“Taking some of the movement away from the movement game”: XDefiant’s Jump Spammers Are Mad After Ubisoft’s Newest Patch Adds Penalties and Sends the Game Back to Beta

Ubisoft’s new patch for XDefiant has frustrated a lot of players in the gaming community. The latest update has introduced penalties for players who spam the jump and crouch buttons during firefights, restricting player movement in the process.
For those players who loved bouncing around the battlefield and bunnyhopping, this is a hard pill to swallow.
Aiming Penalties for Jump Spammers in XDefiant’s Latest Update
The majority of the casual players are happy with XDefiant’s new update.
Jump spamming has always been a controversial tactic in modern Fps games, especially Call of Duty. Players use it to make themselves harder to hit, jumping and crouching repeatedly to dodge bullets. In XDefiant, this tactic has become pretty common, and it looks like Ubisoft decided it was time to address it.
People gonna have to learn how to actually have gunfights now lol major W
— Matt (@GamemasterYado) June 12, 2024
The...
For those players who loved bouncing around the battlefield and bunnyhopping, this is a hard pill to swallow.
Aiming Penalties for Jump Spammers in XDefiant’s Latest Update
The majority of the casual players are happy with XDefiant’s new update.
Jump spamming has always been a controversial tactic in modern Fps games, especially Call of Duty. Players use it to make themselves harder to hit, jumping and crouching repeatedly to dodge bullets. In XDefiant, this tactic has become pretty common, and it looks like Ubisoft decided it was time to address it.
People gonna have to learn how to actually have gunfights now lol major W
— Matt (@GamemasterYado) June 12, 2024
The...
- 6/13/2024
- by Suhaib Adeel
- FandomWire
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