If I was confident that my bullets were actually connecting with the target, a lot of the other annoying stuff in the game wouldn't bother me as much. Wondering where my bullets went when I'm clearly on target is infuriating.
same, by far the most annoying part, im experimenting with controller right now and it's a night and day difference, kinda sucks though I notice the hitreg less on controller but the getting shot around corners is just as common
THIS! all the other crap wouldn't be so bad if the player you shoot actually took damage and died. It's easy to build a strategy when the core game works as expected. Ubisoft will be why this game fails. Pride before the fall (and greed)
Can't tell you how many times I've ran out round a corner, saw people aiming at me down a lane, then I instantly flick 180 and slide back into cover and still get hits registering once I'm 10ft behind said cover. I'm talking about a movement that takes me less than a quarter second to do, and I still end up magically at half health when I shouldn't have been hit at all. Nicked at most.
It seems like it's that happening or you come around the corner and see multiple, try to reposition, go around another corner and a spiderbot jumps on you followed by a flash grenade lol
It honestly feels like it breaks a players flow state and is so jarring it is unfun to go against lol It's got too few counters and combined with flashbangs or the prox mines that also print for the dedsec faction it's just insanely annoying (also prox mines stay after the person who drops them dies)
@@dartlinfps Very true and if it was a scorestreak/killstreak you earned it would be more forgivable but its just a free kill on a timer like you mentioned.
@@MonoGrindedman its not more op like every other abbility of other fractions. Firebomb or drone can even be a free multikill... the spiderbot can be destroyed by simple look on the ground wgile shooting. Can be destroyed by your mates can be hacked, emp granade, or you simple bait with it and place a mine. So many counters to it, and no im not a dedsec player i mostly play cleaners, because its fun to to shoot phantoms with the m44, they are the only fraction who can survive the bodyshot of the m44 but they will die a 2 seconds later because of the fireammo and i love it😂
I think they just executed it poorly. Black Ops 4 had basically the same thing with Tempest, but you had a quick time event (pressing x) to destroy it if you weren’t able to shoot it when it was chasing you. In this game it’ll attach to your face, but you have to look at the ground to destroy it?!? Like who designed this lol
I think thats part of the playerbase getting smaller and smaller for sure, I'm noticing I can find lobbies faster on controller, I wish I enjoyed playing on controller more tbh but some guns just feel way more satisfying for me to use on keyboard and mouse
My only 2 games i played on PC today made me quit again, players in my room had a ping range between 50 - 130(1 player ) on my team alone, cant tell what my ping is because its blanked out. The hit regs to me seem worse when i am using a whole clip and they kill me in 10 bullets still, i am struggling the even get a positive game. My game settings are simple, 3200dpi gaming mouse(turned down in game but up on mouse) with mechanical keyboard. I cant strafe or jump and shoot with mouse and keyboard because i dont have macro's(wont use), this week alone i have only played 3 times since wednesday. Flash is well over powered at the moment and needs to be softened. Also it now takes longer to get into a game(dependant on mode) where you almost have enough time to go make a coffee, then you find yourself in a game that started 2 minutes before you joined and already your behind the rest or in a game where the team your on is a squad and your the only single player and guess who does all the dying...Not them. I really want to play the game and enjoy it and i keep trying after each update but it still feels terrible to me on PC.
I'm noticing alot more variation in ping between players and the blanked out ping has been going on for weeks I almost think it's intentional, honestly, I think the ping indicator in general is not accurate... you have to turn your ping indicator on in your options, it seems like you can't check from your scoreboard unless you ask a teammate lol...I saw somebody else say that when they feel like a particular match has janky connection they just leave and find another one, I honestly have been doing that for weeks now bc the connection issues are the same reason I had issues with cod and sbmm not prioritizing connection despite having a huge playerbase (xdefiant prioritizes connection, but the playerbase is a good amount less than it was even 3 weeks ago, I think keyboard and mouse players are feeling it more than the controller portion of the playerbase) I notice the matches taking longer and longer to find I am currently trying to level my sniper up to get mastery camos but don't want to ruin other ppls matches in objective modes sniping and even TDM is starting to take me a decent amount of queue time
This game is fun at its core, but I think you hit the nail on the coffin mentioning how all the small things pile up. The netcode is where I draw the line, I can have fun with this game, but after about the 10th-15th shotgun shot that does zero damage yet still gives me a hit marker….. yeah idk, some days I brush it off and other days that shit makes me wanna uninstall. The worst part is that Mark Rubin was advocating that the game wouldn’t have any netcode issues on launch that players experienced in betas. Only for the net code to feel the same/ untouched on launch. There is still hope, but they really gotta get their shit together.
I'm really hoping they pull things together this upcoming season with the netcode, I think it is make it or break it at this point when it comes to the long term health of things I really love the game but am not sure they will be able to keep the pace up fast enough to please Ubisoft but I think if they can we will have a game with a lot of content come a few seasons from now
@@dartlinfps big fax, I think Ubisoft expected/ demands more player retention or something, cause the fact that they’re already talking about ending support is just absurd. It’s like they expect every game they publish to be GOTY or something. I think some more progression systems being implemented would help tremendously. Some more camos, prestige, faction skins. There’s a lot to be desired in that department currently.
As much as I don’t mind flashes,you are 100% right on the effect being too long. I’ve been spamming them all week because I got into a match where they were spamming them on me,and wow they are kinda stupid 😂 I think if they just toned down the effect like a second or so it would help a lot without ruining them. Plus the warning thing you mentioned would help, I don’t get why we have it for every other grenade and not flashes.
MnK players tend to be PC players who also have like 400 games a piece, so like I'm not just gonna play xdefiant. A lot of the time, the wonkiness with gunplay seems to come to a lack of player skill that CoD's SBMM had been hiding for years. Either your out of position or you simply can't hit your target. I can feel the difference in my performance from when I'm playing while tired versus fresh. As someone who's always been pretty good at fps, all xdefiant is doing is showing you the player you actually are versus the phantasy modern match making systems make you out to be.
@@dartlinfps That is true, but thats also CoD, Halo, Fortnite, Apex, WoW, AoE 2, Elden Ring, Tekken 8, Super Mario 64, etc. The game works, performs well, and rewards you for doing well. The last thing in that list, you can't get out of most modern fps.
It def does, I think the game plays a LOT better on controller tbh the more I play it on controller the more I see why it's satisfying to alot of ppl on controller, I still enjoy sniping on mnk but I'm starting to enjoy everything else on controller on xdefiant
@@dartlinfps I only use controller if I'm playing platformers or RPGs. Running the game at high framrates also tends to smooth out weirdness. I'm sitting cpu bound at 150fps on my 165hz screen.
Something I noticed last time I was playing I was getting placed in Virginia server but what’s strange is I’m closer to Texas than I am east coast but it’s putting me on the east coast server. Something also I find annoying is when you run into team that all running spider bots. One I can take but when the entire team does it you can literally get spider bot spam like every few seconds. I hate they increase ranks for mastery I am approaching 50 on my MP5 prior to the increase that would be bronze but nope I only halfway to bronze now. I still enjoy the game but only in small doses and at this rate I’m never getting gold camos on a gun ever.
I can only imagine the desink on M&K as I see it a LOT on controller, even getting hit markers and no damage given to a player, and you're right on the PCers playing controller.
I started playing controller and recently after about 20 hours or so in I can def tell the issues are still felt on here just not as much, there's also way faster matchmaking times on controller as well, I think the game honestly runs and feels better on controller, it feels "smoother" even though being at the same frame rate and everything (prob just bc controller analog stick input is easier to read than a raw mouse input)
As the day turns to noght the games get sweatier and sweatier... last night after the 5th game of the enemy team having 4 level 100+ players we said fk it.. dedsec, spider bots, flashbangs and extended mag aa12s. Lol.. good times.
Played 2 games of Delta Force alpha test & knew I would be done with Xdefiant for good when full game of Delta Force comes out. A different type of shooter someone will say but a FTP shooter with multiple game modes none the less. Need to get some more play time but yeah taking Mark's advice & going to play a better game 🤷🏾♂
Haha. Kind of facts. I like how it isn't overblown in xdefiant but I think TF2 was THE hero/class shooter and when overwatch originally rolled around i kind of rolled my eyes
i dont know if its just me but my controllers vibration stops before i finish firing, making me think im empty lol i un-installed it this morning cause with all these bugs nothing fixed at all after 3 months lol this games cooked cause the finals is better and thats a dead game.
I turned vibration off on the controller but that reminds me of the bug with the gun shooting when you respawn...the finals is prob in a similar place in terms of player count on keyboard and mouse likely
@@dartlinfps facts and its sad i really wanted this to work and not to beat cod or anything, i just wanted another game cause some of these shooters go all over the place with controls and this was nice and simple, but when they first messed with the xp messed everything up. for me the xp was fine till they added all this leveling for for what nothing but what 6 skins cause after 50 no more attachments. i was fine at the start but after that its never been good and this nice they dev talk but at this point its just talk to me cause they just keep messing things up and don't get me start like everybody else with net-code and it might take years are they nuts and their triple a company no matter how big the team is they got the money lol 3 months nothing fixed. other games with more to do died for less.
I think there needs to be a way to detect them rather than having to die to them unexpectedly, esp in objective modes where you might be a solo player with bad teammates and be expected to carry while you're against a full stack
I dont get it. I play the game and had a few complaints. All the complaints i am hearing isnt a bog deal to me. The hit detection in COD was worse back on PS3 era. Didn't play much COD on PS4. XD is a really good game
ADS sens on low sens scopes (ACOG) is way too fast on 1.00x multiplier and if you lower it down, then the 1X (no magnification) sens is too low. It really needs work on m&k.
I think they need to do something with support for the higher polling rate and dpi settings as well seeming to cause what I call "pixel skipping" it feels like the mouse input value is being rounded up rather than giving an exact value within the game engine or something
Played the game, felt it had the same issue as Call of Duty. I’ve played on KBM and Controller, I felt significantly better playing with controller than on KBM. Hit registration and constant high speed movement has turned me off for FPS shooter games. I’ve played COD for years but in the last 5-7 years I’ve stopped completely. The casual FPS shooter that I grew up playing is gone. These days it’s all about high speed, fast place, and millisecond key action.
Im in new york. I almost never have matchmaking/finding issues. Mnk input based. I do think the pc players are alot lower also. Prob bc pc has so many games that people can play that they dont spend alot of time.
You're probably right, I also think kbam is less popular for call of duty style games I remember black ops 4 and blackout was hard to find matches on PC compared to on console back then before crossplay became a thing, I think a lot of controller players have input based turned on and have a way larger pool on xdefiant as well (I started playing on controller again a day ago to try to test out the differences more and see the player pool etc) i usually get all keybaord and mouse players when on mouse myself even with input based off, with controller like that, I hardly ever see mouse unless it happens to be somebody in a party, and I rarely see the same names of players
Good point about consoles have far less fps games to choose from. As of now I have grown a distaste for COD (played it since back when), and Battlefield is a joke. Mil Sims? Boring. So I (will have to) stick with Xdefiant. If it can survive BO6 I am optimistic.
I think black ops 6 will only be an issue if XDefiant doesn't fix certain stuff, I think with the game being free to play there will never be a shortage of players especially on controller, its WAY more healthy on controller compared to keyboard and mouse, maybe once they bring keyboard and mouse support to console it'll boost that player pool a decent amount too
@@dartlinfps Agree. Besides no sbmm (which is mostly for COD OGs) the free to play is a very concrete advantage for casuals. A concern however is Ubisoft. If they go into panic mode when numbers are low around Christmas, they are fully capable of pulling the plug.
There's tons of ppl using macros to jump strafe so they just hit 1 button and have their controller or keyboard macro set to hit left and right while midair (I see it more on controller) but it's obvious when they do the same jump strafe every encounter Some ppl are legit doing it but there's actually a good amount of cheaters using Cronus and other junk
I'm from MN and when I'm searching for a game is searches in central bit every single game ques in east...literally every single game. I love this game and I'll continue to play every day...but the list of things wrong or annoying is too long to type out...but movement isn't one of them. I don't have a problem with crouch and jump spamming...it just looks dumb.
Connection is by far the biggest problem I was thinking that it was only something I was seeing because I was playing on keyboard and mouse with input based on, but after playing all day yesterday on controller as well as today, I am getting put into us central more and occasionally us east so it's definitely a matter of there being a smaller player base, it's definitely a lot smaller on keyboard and mouse though compared to controller I noticed I was seeing the same names a lot more frequently (lobbys disband and also some matches I back out if the connection doesn't feel good I noticed today an issue where I was stuttering while trying to mantle over objects and then started to notice matches where that would happen I might as well leave because im going to be seen by enemies alot before or after they c me, I died to somebody who was facing the opposite direction a few times)
@dartlinfps you would be correct. Whenever you get into a gun fight it would be nice if both players were having the same fight...instead. one is in the past and one is in the future.
When they are placed on a ledge that you mantle up to you can't just slide right after you mantle up... There's a reason why they put them in those locations...MY GUY!!!!! THEY ARE BASICALLY A FREE KILL FOR THE PERSON WHO PLANTS THEM IN A SMART SPOT AND THEN I HAVE TO PLAY BASICALLY ON DEFENSE BECAUSE THEY HAVE THEIR LITTLE RAT TRAPS THAT DON'T HAVE ANY INDICATOR UNTIL IT'S BASICALLY TOO LATE IF THE PERSON IS PLAYING SMART WATCHING THE SPOT ETC...ITS A CAMPER TOOL You talk about it as if I can see them through walls like I have engineer on call of duty MY GUY It's ok to admit they are free kills for bad players just like spiderbot MY GUY
@@dartlinfps ahh, I was on the fence if you were strictly referring to mines on a ledge in the video or not, I couldn’t tell. My b I guess, take a chill pill.
I had to switch to controller because MnK felt so bad, it feels like you aren't walking, you feel like yer floating. Using the WASD keys along with the mouse also feels like a game of "tug of war". I had a random comment on youtube that said "you sound like yer having the same issues I had, just get a controller", controllers are cringe, but the floating and movement nonsense went away. You are an excellent sniper, I can't even bring myself to snipe, it feels so bad on controller. I am not playing much either due to everything you said, as a result my skills have tanked across the board. I loved this game, now I kinda hate it, this was avoidable. Mark Rubin and Ubisoft fed us lip-service while releasing this horribly incomplete game to grab in desperate fashion what they could before Black Ops 6 releases. Even if Black Ops fails (it won't) GTA6 will annihilate XD, and the only people to blame for it are Ubisoft. The transparency is moot, the game is no better than beta, we were scammed! Your videos, the tone, the overall commentary are great, keep this up bro! =)
thank you! I think the input on keyboard and mouse feels a bit floaty bc the inputs are a lot more sensitive than controller inputs so you are more likely to feel any system or network related delays, you feel the jitter when you jiggle peek a corner or strafe left and right real fast whereas on controller, the motion feels and looks more fluid I think gta6 will put every other game on pause for majority of gamers period to be fair! I can't snipe very well on controller it's alot harder than on keyboard and mouse on xd I think, but smg is alot easier on controller in my experience, ar is a little tough to get used to, but controller feels like it is the native input for the game for sure with keyboard and mouse being an extra feature
@@dartlinfps yeah, I just jumped back into XD, game feels awful, in the beginning I was very hopeful, tolerant and optimistic, now I just don't understand the point in playing. Why would anyone want to invest time and money into this game? Now that I barely play, it is becoming a skill issue on-top of the game issues, so now is just a bowl of barf. The lack of SBMM is no longer a factor, game feels like dirty ass. I will buy a Playstation for GTA6. I have an XBox Series X, but it isn't at my full-time address, and I am not pleased with Microsoft either! The abortion that was the Activision merger, killed it for me! I truly believe that GTA6 will save gaming for me. FPS games are all trash now. I will continue to watch your channel though, your gameplay is WAY better than the game, way more fun than playing!
@@dartlinfps lets hope so buddy! In other news, I changed back to MnK last night and managed to have fun again in XD! Seriously, honest lol!! Either I have changed in my tolerance levels or the MnK component has been improved! =)
Man sound like yall just complain alot about everything. If it's not perfect it's trash. Yet cod has how many players? And they have how many problems? Man sbmm makes my wait times for games in cod ridiculous and usually I'm playing people from overseas due to finding players in my skill bracket. Then I have to sweat my ass of to go even or a little above. Meanwhile my connection is great, my lobbies are balanced I usually drop a 2 kd but often drop higher, I mean I'm having fun again playing an fps. But for some odd ass reason yall keep saying the game has too many issues.
Controller player I presume? Lol it's called constructive criticism, you don't have to be personally hurt by somebody trying to contribute to improving the game... I play against people overseas on Call of Duty a lot this video isn't even about Call of Duty I don't see what the big fixation is on CALL OF DUTY amongst the XDefiant fanboys it's like a cult of jealous exes or something more mad at their ex than they actually love their new relationship if the community was more open and didn't try to randomly attack people like a bunch of childish man babies, things would be a lot better rather than this stupid little tribalist cult that seems to be going on, and it's all people under a certain age playing on a certain input device from what I see to be honest
@@dartlinfps yup I play on console. The issue is not being a fan boy but rather looking at the issues people complain about that don't seem to effect other games. The fire t comparison would be cod as it's another arcade shooter. Ive played cod for years and it was an excellent game before. They made a ton of smart choices and it showed. However recently it's been a giant mess. I've had more issues on cod than any other game besides maybe destiny. The problem is people have a cult following for cod so it's issues pop up they just keep playing. Where as for some odd reason xdefiant with minimal issues gwta dogged on. It's just strange like all you see is the issue with xdefiant is, followed by a ton of skill issues complaints. I don't spam crouch or jump and slide a lot but I'm doing just fine. I have minimal time to play as well so hoping on to a game for some casual fun is ideal. But everyone seems to complain about something. Like spider bots I get but come on most of the other issues I just don't see at all. Giving the game a critique is fine, commenting on content makes sense. But the abilities being free kills? Dude its barely an issue, the jump spam was annoying but it just took getting use to now you can plan for it. It just feels like the complaints about this game are just whinny not real critiques. If your net code on yoir side looks bad I can't address that but mines runs fine so I just don't see the issues.
Good point but I don't hold XDefiant any lower than cod when I scrutinized it, I personally want to see XDefiant in a healthier spot as a game, i will hold call of duty to the same standard given both games operate within a billion dollar industry and earn billions
@@dartlinfps I've had the same problem in MW2 on PC. When youre up there in skill those wait times are ridiculous. I eventually stopped playing since you couldnt play anything but the meta or get wiped out.
I have it on cod mp and warzone where I play against super high ping players bc the lobby has to stretch out the matchmaking parameters and it ruins the connection
Why i slowed down playing Xdefiant is because the abillities are obnoxious! If i start a game and in the first minute i got 3 deaths because off the spiderbot and than 2 deaths more because off a bouncing betty, i am out!!! Why i also sometimes leave is that i get always the worst teammates, i am going 35 on 10 and the rest off my team going 5-21!!! And there are days that i lose all off my gunfights, everybody i shoot dont die!! The spiderbot needs to get out off the game, also the bouncing betty!! Flashbang is very OP, your stunt and blind the effect is way to long!! I am getting slowly more annoyed in this game, there is nothing to do than leveling your gun!! Listen!! I realy tried to play this game, i am almost level 130 so i am not somebody who plays 1 hour and says its sucks!!
it depends, if it is a really fast quickscope, no, but if I am adjusting the aim and somebody is moving around, I will hold breath to make the aim more stable, the longer you are ads, the more I think it makes a difference as well as the distance of the enemy (even though the game is hitscan), I think it might help to hold breath after jumping (I haven't tested, but it could reduce the aim sway after hitting the ground)
@@dartlinfps yeah just asking cos if you play auto sprint off, sprint bind is the same as hold breath, so if your holding down sprint button running, it instant holds breath when you scope,I just wondered if people are using that, im new to the game
I think it is worth getting to the level where you unlock the lightweight barrel for 15% ads speed which can be real useful imo bc it doesn't make the gun more shots to kill, mines like lvl 60 something I'm going to get it to lvl 400 eventually prob just playing tdm and going on high streaks during a 2xp wknd with an XP token stacked for the 4x weapon xp I usually wouldn't use auto tac sprint but the amount of peekers advantage you get currently on xdefiant is insane so I like to always sprint because I can jump around corners easier and faster as well as the audio not being much diff between sprint and non sprint/being inconsistent I don't really worry about not sprinting, if I do need to slow down I can crouch walk or ads walk
@@dartlinfps yeah, i was just constantly holding sprint (side mouse button), and auto holding breath , for no extra effort.....yeah the ADS is really slow, I was a sniper main in the finals so used to quick ads.. i started 2 days ago, my smg is bout level 25... the only reason I was intrigued with snipers in this game, is cos im seeing people get like 40 plus kills with it , when i feel its quite bad compared to other games...dis one of them a one hit kill ? is that the one worth using?
Then to make matters worse and add insult to injury or dislike for flashbangs, they went ahead and gave a faction a d@mn shield that protects them from enemy fire while being able to flash you and blind you to even being able to fight back. Like I've been saying from the beginning.... too many abilities and gadgets in this stupid azz game that are cheesy and have no legit counter.
I think this is a better multiplayer than most recent cods in years but there's an argument to be had that Battle Royale is such a good mainstream fps genre that it took the majority of players away from normal multiplayer fps, the same reasons why search and destroy as well as counter strike, valorant, and more are so popular... the high stakes and the "single life mode" despite things like rebirth being popular and possibly THE most popular mode on warzone in general
any game that prioritizes controller over kbm deserves to die, halo infinite and now xdefiant, skill ceiling needs to be set high or else whats the point of playing issue with the game you feel it 10x more on kbm so if a game is bad the kbm players will let you know first, but since everyone has his head up his ass on roller vs kbm i get zero satisfaction from getting kills on controller
I totally agree I also think it's the reason why everybody who is super defensive about constructive criticism on this game is super defensive bc most roller players never played kbam but a lot of kbam players have experience on controller and just don't enjoy it I was playing last night on controller and I'm not as good at long range but I'm definitely better close range on controller and it's funny because it felt like I was watching the game moreso than playing it
Good logic, just stop playing the game rather than pointing out problems that are probably going to kill the game... great idea Did I say that I dislike the gamer that it's not for me? It sounds like you have some type of unhealthy emotional attachment to the game and feel hurt that I am giving constructive criticism...
@@dartlinfps ok good if u dont hate the game, im just fed up with ppl who just complaining about the game and drive others opinions so that they also hate the game, pardon my dumb comment.. im just click-baited by ur vid thumbnail and didnt fully watch ur vid somehow.. i apologize for real
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If I was confident that my bullets were actually connecting with the target, a lot of the other annoying stuff in the game wouldn't bother me as much. Wondering where my bullets went when I'm clearly on target is infuriating.
same, by far the most annoying part, im experimenting with controller right now and it's a night and day difference, kinda sucks though I notice the hitreg less on controller but the getting shot around corners is just as common
THIS! all the other crap wouldn't be so bad if the player you shoot actually took damage and died. It's easy to build a strategy when the core game works as expected. Ubisoft will be why this game fails. Pride before the fall (and greed)
Can't tell you how many times I've ran out round a corner, saw people aiming at me down a lane, then I instantly flick 180 and slide back into cover and still get hits registering once I'm 10ft behind said cover.
I'm talking about a movement that takes me less than a quarter second to do, and I still end up magically at half health when I shouldn't have been hit at all. Nicked at most.
It seems like it's that happening or you come around the corner and see multiple, try to reposition, go around another corner and a spiderbot jumps on you followed by a flash grenade lol
Well of course I hit you. You were out of position.
thats ping
Man continue your videos I really like your tone and your takes on the game.
Thank you for watching!
Can't believe the spider bot is still in the game, what a terrible idea
It honestly feels like it breaks a players flow state and is so jarring it is unfun to go against lol
It's got too few counters and combined with flashbangs or the prox mines that also print for the dedsec faction it's just insanely annoying (also prox mines stay after the person who drops them dies)
@@dartlinfps Very true and if it was a scorestreak/killstreak you earned it would be more forgivable but its just a free kill on a timer like you mentioned.
@@dartlinfps u can not lay down more than three, the others will explode. I am spidergirl main, trust me I tried :)
@@MonoGrindedman its not more op like every other abbility of other fractions. Firebomb or drone can even be a free multikill... the spiderbot can be destroyed by simple look on the ground wgile shooting. Can be destroyed by your mates can be hacked, emp granade, or you simple bait with it and place a mine. So many counters to it, and no im not a dedsec player i mostly play cleaners, because its fun to to shoot phantoms with the m44, they are the only fraction who can survive the bodyshot of the m44 but they will die a 2 seconds later because of the fireammo and i love it😂
I think they just executed it poorly. Black Ops 4 had basically the same thing with Tempest, but you had a quick time event (pressing x) to destroy it if you weren’t able to shoot it when it was chasing you. In this game it’ll attach to your face, but you have to look at the ground to destroy it?!? Like who designed this lol
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Ridiculous matchmaking that puts you against sweaty full parties
I think thats part of the playerbase getting smaller and smaller for sure, I'm noticing I can find lobbies faster on controller, I wish I enjoyed playing on controller more tbh but some guns just feel way more satisfying for me to use on keyboard and mouse
Word fuck x defiant 🗑️ 👎
The matchmaking is the good thing about this game.... 🤷♂️ the player base needs to grow
My only 2 games i played on PC today made me quit again, players in my room had a ping range between 50 - 130(1 player ) on my team alone, cant tell what my ping is because its blanked out.
The hit regs to me seem worse when i am using a whole clip and they kill me in 10 bullets still, i am struggling the even get a positive game.
My game settings are simple, 3200dpi gaming mouse(turned down in game but up on mouse) with mechanical keyboard.
I cant strafe or jump and shoot with mouse and keyboard because i dont have macro's(wont use), this week alone i have only played 3 times since wednesday.
Flash is well over powered at the moment and needs to be softened.
Also it now takes longer to get into a game(dependant on mode) where you almost have enough time to go make a coffee, then you find yourself in a game that started 2 minutes before you joined and already your behind the rest or in a game where the team your on is a squad and your the only single player and guess who does all the dying...Not them.
I really want to play the game and enjoy it and i keep trying after each update but it still feels terrible to me on PC.
I'm noticing alot more variation in ping between players and the blanked out ping has been going on for weeks I almost think it's intentional, honestly, I think the ping indicator in general is not accurate... you have to turn your ping indicator on in your options, it seems like you can't check from your scoreboard unless you ask a teammate lol...I saw somebody else say that when they feel like a particular match has janky connection they just leave and find another one, I honestly have been doing that for weeks now bc the connection issues are the same reason I had issues with cod and sbmm not prioritizing connection despite having a huge playerbase (xdefiant prioritizes connection, but the playerbase is a good amount less than it was even 3 weeks ago, I think keyboard and mouse players are feeling it more than the controller portion of the playerbase) I notice the matches taking longer and longer to find I am currently trying to level my sniper up to get mastery camos but don't want to ruin other ppls matches in objective modes sniping and even TDM is starting to take me a decent amount of queue time
This game is fun at its core, but I think you hit the nail on the coffin mentioning how all the small things pile up. The netcode is where I draw the line, I can have fun with this game, but after about the 10th-15th shotgun shot that does zero damage yet still gives me a hit marker….. yeah idk, some days I brush it off and other days that shit makes me wanna uninstall. The worst part is that Mark Rubin was advocating that the game wouldn’t have any netcode issues on launch that players experienced in betas. Only for the net code to feel the same/ untouched on launch. There is still hope, but they really gotta get their shit together.
I'm really hoping they pull things together this upcoming season with the netcode, I think it is make it or break it at this point when it comes to the long term health of things
I really love the game but am not sure they will be able to keep the pace up fast enough to please Ubisoft but I think if they can we will have a game with a lot of content come a few seasons from now
@@dartlinfps big fax, I think Ubisoft expected/ demands more player retention or something, cause the fact that they’re already talking about ending support is just absurd. It’s like they expect every game they publish to be GOTY or something. I think some more progression systems being implemented would help tremendously. Some more camos, prestige, faction skins. There’s a lot to be desired in that department currently.
As much as I don’t mind flashes,you are 100% right on the effect being too long. I’ve been spamming them all week because I got into a match where they were spamming them on me,and wow they are kinda stupid 😂 I think if they just toned down the effect like a second or so it would help a lot without ruining them. Plus the warning thing you mentioned would help, I don’t get why we have it for every other grenade and not flashes.
I avoid using them bc I don't want to encourage others using them LOL they are really "wake up in the respawn screen grenades"
MnK players tend to be PC players who also have like 400 games a piece, so like I'm not just gonna play xdefiant. A lot of the time, the wonkiness with gunplay seems to come to a lack of player skill that CoD's SBMM had been hiding for years. Either your out of position or you simply can't hit your target. I can feel the difference in my performance from when I'm playing while tired versus fresh. As someone who's always been pretty good at fps, all xdefiant is doing is showing you the player you actually are versus the phantasy modern match making systems make you out to be.
There's a lot of problems with the game that have nothing to do with skill
@@dartlinfps That is true, but thats also CoD, Halo, Fortnite, Apex, WoW, AoE 2, Elden Ring, Tekken 8, Super Mario 64, etc. The game works, performs well, and rewards you for doing well. The last thing in that list, you can't get out of most modern fps.
It def does, I think the game plays a LOT better on controller tbh the more I play it on controller the more I see why it's satisfying to alot of ppl on controller, I still enjoy sniping on mnk but I'm starting to enjoy everything else on controller on xdefiant
@@dartlinfps I only use controller if I'm playing platformers or RPGs. Running the game at high framrates also tends to smooth out weirdness. I'm sitting cpu bound at 150fps on my 165hz screen.
Something I noticed last time I was playing I was getting placed in Virginia server but what’s strange is I’m closer to Texas than I am east coast but it’s putting me on the east coast server. Something also I find annoying is when you run into team that all running spider bots. One I can take but when the entire team does it you can literally get spider bot spam like every few seconds. I hate they increase ranks for mastery I am approaching 50 on my MP5 prior to the increase that would be bronze but nope I only halfway to bronze now. I still enjoy the game but only in small doses and at this rate I’m never getting gold camos on a gun ever.
I can only imagine the desink on M&K as I see it a LOT on controller, even getting hit markers and no damage given to a player, and you're right on the PCers playing controller.
I started playing controller and recently after about 20 hours or so in I can def tell the issues are still felt on here just not as much, there's also way faster matchmaking times on controller as well, I think the game honestly runs and feels better on controller, it feels "smoother" even though being at the same frame rate and everything (prob just bc controller analog stick input is easier to read than a raw mouse input)
As the day turns to noght the games get sweatier and sweatier... last night after the 5th game of the enemy team having 4 level 100+ players we said fk it.. dedsec, spider bots, flashbangs and extended mag aa12s. Lol.. good times.
Played 2 games of Delta Force alpha test & knew I would be done with Xdefiant for good when full game of Delta Force comes out. A different type of shooter someone will say but a FTP shooter with multiple game modes none the less. Need to get some more play time but yeah taking Mark's advice & going to play a better game 🤷🏾♂
Lol I didn't get to play the alpha but it looks nuts it looks way better than the black ops 6 leaks too
@@dartlinfps I think they are doing Twitch drops to get in the Alpha.
Thank you I am going to look into that
See the spiderbot doesnt make me rage because i can use them too, the hit detection/netcode does though
I agree the Hitreg is the worst part
FINALLY someone says something about flashbangs
AND mines
Hero shooters are lame and boring, that's why.
Haha. Kind of facts. I like how it isn't overblown in xdefiant but I think TF2 was THE hero/class shooter and when overwatch originally rolled around i kind of rolled my eyes
i dont know if its just me but my controllers vibration stops before i finish firing, making me think im empty lol i un-installed it this morning cause with all these bugs nothing fixed at all after 3 months lol this games cooked cause the finals is better and thats a dead game.
I turned vibration off on the controller but that reminds me of the bug with the gun shooting when you respawn...the finals is prob in a similar place in terms of player count on keyboard and mouse likely
@@dartlinfps facts and its sad i really wanted this to work and not to beat cod or anything, i just wanted another game cause some of these shooters go all over the place with controls and this was nice and simple, but when they first messed with the xp messed everything up. for me the xp was fine till they added all this leveling for for what nothing but what 6 skins cause after 50 no more attachments. i was fine at the start but after that its never been good and this nice they dev talk but at this point its just talk to me cause they just keep messing things up and don't get me start like everybody else with net-code and it might take years are they nuts and their triple a company no matter how big the team is they got the money lol 3 months nothing fixed. other games with more to do died for less.
Prox mines require a bit skill to place them effectively, they don’t need an adjustment
I think there needs to be a way to detect them rather than having to die to them unexpectedly, esp in objective modes where you might be a solo player with bad teammates and be expected to carry while you're against a full stack
I dont get it. I play the game and had a few complaints. All the complaints i am hearing isnt a bog deal to me. The hit detection in COD was worse back on PS3 era. Didn't play much COD on PS4. XD is a really good game
I think it is a really good game, with time and improvements it can be great
ADS sens on low sens scopes (ACOG) is way too fast on 1.00x multiplier and if you lower it down, then the 1X (no magnification) sens is too low. It really needs work on m&k.
I think they need to do something with support for the higher polling rate and dpi settings as well seeming to cause what I call "pixel skipping" it feels like the mouse input value is being rounded up rather than giving an exact value within the game engine or something
Played the game, felt it had the same issue as Call of Duty. I’ve played on KBM and Controller, I felt significantly better playing with controller than on KBM. Hit registration and constant high speed movement has turned me off for FPS shooter games. I’ve played COD for years but in the last 5-7 years I’ve stopped completely. The casual FPS shooter that I grew up playing is gone. These days it’s all about high speed, fast place, and millisecond key action.
It's crazy it comes down to milliseconds in recent fps meanwhile the servers can't handle everything going on lol
Im in new york. I almost never have matchmaking/finding issues. Mnk input based. I do think the pc players are alot lower also. Prob bc pc has so many games that people can play that they dont spend alot of time.
You're probably right, I also think kbam is less popular for call of duty style games I remember black ops 4 and blackout was hard to find matches on PC compared to on console back then before crossplay became a thing, I think a lot of controller players have input based turned on and have a way larger pool on xdefiant as well
(I started playing on controller again a day ago to try to test out the differences more and see the player pool etc) i usually get all keybaord and mouse players when on mouse myself even with input based off, with controller like that, I hardly ever see mouse unless it happens to be somebody in a party, and I rarely see the same names of players
Good point about consoles have far less fps games to choose from.
As of now I have grown a distaste for COD (played it since back when), and Battlefield is a joke. Mil Sims? Boring.
So I (will have to) stick with Xdefiant. If it can survive BO6 I am optimistic.
I think black ops 6 will only be an issue if XDefiant doesn't fix certain stuff, I think with the game being free to play there will never be a shortage of players especially on controller, its WAY more healthy on controller compared to keyboard and mouse, maybe once they bring keyboard and mouse support to console it'll boost that player pool a decent amount too
@@dartlinfps Agree. Besides no sbmm (which is mostly for COD OGs) the free to play is a very concrete advantage for casuals. A concern however is Ubisoft. If they go into panic mode when numbers are low around Christmas, they are fully capable of pulling the plug.
Spiderbot, netcode, garbage bhoppers who ain’t gonna know what to do when it’s nerfed again and can’t rely on it as a crutch.
There's tons of ppl using macros to jump strafe so they just hit 1 button and have their controller or keyboard macro set to hit left and right while midair (I see it more on controller) but it's obvious when they do the same jump strafe every encounter
Some ppl are legit doing it but there's actually a good amount of cheaters using Cronus and other junk
I'm from MN and when I'm searching for a game is searches in central bit every single game ques in east...literally every single game. I love this game and I'll continue to play every day...but the list of things wrong or annoying is too long to type out...but movement isn't one of them. I don't have a problem with crouch and jump spamming...it just looks dumb.
Connection is by far the biggest problem I was thinking that it was only something I was seeing because I was playing on keyboard and mouse with input based on, but after playing all day yesterday on controller as well as today, I am getting put into us central more and occasionally us east so it's definitely a matter of there being a smaller player base, it's definitely a lot smaller on keyboard and mouse though compared to controller I noticed I was seeing the same names a lot more frequently (lobbys disband and also some matches I back out if the connection doesn't feel good I noticed today an issue where I was stuttering while trying to mantle over objects and then started to notice matches where that would happen I might as well leave because im going to be seen by enemies alot before or after they c me, I died to somebody who was facing the opposite direction a few times)
@dartlinfps you would be correct. Whenever you get into a gun fight it would be nice if both players were having the same fight...instead. one is in the past and one is in the future.
Hitreg and netcode is worse after the update
Prox mines have an indicator my guy, all you gotta do is crouch.
When they are placed on a ledge that you mantle up to you can't just slide right after you mantle up... There's a reason why they put them in those locations...MY GUY!!!!! THEY ARE BASICALLY A FREE KILL FOR THE PERSON WHO PLANTS THEM IN A SMART SPOT AND THEN I HAVE TO PLAY BASICALLY ON DEFENSE BECAUSE THEY HAVE THEIR LITTLE RAT TRAPS THAT DON'T HAVE ANY INDICATOR UNTIL IT'S BASICALLY TOO LATE IF THE PERSON IS PLAYING SMART WATCHING THE SPOT ETC...ITS A CAMPER TOOL
You talk about it as if I can see them through walls like I have engineer on call of duty MY GUY
It's ok to admit they are free kills for bad players just like spiderbot
MY GUY
@@dartlinfps ahh, I was on the fence if you were strictly referring to mines on a ledge in the video or not, I couldn’t tell. My b I guess, take a chill pill.
I had to switch to controller because MnK felt so bad, it feels like you aren't walking, you feel like yer floating. Using the WASD keys along with the mouse also feels like a game of "tug of war". I had a random comment on youtube that said "you sound like yer having the same issues I had, just get a controller", controllers are cringe, but the floating and movement nonsense went away. You are an excellent sniper, I can't even bring myself to snipe, it feels so bad on controller. I am not playing much either due to everything you said, as a result my skills have tanked across the board. I loved this game, now I kinda hate it, this was avoidable. Mark Rubin and Ubisoft fed us lip-service while releasing this horribly incomplete game to grab in desperate fashion what they could before Black Ops 6 releases. Even if Black Ops fails (it won't) GTA6 will annihilate XD, and the only people to blame for it are Ubisoft. The transparency is moot, the game is no better than beta, we were scammed!
Your videos, the tone, the overall commentary are great, keep this up bro! =)
thank you! I think the input on keyboard and mouse feels a bit floaty bc the inputs are a lot more sensitive than controller inputs so you are more likely to feel any system or network related delays, you feel the jitter when you jiggle peek a corner or strafe left and right real fast whereas on controller, the motion feels and looks more fluid
I think gta6 will put every other game on pause for majority of gamers period to be fair! I can't snipe very well on controller it's alot harder than on keyboard and mouse on xd I think, but smg is alot easier on controller in my experience, ar is a little tough to get used to, but controller feels like it is the native input for the game for sure with keyboard and mouse being an extra feature
@@dartlinfps yeah, I just jumped back into XD, game feels awful, in the beginning I was very hopeful, tolerant and optimistic, now I just don't understand the point in playing. Why would anyone want to invest time and money into this game? Now that I barely play, it is becoming a skill issue on-top of the game issues, so now is just a bowl of barf.
The lack of SBMM is no longer a factor, game feels like dirty ass. I will buy a Playstation for GTA6. I have an XBox Series X, but it isn't at my full-time address, and I am not pleased with Microsoft either! The abortion that was the Activision merger, killed it for me! I truly believe that GTA6 will save gaming for me. FPS games are all trash now. I will continue to watch your channel though, your gameplay is WAY better than the game, way more fun than playing!
Thank you lol, yea gta6 will be great I think it's going to be a work of art
@@dartlinfps lets hope so buddy! In other news, I changed back to MnK last night and managed to have fun again in XD! Seriously, honest lol!! Either I have changed in my tolerance levels or the MnK component has been improved! =)
Man sound like yall just complain alot about everything. If it's not perfect it's trash.
Yet cod has how many players? And they have how many problems? Man sbmm makes my wait times for games in cod ridiculous and usually I'm playing people from overseas due to finding players in my skill bracket. Then I have to sweat my ass of to go even or a little above. Meanwhile my connection is great, my lobbies are balanced I usually drop a 2 kd but often drop higher, I mean I'm having fun again playing an fps. But for some odd ass reason yall keep saying the game has too many issues.
Controller player I presume? Lol it's called constructive criticism, you don't have to be personally hurt by somebody trying to contribute to improving the game...
I play against people overseas on Call of Duty a lot this video isn't even about Call of Duty I don't see what the big fixation is on CALL OF DUTY amongst the XDefiant fanboys it's like a cult of jealous exes or something more mad at their ex than they actually love their new relationship
if the community was more open and didn't try to randomly attack people like a bunch of childish man babies, things would be a lot better rather than this stupid little tribalist cult that seems to be going on, and it's all people under a certain age playing on a certain input device from what I see to be honest
@@dartlinfps yup I play on console. The issue is not being a fan boy but rather looking at the issues people complain about that don't seem to effect other games. The fire t comparison would be cod as it's another arcade shooter.
Ive played cod for years and it was an excellent game before. They made a ton of smart choices and it showed. However recently it's been a giant mess. I've had more issues on cod than any other game besides maybe destiny. The problem is people have a cult following for cod so it's issues pop up they just keep playing. Where as for some odd reason xdefiant with minimal issues gwta dogged on. It's just strange like all you see is the issue with xdefiant is, followed by a ton of skill issues complaints. I don't spam crouch or jump and slide a lot but I'm doing just fine. I have minimal time to play as well so hoping on to a game for some casual fun is ideal. But everyone seems to complain about something. Like spider bots I get but come on most of the other issues I just don't see at all. Giving the game a critique is fine, commenting on content makes sense. But the abilities being free kills? Dude its barely an issue, the jump spam was annoying but it just took getting use to now you can plan for it. It just feels like the complaints about this game are just whinny not real critiques. If your net code on yoir side looks bad I can't address that but mines runs fine so I just don't see the issues.
Good point but I don't hold XDefiant any lower than cod when I scrutinized it, I personally want to see XDefiant in a healthier spot as a game, i will hold call of duty to the same standard given both games operate within a billion dollar industry and earn billions
@@dartlinfps I've had the same problem in MW2 on PC. When youre up there in skill those wait times are ridiculous. I eventually stopped playing since you couldnt play anything but the meta or get wiped out.
I have it on cod mp and warzone where I play against super high ping players bc the lobby has to stretch out the matchmaking parameters and it ruins the connection
Why i slowed down playing Xdefiant is because the abillities are obnoxious! If i start a game and in the first minute i got 3 deaths because off the spiderbot and than 2 deaths more because off a bouncing betty, i am out!!! Why i also sometimes leave is that i get always the worst teammates, i am going 35 on 10 and the rest off my team going 5-21!!! And there are days that i lose all off my gunfights, everybody i shoot dont die!! The spiderbot needs to get out off the game, also the bouncing betty!! Flashbang is very OP, your stunt and blind the effect is way to long!! I am getting slowly more annoyed in this game, there is nothing to do than leveling your gun!! Listen!! I realy tried to play this game, i am almost level 130 so i am not somebody who plays 1 hour and says its sucks!!
I agree a lot of stuff is just random feeling and annoying where it feels like there was no way to predict it happening
Do you hold breath when you scope?
it depends, if it is a really fast quickscope, no, but if I am adjusting the aim and somebody is moving around, I will hold breath to make the aim more stable, the longer you are ads, the more I think it makes a difference as well as the distance of the enemy (even though the game is hitscan), I think it might help to hold breath after jumping (I haven't tested, but it could reduce the aim sway after hitting the ground)
@@dartlinfps yeah just asking cos if you play auto sprint off, sprint bind is the same as hold breath, so if your holding down sprint button running, it instant holds breath when you scope,I just wondered if people are using that, im new to the game
@@dartlinfps Im usually a pretty good sniper in games, do you think its worth maxing out the sniper?
I think it is worth getting to the level where you unlock the lightweight barrel for 15% ads speed which can be real useful imo bc it doesn't make the gun more shots to kill, mines like lvl 60 something I'm going to get it to lvl 400 eventually prob just playing tdm and going on high streaks during a 2xp wknd with an XP token stacked for the 4x weapon xp
I usually wouldn't use auto tac sprint but the amount of peekers advantage you get currently on xdefiant is insane so I like to always sprint because I can jump around corners easier and faster as well as the audio not being much diff between sprint and non sprint/being inconsistent I don't really worry about not sprinting, if I do need to slow down I can crouch walk or ads walk
@@dartlinfps yeah, i was just constantly holding sprint (side mouse button), and auto holding breath , for no extra effort.....yeah the ADS is really slow, I was a sniper main in the finals so used to quick ads.. i started 2 days ago, my smg is bout level 25... the only reason I was intrigued with snipers in this game, is cos im seeing people get like 40 plus kills with it , when i feel its quite bad compared to other games...dis one of them a one hit kill
? is that the one worth using?
FLASHBANGS && PROXIMITY MINES ARE SO ANNOYING💔💔
The flashbangs are crazy honestly lol whoever tuned them the way that they are right now def didn't play against them enough
Then to make matters worse and add insult to injury or dislike for flashbangs, they went ahead and gave a faction a d@mn shield that protects them from enemy fire while being able to flash you and blind you to even being able to fight back. Like I've been saying from the beginning.... too many abilities and gadgets in this stupid azz game that are cheesy and have no legit counter.
The mines are over powered. But the flash bangs are good.
Come over to The Finals
I gotta go ahead and give it a try
@@dartlinfpsindeed you do. It’s a blast
If you are quitting mid game YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM! Quit whining like a little girl when the match or the hit reg doesn't go your way.
If the connection is bad why would I stay in a match?
@dartlinfps nobody was talking about connection you were complaining about hit reg
Connection to the game server and the enemy's connection to the server are DIRECTLY tied to hitreg
Still better than cod
In your dreams
@@acev3521 to be clear I think is a better multiplayer than the last 5 years of cod by a mile (og cod was the goat cod4-bo2)
I think this is a better multiplayer than most recent cods in years but there's an argument to be had that Battle Royale is such a good mainstream fps genre that it took the majority of players away from normal multiplayer fps, the same reasons why search and destroy as well as counter strike, valorant, and more are so popular... the high stakes and the "single life mode" despite things like rebirth being popular and possibly THE most popular mode on warzone in general
any game that prioritizes controller over kbm deserves to die, halo infinite and now xdefiant, skill ceiling needs to be set high or else whats the point of playing
issue with the game you feel it 10x more on kbm so if a game is bad the kbm players will let you know first, but since everyone has his head up his ass on roller vs kbm
i get zero satisfaction from getting kills on controller
I totally agree I also think it's the reason why everybody who is super defensive about constructive criticism on this game is super defensive bc most roller players never played kbam but a lot of kbam players have experience on controller and just don't enjoy it
I was playing last night on controller and I'm not as good at long range but I'm definitely better close range on controller and it's funny because it felt like I was watching the game moreso than playing it
This game sucks 😂 your videos are good!
Lmao thank you
Bro if u find the game is not good for u, just get off and play CoD🙏
Good logic, just stop playing the game rather than pointing out problems that are probably going to kill the game... great idea
Did I say that I dislike the gamer that it's not for me? It sounds like you have some type of unhealthy emotional attachment to the game and feel hurt that I am giving constructive criticism...
@@dartlinfps ok good if u dont hate the game, im just fed up with ppl who just complaining about the game and drive others opinions so that they also hate the game, pardon my dumb comment.. im just click-baited by ur vid thumbnail and didnt fully watch ur vid somehow.. i apologize for real
No worries, I personally have no plans of quitting the game, the thumbnail is kinda rage bait lol
Thanks for your channel i will you, because we really like the game and the concept.. ❤️🩹
Thank you, I enjoy the game as well