Developer Nexon has launched the primary post-launch replace for The First Descendant, which brings some much-needed enhancements to the sport after its tough launch.
Hotfix 1.0.1, out now throughout PC, PlayStation and Xbox, improves efficiency on PlayStation 5 particularly (the PS5 model has vital frame-rate points), makes gameplay tweaks and numerous bug fixes, and fixes the brand sound quantity on sport launch.
On gameplay, knockback and knockdown restoration instances have been sped up by 1.5 instances, and the utmost utilization of the Eterllick protect talent per part has been diminished from two instances to 1 time. There aren’t any adjustments to The First Descendant’s closely criticized monetization, nonetheless, which some have referred to as “microtransaction hell.”
Nexon’s free-to-play co-op targeted looter shooter, a form of fusion of the likes of Warframe and Future, launched on June 30 and has seen enormous participant numbers on Steam (Sony and Microsoft don’t reveal participant numbers on PlayStation and Xbox). On Valve’s platform The First Descendant has seen 239,513 peak concurrent gamers thus far, sufficient to place the sport in Steam’s prime 5 most-played video games. Try IGN’s The First Descendant overview in progress to seek out out what we consider the sport thus far.
However the launch has endured vital issues, together with the aforementioned frame-rate points and crash issues, with a lot of gamers nonetheless ready for promised rewards together with Twitch drops. Nexon has issued a number of apologies and dished out compensation within the type of in-game assets and gadgets, however that hasn’t stopped the complaints. Nexon even needed to ask gamers to cease shopping for the identical merchandise a number of instances by Steam or the PlayStation or Xbox platform shops as a result of gamers weren’t getting what they paid for.
The First Descendant hotfix 1.0.1 patch notes in full:
Platform & System
- Mounted the difficulty the place the brand sound quantity was too excessive when launching the sport.
- Server and shopper stabilization has been carried out.
- (PS5) Eliminated unintended elements that had been degrading efficiency.
- (PS5, XSX) Mounted the difficulty the place FSR Upscale was malfunctioning.
Content material Enhancements
- Knockback and knockdown restoration instances have been sped up by 1.5 instances.
- The most utilization of the Eterllick protect talent per part has been diminished from 2 instances to 1 time.
Bug Fixes
(1) UI/UX
- Mounted the difficulty the place the again button didn’t work after closing the capability exceeded popup within the module enhancement UI.
(2) Descendant
- (XB1) Mounted the difficulty the place the heads of different gamers carrying skins would intermittently not show.
(3) Module
- Mounted the difficulty the place the ‘Talent Energy Modifier’ quantity was not utilized accurately after stage 5 enhancement of the ‘Deadly An infection’ module.
- Mounted the difficulty the place the final word module drop animation was used when the conventional module ‘Excessive-Energy Rounds Capability Enhance’ was dropped.
(4) Discipline
- Mounted the difficulty the place object destruction animations didn’t seem within the Strategic Outpost.
- Mounted the difficulty the place the title and description of the NPC Dominique within the Hagios area had been displayed incorrectly.
(5) Tools
- Mounted the difficulty the place the Guided Spherical of the Final Weapon ‘Restored Relic’ didn’t apply the ‘Historic Fireplace’ standing impact.
- Mounted the tooltip error for the Fireplace Talent Energy of the ‘Energetic Volcano’ Exterior Parts 2-set impact.
- Mounted the tooltip error for the Weak Level Injury of the ‘Frozen Coronary heart’ Exterior Parts 4-set impact.
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