XDefiant is a brand-new first-person shooter from Ubisoft that boasts fast-paced gunplay and intense multiplayer mechanics. It’s a highly anticipated game that has unfortunately been hit with countless development issues, and despite originally being scheduled to launch in the summer of 2023, it still hadn’t hit shelves by March 2024. It’s not yet known when it will be released, but there are some questions people are asking now, such as the all-important one: ‘Is XDefiant crossplay?’

Modern shooters almost always boast crossplay mechanics – such as Fortnite or Call of Duty, for instance. It’s the best way to make a network as seamless as possible, encouraging users to connect across borders regardless of their platform of choice. So, is XDefiant cross-platform – or more specifically, will it be cross-platform when it inevitably launches?

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What Exactly is XDefiant?

If you’ve never heard of XDefiant, that’s fine – you’re not alone. Despite pulling in one million users during a beta phase, it still has some growing to do before it becomes a household name like Call of Duty or Battlefield.

XDefiant is a typical first-person shooter built around a 6v6 model and set firmly in Tom Clancy’s ‘multiverse’. It’s a fusion of various Ubisoft franchises, and the in-game characters are almost all taken from existing franchises, like Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell, and The Division. It’s as traditional a first-person shooter as you can find, boasting intense gameplay, a faster pace than the competition, loadouts, customisation, and various game modes.

But will XDefiant be crossplay when it launches later in 2023?

Is XDefiant Crossplay?

For those looking to pair up across XDefiant platforms, we can confirm that yes, XDefiant is a crossplay title. That means that if you’re on a PlayStation 5 and your friend is on an Xbox Series X console, you can still play together – and that’s a feature that’s available by default. This is the full list of platforms that XDefiant is available on:

• PC (from beta)
• Xbox One (at launch)
• PlayStation 4 (at launch)
• PlayStation 5 (from beta)
• Xbox Series X|S (from beta)

Despite having a string of beta phases, it has been confirmed that every player entering XDefiant’s universe when the game launches will be starting from the beginning. So, it doesn’t matter how much content you unlocked during the closed or open beta phases, you’ll still need to start with a fresh account.

In the run-up to the release of the game, Ubisoft released a stacked roadmap for the first year of XDefiant, promising great things to come.

There are bold claims that XDefiant will one day overtake Call of Duty in terms of popularity – particularly if Call of Duty keeps slipping up. We’ve already seen plenty of the best Call of Duty players in the world get involved with XDefiant, and their feedback has been dramatically positive. There’s every opportunity for XDefiant to step up and be the next best thing in the first-person shooter niche, but it’ll take a little more work to get there.

Are you looking forward to the release of XDefiant?