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I\u2019m having fun with XDefiant. There are caveats, but sometimes simplicity is best, something that Ubisoft seems to have grasped with the release of it\u2019s newest free-to-play FPS, which incomprehensibly pits nameless mooks from the developer\u2019s collection of franchises against each other in tense player vs player arena brawls that are fast-paced and just the right side of overwhelming.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As someone hurtling towards his mid-30s and desperately nostalgic for a time when I could play Call of Duty without having to remember which of this season\u2019s handful of new weapons I'm supposed to be using for a scant competitive advantage, XDefiant\u2019s compact initial offering is exciting. 24 weapons, split between a few different categories and unlocked by simple challenges like \u201ckill an enemy from far away\u201d and \u201chipfire your foes to death like the warrior you are\u201d feels just enticing enough to get my lizard brain invested, while weapon progression is slow enough that it actually makes sense.<\/p>\n

Players sick of having to dodge six killstreak rewards and some pleb with a sword every time they drop into a match will probably feel excited here too. Each faction has the choice between two different abilities and an ultra (think Overwatch\u2019s ultimate ability), but outside of this there\u2019s nothing that can shape a match in the same way as an AC-130. Ultra abilities charge slowly enough that you\u2019ll only see a couple a match, and they give you a tiny hero moment when you use them in the situation where they are strongest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With only five factions, you can feasibly learn all of their abilities and ultras just by seeing them in play. I haven\u2019t touched a tutorial and have barely read a tooltip, and it\u2019s easy to know that the faction full of lycra-clad ninjas are stealthy, while the guys in bastardised firefighters' gear are here to set me and everyone else I care about on fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thinking about it logically, the factions make no sense. Have you ever wanted to play as the resistance fighter that shows up in a car after you clear an outpost in Far Cry 6? No? That\u2019s okay, nor has anyone else. But the faction you choose determines the in-game announcer you get and is also a clear visual indicator of the sort of thing you\u2019re capable of. This makes fights a lot more readable. I still think the idea of some sort of FPS MultiVersus starring only the other<\/em> guys from Ubisoft\u2019s stable of games is silly, but the team working on XDefiant has managed to blend things in without it all being A Bit Too Much.<\/p>\n

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In fact, the only thing that\u2019s Too Much about XDefiant is its stupid name – a name so bad it deserves to be written on a big whiteboard in Ubisoft\u2019s office with \u201c???? NO'' written underneath. A name so terrible I\u2019m giving myself this one joke in the hope I'll be able to type it again without rolling my eyes, a gambit that has so far been unsuccessful.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“Have you ever wanted to play as the resistance fighter that shows up in a car after you clear an outpost in Far Cry 6? No? That\u2019s okay, nor has anyone else.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n

Otherwise, the game feels compact and nuisance free enough that it\u2019s a breath of fresh air. A sense of overwhelm\u2014a game drowning you in stuff to unlock, experience or beat\u2014feels increasingly ever-present in the live games space, but here things feel more like 2007\u2019s Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, where there\u2019s a few meaningful challenges to get stuck into, but the focus is otherwise rightly on shooting the bad guys. This is good news for Ubisoft, a company that has been trying to land a win with a free-to-play shooter seemingly forever, but also for us, the players. Right now the shooter market is crowded with AAA offerings that promise the moon but end up feeling like busywork.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the perfect antidote to the bloat we\u2019re seeing in other modern day shooters, and it\u2019s free to play. So there\u2019s no reason not to give it a go. However, as Morgan always says, it probably won\u2019t be that long until it\u2019s full of novelty skins or comedy kill effects that ruin the simplicity<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

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I\u2019m having fun with XDefiant. There are caveats, but sometimes simplicity is best, something that Ubisoft seems to have grasped with the release of it\u2019s newest free-to-play FPS, which incomprehensibly pits nameless mooks from the developer\u2019s collection of franchises against each other in tense player vs player arena brawls that are fast-paced and just the right side of overwhelming.\u00a0 As someone hurtling towards his mid-30s and desperately nostalgic for a time when I could play Call of Duty without having to remember which of this season\u2019s handful of new weapons I'm supposed to be using for a scant competitive advantage, XDefiant\u2019s compact initial offering is exciting. 24 weapons, split between a few different categories and unlocked by simple challenges like \u201ckill an enemy from far…<\/p>\n

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