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Following XDefiant's popular (and surprisingly polished) beta, discourse around Ubisoft's latest free-to-play multiplayer offering has ranged from it being a 'Call of Duty killer' to a piece of live service fodder that will suffer a similar fate to the infamous battle royale, Hyper Scape. In my view, both takes are ridiculously extreme in equal measures, but I really want to talk about the latter. Regardless of how well it does post-launch, I firmly believe XDefiant will not be axed in the same humiliating way Hyper Scape was, mainly because it's a game that will benefit from Ubisoft giving it the Rainbow Six Siege treatment.

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