If you feel like you never see a bad player in XDefiant, then the head of the shooter has a clear opinion about you.
Who is it about?
- Mark Rubin is the Executive Producer at Ubisoft and the head of XDefiant. On x.com, he is very communicative and provides a lot of background information about the game.
- Before his time at Ubisoft, Rubin worked at Infinity Ward on Call of Duty and was involved in the development of the original “Modern Warfare” games (2007, 2009, 2011).
What does the head say? The content creator and shooter expert “TheXclusiveAce” has commented on x.com regarding the discussion that the matches in XDefiant are too sweaty and there are no easy matches.
TheXclusiveAce reports, for example, that he sees comments under videos about XDefiant asking how he gets “lobbies with such easy opponents.” In his post, he writes: “In a game with SBMM, if you literally never find an easy opponent, it’s a sign that you have a lot of room for improvement.”
Mark Rubin shared the statement with a simple “That’s it!” and thus agrees with the statement of the content creator. “A lot of room for improvement” is a nice way of saying: If you can’t find easy opponents, you are the easy opponent.
What does the statement mean? XDefiant is characterized by having modes without skill-based matchmaking (SBMM), meaning lobbies are not created based on your skills. SBMM ensures that players always play with and against others of the same skill level. This way, lesser players do not have to face better players.
XDefiant only has SBMM in the ranked mode and in the welcome playlist. In other modes or the custom playlist, you can encounter players of any skill level. This includes extremely good players, but also very bad ones.
So in XDefiant, you will inevitably play against players who are worse than you at some point – unless you are truly at the very bottom of the average skill level of all players. Then it may feel to you as if there are only matches against good or at least better players.
If you belong to the rather lesser-skilled players, it is advisable for you to play the welcome playlist or even ranked in the future if you do not want to encounter significantly better players.
Matches against players of a high skill level can be frustrating, but they have a clear advantage: You can learn a lot from them. What weapons or abilities are they using? What does their movement look like in gunfights? What paths do they take when rotating across the map?
You can really learn a lot for your own game from such defeats. And even if you can’t boast impressive statistics and great clips, XDefiant at least has a kind of participation certificate for you at the end of the match: XDefiant rewards players with a certificate for not achieving anything
