42 points

Got to be honest, this is the first I’ve even heard of this game.

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18 points

XDefiant sounds like an anticheat.

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3 points

Or a Wrestling Faction from the late 90’s

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34 points

That seems to be a problem with their expectations, not the game.

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39 points

It’s also a problem that it’s exclusive to the Ubisoft launcher and isn’t on Steam…

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20 points

I was going to play it, but poor linix compatibility with the ubisoft launcher killed that for me.

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7 points

It was enough to make me too lazy to bother even when the hype was there. Now it seems even the community that plays/played it is negative on it so even less likely to bother with Ubisoft launcher for it than at launch. I have UPlay installed too, but I don’t even know if anyone in my friend list from Steam was playing it compared to other games that they are shown playing.

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7 points

You are actually right. I tried this game as a friend liked it, and it basically does everything that COD does, but for free, so it’s not the worst way for somebody to spend their time online. Still, I imagine Ubi execs promised to dethrone every other shooter and have 100 million payers to milk for MTX.

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21 points

The market is so saturated with these type of shooters — especially ones with generic army dudes.

I’m not really surprised.

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32 points

Have they stopped using their launcher? The only way I will ever play an Ubisoft game is if they ditch that jank ass launcher.

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I’m legitimately wondering what’s so incredibly bad about the Ubi launcher that people hate it so much?

I’m not a fan of each brand having their own thing, I’d rather have everything in my Steam library or some other universal launcher (not GOG).

But I never had issues with Ubi’s launchers, despite having played a lot of Ubi games on there.

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9 points

Anything that isn’t Steam works like shit on Linux (mileage may vary, but that’s my experience). I find it hilarious and sad that I can get a better experience by pirating it and launch through Lutris.

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That’s another thing I always wondered about, gaming on Linux.

I always thought of Linux of a tweaker/programmer kind of platform that isn’t much into gaming. Much like Apple being for creatives, music and Adobe. Even though all that runs fine on Windows too. That gaming on either is an entirely optional at-your-own-risk kind of deal, since a lot of games don’t support Linux/Mac natively anyway.

If one wants to play games a lot, why not simply get a Windows PC? Or a console for that matter.

No offense, but I always felt like wanting to game on Linux or Mac is just handicapping oneself.

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2 points

The Lutris launcher has helped me successfully play purchased Ubisoft games well. It sucks to rely on third party tools, but that’s much of what Linux is based around.

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3 points

Ubi’s launcher and EA app, are the only ones that keep forgetting my login info, forcing me to painstakingly go to my email to authorize this brand new device (my own PC) every few weeks.

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I remember both doing the same for me a long time ago. But I’ve not had the issue since their new launchers dropped I believe.

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1 point

Why not GOG?

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I’d just prefer a platform that isn’t also another store. But I’m unsure if those exist.

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5 points

Not even enticing people with “free premium currency” just for logging in could entice me to play an Ubisoft shooter.

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