The First Descendant has finally touched down, with the free-to-play looker now live on PS5 and PS4. Being a live game, players can look forward to regular content updates, additions, and plenty of cosmetic skins to play dress up in. Nexon has revealed just some of the stylish suits engaged Descendants can look forward to donning.
Managing a healthy day-one peak of 229,257 players on Steam alone, it looks like the graphically impressive game could have legs, provided there is plenty for players to tear into. On Twitter, The First Descendant account showed off a snippet of what players can expect, and you'd better believe it's chock-a-block with school uniforms and various anthropomorphic animal-themed outfits.
A more explicit roadmap has also surfaced, with French language outlet PressePlay confirming its veracity. Twitter account TFDalert has the snapshot, which suggests interested players have plenty to look forward to coming down the pipeline.
An early August update will introduce a new Descendant, Luna, and a new Colossus, Gluttony, amongst other things. Late August will see a similar Descendant/Colossus combo, a new weapon, a dungeon, and the implementation of seasonal progression and field completion. Then, a raid-like Mega Dungeon is dropping in early December, along with still more Descendants.
What are your first impressions if you've already dived into The First Descendant? Could you see yourself checking in from time to time? Let us know in the comments section below.
[source x.com, via presseplay.fr]
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So far I'm really enjoying it although I need a whole day to get to grips with. The graphics are really,really nice although there is a really odd graphical glitch when changing the brightness and contrast..one of them blows out so I'd keep them on the default settings. It is pretty much warframe but with destiny's gunplay (not mission structure) and diablos loot system. When I was playing this last night I was getting a real strong lost planet feeling which surprised me in a positive way. Anybody looking for a online co-op shooter really can't go wrong with this as it's free and the mtx's don't seem to be obtrusive and in no way pay to win. I await the usual "predatory" comments from those who haven't played it and don't intend to either. Ignore those people and jump in and enjoy yourselves as all you have to lose is a bit of time..
I kind of enjoy it, but it definitely feels like it's trying to be mix of a lot of other mmos like Warframe specifically. It kinda copies it a lot with the way you obtain Descendants and how you need to wait a certain amount of real time to get it.
I think I’m going to enjoy it but I played for an hour last night and the performance was awful the moment I got out of the tutorial section. The end for me was a game breaking bug whereby an enemy I needed to kill to progress just froze and then 30 seconds later it booted me to the main menu.
I’m absolutely not writing it off and looking forward to playing it after a few days when they iron out the issues.
Really enjoying this at the moment. Has a few minor issues that need ironing out but to be expected on day 1. Lots of warframe comparisons in comments online and that's a good thing. It's about time others look up to a great game that's f2p and been going strong for 13 years. Before anyone tries to say "Destiny 2 is f2p". It's not. Tell me a single player that has Conditional finality Shotgun without buying the Lightfall expansion.
i’ll play it on pc , downloaded it yesterday
Im enjoying atm, its very Warframe meets Outriders, it is nothing like Destiny 2. I know its free, but the customisations and MTX are over the top insane in this, excluding the battle pass, we have Panda costumes, gross school girl costumes, and then theres all the other stuff, like namecards, spawns, UI interfaces, weapon skins, colour palettes, all for real money of course.
So i'll see, I'll prob play the campaign but the insane grind for everything and all the MTX stuff will prob make me lose interest much quicker than expected.
So it's a live service game? Shame. I thought it was a single player narrative campaign. Don't have time for another live service in my life.
Sooo far I'm enjoying it.. I'm actually enjoying it so much I played for 5 hours straight smh
@Northern_munkey I don't know this game but read your comment more than the article itself. It was constructive, something that is rare these days
@themightyant you can play it solo.
@2here2there thanks. I forgot to mention it does have a few day one flaws like others have mentioned. Performance mode for me and its fairly consistent.
Enjoying it so far but performance is terrible.
Played for a few hours yesterday to unlock Bunny. Game seems much the same as it was during the beta last year, which is a good thing. Aside from the day 1 issues (frame rate drops in the main hub and 1 boot) it's as much fun as I remember it to be. I'll be logging straight back in again tonight once the kid has gone to bed!
On night shifts at work so sleeping most of the day, will give this a spin during the weekend!
It won't last. It'll be in the live service graveyard within 6 months or so.
@Northern_munkey did you notice that the loot still drops based on the event level and not character level?
I ran the first colossus mission, which is lvl 10, while I was lvl 7. Everyone else in the group was lvl 10. All loot dropped for me at lvl 10 or 11. In the beta I used this trick to get loot that was 5+ levels above my character by tagging along with higher level players doing their missions.
Played about 4 or 5 hours on Xbox yesterday. It seems fun but we'll see how it plays out long term. These free-to-play games usually run out of steam quickly.
@Mortal I've not been paying too much attention as I've not had a lot of time to play it properly but I'm going to give it a good going over in a short while.
@Gamer83 @Ken_Kaniff fortnite,warframe,Warface and a heck of a lot of other f2p games are doing just fine and dandy. I understand your scepticism but I think this game has the legs to be as successful as the other big name live service games.
I only got to play for a few hours before it went down for maintenance. It's pretty decent for a F2P game so far.
Over here we have @Ken_Kaniff showing their "old man shakes fist at cloud" sentiment!
@Mortal 😂😂 If 30's is old I guess so 🤷♂️
it runs like crap on pc , maybe it runs better on console , i’ll try it again on ps5. game freezes up too much for me on pc, but so far i guess this games ok, not really having fun
@nomither6 I haven't had it freeze on PS5 but the frame rate is a problem.
@nomither6 @Splat yeah there are framerate issues on the ps5 but it's not too bad and has not made it unplayable in any way for me but maybe my expectations of what makes a game playable are lower than others. I'd be happier if they sorted the contrast blowing out as that's the biggest distraction for me at the moment.
@Splat yeah the frame rates a problem on pc too, and has some hiccups so i’ll just use my ps5 for it in the meantime; cross-progression and cross-play is so good, im so glad it’s a thing.
@Northern_munkey yeah the contrast was weird for me too on pc , i’m kinda relieved to know that it’s on the game side , imagine trying to figure out why a game looks washed out on PC 😆, i was hoping that it wasn’t a GPU issue. but yea, I’ll deal with the frame rate issues on console in the meantime. it wasn’t “exactly” unplayable on PC , but the consistent hard freezes is what i think would annoy anyone
Never played a looter shooter, needing something to pass the time while do the odd Honkai dailies and divergent universe.
Enjoying the game I feel like I'll be playing this for a long time, the skins look good. Don't mind paying £10-£12 for a premium skin just waiting to try most of the characters first.
On the PS5 when ray tracing is on it crashes the game when starting a mission. Anyone else get this crash?
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