If you’ve been keeping tabs of XDefiant, played the beta or have read about the game online, chances are, you’ve seen or heard people mention its similarities to Call of Duty. Not only that, but some have even tagged the game as a “Call of Duty killer.
If you’re not a fan of that idea, it seems this is something the game’s Executive Producer, Mark Rubin, isn’t warm about, either.
Me too.
— Mark Rubin (@PixelsofMark) June 23, 2023
For reference, Rubin was also the Executive Producer of the Call of Duty franchise.
While the game’s devs might not want XDefiant to be branded as a Call of Duty killer or whatnot, it seems that some kind of “streaks” (killstreak, scorestreak) rewards system will be part of the final version of XDefiant. This was confirmed by Rubin who also mentioned that they don’t want to implement a traditional streaks system like Call of Duty.
We don’t want to just put your typical CoD killstreaks in the game, but we are thinking outside the box for ways to reward and celebrate streaks. I thought the reactive camo idea from this thread was pretty cool.
— Mark Rubin (@PixelsofMark) June 24, 2023
As for “thinking outside the box” thing, your guess is as good as mine as to what it can be. Perhaps more XP gained for going on streaks? Hopefully, it’s something that will benefit the player in a match though won’t be too overpowered.
Finally, Rubin has also reached out to people on Twitter to ask about the XDefiant Prestige system, and whether players would want a traditional 10 levels of Prestige, or one that refreshes every season.
I saw some thoughts on Prestige from players. We have been aiming at a classic system that stops at say 10 but I’ve seen comments about adding more levels every season. Not reseting but just adding more. So what do you think?
— Mark Rubin (@PixelsofMark) June 24, 2023
Cast your vote if you want your voice to be heard about the game’s Prestige system.
While there’s no official release date for XDefiant outside of “summer,” the devs have shared the Year 1 roadmap and there seems to be a lot of stuff incoming to the game every month!