‘XDefiant’ delayed after failing console quality tests

nme.com:

Ubisoft has announced XDefiant has been delayed due to console certification issues, with the game now “likely” set for an October launch.XDefiant, a free-to-play crossover shooter featuring factions from Tom Clancy titles fighting against Watch Dogs‘ DedSec and Far Cry‘s Libertad, has been in development since 2021.

Ubisoft, however, never pinned a specific date on XDefiant. A closed beta was held in April of this year but it suffered from technical disruptions like server downtime and performance issues.In a post to Ubisoft’s official website, executive producer Mark Rubin said that he wanted to offer fans “full transparency” over why the game would not meet its previously planned release in the summer.“At the end of July, we started [the console certification] process, and we got our first results back by mid-August which was a Not Pass.

We realized then that we had more work related to compliance than we had anticipated,” he explained.He elaborated that XDefiant underwent a week of “heavy QA & Compliance testing by several Ubisoft teams” prior to the submission to Microsoft and Sony.

Additionally, had the game passed in the first instance, then the shooter would have hit the shelves at the end of August.“We have spent the last 3-4 weeks fixing those issues and getting ready to do another submission.