The First Descendant is just a week previous however it’s already affected by a participant toxicity drawback the developer has stated it’s going to examine.
Nexon’s free-to-play co-op targeted looter shooter, a type of fusion of the likes of Warframe and Future, launched on June 30 and gamers have already discovered toxicity within the chat, such as inappropriate feedback as properly as hack adverts designed to encourage gamers to pay to cheat.
Some The First Descendant gamers have known as the chat a “cesspool”, making it onerous to search out others to group up with in-game.
Nexon issued an update to say it has now launched an investigation however stopped wanting confirming a plan of motion.
“We’re inspecting abusive gaming conduct to make sure that all Descendants can benefit from the recreation in a nice atmosphere,” Nexon stated. “When you discover any irregular or abusive conduct whereas enjoying the sport, please report it by means of the in-game reporting characteristic.”
Toxicity isn’t the one problem with The First Descendant proper now. It’s acquired vital efficiency points, particularly on PlayStation 5 the place the frame-rate can battle, crash issues, and plenty of gamers are nonetheless ready for promised rewards, such as Twitch drops.
Nexon has issued a number of apologies and dished out compensation within the type of in-game assets, however that hasn’t stopped the complaints. Nexon even needed to ask gamers to cease shopping for the identical merchandise a number of occasions by means of Steam or the PlayStation or Xbox platform shops as a result of gamers weren’t getting what they paid for.
We all know that hack commercial chats have gotten frequent within the recreation, and we’re repeatedly working to resolve this problem.
You’ll be able to assist us by reporting these posts! Listed below are the strategies.1. Press Participant Interplay (T) close to the goal.
2. Choose the goal from the chat.
3.… pic.twitter.com/bIeC3BrNPh— The First Descendant (@FirstDescendant) July 5, 2024
Producer Lee Beom-jun printed a developer chat to YouTube wherein he stated the sheer quantity of launch gamers took Nexon abruptly. There’s a hotfix within the works to kind out the PS5 model, and numerous different tweaks within the works. There isn’t any clarification for The First Descendant’s extremely aggressive monetization, nevertheless, which some gamers have described as “microtransaction hell.”
Regardless of all these issues, The First Descendant has loved a huge launch, with a big 239,513 peak concurrent gamers up to now on Steam. That’s sufficient to place the sport in Steam’s prime 5 most-played video games (Sony and Microsoft don’t share participant numbers). Try IGN’s The First Descendant evaluation in progress to search out out what we consider the sport up to now.
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