My Honest Thoughts of The First Descendant 

*Got lots of folks saying, it just like Warframe. I have played very little of Warframe. Perhaps at some point, we'll give that game a full go too.*

The thing the killed Anthem was that the devs literally had no clue how to actually run a looter shooter game. When the game released, people were spamming a certain dungeon for loot, and the devs decided to patch it AND BAN EVERYONE WHO FARMED THAT DUNGEON. It was the most insane thing I ever seen

Whoever said "naw, make em buy the paint" is a true villain 😭

Another monetization aspect people haven't figured out yet, is that you cannot delete extra items from your consumables bag. Eventually it will fill up and you will be forced to expand your bag.

This game is gonna make millions just on that Bunny skin alone. The bakery is insane.

If my wife walks into the room while I’m using that bunny outfit I’m dead lol

The game needs to redo it's entire monetization system. It's main competitor, Warframe, has the exact same item as the Energy Activactor, the Orokin Reactor/Catalyst. Both increase the mod(ule) capacity of the character or weapon. The Energy Activator is worth 1200 caliber or around $25USD, a goddamn Orokin Catalyst/Reactor is 20 platinum... or like $1.67USD... technically even free if you just trade in the game (which is incredibly easy). As a F2P game, yes, it can monetize however it wants, but if it truly wants to live and not be a cash grab, then it has to change this and the other prevalent issues that Cross mentions.

9:05 The Developer: "How loud is a real life gunshot? Like 150dba, right? We should turn that down to something more reasonable for the game, like 100dba."

Imagine if Destiny had the same fanservice as The First Descendant. “Yo, we need a Well!” “…” “I said we need a Well!” “Sorry, I was distracted.”

the darrell edit was so good it got me questioning my memory

Its a Nexxon game.... Monetization and sub par customer service are core values

Well it has lot of common point with warframe: -you need to buy custom colors, but once unlock in warframe you can use it unlimited -card in weapons and descendant is same thing as warframe -the module is similar to arcane enhancement of warframe -custom skin can also be purchase in warframe. -like warframe mastery rank is important to progress in gearing and progressing in the game -in warframe there are catalysor that double the point for mods on warframe and weapons. (Didn't check if the same thing exist on descendant) -crafting is the same as warframe:launch the crafting go play. Warframe is like that and same as warframe, weapons need to be leveled. People that want to rush the game or try to pay to rush will wasted there money because this game seem to went you to play first and not rush craft everything. They want you to be in a loop or playing, upgrading your stuff, do harder stuff, increasing mastery, unlocking new descendant to increase mastery. Same as warframe. You must no neglect to increase affinity on all weapons like warframe. Like aztecross said, it has very sexy female descendant and it will do retention and cash flow because of sexy caracter like lost ark. Some people will throw cash at super sexy skin. It's easy cash grabber. So overall this game is not like destiny. If you give a go at warframe you will see ressemblance with first descendant by a lot !

Did you guys notice he already had half of the materials for the ultimate bunny lol

You can lower the gun sounds by switching to the "Midnight Mode" sound preset in settings. it drastically lowers the gun sounds while leaving basically everything else intact.

One more thing I can guarantee you that war frame has evolved dramatically since the last time you’ve played it the quality of life over there is excellent

Wait, so if i don't spend any money on this game, my character will look default the entire time unless I grind mats for the research?

id say its fun but the monetization options are def too expensive, def agree

9:59 Cross is not ready for corrupted Vor speech 😂

I’ve been maining Bunny thru the betas so you better believe I bought that ultimate skin 😂

Aztecross finds out about the Warframe Paradox.

TL;DW It's a D2 public event simulator + Warframe with somehow worse monetization and all the player friendly aspects removed + poor english voice acting + an absurd amount of *extremely* well done fanservice to compensate for the last three points.

I can't believe Aztecross didn't mention Warframe at all at 3:30 when this game is borderline a 1:1 copy of WF

its a mix of nearly everything i've witnessed over the last decade thrown into one and for some ass reason i love it

Speaking of Grinding, The prestige skin for bunny from tier 1 - 2 literally requires bunny to get 135,000 skill kills and you have to wear both armor pieces because the process only counts, if you have the skin on (helmet and armor have different progress so if you only have helmet on, the progress will only count for the helmet)

This is the most ambitious mobile game I’ve ever seen.

Ajax wearing Nezarec's Sin.

"I can't have that much shaking in front of me" Truer words have never been spoken. Lmao! I Subbed instantly

Also some modules can only be equipped by an Ultimate Descendant, you cannot just use the normal version, you have to use the Ultimate version if you want to equip certain modules unlike Warframe where you can equip any mods on both normal and prime versions of a Frame.

If they open up a trade market in the future it might save itself from the expensive monetization.

The crafting system is like warframe, you get use to it in warframe. A lot of people don't realize that you aren't crafting X and then Waiting for X so you can Use X. Warframe is You use your newly crafted X, while you craft Y, and Farm for Z. Then you use Y while you craft Z and Farm for A and so on and so forth.

I like the beefyness of the weapon sounds, something many games suffer from in my eyes is lack of weapons sounding powerful.

So far, I am having a blast with the game on a mechanical level. And I love how hard it is to get the next descendent, so it keeps me working toward something.

The fact that cross is watching that booty shake in a gun fight had be laughing for a bit. He's a national treasure 100%

While playing the story missions I don't know how many times my eyes glazed over while my mind started drifting off into who knows where.

In this video, Aztecross discovers Nexon being Nexon.

im patient, i dont mind the grind and the wait , im not dropping no money on content i can unlock lol

It’s a Korean game, why is anyone surprised?

Dude I feel like Hugh Hefner with all these Bunny's everywhere.

another thing to note on crafting descendants some stuff can only be gotten from certain areas

My screen is always facing from the ground up in the lobby 👁️👄👁️

To put things into perspective : To add more mod capacity to your frame on Warframe, it costs 20 Platinum (the premium currency) OR you can VERY EASILY craft one using a very small amount of resources, though it will set you back 24hours crafting them. HOWEVER, they have a FREE Battle Pass that will also give you FREE currency to also just buy the Reactors/Catalysts, so you can easily stack them up as a new player too. In TFD, to add more mod capacity to your character will set you back $25, or you can spend around 20+ hours (bear in mind it takes almost close to this to craft literally the same item in WF) to find the materials, and then spend a further few hours to craft one. I looked into its Battle Pass, I did not see anything of the sort that would give you any upgrades. Fun game, yes. Does it respect your time? No. It is depending on people to buy. As someone who has played WF for YEARS, I can bear with grindy games if my time is respected. But I can't defend the games monetization. WF's is not perfect, but its not absurd either. Our trading system essentially makes everything BUT cosmetics free. And even then, the cosmetics can be free too because we can trade the PREMIUM currency. I think Nexon stated they will add trading in the future, but I'm skeptical if they allow Caliber to be tradeable. Also, Nexon created MapleStory. The very same company that had a lawsuit against them for LYING about the drop rates in that game. I'm enjoying the game personally, ( though it can be a drag solo ), but I can not justify spending on it.

I was having fun with the game, got a character to lvl 40, and finallly decided to go and farm the mats for a new descendant. And thats where it just went downhill for me. One of the missions you need to play says it has a 20% drop chance for the material to get that character. It is NOT 20%, but hey looter shooters and fighting rng aint my first rodeo, so I kept doing it. 40 something fucking runs later, I finally got it. Cool, I'm hyped, I'm excited, I go to craft the motherfucka and it tells me its going to take 16 hours, dude... with "PAY TO ACCELERATE" big as shit on the screen and that was it. I told this story to someone and they're like, "dude its the same in warframe". Like thats going to make me feel like the game just didnt shit all over the 2 hours I spent farming the SAME mission. idk.. this game definitely has some fun elements to it, but it aint for me fuck that shit.

That paint thing sounds like old Destiny 2 Shaders where you had to buy some shades for bright dust and you can only apply it to one piece of armor

Makes u appreciate destiny that much more I grinned for material to unlock a new descendant and didn't get 1 thing I needed

"Now I'm not saying i dont appreciate this" when talking about that Bunny outift is hilarious XD

10:03 - "And the dialogue that started at the beginning of the mission, would still be going on" Rick Kackis, confirmed as THE First Descendant..!

Most of the cut scenes remind me of Kung fu theater on Saturday mornings.

The crafting is basically warframe but 16 hours for ultimate bunny is certainly better than 3 days for a warframe to be built, though I agree sinking hours into just getting the parts in the first place only to wait even longer just to get the thing you want is a little much but what can you do

I appreciate Stellar Blade’s free outfits more after seeing this

Props to the editor, when “Darrel” popped up I was legit confused, like wait that really was his name…man… wait really. Diluc. Man Genshin was awhile back.

“I was like dude, Kyle sucks” 😂

Cross I finished campaign last night I really enjoyed & I think it has a lot of longevity just hope they have the content to follow.

nah, as someone who plays warframe, who doesn't have perfect monetization, but certainly solid in comparison to most games, especially this one, the pricing in this game is waaaaay too much. The paints in the beta was craftable, now you have to purchase, where warframe, you purchase pallets and you can use unlimited uses on everything from warframe, weapons, and even companions. The most egregious thing for me is how they do Catalyst/reactors in this game, essentially mod capacity booster. In warframe, it's hard to get, but doable; Either through nightwave for 75 battlepass credit (which battle pass in warframe is 100% free, no premium aspect to it at all), or get a blueprint through sortie or gift of lotus, or 20 platinum. Platinum is 75 for 5 bucks, so that's about 1ish dollars. But the kicker is you can earn that money through the game via other players, so you can honestly get a net positive in warframe if you spend little to nothing. Hell even if you spend money. While FD, it takes 1kish to buy out a mod cap booster for a character, which is basically 20 dollars down the drain, which is fucking insane. Like, back to warframe, prime access or other bundles, you get additional platinum to go with it that around the amound you paid for. Protea prime plat iirc gives like 3k plat, which is a decent cost at 140ish bucks, for protea, her access weapons, accessories (syndana, alt helmet and ephemera), glyph. I wouldn't say it's exactly worth the value, but the fact FD 'ultimates' cost between 50 to 100 bucks and give you barely anything in return of that pay out just shows a great level of greed (Character+ slots+ and a skin) that's it, as I remember, no premium currency as you needed that to even get the thing. The 100 one is the worst because it doesn't even give good stuff, boosters I guess, but warframe prime access gives you near 80 day boosters for buying them, while DF iirc give short lived booster compared to the price spent. What annoys me, is the beta was good, it had everything I had hoped the game would be, but now we just have warframe but greedier and worse grind. Makes D2 eververse seem charitable in comparison.

I could see this doing something similar to Destiny year 1 2014, in the sense that the foundation is there, what really matters is the first expansion. If the first expansion adds something akin to a raid, another dungeon or 2, vastly improved mission design, solid descendants and ultimate weapons... it could end up pretty good. Just depends on how they support the game. They also need to chill on the monetization a little bit.

The store system isn’t terrible since they give you descendants through gameplay in a fair way and they give the best one away first. My only issue is the store cost, mainly the ultimate descendants and that you have to by cosmetics for each instead of buying once and it works for all

To put things into context, nexon are responsible for maple story and all of it's controversy. The first descendent is taking the warframe route where it's pay to progress faster, however I do agree the paint system is a little silly. As far as raid level content goes, the harder bosses have raid-like mechanics but I would like to see some raid-esque dungeons later in it's lifetime

My only real issue with pricing is that you can't ever buy just the amount you need. They never let you buy exactly 5000 or whatever you need. They force you to buy a pack that gives you currency thats either always a little too short than what you want or you're left with extra that then makes you feel like it's a waste if you let it sit in your account. Besides that the grind part is fine, that's the entire Warframe grind. Grind hours for mats then wait I think 12 hours for each part to finish then you use those parts to finally make the frame which takes 3 days. Or expedite the time by paying platinum (premium currency) or buying the frame outright. The difference being that in Warframe you can also trade plat with other players allowing you to earn it in-game by trading and never spend a dime.

I was eating than the sniper popped "OFF!!!!!" almost spit my food out lol

Also this isn't in the season pass yet, its actively in the pre season pass

as a warframe veteran I can only say that it is fun. yes it is repetitive just like warframe so I have no problem with it. The crafting, I even find it better than in warframe because the wait time is much much shorter in TFD then in Warframe. I hope it only gets better because I think it's really good so far.

It sounds straight up like Warframe if it really is the way he's describing it. The way ultimate descendants work is pretty much exactly like prime frames in Warframe.

I splurged and bought Valby and the battle pass. After nearly two hundred hours in the betas, was glad to see she's still op

To say its heavy in monetization is slightly inaccurate since literally anything you can buy aside from the cosmetics you can earn through grinding, so yeah its heavily monetized if you're lazy and dont want to put in work!

While there is monetization for days, I'm just glad you can just play it and gather what you need for what you want. There's no money gated content. It's a free game. Anything you buy does nothing but support the game for more stuff. Hopefully we'll see more content if enough people buy stuff and they don't just add more cosmetics only.

I would say if you like PVE in looter shooters, the vibe is definitely here. But if you prefer PVP then D2 or any other shooter is for you. Don’t really like PVP in these types of games so it’s cool I can load into a patrol privately and grind to my heart’s content. I miss that in looter games. They just need to focus on stability, but it’s UE5 no one has truly mastered that engine yet it’s still new

“just give me one of the guys it’s too much” LMAO

I started playing this today, and I honestly love the freedom in the combat. I be swinging around like spiderman and then landing with a powerful shockwave onto different enemies and everything. The grappling hook is fr one of the best things they have in the game. I usually do things solo, so if I ever decide to join other players as well, then I could also support them a bit easier. I can't remember my character's name, but he be the guy, who can create shields, and force fields and is in full armor, with horns in the helmet.

Better than other so-called 'destiny killers', but not as good as warframe or destiny. It's very fun, it will remain installed on my drive. A bit grindy but not egregious. Monetization is egregious but seems to mostly be cosmetic/time save

Warframe has the best f2p model

So when's the first, First Descendant build battle video?

other things aside, machine gun sounds soo good i wouldn't mind it to be even louder

the microtransactions are egregious but the division gunplay with destiny powers and warframe progression is a pretty fun mix of gameplay.

Yall have NO IDEA how many 50/50's I lost because of DARRELL. Damn you Darrell, damn you all to hell....

That bunny skin is about to pop a labia

They are also limiting the descendants you can have to 10 And need to buy slots to get more or discard old ones

I think one reason people aren't as mad about the pricing is because it's very similar, basically identical, to how warframe does things. So people coming from there are just use to the price/grind.

You could hear the disappointment as soon as the video started 😂

I don’t want to put this out there but I feel like I have to.. If you preview all of your armor slots with the same color of paint (Given that you only have 1 copy of said paint) when you click accept it will paint your entire suit the color you chose.. I painted my entire skin white using just 2 white paints Edit: 1 paint for the helmet and 1 paint for the suit.. 2 paints filled 9 slots

Has anyone noticed, sigvores proof, the ult launcher in the bp is litteraly just Prospector. They litteraly do the same thing...

Hopefully the devs listen about the colors. Remember D2 had single use shaders on launch. Hopefully they really take feedback into mind. - make colors unlimited use - let me color change default skins - add obtainable skins for F2P players in challenging content (if they haven’t already idk yet) - add a collections tab to reacquire ultimate weapons obtained (yes, like Destiny) and make a craftable item to enhance unique effects instead of grinding for a weapon 4-5 separate times. - add a system that automatically breaks down weapons picked up based on set parameters like the junk function, to cut down on constant inventory management These are some changes that would vastly improve the health of the game

You make a good key point, a lot of these games are like, someday we will make a raid. And then it's two years later, and no one cared a WEEK later. They follow the Destiny model, except for the fact that they don't drop a raid in the first week. Destiny showed it's potential right away.

talking about the audio lol, first thing i did when i opened the game was set the sound to 5%

Cleanup in aisle my pants: 725 part 20

Imma be honest the ultimate descendant packages are pretty similar to the prime packages for warframe. While I think it is easier to get the prime frames through grinding and the market, in my opinion that aspect doesn’t kill the game for me. I do agree that the paint system needs to change, it should not be you buy a color and it’s a one time use.

The data being farmed in this game is CRAZY

I’ve really enjoyed this game. It’s like getting to experience warframe again for me.

the paint system is still cooked (it was a lot box before 💀) but everything else is fine to me. if they make the premium currency tradeable, all micro transactions involving them are basically excused completely

The ultimate bunny outfit is cool and all but once someone walks in and sees that on your screen your cooked😭

A lot of this stuff is actually very similar to warframe. In fact when getting a new warframe it takes like 4 days (assuming you build all the parts on the same day) just to get the new warframe. Honestly it's kind of just a sign to, if you havent already, play warframe

My thoughts about the store is that I'll probably buy 1 ultimate descendant. My main. The other ones I'll earn paying for colors is a way to guarantee renewed income. Every player of 40000 buys the $5 250 caliber for color reserves, and they made $200000. It may seem scummy, but revenue has been an issue for most companies. I think this will help solve the problem. Everything else being earnable in game is a breath of fresh air. I'm not trapped into buying a cool skin and not being able to earn it. My only complaint at the moment is the drop rates. With so many decendants and so much to grind for, if I grind a mission 20 times and don't get an item that has a 20% drop chance, that doesn't feel good. 20% is equal to 1/5 chance to drop. So, how can I run 20 times and not get the item? The transcendent mods are a 1.4%, so I run it 1k times and still don't get it? And that's for 1 mod for one decendant. Drop rates get increased by 5-10%, and i think the game would be in a sweet spot. Of course, things should be rare, but not at the expense of sanity or fun factor. I don't want to get a transcendent item on the 1st run, but I won't want to get the item after 100 runs, either. My buddy was saying every time you run it, your chances of getting the item should increase. I'd be okay with that too. Like a .5% chance increase every run. Make us feel like we are building towards something .

"Welcome to Nexon! How may we take your money?"

my reaction to the game is that it is flat. when you play destiny and warframe you can feel the edges of those games. but descendant is just flat. it works but thats it

if he likes the gameplay, but not the monetization, he should definitely try out Warframe, they have free to play monetization down to a science, best monetization of any free-to-play game out right now

the drip is really gonna be drip 😭🙏🏽

Seems accurate on the ultimate. Took me roughly 3 days with 10hrs of play time per day and 24 hrs to research em to get my Ultimate Ajax. Agree on the paint scheme, that's down right criminal tbh. a dollar per armor piece lol.

In 30 hours of playtime (just finished campaign), I have 1/4 of Ultimate Bunny, 1/4 of Ultimate Viessa, 3/4 of Enzo and got Freyna. Grinding mats is overwhelming at first but is actually bearable but then again I played 1k hours of Warframe. If the prices of Ultimates are cheap, everyone would just get it. The dyes tho, theyre bullsh**. Shouldnt have been an mtx, they shouldve made it ingame currency purchase and the game could use more qol and better ui/ux with the crafting.

At least your able to play the game, only got in for 15 min then crashed. Haven't gotten in since lol.

the items required for the bunny ultimate parts are optional parts to CRAFT the parts for her, once u have all 4 of the main stuff you can research her, and atleast the ultimate only takes a day and a half, cuz primes in warframe take what? 72 hours? warframe nerds pls correct me if im wrong

The First Decendants is one of my favorite games atm. It felt complete, yes its repetitive at times but its worth it and its a BRAND new title. Theirs way anore content to come and they have already toldnus what the next decendant is gonna be.

Ultimate Bunny is $55. The cheapest package was to the left at 3000 coins, not 5000. Still expensive as fuck, but just pointing that out