Free-to-play shooter The First Descendant may have lost around 40 percent of its playerbase since its release earlier this month, but a new major patch may bring enough new content and improvements to bring early fans back.
Two new playable Descendants, Ultimate Valby and Luna, have been added to the game, including a new hard mode Void Intercept Battle, new skins, and a ton of bug fixes and improvements to boost the player experience. Whether this will be enough to make up for the studio’s addition of pricey microtransactions remains to be seen.
Check out the highlights for The First Descendant Update 1.0.5 below, with the full patch notes here:
GENERAL
- You can no longer equip and remove modules or change presets and loadouts in Intercepts or Infiltrations to prevent module swapping.
- You can now collect all Lost and Found items at once.
- You can turn camera shake off.
- You can now favorite items you have equipped, and items in a preset will automatically be marked as favorites.
- You can search for consumables.
DESCENDANTS
- Frenya Room 0 Trauma poison contagion range increased from 4 meters to 7 meters.
- Increased max scaling range of Valby’s skills from 200% to 250%.
- Increased max scaling range of Blaire’s skills from 200% to 250%.
- Viessa’s Glacial Cloud module now no longer has a delay before the blizzard.
WEAPONS
- An option in the menu for single shot and burst fire weapons will autofire when the trigger is held down.
- Enduring Legacy’s Critical Hit Damage increased from 1.7x to 2.3x.
- Secret Garden’s Critical Hit Rate increased from 25% to 50% and Crit Damage from 1.85x to 2.25x.
- Nazeistra’s Devotion Critical Hit Rate increased from 36% to 45% and Crit Damage from 2x to 2.25x.
- Greg’s Reversed Fate Bombardment trigger rate decreased, but it now triggers when fired at unshielded enemies.
GAMEPLAY
- Void shards dropped from Special Operations increased by 700%
- Reduced knockdown distance from traps.
- Monster immunity sphere health will scale less with number of players.
- Agna Desert, Vespers, Echo Swamp, White-Night Gulch, Hagio and Fortress will now always spawn encrypted vaults.
The First Descendant was released on July 2 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
