There are many metrics that publishers and developers use to grade the success of a game launch, and if the speed at which the player base beats a communal challenge is one of them, XDefiant couldn’t have asked for a better start.
With the larger matchmaking and server issues from launch day now seemingly passed, Ubisoft put out a community challenge through Ubisoft Connect tasking XDefiant players to deal a collective 25 million points of weapon damage. Within just a matter of hours, players didn’t just beat that milestone, they shattered it.