If you happen to’ve been enjoying XDefiant since its Could 21 launch date, then there’s an honest probability you’ve encountered an unkillable enemy who appears to be like like they aren’t even shifting. Whereas this will likely seem like a hack, it’s really a glitch —one the devs are conscious of.

This glitch has been famous on quite a few events all through the primary week of launch, with gamers posting movies of XDefiant characters floating throughout the bottom, legs and arms welded to their sides, consuming bullets, and killing enemies.

There are different variations of this glitch too, as former Name of Obligation professional participant Scump found when he noticed a participant operating round as regular however was unable to deal any harm to them.

These undoubtedly seem like cheats we’ve seen in Warzone and CoD multiplayer prior to now, however surprisingly, XDefiant developer and former Name of Obligation World Champion Patrick “ACHES” Worth confirmed that these are literally bugs affecting the sport.

The excellent news is that clearly the developer is conscious of those issues, which ought to hopefully imply that Ubisoft will drop a repair quickly. Whereas we received’t clarify the method right here, the glitch is pretty simple to duplicate, which is an enormous concern and will drive gamers away if it isn’t mounted rapidly sufficient.

At the least the constructive observe is that the BattlEye anti-cheat system seems to be working, with hacking not an enormous difficulty to date. With EngineOwning now paying $14m in damages to Activision, let’s hope that cheat suppliers have been scared away by the attainable ramifications.