{"id":80812,"date":"2024-06-18T16:51:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T16:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/18\/xdefiant-devs-talk-bunny-hopping-balance-and-making-good-maps\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T16:51:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T16:51:40","slug":"xdefiant-devs-talk-bunny-hopping-balance-and-making-good-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/18\/xdefiant-devs-talk-bunny-hopping-balance-and-making-good-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"XDefiant Devs Talk Bunny Hopping, Balance, And Making Good Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"


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As the dust settled on a hectic (and messy) launch, I got the chance to talk with FPS XDefiant<\/em><\/a><\/span>\u2019s executive producer Mark Rubin, and creative director Safy Saada, about the free-to-play Call of Duty<\/em>-like\u2019s first few weeks, how the Ubisoft team balances the game, all-important bunny hopping, creating good maps, and the future for the live-service game.<\/p>\n

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Ubisoft\u2019s XDefiant<\/em><\/a><\/span> <\/em>launched last month<\/a><\/span> to mostly positive reviews and large player numbers. Since then, the game has received a handful of updates as the live-service journey begins and XDefiant<\/em><\/a><\/span> <\/em>evolves and changes over the coming months and years. <\/p>\n

\u201cLaunch has been great,\u201d said Rubin. \u201cWe\u2019re extremely happy with our player numbers. It\u2019s gone far beyond what we expected.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rubin explained to Kotaku <\/em>that Ubisoft had tried to keep the game \u201cpretty lowkey\u201d and \u201cgrassroots.\u201d The idea was to build a game and a dedicated community of players at the same time. However, the massive influx of new players and eyeballs since launch isn\u2019t a bad thing. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis tells us that gamers are genuinely interested in what we\u2019re doing and are enjoying the fun gameplay that we\u2019ve created,\u201d explained Rubin. <\/p>\n

How Ubisoft plans to fix and balance XDefiant<\/em><\/h2>\n

However, while a lot of people have hopped into Ubisoft\u2019s new F2P shooter, there have been some complaints from players about hit registration issues and desyncing problems. Basically, players are sharing clips of being killed behind a wall because on the other player\u2019s screen they hadn\u2019t made it to safety yet. Or they\u2019re sharing videos of players being shot, but not taking damage as you would expect.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had a great launch so far, but it has come with some issues. We own that and we\u2019re not trying to hide from it,\u201d said Rubin. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first FPS powered by the Snowdrop engine. So with that comes a lot of work to reconfigure the engine. And we\u2019re finding new things all the time. There are growing pains, but in a good way for this team.\u201d <\/p>\n

Rubin further added that as a \u201clive game\u201d the real work is just beginning and they \u201cabsolutely\u201d will continue to fix, tune, and improve \u201cevery part\u201d of XDefiant<\/em>.<\/p>\n