Following on from the latest announcement that XDefiant servers could be closing down in June 2025, Ubisoft launched one closing huge content material patch for the sport yesterday. The patch not solely incorporates all Season 3 content material however, in what could also be a world-first for a live-service recreation, it additionally incorporates all future content material that they had already developed. That consists of 13 new maps, three new factions, and all future-planned skins for the sport, a few of which do not even appear to have been totally completed earlier than being chucked onto the XDefiant funeral pyre.
Perusing the sport’s menus, X person Nick “ProReborn” made some attention-grabbing discoveries about what was added. The new Assassin’s faction options three characters who, surprisingly, aren’t from any of the sequence’ video games (why no Ezio?). The new Wolves staff is from Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, that includes such enjoyable skins as Gold Syn, Frostbite, and uhhh, “TEMPORARY—Sidney—80s Aerobic—identify.” The Omega Force staff, representing Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, in the meantime, solely has one character in it: The Mullet Man (nope, by no means heard of him).Â
The final #XDefiant replace is so miserable. The music is somber, and the complete recreation is unlocked. Several seasons of content material & characters that have been forward are within the recreation, with virtually a dozen maps that have been prepared upfront to return quickly as properly. Ubisoft is fucked pic.twitter.com/oST4JI62SHDecember 19, 2024
Some of the brand new maps look lovely too, corresponding to Killstar Temple, which appears like one thing out of Unreal Tournament, or its polar reverse: the colourful and shroomy-looking Enchanted Forest. Ubisoft held again some actually good things on XDefiant gamers, who’ve been saying on Reddit and YouTube that with this replace it looks like a model new recreation.
It’s all a bit weird. On the one hand, it is very cool for loyal followers of the outgoing shooter to get one in all largest content material updates in a live-service recreation ever, and the truth that there are characters and skins with out correct labelling means that perhaps devs simply threw in-progress stuff on there that may in any other case not have seen the sunshine of day. On the opposite hand, for a recreation that was criticised for an absence of content material, it is irritating to see how a lot nice stuff was simply sitting there on the backburner.
