Mark Rubin
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Executive Producer on @PlayXDefiant at Ubisoft in San Francisco. Previously known for being EP on Call of Duty.
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Features I would have if I were making a MP FPS.
- No SBMM in Casual Play
- Ranked Mode
- Lobbies that stay together
- Red Dots on Minimap
- Map Voting
Just to name a few.
*hint - I am making that game.
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XDefiant is a love letter to the arcade arena shooter! Is it a CoD-killer? Pfft....I have no idea. We're just trying to make a game that people can love for a long time. But it is up to all of you, the players, to make
#XDefiant
a success. Just wanted to share that thought. ❤️
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@GlutesTK
Totally serious. We took a bunch of photos in the studio with me in gear and then the art director photoshopped it up.
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Open Beta next week!!! And a new map every month!!!! I was really excited to announce that! Can't wait! See you all online!
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Modern Warfare 3 they went with some model. I guess I was charging too much for my looks. 🤣
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I know it's very last minute but
@Nadeshot
asking for an extension pulled at my heartstrings so...
...we are extending the test until 4pm PST.
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Thank you to everyone who played in our Server Test! The test is now unfortunately over. I'll share more about the results after we go through all of the data.
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Help us melt the servers and give us feedback on your experience!
I know it's been a long road to get back to this point with a lot of frustration on the way but this gets us even closer to going Live!
Hope to see you all online!!!
Get ready for our Server Test Session!
📅 - April 19-21
⏰ - Starts 10:00AM PT
🎮 - PC, XBOX S | X, PS5
💥 PRELOAD NOW! 💥
🔗 -
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First off, I'm sorry for all of the different issues people are having with the servers. What has been described to me is that we are experiencing a "metric overload" with just so many people trying to play. We're hard at work on resolving and will let you know more when I can.
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Wow! What a great experience the
#XDefiant
Closed Beta has been but it is a sad day that it has come to an end! We want to thank everyone who played in the Beta or who watched streams, videos and interacted with us on Social. We never expected such an amazing response to our game
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BTW, with the new headshot multiplier buff for the P90 this is my new favorite go-to weapon loadout.
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@charlieINTEL
I was the Exec Producer at IW for 10 yrs. I made CoD4, MW2, MW3, Ghosts. I'm now at Ubisoft making a new arena shooter. You posted about Lobbies, MiniMap, and SBMM in MW2. We intend to get those right. I'd love to hear about what else you'd like to see better.
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We have an update coming soon. (probably this coming week) I know we've been silent because to be honest there isn't much to talk about. I know people just want to see the game ship and so do we.
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Sorry for the delayed post, I've been a bit under the weather.
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Let me give the key takeaway(s) from this last post. The Server Test Session went really well from a scale and server standpoint. We have some tuning to do. Pretty straight forward stuff that will be done very soon if not done already. And lastly release date coming very soon!
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One of the most asked questions right now is if we could extend the beta. Unfortunately, we don't have the support staff to keep the game up over the weekend. This isn't a problem when we are live. It's just a thing with this Beta.
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UPDATE: We are extending the beta by 2 days so it now ends on Tuesday the 25th! So the Beta hasn't gone the way we wanted it to in most ways but in one way it has exceeded our expectations far beyond what we expected and that's the reaction from you guys! It's been...
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So a little detail on 120hz on consoles. First off to get 120fps you'll need a TV that supports 120hz. The PS5 and Xbox X will do 120 at 4K. The Xbox S runs at 1440p and will be able to turn on 120 mode but won't necessarily maintain 120 all the time. Hope that clears things up.
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@IGN
This is very misleading as failing the first sub is normal and pretty much expected by any game. So our "later this summer" window hasn't moved based on not passing the first sub. That window was based on having to go through a second sub. Just trying to be as honest as I can.
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Hey All, we don't currently have any plans for killstreaks, but what if we made a mode where 3 kills got you your ability and 7 your Ultra or something along those lines.
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Now we can sleep! But seriously, thank you, everyone, for taking part in the Beta test! Next week, we will be planning our next steps. Hope everyone had a great time and for those who couldn't due to issues, I'm sorry. We will keep striving to be better. Thank you!!!
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Just a note, I've been trying to be super active on social for this Beta. But I also just had a new baby a week ago and so I may not always be responsive. Not ignoring you guys just need to take some breaks to help with the family. I've been absolutely floored...
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RANKED Coming tomorrow at 10am PST! So the current "Play" button will be locked and the "Ranked Play" button will be unlocked. What you will see is an early pre-alpha version of ranked. The icons are all temp, the tier names are temp, and the RP formula hasn't been tested on a...
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Lots of questions about the release date. We don't have one to tell you yet. We need to see how this beta affects our next steps. But super humbled by how much people want this game asap. ❤️
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Check out this blog post that just went up! Hopefully, this is all clear. There is a lot of detail here that you wouldn't normally see.
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Quick insight into what's going on right now. We are in the process of getting approved by 1st parties, but because this is our first time getting this version of the engine through cert, it's going to take a bit longer than usual. Don't worry, as soon as I have more info...
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Hi All! Just wanted to give you an update on where we are after the Open Session. We got a lot of great info from that test and are now working towards our Candidate Master. Once approved we will be able to launch!
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Honest take.
#XDefiant
is being made by a small team inside Ubisoft and we don't have the big money that another FPS in this space has or the number of people and an engine that has been making that game for 20 years. We won't beat them at production value but we are here...
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Just a quick follow-up to my last post on a personal level. Do I wish we had launched the game that we've been working so hard on back in July/August? Yes, of course! But games take time to finish and we weren't ready no matter how much we wished we could have been.
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UPDATE: Ok so we've pushed out a change that should unlock everything for everyone. You still may have issues saving loadouts (I am so sorry, I know that's super painful) but that can't be fixed with this change.
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@NerosCinema
We don't want to just put your typical CoD killstreaks in the game, but we are thinking outside the box for ways to reward and celebrate streaks. I thought the reactive camo idea from this thread was pretty cool.
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My take on
#SBMM
Sorry for the long read but I wanted to be as clear as I can be. Also, if what I'm saying interests you, I am working on a new FPS coming out next year
@PlayXDefiant
Go to to sign up to play in our January test to see for yourself.
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We just pushed out a server patch that should improve the server connection issues. Thank you all so much for playing through the issues. It really is helping a lot!
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Hey guys, in the spirit of being open and transparent I wanted to just post a little more about how 120hz works on console. It's a little in the weeds but I think some of you enjoy knowing this kind of thing. 🙂
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Hey everyone!
We have a LIVE test this Thursday 9/28 for 6 hours!!!
This will be testing our PTS system. This is a separate environment that will run when we are live and will allow us to test content early before it is released in the Live game.
Announcing XDefiant Public Test Sessions!
Test our platform we will be using for new, upcoming changes and content to the game this Thursday, 9/28, from 12 PM PT to 6 PM PT.
Pre-load is available now on Ubisoft Connect for PC!
Learn More:
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Hello world! The pre-testing for the Open Session starts in 2 hours. Remember the pre-test is only accessible by players who played in the previous Closed Beta. We don't have any codes or anything to give out but tomorrow at 10am PT it is completely open to everyone!
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We have a lot of stuff to fix and improve from this Beta and as always you all have been amazing at getting us the feedback we need! So on behalf of the entire team I want to say, THANK YOU!���️
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@LegendOfAK
There is no such thing as no controller latency. It's literally impossible due to basic physics. Measure it on any game and you'll see normal latency is always around 20ms.
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I saw some thoughts on Prestige from players. We have been aiming at a classic system that stops at say 10 but I've seen comments about adding more levels every season. Not reseting but just adding more. So what do you think?
Classic 10
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UPDATE: We will be bringing servers down to do a patch and a full server/config replacement. Been working on this all day. No easy task. But we hope that it will make for a much better experience. And for a clear explanation the reason consoles need more time is that...
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@JagrawrTV
I agree but gonna do my best to change that. It's going to take all of us to make that change.
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We're looking into the movement issues. We weren't seeing this exactly in test so may be related to netcode.
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@charlieINTEL
I LOVE it! It's a love story to a different era of CoD. But I might be biased. 🤣
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For instance, I can confirm that no push has been made to put SBMM into the game. Our Unranked playlists will still have no SBMM and you will get the variety of gameplay that you see when there isn't SBMM.
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So I've seen the PEGI approvals going live and creating rumors about the game being approved. This is not the case. It literally just means that PEGI has approved the rating that they have assigned to the game. It's completely disconnected from Submission.
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@ResetVII
Technically yes but that one was way more photo-bashed than the others. But I have to say that was always my favorite cover of any of the CoDs I made.
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Thank you to everyone that participated in our
#XDefiant
Crossplay test this weekend! We had 50% more players than we expected so thank you for the great turnout! Having players play an unfinished game is a very humbling and terrifying experience and...
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Hey Everyone, our friend Xclusive Ace is streaming on twitch right now. He's helped us on this game as an advisor in the past so please go check out his stream. I'd love to see his stream blow up! ❤️
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@Aimdroidx
Adding
@ACHES
We intentionally added sway to prevent abusive bunny hopping. If you are jump shotting, no problem. But if you are bouncing around it will penalize you. Now we can discuss as a community if we want to change that but that is the initial design.
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...incredibly humbling to hear all of your comments. Even when things were bad everyone kept positive. Even though we knew we were showing you a game with serious flaws, you still understood what we were trying to do and loved it. So thank you to everyone for being there for us!
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@JagerHasCurves
@PlayXDefiant
Just FYI, nothing about our delay is due to any new features. In fact not much has changed from a gameplay standpoint. The delay has been due to the tech issues we've talked about. Whoever said chasing CoD in Tom's report was major eyeroll. 😀
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Too awesome not to share!
I managed to use Hijack on the enemy Incinerator Drone mid-air and took down one of them. That was pretty awesome
#XDefiant
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I've seen a number of questions about progression and unlocks. Everything will be unlocked and available for this test.
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Hey all, just wanted to update everyone on the status of some issues. On the matchmaking issues we have deployed a server-side fix that we think should stabilize MM. And on the party issue, we've deployed something last night that we think will improve the situation.
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Oh, and if all goes well and the servers finally gain some stability then I think we should look at extending the Beta but I have to see what that would mean for team.
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You know I hate posting these pics of text. I really think I need to just bite the bullet and pay the money to make longer tweets. Sigh.
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So thought I'd share some builds since everything is unlocked. This is my Zoomie Build for the Vector. You actually run faster with this SMG than you do with a pistol so no need to swap.
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Thank you everyone for the feedback! As I mentioned, Minimaps and lobbies will work as you expect and there will be no-SBMM in Casual play. But I saw a lot of people ask for Map Voting. It was low priority on our Roadmap but after all of this feedback we are bumping it up. 👍
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...is a focus on FUN! Making a video game is a journey, but the story is not ours. It belongs to YOU the players!
We really hope everyone had a great time and we can’t wait to see everyone back in game!
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@TastyFPS
I'm not a fan of SBMM. I don't like how it treats players. When I was at Infinity Ward making CoD you could see it being pushed on us from the top. I left and am now making a new FPS without SBMM. Ranked is where that belongs. I think it will be a better experience for players.
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Anyway, I hope everyone is having a great weekend and thank you all for following XDefiant with so much passion! We love you all!
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Good News and Bad News! The PS5 patch is now live! But we are still waiting for the Xbox patch to clear.
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UPDATE: The Xbox patch is approved and rolling out now. It may take some time before you see the patch but we've confirmed that it is up and running!
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If you are on console and having issues with the way the controller feels can you try setting your:
Left Stick Deadzone as low as you can without getting stick drift and...
Set your Right Stick Deadzone to 0.
And let me know if that feels better.
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Great article! Really nailed it!
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Also to let you know we are still working on the cross-platform party issue. It's being stubborn as it works fine in the test environment but we are working with some players (you know who you are and thank you!) to try and narrow down why it is happening.
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This is a great M60 build for linear modes. It is not to be underestimated. It absolutely melts.
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UPDATE: Thank you to everyone for bearing with us on an early Ranked test. This is how we’ve been developing the game. We bring players in to see the game in an early state with all the ugliness and issues open to be seen.
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@Kane_Nabis
@PlayXDefiant
We purposefully left prone out to reduce some cheese camping behaviors. I realize there are non-cheese moments when prone can be used but that was the main reason for that decision.
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...trying to make a game that is just focused on being fun. We want to make a game that loves our community and that our community loves. We want to listen and be transparent about what we are doing and what we can do. We humbly hope that you have a great time playing our game!❤️
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...live, but we used our beta as a real test to make the game better. Hope this all makes sense. 🙂
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We're still working on crossplay party invites. They are unfortunately not always working still.
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Don't forget to tune in tomorrow!
#XDefiant
should be right up
@Clayster
's alley but I'm also excited to see how
@TenZOfficial
does.
Can’t find out who’s the "World’s Greatest” without playing XDefiant! 💪
Be sure to tune in tomorrow to watch all the
#YouTubeWorldsGreatest
gamers compete against each other in XDefiant at 12PM PT/ 3PM ET!
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@FaZeHugZ
The art director wanted me to hold it that way. I can tell you it wasn't natural feeling at all.
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To further the spirit of transparency that I have promised with this game, I want to talk about the current state of the hit reg. You may have noticed that you are getting killed around corners a lot. This is a known issue. We have a lot of new code going in that should...
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...by the reception so far even with all of the issues that we've had and want to thank all of you so much for being here for us. We wanted to make this game out of our love for gaming and we can't be successful without you, the players.
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This is a process that can take some time though so please bear with us. Still aiming for later this summer! To be clear we will be launching on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S (aka current gen) first with other platforms coming later. Will update again as soon as we have more info.
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OK, I just have to say I've watched way too many videos of players popping their Libertad Ult and then running away. The feedback for this Ult isn't finished but when you pop that you create a static AOE location with 200HP and faster healing. Don't run away from it! 🤣
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Quick Update on Progression: It's taking some time to craft the fix so we are looking at unlocking everything until it's fixed. Will let you know more when/if we are ready to pull the trigger. We know this bug is super frustrating but we want you all to be having a great time.
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