Functionality means “does this gameplay feature work as intended” (e.g., there is a bug where the damage from your weapon is altered after using a certain ability.) This is not something the 1st parties will be looking for unless of course it prevents them from testing. Also, to be clear during this submission process, the QC team at Ubisoft are putting the build through the ringer looking for functionality bugs and another team at Ubisoft, divided up into PC, Sony and Xbox groups are looking for compliance bugs. 1st parties take a week to get their final report on the submission and give us a Pass or Not Pass with a list of must fixes for the next submission.

If it passes, then it goes to the 1st parties to be certified for release. It then goes through 1 week of heavy QA & Compliance testing by several Ubisoft teams. Once we have fixed or completed all of the tasks that we want/think we need for submission we then spend about 2-3 weeks prepping and validating a CM (Candidate Master) that we think is the final version of the game for submission. To get to that we have to self-test with internal QA/Compliance teams to try and find any issues that might get flagged in the submission process. Submission is the part of development where we give the game to the 1st parties (Sony, Xbox, etc.) to check that the game works correctly in their environments.

Here is a detailed description of how the submission process goes: And sometimes full transparency is like drinking from a firehose so hope you all are thirsty! :D First things first. Hello XDefiant Fans! I’ve got an update for you and it’s a big one! We want to explain further why we haven’t given a specific date yet for our launch.

Xdefiant release date