The First Descendant – Big Update: Weapon Upgrades, Reactor & Farming Changes
The latest update for The First Descendant brings significant improvements to reactor farming, weapon upgrades, and changes to the farming system, all with the goal of improving gameplay and customization. Here are the key points:
Reworked Reactor Farming.
Improved Customization: Players can now add any type of weapon to a reactor, allowing flexibility to choose between swarm or boss weapons without the need for a perfect reactor.
High Resource Cost: This freedom comes at a high price: upgrading reactors requires large amounts of gold and game resources, with 10 million gold needed for large amounts of high quality materials.
Changes in Albon’s Resource Defense and Cultivation
Simplified Quests: Albon Resource Defense quests have been reduced from 21 waves to 10, making these runs faster and increasing weapon experience rewards and monster density.
New Daily and Weekly Tasks: Players can earn valuable in-game resources, including 1 million gold, weapon XP boosters and a crystallization catalyst in daily and weekly tasks. These additions improve the overall reward structure, making resource collection more efficient.
Weapon Upgrades
Final Masterpiece Upgrades: This gun now features various elemental effects when reloading, such as fire, ice and poison blasts, making it a dynamic AOE weapon.
Albon Cavalry Gun: A new light machine gun (LMG) designed for crowd control, with critical ricochets and stuns to improve effectiveness in group combat.
Driller: Designed to increase weak point damage and area control, creating explosions that damage surrounding enemies, giving players more options for engaging groups.
Quality of Life and Farming Enhancements
Lost and Found Module System: Players with full module inventories will now find lost Transcendent modules in a “lost and found” section, solving a common problem.
Module Accessibility: Hard-to-acquire modules, such as Shot Focus, are now easier to farm, with additional opportunities at new locations and difficulty levels.
PS5 and UI Improvements
PS5 Pro Graphics Update: Improved resolution, ray tracing and frame generation for a superior experience on PS5 Pro.
UI Tweaks: UI quality of life improvements, including inventory tracking improvements, additive vs. multiplicative damage indicators, and improved module categorization.
Community and Developer Q&A.
The development team will address feedback on game improvements and future updates in a Q&A session with the community on October 31, discussing expected features and the direction of in-game combat and customization.
Overall, this update to The First Descendant aims to make farming, weapon management and overall gameplay more rewarding and engaging. As players explore the improved mechanics, this update promises a more balanced and player-friendly experience.
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