The First Descendant is a free to play massively multiplayer looter shooter videogame, It's made by a Korean company, Nexon Korea which meant it's grindy as truck and all main characters are beautiful and the enemies are either ugly, stupid or fat or any combination of the three.
You play the role of a Descendant, humanity's last defense against giant monsters and evil aliens, chosen few of the ancestors able to use Arche. ("The Force")
Story wise, humanity is fighting a losing battle until they met the Guide.
She's hot.
And basically the game story revolves around the counter attack of humanity.
THE GAMEPLAY
At it's core it's a looter shooter mmo,
which means you shoot a target until it is eliminated and plunder its dead corpse, rinse and repeat.
and since it's an MMO, you get to play with other players with the same taste.
How it differs from other looter shooter mmo is that it takes elements from different looter shooters and mash it up making an original game.
Basically, The First Descendant is the result of when an egg cell of Destiny 2 being inseminated with a sperm cell of both Warframe and Borderlands.
The maps are diverse, each location are unique from each other, deserts, jungles and post apocalyptic cities to name a few.
Locations are then subdivided into battlefields, each one littered with activities.
I really like this, each activity gives details on what to expect including play time and a loot table.
For movement, the game allows you to walk, run, roll, jump, double jump, and grappling hook. ( no crouch, no slide, no glide, no leaning on the sides, and no cover system.)
You can carry three guns to battle, guns are first subdivided by the ammo they use, General Rounds, Impact Rounds, Special Rounds and High-Power Rounds, which are then subdivided again with the different types of guns for category of ammo.
There is no sidearm slot, so the pistol takes a weapon slot.
This is obviously Destiny design.
Each gun has a random set of affixes, similar to Borderlands which you can modify.
And finally each gun can be outfitted with mods, similar to Warframe.
(Hell! it even has symbol-based mods for discount slots like in Warframe)
Outside of those three guns, the only things you carry is a sub attack and your descendant's abilities, no grenades.
For example the descendant named Ajax can use barriers that reflect damage, a leaping slam, a shout that deals damage, and finally a spherical barrier.
Please note that in this screenshot enemies have symbols on top of their names, symbolizing their weakness to a specific type of weapon and element.
or Bunny, sprinting around the battlefield emitting pulse of damage every few seconds.
The Descendants differ greatly in playstyle which I find very appealing.
each Descendant has its own mod slot configuration as well.
and finally there's reactor and external components, reactors affect ability performance and external components are mere stat sticks that for example increases hp, def, or other things.
UNLOCKING NEW STUFF
The game has crafting, which require specific materials.
most of these specific materials comes from Orokin Vault Keys Amorphous Materials that you can earn as rewards from missions in the world.
In order for you to get the contents of the Amorphous Materials, you need to beat bosses in the Void Intercept Battles that caters to the specific Amorphous Materials.
Which mind you significantly better than running void key specific game mode runs in Warframe, I am looking at you game modes with ROTATION C!
After beating the boss, A reconstruction device will appear along with the boss specific loots in a circle around it.
Once you interacted with it, choose a specific Amorphous Material to open, and if you have shape stabilizers you can increase the odds of getting the rarer parts.
and that's pretty much how you get those rare parts.
GROWTH & UPGRADING
Descendants have stats and abilities that grow as they level up to a max level of 40, so a Level 1 is significantly weaker than a level 10.
Guns have levels as well, you either just loot and use a better weapon or thankfully you can upgrade your favorite gun's level by sacrificing a gun of a higher level.
Mods can be upgraded but also cost more capacity to use.
Of course there are COSMETICS!
Well what is there to say, it's nice.
Very Nice.
I think that pretty much it, everything it has to offer.
Now. for the things I like:
The Access Info
In the Access Info you can find out the details of all the descendants, gears, weapons and mods.
Information for what it does.(Sadly it doesn't show info when them mods are upgraded.)
And where to find them.
Mission details such as which guns drop from which and the drop rate.
BUTTS GRAPHICS!
Things I don't Like.
There is no dialogue volume. the dialogue volume is combined with the sound effects volume. so the shooting is loud and the dialogue is drowned with it. The Voice Volume is for voice chat.
The default keyboard controls are absolute garbage. I had to remap abilities to 1,2,3,4 and not the buttons in some random places.
Thankfully you can remap controls with the same buttons. for example, E is mapped for 'use' and grappling hook. which works quite well.
When I rate things, I always use a three-point system.
1 for Bad
2 for Okay
3 for Great
I must point out that I have very low standards and is easily impressed.
so it's very hard for me to give a score of 1,
and very easy for me to give a score of 3.
The First Descendant. 2024. 3/3. It's very good.
The Good.
- Graphics.
- Voiceovers.
- Likeable characters. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
- The Good of all other looter shooters.
- Crossplay.
- Difficulty adjusts between the number of players in a squad.
The Bad.
- No Dialogue Volume.
The Neutral
- Sometimes also includes the bad of some looter shooters they copied.
- Controls could be better.
- It's pay for convenience unless there's PVP.
- Auto Sprint is bad for hip-fire shooting.
- Korean Voiceover.
That's pretty much it. greets! I don't proofread.
Smugness of this fellow.