XDefiant double XP weekend reduces the grind of one Xbox achievement
While the XDefiant achievements overall are pretty simple, there are two that require a fair bit of grinding to unlock: Weapon Master, which asks you to level up a weapon to level 50, and All Grown Up, which requires reaching player level 50. Thankfully, this weekend, you can earn double XP on weapons in XDefiant, which should alleviate a bit of the grind for Weapon Master.
As announced on Twitter, double XP on weapons will be live in XDefiant from Friday, May 24 at 10am PT/ 1pm ET/ 6pm BST through to Tuesday, May 28 at 10am PT/ 1pm ET/ 6pm BST.
Out of the two achievements, All Grown Up appears to require more effort and will take longer to unlock, so it’s a bit of a shame double XP isn’t applied to player levels this weekend. Hopefully, Ubisoft has plans for a double XP player-level weekend in the works.
Ubisoft is also rolling out a new XDefiant patch on Xbox. XDefiant Preseason Patch 1 re-enables the Practise Zone, fixes an issue with hitmarkers, and stops devices from dropping at players’ feet after dying. Here are the patch notes in full from Ubisoft:
XDefiant Preseason Patch 1 Notes
Game Modes
- Sometimes players loading into the Practice Zone would spawn outside the world, in a hellscape, and now they (probably) will not.
Devices
- Fixed an issue where if the player died during the device deployment animation, their next deployed device would drop at their feet rather than be thrown as intended.
Netcode
- That issue where you’d get hitmarkers on an enemy as they killed you, but their health bar still appeared full to you? The health bar display was wrong – you did damage them. Should be fixed now.
Localization
- Fixed an issue where end-of-match UI text would display with the wrong orientation in Arabic.
Miscellaneous
- We’ve turned the Practice Zone back on but it’s possible weird things could still happen.
- Fixed an issue that was causing low framerates with some AMD GPUs.
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