XDefiant devs rush emergency fix as Season 1 update tanks PS5 performance UbisoftXDefiant players on PS5 are in luck as developers have rushed out an emergency patch in light of devastating performance issues that snuck in through the Season 1 update. While XDefiant\u2019s hotly-anticipated Season 1 update introduced a wealth of new content to Ubisoft\u2019s FPS, it also brought with it some unwelcome and unplanned issues. The already controversial Spiderbot ability only became more powerful, a problem devs are well aware of an looking to rectify in \u201cthe next non-emergency patch.\u201d Though even more damaging was a hit to performance for those on PS5. Players on the console immediately began reporting issues upon Season 1\u2019s launch on July 2. Frame rate was severely impacted by the major update, as hundreds of players flocked to social media to have their voices heard. Two days later, and in an emergency update on Independence Day, these issues have allegedly been stamped out. XDefiant Executive Producer Mark Rubin broke news of the update late on July 4, revealing devs had been hard at work through the American holiday. \u201cWe were able to do a quick patch for PS5 that is live now,\u201d he confirmed. \u201cIt improves the situation for those running at 60hz who were having major frame spikes.\u201d While the rushed patch \u201cshould be better\u201d than before, Rubin did clarify the issue isn\u2019t completely in the rearview mirror. XDefiant players on PS5 can expect a \u201cfull fix for both 60hz and 120hz\u201d in the week starting July 7, so not a long wait. \u201cAs soon as we can get it through testing and cert,\u201d the full resolution will be implemented. Further explaining the situation in a thread on X (formerly Twitter), Rubin stressed how this emergency fix came out \u201clightning fast.\u201d Considering devs have to \u201cfind the bug, fix the bug, test the bug, then send it to Sony so they can test the bug, then schedule a roll-out,\u201d it certainly was a huge effort, especially on a national holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
XDefiant devs rush emergency fix as Season 1 update tanks PS5 performance UbisoftXDefiant players on PS5 are in luck as developers have rushed out an emergency patch in light of devastating performance issues that snuck in through the Season 1 update. While XDefiant\u2019s hotly-anticipated Season 1 update introduced a wealth of new content to Ubisoft\u2019s […]<\/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-86655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86655","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=86655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}