History VideoGame / Defiance

In an AlternateTimeline where Earth was devastated in a nine years-long conflict that ravaged the planet between humanity and a collection of alien races known as the Votanis Collective until a truce between a group of human and Votan soldiers during the Battle of Defiance in San Francisco ended what would be later known as the ''Pale Wars''.

* EnergyBeings: The Gulanee, both in friendly/neutral flavors with the Ex Inanis and their leader Pe'Numbra, and the Not-So-Friendly Leader of the Raiders, Dy'Dekuso.

** Most of the sapient resisdents of the Bay Area also have these in abundance tied to solar powered generators, both friendly and hostile. Not terribly surprising, given the hostility of the local wildlife.

* UnflinchingWalk: Subverted and lampshaded. You, Jon Cooper and Torc Mok walk away from a major demolition mission. Torc turns around to look, Jon says that you don't do that only for Torc to ask what's the point of big explosions if you don't enjoy them.

* LesYay: In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment (during the Human-Irathian hybrid quest), you'll see [[spoiler:Rosa and Eren hold hands]].

* MirrorBoss: Nim Shondu has the same four action skills that the ark hunter can use, only better. During the first round, he'll use blur and cloak in tandem to get close to you and perform well-timed charge attacks. During the second round, he'll cloak and deploy multiple decoys that can deal actual damage; his limit breaker is to surround you with decoys across the room and have all of them charge a ranged attack at the same time. During the final round, he'll lose it and go into permanent overcharge, which looks like a cyberdemon; he spams ranged attacks. To make things fair, he uses a force blade and his ranged attacks are non-bullet.

*** By that, we mean there's a piece of land that survived, and it's called Silicon Valley. It's slightly larger than an aircraft carrier. The other 99% of what used to be Silicon Valley is now underwater.
* MoodDissonance: Due to the basic use of stock audio for every sidequest, you could do a mission that has a jarring and disturbing end, yet the quest giver will remain positive and cheerful. Example: Rosa's girlfriend went on a 45-day spirit quest only to get burned and hanged by bandits. Rosa's response?

* [[WasOnceAMan Was Once A Woman]]: Season 2's questline reveals that EGO's personality is an Indogene Scientist named Reh Valamm. She was the actual creator of the EGO Device, whereas the credited creator, Yargad Gorhash, lied about personality conversion tech used to make the Implants being "perfectly safe," having it kill her and take the credit for himself. EGO is understandably troubled and angry about this revelation.

* CutShort: ''Defiance 2050'' only lasted three years before the servers were closed. That said, it was a very stripped down version of the original game, leaving out two entire zones (Alcatraz and Silicon Valley), several enemy types (Shrill, Neo-Votanis Front and The Cult of the Dawnbringer), and a lot of background information on the more mysterious enemy types like the Grid, as well as a continuation of what happened to Von Bach Post-TheStinger. This likely happened due to a portion of the primary voice cast not being able to return for later "Seasons" so the storylines were removed/replaced in favor of VA continuity.
** ''2050'' was advertised to have a new storyline set in 2050 -- four years after the original campaign -- that was going to take the place of the original game's post-launch story missions. However, it never managed to begin due to Trion Worlds' reduced workforce and the game not being profitable enough to justify the investment.

In an AlternateTimeline where Earth was devastated in a nine years-long conflict -- between humanity and a collection of alien races known as the Votanis Collective -- that ravaged the planet until a truce between a group of human and Votan soldiers during the Battle of Defiance in San Francisco ended what would be later known as the ''Pale Wars''.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: All events will have an ammo station appear with them, meaning that players don't have to leave the area to fimd ammo.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: Pretty much the only way you can damage bigger enemies.

* BarrierWarrior: Guardian class has a few fitting abilities for this trope. On the enemy side, most notably Dark Matter Monitors, and the occasional [[DemonicSpiders Shielded Grid Sentry]].

* BigFreakingGun: Light Machine Guns, Sniper Rifles, That massive energy minigun you get to use during the tutorial...
* BodyHorror: The result of getting hit and killed by an Infector.
* BrokenBridge: What's left of the Golden Gate Bridge

* CutShort: ''Defiance 2050'' only lasted three years before the servers were closed.

* EnemyCivilWar: "Mutants" are former EMC soldiers driven insane by... something. Hellbugs are mindless giant insects that attack everything that isn't a Hellbug. Raiders can be of any human or votan species (except Volge), and will steal anything that they can sell for scrip and attack anyone they can steal from. Dark Matter is a rogue Votan supremacist faction still fighting a war that ended 15 years ago. The 99ers are former workers of Mine 99, who have gone insane and begun turning themselves into cyborgs for the lulz. The Volge are ten-foot-tall mercenary bruisers with thick energy shields who like setting up roadblocks for no particular reason. There's an obligatory zombie faction in The Afflicted. The Scrappers are basically robotic Hellbugs, and the Grid are HiveMind nanomachines possessing the bodies of members of the other factions (usually raiders or 99ers). You've got every type of basic enemy and they all hate each other almost as much as they hate [[EverythingTryingToKillYou YOU]].
* EnergyBeings: The Gulanee, both in friendly/neutral flavors with the Ex Inanis, and the oh-so-very-much-omnicidal Grid.

* HandCannon: Unsurprisingly, given what [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou Ark Hunters have to deal with on a constant basis]], most ingame handguns are this, especially the M212 Demon, which is easily recognizeable as the preferred weapon of both Jon Cooper and Joshua Nolan of the Defiant Few.

* InterfaceScrew: Electric-element attacks disable your friendly nanomachine AI. This doesn't kill her, but it prevents you from using the HUD while it's active, including weapon zooming for some reason.

*** By that, we mean there's a piece of land that survived, and it's called Silicon Valley. It's slightly larger than an aircraft carrier. The other 99% of what used to be silicon valley is now underwater.

* ThrowDownTheBomblet: Speciality of the Demolitionist class. The Engineer's left-side Tier 2 choice Minefield is also this, especially if you land it on top of a horde of enemies.

After 8 years, ''Trion Worlds'' announced in February 2021 that the servers of the game -- including the ''2050'' version -- would be closed down in April 29 due to the games not being profitable enough to keep going.

After 8 years, ''Trion Worlds'' announced in February 2021 that the servers of the game and the ''2050'' version would be closed down in April 29 due to the games not being profitable enough to keep going.

In July 2018, the game was relaunched as ''Defiance 2050'' with better graphics, rebalanced gameplay, items, weapons and events, and was also released on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne. However, the original game is still online and playable, now referred as ''Defiance 20'''13'''''.

''Defiance'' is a MassivelyMultiplayerOnline ThirdPersonShooter developed by Trion Worlds, released in April 2, 2013 for the PC, UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 and UsefulNotes/Xbox360, and serving as a tie-in for the [[Series/{{Defiance}} TV series]]. Although the series was cancelled in 2015 after three seasons, the game goes on.

After 8 years, ''Trion Worlds'' announced in February 2021 that the servers of game and the ''2050'' version would be closed down in April 29.

Thirteen years later, [[TheFederation United Earth Republic]] (a nation formed in north-eastern U.S following the war) hires a number of Ark Hunters -- a type heavily armed adventurer and scavenger of Votan technology that surfaced shortly after the war -- as part of an expedition sponsored by ''Von Bach Industries'' to the ruins of San Francisco in search for lost Ark technology and to establish a foothold in the region. [[PlayerCharacter You]], one of the many hired Ark Hunters, are given a combat enhancement [[MissionControl E.G.O implant]] just before the expedition goes into disarray fast upon entering the Bay Area, and you end up teaming up with an Irathien scavenger named [[ActionGirl Cass Ducar]], renowned technology C.E.O [[InsufferableGenius Karl Von Bach]] and Lawbringer [[CowboyCop Jon Cooper]], as you travel across San Francisco trying to stop an xenophobic alien faction -- believed to have dissolved after the [[GreatOffscreenWar Pale Wars]] -- trying to assemble and activate an Ark in order to wage a war against humanity and those willing to co-exist with them.

Thirteen years later, [[TheFederation United Earth Republic]] (a nation formed in north-eastern U.S following the war) hires a number of Ark Hunters -- a type heavily armed adventurer and scavenger of Votan technology that surfaced shortly after the war -- as part of an expedition sponsored by ''Von Bach Industries'' to the ruins of San Francisco in search for lost Ark technology and to establish a foothold in the region. [[PlayerCharacter You]], one of the many hired Ark Hunters, are given a combat enhancement [[MissionControl E.G.O implant]]. However, the expedition goes into disarray fast shortly after entering the Bay Area and you end up teaming up with an Irathien scavenger named [[ActionGirl Cass Ducar]], renowned technology C.E.O [[InsufferableGenius Karl Von Bach]] and Lawbringer [[CowboyCop Jon Cooper]], as you travel across San Francisco trying to stop an xenophobic alien faction -- believed to have dissolved after the [[GreatOffscreenWar Pale Wars]] -- trying to assemble and activate an Ark in order to wage a war against humanity and those willing to co-exist with them.

In an AlternateTimeline where Earth was devastated in a nine years-long conflict between humanity and a collection of alien races known as the Votanis Collective that ravaged the planet until a truce between a group of human and Votan soldiers during the Battle of Defiance in San Francisco ended the war that would be later known as the ''Pale Wars''.

Thirteen years later, [[PlayerCharacter You]], an Ark Hunter -- a type heavily armed adventurer and scavenger of Votan technology that surfaced shortly after the war -- are hired by the [[TheFederation United Earth Republic]] as part of an expedition sponsored by ''Von Bach Industries'' to the ruins of San Francisco in search for Ark technology and to establish a foothold in the region. [[PlayerCharacter You]] are given a combat enhancement [[MissionControl E.G.O implant]] and teams up with an Irathien scavenger named [[ActionGirl Cass Ducar]], renowned technology C.E.O [[InsufferableGenius Karl Von Bach]] and Lawbringer [[CowboyCop Jon Cooper]], as they travel across San Francisco trying to stop an xenophobic alien faction -- believed to have dissolved after the [[GreatOffscreenWar Pale Wars]] -- trying to assemble and activate an Ark in order to wage a war against humanity and those willing to co-exist with them.

Thirteen years later, [[PlayerCharacter You]], an Ark Hunter -- a type heavily armed adventurer and scavenger of Votan technology that surfaced shortly after the war -- are hired by the [[TheFederation United Earth Republic]] as part of an expedition sponsored by ''Von Bach Industries'' to the ruins of San Francisco in search for Ark technology and to establish a foothold in the region. The PlayerCharacter is given a combat enhancement [[MissionControl E.G.O implant]] and teams up with an Irathien scavenger named [[ActionGirl Cass Ducar]], renowned technology C.E.O [[InsufferableGenius Karl Von Bach]] and Lawbringer [[CowboyCop Jon Cooper]], as they travel across San Francisco trying to stop an xenophobic alien faction -- believes to have dissolved after the [[GreatOffscreenWar Pale Wars]] -- trying to assemble and activate an Ark in order to wage a war against humanity and those willing to co-exist with them.

In an AlternateTimeline where Earth was devastated in a conflict between humanity and a collection of alien races known as the Votanis Collective, ravaged the planet until a truce between a group of human and Votan soldiers during the Battle of Defiance in San Francisco ended the war that would be later known as the ''Pale Wars'' which lasted from 2023 to 2032.

In April 2046, [[PlayerCharacter You]], an Ark Hunter -- a type heavily armed adventurer and scavenger of Votan technology that surfaced shortly after the war -- are hired by the [[TheFederation United Earth Republic]] as part of an expedition sponsored by ''Von Bach Industries'' to the ruins of San Francisco to search for Ark technology and to establish a foothold in the region. The PlayerCharacter is given a combat enhancement [[MissionControl E.G.O implant]] and teams up with an Irathien scavenger named [[ActionGirl Cass Ducar]], renowned technology C.E.O [[InsufferableGenius Karl Von Bach]] and Lawbringer [[CowboyCop Jon Cooper]], as they travel across San Francisco trying to stop an xenophobic alien faction -- believes to have dissolved after the [[GreatOffscreenWar Pale Wars]] -- trying to assemble and activate an Ark in order to wage a war against humanity and those willing to co-exist with them.

In a AlternateTimeline where Earth was devastated in a conflict between humanity and a collection of alien races known as the Votan -- caused by humanity's paranoia and the Votans' desperation to settle on Earth -- ravaged the planet until a truce between a group of human and Votan soldiers during the Battle of Defiance in San Francisco ended the war that would be later known as the ''Pale Wars''.

[[PlayerCharacter You]] are one of many Ark Hunters -- heavily armed adventurers and scavengers of Votan technology -- hired by the [[TheFederation United Earth Republic]] as part of an expedition sponsored by ''Von Bach Industries'' to the ruins of San Francisco to search for Ark technology and to establish a foothold in the region. The PlayerCharacter is given a combat enhancement [[MissionControl E.G.O implant]] and teams up with an Irathien scavenger named [[ActionGirl Cass Ducar]], renowned technology C.E.O [[InsufferableGenius Karl Von Bach]] and Lawbringer [[CowboyCop Jon Cooper]], as they travel across San Francisco trying to stop an xenophobic alien faction -- believes to have dissolved after the [[GreatOffscreenWar Pale Wars]] -- trying to assemble and activate an Ark in order to wage a war against humanity and those willing to co-exist with them.

[[PlayerCharacter You]] are one of many Ark Hunters -- heavily armed adventurers and scavengers of Votan technology -- hired by the [[TheFederation United Earth Republic]] as part of an expedition sponsored by ''Von Bach Industries'' to the ruins of San Francisco to search for Ark technology and to establish a foothold in the region. The PlayerCharacter is given a combat enhancement [[MissionControl E.G.O implant]] and teams up with an Irathien scavenger named [[ActionGirl Cass Ducar]], renowned technology C.E.O [[InsufferableGenius Karl Von Bach]] and Lawbringer [[CowboyCop Jon Cooper]], as they travel across San Francisco trying to stop an xenophobic alien faction - thought to have dissolved after the [[GreatOffscreenWar Pale Wars]] - trying to activate an Ark to wage war against humanity and those willing to co-exist with them.

The game's plot runs parallel to the series' story with the PlayerCharacter being one of many Ark Hunters hired by the [[TheFederation United Earth Republic]] as part of an expedition sponsored by ''Von Bach Industries'' to the ruins of San Francisco to search for Ark technology and to establish a foothold in the region. The PlayerCharacter is implanted with an A.I named E.G.O and teams up with an Irathien scavenger named [[ActionGirl Cass Ducar]], renowned technology C.E.O [[InsufferableGenius Karl Von Bach]] and Lawbringer [[CowboyCop Jon Cooper]], as they travel across San Francisco trying to stop an xenophobic alien faction - thought to have dissolved after the Pale Wars - trying to activate an Ark to wage war against humanity and those willing to co-exist with them.

In July 2018, the game was relaunched as ''Defiance 2050'' with better graphics, rebalanced gameplay, items, weapons and events, and was also released on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne, the reasons for the relaunch being that the original game's engine was too old for bigger updates and to continue the TV show's storyline following its cancellation on Octuber 2015. However, the original game is still online and playable, now referred as ''Defiance 20'''13'''''.

* EnemyCivilWar: "Mutants" are former EMC soldiers driven insane by... something. Hellbugs are mindless animals that attack everything that isn't a Hellbug. Raiders can be of any human or votan species (except Volge), and will steal anythign that they can sell for scrip and attack anyone they can steal from. Dark Matter is a rogue Votan supremacist faction still fighting a war that ended 15 years ago. The 99ers are former workers of Mine 99, who have gone insane and begun turning themselves into cyborgs for lulz. The Volge are ten-foot-tall mercenary bruisers with thick energy shields who like setting up roadblocks for no particular reason. There's an obligatory zombie faction in The Afflicted. The Scrappers are basically Hellbugs repainted to look like robots, and the Grid are ghosts possessing the bodies of members of the other factions (usually raiders or 99ers). You've got every type of basic enemy and they all hate each other almost as much as they hate [[EverythingTryingToKillYou YOU]].

* GoddamnBats: The Hellbugs, especially Hellbug Archers, who also overlap with DemonicSpiders.

The game's plot runs parallel to the series' story with the PlayerCharacter being one of many Ark Hunters hired by the [[TheFederation United Earth Republic]] to help with restoring order to California and destroying the left-over terraforming technology that devastated the Earth. The PlayerCharacter is implanted with an A.I named E.G.O and teams up with an Irathien scavenger named [[ActionGirl Cass Ducar]], renowned technology C.E.O [[InsufferableGenius Karl Von Bach]] and Lawbringer [[CowboyCop Jon Cooper]], as they travel across San Francisco trying to stop an xenophobic alien faction - thought to have dissolved after the Pale Wars, trying to activate an Ark to wage war against humanity and those willing to co-exist with them.

The game's plot runs parallel to the series' story with the PlayerCharacter being one of many Ark Hunters hired by the [[TheFederation United Earth Republic]] to help with restoring order to the region and destroying the left-over terraforming technology that devastated the Earth. The PlayerCharacter is implanted with an A.I named E.G.O and teams up with an Irathien scavenger named [[ActionGirl Cass Ducar]], renowned technology C.E.O [[InsufferableGenius Karl Von Bach]] and Lawbringer [[CowboyCop Jon Cooper]], as they travel across California and the Bay Area trying to stop an xenophobic alien faction - thought to have dissolved after the Pale Wars, trying to activate an Ark to wage war against humanity and those willing to co-exist with them.

The game's plot runs parallel to the series' story with the PlayerCharacter being one of many Ark Hunters hired by the [[TheFederation United Earth Republic]] to help with restoring order to the region and destroying the left-over terraforming technology that devastated the Earth. The PlayerCharacter is implanted with an A.I named E.G.O and teams up with an Irathien scavenger named [[ActionGirl Cass]] and a renowned technology C.E.O named [[InsufferableGenius Karl Von Bach]], and they travel across California and the Bay Area trying to stop an xenophobic alien faction thought to have dissolved after the Pale Wars, trying to activate an Ark to wage war against humanity and those willing to co-exist with them.

The game's plot runs parallel to the series' story with the PlayerCharacter being one of many Ark Hunters hired by the [[TheFederation United Earth Republic]] to help with restoring order to the region and destroying the left-over terraforming technology that devastated the Earth. The PlayerCharacter is implanted with an A.I named E.G.O and teams up with an Irathien scavenger named Cass and a renowned technology C.E.O named Von Bach, and they travel across California and the Bay Area trying to stop an xenophobic alien faction thought to have dissolved after the Pale Wars ended that is trying to activate an Ark to wage war against humanity and those willing to co-exist with them.

The game's plot runs parallel to the series' story with the PlayerCharacter being one of many Ark Hunters hired by the [[TheFederation United Earth Republic]] to help with restoring order to the region and destroying the left-over terraforming technology that devastated the Earth. The PlayerCharacter is implanted with an A.I named E.G.O and teams up with an Irathien scavenger named Cass and a renowned technology C.E.O named Von Bach, and they travel across California and the Bay Area trying to stop an xenophobic alien faction thought to have dissolved after the Pale Wars ended.

In July 2018, the game was relaunched as ''Defiance 2050'' with better graphics, rebalanced gameplay, items, weapons and events, and was also released on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne, the reasons for the relaunch being that the game will continue the TV show's storyline following its cancellation on Octuber 2015.

* ChristmasRushed: When first announced, the developers of the game made a lot of pie-in-the-sky promises that unfortunately they were not able to implement because they were under a deadline to launch the game at the same exact moment the show began broadcasting. The developers were then fired and replaced with a different team of developers who were charged with fixing all the bugs and implementing all those unfinished features.

The game's plot runs parallel to the series' story with the PlayerCharacter being one of many Ark Hunters hired by the [[TheFederation United Earth Republic]] to help with restoring order to the region and destroying the left-over terraforming technology that devastated the Earth. The PlayerCharacter teams up with a mysterious AI named E.G.O and an Irathien scavenger named Cass, and meets various characters and factions from the TV show across California and the Bay Area.