The First Descendant is barely every week previous nevertheless it’s already affected by a participant toxicity downside the developer has stated it is going to examine.
Nexon’s free-to-play co-op centered looter shooter, a kind of fusion of the likes of Warframe and Destiny, launched on June 30 and gamers have already discovered toxicity within the chat, comparable 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 update to say it has now launched an investigation however stopped in need of confirming a plan of motion.
“We’re inspecting abusive gaming conduct to make sure that all Descendants can benefit from the sport in a pleasing surroundings,” Nexon stated. “If you discover any irregular or abusive conduct whereas enjoying the sport, please report it via the in-game reporting function.”
Toxicity isn’t the one subject with The First Descendant proper now. It’s acquired important efficiency points, particularly on PlayStation 5 the place the frame-rate can wrestle, crash issues, and many gamers are nonetheless ready for promised rewards, comparable to Twitch drops.
Nexon has issued a number of apologies and dished out compensation within the type of in-game sources, 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 know that hack commercial chats have gotten frequent within the sport, and we’re repeatedly working to resolve this subject.
You might help us by reporting these posts! Here are the strategies.1. Press Player Interaction (T) close to the goal.
2. Select the goal from the chat.
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Producer Lee Beom-jun revealed a developer chat to YouTube wherein he stated the sheer quantity of launch gamers took Nexon unexpectedly. There’s a hotfix within the works to kind out the PS5 model, and varied different tweaks within the works. There isn’t any clarification for The First Descendant’s extremely aggressive monetization, nevertheless, which some gamers have described as “microtransaction hell.”
Despite all these issues, The First Descendant has loved an enormous launch, with an enormous 239,513 peak concurrent gamers to this point 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). Check out IGN’s The First Descendant overview in progress to seek out out what we consider the sport to this point.
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