XDefiant Gives Reasons For Delays As 2024 Starts To Look Far More Likely

Ubisoft Executive Producer Mark Rubin took to X (**cough** Twitter) a few hours ago to answer some questions about what the XDefiant team is working on and the reason for the most recent delay from the "late Summer" projected release date.

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— Mark Rubin (@PixelsofMark) November 1, 2023

The most important note here is that no new launch date or window was given for the shooter game. The team seems to be taking more of a "it's ready when it's ready" approach this time around. Of course, Call of Duty season is now upon us, so I would be shocked if that didn't at least have a small part to do with it.

While working on things like latency spikes and packet loss is certainly important, it sounds like a key feature in the party system would have been a broken mess had the game launched already. They are working on rebuilding the party system from the ground up, so hopefully it will work under heavier loads when the game finally does launch.

The response on social media seems overall positive within the first few hours of the post, with most happy with the transparency from the game and that big features are being improved for launch. Speaking of launch, it sounds like 2024 is much more realistic than 2023 at this point.