The First Descendant - 15 Things You ABSOLUTELY NEED To Know Before You Play

The First Descendant is a free co-op looter shooter arriving on July 2nd . The Korean team over at Nexon has been iterating on a vast number of gameplay elements as a response to beta feedback, and it’s looking better than ever.

Grappling has undergone a complete redesign and features four-way movement and direct enemy attachment. Movement in general also just feels and looks much better, with ledge vaulting parkour and numerous additional animations to running and jumping. I’m particularly interested in trying out the new side activities dotting the densely designed fields and finding out more about the history and lore of Albion through journal entries.

Hardcore players will be happy to know that the July 2 release includes new endgame Instance Dungeons allowing for solo play and difficulty parameters giving unique rewards.

[PaganMinn]

Not every single game needs pvp. There are so many options for pvp right now. This game looks like a blast. Can't wait to give it a go.

[Emma_Banks]

“No plans to add PvP” YES!

Edit: first, PvP is an extremely toxic and sweaty group of people, they don’t need to bring that group into the community

Second, having a PvP would mean they would need to break off a team or two in order to balance things for PvP. We have all seen what that does to a game (spoiler alert, it doesn’t go well)

[DirtyWeeb]

I’m so glad that gaming companies are starting to be more open to critiques from their communities. It’s been a good change so far.

[MrNinjaalex]

I need to play immediately

Update I haven’t been off I haven’t seen the sun in days my daughter grew up my wife moved on but I’m still grinding for a 1% chance grapple hook attempt 94 here we go

[baytownoutlaw]

I hope they never add pvp. PVP ruins every PVE game because they will spend to many resources trying to balance it and that causes PVE to suffer. Not to mention I don't want nerfs every update. Go play 1 of the thousands of pvp games that are released monthly

[danielandrade]

This will be amazing for people that love grind.

[gumpter]

It was ok in the beta. I’m on the fence with this one. I love the graphics and movement etc but the grind was a bit much. The need to get a thing so u can grind to get a thing that helps u grind to get the thing that helps u unlock the thing and just when u think ur done u have to go do a thing. It’s designed to get u to pay up and in a free game that’s not the worst thing. I’d just rather pay for a game and get an experience that feels balanced in terms of getting gear. For destiny players in the early days will know what I mean when I say the grind in this game is on the level of the THORN quest at launch.

[GreywolvX]

never been so anticipated on f2p titles.
I’m coming from division 2, its been a while since there’s a looter shooter that pick my interest.

[ForeignFabric]

This game trailer is the best game trailer and music I seen in a while everytime the trailer playes I feel something weird.

[Derelict]

EVERY SHOOTER DOESN'T NEED TO BE PVP. 🤦🏾‍♂️

[MaroonGoone]

Really hope it doesn’t end up being empty after 2 months

[thelurker]

I hope they stay focused on PvE here, they have a good story that I think they would thrive more in. Some have argued that being against PvP is just removing more content from the game but I would argue that PvP would just hinder their ability to focus in the game they intend to make for a game mode they haven’t intended on making to begin with. Besides was hoping this would be a game that I could chill on with some friends because I have more than enough PvP games in my life this games beta was fun without that, not everything needs PvP.

[PorconautaGames]

i just wonder 2 things:
- are we able to also farm the "prime" version of the characters?
- did they really improve movement and hitting "feel" since the betas? I remember those felt super cheap back during the betas.

[Manic.miner]

Look good but ima need to know more about monetisation and artificially punishing grind mechanics.

[DEAD_Dirtynickjr]

when i first played last in the cross play beta on ps4 their was some slight optimizations issues but they werent that bad in opion even though this is their first ip on console their doing very well with it

[sys.tm]

Not true on crossplay naivety. They co-devloped The Finals and that has both crossplay and crosssave that works with no issues.

[Xboxcampking]

Who's playing the hell out of this game with me July 4 😂

[DirtyWeeb]

So far, and I’m just finding out about the game, this is reminding me of a more mainstream combo of Warframe and Exoprimal. It looks snappy and fast paced.

[ivansoedjono]

There's gotta be a Stellar Blade crossover event

[jameskeen]

“not every game needs a pvp”, yall are 100% correct. yet this is a looter shooter…. Even boarder lands and warframe have some elements of pvp in games where the massive focus is PvE. Why is this? because at the end of the game or even before then having a way to show off your builds vs other players is a nice addition. Even if its a simple 1v1 invite only fight (like warframes dojo or borderlands duel) No one is saying make a 10v10 or 5v5 pvp game mode BUT most looter shooters without some elements of pvp very quickly die off….