Hot Shot

"Collect Bounties from fallen enemies. The player with the most becomes the Hot Shot - better, faster, more deadly."
— In-game Description

Hot Shot is an Arena game mode featured in XDefiant. Hot Shot is one of the five game modes released at launch.

Overview

In Hot Shot, two teams face off against one another with the goal to either reach 125 points, or have the most points when the timer runs out. Points are earned by picking up bounties which are dropped by killed enemy players. Each bounty is worth one point. Bounties can also drop from killed teammates, however these bounties will award zero points to the overall team score, but will instead deny the enemy team a point.

The first player to collect three enemy bounties will grant them the status of the "Hot Shot", giving increased movement and reload speed, and resulting in all bounties collected by the Hot Shot, now coloured yellow only to the Hot Shot, to be worth three points. However, this will also reveal their location to all other players on the map with a crown icon. The accuracy of the location ping will increase as an opposing team member gets closer to the Hot Shot, resulting in complete real-time tracking if the Hot Shot is within view of an opposing player. Once the Hot Shot is killed, they will drop three bounty coins, regardless of how many coins they had collected.

Score Events
Bounty Pick Up 50 Pick up an enemy bounty	Bounty Denied 50 Pick up an allied bounty	Pick-Up Assist 25 Have a bounty from an enemy the player killed be picked up by an ally	Hot Shot 10/5 seconds Be the Hot Shot for 5 seconds	Hot Shot 100 Kill the Hot Shot

Maps

Playable Maps
Arena	Attica Heights	Clubhouse	DUMBO	Echelon HQ	Emporium
Liberty	Mayday	Nudleplex	Pueblito	Rockefeller	Showtime
Waterfront

Gallery

The crown that denotes the Hot Shot.