Nothing seems to be going right for Call of Duty at the moment. As if the ongoing gameplay related issues were not enough, the series is facing another major problem now.
It’s not a hidden secret that many COD lovers have ended up getting upset with the franchise by now. That’s due to the lack of engaging content in recent entries including Modern Warfare II as well as the free-to-play Warzone 2. Players are just getting bored with Activision’s IP and they are now considering alternatives that can offer them a really good experience. Interestingly, there already exists a Call of Duty rival!
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Ubisoft’s XDefiant might overshadow Call of Duty in the future
XDefiant is an upcoming multiplayer arena shooter. It’s being developed by Assassin’s Creed publisher Ubisoft. For more than a year, its makers have been running closed beta tests with select users in order to get their feedback. And going by the reactions so far, this FPS title is looking solid. So much so that some people are already calling it a COD killer, even before an official release.
Considering the increasing hype going around it, popular streamer and content creator ModernWarzone recently shared a Tweet. He wrote that the gaming community now actually wants a real Call of Duty competitor. Because the devs at Activision are doing nothing to improve the current circumstances. The streamer also hoped for Ubisoft’s ambitious FPS title to succeed massively.
All this hype around XDefiant shows how desperately the gaming community wants and NEEDS a real competitor to Call of Duty.
Competition is good for everyone and COD has got to coast by for years without anything close to real “competition”.
Hopefully XDefiant can be that.
— ModernWarzone (@ModernWarzone) April 15, 2023
Meanwhile, many other notable figures also believe that XDefiant is capable enough to outperform Call of Duty. Robert Bowling, who’s the studio head at 12AM (the developer behind Dr Disrespect’s upcoming game Deadrop) wrote in a Tweet that Ubisoft’s project is a refinement of what COD was a few years ago. “COD made a choice to move away from it’s roots and origins, it’s expanded to be an “everything shooter”. XDefiant knows what it is and does it well.”
Oh come on.@PlayXDefiant is legit.
It’s not a knock off what what COD is, it’s a refinement of what Call of Duty WAS.
COD made a choice to move away from it’s roots and origins, it’s expanded to be an “everything shooter”.
XDefiant knows what it is and does it well. https://t.co/IDNSyXZDWH
— Robert Bowling (@fourzerotwo) April 15, 2023
Other people on social media also expressed their own predictions for XDefiant. Most of them think that it has the potential to compete with COD in the long run.
XDEFIANT is what Call of Duty forgot it was
— Jev (@Jev) April 15, 2023
Competition is needed to keep the big players innovating. Things have been in the hands of a few for a long time…
I’m excited to see some shake up.
— 🥔 PoTheTatoMan 🥔 (@PoTheTatoMan) April 15, 2023
Xdefiant is that.. it’s on how the CoD community welcomes it.. there hasn’t been a classic Mp game like this right now. Cod has always been the standout in MP. Xdefiant is already matching that. We have to accept it
— Byplx (@_Byplx) April 15, 2023
XDefiant needs a personality, right now it’s got nothing but. it’s challenging cod.
That’s all I’ve heard.
— Rohan #GreenWall #BrickedUp (@RohanPosts) April 15, 2023
What are your thoughts on Ubisoft’s upcoming FPS shooter? Do you also believe it will become a true competitor for Activision’s franchise? Let us know in the comments.
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