XDefiant Will Have Call of Duty-Like Prestige System

An XDefiant developer confirmed that the game will implement a prestige system similar to the one seen in classic Call of Duty titles. Ubisoft's XDefiant, which has positioned itself as a direct competitor to Call of Duty, is still without a release date.

XDefiant was originally slated to release in Summer 2023 until it was pushed back to a Q4 2023 release. Fans eagerly awaited the game's launch until XDefiant again announced that the game was delayed, and this time indefinitely so. Its development team was vague about what specific issues were plaguing the game's development, but these problems likely weren't trivial, seeing that the game is still without a release date going into 2024. In the meantime, an XDefiant developer shared new information regarding the game's features.

Mark Rubin, XDefiant's executive producer and former Call of Duty executive producer, explained that the game will feature a prestige system based on the ones seen in classic Call of Duty games. What he means by this is that XDefiant will not feature seasonal prestiges or seasonal level caps, but instead will launch with something like 10-15 prestiges which players can progress through unimpeded, without being capped at a certain level each season. Rubin added that XDefiant is intended to last for years unlike Call of Duty's annual releases, so new prestiges will possibly be added as the game grows older. While this is probably a promising update for fans of classicCall of Duty games, this is just one of the ways that XDefiant plans to attract CoD fans to the new franchise.

XDefiant is utilizing a plethora of features to convince Call of Duty fans, or just FPS fans, to try out Ubisoft's new game. Skill-based matchmaking, or SBMM, became a hot topic among Call of Duty fans over recent years. XDefiant confirmed that no playlists will utilize this mechanic, other than Ranked playlists and the game's Welcome playlist which is intended for newcomers. It'll be interesting to see how the total lack of