![]() “We’re looking forward to our players getting really excited about the content we’re going to deliver at preseason,” Saada says. Then it will be on to Year 1 and a regular cadence of new content, including four new factions (each with its own unique characters and skills), 12 new weapons, and 12 new maps. The full launch of XDefiant is coming later this summer, when the competition will kick off in earnest with a six-week preseason featuring the full slate of launch content, including 14 maps, five factions, 24 weapons, and more. With the emphases of this being ‘open’, we want to put our servers to the test and get a read on its stability at a large scale in order to be ready by launch.” “With that, the goal of this Open Session is to validate some of those key improvements we’ve made (mainly a new netcode and better input lag). “We’re committed to improving the game based on player feedback,” continued Saada. “We received a lot of great feedback from our players after the end of our Closed Beta,” says creative director Safy Saada, “and for the Open Session, we’ll likely see some new faction balancing (particularly for Libertad) based on player feedback, as well as weapon balancing based on data we’ve collected from the Closed Beta.” Over one million players played in the Closed Beta, which was integral in helping the team test myriad aspects of the game and gather feedback. Anyone who participated in the Closed Beta in April can log in a day early to participate in a special Early Access phase of the Open Session starting on June 20. Announced at Ubisoft Forward, XDefiant will be running an Open Session for all players on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S from June 21-23 sign up by going to. A Ubisoft rep told me that as of this writing, XDefiant will only be on PC via the Ubisoft Connect store.XDefiant will launch later this summer, but players won’t have to wait that long to play a few more rounds of the free-to-play PVP shooter. When it does release, XDefiant is coming to both PC and consoles with crossplay support "expected" on day one. Sign up at XDefiant's official site for a chance to play the PC-exclusive test build starting Aug 5. Ubisoft isn't ready to say when XDefiant is releasing widely, but the first playable test will kick off in just a few weeks. This is likely an intentional move to avoid confusion with what are two very different types of FPS, though this is the closest that Ubisoft has come to competing with itself in a while. Despite Rainbow Six Siege's expansive pool of 60 operators and gadgets, the XDefiant reveal makes no mention of it at all. You might have noticed one obvious Clancy faction curiously missing from XDefiant's roster: Rainbow Six. ![]() It's unclear exactly how flexible these loadouts will be, but Ubi said each class will have several abilities to choose from. Given that everyone appears to share similar health pools and gun options, the setup seems closer to Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 and 4's operators, who could occasionally pull out a super weapon. ![]() So it's not quite a hero shooter, but Ubi does plan to expand its roster with more factions (including more Tom Clancy crossovers and "beyond").
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