The First Descendant News

No, The First Descendant is not turning every Outpost into a loot cave farming spot

The First Descendant’s first couple of weeks have been a little tumultuous, mostly because of the game’s excessive monetisation schemes and the in-game grind required to unlock its various characters, craft weapons and get the gear you need for higher-level content.

This is a live service game, though, and if there’s one thing those players love, it’s optimising their runs to be as efficient as possible to make farming less annoying. Some of those can be benign; relying on unbalanced systems and combinations, rather than exploits.

Over the past few days, however, the community shifted from the former to the latter.

In the early stages of Destiny, the original game and not the sequel, players made a wonderful discovery. There was a cave in the Old Russia area of the open world where some sort of glitch made enemies respawn constantly, with higher drop rates than usual. Destiny being Destiny, word soon spread, and the cave would be constantly encamped by multiple player groups, annihilating anything that poked its head out, and watching the colourful little loot globs scatter everywhere. You'd sit there shooting for minutes on end, then gleefully go on a little rat-run through the firing zone, engrams endlessly flowing into your guardian...
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7/19 (Fri) Client Patch Notice

Greetings, Descendants!

The client patch has been completed.

■ Patch date
- PDT 2024.07.19(Fri) 00:00

■ Platforms
- Steam, XBOX SERIES X│S, XBOX ONE, PS4, PS5

■ Patch details
- Fixed the issue where Frame Generation of FSR was not functioning correctly.
- Fixed the issue where kills were not counted when monsters were defeated using the Viessa's skills "Frost Road" and "Blizzard".
- Fixed the issue where the pattern of Khulan in the dungeon of Fortress was not appearing as intended.

※ The reset issue of the evolution stage for the Bunny's Speedy Awakened One skin will be resolved today by restoring the reset data and combining it with the accumulated data after the maintenance on Thursday, 7/18. Please note that a one-time disconnection may occur during the restoration process.

Thank you.

7/12 (Fri) – 7/18 (Thu) Results of the Crackdown on Abusive Users

Greetings, Descendants.

Here are the results of the crackdown on abusive users carried out between 7/12(Fri) – 7/18(Thu).

We're inspecting abusive gaming behavior to ensure that all Descendants can enjoy the game in a pleasant environment.
If you notice any abnormal or abusive behavior while playing the game, please report it through the in-game reporting feature.

Please see below for the detailed outcome of the crackdown.

■ Crackdown status
- Crackdown period: 2024.07.12(Fri) – 2024.07.18(Thu) PDT

[7/12 (Fri) – 7/18 (Thu) Results of the Crackdown on Abusive Users]

The First Descendant changes Destiny 2 lookalike icons, but Nexon still won't say how they ended up in the game

Nexon has now replaced at least some of the icons in The First Descendant that were too-close-for-comfort to icons in Destiny 2, but it's still not saying anything about how those icons ended up in the game in the first place...
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