I’ve literally only got sweats in COD. In XDefiant I have people walking past me like I’m not there while others are sweating in the same match. Definitely works
@Boobie.Rashard I thought it was just me 😂 Im always thinking to myself, like, how am I in a close gunfight and you're not shooting at all and you're right next to me. Smh
Lol yep, so used to cod that I forgot back in the old days you couldn't count on your teammates to cover that flank 😂... This is why I'm glad they're doing persistent lobbies soon, so you can remember who's a chump and that you can't count on them to tie their own shoes.
Every FPS game turns into a sweatfest though. It won't be xDefiant's fault if people start to sweat. It's because of streaming and professional events. Basically, enjoy the good times while they last. The skill floor will slowly rise.
yup, i’ve said it before. The issue with cod and sweaty fps games aren’t the matchmaking. it’s the players. everyone plays like their life depends on it now days. casual gaming is dead. it’s either “be good or don’t play”
Every lobby in every shooter has sweats. If they want to increase the base they need to market that it's a free to play game. I noticed that by complete accident.
True and that's another negative in those case since I see very little marketing about this game. It's mostly word of mouth from old CoD fans, Ubisoft is spending all their ad power for AC Shadows.
Never thought of it this way…XDefiant is f2p so I’d say it caters more to a casual audience browsing through the free section on their Xbox/PlayStation
@@zariel9896ya they’re going to put it on game pass to get a massive player base. So everyone from cod sweats to casual gamers play it so no SBMM will work.
@@evangreenberg1666they are gonna keep sbmm in it. Even if they remove it I don't think they would tell people that they got rid of it. If they say they removed it then everyone will drop xdefiant to go play it. Which sucks to say but tbh XDefiant needs more content and some fixes
@evangreenberg1666 that's not how sbmm works though. Even if they put it on game pass, casuals will play vs casuals and if you're remotely good at the game you'll be getting in pro lobbies lol. Doesn't matter the casual player count with sbmm. They'll never remove it. Read the patent cod has for sbmm. It tracks everything, even past stats. It tracks your movement to see if you're moving like a good player lmao
Casual lol. I forget that the people made cod sweaty. That’s why they needed a balancer. This game is not casual. All the anti cod sweats came to this one to do the same thing.
If you’re playing good you’re gonna get with players doing just a good in any game you play. It’s not skill based it’s how games work. You won’t be put with people worse than you or you won’t be able to get better. Stop complaining and pick a game.
it is, i tried to copy them and i get half the damages as i should. - yes i rewatch my gameplay from the video i recorded to see if that's the case, and i found 1/4 bullets hit into me didn't register as damage. that's how u lose gunfights.
I’m playing as level 25 against guys 121 on a 157 win streak… who absolutely destroyed my team we got every player 5-15 3-20 and worse once you know where to be on the maps and build Decent guns it’s game over for people but the game is fun and feels balanced imo which is encouraging because you just want to try harder and get better, it’s supposed to be about competing not about giving people validation for a lack of ability or effort that’s cod.
I played xdefiant from its release as a casual, and I had zero problems, but then I took a couple weeks off. Now it’s nothing but level 80s to 100+ in every single match. This is definitely gonna happen and “casuals” or new players are gonna stop playing
But everyone at this point is a relatively new player. Like I’m a level 84. I been playing the game for a few weeks just like everyone else. I wasn’t any good at the game til like level 40 maybe cuz gotta learn maps and how they play and how to play certain game modes. What do you want people to do? Stop leveling up? The game creates skill based teams based on an open lobby system. I think it feels like a much more organic gaming experience than what the last couple CODs did
I’ll say the biggest thing for the casual shooter fan for XDefiant is the fact that it’s free. While COD wants to charge $80 I feel like that’s a big motivation for someone who is looking for a “Casual” multiplayer shooter experience
My worry about it not succeeding is that there are no iconic type of maps like CoD has, little content, free to play basically gets nothing with the only things to get being behind the battlepass or in game currency and a weird ttk that only rewards headshots. Its not casual, 90% of the games I've been in have been a sweat fest. It's fun but if you just have a few hours a week to sit down and have some fun, you ain't leveling up anything. CoD has the better formula and content as of now. I'm rooting for this game tho as I wanna play both CoD and this
I enjoy the game and agree with your take. Would love for players to pick it up but there is also a ton of games released at the same time which are great for the genres they target
I've been enjoying XDefiant but this is essentially what I've been saying about the game. There's no SBMM, but everyone playing is an enthusiast. I don't feel any better or worse about the matchmaking in this game than, say, Modern Warfare 2019 for example. The playerpool isn't large or diverse enough for it to be significant enough that I can note the matchmaking as something that contributes to my enjoyment. On top of that, the game is pretty simple and paint by numbers. With Black Ops 6 coming out and actually seemingly being a COD with some actual promise for once, XDefiant may be "doomed" indeed, at least when it comes to living up to expectations. And if I can use a pro wrestling analogy here, the marketing around No SBMM and everyone jerking them off for it is basically just the gaming version of Marks responding positively to Mark Booking.
XDefiant is SOOOOOOOO damn sweaty!! I'm not bad at the game but I get like 15 & 15 whereas all the other sweaties are getting around 30 & 5. I really don't understand how I'm dumping a whole clip into an opponents teeth & somehow they quickly kill me in 1 shot. Also, they need to take out jumping unless vaulting over a hurdle. The Monkey McJumpersons need to go away.
i played cod games each once a year ish and hated that i was getting killed 24/7 by people more skilled than me. A friend got me on xdefiant and its the best fps game ive enjoyed since rainbow six las vegas
You can only crouch, you can't even lay down / Go prone. You can't lean around corners, you can't dive to the ground from Sprinting; there's a handful of things that they need to correct if they are going to have any prayer of increasing their base
People like that are the reason I'm starting to hate XDefiant. I can't even hit bro and he's spinning hitting every shot mid air like I'm standing still.
@@animalkings7489i hate to say this but like that person isn’t gonna have any interest in purposely nerfing themselves and playing worse to make sure everyone else has a fun experience lol. while it is a “skill issue” it can def be frustrating. i guess just try to focus on winning the game and playing obj
Xdefiant is a breath of fresh air especially if u want a more chill old school shooter experience. If you play modern games now and if u r any good every game feels like a tournament sweat fest.
I’m a level 19 in XDefiant and I’ve been playing on the welcome playlist, and I’ll say it’s probably the sweatiest game I’ve ever tried to start. I haven’t ran into a single “bot”. I’m getting quickscoped by level 4s and shit. There’s no such thing as “casual gaming” on an FPS.
Maybe ur just bad cause im getting at least 25 kills a match and playing against absolute bums except for like 2 players per game and its still easy to compete
100% true. Just started playing the welcome playlist and it's honestly the sweatiest start I've had to a game. Fun but if i had no knowledge from previous shooters i would hate this so much
No it’s not. There’s usually 1-2 above average/sweat player the rest is mid and a few newbies. When I used to play COD it was always 1 K/D to everyone if we focused 100%, here it could go easy win, decent challenge or we get absolutely shit on which happens only a few times compared.
Like I said, it’s a game that will survive a few months at most before coming to a crawl. Love the game, it’s real fun to play but man, you have 10-15 COD titles that already does what this game does. Given they are not free but they have way more content than just multiplayer. The new season just doesn’t bring anything new that makes gameplay standout. It works as a great mainstay in the free to play catagoey of games.
I think what’s happening too is everyone is competitive. No one wants to hop on a game and just be smashed for hours so the days of causal unfortunately are done and anything will become sweaty just because people hate losing
In LATAM, XDefiant basically is stillborn and that's a shame, since I was hoping it to work as a an F2P challenge to CoD. Instead, the lobbies are empty af and some game modes can take over 15 mins to even start a match. Of course, the population being so low, most of people who are there are streamers and other diehards, and that's the point the "I hate SBMM" crowd never got. Your game got harder not because SBMM wanted to screw you over, what happened instead is that they had a huge player base when everyone was bad or mid at it, similar to, say what Fortnite was at Chapter 1. As the non-fantasy arcade shooter subgenre matured, more people mastered the mechanics, streaming also hit it big, so your opponents are now stronger, since the average CoDlike player got stronger as well. But Kryptix is right, without a continuous fresh supply of newbies for the "I lost hard and I blame SBMM for it", whatever "casual fun" you expect to find there is gonna fade out *real fast*. It was never the SBMM. If anything, it likely protected you from taking a harder beating. Most who complain about SBMM are the kind of player who want feel like a pro against bot lobbies or players who never touched an FPS in life who don't realize their own skill issue.
I call bullshit. Every single cod up until advanced warfare was casual. Then they started turning up the seat meter by making sbmm stricter. I sucked at cod4 mw2 when they first came out. Then got good. Then sbmm came around and fucked everything up. I'm no where near a 2 kd never really will be. But I used to have fun with cod, I do not anymore because of sbmm.
Cod doesn’t even have sbmm, it has sbmm+ ultra. It’s called eomm, and they pretty much dictate how your match is gonna go based on the previous matches, the game is pretty much a casino lobby wise.
Teams can still be balanced without heavy SBMM. SBMM just resulted in lobbies being full of ppl who are playing equally as well in their previous games, and then I’d assume balancing the teams accordingly. You can do the balancing of teams without all players being of the same skill level. You just need to distribute the available skill levels in a way that should balance out as much as you can get.
Xdefiant is sbmm after level 25 it gets to the point where its just not even fun anymore when every game multiple people just one shot you instantly with a sniper at least before it was a mix of people running around and having fun
It has party based matchmaking so if you’re in a party with 3 people you’ll most likely run into people playing in the same party as well those games are always sweaty asf and it’s bad if you don’t have good team mates that give good coms
I dropped it. Sick of bullets going through solid walls, buildings, and around corners. Ghosts spamming the laser shield on point, no overtime, and entire teams running Intel suits so the second one ends, another one goes online.
Cod ghosts was the peak for me, averaging a 4kd. Advanced Warfare killed the entire franchise and sbmm made me a 1.5 kd player ever since. Going up against clones of myself is not fun but Xdefiant switches that up and takes me back to the old cod days so tbh random lobby’s and I’m starting to have fun with fps games again.
This is what happened with The Last of Us Factions. When it became free on Playstation plus new players came in but dropped fast as it takes way too much skill and time put in to be great
@@Rkxveswell considering you get killed instantly like you’re on a hardcore mode and it takes you a full mag to kill someone I see his point. The TTK is one sided on this game
As a casual player, I tried XDefiant, and after playing for some some 8 hours found it extremely hostile. Everyone is running and sliding around at supersonic speeds with basically no penalty to firing accuracy so it's hard to hit people and win firefights. Also headshots are busted and sniper rifles 1-shot (except mine, for some reason). So it's extra impossible to compete for someone who can't hit headshots or flicks on crazy fast moving targets. Edit: and I haven't even made it from the protected novice playlist!
Exactly what i also said in my review XDEFIANT needs to add alot more content and fast, maybe add a warzone style game mode, maybe port rainbow six sieges extraction game mode to let people enjoy some PVE with their friends The problem of going against cod is simply that cod is the ultimate offer: You got single player, multi with or without bot/vehicles in small or big maps, dmz, warzone coop and now returning for black ops 6 wave zombies No other game on the market offer so much for 70$
If memory serves me correctly when I started out they had a selective matchmaking that would only be accessible to players levels between 1 to 25. After that it general matchmaking from there. Not sure if it’s still there or not but I thought that was a nice feature for them to do
I don’t think they need a way at all. OK they they already created away. The game is free. You can pretty literally unlock everything without spending money. You can speed it up by spending money and I’m sure they’ll tweak their cash app here and there, but I just bought the season pass for about seven bucks For the preseason I think it’s only 30 something. I forget how long 30s like a little over a month for the preseason pass for seven bucks you ain’t buying the season pass on call of duty for that price and you have to buy call of duty you can play Warzone for free, but if you want typical call of duty sweaty combat, if you want to campaign playing call of duty by the game every time new version comes out which is pretty fucking regular. They file off the serial numbers. They change the story around a little bit. They change the environment, modernize it and put it out over and over and over again that’s another reason why they don’t have to do anything to attract people from games like call of dutyattract people away from games like overwatch war face people been playing certain games just because of lack of free choices. It will attract all of those as well. I was not that impressed with the last beta but things have gotten a lot smoother. I think potential
Yea well, a lot of people are buying PS4 and PS5’s rn, and it’s a freee game that feels like cod but better so a completely new player base will be developed. This will make sure that casual players still play the game
As a casual player I tried playing xdefiant but I only had an hour to play and I was just not having any fun at all because I was by far the worst one in every lobby
Bruh you dont get it the youtube cod community and the actual players playing the real game are wayyy different they dont all care about even know what sbmm is
@@Hudxxonthat just means you need to get better brother, with no sbmm if you’re bottom of the leaderboard every time something needs to change, that means you’re in the percentage of players that aren’t the best at games like this, while if you play cod or something of that sort they’ll make your games easy on purpose so you can engage in the game more. Just start practicing and eventually you’ll be top of the leaderboard
Just make it so if you spam jump the second jump is pretty much non existent and the more you spam it nullifies the jump and requires a 2 second cooldown to jump fully again that should fix the bunny hopping, as for the snipers reduce the damage for headshots so there is no one tap of full armour but 95% of full armour thatll reduce the amount of players running around with a sniper like its a pistol bunny hopping out of a doorway one tapping everything youll never stop cheating but can make it so it still gives you a chance regardless of cheaters, the only guns that should be a 1 tap should be shotguns point blank and snipers point blank as long as the aim down sigts is much slower for snipers than every other gun any distance outside of 3 metres is not point blank and requires 2 shots from snipers at every range outside the 3 metres and 2 shots outside the 3 meters and 3 shots for shotguns outside of 7 metres, players who want to run those guns should have to change how they engage based on the weapon they use instead of dudes like i said before running around with a massive sniper like its a nimble pistol 1 tapping everything lol if they make changes like that they might save there game.
I just got it to try it. I’ve always hated how Ubisoft games felt, but they’re fun and have good concepts. But the controls always felt odd even in their older games it feels I guess clunky
Xdefiant is just fine, it's got plenty of skill variety in the match and the lobby balancing is insanely accurate most times. I'm always at the top of my team. There's is 1 person on the other team with similar score, and the rest of the players are about evenly distributed
As a casual player I am beyond frustrated with the game because I wanna be able to occasionally get positive k/d but with the level of all the other players I just can't keep up
I don't think XDefiant's lobbies will reach the level of sweatiness that Warzone is right now. They just need to continue to focus on the ranked play, improve on the way teams are divided, add more game modes, and maybe even look into the BR game mode. One thing I'll say about Ubisoft and the matchmaking, Rainbow6 is done pretty well. I never felt like it was as bad as what COD/WZ is at this moment I'm 2024.
The problem with xdefiant is the community itself. Labeling this game as a “Cod Killer” is only hurting it. We’ve had multiple games that were good and quickly labeled as a game that will replace cod instead of enjoying it for our own personal interests. Just for the next year to hit and the player base drops because a cod is coming out. I like xdefiant, but i also like cod. They shouldn’t conflict with each other.
Ppl diff need to try this.. this is the closet experience you’ll ever get to OG COD in todays world I started last night I like it gunplay reminds me of BO2 in a way with the bright maps and not all doom and gloom style
It’s so refreshing to load into XDefiant and the game just works. No “update requires restart”, no Travis-Rilea error, no waiting for random 30+ gb updates that add nothing, and crashes are pretty rare (I’ve only had one).
Game's fun but matchmaking is pretty long and hit reg(at least for me is not perfect 20% of the time) so it becomes a pain in the a*s. And why is the welcome playlist so sweaty😭
These are good points. However, I am not a pro in Cod, but def not a push over either. I frequently get my ass handed to me in COD MP - it feels a LOT more fair in Xdefiant, here it happens MAYBE 1/4 matches…
So here's the thing: Xdefiant as a game is really, really fun. I have fun even when I'm getting my ass kicked. So if they well and truly want to continue to make this game thrive, they gotta go all in on it. Imagine it they made more modes, more maps, more weapons, and maybe even a paid story mode that rewards players with some sort of new exclusive gun skin that applies to all weapons by the end. There are SO many ideas they could pour into this to keep it going.
This is what SBMM does…in the lobby there’s one person on each team, maybe 2, that are destroying the enemy team they’re embarrassing their teammates…& everyone else in the lobby is a casual getting 5 kills
as a casual , i downloaded this game played for an hour , got destroyed in four games , didnt win a single game. so i uninstalled. my k/d in shooters is never terrible im usually a consistent 1.25 player , which is average but this game i was getting double digit deaths with only single digit kills. you could tell the sbmm is surely gonna have to be included at some point. if casuals like me cant have fun and get stomped then whats the point of playing ?
SBMM is a feedback loop that causes the games to be sweatfests IMO. People sweat (as they always will), devs turn up SBMM, then everyone feels like they have to sweat more to perform, devs turn SBMM up more, rinse and repeat until you get modern call of duty where every match feels like you need to be wired on 6 cups of gfuel and a line of coke to go positive
The best things about XD is people actually play the objective very close games most of the time. Evenly matched with snipers and all classes. It also has Good spawns. Its just fun and find myself not getting so frustrated as cod is just unplayable. cod players just run around with one shot kill weapons and just trying to unlock stuff. Not playing objectives. In cod you Get put in half games with people leaving. Or really bad servers. Players ruined cod just as much as the greedy company.
yall will never be satisfied, that’s the thing. sbmm and you’ll cry about that, no sbmm and you’ll cry that there are too many sweats? yall realize that the majority of the player base is average tier, even if you think you’re cracked you’re probably still middle of the pack
I love this game. If you love old Cod this is your game it is fucking amazing. I quit Cod and Apex because of SSBM AND EOMM and so many other people did. This game is like a mix of Apex and Cod
Joined a domination match went 43-8 and we won by a longshot Joined an escort match lost badly went 17-8 Played a hotshot mode and got stomped 8-17. I think its pretty fair some matches are like playing against bots. And then others are like playing against sweaty streamers .
Ex apex player, never liked or really grew up on COD/the type of gamestyle. Never understood it, and by the time i finally got my own console well i was a junior in highschool and they were sll better than me so i think this is broadening my perspective
Haven’t played COD in years, probably around 10 now, since it went completely downhill. XDefiant is the closest you could get to an old school COD game no. I don’t think they’ll have a problem tbh, so many of us stopped playing COD back then and now we’re back for XDefiant.
I had to stop XDefiant cause I got my butt kicked too much. As a casual gamer who just isn’t good at shooters I really really struggled to enjoy a great game because I just got stomped each round. I don’t think this is a case of me being particularly bad (although I am), I think the game really is filled with the sweatiest shooter players
No, it really doesn’t. It just needs to be free enough. It’s gotta work right it’s gotta have polish should already has that there are a few issues. I’m sure that they will work them out. There’s detection problem. I don’t see it much, but I have seen the issue where you are clearly behind cover like one second already all the way behind a big obstacle and you still get hit and then I’ve seen the option where I knew, I was pinging somebody right in the middle of their big fat back while they were running away and I did not get a single hit detection off of it detection issues and a few other minor issues like you’re all queued up. You see the queue and I’ll send you a bump back to the main screen. You’re not really bumped to the main screen. By the way you’re still in the queue if you just leave shit alone when they start the match, you’ll be in it at least that’s from my experience, click back into the screen showing queued up with the lobby you’re in, but it don’t seem like it should be you that so they probably gotta fix that beyond that I don’t see anything wrong with this game. They need to get going because you cannot convince me there are many people on PCcontroller like half of every match is Ubisoft launcher PC controller method sometimes a mouse and quickly shift to a controller for a player you just know that person’s cheating
I’ve literally only got sweats in COD. In XDefiant I have people walking past me like I’m not there while others are sweating in the same match. Definitely works
Pisses me off I watch my teammates walk past groups of ops
@Boobie.Rashard I thought it was just me 😂 Im always thinking to myself, like, how am I in a close gunfight and you're not shooting at all and you're right next to me. Smh
Lol yep, so used to cod that I forgot back in the old days you couldn't count on your teammates to cover that flank 😂... This is why I'm glad they're doing persistent lobbies soon, so you can remember who's a chump and that you can't count on them to tie their own shoes.
@@Boobie.Rashard there are some especially frustrating teammates on XD
Are you that ass at the game that you hope to face literal r*tards that have never held a controller in their life?
Every FPS game turns into a sweatfest though. It won't be xDefiant's fault if people start to sweat. It's because of streaming and professional events.
Basically, enjoy the good times while they last. The skill floor will slowly rise.
For sure. The first month of Halo 6 was godly
Rise with it welcome to darwinism
yup, i’ve said it before. The issue with cod and sweaty fps games aren’t the matchmaking. it’s the players. everyone plays like their life depends on it now days. casual gaming is dead. it’s either “be good or don’t play”
Womp womp kids gotta get good
Bro yall act like ur bots or some like you can't keep up ?
Every lobby in every shooter has sweats.
If they want to increase the base they need to market that it's a free to play game. I noticed that by complete accident.
True and that's another negative in those case since I see very little marketing about this game. It's mostly word of mouth from old CoD fans, Ubisoft is spending all their ad power for AC Shadows.
Same
Never thought of it this way…XDefiant is f2p so I’d say it caters more to a casual audience browsing through the free section on their Xbox/PlayStation
Well from what i heard black ops 6 will be on game pass.
@@zariel9896 real?
@@zariel9896ya they’re going to put it on game pass to get a massive player base. So everyone from cod sweats to casual gamers play it so no SBMM will work.
@@evangreenberg1666they are gonna keep sbmm in it. Even if they remove it I don't think they would tell people that they got rid of it. If they say they removed it then everyone will drop xdefiant to go play it. Which sucks to say but tbh XDefiant needs more content and some fixes
@evangreenberg1666 that's not how sbmm works though. Even if they put it on game pass, casuals will play vs casuals and if you're remotely good at the game you'll be getting in pro lobbies lol. Doesn't matter the casual player count with sbmm. They'll never remove it. Read the patent cod has for sbmm. It tracks everything, even past stats. It tracks your movement to see if you're moving like a good player lmao
Casual lol. I forget that the people made cod sweaty. That’s why they needed a balancer. This game is not casual. All the anti cod sweats came to this one to do the same thing.
Give it a few months they will start complaining about this one.
Ok diddy
@@Crowlo17do you not agree? I’ve noticed the sweat have switched over
Children of Duty are only casual players.
If you’re playing good you’re gonna get with players doing just a good in any game you play. It’s not skill based it’s how games work. You won’t be put with people worse than you or you won’t be able to get better. Stop complaining and pick a game.
All tryhards jumping around like Rabbits. Jumping negates damage apparently
skill issue
@@marcusrobinson7374not a skill issue. People that jump are total fags
it is, i tried to copy them and i get half the damages as i should.
- yes i rewatch my gameplay from the video i recorded to see if that's the case, and i found 1/4 bullets hit into me didn't register as damage. that's how u lose gunfights.
@@marcusrobinson7374 🤓☝️
@@MarceliousLavanteSkill Issue
the game literally just came out!! give it time😂😂
It should be dialed in by now. It had a beta to fix issues and the same issues persist
Sweats is what makes a game horrible
he was right. they just added skilled based matchmaking this morning🤦🏾♀️
@@kennydominguez4730They never added sbmm? Tf are u on about
I’m playing as level 25 against guys 121 on a 157 win streak… who absolutely destroyed my team we got every player 5-15 3-20 and worse once you know where to be on the maps and build Decent guns it’s game over for people but the game is fun and feels balanced imo which is encouraging because you just want to try harder and get better, it’s supposed to be about competing not about giving people validation for a lack of ability or effort that’s cod.
What separates CoD from XD is the US$70 that one costs.
Most of the people don’t have an issue paying 70$ per year for their favorite game.
It's definitely a good thing but it's just meh atp
I played xdefiant from its release as a casual, and I had zero problems, but then I took a couple weeks off. Now it’s nothing but level 80s to 100+ in every single match. This is definitely gonna happen and “casuals” or new players are gonna stop playing
But everyone at this point is a relatively new player. Like I’m a level 84. I been playing the game for a few weeks just like everyone else. I wasn’t any good at the game til like level 40 maybe cuz gotta learn maps and how they play and how to play certain game modes. What do you want people to do? Stop leveling up? The game creates skill based teams based on an open lobby system. I think it feels like a much more organic gaming experience than what the last couple CODs did
I’ll say the biggest thing for the casual shooter fan for XDefiant is the fact that it’s free. While COD wants to charge $80 I feel like that’s a big motivation for someone who is looking for a “Casual” multiplayer shooter experience
Just tried it out, first fps ive played in 10 years and i was positive KD my first 3 games. I even got an MVP. Definitely liking it so far
My worry about it not succeeding is that there are no iconic type of maps like CoD has, little content, free to play basically gets nothing with the only things to get being behind the battlepass or in game currency and a weird ttk that only rewards headshots. Its not casual, 90% of the games I've been in have been a sweat fest. It's fun but if you just have a few hours a week to sit down and have some fun, you ain't leveling up anything. CoD has the better formula and content as of now. I'm rooting for this game tho as I wanna play both CoD and this
I enjoy the game and agree with your take. Would love for players to pick it up but there is also a ton of games released at the same time which are great for the genres they target
And ubisoft is threatening to pull the plug on xdefiant if player count doesn't increase by season 3.
I've been enjoying XDefiant but this is essentially what I've been saying about the game.
There's no SBMM, but everyone playing is an enthusiast. I don't feel any better or worse about the matchmaking in this game than, say, Modern Warfare 2019 for example. The playerpool isn't large or diverse enough for it to be significant enough that I can note the matchmaking as something that contributes to my enjoyment. On top of that, the game is pretty simple and paint by numbers. With Black Ops 6 coming out and actually seemingly being a COD with some actual promise for once, XDefiant may be "doomed" indeed, at least when it comes to living up to expectations.
And if I can use a pro wrestling analogy here, the marketing around No SBMM and everyone jerking them off for it is basically just the gaming version of Marks responding positively to Mark Booking.
For me it’s always a couple hardcore sweaty jumpers in every lobby. lol it’s annoying
XDefiant is SOOOOOOOO damn sweaty!! I'm not bad at the game but I get like 15 & 15 whereas all the other sweaties are getting around 30 & 5. I really don't understand how I'm dumping a whole clip into an opponents teeth & somehow they quickly kill me in 1 shot. Also, they need to take out jumping unless vaulting over a hurdle. The Monkey McJumpersons need to go away.
The game is fun bro. Just enjoy 😅
i played cod games each once a year ish and hated that i was getting killed 24/7 by people more skilled than me.
A friend got me on xdefiant and its the best fps game ive enjoyed since rainbow six las vegas
You can only crouch, you can't even lay down / Go prone. You can't lean around corners, you can't dive to the ground from Sprinting; there's a handful of things that they need to correct if they are going to have any prayer of increasing their base
If you’re casual you eventually get better by playing with good players . Knowledge is power
The shooting in XDefiant is what’s got me - but I still can’t help but hate the Hero abilities etc.
Played against a lvl 100 last night he got like 126 kills and 25 deaths. Bro was bunny hop strafing across the map all game
cods garbage every year cuz how people play it & they play this the same way
People like that are the reason I'm starting to hate XDefiant. I can't even hit bro and he's spinning hitting every shot mid air like I'm standing still.
@@animalkings7489i hate to say this but like that person isn’t gonna have any interest in purposely nerfing themselves and playing worse to make sure everyone else has a fun experience lol. while it is a “skill issue” it can def be frustrating. i guess just try to focus on winning the game and playing obj
@@Araman-vu2dj what
@@ysmmac6015 How old are you? is your brain development stunted by any means? Do you have medical conditions like autism?
Xdefiant is a breath of fresh air especially if u want a more chill old school shooter experience. If you play modern games now and if u r any good every game feels like a tournament sweat fest.
My brother XDefiant is no different. Fun but hella sweaty
I’m a level 19 in XDefiant and I’ve been playing on the welcome playlist, and I’ll say it’s probably the sweatiest game I’ve ever tried to start. I haven’t ran into a single “bot”. I’m getting quickscoped by level 4s and shit. There’s no such thing as “casual gaming” on an FPS.
Being it an F2P game, expect it to be heavy on smurfing, so yeah, good luck on your training, bro, it will be rough.
I just started and honestly it sounds like you're just not that good at it, no disrespect just saying it as it sounds.
Maybe ur just bad cause im getting at least 25 kills a match and playing against absolute bums except for like 2 players per game and its still easy to compete
100% true. Just started playing the welcome playlist and it's honestly the sweatiest start I've had to a game. Fun but if i had no knowledge from previous shooters i would hate this so much
That’s literally exactly what happened. The game feels sweatier than cod
ur just bad at it lol
SBMM chocked cod to death ☠️
No it’s not. There’s usually 1-2 above average/sweat player the rest is mid and a few newbies. When I used to play COD it was always 1 K/D to everyone if we focused 100%, here it could go easy win, decent challenge or we get absolutely shit on which happens only a few times compared.
That’s because you suck and SBMM has been protecting you your entire life.
@@cfmfreestyler9369 every time I play the game it has someone with like 40 to 50 kills if that's not sweats I don't know what it
Its actually starting to level out abit i was in a few games today where everyone had over 15 kills at the end was actually a good few matches
Like I said, it’s a game that will survive a few months at most before coming to a crawl.
Love the game, it’s real fun to play but man, you have 10-15 COD titles that already does what this game does. Given they are not free but they have way more content than just multiplayer.
The new season just doesn’t bring anything new that makes gameplay standout.
It works as a great mainstay in the free to play catagoey of games.
I think what’s happening too is everyone is competitive. No one wants to hop on a game and just be smashed for hours so the days of causal unfortunately are done and anything will become sweaty just because people hate losing
People who don’t like skill based matchmaking are having nostalgia about a match where they went 40-2 10 years ago
Xdefiant is managing this fine, and i think it will only get better for xdefiant once SBMM Simulator Ops 6 comes out
In LATAM, XDefiant basically is stillborn and that's a shame, since I was hoping it to work as a an F2P challenge to CoD.
Instead, the lobbies are empty af and some game modes can take over 15 mins to even start a match.
Of course, the population being so low, most of people who are there are streamers and other diehards, and that's the point the "I hate SBMM" crowd never got. Your game got harder not because SBMM wanted to screw you over, what happened instead is that they had a huge player base when everyone was bad or mid at it, similar to, say what Fortnite was at Chapter 1.
As the non-fantasy arcade shooter subgenre matured, more people mastered the mechanics, streaming also hit it big, so your opponents are now stronger, since the average CoDlike player got stronger as well.
But Kryptix is right, without a continuous fresh supply of newbies for the "I lost hard and I blame SBMM for it", whatever "casual fun" you expect to find there is gonna fade out *real fast*.
It was never the SBMM. If anything, it likely protected you from taking a harder beating. Most who complain about SBMM are the kind of player who want feel like a pro against bot lobbies or players who never touched an FPS in life who don't realize their own skill issue.
I call bullshit. Every single cod up until advanced warfare was casual. Then they started turning up the seat meter by making sbmm stricter. I sucked at cod4 mw2 when they first came out. Then got good.
Then sbmm came around and fucked everything up.
I'm no where near a 2 kd never really will be. But I used to have fun with cod, I do not anymore because of sbmm.
You’re just ass
You have no idea what you are talking about lmao sbmm when you have below a 2kd is noob city. You just suck ass
Yep I haven’t played cod in a while mainly bc of sbmm and not having fun but tried xdefiant and love it game isn’t as sweaty to me as cod
Something that really accelerated the sweat rate is streaming. Being good at a game became profitable without entering into esports.
Cod doesn’t even have sbmm, it has sbmm+ ultra. It’s called eomm, and they pretty much dictate how your match is gonna go based on the previous matches, the game is pretty much a casino lobby wise.
Teams can still be balanced without heavy SBMM. SBMM just resulted in lobbies being full of ppl who are playing equally as well in their previous games, and then I’d assume balancing the teams accordingly.
You can do the balancing of teams without all players being of the same skill level. You just need to distribute the available skill levels in a way that should balance out as much as you can get.
Xdefiant is sbmm after level 25 it gets to the point where its just not even fun anymore when every game multiple people just one shot you instantly with a sniper at least before it was a mix of people running around and having fun
It has party based matchmaking so if you’re in a party with 3 people you’ll most likely run into people playing in the same party as well those games are always sweaty asf and it’s bad if you don’t have good team mates that give good coms
I swear bro it was me and two other ppl but sometime the non party players on my team be selling or NPC’s
Xdefiant does what we all wanted and is good as some of the old cods
I dropped it. Sick of bullets going through solid walls, buildings, and around corners. Ghosts spamming the laser shield on point, no overtime, and entire teams running Intel suits so the second one ends, another one goes online.
Cod ghosts was the peak for me, averaging a 4kd. Advanced Warfare killed the entire franchise and sbmm made me a 1.5 kd player ever since. Going up against clones of myself is not fun but Xdefiant switches that up and takes me back to the old cod days so tbh random lobby’s and I’m starting to have fun with fps games again.
I see this game being around for a while only for a while they would need to constantly update the game to give us something fresh
X Defiant is really fun, the game modes make movement better because there’s rarely people camping
This is what happened with The Last of Us Factions. When it became free on Playstation plus new players came in but dropped fast as it takes way too much skill and time put in to be great
Bro there were ppl jumping and shooting I was like hell nahh and I only got 3 kills bro smh
You just booboo
Sbmm infested cod might be better suited for you then
There fixing that the bunny hoping it's great I love quickscoping In it it's brings me back to mw2 2009
you got to be some hot ass to only get three kills on a 10 minute timer
@@Rkxveswell considering you get killed instantly like you’re on a hardcore mode and it takes you a full mag to kill someone I see his point. The TTK is one sided on this game
As a casual player, I tried XDefiant, and after playing for some some 8 hours found it extremely hostile. Everyone is running and sliding around at supersonic speeds with basically no penalty to firing accuracy so it's hard to hit people and win firefights. Also headshots are busted and sniper rifles 1-shot (except mine, for some reason). So it's extra impossible to compete for someone who can't hit headshots or flicks on crazy fast moving targets.
Edit: and I haven't even made it from the protected novice playlist!
The hacking abilities faction is going to drive people away. That and the spiderbot is the most annoying things in the game
Exactly what i also said in my review
XDEFIANT needs to add alot more content and fast, maybe add a warzone style game mode, maybe port rainbow six sieges extraction game mode to let people enjoy some PVE with their friends
The problem of going against cod is simply that cod is the ultimate offer:
You got single player, multi with or without bot/vehicles in small or big maps, dmz, warzone coop and now returning for black ops 6 wave zombies
No other game on the market offer so much for 70$
I think also the fact that lobbies disband at the end of matches double down and encountering sweats more often than older cods
Imagine taking a game so seriously you get "sweaty" over it 😂
If memory serves me correctly when I started out they had a selective matchmaking that would only be accessible to players levels between 1 to 25. After that it general matchmaking from there. Not sure if it’s still there or not but I thought that was a nice feature for them to do
So many casuals still in XDefiant. It’s free. It’s good. It’s working. PLAY THE OBJECTIVE PEOPLE
I don’t think they need a way at all. OK they they already created away. The game is free. You can pretty literally unlock everything without spending money. You can speed it up by spending money and I’m sure they’ll tweak their cash app here and there, but I just bought the season pass for about seven bucks For the preseason I think it’s only 30 something. I forget how long 30s like a little over a month for the preseason pass for seven bucks you ain’t buying the season pass on call of duty for that price and you have to buy call of duty you can play Warzone for free, but if you want typical call of duty sweaty combat, if you want to campaign playing call of duty by the game every time new version comes out which is pretty fucking regular. They file off the serial numbers. They change the story around a little bit. They change the environment, modernize it and put it out over and over and over again that’s another reason why they don’t have to do anything to attract people from games like call of dutyattract people away from games like overwatch war face people been playing certain games just because of lack of free choices. It will attract all of those as well. I was not that impressed with the last beta but things have gotten a lot smoother. I think potential
Tbf it is an insane sweatfest now plus getting into a game takes ages. But it's common for multiplayer fps games as players keep getting better.
Yea well, a lot of people are buying PS4 and PS5’s rn, and it’s a freee game that feels like cod but better so a completely new player base will be developed. This will make sure that casual players still play the game
You realize we all hate sbmm?
As a casual player I tried playing xdefiant but I only had an hour to play and I was just not having any fun at all because I was by far the worst one in every lobby
Bruh you dont get it the youtube cod community and the actual players playing the real game are wayyy different they dont all care about even know what sbmm is
@@Hudxxonthat just means you need to get better brother, with no sbmm if you’re bottom of the leaderboard every time something needs to change, that means you’re in the percentage of players that aren’t the best at games like this, while if you play cod or something of that sort they’ll make your games easy on purpose so you can engage in the game more. Just start practicing and eventually you’ll be top of the leaderboard
Absolute true, xdefiant is already a sweatfest, imagine what is going to happen in say 5 months!
Its f2p you don’t need to pay $70 to get the same game every year…
I like it, but it’s not the “COD killer” I remember hearing it was going to be during the hype before release.
Just make it so if you spam jump the second jump is pretty much non existent and the more you spam it nullifies the jump and requires a 2 second cooldown to jump fully again that should fix the bunny hopping, as for the snipers reduce the damage for headshots so there is no one tap of full armour but 95% of full armour thatll reduce the amount of players running around with a sniper like its a pistol bunny hopping out of a doorway one tapping everything youll never stop cheating but can make it so it still gives you a chance regardless of cheaters, the only guns that should be a 1 tap should be shotguns point blank and snipers point blank as long as the aim down sigts is much slower for snipers than every other gun any distance outside of 3 metres is not point blank and requires 2 shots from snipers at every range outside the 3 metres and 2 shots outside the 3 meters and 3 shots for shotguns outside of 7 metres, players who want to run those guns should have to change how they engage based on the weapon they use instead of dudes like i said before running around with a massive sniper like its a nimble pistol 1 tapping everything lol if they make changes like that they might save there game.
Exactly what happened to hyperscape, ubi never learns 😢
I play Xdefiant here and there but most can't accept the fact that BO1 and BO2 was the golden age of FPS Multiplayer games.
I just got it to try it. I’ve always hated how Ubisoft games felt, but they’re fun and have good concepts. But the controls always felt odd even in their older games it feels I guess clunky
We love XDefiant button ❤
Love the game, quit cod for 7 years and now back on XDefiant whenever get a hour off of work at night. Games great
Xdefiant is just fine, it's got plenty of skill variety in the match and the lobby balancing is insanely accurate most times. I'm always at the top of my team. There's is 1 person on the other team with similar score, and the rest of the players are about evenly distributed
As a casual player I am beyond frustrated with the game because I wanna be able to occasionally get positive k/d but with the level of all the other players I just can't keep up
I’d say the match making needs to be tweaked a little and injury recovery needs to be sped up other wise I think it’s good competition.
I don't think XDefiant's lobbies will reach the level of sweatiness that Warzone is right now. They just need to continue to focus on the ranked play, improve on the way teams are divided, add more game modes, and maybe even look into the BR game mode. One thing I'll say about Ubisoft and the matchmaking, Rainbow6 is done pretty well. I never felt like it was as bad as what COD/WZ is at this moment I'm 2024.
The problem with xdefiant is the community itself. Labeling this game as a “Cod Killer” is only hurting it. We’ve had multiple games that were good and quickly labeled as a game that will replace cod instead of enjoying it for our own personal interests. Just for the next year to hit and the player base drops because a cod is coming out. I like xdefiant, but i also like cod. They shouldn’t conflict with each other.
I've been getting hit with so many sweats that I actually might be becoming a sweat
Ppl diff need to try this.. this is the closet experience you’ll ever get to OG COD in todays world I started last night I like it gunplay reminds me of BO2 in a way with the bright maps and not all doom and gloom style
COD won’t load after update. That will drive players to X. I’m downloading now.
It’s so refreshing to load into XDefiant and the game just works. No “update requires restart”, no Travis-Rilea error, no waiting for random 30+ gb updates that add nothing, and crashes are pretty rare (I’ve only had one).
Game's fun but matchmaking is pretty long and hit reg(at least for me is not perfect 20% of the time) so it becomes a pain in the a*s. And why is the welcome playlist so sweaty😭
These are good points.
However, I am not a pro in Cod, but def not a push over either.
I frequently get my ass handed to me in COD MP - it feels a LOT more fair in Xdefiant, here it happens MAYBE 1/4 matches…
So here's the thing: Xdefiant as a game is really, really fun. I have fun even when I'm getting my ass kicked. So if they well and truly want to continue to make this game thrive, they gotta go all in on it. Imagine it they made more modes, more maps, more weapons, and maybe even a paid story mode that rewards players with some sort of new exclusive gun skin that applies to all weapons by the end. There are SO many ideas they could pour into this to keep it going.
Getting a*s kicked is the opposite of fun my guy😭
f the Spiderbot's
It being free is what will keep bringing in casuals. All Ubisoft has to do is not mess it up
Trust me bro, there are a lot of casuals in this game. This is what cod used to be. But because I'm a sucker for gimmicks, I'll be trying out BO6
Yesterday when I played , the team I facing is ridiculously sweaty like they want to prove a point .
It’s so cringe
@@1div2agent74oh no, better players
They just better then you they just playing the game just like you but they better they not trying to prove a point get better
Inorder to beat sweats you gotta be a sweat. So a sweatfest
This is what SBMM does…in the lobby there’s one person on each team, maybe 2, that are destroying the enemy team they’re embarrassing their teammates…& everyone else in the lobby is a casual getting 5 kills
as a casual , i downloaded this game played for an hour , got destroyed in four games , didnt win a single game. so i uninstalled. my k/d in shooters is never terrible im usually a consistent 1.25 player , which is average but this game i was getting double digit deaths with only single digit kills. you could tell the sbmm is surely gonna have to be included at some point. if casuals like me cant have fun and get stomped then whats the point of playing ?
SBMM is a feedback loop that causes the games to be sweatfests IMO. People sweat (as they always will), devs turn up SBMM, then everyone feels like they have to sweat more to perform, devs turn SBMM up more, rinse and repeat until you get modern call of duty where every match feels like you need to be wired on 6 cups of gfuel and a line of coke to go positive
The best things about XD is people actually play the objective very close games most of the time. Evenly matched with snipers and all classes.
It also has Good spawns. Its just fun and find myself not getting so frustrated as cod is just unplayable.
cod players just run around with one shot kill weapons and just trying to unlock stuff. Not playing objectives.
In cod you Get put in half games with people leaving. Or really bad servers.
Players ruined cod just as much as the greedy company.
I only got to play a couple matches. The guns feel weak as hell. And my shots don’t feel like they’re hitting. Is there a hardcore mode or something?
Idk I get casual and sweats, more sweats definitely. It works but idk how you would balance that in the long run
yall will never be satisfied, that’s the thing. sbmm and you’ll cry about that, no sbmm and you’ll cry that there are too many sweats? yall realize that the majority of the player base is average tier, even if you think you’re cracked you’re probably still middle of the pack
Every competitive game is a sweatfest nowadays…
What a breath of fresh air it is playing with no SBMM
I love this game. If you love old Cod this is your game it is fucking amazing. I quit Cod and Apex because of SSBM AND EOMM and so many other people did. This game is like a mix of Apex and Cod
Joined a domination match went 43-8 and we won by a longshot
Joined an escort match lost badly went 17-8
Played a hotshot mode and got stomped 8-17.
I think its pretty fair some matches are like playing against bots. And then others are like playing against sweaty streamers .
Ex apex player, never liked or really grew up on COD/the type of gamestyle. Never understood it, and by the time i finally got my own console well i was a junior in highschool and they were sll better than me so i think this is broadening my perspective
I’ve had more fun playing Xdefiant in the last month than I have with the past 3 call of duty games honestly
Xdefiant don't need the same experience cod got, let them do them, been working out great so far.
There’s literally no shortage of players get queued into a match within the first 10 seconds 😂
Skill based matchmaking is what killed cod! It is great that it’s not skill based.
Haven’t played COD in years, probably around 10 now, since it went completely downhill.
XDefiant is the closest you could get to an old school COD game no. I don’t think they’ll have a problem tbh, so many of us stopped playing COD back then and now we’re back for XDefiant.
I had to stop XDefiant cause I got my butt kicked too much. As a casual gamer who just isn’t good at shooters I really really struggled to enjoy a great game because I just got stomped each round. I don’t think this is a case of me being particularly bad (although I am), I think the game really is filled with the sweatiest shooter players
Already is a sweatfest dude... the jump spam is idiotic and needs to go away
No, it really doesn’t. It just needs to be free enough. It’s gotta work right it’s gotta have polish should already has that there are a few issues. I’m sure that they will work them out. There’s detection problem. I don’t see it much, but I have seen the issue where you are clearly behind cover like one second already all the way behind a big obstacle and you still get hit and then I’ve seen the option where I knew, I was pinging somebody right in the middle of their big fat back while they were running away and I did not get a single hit detection off of it detection issues and a few other minor issues like you’re all queued up. You see the queue and I’ll send you a bump back to the main screen. You’re not really bumped to the main screen. By the way you’re still in the queue if you just leave shit alone when they start the match, you’ll be in it at least that’s from my experience, click back into the screen showing queued up with the lobby you’re in, but it don’t seem like it should be you that so they probably gotta fix that beyond that I don’t see anything wrong with this game. They need to get going because you cannot convince me there are many people on PCcontroller like half of every match is Ubisoft launcher PC controller method sometimes a mouse and quickly shift to a controller for a player you just know that person’s cheating
If XDefiant were trying to bring back a casual gaming experience, it wouldn't have been developed by former Call of Duty pros
I’m a hard-core cod player and I switched
Dey need to make it on all gens 😊
I feel like the thing that will draw casuals is the free price tag.