Ubisoft's free-to-play shooter XDefiant has been delayed numerous times already, despite never having a solid release date, and the game's executive producer Mark Rubin has again talked about what's going on behind the scenes.
Replying to multiple fan queries on Twitter, Rubin has stressed just how tough modern multiplayer game development is, and has also explained some of the reasons behind XDefiant's release constantly being pushed back.
To put it simply, Rubin's development team over at Ubisoft ran into several major issues when scaling the game up to work "with 1 million plus people", and that entire new systems had to be built with these issues in mind. Here are a few of Rubin's explanatory replies:
At the time of writing we still don't know when XDefiant will launch on Xbox, but we do know that the team has a big server test planned for real soon. That isn't dated yet either, but the game's full release date should be locked in shortly after the team's upcoming 12-hour playtest.
What do you make of all this? Discuss Mark's XDefiant defiance down below.
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It's refreshing to not only see a game delayed until it's actually ready, but also to see developers being so candid about it.
“Game engineer is harder than being a rocket scientist.”
I bet it’s not.
But I still don’t envy it regardless. A surprisingly transparent conversation between an exec producer and fans. I wish the gaming industry could get more of this type of correspondence back (it seemed to be more common years ago when gaming was much smaller).
They probably should've invested in better game engineers lol. Ubisoft probably cheaped out and the exstaff quit along the way and had to deal with a new one
I want to know what's happening with The Division Heartland? It's been nearly a year now and nothing!?
There have been high school dropout stoners who built multiplayer games from scratch.
Game engineering is hardly like being a rocket scientist.
Come on. Since Ubisoft finally released Skull and Bones they needed a new game to take 10 years to make and that's XDefiant.
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