Forward of its launch on July 2, Ubisoft has launched the complete patch notes for Season 1 of XDefiant. This new season contains a new sport mode in Seize the Flag, extra factions, maps, weapons, and extra.
There’s so much going into the primary season of the sport. You possibly can take a look at every thing for your self under.
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Full XDefiant Season 1 Patch Notes
Gameplay
- Modified the expiration timing of activated Boosters so their lifespan counts down solely throughout match time, once you’re truly enjoying, slightly than on a regular basis, like once you’re folding laundry or no matter.
- Lowered the XP threshold for every Battle Cross tier to present Battle Cross development a little bit extra pep.
- Tuned Match Bonus XP rewards: MVP and Victory went from 2,000 to 1,000 XP. Draw went from 1,000 to 500. Completion doubled from 2,000 to 4,000 to encourage participant stick-to-itiveness.
- Answered a group ask so as to add a headshot icon to the Killfeed as a result of it feels good to rub it in.
Factions
- Added the GSK faction and their no-nonsense announcer: HQ.
- These elite Crew Rainbow operators from Germany’s Border Safety Command concentrate on crowd management and securing territory. They will deploy electrified barbed wire for space denial, counter incoming enemy units with their Lively Protection System, and dazzle a number of foes with flash fees mounted on their G52-Tactical Defend extremely. Name them Grenzschutzkommando as a result of it’s enjoyable and in addition correct.
- Elevated the cooldown of Echelon’s Intel Go well with from 30 to 40 seconds.
- Tuned the cooldown of the Phantoms’ Magazine Barrier from 30 to 40 seconds. Magazine Barrier hit factors had been additionally diminished from 500 to 400.
- The Phantoms’ AEGIS now takes harm from EMP grenades (lob six to place it out of fee).
- DedSec Hijack cooldown decreased from 28 seconds (plus the remaining period of the hacked talent) to twenty seconds (plus the remaining period of the hacked talent).
- For instance, let’s say a Magazine Barrier has 7 seconds left and will get hacked: The cooldown turns into 20 plus 7 seconds. Failed Hijack cooldown, in the meantime, decreases from 8 to five seconds.
- DedSec’s Spiderbot cooldown elevated from 25 to 40 seconds.
- Adjusted Spiderbot conduct so a number of Spiderbots gained’t try and hug the identical face, nor will Spiderbots proceed to disregard faces they’ve hugged a number of latest occasions. Some give and take from the Spiderbot kingdom.
- Decreased the cooldown of Libertad’s BioVida Enhance from 25 to twenty seconds.
- Fastened Libertad’s Medico Supremo so it’s going to now not disappear after the deploying participant respawns as a special faction.
Maps
- Added the brand new Clubhouse map, a two-story hangout fashionable with worldwide operators. Excellent for firefights within the short- to mid-range. Dwelling to sport modes Domination, Occupy, Sizzling Shot, and the brand new CTF.
Sport Modes
- Added Seize the Flag, hereafter known as CTF. For the uninitiated: You are taking the enemy’s flag from their base and convey it again to your individual, whereas defending your workforce’s flag. CTF is offered on quite a lot of maps.
Weapons
- Improved the hit flinch penalty incurred when being shot with a sniper rifle geared up.
These modifications are meant to refine the conduct of hit flinch, forestall cases the place the digital camera would transfer off the goal with the primary hit and again onto the goal with the second, and enhance the expertise for gamers delicate to wild digital camera actions. Right here’s the nitty-gritty:
- The velocity of the hit flinch digital camera transition has been elevated by 25 p.c.
- The digital camera will now all the time kick upward slightly than up or down at random.
- The quantity the digital camera will kick left or proper has been elevated by 3 occasions.
- Added the L115 sniper rifle, which isn’t fairly as heavy because the TAC-50 and has sooner dealing with, though it offers barely much less harm and isn’t as efficient at penetrating cowl.
- Added the LVOA-C, a snazzy personalized rifle much like the M4A1. It has a a lot sooner charge of fireplace than the M4A1, however with that comes extra recoil and fewer vary. It additionally has barely longer reload and equip occasions.
- Added the Sawed Off secondary weapon. This close-range model of the double-barreled shotgun packs an enormous increase for its measurement. Think about carrying a major weapon in your secondary slot and that’s this.
- Added new Mastery skins: Titanium Violet (unlocked at Weapon Stage 300), Titanium Azure (unlocked at 350), and Titanium Prisma (unlocked at 400).
- Fastened weapons and optics shake in first-person view whereas utilizing ADS.
Units
- Added a brand new and improved visible impact for the flash grenade (changing the earlier impact, which was…intense). The brand new impact is much less retina-searing however nonetheless appropriately disorientating.
- Eliminated an exploit the place gamers might respawn with a number of units after twiddling with the “Copy Loadout” possibility within the foyer, so good strive.
Social
- Added the Creator Code program, which permits gamers to decide on a creator to obtain commissions from their XCoin purchases at no extra value. Select “Help a Creator” from the shop to see a listing of eligible creators.
- Gamers had been capable of create a celebration with enemy gamers and voice chat throughout matches regardless of being on opposing groups, which appeared shady in order that’s mounted.
- Disabled whispers in textual content chat.
Audio
- Tweaked the combination of in-game voices and sound results for quantity and readability.
Miscellaneous
- Gamers who participated within the Closed Beta had been supposed to maintain Kersey’s Dungaree pores and skin. They didn’t however now they do.
- Fastened Problem-tracking points with Ubisoft Join.
- Graphical and audio fixes, numerous.
- Extra crash fixes.