While we haven’t heard from Ubisoft regarding XDefiant for quite some time now, a recent rumor mentioned that the delays were caused by Ubisoft execs forcing the game to be more like Call of Duty and for the dev team to add more features.

This “report” has been debunked by XDefiant Executive Producer Mark Rubin, who went on Twitter to state that the delays have nothing to do with new features, and instead is all about the tech issues.

Just FYI, nothing about our delay is due to any new features. In fact not much has changed from a gameplay standpoint. The delay has been due to the tech issues we've talked about. Whoever said chasing CoD in Tom's report was major eyeroll. 😀

— Mark Rubin (@PixelsofMark) March 23, 2024

In addition to that, it seems we should be getting some official news regarding the shooter this coming week! Rubin has made this announcement just now, and even confirmed that the delays are due to major technical issues, and not just the dev team trying to fix every last bug in the game.

For readability, we’ve compiled Rubin’s tweet chain below.

We have an update coming soon. (probably this coming week) I know we've been silent because to be honest there isn't much to talk about. I know people just want to see the game ship and so do we.

— Mark Rubin (@PixelsofMark) March 23, 2024

“We have an update coming soon. (probably this coming week) I know we’ve been silent because to be honest there isn’t much to talk about. I know people just want to see the game ship and so do we.

I can’t wait to ship just so we don’t have to talk about ship dates anymore and we can talk about more important stuff like gameplay balancing or new content/modes/maps, etc.

Just to be clear we are not just sitting around with the game fixing every last little bug. Nobody launches perfect bug-free games. We do our best but it’s just not realistic to think that. We had major technical issues that we found right before we launched that had to be fixed.

And that’s what the team has been working on. And they are not just minor bug fixes but major infrastructure and full system overhauls. The game remains the same that you played already which we have strived to make as fun as possible which we feel confident about.

So aside from questions about launch which I can’t talk about, I’m happy to chat about most anything else related to the game.

For instance, I can confirm that no push has been made to put SBMM into the game. Our Unranked playlists will still have no SBMM and you will get the variety of gameplay that you see when there isn’t SBMM.”

In other XDefiant news, a recent datamine seems to have unearthed what Season 1 of the free-to-play shooter will bring to gamers. Not only that, but we also ran an opinion piece on why we think XDefiant’s delay is doing more than what Ubisoft thinks.