Defiance 2050 Review

Despite its free-to-play tag Defiance 2050 feels like a complete package even without making additional purchases. With titles like Warframe already dominating the free-to-play space and providing a much more polished and expansive experience, Defiance 2050 comes as a tough recommendation. Defiance 2050 is a re-imagined version of the original Defiance game, Trion Worlds’ collaborative effort with the TV show of the same name, tailored specifically for an improved free-to-play experience. It’s set several years after the original game, and will be playable on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

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Defiance 2050 is a current generation revisit to the original sci-fi MMO experience, Defiance. Under the debris and rubble of a post-war and terraformed Earth, we found a third-person shooter and looter that plays smoother than it looks, invites a constant return to its world, and is honestly hard to put down. Here is our review.Reviewed on Xbox One, also available on PC, PS4 In the Wake of a Battle-Worn Pasttakes place in a futuristic and terraformed San Francisco Bay Area, 15 years after the Pale Wars between Earth and a loose alliance of alien races known as the. The Votans lost their solar system and came to earth in hopes of a new planet to inhabit, only to find it already domiciled by humans.

Shortly after cohabitation was attempted, it failed due to ever increasing friction and discourse between the extraterrestrial Votanis Collective and the humans – thus, war broke out. In, the war has since ended, and humans and Votans are still forced to live together. You, the player, exist in this world as an infamous “Ark Hunter,” essentially a professional warrior and scavenger employed by a squirmy industrialist, Karl Von Bach, to scour the Bay Area for advanced and expensive alien technology.The game does a good enough job setting up the story of Defiance and your role as an Ark Hunter. The story is told through cutscenes, dialogue, collectible intel, side missions and more. So, if you want to head knee-deep into the lore behind the Pale Wars and VC, the opportunity is there – but it very quickly becomes relevant that the focus of the game is you and your freedom to tell your own story.

Trion Worlds has done a great job creating an entire universe from the ground up for you to explore, but being an MMO third-person shooter, the story likely won’t be the focus of your time in-game. Although I do appreciate the amount of liberty and decision-making power the game gave me right away, Defiance 2050 could have benefitted from deeper storytelling in its opening missions and scenes to really set the tone of the game.While does seem to flow in the same vein of most other sci-fi stories today (aliens and humans meet somewhere in the universe, peace falls out, war ensues, etc.) it instead takes a rather unique and less travelled approach in that the story takes place entirely on Earth. Instead of taking you through a hard to digest adventure across unknown planets and entire worlds of new culture, Defiance 2050 explores how extraterrestrial conflict might affect our home that we’ve come to know and love, Earth.One of the more distinct features of are its Arkfalls. Arkfalls of wreckage from the Votan ships that exploded in space and periodically pull into our atmosphere, falling to Earth.

The meteor-like clusters hit the earth, and Ark Hunters race to the points of impact in order to farm the rare and valuable alien technology buried within. While primarily a gameplay feature, I thought this was a great yet subtle way Trion Worlds explored the way Earth has changed in the wake of a past war, without bogging the player down with unneeded dialogue.Operating under the free-to-play market, will feature constant content feature updates and dynamic events, resulting in an always evolving story with new features around every corner. Simply put, if Trion Worlds capitalizes on this promise, the game will never end. Already, the game has released great post-launch support, with live twitch streams that reward players with exclusive gear and cosmetics. Smooth to the TouchWhere truly shines is the fluidity of its deep yet subtle gameplay mechanics. This is what hooked me to the original Defiance, and it’s what’s keeping me around today.

Defiance 2050 is a third person shooter with upgradeable weapons, armor, grenades, and a defining skill tree, powered by the EGO. Ark Hunters are equipped with an extraterrestrial AI implant, the Environmental Guardian Online (EGO), that fuses with the body and unlocks newfound powers for the player while providing on-the-fly mission intel and updates. Firing and recoil mechanics work just as one would anticipate, shots that hit the target produce damage counters on the enemies (which is always a plus in my book – though you can opt to turn them off), and critical kills rack up more experience. While this type of gunplay is expected across most shooter titles in today’s gaming market, the way Defiance 2050 combines these smooth and expected mechanics with its EGO skill powers feels fluid and effortless. Running the assault class, I found so much joy in activating my EGO blur to sprint away from enemies, activate my self-stim to boost my health back to full, and jump right back into the action, buffing my SMG last minute to finish the fight. Traversing the Bay Area is just as fun as the combat. You start out equipped with a quad, an all-terrain four-wheeler with boost.

As you complete challenges (pursuits) around the bay area, such as time trials or jumping distances, you can unlock more vehicles, including a roller, so you can haul around your friends too. Pursuits as a whole are quite intuitive in Defiance 2050, and always give you something to do, ranging anywhere from vehicle pursuits, to killing enemies with a specific weapon-type, or visiting certain locations around the Bay Area. In fact, both a blessing and a burden of the game is its ever-abundant surplus of things to do in the open world. Too many times I would set a waypoint to the next primary mission only to spend half an hour distracted by pursuits, side missions, and the abundance of Arkfalls around the map, before ever reaching my destination.You level up your player by obtaining experience which unlocks points to spend on your skill-tree, but a lot more goes into leveling up your power rating, which directly impacts the quality and power of the weapon drops you’ll get in-game. Your overall power rating is calculated from a whole array of factors, including the power level of your weapons, shield, and grenades. After snagging a strong weapon, you can then upgrade it even further by “enhancing” it with weapon salvage you have found – this will further increase the power level of your weapon, and in turn, your overall power rating.

Understanding this formula will help you to consistently push your power level, as well as the power level of future weapon and gear drops, making the loot that much better. This mechanic played a huge factor in my enjoyment of the game.

Defiance 2050 - Cross-Platform Play SupportUnfortunately, while the game is indeed available for PC, Playstation 4 and Xbox One, there is no support for play across those systems. Trion Worlds posted about the game.' Defiance 2050 can be played separately on PC, Xbox One, and Playstation 4 and will not be cross-platform compatible.'

So unfortunately, much like the previous version of Defiance, if you want to play with a friend you better make sure you're both playing the game on the same platform.