Free-to-Play Hit The First Descendant Treated to First Big Update Today

Looking forward to the new boss. Shame no new story content till end of year. Just got Ultimate Gley (can't say no to infinite rocket launcher)will be leveling her up for a while so I can take my time grinding for these 2.

I've played almost every day since launch, which has surprised me! Great little game to blast away a few hours!

Started this game last week. Gameplay feels quite good. My major complaint would be that now being in the 5th zone, I’m just repeating the same style of missions over and over. Regardless, this game getting something like a 3 from GameSpot is stupid. It’s much better than that.

15 hours in and I can say this game deserves at least a 7/10

• great character design
• great gameplay loop
• my only concern is what happens when I hit the f2p paywall progression blocker.

Easily in top 5 games of the year for me so far.

I've levelled a character to 40, was quite fun experience but I have zero desire to grind and get more descendants
It's so repetitive, maybe if there were other goals to actually grind for I might be more inclined to keep playing but collecting more descendants isn't it

@AndyKazama Honestly, if you have the time, patience and continue to enjoy the game, there isn't that much of a f2p paywall. The main progression point in the end/postgame is Crystallisation Catalysts to 'prestige' your gear/characters to gradually optimise them and the occasional one-time Energy Activator for your favourites. You get a pretty reliable flow of the former so long as you're cracking open lootblobs for other blueprints, and the latter show up... well, very occasionally, but often enough. I imagine there are people who have bought them instead to dodge the farming/crafting times, but with those price tags I could only see it being the whales who already spent $100 on an early character unlock.

Edit: Had to remind myself how much those two items cost to skip via the store and... yeah, at £5 and £20 each, if and when you get to that point, the patient ingame route works just fine. xD

@crossbit I can see descendant limit becoming something I might spend money on. Say I do get to 10, I don't see myself wanting to get rid of characters having spent so much time on them.

By that point though, the game will deserve some pennies off me.

It's so admirable that the devs are continuing to support this terrible, terrible 3/10 game! They should get 'Developer of the Year' for this! Haha!

Seriously though, Nexon are actually listening to the players with these updates and implementing changes that the players ask for, changes that make the grind less grindy and the game more fun!

@AndyKazama exactly how I see it, I've just started the endgame loop and I'm slowly creeping on that descendent limit... but 'm also a good halfway through the pre-season battle pass and depending on how much it is it might end up being worth getting that to get all the shinies AND the premium currency to use on expanding my descendant stable.

@Mintie I do wish they'd look at the pricing of some of the heroes. Say I did 100 hours in the end and wanted to support the devs by purchasing Ult Bunny. Not for the £79.99 they want.

So she is basically Warframe's Octavia

@AndyKazama There is that, true! I'm nearing that point myself, sitting at 8/10 with a few Descendants that I'm close to completing. I was expecting the slots to be much more expensive honestly, at 80 pence a pop they're very reasonable.

(For my part to support them I've bought a few of the lower end cosmetics for my favourite characters, but yeah, as neat as some of the Ultimates and their shop outfits look there's just no way I could justify throwing that much money at them in one go.)

@pharos_haven Every character is basically just a re-skin of a Warframe one at this point, with abilities take from another. Viessa is Frost, Bunny is Volt, Ajax is Rhino etc Ultimates are just Primes.

@Mortal The best advice I can give to anybody is, don’t take game reviewers seriously. Their views don’t reflect the average player.

For as long as I can remember, game critics have been out of touch. What the reviewer say seems to be wildly different from the average person’s view.

This game’s reception appears to be pretty well received by its player base.

@AndyKazama I'm hoping the Blueprint dismantle/shop they're implementing has a single weekly Ultimate chunk we can get with the currency from breaking down the spare blueprints because whilst I don't mind farming for stuff RNG can be a massive pain.

I've managed to get two of the Ultimate Bunny bits but the last two are refusing to cooperate.

@Mintie according to an unofficial account for TFD, they're implementing a system where if you fail to get an item after multiple attempts, the item you want should drop more frequently after a while.

So whether that means after a boss raid when using a blueprint, do you get Bunny parts guaranteed after failing to get it say 10 times? Idk. The post didn't clarify

@AndyKazama I'd read the same thing [not] sure how they'll do it or how many amorphous materials we'll have to open. I hope its a clear counter with a 'Pick the one you want' option at the end.