The First Descendant is just every week previous nevertheless it’s already affected by a participant toxicity drawback the developer has mentioned it can examine.
Nexon’s free-to-play co-op centered looter shooter, a form of fusion of the likes of Warframe and Future, launched on June 30 and gamers have already discovered toxicity within the chat, akin to inappropriate feedback in addition to hack adverts designed to encourage gamers to pay to cheat.
Some The First Descendant gamers have referred to as the chat a “cesspool”, making it laborious to seek out others to group up with in-game.
Nexon issued an replace to say it has now launched an investigation however stopped in need of confirming a plan of motion.
“We’re inspecting abusive gaming habits to make sure that all Descendants can benefit from the sport in a pleasing atmosphere,” Nexon mentioned. “Should you discover any irregular or abusive habits whereas enjoying the sport, please report it via the in-game reporting characteristic.”
Toxicity isn’t the one challenge with The First Descendant proper now. It’s obtained important efficiency points, particularly on PlayStation 5 the place the frame-rate can wrestle, crash issues, and plenty of gamers are nonetheless ready for promised rewards, akin to Twitch drops.
Nexon has issued a number of apologies and dished out compensation within the type of in-game assets, however that hasn’t stopped the complaints. Nexon even needed to ask gamers to cease shopping for the identical merchandise a number of instances via Steam or the PlayStation or Xbox platform shops as a result of gamers weren’t getting what they paid for.
We all know that hack commercial chats have gotten frequent within the sport, and we’re constantly working to resolve this challenge.
You may assist us by reporting these posts! Listed here are the strategies.1. Press Participant Interplay (T) close to the goal.
2. Choose the goal from the chat.
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Producer Lee Beom-jun printed a developer chat to YouTube through which he mentioned the sheer quantity of launch gamers took Nexon abruptly. There’s a hotfix within the works to type out the PS5 model, and numerous different tweaks within the works. There isn’t a rationalization for The First Descendant’s extremely aggressive monetization, nonetheless, which some gamers have described as “microtransaction hell.”
Regardless of all these issues, The First Descendant has loved a giant launch, with an enormous 239,513 peak concurrent gamers up to now on Steam. That’s sufficient to place the sport in Steam’s prime 5 most-played video games (Sony and Microsoft don’t share participant numbers). Take a look at IGN’s The First Descendant evaluation in progress to seek out out what we consider the sport up to now.
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