While I personally never got on with XDefiant, I give my full respect to the developers for what they were trying to do. .... Unfortunately they were tied to Ubisoft and that in itself is a death note to any recent game.
I just finished a 6 hour session on XDefiant in SA. 4 of the 6 hours were against the same team. We won most of the games but it was just so much fun I can't seem to put it in to words correctly. I'm heartbroken that this game is going to go away eventually. I've never had this much fun since BO2 in 2012
@@983Legend me too. This game killed cod ! For me at least but I bet there are more people who feel this way . At least we have 6 more months . Lots can happen
@@ojejku71 brother.. its over lmao its already set in stone & theres zero possibility it stays... is what it is, but they really fumbled on this one with how bad everything actually was from net code to content to not being able to find a game in a decent amount of time
Xdefiant was a game that I respected, I threw my hat in the ring and backed it up as best as I could. You're right that the memories and the fact that 15 million people have played the game is a great milestone. I’m just heartbroken that it got executed and it feels like the old ways of gaming is basically dead in the triple a scene at least. There's a lot of good fps games that I've played. Trepang2, battlefield 4, hunt showdown. Great games as a whole. Glad you're sticking around though, looking forward to what games you'll feature in your videos
Sorry, I missed this comment, getting bogged down in all the hate posts... It's not over yet, I'm still playing, and will continue to do so untill I can't... 😎
While I did feel the lack of progression in XDefiant, I liked how I could just play the game how I wanted to without feeling forced to play a certain way for the sake of progression. It feels good to just be playing and see your gun level up as you go and not have to worry about longshots or kills from behind or anything.
Fr, he said xdefiant 'proved' that players are gonna fight back against games like cod. Uhhhhh... didn't it shutting down in half a year prove literally THE OPPOSITE???
@@TheSparkynuts It proved Ubisoft is in the shitter and on its way out. This feels like a last minute way to scrape the barrel. We'll be seeing more layoffs and cacellations from Ubisoft soon. This is just the free-to-play game that's easy to turn off
I like how he doesn't mention that the game is following industry standards like release broken unfinished game and having basic skins priced super high.
@@pipezaibatsu4840 the over prices skins are the ceos fault, mark and the devs had nothing to do with the price of the skins but they did their best to give us an old school shooter. It’s just unfortunate that there hard work was all for nothing
@@TeodorGajic-p8g I don't think Ubisoft believed in Xdefiant from the start, they gave Mark and his team the Snowdrop engine which is what The Division was developed on: a 3rd person game that itself is a buggy mess because of its engine. Ubisoft should've gave them the Anvil engine instead which is what R6 was developed on, which makes more sense because Anvil was designed for FPS games. So, since the team had to develop a fast paced FPS game on an engine that wasn't made for FPS games, Mark and his team had to develop *ALL* of the FPS mechanics from the ground up, leading to a mess of bugs and wonky gameplay. Then Ubisoft in their infinite wisdom decided to shut down the San Francisco studio responsible for Xdefiant development. They should've cut the assassins creed studio instead, that franchise has gone down the drain anyway and most people are not looking forward to the new AC, Ubisoft isn't just greedy, they're incompetent and deserve everything that is happening to them right now.
@@RebelDrinkingLiberalTears yea they had to struggle with engine, resources and pressure, but they did great jobe despite all of that. I agree with you mate, they are fools...
@TeodorGajic-p8g Yeah, hopefully Mark tries something else similar or the game gets picked back up by whoever buys Ubisoft, but I have faith the size of a mustard seed that this game will make it through this.
One of the saddest moments in gaming history. Quite enjoyed everything about it, even if we in South Africa suffered with high ping, it will still be missing and remain one of the most enjoyable games.
Absolute shame that this solid and fun game, (yes it's had it's fair share of issues), will be gone forever in a few months' time. This is one I would have been playing for years had it stuck around.
I think best case scenario is a publisher like Sony buys Ubisoft and its IP and revives XDefiant. Next best is Rubin creates his own studio and starts fresh
That’s not the flex you think it is, when it’s spread over 4 games… Especially when you also factor in the Campaign and Zombies modes… And not to mention the number of players in each Warzone and DMZ session…
@@Etunit512 I was not flexing, but can you please explain skill base mansion to me like I am slow because the only way I see base matching is people who like you that are streamers wanna play against people that are no good that you can just shit on every game because I’ve only been playing for the last three years at the most Calera. I only know a skill base matching in Call of Duty never played it without.
was not flexing, but can you please explain skill base mansion to me like I am slow because the only way I see base matching is people who like you that are streamers wanna play against people that are no good that you can just shit on every game because I’ve only been playing for the last three years at the most Calera. I only know a skill base matching in Call of Duty never played it without.
@@anthonywison1240 first not a streamer just a casual player I work 10-12 hrs in a factory but maybe I should stream lol. Sbmm makes me not able to play with friends bc of the difficulty’s either my friends aren’t having fun bc of player lvls or vise versa. Plus it’s not very exciting to get participation wins from the games ai also I live in America so freedom to not have someone watch over my games and control them sounds good to me. And it’s very childish to think you should do good all the time if I lose then I need to get better if I win then I did good p.s I’m not calling you childish btw the game just makes people seem that way. To me personally no sbmm is night and day with sbmm it’s the most frustrating thing and I rather not play games like cod anymore.
Here is the thing Scotty, no matter how they communicated, it does not matter that they say "f@ck you" to Activision with their SBMM, it does not matter that they tried, at the end of the day people did not showed up for them, there were a lot of people passing by sure, but very few sticked up, I always said that vast majority of CoD player base don't even care about SBMM in the first place, the failure of xdefiant is a reality check for all of these crazy "anti SBMM" folks, it showed that if you have a bad game (relatively to competition) "no SBMM" will not help you and that's what xdefiant was, it was a bad game, it looked and felt outdated compared to CoD, its technical state was just as bad if not even worse than what CoD had, the amount of content it had was miniscule compared to MW3 that at a time already had a huge amount of guns and maps, put really annoying things like specialists on top of it and realistically ask yourself... do you really expect anyone who is not on the cod hate train to show up for this game? Mark might have put his best foot, but this is the outcome that many people saw on day 1, we only shocked that it lasted for only 6 months. Just food for thoughts, the game that used "no SBMM" as their key marketing tool is shutting down, while the game that have strictest SBMM possible is standing strong and continue to reap its sales, maybe that's a reality check for all of us, maybe this is a response to our long debate of what cod player base actually want, maybe the response is not "strict SBMM", but rather that SBMM is maybe one of the least important aspects.
This man wrote a whole novel. Great view on how this game really is. I have a question, did you see any brain dead players or any casuals who dont care about kills while not playing the obj on xdefiant when the full game first released?
@ even if they were in the game, they quitted long time ago cos when I was trying to play TDM (why would you want to play obj mode if all you want is run’n gun) it was very hard to find any game.
I'm happy I had the privilege to experience the greatness that XDefiant brought to the table. Nothing good lasts forever, XDefiant will live on through all of us who played it and all the devs who poured hours into crafting it just for us. I'll be playing it right up until it's final day of service, and I will cherish every second of it.
Embark has a pretty radical team of ex-battlefield devs and they've given us The Finals with Arc Raiders hot on its heels. I would love to see Mark Rubin and his team build a clone inside Embark. That studio could actually become the cutting edge of FPS games if the cards get dealt right.
@ScottyMcGaming with the tragic sunset of XDefiant, i would encourage you to use your platform to bring them to your fans' attention. They're a new studio with lots to offer, and with enough support, I believe they can make a true stand against the toxic state of the current FPS genre. Yeah, there are cheaters and a sweaty culture that's almost unbearable at times, but at least they're honest and put the players first. Best of luck, and I'll always support another Scotty.
It surprises me (but then it kind of doesn't) of the amount of COD fanboys/XD haters, jumping in on the comments in various videos from various creators putting the boot in and having a laugh about XD's closure. With it now gone, you're just going to see Activision double down again with their shady engagement practices to entice mugs into purchasing skins and so on, whilst providing ever worsening games year on year. Sigh, 🤦♂ XD is/was probably the closest competition COD has for 6 v 6 multi player FPS shooter, drawing a line in the sand and proudly planting a flag saying a big F.U to SBMM and EOMM. Sigh, I'm at the point where I think I'm going to walk away from FPS. Between greedy corporations and shareholders bleeding everything dry, to the number of people using cheats or 3rd party devices like Cronus etc in order to put together a tiktok reel, it's amazing how sh*t online gaming has become over the last 10 years, despite the massive advances in technology. Grrr. Rant over.
those fanboys can’t see the big picture. if XD goes away, activision will successfully drain the community to the bone and set this genre a blaze, not in a good way either. i hope and pray XD can come back once ubisoft is bought. maybe tencent will bring it back. i know the price we would have to pay…but i think the micro transactions are worth it!
sbmm does have a place in games but not a casual fps shooter. it’s understandable in a game like “The Finals” because there’s people who are insanely talented and are extremely good, the difference between cod and the finals is skill. it takes skill to be good at the finals, not cod.
I’m glad I don’t stick to one game rather I play many other games as well, just sucks to see a competition between cod and Xdefiant but since that’s gone, seems like other games later on may fall the same path and while cod fan boys be throwing their life savings away for a stale cod game, I’ll be playing games that keeps my interest and supports casual fun over competitive.
They love their game so much they are in XD comments all day long 😂😂 I have never commented on a CoD video, you know why? Because I don’t gaf about it.
@@Sofiarey285 that’s why I prefer to play other games, plus other games have better fandoms then cod. Just let them eat up whatever game they get. Plus I’ll be in support for mark if he ever plans on making another game
I'll be watching brotherman. Let me know where you're going next. I'll defiant until the end, even if it's just me listening to the title screen music.
As much as I would love for a game to bring competition to COD Xdefiant only really shows us how hard it will be for any company to take players from COD. Anyone to has been with COD for years is more likely to just stick with it because you know what you are getting and that the game will last its cycle. Unless another company has a few hundred million to throw at making a “COD killer” there never will be one. What other games will not only give players a multiplayer but also a campaign and zombies mode as well?
Never played XDefiant, and haven't played CoD multiplayer since United Offensive, ( DayOfDefeat + Planetside2 guy here ) but it's always sad to see another one go down. Planetside3 isn't anywhere on the horizon and PS2 is getting long in the tooth ( tugs collar )
If you're looking for another game with just the same amount of passion, communication and commitment in the FPS Genre I'd highly recommend The Finals, a game similar to XDefiant in terms that it also has a Battle Pass, and is Free To Play. It definitely plays completely different than a CoD-like game though, and the character customisation is on another level! I'd love to see what you think of how it implements monetization and see if you think if its worth players time like XDefiant was. Cheers
I hope you're right Scotty. A positive take away and a learning experience is a constructive thing to take away from Xdefiant. I can relate more than you know. I played a f-ton of high level street fighter. Every entry since SF4 has gotten worse. It's so bad now that I'm waiting on another IP to release in hopes that it will respark the true FGC(Fighting game Community). I can't tell you how many times I've reinstalled SF6. It's ok, but the meta play is complete trash. SF used to be known for the best meta play in fighters. You let these IPs go on for too long and they all turn to paste. I'm playing a lot of smaller fighters, but just until something else comes. MK1 is throwup and Tekken is playschool level meta.
I appreciate your positive outlook on the whole thing... nothing but negativity and sadness is all I've seen so far. Personally i been really upset about the whole dam thing, still am.
my question is why are they treating this game worse than battlefront 2 ? why don’t they want ppl to continue to play it? or for new players to start? they’re acting like it’s the ugly step child…they have FAR WORSE games. i mean if i wanna play battlefront 2 i can still go play online to this day, almost a decade later.
@@pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195 Greedy or not, Ubisoft are bleeding money and have been all year with failure after failure. I really think XD would not have been shutdown at least not right away if they didnt fumble every single game they released this year.
Most of that is down to opinion, and you're entitled to that... The game was never going to appeal to everyone... Love it, or hate it, it had its own community... 😎
i looked at shatterline and it looks like xd in style with abilities and ults etc and tbh its made me think about firing up d2 as i used to live in the crucible and i enjoyed that but i tried it a few months ago and the "ring rust" had set in plus when i played that i had a scuff pad so when the muscle memory started to come back i was reaching for buttons that i no longer had , which meant i died a lot lol.
I can hope there's a light down the tunnel for XD in the future maybe it makes a comeback and becomes stronger then ever But for now i wait for Marvel Rivals tomorrow, play some Titanfall 2 Thanks Scotty you are a legend man, i hope your channel grows further and further You are GOATED
ubi hamstrung the game by telling them to use the wrong engine , if they had used a fps one which ubi has they would have had more time to make content for launch instead of a total rebuild and then make content and then start fire fighting all the bugs that cropped up and started creeping back into the game etc. i did at one stage say the games survival depends in part on how much ubi wants the engine converted for other cheap f2p fps games but the rumours started and it was clear that they wernt even bothered about that , all they wanted was a cheap cash cow to milk !. and with the announcement before s3 drops and the fact that they have now said we will get s3 but not when we will now get it kind of tells me that they havnt that much confidence in s3 and i wouldnt be surprised if they in the end decide to bin s3. i did have a small thought that this maybe a way to get interest in the game by getting everyone talking about it being cancelled and they can then turn around and say something like "we have seen the out pouring of love for the game from the fans and the online support for it so we have listened to this and we are going to bring it back" , but as they have decided to shut 2 studios and lay devs off i cant see this happening (its the sort of thing tv companies do to please the fans of shows in a "hey we hear you" type of way after they have binned a show) and the whole laying off the devs also links back to s3 may not even come out.
Nah, it is genuinely shutting down... It is what it is, Ubisoft had to do what's best for business... They couldn't risk the possibility of it not taking off, even if it looked like it could... Too much risk, without the reward...
The game lasted less than six months and you’re saying that’s good. Nobody wanted to play the game so that means it’s a bad game. The game was so good. What do you think they would spend money while they played the game no. 277 employees at $8000 a year that’s over 22 million a year
Tried xDefiant when it first came out. Was completely unplayable due to multiple reasons. Kinda amazed how they managed to pull their toys in the same sandbox and get it to where it ''was'' now. I don't think they closed the project because of non-profit, its more about some pressure from other directions that facilitated this. Sounds very similar to what happened to SplitGate... But of course twonks will celebrate these news with another overpriced battlepass and Niki Minaj skin. Funny how world works...
Was high on this game season 1, and for whatever reason just before the release of season 2 I stopped playing and never came back, played a game a couple days ago and got off as soon as the game ended. Doesnt surprise me at this point. Hopefully we get something simmilair and decent in the future
XD wasn't bad. XD had similar but less issues as a brand new game while CoD is a 20+ year old game and has worse and more issues😂. Plus the majority of the community hates SBMM and EOMM but Activision doesn't wanna loose out on probably a total of $50k because of little Timmies with their mom's credit cards.😂
XD wasn't bad it's was just painfully mediocre which in some cases worse than being bad. I've read more "shit I didn't even know this game launched" or "huh never knew this existed" when talking about the termination speaks volumes towards its demise. I played it enjoyed it for about a week and got bored like most did.
Homie's delusional. There's no way folks really thought this game wasn't getting shutdown. I got some snake oil, mud lands and some afterlife insurance I can sell y'all
This guys glazing hard the fact that he tried to say that Ubisoft is to cowardly to keep this game going sounds insane he probably got a jb from mark rubin making this video this game failed made Ubisoft no money and the player count was actually dwindling but you sit here acting like it isn’t joever but bro it is joever mark Rubin fumbled the bag with this game!
I can't be as optimistic as BritTruth here. There are way too many great game ideas that are just dead. Ideas that held up when they came out 20+ years ago, and would still hold up today - but for some reason or another unrelated to gameplay, they failed or were simply only a little profitable. In this industry, success and quality are two completely separate concepts that do not affect each other at all. XDefiant is now just another game in a decades long history that didn't make profit, so everyone who is incapable of critical thinking now believes everything about it was bad and they will not be copying any of it.
This could be a marketing PR to get more players in the game cause this works for sure.. but we will see..Its hard to believe when they have far worse games doing way worse but they last forever is it cause this game isn't woke enough why knows
The tinfoil hat is on a bit too snug friend let the brain breathe also if your not a fan of woke BS why support a company that won't hire SWM in the wanted ads. I live by one of the soon to be closed sections legitimately have hiring post claiming will only accept POC or lbgtq resumes we all made the joke to say we were non-binary because how could they prove I wasn't.
@@pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195 bro not even jb the biggest glazer for xdefiant isn't even coping this hard. This is the only dude I've seen in RUclips say it's not the end. My brother in Christ it's over.
@@pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195 It won’t never return they settled everything from the store from free , blocked downloads so no news players , ITS GONE . It has the same feeling as losing a girlfriend
Masterpieces fail all the time. Many perfectly outstanding games fail. Spec ops the line, bayonetta, darksiders 2, these game failed. Bayonetta still exists because Nintendo loves the game, but all 3 games are losses. Titan fall series failed despite polished gameplay, but that was due to in house sabotage by releasing the game between cod and battlefield.
@@BronzForand that right there is another reason why xdefiant died. People like you who can't handle any knock back or criticized thinking just push everyone to a shell of a franchise.
Try saying you're 12 without saying you're 12 challenge (impossible). Nothing mediocre about the game. They communicated more than your favorite online game, had more updates than any other online game, and made more progress than any other game.
@@HaveButOneLifeNo they barely fixed anything and didn’t add much content. There wasn’t even killcams or prestige, good camos, nothing. The game also looked ugly with a bad art design
Bro you have autism just say that. Xdefiant is the best 6V6 FPS game we've gotten since 2018. Plus considering it's brand new it's issues it did have were fine while CoD had the same and more and worse issues and it's 20+ years old 😂
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While I personally never got on with XDefiant, I give my full respect to the developers for what they were trying to do.
.... Unfortunately they were tied to Ubisoft and that in itself is a death note to any recent game.
I just finished a 6 hour session on XDefiant in SA. 4 of the 6 hours were against the same team. We won most of the games but it was just so much fun I can't seem to put it in to words correctly. I'm heartbroken that this game is going to go away eventually. I've never had this much fun since BO2 in 2012
@@983Legend me too. This game killed cod ! For me at least but I bet there are more people who feel this way . At least we have 6 more months . Lots can happen
@@ojejku71 brother.. its over lmao its already set in stone & theres zero possibility it stays... is what it is, but they really fumbled on this one with how bad everything actually was from net code to content to not being able to find a game in a decent amount of time
Xdefiant was a game that I respected, I threw my hat in the ring and backed it up as best as I could. You're right that the memories and the fact that 15 million people have played the game is a great milestone. I’m just heartbroken that it got executed and it feels like the old ways of gaming is basically dead in the triple a scene at least. There's a lot of good fps games that I've played. Trepang2, battlefield 4, hunt showdown. Great games as a whole. Glad you're sticking around though, looking forward to what games you'll feature in your videos
Too right mate. It was epic while it lasted. Thanks for being part of an awesome community
Sorry, I missed this comment, getting bogged down in all the hate posts... It's not over yet, I'm still playing, and will continue to do so untill I can't... 😎
While I did feel the lack of progression in XDefiant, I liked how I could just play the game how I wanted to without feeling forced to play a certain way for the sake of progression. It feels good to just be playing and see your gun level up as you go and not have to worry about longshots or kills from behind or anything.
I don't know if this is satire or coping
Fr, he said xdefiant 'proved' that players are gonna fight back against games like cod.
Uhhhhh... didn't it shutting down in half a year prove literally THE OPPOSITE???
@@TheSparkynuts It proved Ubisoft is in the shitter and on its way out. This feels like a last minute way to scrape the barrel. We'll be seeing more layoffs and cacellations from Ubisoft soon. This is just the free-to-play game that's easy to turn off
I like how he doesn't mention that the game is following industry standards like release broken unfinished game and having basic skins priced super high.
@@pipezaibatsu4840 the over prices skins are the ceos fault, mark and the devs had nothing to do with the price of the skins but they did their best to give us an old school shooter. It’s just unfortunate that there hard work was all for nothing
@defibdirt8901 the game it self at least to me did not feel like an old school shooter, unless you think BO 4 is old school.
i have heard it before. ubisoft 4 yrs ago went to shut down Division 2 and now it still get new content and now they are working on division 3
It would be great to see the new game from Mark and his team, their games and philosophy are dream of every true gamer.
@@TeodorGajic-p8g exactly, I hope he tries again, XD failed because of Ubisoft's incompetence.
@@RebelDrinkingLiberalTears yea those greedy companies...
@@TeodorGajic-p8g I don't think Ubisoft believed in Xdefiant from the start, they gave Mark and his team the Snowdrop engine which is what The Division was developed on: a 3rd person game that itself is a buggy mess because of its engine.
Ubisoft should've gave them the Anvil engine instead which is what R6 was developed on, which makes more sense because Anvil was designed for FPS games. So, since the team had to develop a fast paced FPS game on an engine that wasn't made for FPS games, Mark and his team had to develop *ALL* of the FPS mechanics from the ground up, leading to a mess of bugs and wonky gameplay.
Then Ubisoft in their infinite wisdom decided to shut down the San Francisco studio responsible for Xdefiant development. They should've cut the assassins creed studio instead, that franchise has gone down the drain anyway and most people are not looking forward to the new AC, Ubisoft isn't just greedy, they're incompetent and deserve everything that is happening to them right now.
@@RebelDrinkingLiberalTears yea they had to struggle with engine, resources and pressure, but they did great jobe despite all of that. I agree with you mate, they are fools...
@TeodorGajic-p8g Yeah, hopefully Mark tries something else similar or the game gets picked back up by whoever buys Ubisoft, but I have faith the size of a mustard seed that this game will make it through this.
One of the saddest moments in gaming history. Quite enjoyed everything about it, even if we in South Africa suffered with high ping, it will still be missing and remain one of the most enjoyable games.
How long have you been gaming for
@jeremybrown9611 Might be giving away my age, but since Doom 1995 (Original Doom)
Absolute shame that this solid and fun game, (yes it's had it's fair share of issues), will be gone forever in a few months' time. This is one I would have been playing for years had it stuck around.
I think best case scenario is a publisher like Sony buys Ubisoft and its IP and revives XDefiant. Next best is Rubin creates his own studio and starts fresh
Call of duty as of 12:45 pm today has 92,000 players or steam alone
That’s not the flex you think it is, when it’s spread over 4 games… Especially when you also factor in the Campaign and Zombies modes… And not to mention the number of players in each Warzone and DMZ session…
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@@Etunit512 I was not flexing, but can you please explain skill base mansion to me like I am slow because the only way I see base matching is people who like you that are streamers wanna play against people that are no good that you can just shit on every game because I’ve only been playing for the last three years at the most Calera. I only know a skill base matching in Call of Duty never played it without.
was not flexing, but can you please explain skill base mansion to me like I am slow because the only way I see base matching is people who like you that are streamers wanna play against people that are no good that you can just shit on every game because I’ve only been playing for the last three years at the most Calera. I only know a skill base matching in Call of Duty never played it without.
@@anthonywison1240 first not a streamer just a casual player I work 10-12 hrs in a factory but maybe I should stream lol. Sbmm makes me not able to play with friends bc of the difficulty’s either my friends aren’t having fun bc of player lvls or vise versa. Plus it’s not very exciting to get participation wins from the games ai also I live in America so freedom to not have someone watch over my games and control them sounds good to me. And it’s very childish to think you should do good all the time if I lose then I need to get better if I win then I did good p.s I’m not calling you childish btw the game just makes people seem that way. To me personally no sbmm is night and day with sbmm it’s the most frustrating thing and I rather not play games like cod anymore.
Here is the thing Scotty, no matter how they communicated, it does not matter that they say "f@ck you" to Activision with their SBMM, it does not matter that they tried, at the end of the day people did not showed up for them, there were a lot of people passing by sure, but very few sticked up, I always said that vast majority of CoD player base don't even care about SBMM in the first place, the failure of xdefiant is a reality check for all of these crazy "anti SBMM" folks, it showed that if you have a bad game (relatively to competition) "no SBMM" will not help you and that's what xdefiant was, it was a bad game, it looked and felt outdated compared to CoD, its technical state was just as bad if not even worse than what CoD had, the amount of content it had was miniscule compared to MW3 that at a time already had a huge amount of guns and maps, put really annoying things like specialists on top of it and realistically ask yourself... do you really expect anyone who is not on the cod hate train to show up for this game? Mark might have put his best foot, but this is the outcome that many people saw on day 1, we only shocked that it lasted for only 6 months.
Just food for thoughts, the game that used "no SBMM" as their key marketing tool is shutting down, while the game that have strictest SBMM possible is standing strong and continue to reap its sales, maybe that's a reality check for all of us, maybe this is a response to our long debate of what cod player base actually want, maybe the response is not "strict SBMM", but rather that SBMM is maybe one of the least important aspects.
This man wrote a whole novel. Great view on how this game really is. I have a question, did you see any brain dead players or any casuals who dont care about kills while not playing the obj on xdefiant when the full game first released?
@ even if they were in the game, they quitted long time ago cos when I was trying to play TDM (why would you want to play obj mode if all you want is run’n gun) it was very hard to find any game.
I'm happy I had the privilege to experience the greatness that XDefiant brought to the table. Nothing good lasts forever, XDefiant will live on through all of us who played it and all the devs who poured hours into crafting it just for us. I'll be playing it right up until it's final day of service, and I will cherish every second of it.
I’ll be in there too… Right to the very end… 😎
Embark has a pretty radical team of ex-battlefield devs and they've given us The Finals with Arc Raiders hot on its heels. I would love to see Mark Rubin and his team build a clone inside Embark. That studio could actually become the cutting edge of FPS games if the cards get dealt right.
I didn’t think of Embark… 😎
@ScottyMcGaming with the tragic sunset of XDefiant, i would encourage you to use your platform to bring them to your fans' attention. They're a new studio with lots to offer, and with enough support, I believe they can make a true stand against the toxic state of the current FPS genre. Yeah, there are cheaters and a sweaty culture that's almost unbearable at times, but at least they're honest and put the players first. Best of luck, and I'll always support another Scotty.
Find me a skilled oldschool arcade FPS player who's happy about this. This game had mad potential.
@@connorphelan9825 Right ? It's such a shame 🤦♂️
It surprises me (but then it kind of doesn't) of the amount of COD fanboys/XD haters, jumping in on the comments in various videos from various creators putting the boot in and having a laugh about XD's closure. With it now gone, you're just going to see Activision double down again with their shady engagement practices to entice mugs into purchasing skins and so on, whilst providing ever worsening games year on year. Sigh, 🤦♂
XD is/was probably the closest competition COD has for 6 v 6 multi player FPS shooter, drawing a line in the sand and proudly planting a flag saying a big F.U to SBMM and EOMM.
Sigh, I'm at the point where I think I'm going to walk away from FPS. Between greedy corporations and shareholders bleeding everything dry, to the number of people using cheats or 3rd party devices like Cronus etc in order to put together a tiktok reel, it's amazing how sh*t online gaming has become over the last 10 years, despite the massive advances in technology. Grrr. Rant over.
those fanboys can’t see the big picture. if XD goes away, activision will successfully drain the community to the bone and set this genre a blaze, not in a good way either. i hope and pray XD can come back once ubisoft is bought. maybe tencent will bring it back. i know the price we would have to pay…but i think the micro transactions are worth it!
sbmm does have a place in games but not a casual fps shooter. it’s understandable in a game like “The Finals” because there’s people who are insanely talented and are extremely good, the difference between cod and the finals is skill. it takes skill to be good at the finals, not cod.
I’m glad I don’t stick to one game rather I play many other games as well, just sucks to see a competition between cod and Xdefiant but since that’s gone, seems like other games later on may fall the same path and while cod fan boys be throwing their life savings away for a stale cod game, I’ll be playing games that keeps my interest and supports casual fun over competitive.
They love their game so much they are in XD comments all day long 😂😂 I have never commented on a CoD video, you know why? Because I don’t gaf about it.
@@Sofiarey285 that’s why I prefer to play other games, plus other games have better fandoms then cod. Just let them eat up whatever game they get. Plus I’ll be in support for mark if he ever plans on making another game
Fries in the bag
I'll be watching brotherman. Let me know where you're going next. I'll defiant until the end, even if it's just me listening to the title screen music.
Thanks, mate… 😎
Cant Mark and his team ressurect XDefiant if they would create their own studio?
I did say that’s an option in the video, but it wouldn’t be the same, obviously… We’ll see where they go and what happens… 😎
Wouldn't be XD would be a different engine all together.
@@Xsavagementailty I just said the same thing to someone else…
As much as I would love for a game to bring competition to COD Xdefiant only really shows us how hard it will be for any company to take players from COD. Anyone to has been with COD for years is more likely to just stick with it because you know what you are getting and that the game will last its cycle. Unless another company has a few hundred million to throw at making a “COD killer” there never will be one. What other games will not only give players a multiplayer but also a campaign and zombies mode as well?
Never played XDefiant, and haven't played CoD multiplayer since United Offensive, ( DayOfDefeat + Planetside2 guy here ) but it's always sad to see another one go down. Planetside3 isn't anywhere on the horizon and PS2 is getting long in the tooth ( tugs collar )
DOD brings me back great memories.
If you're looking for another game with just the same amount of passion, communication and commitment in the FPS Genre I'd highly recommend The Finals, a game similar to XDefiant in terms that it also has a Battle Pass, and is Free To Play. It definitely plays completely different than a CoD-like game though, and the character customisation is on another level!
I'd love to see what you think of how it implements monetization and see if you think if its worth players time like XDefiant was. Cheers
I’ve got The Finals on the list, as well as Shatterline… 😎
@@ScottyMcGaming Sweet, can't wait to see some proper game reviews on your channel 😎
I would gladly pay $30-$50 for XDefiant if it were to come back with a guarantee it wont shut down so soon.
Hell yeah.. whatever mark comes up with next...i am onboard.... xdefiant made fps fun again.
I hope you're right Scotty. A positive take away and a learning experience is a constructive thing to take away from Xdefiant. I can relate more than you know. I played a f-ton of high level street fighter. Every entry since SF4 has gotten worse. It's so bad now that I'm waiting on another IP to release in hopes that it will respark the true FGC(Fighting game Community). I can't tell you how many times I've reinstalled SF6. It's ok, but the meta play is complete trash. SF used to be known for the best meta play in fighters. You let these IPs go on for too long and they all turn to paste. I'm playing a lot of smaller fighters, but just until something else comes. MK1 is throwup and Tekken is playschool level meta.
I appreciate your positive outlook on the whole thing... nothing but negativity and sadness is all I've seen so far. Personally i been really upset about the whole dam thing, still am.
It is disappointing, but I like to look on the bright side… There’s a lot of good came from the game… 😎
If anything, if there was no XDef i would never stumble upon your channel (also Nytefall, Jack..) so yeah, cool comunity, no bs.. thx mate!
Couldn't agree more... 😎
my question is why are they treating this game worse than battlefront 2 ? why don’t they want ppl to continue to play it? or for new players to start? they’re acting like it’s the ugly step child…they have FAR WORSE games. i mean if i wanna play battlefront 2 i can still go play online to this day, almost a decade later.
They don’t want people to play so they don’t have to pay more money for servers
Ubisoft are greedy
Cause maybe it's just trash buddy
@@pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195 Greedy or not, Ubisoft are bleeding money and have been all year with failure after failure. I really think XD would not have been shutdown at least not right away if they didnt fumble every single game they released this year.
Because battlefront 2 is better than xdefiant
Im gonna be real the game had horrible graphics,art style,gunplay and balancing not to mention they hardly added content or fixed any problems
Most of that is down to opinion, and you're entitled to that... The game was never going to appeal to everyone... Love it, or hate it, it had its own community... 😎
i looked at shatterline and it looks like xd in style with abilities and ults etc and tbh its made me think about firing up d2 as i used to live in the crucible and i enjoyed that but i tried it a few months ago and the "ring rust" had set in plus when i played that i had a scuff pad so when the muscle memory started to come back i was reaching for buttons that i no longer had , which meant i died a lot lol.
Mate, I just spent the last 3 hours playing Shatterline, it is basically XD... It's a lot of fun... 😎
@@ScottyMcGamingare you going to do a vid on your thoughts? , and some info like f2p , xplay , sbmm etc ? And other good stuff ?
@ yup 😎
@@ScottyMcGaming Don't leave out that they scammed their previous customers and sold their soul to Crypto NFT Slop tho.
Maybe Mark Ruben should hand over the dev and publishing to Steam? that would save the game.
I can hope there's a light down the tunnel for XD in the future maybe it makes a comeback and becomes stronger then ever
But for now i wait for Marvel Rivals tomorrow, play some Titanfall 2
Thanks Scotty you are a legend man, i hope your channel grows further and further
You are GOATED
Thanks, matey… I’ve got plenty lined up… 😎
This proves that almost 15 million players out their are looking for a game like X defiant without sbmm or just tired of cod
With the right publisher and proper support, they would have had it…
@ 1000% right
But look where it is now😂😂😂😂
@@Lordoctane12 look where cod and gaming in general is at now it’s more of a casino game where you just throw money at it smh
@ doesn’t matter since b06 is the most played cod after 30 days
ubi hamstrung the game by telling them to use the wrong engine , if they had used a fps one which ubi has they would have had more time to make content for launch instead of a total rebuild and then make content and then start fire fighting all the bugs that cropped up and started creeping back into the game etc.
i did at one stage say the games survival depends in part on how much ubi wants the engine converted for other cheap f2p fps games but the rumours started and it was clear that they wernt even bothered about that , all they wanted was a cheap cash cow to milk !.
and with the announcement before s3 drops and the fact that they have now said we will get s3 but not when we will now get it kind of tells me that they havnt that much confidence in s3 and i wouldnt be surprised if they in the end decide to bin s3.
i did have a small thought that this maybe a way to get interest in the game by getting everyone talking about it being cancelled and they can then turn around and say something like "we have seen the out pouring of love for the game from the fans and the online support for it so we have listened to this and we are going to bring it back" , but as they have decided to shut 2 studios and lay devs off i cant see this happening (its the sort of thing tv companies do to please the fans of shows in a "hey we hear you" type of way after they have binned a show) and the whole laying off the devs also links back to s3 may not even come out.
Nah, it is genuinely shutting down... It is what it is, Ubisoft had to do what's best for business... They couldn't risk the possibility of it not taking off, even if it looked like it could... Too much risk, without the reward...
The game lasted less than six months and you’re saying that’s good. Nobody wanted to play the game so that means it’s a bad game. The game was so good. What do you think they would spend money while they played the game no.
277 employees at $8000 a year that’s over 22 million a year
I'd play xdefiant over cod anyday
Game lasted 6 months and it showed it's the game everyone needed 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The cope here is legitimately insane
Tried xDefiant when it first came out. Was completely unplayable due to multiple reasons. Kinda amazed how they managed to pull their toys in the same sandbox and get it to where it ''was'' now. I don't think they closed the project because of non-profit, its more about some pressure from other directions that facilitated this. Sounds very similar to what happened to SplitGate... But of course twonks will celebrate these news with another overpriced battlepass and Niki Minaj skin. Funny how world works...
I genuinely hope this is just the beginning but im big time coping lol. Your ending speech was very moving btw.
Thanks… 😎
Was high on this game season 1, and for whatever reason just before the release of season 2 I stopped playing and never came back, played a game a couple days ago and got off as soon as the game ended. Doesnt surprise me at this point. Hopefully we get something simmilair and decent in the future
it was bad, it was always bad, it would still be around if it wasnt
XD wasn't bad. XD had similar but less issues as a brand new game while CoD is a 20+ year old game and has worse and more issues😂. Plus the majority of the community hates SBMM and EOMM but Activision doesn't wanna loose out on probably a total of $50k because of little Timmies with their mom's credit cards.😂
XD wasn't bad it's was just painfully mediocre which in some cases worse than being bad. I've read more "shit I didn't even know this game launched" or "huh never knew this existed" when talking about the termination speaks volumes towards its demise. I played it enjoyed it for about a week and got bored like most did.
Homie's delusional. There's no way folks really thought this game wasn't getting shutdown. I got some snake oil, mud lands and some afterlife insurance I can sell y'all
Glazing this game is crazy😂
"Raw" and "Genuine" straight up NO bollox gaming....Spot on mate.
Cheers, mate… 😎
Again, you’re lying I support skill base matching 100%. You’re assuming
oh hell nah
This guys glazing hard the fact that he tried to say that Ubisoft is to cowardly to keep this game going sounds insane he probably got a jb from mark rubin making this video this game failed made Ubisoft no money and the player count was actually dwindling but you sit here acting like it isn’t joever but bro it is joever mark Rubin fumbled the bag with this game!
Last week I had been seeing new players in my games a lot
What if I won the lotto and I buy the game?
You'd basically be FPS jesus
I can't be as optimistic as BritTruth here.
There are way too many great game ideas that are just dead. Ideas that held up when they came out 20+ years ago, and would still hold up today - but for some reason or another unrelated to gameplay, they failed or were simply only a little profitable. In this industry, success and quality are two completely separate concepts that do not affect each other at all. XDefiant is now just another game in a decades long history that didn't make profit, so everyone who is incapable of critical thinking now believes everything about it was bad and they will not be copying any of it.
Changes can be made, it's up to the gamers to push for it... 😎
Sign the petition. Nyte fall started it . There are over 2500 signatures
This could be a marketing PR to get more players in the game cause this works for sure.. but we will see..Its hard to believe when they have far worse games doing way worse but they last forever is it cause this game isn't woke enough why knows
Delta Force just released
@DisStayn same. It was a pretty game. The owners that did this was Ubisoft t what a damn shame. But we have 6 month for sure left with this game
The tinfoil hat is on a bit too snug friend let the brain breathe also if your not a fan of woke BS why support a company that won't hire SWM in the wanted ads. I live by one of the soon to be closed sections legitimately have hiring post claiming will only accept POC or lbgtq resumes we all made the joke to say we were non-binary because how could they prove I wasn't.
The game is just ugly! Nobody wants those skins in their shop they probably didn’t make enough money
Games dead old man
Dang you coping hard fr
Whatever Twonk
@@pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195 bro not even jb the biggest glazer for xdefiant isn't even coping this hard. This is the only dude I've seen in RUclips say it's not the end. My brother in Christ it's over.
This old man genuinely is tweaking
@jacoboranday7078 just note I'm ignoring you buddy
Maybe XD will return maybe, have fun with SBMM
@@pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195 It won’t never return they settled everything from the store from free , blocked downloads so no news players , ITS GONE . It has the same feeling as losing a girlfriend
This was a very good game. However - it’s over man. Hardly anyone plays it, it’s not making any money. God bless.
I play a few matches everyday
Not to mention no new players can get on even if they wanted to.
Exactly. Very dumb
😂😂😂 masterpiece how if it’s dead
@@codlover93love24 cod lover go play your engagement optimizer until it’s abandoned by the devs in 10 months
Masterpieces fail all the time. Many perfectly outstanding games fail. Spec ops the line, bayonetta, darksiders 2, these game failed. Bayonetta still exists because Nintendo loves the game, but all 3 games are losses. Titan fall series failed despite polished gameplay, but that was due to in house sabotage by releasing the game between cod and battlefield.
Go play B06 twonk
@@BronzForand that right there is another reason why xdefiant died. People like you who can't handle any knock back or criticized thinking just push everyone to a shell of a franchise.
@ people defending the game is why it died? Was I on the dev team? Try again
RIP XDEFIANT💔💔💔HOPEFULLY THEY GET A 2ND CHANCE
HahahahhHHhahhah *LAUGHING AT YOU SO Damn HARD..ALWAYS HAVE... Always WILL*
Lost their jobs cause they made a super mediocre game? Womp womp
Try saying you're 12 without saying you're 12 challenge (impossible).
Nothing mediocre about the game. They communicated more than your favorite online game, had more updates than any other online game, and made more progress than any other game.
@@HaveButOneLifeNo they barely fixed anything and didn’t add much content. There wasn’t even killcams or prestige, good camos, nothing. The game also looked ugly with a bad art design
Bro you have autism just say that. Xdefiant is the best 6V6 FPS game we've gotten since 2018. Plus considering it's brand new it's issues it did have were fine while CoD had the same and more and worse issues and it's 20+ years old 😂
@@HaveButOneLifeit was below mediocre
typical troll, doesn’t care about people losing jobs
Lmfao ubisoft hasnt made a good game in like 20 years think its over for them