XDefiant is on the verge of closing down in a few months. To make it special for the fans of the game Ubisoft announced the final patch that includes planned content worth for 5 upcoming seasons.
Per the patch notes and confirmed by Mark Rubin on Twitter, the season three update for XDefiant includes additional content from the next five seasons, which will otherwise never see the light of day.
Producer for XDefiant Mark Rubin, confirmed in a post that the game will be shutting down next year in July 2025. XDefiant was released in May 2024. With Ubisoft claiming it to be a COD killer and with recent drama surrounding the game dying and Rubin confirming that the game is not dying. The competitive FPS shooter is finally coming to an end.
Ubisoft’s Free-to-play FPS Shooter XDefiant is going through some controversy with players claiming the game is dying. The Publishers have given a statement saying that XDefiant is “absolutely not dying.” Revealing they are looking after several issues, and more updates coming to the game with a Year 1 Roadmap. XDefiant roadmap will be focused on cross-play across all the platforms.
In an X Statement, Rubin took the hard news about XDefiant servers to shutdown on June 3, 2025. Moreover, new player registrations have been terminated immediately. However, the Season 3 content for XDefiant will still be released but the release date is still not confirmed.
Players who purchased the Ultimate Founder’s Pack will get a full refund and any players who made a purchase in XDefiant in last 30 days will get their refunds. Rubin added “Those refunds should happen automatically within 8 weeks of today.”
Here’s everything you need to know about XDefiant’s Farewell patch which includes content worth 5 seasons.
XDefiant farewell patch includes content worth 5 Seasons
Producer for XDefiant Mark Rubin took stage once again on X calling this a bittersweet moment. And thanked the team worked on XDefiant throughout the years and planned content. Moreover he explained in his post “Ubisoft has not only allowed a small team to stay on and continue working to get our Season 3 content out the door, but we’ve also been able to add some extra content to this release from future seasons.
So, we have our Season 3 content plus some of the content from Season 4, 5, 6,7 and even Season 8.
We are adding 3 new factions this patch with the Assassin’s of course that was planned for Season 3 but also Wolves and Omega Force from Seasons 4 and 5 respectively.”
What’s included in XDefiant final Patch
The content itself includes three new factions, including the Assassin Creed’s crossover promised a little while back. The Wolves and Omega Force factions are also available, even though they were supposed to release in seasons four and five, respectively.
Along with the new factions come six new ‘Arena’ maps and three new ‘Linear’ maps that were planned to be released further down the line. That’s a total of 13 new maps – but if you’ve never downloaded XDefiant, you’ll not be able to access them, which makes them somewhat rare. This includes a new ‘Rayman map’ that was scheduled for a takeover event midway through season four.
Rubin added “And I have to say the team really went all out on these amazing new maps. If you do anything at all, you need to check out the new Rayman map that was going to be part of an epic event takeover in Season 4. It even has it’s own mode with Lum Hunt.”
“I wish everyone who worked on this game directly or indirectly the best for their future endeavors. And the same goes for all of the fans who played our game, who streamed it, or who worked to build the XDefiant community.”
This is all in addition to new weapons such as the G36K, M1A, and Diceros pistol. Everything that was added behind battle passes has been unlocked for the audience still able to access the game.
However, this is the near end for XDefiant which will be imminent on June 3, 2025.