn’t they wait and see how season 3 performs? this very disappointing. My only hope is that Ubisoft sells this game to another studio giving this game a fighting chance
The game was struggling to reach 10,000 players concurrently globally across Xbox, ps and pc combined months ago it’s probably even lower now. That’s really bad for a f2p game from such a big publisher. Ubisoft has lost a lot of money on many projects they literally can’t afford to keep running non profitable projects because they don’t have money
they didn't do anything about the sweats which caused the noobs and casuals to leave cause nobody, i repeat, NOBODY likes to go against try harding bunny hopping sweats all the time, so all that is left is sweats that play day in and day out cause of useless stats
they never fixed the matchmaking problems (it took me 10 to 15 minutes of waiting before i gave up and that was a week after season 1 launched)
didn't release it at the right time (if it released before mw 2023 released, they could have stolen players, but instead they released it after mw 2023 released and close to bo6's annoucement which was a bad move)
ubisoft didn't do anything and handled the game poorly, i knew the game was going to not last long after i started running into sweats in 99% of matches i played, so i gave up and left. infact and ironiclly enough, the sbmm mode that went away at level 25 was somehow less sweaty than the non-sbmm modes, that is strange.
@@VOLDGAMER1 that’s because sbmm keeps bad players around they got stomped on xdefiant and just left and never come back so it was just basically sweats left
@@Ukzgamer1 bad players still want to improve tho, i was a bad player when i started yet i kept going and got better cause when i started to play mp games, sweats barley existed. now you got matches where you have to put up with false gaming sweats all the time that abuse op weapon over and over again while they are in a party all the time. a noob or bad player doesn't enjoy getting pub stomped all the time, so they leave. i used to see christmas noobs in bo4 4 years ago, now all i see is master prestige sweats.
This is a sad day I still think XDefiant would’ve been fine underneath a different publisher
Agreed Ubisoft should sell the IP to keep it alive
@ yeah I think XDefiant’s failures is more on Ubisoft than the actual game itself
You can have a great game but if the publisher sucks the game isn’t going to last
Welp… sadly the possibility of this happening became a realization to me Two weeks ago.
I have around
300 hours played and i enjoyed the game but with every update something else broke whether it be classes not working properly or netcode taking a hit. This last update made the Netcode take two steps back after it was actually in its best state since launch.
That was the last straw for me and i deleted it 4 days ago.
Now ill just stick to Single player games and hopefully the next Battlefield title is what its community really wanted.
You could do Delta Force content when it drops
Played XD daily since launch. Just unlocked Pyroclastic camo.. level 250.
An average game cannot compete with even the corpse of Call of Duty.
Delta Force launches pc only beta tomorrow. Marvel Rivals launches on Friday. FragPunk is expected to launch early 2025….maybe.
Wow, I purchased the Ultimate Founder’s Pack and didn’t expect to get my money back. I enjoyed the game and wish it had legs to stand on and stay for years to come with updates/QoL like Rainbow Six Siege and For Honor got over the previous years.
Agreed I wish Ubisoft gave the game a chance like it did those games the devs could've turned it around once more content came
You could try out Splitgate 2 next year when it comes out I've heard from people that have early access to it that the gameplay feels were similar to XDefiant 8:33
my buddy at work plays alot of r6 he made fun of me and told me this game was gonna die I kept telling him how much I liked it he kept saying it will die it’s a$$ and I will still be playing the game until shutdown it’s sad man this game gives me a good vibe one of the best shooters I’ve played in a while
People like him who hope for games to die are what's wrong with gaming today
Here’s me hoping this is just some big publicity stunt.
The first thing we need to do is not play COD regardless of what happens
That's dumb season 3 isn't out yet
This is so sad this game had so much potential and just amazing gunplay i honestly think Ubisoft shoulded of marketed the game as a cod kill they should of just tried to make the game it's own thig 😔
am in the same boat bro am not interested in any other fps shooter or even br's, so its actually really frustrating for me and all my +600h is going into the oblivion all that camo grind too i have like 4 more guns to get pyro on all guns, GOD DAMN IT UBI-SHIT YOU HAD ONE F'ING JOB FFS 🤦🏻♂💔
I have no motivation to play fps multiplayer games now
i thing u should try The Finals for your channel
Ubisoft is the king of making PvP games that could be awesome but completely fuck it up. Breakpoint being another example of this.
Yeah man I haven’t played since BO6 came out! I want to give the new signal map a try. It’s so unfortunate that we will no longer get this game. They should’ve kept Division Heartland active but they bombed that 🤦🏾♂️ I was looking forward to that game and many others were too.
Damn fr?… that’s crazy
So, about that community event…
This makes me really sadi don't have that much hours of gameplay , only around 140, but it was my favorite game.... and it ran in Linux perfectly so it was a win win situation for me.
Well, no alternatives for the genre (CoD is not one), gonna go back to single player games!
I mean you have Delta Force, I would look into how you like that game. Its been fun when I've played.
Its a dark day :(
Damn. Well at least they're refunding us
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO what that is so sad 😢 i love this game 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 i will go cry in corner
Go cry over a game
The only Cod I find similar is black ops 4
Funny enough I got paired with Jak here and after him bunny hopping all match long that made me never want to play this game again. The devs failed by not fixing the hit reg making a simple hopping motion almost unkillable among other awful mistakes. Shame this game had potential.
I hate to hear this. I love this game so much
you should cover delta force bro
They did this before a decent combat record smh
Delta force time
Just came around recently, but you got a great personality and such a great passion towards content creation. Would love to see ya stick around if that's something youll be doing!
Have you looked into Delta Force at all?
not a fan of PFS games that also have vehicles/tanks
@TheJakOfAllTradez that's perfectly fair!
They were told numerous times to get rid of the bunny hopping and one shot body/foot/arm shots. They didnt listen they catered to the wrong class of gamers and this happened. We who buy these Ubisoft games dont fing bunny hop. We dont do it in the Division series...AC series...Far Cry...Wildland...Ghost recon. Sad but when you dont listen to your core Ubisoft gamers this is what happens. Maybe try again with another FPS and leave the rabbits at home.
They did it to themselves honestly. Maybe next time
What's really sad in my case is that the servers are gonna shut down on my birthday month. That's just wonderful. Happy Birthday to me I guess.
Pre-Download Delta Force.
What about splitgate 2?
@@jrod2198 not sure. Depends on multiple factors like the matchmaking and if the game is fun to me.
The ride with you was worth the fall...😢
What about playing the finals man