Top 10 Quality of Life Features I Want in XDefiant!

So far, I've been loving my play time on XDefiant but I often find myself missing certain quality of life features that I think could go a long way to improve the overall player experience. Today, I wanted to share my top 10 non-gameplay features that I think could have the biggest positive impacts on the game. What are some QoL features that you'd really like to see in XDefiant?

0:00 Intro
0:30 Killcams
1:10 Party Indicators
2:37 Mercenary Moshpit
3:20 2XP Token Rework
5:06 Save Custom Setups
5:33 Private Match or Party Practice Zone
6:24 Persistent Lobbies
7:05 Ping Feature
7:41 Killfeed Improvements
8:45 Respawn Screen Improvements
9:55 Wrap Up

[DirtDude]

Being able to save custom guns would be awesome but also being able to REMOVE ATTACHMENTS without having to go into that attachment submenu. Just like clicking X on that catagory removing it.

[Severe-Serenity]

My biggest request was on your list; a Mercenary Playlist. I absolutely adored having this as an option back in the classic CoD days, and it's been greatly missed! Hopefully something like this can be introduced. It's already super nice that matchmaking tends to match parties together more often as is, but having a truly solo que only playlist is the dream! Thanks as always for the vids, Ace!

[Ralexxanderr]

The ‘Creating Match’ pop up needs to go for sure. Why does it have to freeze the entire screen? So frustrating if I’m in the middle of changing a loadout.

[DirtyFozzy]

Edit the HUD completely.
- Minimap size(red dots are tiny)
- Hitmarker indicator size( Gets in the way cause of how big it is)
- Kill/assist indicator size/ opacity

Basically stuff to get rid or improve visual clutter.

[BonafideBril]

Yes yes YES to a mercenary playlist! I would absolutely love to see this in xdefiant

[ALI.x]

Would be nice if the game doesn't freeze everytime it says "creating match"

[zodiac_blue]

Part indicators would be great. Totally agree on the reasons. Heck, it would even be nice just to know why the other team seemed so well organized.

[christianarroyo]

It's hard for me to say what I would want nongameplay wise, because I have a lot of suggestions gameplay wise lol. I guess I would like:

1. Menus to not be interrupted when a lobby is being created
2. Having loadouts be the second tab, next to Lobby
3. Being able to choose a map by just pressing a button instead of holding a button (don't see the point in holding the button)
4. Being able to switch your choice of maps instead of being locked into one choice (I guess maybe they did this too prevent trolling but still)
5. Being able to see advanced stat changes on attachments EVEN WHEN THEY'RE NOT attached to the gun (or even when they're not unlocked yet)

Also, Happy Father's Day Ace!

[ashleypate]

One big reason I left COD was disbanding lobbies. I hope Xdefiant fixes that soon so I can keep playing. Not having to play against parties would also keep me around. I suck at solo, so imagine how bad I am against a party that is making call outs and using strategies.

[sIayerz]

Love this, maybe the devs will actually notice this feedback I hope. I've tried tweeting and posting to reddit many times asking for a mercenary playlist. Also show parties in lobby like you said. Solo experience is rough in XD, especially if you have good stats. At least in cod a solo player can earn streaks to help them carry more. If they add a mercenary playlist my playtime would double immediately.

[Lazarop]

You basically listed everything that I was thinking. Only thing I would add that I think would help out new players is the ability to view the full map layout kinda how cod does it. This would help new players be able to see the layout of the map and view what routes they might want to take.

[LaneLaine]

I would like to test all of the attachments available, on any guns in the firing range, even if I havent got it yet. Because as of right now, you can only test with the attachments you have unlocked.. I would like to try differents attachments, so If there is one I like, i can work towards unlocking it..

[LeeSCM]

I love that you covered the big stuff, but I would love to talk about the small stuff too (can come waay later). Would appreciate them giving us the ability in settings (or via create a class) to have different colored dots for the sights, and be able to custom color the enemies, hit markers, etc.! That would be nice!

[maxeliotttovar]

One useful thing to have is that the game being "smart" enough to know that if you have a completed battle pass there is no need turn on 2xp tokens, if you're on that screen trying to enable a 2xp weapon token and the "Creating Match" banner appears, once you get again the cursor is set on the BP tokens and you risk wasting one since you need to be quick at that moment. (Happened to me twice)

[JRB]

As a game Dev myself some of the things you are asking for are not easy to implement so it will prob take some time other things would be fairly easy to do. Net code for me would be definitely #1 then kill cams would be #2 then prob a way to host a game for friends would be #3. As I am also working on a Multiplayer FPS I love to play XDefient, This game along with being a long time COD player have given me the tools I need to make a Good FPS, hopefully by then end of the year I should have it playable online. Keep up the good work Ace I'm glad you are covering both this and COD and I'm hoping this game is still going strong after BO6 as I have my doutes about it really changing to much but still have my fingers crossed.

[kasper_]

Another QoL or accessibility feature that I would like to see would be a customizable HUD. Like being able to move certain elements around or make them bigger/different, change the color of the text, etc. I would love to be able to move the kill feed to the bottom left, because that's just where I'm used to it being because of CoD and literally every other FPS game that I've played in recent memory. I would also love to be able to increase the mini-map size just a bit and change it to a square instead of a circle so that it would show more stuff and more areas of the map.

[mmMartinluu]

Reducing visual clutter would be great. Reducing the size of icons, moving the kill and assist notifications, and an option to remove name tags would help clear the screen a lot.

[Cheechers]

Congrats on the baby Ace! Hope everyone is doing well!

[aarlavaan]

on the topic of getting more info after dying, I noticed that when you respawn, you get red indicators on your screen for each player that damaged you, pointing to where they are. they don't stay very long, but can kind of give you a sense of how many people shot you.

[andyw]

Custom Reticle colors too, but also confirmed they are coming.