Magnum Studio heeft hotfix 1.0.4 uitgebracht voor The First Descendant, met nog meer verbeteringen en kwaliteitsverbeteringen. De opslag voor Modules is verhoogd van 1000 naar 1500, terwijl Void Shards nu vallen van vijanden in Special Operations (met “Neutralize Void Experiment” die de meeste oplevert).
De belangrijkste verandering is echter bij de Vulgus Strategic Outpost, waar een bug ervoor zorgde dat vijanden continu respawnden, wat het een populaire farming spot maakte. Valby was de meest optimale optie, wat leidde tot de term “Valby run” om de farming spot te beschrijven.
De hotfix heeft de respawntijd van monsters bij de outpost verhoogd. Hoewel de beloning lager is dan de “Valby run”, is het nog steeds “aanzienlijk hoger dan oorspronkelijk bedoeld”, aldus game director Joo Min-seok. De plek heeft nu een “vergelijkbare efficiëntie met andere high-reward jachtgebieden.” De ontwikkelaar heeft ook alle outpost cooldowns verminderd, wat zorgt voor een meer naadloze farming ervaring.
Bekijk de rest van de hotfix-notities hieronder. The First Descendant is beschikbaar voor Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5 en PC.
The First Descendant Hotfix 1.0.4
Patch Details
Content Improvements
- Module storage limit has been increased from 1000 to 1500.
- Cooldown for “Vulgus Strategic Outpost” has been reduced from 5 minutes to 1 minute.
- Spawning time between monster respawn has been increased, and the reward amount has been adjusted at the ” Vulgus Strategic Outpost”.
- Void Shards will now drop when defeating monsters in Special Operation. There will be the most void fragment drops at the Special Operation “Neutralize Void Experiment.”
- Using “Mark for Arrest” item obtained from Special Operation will grant ten times the usual amount of gold. When “Mark for Arrest” is used from ‘consumable’ tab, it will convert to 100,000 gold, and “High-Value Mark for Arrest” will convert to 1,000,000 gold.
# Director’s Comment
With this adjustment, the reward amount at Fortress outpost has been reduced. However, to ensure that “Valby run” remains a popular hunting ground like Ambush Point and Refined Run, we have set the reward efficiency significantly higher than originally intended. We hope to provide numerous farming spots in The First Descendant, each with unique characteristics and usefulness to different Descendants. Instead of reverting Valby run to its original design intent, we have adjusted it to offer similar efficiency to other high-reward hunting grounds.
Additionally, we have shortened the cooldowns for all outposts so that players can play them more frequently without deliberately failing and no longer need to search for outposts with shorter cooldowns by moving around the map. We have also added gold rewards to Special Operations and adjusted 4 types of Void Shards to be randomly dropped, allowing players to choose and utilize various hunting grounds.
Through issues like the Fortress Outskirts and Valby run, we are learning what kind of play style our players enjoy. The experience of sweeping through and farming monsters is of significant value in our game.