Amid ongoing player complaints and claims Ubisoft’s free-to-play shooter XDefiant is underperforming, the publisher has insisted the game is “absolutely not dying” as it unveils plans to tackle a range of issues in an updated development roadmap.

Ubisoft shared XDefiant’s latest roadmap in a newly published blog post, starting with an update on the game’s netcode and hitreg issues, and admitting it “still [has] a ways to go” as far as improvements are concerned. “I just want to quickly address the status of the game. i.e. is the game dying?,” the author then wrote. “No, the game is absolutely not dying. We know there are things we need to improve like Netcode/Hitreg and adding more content to progression, but the game is doing well. We just want it to do better. And we do that by addressing the concerns of our community which has always been the plan.”

The post continued, “Ubisoft is very much behind us and has allocated more resources to the team in order for us to do that.” To that end, the accompanying roadmap promises “a lot of new content and features” for XDefiant’s first year, ending in its “biggest ever event”.

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