NICKMERCS argues XDefiant is off to a \u201cgreat start\u201d but explains why it could fizzle out Twitch: NICKMERCS \/ UbisoftNICKMERCS is loving Ubisoft\u2019s fledgling Call of Duty rival XDefiant in the early runnings, but warned in his latest Twitch stream that the hype could die off quickly. A fortnight removed from his attempted \u201ccancellation,\u201d as he himself put it, NICKMERCS is back in the public eye, regularly streaming on Twitch once again. Despite the surrounding controversy and the ramifications that saw Activision remove his custom skin in Call of Duty, the popular streamer has only continued to grow across social media in the aftermath. Now shifting his sights onto what many are eyeing as real competition to CoD\u2019s dominant position on the FPS throne, Nick was among the first to jump into XDefiant\u2019s latest testing period ahead of its full release later this year. After a hectic six-and-a-half-hour grind, he was definitely left impressed by Ubisoft\u2019s new title, but NICKMERCS warned that the hype could die out rather quickly if devs don\u2019t follow certain steps post-launch. Giving his initial take after the day one grind, the veteran FPS player praised XDefiant\u2019s \u201cgreat maps\u201d and \u201cgreat gameplay,\u201d claiming it\u2019s off to a \u201cgreat start\u201d overall. \u201cBig congrats to XDefiant and the whole team over there. It\u2019s really hard to put out a product that plays good and feels good off [the] rip, and I think it really does play good and feel good,\u201d NICKMERCS said. However, this great start may only get Ubisoft so far in the highly competitive FPS market, he then explained. \u201cThat right there, that product, it will get old fast. \u201cThe truth is, they\u2019ve gotta start making some big announcements. Hopefully they have a content [roadmap] they\u2019re gonna push out over the next couple of months. They need that, they need to keep the momentum.\u201d One such way of keeping the ball rolling after launch is through honing in on the competitive community, NICKMERCS argued. Through the likes of a \u201cranked mode\u201d followed by full-fledged \u201ccompetitive seasons\u201d and even bigger community \u201ctournaments,\u201d that\u2019s how XDefiant will maintain interest in the weeks and months ahead, he claimed. Beyond that, he circled back to the one genre he frequents more than anything, Battle Royales. \u201cDream scenario, then I\u2019d roll out a battle royale. That\u2019s what I would do, if everything was as easy as I said.\u201d So while XDefiant is off to a \u201cgreat start\u201d in his eyes, NICKMERCS clearly has his concerns over its long-term potential. We\u2019ll just have to wait and see what Ubisoft has in store for its future content pipeline as we draw closer to its full launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NICKMERCS argues XDefiant is off to a \u201cgreat start\u201d but explains why it could fizzle out Twitch: NICKMERCS \/ UbisoftNICKMERCS is loving Ubisoft\u2019s fledgling Call of Duty rival XDefiant in the early runnings, but warned in his latest Twitch stream that the hype could die off quickly. A fortnight removed from his attempted \u201ccancellation,\u201d as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}