Ubisoft may expand on its “terrible” server experience on the XDefiant closed beta.
Executive producer Mark Rubin said on Twitter that Ubisoft would discuss the possibility of extending the closed beta, which ends on April 23.
Oh, and if all goes well and the servers finally achieve some stability I guess we should extend the beta but I’ll have to see what that means for the team.
— Mark Rubin (@PixelsofMark) April 15, 2023
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Ubisoft has released a raft of updates to the beta to improve the experience. My own time with the game on PlayStation 5 was beset by technical issues that forced restarts to get me a match. Ubisoft responded to the progression problems by unlocking everything for all players.
In another tweet, Rubin acknowledged that the server experience had been “terrible” and apologized.
“I know this is a beta and it’s good to get all these issues out of the way now rather than later, but I still really wanted everyone to just have a good time and I’m disappointed that we have so many issues.” All the issues,” Rubin said.
“Thank you so much for playing and being together!”
…they go through a different testing process than PCs and so we’ll have to wait for first parties (Sony, MS) to test them. But we know the server experience has been terrible (and I’m really sorry) so we wanted to get this patch out as quickly as possible, at least on PC. I hope…
— Mark Rubin (@PixelsofMark) April 15, 2023
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And finally, I know this is a beta and it’s good to have all these issues ironed out now and not later, but I still really wanted everyone to just have a good time and I am sad that we have so many issues. Problems. Thank you so much for playing and being around!
— Mark Rubin (@PixelsofMark) April 15, 2023
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Free-to-download 6v6 first-person shooter XDefiant pitches squarely at disgruntled Call of Duty multiplayer fans, and includes features that have left Activision’s games behind in recent years, such as the classic mini-map , map voting and maintaining the lobby between games.
Ian recently took the XDefiant for a spin, and you can see the results in the video below.