The First Descendant News

Is The First Descendant’s monetization actually as bad as everyone is saying? An investigation

The First Descendant is out, and making waves on both PC and consoles. As it rises steadily up the most-played charts, players are starting to lodge complaints about the free-to-play game's monetization, especially in relation to some of its competitors like Warframe.

Take Reddit user Goompas, who made this comparison directly in regard to Energy Activators. These items, bought on the in-game store for 1,500 Caliber (premium currency), vastly increase your chosen weapon or Descendant's mod capacity. This is important, as mods are what provides much of the power, survivability, and overall strength of your equipment.

1,500 Calibur will cost you quite the sum. Right now, you can't buy that much directly, you'd have to buy 1,060 for £15.98 / £19.99 and 520 for £7.99 / $9.99 respectively. Or, you could grab some extra and fork out £39.98 / $49.99 for 2,750 Calibur. A lot of cash for an in-game item. Now consider that for a loadout with all your weapons and your descendant powered up with Energy Activators, you'll need four in total. That's a whopping 6,000 Calibur's worth, or £83.97 / $104.98.

It must be a little frustrating to be a player of The First Descendant when it seems like all anyone’s talking about are the game’s well-endowed female characters, their skimpy outfits, and the jiggle physics that are applied to more bodyparts than necessary.

But how could you fight back against that tide? Well, a few players have an idea, and it involves admiring something else about the way characters are designed in the game.

[h3]Greetings Descendants.
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We sincerely apologize once again for the inconvenience caused by the issues that occurred during the opening day. As a token of our apology, we prepared a compensation.

We will continue to strive to provide a more stable service.

■ Recipients and How to Claim Reward

- All Descendants who login until 23:59 on 2024.07.07 (Sun) PDT will receive the compensation in their mailbox.

■ Mail Expiration Date

- Compensation Mail will expire at 23:59 on 2024.07.14 (Sun) PDT

※ Please make sure to claim the compensation before the mail expires.

■ Compensation Details

- Gold Gain Boost +30% (Duration 3 days)

- Kyper Shard Gain Boost +30% (Duration 3 days)

- Descendant EXP Gain Boost +30% (Duration 3 days)

- Weapon Mastery EXP Gain Boost +30% (Duration 3 days)

- 2 x Matte Red Paints

※ Boost items will be active immediately upon claiming them from the mailbox.

■ Additional Notice on Twitch Drops Reward Delay

Although the issue causing delays in Twitch Drops Reward has been resolved, we have identified an additional issue where some rewards are still not being delivered. We are currently in contact with Twitch to resolve this issue. Once it is resolved, we will notify you through a separate notice.

Thank you.

(Updated) 07/02 (Tue) Maintenance-Free Patch Notice

[h3]PDT 2024.07.02 (Tue) 21:00 – Additional Maintenance-Free Patch Implemented
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[h3]Greetings Descendants.
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We are informing you that a maintenance-free patch has been implemented.

■ Patch Schedule

- PDT 2024.07.02 (Tue) 21:00

■ Patch Details

- Fixed issue where boost effects become occasionally disabled during area transfer.

- Fixed issue where players were occasionally placed on servers without other players during field transfer.

Please keep note for your game play.

Thank you.

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[h3]Greetings Descendants,
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We are notifying you of a maintenance-free patch.

■ Patch Date and Time
PDT 2024.07.02 (Tue) 09:20

■ Patch Details
Fixed the issue where missions immediately terminate upon starting after entering Special Operations

Please take note of this information.

Stellar Blade's jiggle physics haven't hit Steam yet, but The First Descendant has stepped up to fill that slightly sus void

Like it or not, the butt jiggle video game discourse just doesn’t stop. After weeks of all kinds of hot and room temperature takes about the outfits and jiggly physics of Stellar Blade’s lead character, the conversation has now shifted to… the jiggle physics in another Korean-made game.

This time, the topic is The First Descendant, the free-to-play loot shooter from Nexon. The First Descendant servers went live just a couple of hours ago, and it has already become one of Steam’s biggest launches this year with an impressive (and constantly rising) player count.

So far, so normal, but what if I told you that it’s not just the gear grind and shooting that brought players to the game?