XDefiant PS5 Frame Rate Issues, Ability Locked Getting Patched Soon; Spiderbot Counter Reversal Explained
Those playing XDefiant on PS5, chances are you’ve encountered — and are currently suffering from — frame rate issues that basically render the game unplayable since the Season 1 patch dropped. While another update was released yesterday, it seems this wasn’t the emergency patch that would resolve the XDefiant PS5 frame rate issues.
Over on Twitter/X, XDefiant Executive Producer Mark Rubin confirmed that a fix is indeed in the works, and it will be released in a few days’ time:
Fix incoming in an emergency patch. But still takes a day or two and a holiday this week doesn’t help
— Mark Rubin (@PixelsofMark) July 3, 2024
Sadly, the patch released yesterday ironed out other issues and this wasn’t one of them. Another acknowledged bug is the one where faction abilities can’t be reused even after cooldowns, with players seeing them greyed out. Based on reports, it seems to happen with the Libertad faction’s BioVida ability, and the Echelon’s wall ping, and is affecting players on all platforms and not just the PS5. Rubin acknowledged this bug as well, though didn’t give a timeline on the fix.
It’s a bug we are working on.
— Mark Rubin (@PixelsofMark) July 4, 2024
Another thing that got busted with the Season 1 patch is the DedSec’s spiderbot ability or more specifically, on countering it. In case you didn’t know, a proper counter to it once it latched on to your character’s face is to shoot the ground, which will eliminate the spiderbot quickly, and without taking away too much health. Well, you can’t do that now. It seems shooting the floor once the spiderbot latched on was a bug, which the devs decided to keep since it’s a valid strategy. Rubin went on Twitter to explain in detail what happened to the counter, and how he confirmed they will be reimplementing it again via another update.
OK now that we’ve gotten through the patch and Ranked is now live, I want to talk about the Spiderbots.
So when the game launched there was a bug that you could shoot down at your feet and destroy the spiderbot. This was not intended. However, there was also a bug in that…
— Mark Rubin (@PixelsofMark) July 3, 2024
OK now that we’ve gotten through the patch and Ranked is now live, I want to talk about the Spiderbots.
So when the game launched there was a bug that you could shoot down at your feet and destroy the spiderbot. This was not intended. However, there was also a bug in that meleeing them was way harder than it was supposed to be. So we wanted to keep the bug of shooting them off your own face in the game until we fixed other spiderbot issues.
However, the bug fix got integrated into the Season 1 patch and so an important counter was removed unintentionally. We are reverting that fix in the next non-emergency patch. So you will again be able to shoot them off your own face by shooting at your feet. The other changes to spiderbot will remain. i.e. longer cooldown, etc.
For the future, we are going to change the way spiderbot works so that there is a easier and clearer way to get them off you own face. But until then the bug where you can shoot them off your own face will remain.
And we will continue to find other ways to balance all of the abilities over time.
As someone who plays XDefiant on the PS5, this fix can’t come soon enough! I have stopped playing the game since it’s infuriating playing an online shooter where everything slows down and just makes the experience intolerable. Add in the spiderbot not having a viable way to counter on your own, and well, you can see how the game is not in a good place right now.
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