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  • The First Descendant blog post seemed promising, but now a popular farming location will be nerfed.
  • The game's team has faced multiple issues including unfair drop rates, leading to frustration among players in The First Descendant community.

A recent blog post has caused further despair among The First Descendant's community after originally giving players a glimmer of hope.

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The post initially promised to buff every farming location within the game. However, that has now been retconned, and the game's most popular farming location will be nerfed.

Vulgus Strategic Outpost To Be Nerfed

A new farming strategy has recently risen to prominence in The First Descendant. Using Valby, players have been running the Vulgus Fortress Outpost and, due to an increase in enemies, been getting far more drops.

The blog post from game director Minseok Joo described this new farming strategy as "our own mistake", stating that enemies have incorrectly been "respawning infinitely," causing the location to have a drop rate "2-3 times higher than other popular locations."

The blog post then continued by promising players that "we will update other farming locations to match the efficiency, equivalent to The Fortress Outpost." With The First Descendant having notoriously difficult, verging on seemingly unjust drop rates, this led to delight among players, with the expectation that they would now be able to farm materials at what they considered a fairer rate. Their delight was short-lived.

Speaking on Discord, the developers shared a further update, saying the initial statement was a "misinterpretation during the translation process of the original Korean text." Mistranslations unfortunately happen, but as far as they go, this was a bad one. Nexon continued, saying that they actually meant that the "Fortress - Vulgus Strategic Outpost" would be nerfed "to match the efficiency of other farming locations." The original blog post has now been updated to reflect this.

While many were quick to point out that they figured this would have been the case and that Nexon wouldn't quickly buff so many farming routes, others were understandably frustrated. A compromise of the Fortress being slightly nerfed while other routes were slightly buffed was a widely shared but slightly naive expectation.

This issue is the latest in a line of gaffes from The First Descendant's team. Dodgy paints, plagiarism allegations, AFK farmers, an initial lack of hard-mode matchmaking, unbalanced characters, and predatory monetization, alongside the unfair drop rates, have all plagued the game within its first month. While this one is a little more understandable, a simple mistranslation rather than anything more nefarious, it's hard not to feel at least a little bad for the game's 100k+ daily players.

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The First Descendant

Action RPG Third-Person Shooter Systems 8.0/10 OpenCritic Reviews Top Critic Avg: 56/100 Critics Rec: 26% Released July 2, 2024 ESRB Mature 17+ // Violence, Blood, Suggestive Themes, Strong Language Developer(s) Nexon Games Publisher(s) Nexon Engine Unreal Engine 5
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