After the XDefiant Server Test last weekend, some might be hoping we’ll be getting a release date announcement after it. While that hasn’t happened, it seems that’ll be changing soon, as Executive Producer Mark Rubin confirmed that the XDefiant release date is coming “very soon.”
This announcement was made over on Twitter/X, where Rubin also shared that the test went “really good” and the studio also listed the three main things they learned from it.
— Mark Rubin (@PixelsofMark) April 26, 2024
Let me give the key takeaway(s) from this last post. The Server Test Session went really well from a scale and server standpoint. We have some tuning to do. Pretty straight forward stuff that will be done very soon if not done already. And lastly release date coming very soon!
— Mark Rubin (@PixelsofMark) April 26, 2024
Just for reference, the three main issues the studio has learned from it include:
- Delta-1 errors. These may be one of the issues that was causing extra latency issues (i.e. getting shot around corners). So, this fix should improve the experience but by how much is to be determined.
- Health Bars (both over the player headers and in death cam) were updating later than actual damage giving the impression that your bullets weren’t doing damage.
- And lastly, we were not aggressive enough with our matchmaking when trying to find matches so people had higher pings than we would have wanted. This was partially fixed during the test so the last day of the test should have been better than previous days.
I have to admit, aside from the missing factions, the test went pretty well, I think. Of course, it was far from perfect, and we even discussed some of the issues we had with it after playing it for a few hours.
The main takeaway I have here is: the XDefiant release announcement seems to be around the corner, and I suspect the release announcement and actual launch will be close together. Hopefully, we’ll hear more about it this coming week.