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Helios flight 522 blame11/25/2023 ![]() A month later, Boeing admitted it had known about a software problem with its 737 Max planes a year before the fatal accidents – though it insisted that there were plans to address it. “ Procedures were not completely followed,” said Boeing’s then CEO, Dennis Muilenburg, at a news conference in April 2019. In the immediate wake of these crashes, involving newer planes, Boeing suggested the blame lay with the pilots. This has played out in the recent catastrophic crashes of two Boeing 737 Maxs. But the rituals of disaster also involve a blame game, with a tendency to point to human error. It is based on the principle that what we learn from one accident can help prevent another. When a plane crashes, each twisted and charred fragment is painstakingly located, mapped and tagged, with findings submitted to investigating boards who probe and question, and draw conclusions. A fireball destroyed several acres of scrub and pasture land. There were 115 passengers, from Greece, Cyprus and Australia, and six crew. We’ll phone if we need you.’”Īt 9.03am, flight 522 crashed into a hillside near the village of Grammatiko, 25 miles from Athens, killing everyone on board. “It was decided I couldn’t be of any use,” Irwin says. As the news of the impending disaster spread, the operations room filled up. In another 20 minutes, flight 522 would crash. Irwin calculated that it had taken off with enough fuel to be in the air for around three hours. ![]() I just take the information and work through it.” The plane, now on autopilot, was circling over Athens, as if waiting for permission to land. “Engineers aren’t particularly reactive people. “Everyone was thinking terrorism,” Irwin says. ![]() The office had received a chilling report from two jets scrambled by the Hellenic air force to intercept the plane: the captain’s seat was empty the person in the first officer’s seat was slumped over the controls the only three passengers visible were motionless, wearing oxygen masks and masks were dangling from overhead units. It was now more than two hours since takeoff and the plane was still in the air, with 121 people on board. The flight time was one hour and 45 minutes. Flight 522 had taken off from Larnaca for Athens at 6.07am. They had lost radio contact with one of their planes. “Sometimes the engineering manager just wanted to chat about the flying programme or shift patterns,” he says.īut Irwin found the operations room in crisis. It was the operations centre at Helios asking Irwin to go into the office. It was the school holidays and his family were over from Bedfordshire, where they lived during term time. ![]() That day, Irwin had started work at 1am, finished at around 6.30am and was planning to take his children to the beach. “My lad used to stand on a plastic box the size of a top hat to take his pool shot,” he remembers. A pool table stands in the open-plan living room. “The work was interesting and the quality of life fabulous,” he says, from the home he designed and built himself in Bedfordshire. ![]() On some days he was needed for only a few hours. Irwin’s job was to do the “turnarounds”: checking the plane over after it arrived and ensuring it was safe to take off again. Helios was based at Larnaca airport and had three aircraft – all Boeing 737s. Small and trim, with wavy hair, he had an affable, hands-on manner his managers liked. He was a familiar face, having worked there in 2002. That April, Helios Airways, the low-cost Cypriot airline, hired Irwin for six months. ![]()
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Best new hbo max movies11/25/2023 ![]() ![]() The Righteous Gemstones Season 3 (June 18, HBO) It will also stream on Disney+ the same day. James Cameron's version of grown-up Smurfs comes home to be watched just the way he intended it to be: on the cracked screen of your iPhone while you're on the toilet. As for what the show is actually about, Depp plays an aspiring pop star who gets taken under the wing of a self-help guru/cult leader (The Weeknd). A Rolling Stone exposé on The Idol painted behind-the-scenes turmoil that included financial irresponsibility, gross dudes being gross, and whittling down the music business drama into a "rape fantasy" of star Lily-Rose Depp. I hope you like messy! The headlines surrounding Euphoria creator Sam Levinson's new drama have nothing to do with the actual show and all to do with how crappy - or not crappy, if you ask co-creator and star The Weeknd - production on the series has gone. We'll designate Max exclusives where appropriate. But not all shows and movies on Max make it to HBO. Max streams all HBO shows and movies when they debut on HBO. The best new HBO and Max movies and shows in JuneĪbel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye, The Idol Eddy Chen/HBO Everything coming to Amazon Prime Video in June.All the new shows and movies on Hulu in June.Last month's guide: New HBO Max Shows and Movies (May 2023) ![]() Next month's guide: New HBO Max Shows and Movies (July 2023) Later this month is the return of And Just Like That., featuring the highly anticipated return of Kim Cattrall as Samantha, and the outlandish comedy The Righteous Gemstones.īelow, we pulled together our picks for the month, plus a list of what's coming to HBO and HBO Max (Max) in June. Expect the internet on June 5 to be filled with some extremely passionate discourse about The Weeknd's new series about the music industry. ![]() ( Raised by Wolves, we miss you!) This month features one of TV's most talked about (for the wrong reasons) shows of the year, The Idol, debuting on June 4. minus everything CEO David Zaslav has been scuttling for tax breaks, of course. HBO Max became just plain 'ol Max last month, but it still has all the same great content. ![]()
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Drupal support11/25/2023 ![]() The Drupal community has a primary Slack workspace known simply as 'Drupal', which has over 800 channels. Chatting is organized into Slack workspaces, and within workspaces, into channels. Still the best digital experience platform (DXP) on the web, proudly open source. Slack is a proprietary, but free to use, platform for real-time threaded online chat. On the other hand, all projects encourage you to use issues to report problems and bugs see Section 14.1, “Connecting with the Community” to learn more about that. Drupal 10.1 is here and packed with amazing improvements It makes customizing the look of your site easier, adds support for decoupled navigation, improves content modeling and editing, block management, performance, and more. ![]() Be respectful of developer time and read the documentation for the project before posting a question in an issue. We provide Drupal Support to ensure our Clients sites are running at optimal performance and that the Drupal core and Drupal modules are maintained. Most of the times an issue about the problem youve encountered already exists. Generally, projects that have a very large number of users do not allow support requests in their issues (Drupal Core is in that category), while projects with a smaller number of users welcome the occasional support question. If you need help with your user account, content or functionality, or want to report a bug, please search all issues first. Second, some (but not all) contributed module, distribution, and theme projects encourage you to post support requests in issues. I would like to implement httpclientmiddleware on Drupal 10 in order to use the cookie to authorize against the API available over HTTPS. Still the best digital experience platform(DXP). ![]() First, some Slack channels, DrupalChat channels, local groups, and language communities encourage support questions, through on-line chat, in-person meetings, or websites (find out more about these on Section 14.1, “Connecting with the Community”). Drupal 10.1 is here and packed with amazing improvements It makes customizing the look of your site easier, adds support for decoupled navigation, improves content modeling and editing, block management, performance, and more. There are several options for free support provided by community volunteers. We offer 24/7 support, diverse expertise. The Drupal project is open-source, so if you have questions about or problems with the software, your options for finding answers and fixes are somewhat different from what they would be for commercial software. Ensure your website remains up to date, secure and running smoothly with our dedicated SLA-backed Drupal service desk. ![]()
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Resolutioners at the gym11/25/2023 ![]() ![]() I look at the members and most of them look like they've been working out quite a long time. It seems like no one gives a darn about gym etiquette and the members have never gone to a gym before. I also can't stand the peeps who are so clean yet they cannot flush after the go. Weight plates are still on the barbells and machines. Weights are scattered all over the floor. I've emailed the management about my discontentment with my gym before but it's still the same.Įvery time I go to the gym, it seems like it's a never been tidied. I really do not know if it's the members or the management who I should be blaming for my issues with the gym. The next closest gyms in the chain are within a 10 mile radius and there are 4 of them. It's only a half mile from my house but I hate it. I have a gym membership to this national gym chain named after a prominent west coast city. Love running? You can subscribe to my weekly newsletter or read more about running shoes in my ebook. Take a step back and realize how upset you would be if you found out someone was publically shaming you for trying something new. It is never appropriate to take a picture of someone without their permission, especially to make fun of them. Publically shaming someone for chasing their goals isn’t okay.įinally, please remember that you shouldn’t post online photos of people if someone has not consented to you doing so. Do not be upset with others for attempting to start their fitness journeys. I encourage you to think about when you first began your fitness journey. Some people might fall off the wagon, but some will succeed. So as you ring in the New Year, remember that a New Years’ resolution might not be your thing, but it doesn’t have to be. Was that person laughing? It must be at me…Īre those people chatting? They must be talking about me… It reminds me of people that won’t follow someone on Twitter or Facebook because they have five followers. New people (anywhere) fear being judged the most. When people first begin something, they are the most self-conscious. It’s like judging people for how many followers they have. Judging someone based on their fitness level is both pathetic and sad. ![]() For the first several months, maybe even a year, I thought everyone was judging me. I tried every machine for about 5 minutes. It was at the YMCA with mostly the older crowd, and I still felt like I didn’t belong. I remember the first time I went to the gym alone. The fact is that it is still 8% more than last year.Įveryone started their fitness journey somewhere. But “New Years Resolutions Never Last”:Īccording to studies, only 8% of people keep their New Year’s resolutions. If someone “getting in your way” annoys you, purchase your gym equipment and stay home. Or because you are doing more at the gym. No one is more entitled to a piece of equipment because you have been a member longer. The reality is everyone at the gym is paying for the same membership. (But really: you are wasting your time complaining) ![]() I hate how busy it is I hope these people leave soon. Ugh, I hate waiting in line for the gym equipment I want to use. Here are just a few complaints about resolutioners at the gym I’ve seen: Sure, having more people at the gym is inconvenient because fewer machines are available. Sadly, I also hear friends publically wish resolutioners would get out of the gym or get out of their way. That’s awesome and I’m happy for everyone! Or they want to get into running! Or a new sport! Whatever! They plan to do X, Y, and Z. If New Years’ Resolutions keep you motivated, then great.Īnd yes, there are millions of other New Years’ Resolutions other than “lose X pounds” and “get fitter.” This post could be summed up as, “stop being an asshole to those begin coming to the gym on January 1st”.Įvery year I hear friends declare they will go to the gym more. Because, like many things, I think there is a time and place for them. This isn’t a post to say I don’t believe in New Years’ Resolutions either. This isn’t a typical New Year’s Resolution post sharing my New Years’ Resolutions. ![]()
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Concerts at globe life field11/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Last fall, the building hosted ten football games, the Lockheed Martin Commanders' Classic presented by USAA between the U.S. These include the Major League Baseball NLDS, NLCS, and World Series and Wrangler© National Finals Rodeo in 2020 and the State Farm College Baseball Showdown, over 50 total college baseball games, the Hella Mega Tour featuring Green Day, Fallout Boy, and Weezer, and Chris Stapleton in Concert in 2021. ![]() Oklahoma State will return for their 19 th appearance in Arlington, the most of any college program at Globe Life Field.Īll three weekends of College Baseball will be streamed by FloSports.Ībout Globe Life Field: Globe Life Field is not only the home of the Texas Rangers but has also hosted numerous sports and entertainment events since its opening in March 2020. TCU leads the pack with 11 total wins at Globe Life Field, followed by Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, both tied with 10. In all, 21 games will take the stage in Arlington in 2024. This is the first College Baseball Showdown appearance for Tennessee (44-22 in 2023), Oregon (41-22 in 2023), Nebraska (33-23-1 in 2023) and Baylor (20-35 in 2023). In addition, Texas Tech (41-23 in 2023) and Oklahoma (32-28 in 2023) have both participated at least once in the College Baseball Showdown. This marks the first appearance for Tennessee, Texas A&M, USC, Arizona State, Oregon, and Oregon State. Six of the fourteen programs have appeared at Globe Life Field in the last two years including Arkansas (5-1), Oklahoma (10-6), Texas Tech (4-9), TCU (10-2), Nebraska (2-3) and Baylor (0-3). Globe Life Field has been home to 74 college baseball games since 2021. Of the 37 drafted, 35 percent were taken in the first five rounds. ![]() In addition, 37 players from the 2023 College Baseball Showdown were drafted in the 2023 MLB draft. Nine of the 14 programs in the 2024 lineup advanced to the postseason in 2023, with two – Tennessee and TCU - advancing to the College World. Suites are available by contacting of every ticket sold from all three weekends of college baseball at Globe Life Field will benefit Shriners Children's.Ģ024 will mark the fourth year of the College Baseball Showdown at Globe Life Field, each year it is among the highest attended college baseball tournaments in the NCAA. General Admission Tournament Passes are $63 for adults and $39 for children. Single-Day general admission tickets are $30 for adults and $18 for children. Triple Play passes are available by emailing Admission Tournament Passes and single-day tickets will go on sale later this fall. The Triple Play Pass includes all the amenities of a premium weekend pass but is valid for all 21 college games at Globe Life Field. In addition, the Triple Play Pass will be good for all three weekends of college baseball at Globe Life Field. Premium Tournament Passes are $144 for adults and $72 for children. ![]() Premium Tournament Passes will be available for purchase for all three weekends. New to 2024, fans will be able to purchase Premium and Triple Play Packages - featuring reserved tickets behind home plate with exclusive access to the Lexus Club, premium parking, food and beverage offerings and a swag bag. The Shriners Children's College Showdown which will feature Oklahoma, Texas Tech, Baylor, Tennessee, Nebraska and Oregon. Globe Life Field will host Arkansas, Oklahoma State, Michigan and Oregon State in a similar event during the season's second weekend of February 23-25. Premium tickets will go on sale tomorrow, Wednesday, July 26, at 10:00 a.m. It will be the Aggies' second trip to Globe Life Field, having taken on UT Arlington there during the 2021 season. Tickets: #GigEm /tl8em3fJux- Texas A&M Baseball July 26, 2023 Premium ticket packages are available now for the Series next spring! The weekend schedule, which will feature the Aggies only playing opponents from the Pac 12, will be released at a later date. The Aggies will be joined by Arizona State, USC and TCU for the showcase set for March 1-3. The events will follow the inaugural Shriners Children's College Showdown set for February 16-18. The announcement released teams for the second and third weekends at Globe Life Field, the home of the Texas Rangers, for early in the 2024 season. ARLINGTON – The first pieces of the 2024 Texas A&M baseball schedule were unveiled on Tuesday when officials from REV Entertainment announced the Aggies as part of the showcase at Globe Life Field for the third weekend of the season. ![]()
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Duplicate photos fixer pro windows11/25/2023 ![]() ![]() You may have discovered that AppNee has hardly been updated in recent months, and the missing download links in many posts cannot be repaired. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Otherwise, please bear all the consequences by yourself. ![]() Otherwise, you may receive a variety of copyright complaints and have to deal with them by yourself.īefore using (especially downloading) any resources shared by AppNee, please first go to read our F.A.Q. page more or less. To repost or reproduce, you must add an explicit footnote along with the URL to this article!Īny manual or automated whole-website collecting/crawling behaviors are strictly prohibited.Īny resources shared on AppNee are limited to personal study and research only, any form of commercial behaviors are strictly prohibited. This article along with all titles and tags are the original content of AppNee. If the program does not launch, run it as administrator.Furthermore, it can scan the entire disk, as well as specific folders, and supports quick image preview for users to filter the unwanted photos.ĪppNee provides the Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro Edition multilingual portable full registered versions for Windows 32-bit & 64-bit, and pre-activated versions for Mac. In addition, Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro provides complete matching and intelligent matching these two photo searching & comparing methods, and allows to customize the matching rate. It is able to help users intelligently scan and delete the repetitive and similar photos on their computers with one click, thus freeing up a lot of disk space and saving you the trouble of looking through a pile of duplicate photos in order to find the ones you don’t need to keep. Therefore, it is absolutely essential to remove duplicates and keep our photos collection organized.ĭuplicate Photos Fixer Pro is a very practical duplicate pictures, photos finding and cleaning tool for Windows and Mac, developed by Systweak Software from India. ![]() Duplicate photos do waste a lot of disk space, especially those with high resolution. There are two major possibilities for the generation of duplicate photos on a computer: 1) multiple copies of the exact same photo, which are mostly forgotten in multiple folders or different storage devices 2) multiple photos taken in the same or very similar scenes, most of the time we don’t have time or feel bother to delete those redundant ones. ![]()
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Cute i love you images for him11/25/2023 ![]() ![]() We’re just a perfect fit and an ideal balance. I love how we can be lovers, friends, companions, and even a team at the same time. You’ve helped me develop much better habits, and I’m so much happier and healthier for them. Cheering me up when I am feeling down is just one of your many talents. I love you because you somehow always know exactly the right words to say that will make me feel better.I love how you can make my heart melt with your soft lips.You let me give you a detailed description of how I spent my day.You know me better than anyone else in the world.Just continue reading and you’ll find some really cute words for boyfriend! You’ve probably never thought about it, but men love all those cute things, too! That’s why we highly recommend you tell your bf the reasons, why you love him - and if you can’t find the right words, it’s not a problem at all. Even when I stumbled slightly in the very beginning. You never faltered and you had faith in us.When I’m sad, you take the pain away with a joke.Even when I’m grumpy, you still like me.You always support me when I am upset and always laugh at my foolish jokes, you love me without changing me, I appreciate it. ![]() And you dare to cross them when you are sure you know better. ![]()
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Space wallpaper black hole11/25/2023 ![]() ![]() An important area of modern astrophysics is determining how supermassive black holes came to be: Were they formed with such high masses, or did their mass build up over time? Understanding these questions can give insights into the cosmic origins of our galaxy. The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is, commonly known as Sgr A*, with a mass of over 4 million suns. Supermassive black holes: Supermassive black holes are huge, ranging from millions to billions of times the mass of the sun and appear to be in the center of almost all galaxies.Black holes, Galaxy, Digital art, Space art, Artwork HD Wallpaper / Desktop and Mobile Image & Photo'> Get Wallpaper. They might have formed in environments dense with stars or from mergers of stellar-mass black holes or something completely different. Check out this fantastic collection of Dark Purple Space wallpapers, with 51 Dark Purple Space background images for your desktop, phone or tablet. See related: Hubble, Telescope, 3522 wallpapers. Scientists believe there are several scenarios that may explain their formation. Black Hole 4K with a maximum resolution of 3840x2160 and related black or hole wallpapers. ![]() ![]() Astronomers have spotted evidence for a handful of candidates but were only recently able to confirm their existence. Intermediate-mass black holes: Black holes that range from about a hundred to hundreds of thousands solar masses are called intermediate-mass black holes.Most stellar-mass black holes are roughly five to 10 times more massive than the sun, but the NSF-supported Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory has detected several with masses up to 100 times that of the sun. Stellar-mass black holes: The most common black holes form from the result of a supernova, the catastrophic death of a massive star.While the smallest have likely evaporated, the larger primordial black holes may still exist - though, even those have remained undetected. Most were extremely tiny, about the size of an atom or smaller. Primordial black holes: Many scientists believe these tiny black holes formed from the condensation of raw materials in the early cosmos and emerged soon after the Big Bang.Scientists believe there are four kinds of black holes: primordial, stellar-mass, intermediate-mass and supermassive. This photo shows the Livingston detector site. Credit: Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab The LIGO Laboratory operates two detector sites, one near Hanford in eastern Washington, and another near Livingston, Louisiana. ![]()
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How to set default folder view in windows 1011/25/2023 ![]() REM Modified by Ken Carlilep0 and Sam HillsįOR /F "tokens=2* delims=\" %%a IN ('REG QUERY HKU ^|Findstr /R "DEFAULT S-1-5-*-*$"') DO CALL :modkey %%aįor /d %%b in ("%ProfPath%\*") do call :modlokey Exiting here ends the whole batch file. Note: If your security software blocks the download or the app. If you skipped step 3, then, in the SmartScreen window, click More info and then Run anyway. Right-click WinSetView.exe, select Properties, check Unblock, and click OK. By default, if you navigate through folders using the right pane, the Navigation pane stays at the top level folder. REM Also edits the registry hive for users who are not logged in Download the zip file using the link above. REM Modifies registry keys in for all logged in users REG ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced /v DontPrettyPath /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /fĮcho WScript.Echo CreateObject("WScript.Shell").RegRead("HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\ProfilesDirectory") >%temp%\profpath.vbsįor /f "tokens=*" %%i in ('cscript //nologo %temp%\profpath.vbs') do set ProfPath=%%i REG ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced /v ShowSuperHidden /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f REG ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced /v Hidden /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f REG ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced /v HideFileExt /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f REG ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL /v DefaultValue /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f Contents Option One: Set a Default Folder View for All Folders in File Explorer Option Two: Set a Default Folder View for All Folders using WinSetView (recommended) OPTION ONE Set a Default Folder View for All Folders in File Explorer The view settings in this option will not be applied to libraries, This PC, and open and save as dialog boxes. REG ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\HideFileExt /v DefaultValue /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f REM Turns "hide file extensions" OFF and "show hidden files" ON. 3)On the windows 'Folder options' that will show up, click the tab 'View'. REM Changes to HKLM are not user-specific Replies (6) 1)Open any folder and set its view to 'Details' (which is the one you want, right) 2)ON that same folder, click the tab 'View' on the top, then 'Options' at the far right and select 'Change folder and. Step 3: Navigate to the View tab in the top ribbon. You can change the layout in the upper of File window to choose which folder. It loops through ALL the users in the registry and the profiles directory (including DEFAULT, so newly-created users get them too) and sets these options for them all. To set Windows 10 change default view, you can follow the below steps: Step 1: Press the Win + E key to open the File Explorer. ![]() The above registry patches are correct, but they don't fix the entire problem. ![]()
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When will xdefiant be released11/25/2023 ![]() Ubisoft went all in with this announcement as they released five deep dive trailers highlighting the XDefiant’s gameplay, a game overview, explaining Factions, the game’s maps and modes, and a peek at the game’s seasonal roadmap. Think of factions in this game as classes as each one has its own set of unique abilities to bring to a match. Ubisoft have confirmed that XDefiant will be coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as it is currently being worked on. The last-gen version of XDefiant will launch as soon as they are ready. These factions are based on known factions from Ubisoft’s other franchises: The Cleaners (The Division), Libertad (Far Cry 6), Echelon (Splinter Cell), Phantoms (Ghost Recon Phantoms), and DedSec (Watch Dogs). Web XDefiant will be released on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. When XDefiant launches, it will feature 14 maps, five Ubisoft-inspired factions, 24 weapons, 44 attachments, and five devices. This beta will feature cross-play meaning players from PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC can play together. You can register through their website for a chance at getting a code or do what I did – watch a streamer playing XDefiant with Drops on for 30 minutes. Those interested in checking out the new shooter can either register to get in the beta or watch Twitch streamers with Drops enabled to get access to the beta. ![]() For now, you can check out what we thought of the closed beta preview for XDefiant.Ubisoft announced that the closed beta for their free-to-play competitive FPS game XDefiant is now live worldwide and will run until April 23. Ubisoft has confirmed that the XDefiant release date will arrive. Currently, the closed beta is only being offered up to PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S players.Īs we hear more about the game, we’ll be sure to update this page with everything we know. Tom Clancys XDefiant is a newly announced free-to-play, fast-paced arena. You can register “for a chance to enter the future live phases” for any console at the XDefiant website. If you want to play XDefiant in closed beta. Note that servers are set to close at 11PM PT (6AM in UK time). The latest chance to play XDefiant runs from April 13, up until April 23, 2023. This is to ensure that players “are not committed to a loadout as soon as you go into a match”, which Weigand feels will add more competitive depth to the game. Unlike many competitive games, XDefiant will allow players to change their Defiants, faction, abilities and loadouts upon respawning in a match. She has also confirmed that each Defiant – playable characters in these factions – will come with a set of skins, though it’s unknown if players will need to earn or buy them. Ubisoft notes that they will “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.” Abilities, weapon customisation and skins in XDefiantĮach faction will have its own set of passive traits, ‘ultra’ abilities, and “the freedom to choose from a number of different abilities” according to producer Kim Weigend. The Cleaners will be a “high DPS assault class”, while Echelon will be a support-based faction, which will be all about “hiding information from the enemies and giving more information to teammates”. The Wolves will be a tank class with higher health than other factions and “abilities that are shield based”. Producer Kim Weigend has stated that the factions bring class-based gameplay. Finally, Echelon is a group from the Splinter Cell series. ![]() DedSec are from Watch Dogs, and Libertad are from Far Cry. The Cleaners are from The Division, while The Phantoms are from Ghost Recon. These five factions will be familiar to many fans of the Tom Clancy franchise. Players will be able to choose from five different factions – the Cleaners, Phantoms, Libertad, DedSec and Echelon – at launch. ![]() |