Following on the studio’s promise, we have some fresh and official XDefiant news today! While we still don’t have a release date for the upcoming free-to-play shooter, the studio did announce that XDefiant will be getting a 12-hour server test on consoles and PC.
This announcement was made by the official XDefiant Twitter/X account:
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— XDefiant (@PlayXDefiant) March 29, 2024
“Defiants,
First and foremost, thank you for your continued support for XDefiant. We are proud to have such a passionate community, and we thank you for your participation in our test phases, including our Insider Sessions.
This game has always been community-first, with player feedback as a top priority. While we hoped to go live by the end of March, there are still some improvements that we need to test before that.
We’re finishing preparation for a 12-hour Server Test Session that will be worldwide on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. The goal of this test is to stress our servers and get critical data to prepare us for launch. This is where we need your help to test our servers as much as possible! As always, feedback on your experience is important to us.
After this short test, we expect to be able to lock a launch date and start sharing more about the exciting content XDefiant has to offer in the future!
Thank you again for standing by us. We will be back once we are ready to share more news.
– XDefiant Development Team”
As you can see from the message, a release date should be announced after the test has concluded, which means the game’s release is not that far off (for real this time!). This means that the technical hurdles the studio has encountered (explained here) seems to be something they managed to finally solve.
Once we have a firm release date for the test, we’ll let our readers know.
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