Intel Suit Nerf, Spiderbot Fix, Weapon Balancing, Recoil Fixes, & More! | (Big XDefiant Patch)

Today in XDefiant we got a fairly large update that includes weapon balancing, ability balancing, recoil fixes, and much more and I wanted to go over this patch to show exactly what changed with before & after comparisons whenever viable. What are your thoughts on today's update and the changes they've made?

0:00 Intro
0:27 Various Bug Fixes
0:58 GSK Faction Name Change
1:10 Spiderbot Adjustments
2:41 Sponsored by Manscaped
3:46 Echelon's Intel Suit Nerf Details
5:27 Bugged Abilities Fixed
6:05 Maps & Playlists
6:34 M4A1 Buffs
7:21 MDR Buffs
9:12 MP5A2 Buffs
10:30 Sniper Rifle Nerfs
11:03 Recoil Looks MUCH Better
11:54 Recoil Recovery "Fix"
13:26 More Miscellaneous Fixes
14:11 Final Thoughts & Wrap Up

[oxonomy]

11:39 yes! Big W! It made the hit reg feel horrible because you’d see your tracer going through an enemy and not getting a hit marker, when in reality the tracer lags behind and you actually missed the shot

[Quinsterrr]

It’s actually insane how much of a difference having NO SBMM makes in terms of my enjoyment of a game

[jamesbeam]

Me and ace doing the same shit, panic throwing an emp at our feet because we hear the damn spider around us

[Jack_Mehoff]

Can confirm: the MDR with heavy barrel is potentially meta. It might be a top 5 gun now with heavy barrel. I win gunfights against AK, ACR, and MP7 frequently with it

[nguyencaotri]

Yes, was waiting for your video, because they changed the recoil recovery stat

[donkeykong]

Nerfing literal wall hacks is always a good move imo.

[erikparsons]

Bro, you are the GOAT when it comes to patch notes. Thanks for showing us as compared to everyone else just reading us the patch notes that we could have read ourselves. Keep it up!

[davethewave]

I've still been loving this game so I'm happy it's staying updated

[austin]

I was the AA 12 user in that arena tdm match I was wondering if it was u ace ! Even killed me at 4:50 lmao It was nice playing against you :)

[SolidSnake]

Let’s appriciate these developers that are really listening the community and trying to make the game enjoyable for everyone with all these constant good changes.

Give them time, the game has a good potential, in my opinion.

[alexjames]

I seem to be dying around corners and possibly through walls way more since the update

[AndeanTitiMonkey]

Looks like they addressed the crashing issue too, so I'm pumped!

[vicaslan]

I mean with spider bot, just made something like pulling animation for it and make it so its only use the left arm so the player still be able to hipfire anyone who comes in their way... its balance that way, still slowed until it pulled out completly but still be able to contest the fight against people around you is going to be nice

[fallen_angel]

My one and only counter before the Intel suit nerf was to just run away and get out of range of the ping. Thankfully I dont have to run so far anymore :]

[RubyRoks]

Good updates. I'm glad they decided to do something about quickscoping and noscoping

[darx]

I really enjoyed this patch and how we’ve been able to communicate efficiently to get these issues resolved. XDefiant is def gonna live a good life being a free FPS

[MATTXxX]

nice keep the XDefient videos coming plz

[gingerandbroke]

Combat records still not tracking then 😢

[cesarherrera]

I was suffering with the matchmaking taking forever with my ping. I'm glad they made this change. Now I can play more often instead of waiting 5 mins before jumping into a match. 5 stars for this update!!!🎉

[smagliaro]

I love the Intel Suit update. I agree that it isn't what I was originally hoping for, but it _is_ a solution I hadn't considered, and I can see how impactful it will be. Realistically, it should just be enough information to help you make decisions, cover your flanks, etc., not literal wallhacks for your entire team. If I were to replace it entirely, I'd probably swap it with something more like Recon's Sensor Dart from Blops4.

RE: Recoil animations - I have to wonder how many of the "bad hitreg" complaints were actually just due to the mismatched recoil animations. There definitely _are_ improvements to be made to the networking, but the recoil was likely a compounding issue.

RE: Recoil recovery - This probably will continue to not matter much for automatic weapons, but I could potentially see big benefits for burst fire weapons.