Developed by Ubisoft San Francisco and led by seasoned FPS expert Mark Rubin (executive producer) and Ubisoft San Francisco veteran Jason Schroeder (creative director), XDefiant offers an all-new experience to Tom Clancy games.

Personalize your Defiant to match your playstyle. Choose your faction, traits, abilities, and ultras. Select from an arsenal of primary and secondary weapons, attachments, and a device to complete your loadout – then tweak it on the fly to adapt to an ever-changing battlefield.

XDefiant offers a variety of competitive 6v6 arena and linear game modes, such as Domination and Escort. Combine that with a large pool of uniquely designed maps in rotation and no two matches will feel the same.

The Cleaners (The Division), Echelon (Splinter Cell), Libertad (Far Cry 6), and Phantoms (Ghost Recon) factions battling across iconic locations is just the starting point. We’ll keep adding to our cast of Defiants as the game evolves, drawing on a range of characters and abilities from the Clancy universe and beyond.

XDefiant will launch later this summer, but players won’t have to wait that long to play a few more rounds as it will be running an Open Session for all players on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S from June 21-23; sign up by going to PlayXDefiant.com.

Anyone who participated in the Closed Beta in April can log in a day early to participate in a special Early Access phase of the Open Session starting on June 20. Over one million players played in the Closed Beta, which was integral in helping the team test myriad aspects of the game and gather feedback.

“We received a lot of great feedback from our players after the end of our Closed Beta,” says creative director Safy Saada, “and for the Open Session, we’ll likely see some new faction balancing (particularly for Libertad) based on player feedback, as well as weapon balancing based on data we’ve collected from the Closed Beta.”

“We’re committed to improving the game based on player feedback,” continued Saada. “With that, the goal of this Open Session is to validate some of those key improvements we’ve made (mainly a new netcode and better input lag). With the emphases of this being ‘open’, we want to put our servers to the test and get a read on its stability at a large scale in order to be ready by launch.”

The full launch of XDefiant is coming later this summer, when the competition will kick off in earnest with a six-week preseason featuring the full slate of launch content, including 14 maps, five factions, 24 weapons, and more. Then it will be on to Year 1 and a regular cadence of new content, including four new factions (each with its own unique characters and skills), 12 new weapons, and 12 new maps.

“We’re looking forward to our players getting really excited about the content we’re going to deliver at preseason,” Saada says. “With this being a new IP, I’m also looking forward to naturally building our community around topics like future factions, weapons, and maybe even new mode ideas.”

For those looking to join the XDefiant Open Session, Saada has one starting tip: “I encourage everyone to try many faction-loadout combinations. Everyone has a different style of play. Exploring these combos will help you find what works for you, as well as help you adapt to each game mode.”

Additional features include:

• Personalized Playstyle: Players can personalize their Defiant to match their playstyle. Players can choose a faction with unique traits, abilities and ultra, then select from an arsenal of primary and secondary weapons, attachments, and a device to complete their loadout – and even tweak it on the fly (after respawning) to adapt to an ever-changing battlefield.
• Competitive Clashes: The game offers a variety of competitive 6-v-6 arena and linear game modes, such as Domination and Escort. Combine that with a large pool of uniquely designed maps in rotation and no two matches will feel the same.
• Diverse Factions of Defiants: XDefiant will initially feature factions such as the Wolves (Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon), Echelon (Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell) and the Outcasts and Cleaners (Tom Clancy’s The Division) battling across iconic locations. Additional Defiants will be added as the game evolves, drawing on a range of characters and abilities from the Tom Clancy universe … and beyond.

XDefiant is coming to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC in Summer 2023.