It was hoped that Ubisoft’s Call of Duty-like arena shooter XDefiant would arrive before the end of this financial year (which ends at the end of this week). This was apparently confirmed in a financial report at the beginning of the year, but now it looks very unlikely that this will be the case.
Insider Gaming has stated that the shooter is in a sort of limbo, as executives at Ubisoft keep pushing for changes and features to be incorporated to make the game more like Call of Duty. This in turn has resulted in the developers not meeting internal deadlines and the game being delayed time and time again, while the team faces the challenges of adding more systems to the game at the last minute, usually resulting in issues that have to be resolved.
As for what this means for the actual launch plans for XDefiant, the report states that even Ubisoft doesn’t have a clear plan for when the game will arrive at this time. The game is apparently not in danger of being cancelled, but there are no internal release dates to look forward to either.
