Ability Balancing, More Sniper Flinch, New Content, & More! (XDefiant Season 1)

Season 1 of XDefiant is now live and with it, we saw a good handful of changes as well as some new content so in today's video, I wanted to go through all of the changes and at least briefly outline the new faction and weapons that came with the season. What are your thoughts on Season 1 and the changes that came with it so far?

0:00 Intro
0:47 Huge Double XP Booster Buff
1:10 Faster Battle Pass Progression
1:19 More Match XP Tuning
2:37 Killfeed Headshot Indicator
2:59 New Faction Details (GSK)
4:03 Faction Ability Balancing Details
7:19 New Map & CTF Mode
7:30 Sniper Flinch Tuning
8:47 New Guns
9:37 New Mastery Camos
10:02 Miscellaneous Changes
11:16 Wrap Up

[rhoadeiut]

The GSK passive is going to be massive for headglitching wheter you attacking/defending objectives

[TecraX]

PSA: Apparently you need to activate the challenge for unlocking GSK, or your score won't count towards the 700 000 score required! (I noticed this when it still said after a couple of matches)

[Dquick]

They could simply change the intel suit to only the person using it can see the people or limit the amount of players per team that can select that character.

[tianluyao]

It appears that you can no longer shoot the spiderbot off of your face. I have been hugged by many spiderbots tonight and I couldn't shoot even a single one off of my face.

[braynjohnson]

2:10 I’ve been kicked for inactivity at least twice. There’s definitely a timer.

[EMHearst]

Easiest way to balance the Intel suit is to make it ping the players. You can still see them through walls but you can’t track the like a wall hack. Ping them every 4 seconds like a submarine sonar.

[de_STORM]

Would have taken a flat jacket passive instead of the "no headshot"

[LawOfEvolution]

The amount of times I've ALREADY headshot the sht out of a GSk and lost the gunfight with them at less then 10hp is INFURIATING! And for some odd reason I'm dying even further behind cover then ever before!!! Love the game, but GOT DAM SON! AND yall be careful the sweats are out HARD today!

[rarerizzy]

The Biovida is bugged! You can only use it like 3 times in a match and then it's greyed out no matter what you do for the rest of the match.

[destinybnd]

I play on PS5, has anybody else been suffering frame rate drops with the new patch?

[Paradx_SL]

Showing my support. Thanks for the good work you put out for this game so far!

[Krydolph]

As someone who often is "that guy" with the spider bot. I have played deadsec a lot more than any other faction, and only 2 games or so with highjack. Even I think they buffed the spiderbod too much! And this has nothing to do with the patch notes - but something that I find very problematic!
Mark is on record for saying something along the lines of "There will be no stealth nerfs or buffs, we will tell you about everything"
But here we have a significant change to gameplay, and I have seen almost no one talk about it, and certainly nothing from the Xdefiant team about it!
It used to be, if the spider bot jumped you, you could look down, shoot, and get it off that way. Even that would still take you of the game a bit, but a lot less than if you waited and let it do its thing.
Now this don't work. So when I as a deadsec follow my spiderbot around and it jumps someone, I know they are fucked! Then add they wont ignore ppl because they jumped them before, and wont be wasted if a teammate also have the bot. Adds up to a huge buff! And even though I cant send out as many as I used to, 40 second cooldown, still leaves me a lot of bots to send out.
I know. You can shoot it if you see/hear it, some say you can even melee it if times right, you can emp and hack. But often you are sprinting around this game, and you meet it right at a corner with no way to react. I really the feel the oportunity to shoot it off was nice, even if it wasn't a planned feature, it was something we all learned to do, and a good way to do it.
They could also add some button mash combo you had to push to grap it off your face and throw it away.
I have never really chimed in on the whine about spiderbot, because while annoying, it wasn't as bad as ppl often made it out to be - but now... Now I am on team "Fuck spiderbot"

[irshaadh]

Really need the shotgun's consistency to be improved

[bobntg]

Pretty excited for "additional crash fixes"

[HuntingHornet]

Bunny hooping is still ridiculous overpowered and need's a proper nerf

[admiralalyssa]

No matter how many nerfs you hit Spiderbot with, people are still going to use it until hijack can affect most abilities.

Hijack is vicious against GSK but useless against Echelon, Cleaners, and ehh, against Libertad and Phantoms.

[Lazarop]

Kinda sucks they accidentally removed the kill counter to let you know what kill streaks you are on.

[hbeardd]

Thank you for covering this game. I used to watch you when I played COD but don't like the new COD games so I have missed you. Hope you're doing well.

[jonahsmith]

Ive seen alot of people whine about the headshot passive but i think its cool that a game actually made balistic helmets actually stop a fucking bullet.

[amigopuerco]

Does the end of match xp even matter? Ooohhh my number went up. It means nothing