XDefiant Update 01.013 Patch Notes For Season 1 Today (July 2)

Later at present, XDefiant servers can be taken offline as Ubisoft gears as much as launch the sport’s very first season. The brand new content material replace can be crammed with new content material primarily based on one other common Ubisoft first-person shooter: Rainbow Six Siege.

Season 1 will introduce a brand-new faction to XDefiant often known as GSK. Outfitted with electrified barbed wire, G52-Tactical Defend, and a brand new Lively Protection System, this new faction is coming to shake up the XDefiant meta. The brand new season will even introduce three new maps, three new weapons, a brand new Seize the Flag mode, Ranked play, and way more.

If you cannot wait to take a look at XDefiant’s very first season, we have put collectively all the things it is advisable find out about Season 1. Take a look at the total server downtime schedule and patch notes for the brand new XDefiant replace beneath.

XDefiant Server Downtime Schedule For July 2

Ubisoft has confirmed that XDefiant can be taken offline for upkeep on Tuesday, July 2nd at 6AM PT / 9AM ET / 2PM BST. The studio introduced in a submit on X (previously Twitter) that the sport’s servers can be offline for a complete of two hours, which means XDefiant gamers will be capable to leap again in at roughly 8AM PT / 11AM ET / 4PM BST.

Nevertheless, it’s value noting that server downtime could also be prolonged, ought to any points come up in the course of the deployment of Season 1. However while you watch for the arrival of Season 1, ensure that to take a look at the total patch notes for the July 2 XDefiant replace beneath.

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, quite than on a regular basis, like once you’re folding laundry or no matter.
• Lowered the XP threshold for every Battle Cross tier to provide Battle Cross development a 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 neighborhood 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 Group Rainbow operators from Germany’s Border Safety Command specialise in crowd management and securing territory. They’ll deploy electrified barbed wire for space denial, counter incoming enemy gadgets with their Lively Protection System, and dazzle a number of foes with flash costs mounted on their G52-Tactical Defend extremely. Name them Grenzschutzkommando as a result of it is 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 have been additionally diminished from 500 to 400.
• The Phantoms’ AEGIS now takes injury 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 ability) to twenty seconds (plus the remaining period of the hacked ability).
  • For instance, as an example 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 will not try to 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.
• Mounted 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 common with worldwide operators. Very best for firefights within the short- to mid-range. House to recreation modes Domination, Occupy, Scorching Shot, and the brand new CTF.

Recreation Modes

• Added Seize the Flag, hereafter known as CTF. For the uninitiated: You’re taking the enemy’s flag from their base and convey it again to your individual, whereas defending your staff’s flag. CTF is out there on a wide range of maps.

Weapons

• Improved the hit flinch penalty incurred when being shot with a sniper rifle geared up. These adjustments are supposed to refine the conduct of hit flinch, stop cases the place the digicam 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 digicam actions. This is the nitty-gritty:
  • The velocity of the hit flinch digicam transition has been elevated by 25 %.
  • The digicam will now all the time kick upward quite than up or down at random.
  • The quantity the digicam 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 quicker dealing with, though it offers barely much less injury and isn’t as efficient at penetrating cowl.
• Added the LVOA-C, a snazzy personalized rifle just like the M4A1. It has a a lot quicker fee 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 growth for its dimension. Think about carrying a main weapon in your secondary slot and that is this.
• Added new Mastery skins: Titanium Violet (unlocked at Weapon Stage 300), Titanium Azure (unlocked at 350), and Titanium Prisma (unlocked at 400).
• Mounted weapons and optics shake in first-person view whereas utilizing ADS.

Gadgets

• 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 gadgets after fidgeting with the “Copy Loadout” possibility within the foyer, so good attempt.

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 have 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 have been supposed to maintain Kersey’s Dungaree pores and skin. They did not however now they do.
• Mounted Problem-tracking points with Ubisoft Join.
• Graphical and audio fixes, numerous.
• Further crash fixes.