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The First Descendant Hotfix 1.0.4 Deployed, New Descendant 'Luna' Previewed | MMORPG.com
Nexon has dropped hotfix 1.0.4 for The First Descendant and previews the game's next update.
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(Can't wait for Nexon to show their true colours and ruin it all, a year down the road)
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
It's a surprisingly good game and I had my fun with it but calling it the best looter shooter while Warframe exist seems a bit like a stretch ;-)
Well, Warframe clearly is the better overall game, with a 11 years headstart, stronger art direction etc. I love it to pieces.
But at this stage, I can hardly call it a looter shooter. It's a racing game where you press a few buttons to obliterate entire maps while racing to the finish line or next objective against your 3 teammates. There is no gunplay, because guns only slow you down.
When I play a looter shooter, I want to use my guns. Aim, point, shoot. The Warframe 1999 content island will hopefully provide that for a while (albeit not for the entire game). But until then, TFD takes the Looter SHOOTER cake for me.
That aside, the fact that you can buy/trade every single weapon/module for real money in Warframe always hampered my motivation to grind them out. Whereas in TFD you can only buy formas, poatoes and the "warframes" - there is no alternative way to getting the other items (mods, weapons, external components), so I am forced to work for them, which ultimately makes the game much more fun to me.
I'll enjoy it while it lasts, because Nexon sure as hell will either add trading to the game or offer more items for purchase with real money over time. Same goes for the shooting: I am sure power creep will make weapons as useless in TFD as they are now in Warframe. We're actually already heading into that direction with builds like the Lepic burst build.
Last but not least, I find the loot in TFD more interesting and rewarding than in Warframe, BUT that might well be because I played Warframe for 5K+ hours and there is very little left to achieve for me. So this last point might not stand the test of time, because I am sure at some point I will feel the same about potatoes and formas in TFD.
That said though, the game itself is fun enough for a f2p. The progression feels awful and needs some QOL. The cash shop is eye watering and I cant imagine it getting better. We'll see what direction they steer into I guess.
You don't have to buy the skin. It is the same as buying something in warframe. You can grind out the ultimates just like all the others. It is a time vs want thing.
People eat it up because there are titties. That's just how it is in gaming at the moment.
It'll die out in a month or so, just like the rest of 'em.
The only down side for me is grinding out materials to upgrade, not parts but the currency you need can't remember the name off the top of my head. That part does get very, very repetitive cause the best way to do it is hop on bunny and run circles which gets boring really, really fast after a while.
Tip: upgrade your important modules like HP and defense or you will start to struggle against harder enemies.