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Robert Zak

XDefiant's closing-down content dump is enormous, unprecedented, and bleak

Xdefiant trailer.

Following on from the recent announcement that XDefiant servers would be closing down in June 2025, Ubisoft released one final massive content patch for the game yesterday. The patch not only contains all Season 3 content but, in what may be a world-first for a live-service game, it also contains all future content they had already developed. That includes 13 new maps, three new factions, and all future-planned skins for the game, some of which don't even seem to have been fully finished before being chucked onto the XDefiant funeral pyre.

Perusing the game's menus, X user Nick "ProReborn" made some interesting discoveries about what was added. The new Assassin's faction features three characters who, surprisingly, aren't from any of the series' games (why no Ezio?). The new Wolves team is from Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, featuring such fun skins as Gold Syn, Frostbite, and uhhh, "TEMPORARY—Sidney—80s Aerobic—name." The Omega Force team, representing Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, meanwhile, only has one character in it: The Mullet Man (nope, never heard of him). 

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