Free-to-play The First Descendant adds new characters and more with first big Xbox update

It doesn’t look like there are any new The First Descendant achievements, but today’s update for the free-to-play action-RPG does add in new content and a wave of bug fixes and improvements. On top of that, director Minseok Joo has detailed how the developers plan to address the game’s issues in future. Read on for everything included in The First Descendant’s first update.The biggest additions with this update are the new Descendants, Ultimate Valby and Luna, as well as the Void Intercept boss Battle against Gluttony. There’s also new equipment, a new module, and a sizeable list of bug fixes and other improvements. What’s more, Joo has detailed how the team is now working on Season 1 and Season 2 updates and improvement issues, but is planning a new system for drop rate improvements, a “farming structure” when taking rewards into accounts, supporting the variety of builds, and more. You can check out what’s included in today’s update and hotfix below as per Nexon’s patch notes. The First Descendant Update 1.0.5 patch notesNew Descendant: Ultimate ValbyUltimate Valby Modification ModulesSpiral Tidal Wave: The bouncy Bubble Bullet has been replaced by a projectile that flies in a straight line. Spiral Tidal Wave is stackable and can be fired three times in a row, and attracts impurities during the Gluttony Intercept Battle.Hydro Pressure Bomb: Instead of “Plop Plop,” she leaps forward and deals damage to enemies around the landing area. The more enemies in the Laundry state, the more powerful the damage.Added Ultimate Valby Amorphous MaterialsAmorphous Material Patterns 011, 044, 115, 030, 055, 113, 023, 052, 073, 087, 110, and 125 can no longer be acquired. You can continue to use the Amorphous Materials you already have as before.Added the “AA variants” of Amorphous Materials 011, 044, 115, 030, 055, 113, 023, 052, 073, 087, 110, and 125. You can acquire the Enhanced Cell Blueprint, Stabilizer Blueprint, Spiral Catalyst Blueprint, and Code of Ultimate Valby from them. Ultimate Valby’s blueprint and Code Materials will replace one of the items available from the original Amorphous.The Amorphous Materials of the “AA variant” can be acquired and used in the same place as the original.New Descendant: LunaAdded new Descendant, Luna.Luna Skills(Passive Skill) Improvisation: Using any skill increases Inspiration Gauge, which allows Luna to use Enhanced Skills.(Active Skill 1) Stage Presence: Using the skill changes Luna’s weapon to her Unique Weapon. Performing the notes in time to the music by using skills or hitting monsters stacks and increases her Skill Power Modifier.(Active Skill 2) Passionate Stage: Using the skill makes Luna play upbeat music, increasing the Skill Power Modifier of Luna and her allies. Gaining the Enhanced Effect increases the Skill Power Modifier even more and also increases the Skill Critical Hit Rate and damage of allies.(Active Skill 3) Relaxing Act: Using the skill makes Luna play relaxing music. Hitting the enemy with a note grants an effect that instantly recovers the MP of Luna and her allies. Gaining the Enhanced Effect increases MP Recovery, and reduces Skill Cost.(Active Skill 4) Delightful Stage: Using the skill makes Luna play delightful music. Hitting the enemy with a note increases Inspiration Gauge and decreases the skill cooldown of allies. Gaining the Enhanced Effect increases the Inspiration Gauge even more and immediately resets the cooldown of allies.Luna Modification ModulesNimble Footsteps: This Modification Module enhances Luna’s Movement Speed and amplifies the effect range of her performance, making it easier to support her allies.Noise Surge: Transforms all of Luna’s skills to combat skills. Performing the notes in rhythm unleashes a powerful AoE attack. When the Inspiration Gauge is full, summons a moving stage where she dances to recover MP and Shield.Added Luna Amorphous MaterialsAmorphous Material Patterns 017, 038, 081, 020, 098, 068, 015, 049, 071, 027, 090, and 094 can no longer be acquired. You can continue to use the Amorphous Materials you already have as before.Added the “AA variants” of Amorphous Materials 017, 038, 081, 020, 098, 068, 015, 049, 071, 027, 090, and 094. You can acquire the Enhanced Cell Blueprint, Stabilizer Blueprint, Spiral Catalyst Blueprint, and Code of Luna from them. Luna’s blueprint and Code Materials will replace one of the items available from the original Amorphous.The Amorphous Materials of the “AA variant” can be acquired and used in the same place as the original.Added New Hard Void Intercept Battle: GluttonyAdded new Hard Difficulty Void Intercept Battle, Gluttony.Intercept Gluttony to collect the Hungry Sonic External Components Set and the blueprint of the Ultimate Weapon Peace Maker.Gluttony External Components SetHungry Sonic Set: 2-piece set effect grants Toxin Resistance. 4-piece set grants an effect that recovers MP on hitting the target with a skill’s Unique Weapon as well as an effect that increases Skill Duration and MP Heal Modifier proportionally to Max MP.New Ultimate Equipment: Peace MakerAdded new Ultimate Weapon Peace Maker. Using a Dimension skill grants the “Single Reload for Peace” effect.At maximum stacks, the “Single Reload for Peace” effect enables you to fire the loaded ammo in a single quick burst when taking an aimed shot.New ModuleArche Concretion: Decreases Movement Speed, Firearm ATK, and all Attribute ATK except the Non-Attribute ATK every time a skill is used, but each stack of Arche Concretion increases DEF and MP.Added New ProductsAdded “New Descendant: Exclusive Luna Bundle” which includes Luna and the “Pool Party” skin.Added Luna to the list of standard Descendants in the shop.Added “Premium Ultimate Valby Bundle” which includes Ultimate Valby and the “Vermillion Wave skin,” and “Ultimate Valby Bundle.”Added “Valby’s Summer Theme,” “Viessa’s Summer Theme,” and “Male Summer Theme Set.”Added “Luna’s Albion Academy Cadet,” “Luna’s Classic Maid Uniform,” “Luna’s Panda,” and “Luna’s Dinosaur” limited skins.Added “Luna’s Augmented Reality of Madness” premium skin package.Added Luna’s exclusive “White Mouse” premium head skin.Added Luna’s exclusive Hair & Makeup 1 & 2.Added Luna’s “The Ultimate High Feeling” and “Volume Up” standard skins.Added Luna’s makeup “Sly.”Added “Adjustment Control Axis X30” and “Fine Adjustment Control Axis 20” support items.Hotfix 1.0.5Content ImprovementsUI/UXTo prevent module swapping from becoming a strategy in Intercept Battles and Infiltration Operations, equipping and removing modules, changing presets, and changing loadouts are now prohibited.Added a feature to collect all Lost and Found items at once in the Mailbox.After checking the map with acquired information in the Library, closing the map now leaves the Library open.Added Camera Shake ON/OFF feature in Game Options.(PS, Xbox) Added the ability to select preset search keywords to make it easier to search modules and research.Added commas after every three digits in the game menu and HUD to make it easier to read numerical units.You can now check key stat information in the weapon, reactor, and external component inventories.You can now register equipped items as Attached Items.Saving a preset now automatically registers equipped items as Attached Items.You can now turn the red dot crosshair display on or off cities in Game Options.Added an image to some items in Graphics Options to show what they do.Increased the speed of scrolling when scrolling the map with the gamepad’s R-stick.Changed the color of icons for Hard difficulty Void Intercept Battles on the World Map to make it easier to distinguish them from Normal difficulty battles.The map no longer displays the marker when a quest NPC being tracked disappears.The Modification Modules for the same Descendant are now displayed together in a row in the Library.When the first clear reward and repeat clear reward are the same, the Acquisition Info in the Library no longer shows them both.When selecting all duplicate modules in Dismantle Modules, you can now use a filter to register only the selected modules for dismantling.Simplified the module combining animation.Starting a research in the Materials tab of the Research menu now returns you to the Materials tab.Added the “Leave Party” button to the Social menu to make the function easier to find.Added a search function to the Consumables menu.Even when acquiring skins for Descendants not currently in use the red dot still appears.Added the red dot when acquiring paint.The red dot now appears in the Weapons List side tab too when acquiring a weapon skin.Descendants, ModulesIncreased the Poison contagion range of Freyna’s Room 0 Trauma from a 4 m radius to a 7 m radius.Increased the maximum scaling range of Valby’s skills from 200% to 250%.Increased the maximum scaling range of Blair’s skills from 200% to 250%.Changed the blizzard generated by Viessa’s “Glacial Cloud” module to be triggered instantly without delay.Changed Valby’s “Albion Academy Cadet” head skin to be dyeable.Changed “Incoming Final Damage” to “Incoming Damage Modifier” in the description of the “Safe Recovery” module.EquipmentAdded a feature in Game Options that enables some single-shot and burst weapons to fire automatically when the fire button is pressed and held down.Increased Enduring Legacy’s Critical Hit Damage from 1.7x to 2.3x.Increased Secret Garden’s Critical Hit Rate from 35% to 50% and Critical Hit Damage from 1.85x to 2.25x.Increased Nazeistra’s Devotion’s Critical Hit Rate from 36% to 45% and Critical Hit Damage from 2x to 2.25x.Decreased the trigger rate of Bombardment of Greg’s Reversed Fate, but now it also triggers when the weapon is fired at unshielded enemies.Equipment can now be dismantled at once with no quantity limit.FieldIncreased the amount of Void Shards that can be acquired from Special Operations by about 7 times.Director’s Comment:Hotfix 1.0.4 added Void Shards as rewards to Special Operations, but unfortunately, there were just too few. The original intent was to keep Void Fragments as the primary farming source for Void Shards, and get additional Void Shards from Special Operations. But the community has told us that many of you don’t like this loop, so we’ve increased the amount of Void Shards that can be earned in Special Operations. We’re also working on some steps for future improvements. Many players are currently farming materials without spending the Fragments at the Fusion Reactor, so we’re considering removing the Fragments from the Fusion Reactor startup altogether. This would make the Fragments necessary only when the Reconstructing Device is used at the Fusion Reactor. We’re taking a close look at how the reward loop we planned works in practice. We’ll try to finalize a reward loop that players will be satisfied with in the near future.Reduced the distance you’re knocked down when hit by a trap.Lowered the ratio at which the named monster’s immunity sphere HP scales with the number of players in Infiltration Operations, and reduced the duration of immunity.The Agna Desert, Vespers, Echo Swamp, White-night Gulch, Hagios, and Fortress fields now have a 100% chance to spawn Encrypted Vaults at spawn.Increased the hit box size in “data collection” missions to make it easier to collect data.Outside environmental sounds are now less audible in the indoor areas in Kingston.Adjusted the distance that monsters spawn in the Laboratory to be closer as 15m.MiscellaneousBalanced sound levels for shield destruction notification, material research result window, etc.Optimization Improvements(PC, PS5, XSX, XSS) Applied AMD FSR 3.1.(PS4, XB1) Optimized memory usage.(PS4, XB1) Optimized resolution to increase the maximum resolution by at least 5%.Bug FixesUI/UXFixed an issue where enemies defeated by the unique effects of Ultimate Weapons were not counted in Battle Pass Challenge and Awards.Fixed an issue where the capacity cost reduced by matching socket types was not displayed on the Weapon Module Enhancement screen.Fixed an issue where closing the Capacity Exceeded warning message while enhancing a module made the game inoperable.Fixed an issue where restarting an Intercept Battle, Infiltration Operation, or Special Operation after completing it would not matchmake you with allies who applied to restart with you.Revised the description on the Info screen that incorrectly stated that the damage taken decreases the higher the “Incoming Damage Modifier,” so that now it states the damage taken decreases the lower the modifier.Fixed an issue where completing a mission with a weapon that has been socketed at least once would appear to give Mastery Rank EXP, when in fact it does not.Fixed an issue where the names of the core materials and blueprints of Ultimate Weapons were swapped.Fixed an issue where the quantity of attached paint was not displayed in the Mailbox.Fixed an issue where the DBNO UI animation would persist when a DBNO ally left and another ally joined.Fixed an issue where changing loadouts while in combat is not possible but the UI would switch to the selected loadout.DescendantsFixed an issue where Lepic could trigger the “Overkill” skill at 0 MP while equipping the “Increased Efficiency” module.Fixed an issue where Yujin could not target an ally when using “Solidarity Healing” if part of their body was covered by an object.Fixed an issue where DBNO allies rescued by Yujin could not use any skills for a short period of time after the rescue.Fixed an issue where switching weapons after using Viessa’s “Frost Road” skill caused the skill’s visual effect to remain.Fixed an issue where the Knockdown range of Valby’s “Plop Plop” skill was larger than the actual Skill Range.Fixed an issue where Enzo’s “Shoot Support” was not applied to allies.Fixed an issue where using Ultimate Gley’s “Massacre” or “Life Siphon” skill did not increase her Skill damage when she is above 50% HP.Fixed an issue where Gley’s “Life Siphon” skill and her Modification Modules “Massive Sanguification” and “Explosive Life” could be used on objects in Intercept Battles.Fixed an issue where Kyle’s “Repulsion Dash” could be used on objects in Intercept Battles.Fixed an issue where the skill animation of Kyle’s “Repulsion Dash” skill would intermittently be cancelled.Fixed an issue where the power of Ultimate Bunny’s “Lightning Emission” was determined by the amount of Electricity she had at the time of use, unlike Bunny. The power of Bunny’s “Lightning Emission” depends on the amount of Electricity she currently has.Fixed an issue where Bunny’s “Maximum Power” skill’s sound pitch went up infinitely and sounded like a noise.Fixed an issue where Esiemo would become uncontrollable while using the “Arche Explosion” skill.Fixed an issue where after Ultimate Viessa used “Frost Road” with the “Absolute-Zero” module or Valby used “Laundry Bomb,” Ajax placing a barrier on top of it inflicted reflective damage on Ultimate Viessa or Valby.EquipmentFixed an issue where moving on a field with three or four pieces of an external component set prevented the 2-piece set effect from being applied.Fixed an issue where the damage of hitting the Ultimate Weapon King’s Guard Lance after it was deployed was recorded in the statistics.Fixed an issue where the Ultimate Weapon Executor’s Hip Fire Accuracy was lower than what it should be.Fixed an issue where the Ultimate Weapon Thunder Cage’s unique effect would deal more than 1.33x damage when monsters were clustered. Instead, Electric Shockwave now deals 2x damage regardless of the number of enemies.Director’s Comment:During internal testing, we discovered a bug with Thunder Cage. Thunder Cage should always deal 1.33x damage according to its description, but it was dealing more than 1.33x damage when there were a lot of monsters. We fixed this bug, but we also boosted the 1.33x damage to 2x so that it doesn’t become less efficient when hunting. We’re well aware that the value of items you own is important to you. To ensure that fixing the bug doesn’t devalue your items, we’ve given it more power than we originally intended. If something like this happens again in the future, we won’t stop at simply fixing the bug but consider how to preserve the value of your items to provide a reasonable patch.Fixed an issue where you could hear one or two extra shots when firing single shots with a repeating firearm.ModulesFixed an issue where the Firearm Critical Hit Rate increase effect was missing in the description of Valby’s “Supply Moisture” module.Fixed an issue where Valby’s “Tidal Wave” module would not properly stack Finishing Attack when piercing an enemy.Fixed an issue where equipping Ajax’s “Body Enhancement” module would have different final result values depending on when it was saved.Fixed an issue where if the “Matrix Recomputation module” was equipped by Ajax the Shield would recover every time after a very short while and the Shield started at 50% after equipment.Fixed an issue where the “Pitmaster” passive would remain indefinitely when Blair removed the “Classic Chef” module while Flame Zone was in effect.Fixed an issue where the knockback effect would not trigger when Blair used “Deadly Cuisine” while equipped with the “Backdraft” module.Fixed an issue where the name of the “Sharp Precision Shot” module’s buff was incorrectly shown as “Lethal Finish.”Fixed an issue where Bunny’s Evolving Skin quest requirements were not counted when Bunny equipped a Modification Module.Fixed an issue where Bunny unequipping the “Electric Condense” module left a status effect display that did not have any effect.Fixed an issue where Gley’s “Predator Instinct” module skill displayed the Frenzied state icon and name twice when used.Fixed an issue where Ultimate Gley’s “Demonic Modification” module sometimes did not deal damage when used.FieldFixed an issue where defeating named monsters at the same time as Void Fusion Reactor mission was being deleted allowed the player to use Reconstructing Devices without consuming Void Shards.Fixed an issue where the zone map of “Hagios: The Old Mystery” showed different paths from actual paths.Fixed an issue where the traps would remain on restart after dying in the No Resurrection Zone in Hagos: The Haven.Fixed an issue where movement markers would appear while progressing through the Void Fusion Reactor.Fixed an issue where roaming monsters would not spawn on the White-night Gulch: Hatchery battlefield.Changed the Amorphous Material Patterns and Shape Stabilizers acquired from Hard Infiltration Operations in the White-night Gulch and Hagios.Infiltration Operation (Hard) Amorphous Material Pattern Shape StabilizerWhite-night Gulch: Mystery’s End 114, 115 → 104, 105 Form 7 → Form 6White-night Gulch: Bio-Lab 116, 117 → 106, 107Form 7 → Form 6Hagios: The Haven 104, 105 → 114, 115- AA variants Form 6 → Form 7Hagios: The Old Mystery 106, 107 → 116, 117Form 6 → Form 7MiscellaneousFixed an intermittent terrain rendering bug.[XB1, XB1S] Fixed an issue where textures would intermittently display black lines when rendering terrain.Fixed an issue where the Sub Quest “Obtain Freyna’s Research Materials 1” would complete after clearing “Rockfall: Vulgus Strategic Outpost” even if the “Amorphous Material Pattern: Freyna” was not obtained.Fixed an issue where the Sub Quest “Prepare to Obtain Additional Materials for Freyna Research” could not be completed with Ultimate Bunny.Fixed an issue where the camera would intermittently freeze when removing parts during Intercept Battles.Fixed an issue where the Elite Vulgus Special Effect “Chasing Orb” would not deal damageMore recently, The First Descendant announced that it was making “adjustments” after Destiny 2 comparisons — those comparisons being the seeming similarities between The First Descendant’s and Destiny 2’s icons.



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