Anyone else think the Intel suit needs to be only for the player, and not highlight for the whole team?? It's so annoying as soon as it says i'm exposed, i get lit up by anyone in the vicinity lol
For real. If anything the spider bot is a decent counter to all the Intel suit players & their teammates who get wall hacks. Remove both from the game but I think the spider is needed. All these sweats complaining about dying from the spider a few times a match yet their whole team can go on multi kills from wall hacks lol
Usually i enjoy the game wether im winning or losing but the spider bot spam is just obnoxious and pathetic. The spider bot should just be removed its just a pathetic free kill for the mouth breathers 😂
Ideally the spider bot is good for messing with those who are holding down the lane, but right now it mostly becomes an annoyance for those who wants to push ahead.
I think I finally got it. If you absolutely most positively despise the spider bot and its users, you are MEANT TO BE a hacker. The satisfaction you get from killing bot users when their own spider is in their head and then teabagging them is immense. It definitely offsets the terrible frustration from those cheesy deaths that the bots cause because you simply weren't able to deal with them for various reasons at some specific moment. As a nice bonus, you get to disable the pathetic wallhacks too if you get your ultimate. 😁
They need to make it so you can push a button before it jumps on you so you can catch it and crush it. And have it be a quick window so if you miss it you’re screwed and if you’re quick enough you don’t get destroyed
Technically this is a thing already with the melee button, but the timing is very difficult and even if you hit it, you're locked into the melee animation and are probably gonna lose the gunfight to the person who threw it.
@@BigDeepz I know but I’m saying have there be a square icon pop up and if you hit it in time it stops it and if you miss the window you get screwed. It’s all about finding the TIMING
Also half the time the bot comes from behind or you see it only a millisecond before it latches on. And even then, looking down and shooting it also puts you a massive disadvantage
My thoughts exactly. Annoying to play against, not very fun to use, and not even useful tactically. Was playing zone control the other day and tried sending my spiderbot down the right lane of the map. It just took a hard left and ran around randomly.
There are alot of abilities that resemble BO 4 again. The sticky bomb (battery), scan ability (Recon), Flashbang (Ajax) Bouncing Better (Nomad's variation of a mesh mine), Spider (Prophet's seekers) and Libertad healing (Crash)
The thing is, you just ran Tac Mask to deal with that because it auto-pressed the qte button press if it got you. There's no Tac Mask in this game, and the only way to get rid of the Spiderbot is to either shoot it before it gets you, pray to god one of your teammates has a functioning brain and shoots it off you, or melee it which is unreliable because the melee just does not seem to work right either due to the state of the netcode or because of the way player collision functions. I get the idea they're going for with it, but yeah things that take player agency away just never work about because they don't feel fun to deal with.
@@CCM1199 I’ve looked at this game and immediately thought bo4 it’s fun but the abilities definitely resemble bo4 I’m shocked there’s no one who does a slam 😭
One very effective counter is Firebomb. If you see a Spiderbot coming, activate Firebomb and (assuming your timing is good) you're near guaranteed to get it off you or even kill it before it gets you.
Dedsec + Hijacked is slept on fr. You can flip spider bots and mag barriers, cool down is quick and you have tactical resupply every 15 seconds. Honestly a very strong set up. Pushing points when a wall goes down and being able to hijack is so good and really fucks up the ops 😂
Just makes the spider bot to work like BO4's shock drone, giving a QTE prompt when the spider bot strikes, and you can try to hip fire at the bot if the QTE fails as you can't ADS (I would say letting the bot to become one hit down before it strikes, but that would make it too weak in comparison to other deployables in the current state).
I think in the beginning or an in-game update of XDefiant, there was a "bug" where the spiderbot only shocks you near your toes instead of blocking your entire face. Imo it was only the best way to counter it near your toes while shocking you. I either had to take the shock damage and hipfire my enemy or shoot the bug and stand my ground. I don't see why the spiderbot HAS to block your face.
I prefer looking down and firing to get rid of the Spider, sure it's a bug but i've got used to it, even when i know i can't do it anymore, i'm doing it instinctively.
Has anyone had any frame rate issues since s1 launch. I’ve noticed I drop frames more frequently than before (I barely dropped frames all through pre-season)
I think the way Prophets equipment abillity worked in BO4 was a perfect midway, If that drone got to you you had a QTE to press a button weither you got it or not you would still be hindered for a moment but if you missed the QTE it would last a lot longer
I think they should make the writings of objectives lining up more transparent. Also the name of enemies popping up when killed should be smaller or more transparent. Sometimes I have a hard time seeing through all of this
This is one instance where Rubin isn’t reading the room correctly. The community hates the spider bot and it almost universally causes frustration - so why in the world keep it?
It's honestly not that big of a deal, just shoot it or run a bit and then shoot. Or use EMP, hack etc. Almost all the abilities are free kills if you use them right, even more than just the one kill you could get with spiderbot. If you use the wallhack/scan appropriately that can net you several kills almost guaranteed. Same with a good placed shield to catch people off guard = multi kill.
I cant believe spiderbots exist in this game. Theyre not overpowered but lead to undeserved single kills. Being on the receiving end is so frustrating because like you said it interrupts the gameplay flow. I think the quicktime event is a great idea. In addition: 1) reduce the cooldown 2) make the spider a OSK or melee from any weapon 3) put all spiderbots on the map in real time, friendly and enemy, so it makes the user to think when using the ability and also lets the person on the receiving end know where the spider is so they can properly prepare for an encounter
How do we get these calm lobbies? I have buuny rabbits and kangaroos constantly. I would also like to know how your screen is not cluttered. I have so many things showing on a hud that it is distracting
He probably just plays a lot and uses the most entertaining gameplay. If he plays like 20 matches, he will have a couple of chill lobbies to use for gameplay.
The spider drone is too op and needs a nerf immediately. Not being able to shoot it of your face is ridiculous The mag barrier cool down is too long now, for objective game modes it takes way to long to recharge. It was fine the way it was previously The frame rates on ps5 make the game unplayable There's also some weird sensitivity/ firing delay issue going on when you ADS ( at least that's the case on ps5 anyway) Game in its current state, is infuriating, I'm not spending another second on this game until these issues are fixed. Also its all well and good Mark coming on twitter and being open and honest, but wtf are the QA team over at Xdefiant doing. Like how is stuff being pushed to production unintentionally, i mean they accidentally released a map too early, and they seem to consistently be releasing code which they werent meant to. That is seriously poor from whoever is QAing and pushing things to production for such a massive game.
Dead sec style has the potential to have the most interesting abilities, such as the hack. I really hope spiderbot would be revamped/replaced - Frustrating to play against, not rewarding for the users and harmful to the gameplay
Imo spiderbot not as bad as air strafe, but I have not had the time to play season 1 yet so im not sure with the changes. Kbm ability to change direction mid air makes it super cheesy.
they should just make it find a player and then follow it and make a noise or something. so you can use it as a tracker and you still have to actually fight the enemy
@@gatlin1320 My issue with 3 spiderbots is that every other ult can be countered by a single frag or sticky grenade. 3 spiderbots doesn't give you that ability outside of perfect timing, and having it in the game at all is already me being generous with the idea.
The worst thing is, that that thing also does 40 damage. I hate the feeling when I am wounded and that thing jumps on my face and I know I will die and I can do nothing about it and just wait for me to die.
Biovida for Libertad faction is bugged where once a game it doesn't activate then won't recharge unless you switch abilities and switch back. If u don't want to run EMPs use a sticky to throw on a wall and walk near it while facing it, the spiderbot will take the damage
If they add some button press etc it needs to be really hard to pull off. Lots of the other abilities in the game have either no counters, or barely any good ones. You're just as screwed if not more when someone puts down a shield and you loose the gunfights due to that. Or you get scanned/wallhacked and then prefired etc. Keep the possiblity of shooting it of you're face and maybe lower the cooldown to 35 seconds or smth.
I think if the spider bot did everything except cover the face, it would be fine as is. Maybe less shock time too but you can already still shoot while it’s happening so I don’t know if that would be needed.
The sentiment of "Willing to deal with things you don't like in a game." needs to be said especially with a game that openly marketed itself to CoD players paranoid about SBMM. I'm glad XDefiant is genuinely fun for people past the honeymoon phase.
Oof! Everyone was so excited for the buff that every game I played, half or more of the enemy was using them. And I think I was the luckiest on my team to get hit with all of them. It was nearly every 30 seconds. And it was a guaranteed death sentence for me, since I had no counter. With foot-step audio still being useless for me, I can't hear them or the player footsteps, so I'm just annoyed most of the time in games. But I stay because I still want to support the game and the dev team for the good they're trying to do.
They're messing up a lot in S1. I was using the Spiderbot yesterday to finish my final faction challenge. After the update, the cooldown timer didn't run for 40s. It ran for 25, TWICE, before I could use it again. I'd watch it count down to 0, only to see it start over at 25 instead of going active. I also, apparently, couldn't use it unless I was holding my tongue right or something. It would just buzz at me instead of deploying until I moved to a different spot. And then it would JUST EFFING STAND THERE sometimes, like it was contemplating the universe. And that's just the bot. The sniper flinch isn't a thing. I shoot a guy in the face with an M-16, all three headshots, I get one-shotted right after. The jumping monkeys can jump 5-6-7 times and still kill you at range. You can't shoot the bot off your face, but one melee takes care of the electrified razorwire. Apparently the block list does absolutely nothing, just like on CoD. I blocked a group of supersweats (AKA cheaters) with TTV or JTV in their names who were obviously squadded up, which I thought I wasn't supposed to have to deal with while playing solo. Twenty minutes later the same 4 guys are on my team. Oh, and you gotta pay them just to unlock the GSK major faction challenge. Forget that. Suckers paying to fully unlock is one thing. I can already see that since it's FTP they're going to nickel and dime every other little thing. I was actually enjoying the game pre-season, less than 12 hours before the update. Season 1, not so much. And WTF is this stupid Ubisoft Connect XP this popup box keeps telling me about? And how am I supposed to use it? (This is all on PS5, btw.)
@beastmastreakaninjadar6941 no it does not bozo. Just go into your game and do it because I, and everyone else, can equip it just fine. Edit: should also clarify to not push the "purchase with x coins" button. The other button that just says "activate challenge" is the one you want to push.
I knew Spiderbot is rage inducing ability, I had to switch to Hijack cause of how cheesy it was I mainly use Deadsec for counter ulti - Need a button input to just remove it, like prophet drone
yeah but hijack is still bugged... when you die, sometimes you can't use it again until your switch character, die again and switch back... I hope they fix it soon
Been enjoying the game a lot and then this update happened, I play ps5 and the game feels super clunky, my ping doesn’t show anymore hoping for a quick fix asap Hope I’m not the only one having this issue as all I want to do is grind and get the new camos
spider bot is just too oppressive if you are flanking. If you turn a corner right into one you are completely screwed.. I do agree with Ace were its not so satisfying to use vs the frustration you get when that thing jumps you.
Spider bot is excellent. It slows the game down which prevents the game from being an ADHD spaz run n gun trash heap, like most FPSs. So sick of everyone playing without strategy, just running non-stop. So , I love spiderbot. I love regenerating prox mines. Slow the Fluck down. This is war, not spaz zone.
This spider bot only exists to annoy people and half of the time the user doesn’t even take the free kill. Remove the spider bot and replace it with something that actually helps the team. As a broader point, to my knowledge every ability for ever faction helps the users team in some way. Libertad heals, the Cleaners cleans objectives and enemy groups, Phantoms have their magwall, DeadSec can steal abilities, Echelon give their team wallhacks and the KSK lock down objectives. The closest comparison is the Phantom's shield, which at least theoretically can give teammates mobile cover and no one uses it anyway. The spider bot is a selfish ability that MAYBE gives the user a free kill, made even worse by DeadSec having a very powerful alternative ability. If for some reason the bot cannot be removed, it should be nerfed into the ground. Keep the shooting to remove it and make it more consistent, fix the melee counter and maybe add a QTE like Black Ops 4's drone had.
There are alot of abilities that resemble BO 4 again. The sticky bomb (battery), scan ability (Recon), Flashbang (Ajax) Bouncing Betty (Nomad's variation of a mesh mine), Spider (Prophet's seekers) and Libertad healing (Crash). Tell me im wrong
I know shooting at your feet was a bug, but I don't see why this shouldn't be a valid counter to it. You're still not able to see anything or engage in a gunfight, you will still be motionless while you're shooting it off, and you still take damage during the time it's on your face. I felt like it was fairly balanced that way if you are running a full auto weapon.
7:20 i want to say... IM NOT DISAGREEING BUT IM NOT AGREEING ASWELL. The reason dedsec is the way it is especially with the spiderbot is because of the game it came from which is watch dogs. Hear me out and try to understand, if you look at every single skill, ultimate, passize all of it makes sense to a watch dog players because it was used to disrupt and destroy things in a room, without actually being in the room. So for the faction purposes the devs did perfect. I think every kit the faction has is absolutely perfect. Homelander approved. But i will say yes it is very annoying in a game such as xdefiant but in its defense, it's suppose to be. I didnt make this comment as a way of hate or anything about the video, i actually like the video alot. Im just taking the assumption you haven't played Watch Dogs or just haven't noticed something. Dedsec faction is a perfect beautiful disaster. I just wish people would see spider bot is not to blame for what it is, its the faction it self.
Spiderbot counters: Shooting it✅️ EMP nades✅️ Deadsec hacker✅️ Fire drone✅️ Fire bomb✅️ There's other op abilitys that have ZERO counters so to me, while they are annoying having the bot in the game is fine
Personally I feel the Spider-bot is overtuned given how much it does: it locks you in place, obstructs your vision AND it does 60 damage over its duration. The first two are bad enough, but the fact that it can eat up over half your life and it is autoseeking is too much. And finding out that the “counterplay” of shooting them off was a bug tells me that the devs didn’t think this through. Some people mentioned Prophet’s Seeker Drone from COD, but even then it was balanced better: it only stunned you, didn’t do damage, didn’t block vision and had an actual QTE to nullify it as counterplay, and there were still complaints about it. I honestly think they need to get rid of or severely drop the damage, and have either the QTE to stop it attaching or leave the previous counterplay in. Doing that would justify a shorter cooldown, because even with a longer cooldown as it is now (or at least should be), without any consistent counterplay it just feels cheap.
i’ve pretty much given up on xdefiant which sucks, i love the core gameplay. but being placed in east cost servers CONSTANTLY ( im no where near east coast) waiting anywhere from 2-5 mins for a game and being tossed into games that are halfway over where my team is getting their shit pushed in i just can’t play this game anymore so frustrating :(
I've been back on CoD today, because that spider has been too much. In some games it feels like 2 or 3 players are running it. How are you supposed to win a gun fight when the stupid bot jumps on your face LOL??? I'm not sure this game needs gimmicks like this.
Unfortunately this is why there should probably be a character limit and/or cooldown's should carryover after death similar to Bo4. But since the only Perks are built into factions like cod WW2, doing so would also limit playstyle. If they add a loadout Perk option like the basic training from ww2, I feel that would help makeup for it somewhat.
The moment I hear that face hugger coming I’m throwing my EMP. Without question! And that’s worked just fine for me. And well I just face my except my faith if there’s another one.😂😂
DUDE THEYRE SO STUPID. These spiders are really so bad. so poorly designed. and they removed the only thing that can even sometimes stop them. really stupid. small indie company i guess
I've also noticed a bug, but abilities won't trigger either. I've tossed the bot out land it doesnt activate. This has happened on many of my other guys as well. Im not sure if this is purely latency or not but lag has felt like its been getting worse. I used to have a clean connection, 20 ping, very consistent. Now I push 50 with connection delays, frame drops, activation bugs, and worse hit reg. Its so... weird.
The game is broken in S1 it’s a lot they fixed that is no longer fixed. FPS are up and down, too many people can be invisible or have barb wire ! Flash bangs too strong. U can’t shoot the spider bots it’s just the game is just at a stale mate. Maybe S2 is better cause this is a rough rough start. Played cod after and cod is much better in movement and crisp especially during gunfights it’s just such a drastic change and defiant feels like a downgrade.
You can't shoot the ground to get the spider bot off anymore. After the new season, it stays on your face, and for me, it stayed when I threw an EMP at my feet. Teammates suck at helping me too. My entire team just stared at me instead of helping. Honestly, this game is just getting worse and worse. I wish that some of the guns get buffs. The M4A1 is so terrible. Edit: Did nit realize Ace mentioned the first part already. My bad.
That spider is much like the Black Ops 4 ability from Prophet that he will deploy the seeker mine and it will shock you but you press buttons to get the cable off you. thats the same deal with these spiders. some of the abilities we got in XDefiant are reminiscent of Black Ops 4 like Ajax's flash bang. or the sticky grenade that battery had (minus the additional clusters). All we need now is mesh mines much like Nomad. Recon's ability is already in the game with the scan suits. Tell me im wrong on these abilities being in the game in some way (mesh mine is basically the bouncing betty)
The spiderbot is the most stupid thing in the game and OP and broken shit just for running a class. Instead of adding more dirty cheese, ubisoft should be looking to clean up their pvp in their games. Div 2 pvp is already broken beyond repair at this point with status effects and generally broken meta. What about instead of trying fix the spiderbot, they should instead replace it with something completely different and just kill the whole concept of a spider bot attaching to players faces. Is this an Alien movie?
Libertad skin challenges are resetting to zero after every match. The bio thing is also becoming inactive randomly during the match. Also, I'm dying a lot more behind walls. Still getting melted it seems in many gun fights...I'm not a great player but I shouldn't die immediately when I'm hitting my shots. So frustrating.
Wtf is wrong with ubisoft? Why are they trying to rebalance something the entire community implicitly said nerf? They're starting to look like snake oil salesmen. All the quick responses don't mean anything when they're not actually fixing the game. Im trying to have patience but i might be leaving if every aspect of the game isn't 10 times better by season 2. Im losing faith that theyll fix anything that needs to be fix or that they're even capable/competent enough to do so.
We need a faction cap asap , max 2 players using same faction . And all my games since the update yesterday just feel off ,hit reg is worse than before and frame drops . Im on ps5 and it ran fine before update. Im a bit disappointed, i was excited to grind out the new season .
Nah f that "using hijack" if i'm forced to use deadsec i'm running spiderbot, now noone gets to enjoy xdefiant.. Its a vicious cycle because when one person uses spiderbot, we all have to use spiderbot...
Lol yall some crybabies. U can take the spider bot off your face by meleeing sooooo whats the problem? Lol. Yall are weird. But yall are ok with the bunnyhopping that's still not fixed 😂😂😂
The spiderbot without having a quicktime button press action like BO4's tempest ability is such a major oversight. To be honest, I don't understand who thought releasing it like this was a good and fun idea. This is broken to the point it should be disabled until properly fixed and balanced.
The game has so much potential but i gave up. To many bugs, OP sniper and horrible bunny hopping. I tried season 1 the other day to find out all the bugs and other annoying things are still there. Getting attacked by a spider bot 3 times ( got rid of the 1, 1 sec later the 2nd attacked me and within a few seconds a 3rd one which i didn't survived ) shortly after another was the last nail in the XD coffin. Deleted the game again without intention to come back.
There is nothing worse than the opposing team having an advanced UAV every match. Well just play echelon 'f them" ...i dont need to see through walls to get kills . then have the audacity to actually think i actually have skill. Talk about hand holding.
I like the Spiderbots. I'm a Dedsec main. To counter it they should just let you melee it own your face or off teammates face, instead of wasting bullets. Where there's no class that'll drop ammo bag to replenish ammo or 'Nades
This update has made me realize how few XD players actually play on PS5. The current state of PS5 XD is tragic, and yet it feels like every content creator has been able to completely ignore it 😭
Hear me out Delete the spider or completely overhaul how it works. Have it just be a slow that does a small DOT. Or instead of it being in your face it just increases your recoil so it's harder to aim. I just hate the fact that it's basically a free kill every time you get someone with it. So having it debuff an enemy but still giving them a chance to fight back would at the very least be better than what we have now.
I think everyone has various thing to grip about in the game & mine is the Echelon fraction & the whole team having wall hacks. The spider is cheap but the wall hacks is bringing a cheating element into the game as an ability. Hey if they put it in the game its all fair I cant change it only play on. So when Echelon pops their ability you better believe i'm letting a spider out so someone pre-aiming at me while I turn a corner can get fawked lol!!
legit the spider bot shouldnt damage you at all or only 5 damage. the fact it does all it that does and 30 ish dmg currently is crazy its a flushing/disorient device that can also take 1/3 or nearly 2/3rds of a players health....
I think they should just change it to be a heavy slowdown in a certain area or you are stunned in place until you shoot it or it time's out. I would completely remove the whole face grabbing I would completely remove the whole face obscuring part.
Were the muzzle booster and rapid fire barrel unintentionally buffing recoil control ever fixed? It definitely increased my recoil as intended when i did controlled testing in the firing range
Day 64 of asking for the bot to be removed from the game tbh. You literally cannot break it unless someone else shoots it off your face or you shoot it before it jumps. It just shouldn't be in the game. Remove it until its fixed, like they did to intel suit in the beta.
It needs a slight reworking but i dont find it that hard to shoot and destroy. I think making it easier to hear coming would help. But I find every ability frustrating when I'm dying to it. I think its enjoyable to figure out how to outplay the team you are against. If theyre running a bunch of spiderbots there are ways to counter it your team plays smart.
So are we just going to gloss over the host problem like it doesn't exist? 25% of games are one team all going 2 k/d+ while the other team barely manages to go 1 k/d, regardless of skill.
I think it should go all together, i understand the reason for it being in the game with it adding a layer of disruption to otherwise linear gunfights but if you see it coming towards you, you know that there is going to be an enemy waiting around the corner so they can get a free kill if you don't shoot it in time. Even with a quick time event it'll add another animation that'll probably only let you hipfire at best while you are stuck performing that animation like the shock drone in BO4, the only ability in the game i dislike
i legit started running the spider bot just because i hate it so much. this game is really getting annoying with the netcode too. i know for a fact there are cheaters. no kill cams and we wont get any kill cams until the netcode is fixed but then the devs says its my internet connection....2024 everyone has legit internet and 20 years ago games played better. somethings weird with this game
Theres a few very problematic things in this game like walls on cooldown characters with higher health pools and bots that make u set ur controller down all of those in my opinion need to be reworked. Especially phantoms and echelon, yes dying to a spiderbot is annoying but it has more counterplay than i hit button and know exactly where u are and so does my team or i literally have more hp than u i win gunfight
I feel bad cause I only spammed spider bot online to do the operative skin challenge, other than that I don't even really use DedSec cause spider bot and the ult is nice, but the hack is too niche
Anyone else think the Intel suit needs to be only for the player, and not highlight for the whole team?? It's so annoying as soon as it says i'm exposed, i get lit up by anyone in the vicinity lol
Ya whoever uses it is trash
1) yes
2) remove it lol
For real. If anything the spider bot is a decent counter to all the Intel suit players & their teammates who get wall hacks. Remove both from the game but I think the spider is needed. All these sweats complaining about dying from the spider a few times a match yet their whole team can go on multi kills from wall hacks lol
Its like everyone getting a Orbital VSAT/Blackbird in cod every certain amount of seconds. Except everyone gets access to it. 💀
@@darxis8822and in COD you have to earn it, in XDefiant you just get it for free after enough time passes
Usually i enjoy the game wether im winning or losing but the spider bot spam is just obnoxious and pathetic. The spider bot should just be removed its just a pathetic free kill for the mouth breathers 😂
It's a repeat of the Tempest drone from BO4.
@@deathtrooper2048worst than at, least the tempest drone you could counter it if you time it right
Ideally the spider bot is good for messing with those who are holding down the lane, but right now it mostly becomes an annoyance for those who wants to push ahead.
@@epicgamerzfail4575 True, they both were BS, but XD has it worse.
I think I finally got it. If you absolutely most positively despise the spider bot and its users, you are MEANT TO BE a hacker. The satisfaction you get from killing bot users when their own spider is in their head and then teabagging them is immense. It definitely offsets the terrible frustration from those cheesy deaths that the bots cause because you simply weren't able to deal with them for various reasons at some specific moment.
As a nice bonus, you get to disable the pathetic wallhacks too if you get your ultimate. 😁
They need to make it so you can push a button before it jumps on you so you can catch it and crush it. And have it be a quick window so if you miss it you’re screwed and if you’re quick enough you don’t get destroyed
Technically this is a thing already with the melee button, but the timing is very difficult and even if you hit it, you're locked into the melee animation and are probably gonna lose the gunfight to the person who threw it.
@@BigDeepz I know but I’m saying have there be a square icon pop up and if you hit it in time it stops it and if you miss the window you get screwed. It’s all about finding the TIMING
Also half the time the bot comes from behind or you see it only a millisecond before it latches on.
And even then, looking down and shooting it also puts you a massive disadvantage
Naw just man up
I had a game last night where I felt like I spent more then half the game with the bot on my face. It was out of hand
I agree with you Ace. The spiderbot is fundamentally bad because of the imbalanced annoyance of the victim compared to the lack of fun for the owner.
My thoughts exactly. Annoying to play against, not very fun to use, and not even useful tactically. Was playing zone control the other day and tried sending my spiderbot down the right lane of the map. It just took a hard left and ran around randomly.
I've won a lot of 3-man fights by dropping a spider bot as I get flanked.
This is literally bo4 and the prophet drone all over again 😂 they should’ve released it with a button press to counter it imo
Exactly!!!! IDK how they are screwing up with the spiderbot when something like it has existed in an FPS before and was a huge issue.
There are alot of abilities that resemble BO 4 again. The sticky bomb (battery), scan ability (Recon), Flashbang (Ajax) Bouncing Better (Nomad's variation of a mesh mine), Spider (Prophet's seekers) and Libertad healing (Crash)
The thing is, you just ran Tac Mask to deal with that because it auto-pressed the qte button press if it got you. There's no Tac Mask in this game, and the only way to get rid of the Spiderbot is to either shoot it before it gets you, pray to god one of your teammates has a functioning brain and shoots it off you, or melee it which is unreliable because the melee just does not seem to work right either due to the state of the netcode or because of the way player collision functions. I get the idea they're going for with it, but yeah things that take player agency away just never work about because they don't feel fun to deal with.
@@warrantykillers41 literally
@@CCM1199 I’ve looked at this game and immediately thought bo4 it’s fun but the abilities definitely resemble bo4 I’m shocked there’s no one who does a slam 😭
One very effective counter is Firebomb. If you see a Spiderbot coming, activate Firebomb and (assuming your timing is good) you're near guaranteed to get it off you or even kill it before it gets you.
Hijack is a way better counter.
I’m convinced people just don’t know how to play the game. There are so many counters.
Ubisoft PLEASE LET ME SAVE A WEAPON BLUEPRINT. It's insane it isn't already a part of the game
Dedsec + Hijacked is slept on fr. You can flip spider bots and mag barriers, cool down is quick and you have tactical resupply every 15 seconds. Honestly a very strong set up. Pushing points when a wall goes down and being able to hijack is so good and really fucks up the ops 😂
Everyone hated Prophet's Shock Drone in BO4. They must've been higher than my ping to think this was a good idea.
Just makes the spider bot to work like BO4's shock drone, giving a QTE prompt when the spider bot strikes, and you can try to hip fire at the bot if the QTE fails as you can't ADS (I would say letting the bot to become one hit down before it strikes, but that would make it too weak in comparison to other deployables in the current state).
I think in the beginning or an in-game update of XDefiant, there was a "bug" where the spiderbot only shocks you near your toes instead of blocking your entire face. Imo it was only the best way to counter it near your toes while shocking you. I either had to take the shock damage and hipfire my enemy or shoot the bug and stand my ground. I don't see why the spiderbot HAS to block your face.
The problem with a hero shooter is that they need to limit the skill selection to only 1 per team!!
I prefer looking down and firing to get rid of the Spider, sure it's a bug but i've got used to it, even when i know i can't do it anymore, i'm doing it instinctively.
Has anyone had any frame rate issues since s1 launch. I’ve noticed I drop frames more frequently than before (I barely dropped frames all through pre-season)
I heard that was an issue on PS. Mine is running fine on Xbox
It is also an issue on PC 😢
@@Danish-d3qtry not to play fullscreen non pc take borderless window way more fps
@@Draco_Is_Malfoy this is probably it, I’m having troubles on ps5
I think the way Prophets equipment abillity worked in BO4 was a perfect midway,
If that drone got to you you had a QTE to press a button weither you got it or not you would still be hindered for a moment but if you missed the QTE it would last a lot longer
I don’t know why they just don’t disable/remove the spiderbot until it’s fixed then add it back
Ubisoft
Idk, I guess that would make too much sense?
I think they should make the writings of objectives lining up more transparent.
Also the name of enemies popping up when killed should be smaller or more transparent. Sometimes I have a hard time seeing through all of this
This is one instance where Rubin isn’t reading the room correctly. The community hates the spider bot and it almost universally causes frustration - so why in the world keep it?
Because soon we will see the flaws with the rest of the abilities imo xdefiant would’ve been better if they had no abilities
It's honestly not that big of a deal, just shoot it or run a bit and then shoot. Or use EMP, hack etc. Almost all the abilities are free kills if you use them right, even more than just the one kill you could get with spiderbot. If you use the wallhack/scan appropriately that can net you several kills almost guaranteed. Same with a good placed shield to catch people off guard = multi kill.
It's not too strong, it's simply not fun to play against.
I agree. They wanted to give cod players another FPS option that doesnt have sbmm, but made a hero shooter instead. Like, why? @Rulody
I cant believe spiderbots exist in this game. Theyre not overpowered but lead to undeserved single kills. Being on the receiving end is so frustrating because like you said it interrupts the gameplay flow. I think the quicktime event is a great idea. In addition: 1) reduce the cooldown 2) make the spider a OSK or melee from any weapon 3) put all spiderbots on the map in real time, friendly and enemy, so it makes the user to think when using the ability and also lets the person on the receiving end know where the spider is so they can properly prepare for an encounter
So they accidentally programed a useful bug, then accidentally patched this bug and now they bring back the bug. GG😂😂
How do we get these calm lobbies? I have buuny rabbits and kangaroos constantly. I would also like to know how your screen is not cluttered. I have so many things showing on a hud that it is distracting
He probably just plays a lot and uses the most entertaining gameplay. If he plays like 20 matches, he will have a couple of chill lobbies to use for gameplay.
It's a time of day and weekday thing. Late afternoon, evenings, and weekends will be full of jumping monkeys and cheaters.
See other replies. Maybe PC/console difference as well? Generally PC players move a lot more and jump/strafe etc.
How do they even allow this half assed changes to go live? Like did they bother testing before releasing?
like for real they should just ask the Community at that point
If I get a game with more than one spider bot on the other team, it’s an instant back to the lobby.
I really wanted to play Season 1 but im not getting on it until they fix the spiderbot bullshit
Same
Spider bot is working as intended. It is glorious.
Bound and determined to cry just like in COD, its really so sad. To All crybabies, GO PLAY COD!!!!!!
The spider drone is too op and needs a nerf immediately. Not being able to shoot it of your face is ridiculous
The mag barrier cool down is too long now, for objective game modes it takes way to long to recharge. It was fine the way it was previously
The frame rates on ps5 make the game unplayable
There's also some weird sensitivity/ firing delay issue going on when you ADS ( at least that's the case on ps5 anyway)
Game in its current state, is infuriating, I'm not spending another second on this game until these issues are fixed.
Also its all well and good Mark coming on twitter and being open and honest, but wtf are the QA team over at Xdefiant doing. Like how is stuff being pushed to production unintentionally, i mean they accidentally released a map too early, and they seem to consistently be releasing code which they werent meant to. That is seriously poor from whoever is QAing and pushing things to production for such a massive game.
Just shoot the bot before it hits you. If you can't, you're playing the game like a spaz. Slow down. This is war. 9:02
Dead sec style has the potential to have the most interesting abilities, such as the hack. I really hope spiderbot would be revamped/replaced - Frustrating to play against, not rewarding for the users and harmful to the gameplay
Is it just me, or is the Echelon Digital Ghillie Suit harder to spot now after the most recent update?
Imo spiderbot not as bad as air strafe, but I have not had the time to play season 1 yet so im not sure with the changes. Kbm ability to change direction mid air makes it super cheesy.
i find it crazy that the spiderbot , that homes in and with no counterplay that pacifies whoever it jumps on even made it past playtest.
they should just make it find a player and then follow it and make a noise or something. so you can use it as a tracker and you still have to actually fight the enemy
I honestly would rather have the spiderbot be the DedSec ult and get disrupted every 30 seconds if we have to keep the fucking thing in the game
Good idea send out 3 spider bots for the ultra
@@hardtailharry6812 Not 3. Just one.
@@RubyRoksno if it’s an ultimate then 3 is completely fair and it should tell you “be on the look out, enemy has released their spider bots”
@@gatlin1320 My issue with 3 spiderbots is that every other ult can be countered by a single frag or sticky grenade. 3 spiderbots doesn't give you that ability outside of perfect timing, and having it in the game at all is already me being generous with the idea.
Make them hunt in a pack maybe? They could jump on one person and get the kill or if the enemy is grouped up just do a mass stunlock
The worst thing is, that that thing also does 40 damage.
I hate the feeling when I am wounded and that thing jumps on my face and I know I will die and I can do nothing about it and just wait for me to die.
I love it!
Biovida for Libertad faction is bugged where once a game it doesn't activate then won't recharge unless you switch abilities and switch back. If u don't want to run EMPs use a sticky to throw on a wall and walk near it while facing it, the spiderbot will take the damage
If they add some button press etc it needs to be really hard to pull off. Lots of the other abilities in the game have either no counters, or barely any good ones. You're just as screwed if not more when someone puts down a shield and you loose the gunfights due to that. Or you get scanned/wallhacked and then prefired etc. Keep the possiblity of shooting it of you're face and maybe lower the cooldown to 35 seconds or smth.
I think if the spider bot did everything except cover the face, it would be fine as is. Maybe less shock time too but you can already still shoot while it’s happening so I don’t know if that would be needed.
Dedsec is a great counter for another reason: unlimited EMP grenades. You keep getting them back with their passive
deadsec also refreshes lethals over time so you can use emp on a cooldown of sorts
The sentiment of "Willing to deal with things you don't like in a game." needs to be said especially with a game that openly marketed itself to CoD players paranoid about SBMM. I'm glad XDefiant is genuinely fun for people past the honeymoon phase.
This game needs to rework the 3 broken abilities. The 3 you’re thinking about right now.
Ya but those are the only 3 I use
@@DelbertStinkfester thats the point lol
What's the 3rd one?
@@amigopuerco shield
Shield, non suicide bomb and spider bot
Oof! Everyone was so excited for the buff that every game I played, half or more of the enemy was using them. And I think I was the luckiest on my team to get hit with all of them. It was nearly every 30 seconds. And it was a guaranteed death sentence for me, since I had no counter. With foot-step audio still being useless for me, I can't hear them or the player footsteps, so I'm just annoyed most of the time in games. But I stay because I still want to support the game and the dev team for the good they're trying to do.
If anyone remember in bo4, we had a sorta spider bot, and you pressed a button to remove it from your face
Seeker drone from phorphet
They're messing up a lot in S1. I was using the Spiderbot yesterday to finish my final faction challenge. After the update, the cooldown timer didn't run for 40s. It ran for 25, TWICE, before I could use it again. I'd watch it count down to 0, only to see it start over at 25 instead of going active. I also, apparently, couldn't use it unless I was holding my tongue right or something. It would just buzz at me instead of deploying until I moved to a different spot. And then it would JUST EFFING STAND THERE sometimes, like it was contemplating the universe. And that's just the bot. The sniper flinch isn't a thing. I shoot a guy in the face with an M-16, all three headshots, I get one-shotted right after. The jumping monkeys can jump 5-6-7 times and still kill you at range. You can't shoot the bot off your face, but one melee takes care of the electrified razorwire. Apparently the block list does absolutely nothing, just like on CoD. I blocked a group of supersweats (AKA cheaters) with TTV or JTV in their names who were obviously squadded up, which I thought I wasn't supposed to have to deal with while playing solo. Twenty minutes later the same 4 guys are on my team. Oh, and you gotta pay them just to unlock the GSK major faction challenge. Forget that. Suckers paying to fully unlock is one thing. I can already see that since it's FTP they're going to nickel and dime every other little thing. I was actually enjoying the game pre-season, less than 12 hours before the update. Season 1, not so much. And WTF is this stupid Ubisoft Connect XP this popup box keeps telling me about? And how am I supposed to use it? (This is all on PS5, btw.)
Bro for the faction challenge all u have to do is activate it in ur challenge menu. Then its just earn 700k xp, similar to dead sec faction
And the ubisoft connect is full of free stuff and extra challenges, it's no big deal. Don't want free boosters and skins? Then don't use it. 😊
@@karateguy247 Costs 1000 coins to activate. So, it's behind a paywall. So far I've racked up a whole 50 free coins. I'm not buying them to play GSK.
@beastmastreakaninjadar6941 no it does not bozo. Just go into your game and do it because I, and everyone else, can equip it just fine.
Edit: should also clarify to not push the "purchase with x coins" button. The other button that just says "activate challenge" is the one you want to push.
9 times out of 10 that I get hit by a spider bot, I'm already in the middle of a gun battle with someone else.
I knew Spiderbot is rage inducing ability, I had to switch to Hijack cause of how cheesy it was
I mainly use Deadsec for counter ulti - Need a button input to just remove it, like prophet drone
yeah but hijack is still bugged... when you die, sometimes you can't use it again until your switch character, die again and switch back... I hope they fix it soon
Been enjoying the game a lot and then this update happened, I play ps5 and the game feels super clunky, my ping doesn’t show anymore hoping for a quick fix asap
Hope I’m not the only one having this issue as all I want to do is grind and get the new camos
spider bot is just too oppressive if you are flanking. If you turn a corner right into one you are completely screwed.. I do agree with Ace were its not so satisfying to use vs the frustration you get when that thing jumps you.
Spider bot is excellent. It slows the game down which prevents the game from being an ADHD spaz run n gun trash heap, like most FPSs. So sick of everyone playing without strategy, just running non-stop. So , I love spiderbot. I love regenerating prox mines. Slow the Fluck down. This is war, not spaz zone.
It’s a game, not war. You’re not tough, don’t act it.
The deadsec characters sound like they take it up the ass lmao real war lel
@@thabruhfrom9444 aww, you're a tuff little guy.
Even the Cleaners Firebomb is awful, it just gives you free kills.
You know something is a major issue when a developer decides to reintroduce a bug to the game just to help somewhat alleviate the problem.
This spider bot only exists to annoy people and half of the time the user doesn’t even take the free kill. Remove the spider bot and replace it with something that actually helps the team.
As a broader point, to my knowledge every ability for ever faction helps the users team in some way. Libertad heals, the Cleaners cleans objectives and enemy groups, Phantoms have their magwall, DeadSec can steal abilities, Echelon give their team wallhacks and the KSK lock down objectives. The closest comparison is the Phantom's shield, which at least theoretically can give teammates mobile cover and no one uses it anyway. The spider bot is a selfish ability that MAYBE gives the user a free kill, made even worse by DeadSec having a very powerful alternative ability.
If for some reason the bot cannot be removed, it should be nerfed into the ground. Keep the shooting to remove it and make it more consistent, fix the melee counter and maybe add a QTE like Black Ops 4's drone had.
All the burst weapons are bugged bro with their burst delay and input delay. Can you please put this into the light
There are alot of abilities that resemble BO 4 again. The sticky bomb (battery), scan ability (Recon), Flashbang (Ajax) Bouncing Betty (Nomad's variation of a mesh mine), Spider (Prophet's seekers) and Libertad healing (Crash). Tell me im wrong
They ruined their game overnight
I know shooting at your feet was a bug, but I don't see why this shouldn't be a valid counter to it. You're still not able to see anything or engage in a gunfight, you will still be motionless while you're shooting it off, and you still take damage during the time it's on your face. I felt like it was fairly balanced that way if you are running a full auto weapon.
I'm running Hijack lol. Reversing Spiderbots back and reversing shields. Just wish I could hack intel suits
7:20 i want to say... IM NOT DISAGREEING BUT IM NOT AGREEING ASWELL. The reason dedsec is the way it is especially with the spiderbot is because of the game it came from which is watch dogs. Hear me out and try to understand, if you look at every single skill, ultimate, passize all of it makes sense to a watch dog players because it was used to disrupt and destroy things in a room, without actually being in the room. So for the faction purposes the devs did perfect. I think every kit the faction has is absolutely perfect. Homelander approved. But i will say yes it is very annoying in a game such as xdefiant but in its defense, it's suppose to be.
I didnt make this comment as a way of hate or anything about the video, i actually like the video alot. Im just taking the assumption you haven't played Watch Dogs or just haven't noticed something.
Dedsec faction is a perfect beautiful disaster.
I just wish people would see spider bot is not to blame for what it is, its the faction it self.
Spiderbot counters:
Shooting it✅️
EMP nades✅️
Deadsec hacker✅️
Fire drone✅️
Fire bomb✅️
There's other op abilitys that have ZERO counters so to me, while they are annoying having the bot in the game is fine
Personally I feel the Spider-bot is overtuned given how much it does: it locks you in place, obstructs your vision AND it does 60 damage over its duration. The first two are bad enough, but the fact that it can eat up over half your life and it is autoseeking is too much. And finding out that the “counterplay” of shooting them off was a bug tells me that the devs didn’t think this through.
Some people mentioned Prophet’s Seeker Drone from COD, but even then it was balanced better: it only stunned you, didn’t do damage, didn’t block vision and had an actual QTE to nullify it as counterplay, and there were still complaints about it.
I honestly think they need to get rid of or severely drop the damage, and have either the QTE to stop it attaching or leave the previous counterplay in. Doing that would justify a shorter cooldown, because even with a longer cooldown as it is now (or at least should be), without any consistent counterplay it just feels cheap.
I just came out of a TDM match with 4 Dedsec players with Spiderbots. IMPOSSIBLE to counter and we all just...died multiple times. Horrible.
i’ve pretty much given up on xdefiant which sucks, i love the core gameplay. but being placed in east cost servers CONSTANTLY ( im no where near east coast) waiting anywhere from 2-5 mins for a game and being tossed into games that are halfway over where my team is getting their shit pushed in i just can’t play this game anymore so frustrating :(
I've been back on CoD today, because that spider has been too much. In some games it feels like 2 or 3 players are running it. How are you supposed to win a gun fight when the stupid bot jumps on your face LOL??? I'm not sure this game needs gimmicks like this.
The battle pass imo is still too slow. With no challenges to help you rank it up like weekly challenges for one free tier. Also why 90 tiers?
bro crys bc it has more tiers... btw it more bc season is 90 days long
@@shusakudake the patch notes read that that made progression faster. I do not see this correlating with the new battle pass.
@@straightsavage98 y idk if it rly is faster or not i play with boost
Unfortunately this is why there should probably be a character limit and/or cooldown's should carryover after death similar to Bo4. But since the only Perks are built into factions like cod WW2, doing so would also limit playstyle. If they add a loadout Perk option like the basic training from ww2, I feel that would help makeup for it somewhat.
Any plans on doing the shotguns in-depth?
The moment I hear that face hugger coming I’m throwing my EMP. Without question! And that’s worked just fine for me. And well I just face my except my faith if there’s another one.😂😂
DUDE THEYRE SO STUPID. These spiders are really so bad. so poorly designed. and they removed the only thing that can even sometimes stop them. really stupid. small indie company i guess
I've also noticed a bug, but abilities won't trigger either. I've tossed the bot out land it doesnt activate. This has happened on many of my other guys as well. Im not sure if this is purely latency or not but lag has felt like its been getting worse. I used to have a clean connection, 20 ping, very consistent. Now I push 50 with connection delays, frame drops, activation bugs, and worse hit reg. Its so... weird.
The game is broken in S1 it’s a lot they fixed that is no longer fixed. FPS are up and down, too many people can be invisible or have barb wire ! Flash bangs too strong. U can’t shoot the spider bots it’s just the game is just at a stale mate. Maybe S2 is better cause this is a rough rough start. Played cod after and cod is much better in movement and crisp especially during gunfights it’s just such a drastic change and defiant feels like a downgrade.
You can't shoot the ground to get the spider bot off anymore. After the new season, it stays on your face, and for me, it stayed when I threw an EMP at my feet. Teammates suck at helping me too. My entire team just stared at me instead of helping. Honestly, this game is just getting worse and worse. I wish that some of the guns get buffs. The M4A1 is so terrible.
Edit: Did nit realize Ace mentioned the first part already. My bad.
That spider is much like the Black Ops 4 ability from Prophet that he will deploy the seeker mine and it will shock you but you press buttons to get the cable off you. thats the same deal with these spiders. some of the abilities we got in XDefiant are reminiscent of Black Ops 4 like Ajax's flash bang. or the sticky grenade that battery had (minus the additional clusters). All we need now is mesh mines much like Nomad. Recon's ability is already in the game with the scan suits. Tell me im wrong on these abilities being in the game in some way (mesh mine is basically the bouncing betty)
The spiderbot is the most stupid thing in the game and OP and broken shit just for running a class. Instead of adding more dirty cheese, ubisoft should be looking to clean up their pvp in their games. Div 2 pvp is already broken beyond repair at this point with status effects and generally broken meta. What about instead of trying fix the spiderbot, they should instead replace it with something completely different and just kill the whole concept of a spider bot attaching to players faces. Is this an Alien movie?
Libertad skin challenges are resetting to zero after every match. The bio thing is also becoming inactive randomly during the match. Also, I'm dying a lot more behind walls. Still getting melted it seems in many gun fights...I'm not a great player but I shouldn't die immediately when I'm hitting my shots. So frustrating.
Wtf is wrong with ubisoft? Why are they trying to rebalance something the entire community implicitly said nerf? They're starting to look like snake oil salesmen. All the quick responses don't mean anything when they're not actually fixing the game. Im trying to have patience but i might be leaving if every aspect of the game isn't 10 times better by season 2. Im losing faith that theyll fix anything that needs to be fix or that they're even capable/competent enough to do so.
We need a faction cap asap , max 2 players using same faction .
And all my games since the update yesterday just feel off ,hit reg is worse than before and frame drops . Im on ps5 and it ran fine before update.
Im a bit disappointed, i was excited to grind out the new season .
Nah f that "using hijack" if i'm forced to use deadsec i'm running spiderbot, now noone gets to enjoy xdefiant..
Its a vicious cycle because when one person uses spiderbot, we all have to use spiderbot...
Lol yall some crybabies. U can take the spider bot off your face by meleeing sooooo whats the problem? Lol. Yall are weird. But yall are ok with the bunnyhopping that's still not fixed 😂😂😂
The spiderbot without having a quicktime button press action like BO4's tempest ability is such a major oversight. To be honest, I don't understand who thought releasing it like this was a good and fun idea.
This is broken to the point it should be disabled until properly fixed and balanced.
The game has so much potential but i gave up. To many bugs, OP sniper and horrible bunny hopping. I tried season 1 the other day to find out all the bugs and other annoying things are still there. Getting attacked by a spider bot 3 times ( got rid of the 1, 1 sec later the 2nd attacked me and within a few seconds a 3rd one which i didn't survived ) shortly after another was the last nail in the XD coffin. Deleted the game again without intention to come back.
There is nothing worse than the opposing team having an advanced UAV every match.
Well just play echelon 'f them" ...i dont need to see through walls to get kills .
then have the audacity to actually think i actually have skill. Talk about hand holding.
I'm not playing again until they fix it. They should be embarrassed that this made it into production.
I like the Spiderbots. I'm a Dedsec main. To counter it they should just let you melee it own your face or off teammates face, instead of wasting bullets. Where there's no class that'll drop ammo bag to replenish ammo or 'Nades
This update has made me realize how few XD players actually play on PS5. The current state of PS5 XD is tragic, and yet it feels like every content creator has been able to completely ignore it 😭
Hear me out
Delete the spider or completely overhaul how it works.
Have it just be a slow that does a small DOT. Or instead of it being in your face it just increases your recoil so it's harder to aim.
I just hate the fact that it's basically a free kill every time you get someone with it. So having it debuff an enemy but still giving them a chance to fight back would at the very least be better than what we have now.
I think everyone has various thing to grip about in the game & mine is the Echelon fraction & the whole team having wall hacks. The spider is cheap but the wall hacks is bringing a cheating element into the game as an ability. Hey if they put it in the game its all fair I cant change it only play on. So when Echelon pops their ability you better believe i'm letting a spider out so someone pre-aiming at me while I turn a corner can get fawked lol!!
legit the spider bot shouldnt damage you at all or only 5 damage. the fact it does all it that does and 30 ish dmg currently is crazy its a flushing/disorient device that can also take 1/3 or nearly 2/3rds of a players health....
I think they should just change it to be a heavy slowdown in a certain area or you are stunned in place until you shoot it or it time's out. I would completely remove the whole face grabbing I would completely remove the whole face obscuring part.
They should just disable it for now. It's too frustrating to deal with and enjoy the game, especially if players can use it every 20 seconds.
Were the muzzle booster and rapid fire barrel unintentionally buffing recoil control ever fixed? It definitely increased my recoil as intended when i did controlled testing in the firing range
It depends on the gun... Some have more recoil, some less.
i use rapid fire on my ak and didn't felt any noticeable difference
I think it's fixed because I tried it on the MDR this patch and booster+rapidfire barrel doubled the recoil compared to base.
Day 64 of asking for the bot to be removed from the game tbh. You literally cannot break it unless someone else shoots it off your face or you shoot it before it jumps. It just shouldn't be in the game. Remove it until its fixed, like they did to intel suit in the beta.
It needs a slight reworking but i dont find it that hard to shoot and destroy. I think making it easier to hear coming would help. But I find every ability frustrating when I'm dying to it. I think its enjoyable to figure out how to outplay the team you are against. If theyre running a bunch of spiderbots there are ways to counter it your team plays smart.
So are we just going to gloss over the host problem like it doesn't exist? 25% of games are one team all going 2 k/d+ while the other team barely manages to go 1 k/d, regardless of skill.
They should just get rid of the spiderbot and replace it with something better. Anyone agree?
I think it should go all together, i understand the reason for it being in the game with it adding a layer of disruption to otherwise linear gunfights but if you see it coming towards you, you know that there is going to be an enemy waiting around the corner so they can get a free kill if you don't shoot it in time. Even with a quick time event it'll add another animation that'll probably only let you hipfire at best while you are stuck performing that animation like the shock drone in BO4, the only ability in the game i dislike
i legit started running the spider bot just because i hate it so much. this game is really getting annoying with the netcode too. i know for a fact there are cheaters. no kill cams and we wont get any kill cams until the netcode is fixed but then the devs says its my internet connection....2024 everyone has legit internet and 20 years ago games played better. somethings weird with this game
Theres a few very problematic things in this game like walls on cooldown characters with higher health pools and bots that make u set ur controller down all of those in my opinion need to be reworked. Especially phantoms and echelon, yes dying to a spiderbot is annoying but it has more counterplay than i hit button and know exactly where u are and so does my team or i literally have more hp than u i win gunfight
Lower its health drastically. Ive hit it 2 or 3 times whilst it's running at me and it survived. Give it 5hp. Un-'fix' it.
I feel bad cause I only spammed spider bot online to do the operative skin challenge, other than that I don't even really use DedSec cause spider bot and the ult is nice, but the hack is too niche