After many open betas and early entry playtests, Nexon Video games’ The First Descendant is lastly on its final vacation spot in the direction of launch. Earlier than the looter-shooter arrives on consoles and PCs, a brand-new trailer that showcases new characters, Ajax, Valby, and Bunny, has already landed, giving gamers a take a look at what these Descendants have to supply.
Like Future 2 and Warframe, gamers will dominate the battlefield in a fantasy world that meets sci-fi expertise, and, as any good shooter ought to know in the case of maximizing on-line challenges, Nexon Video games takes participant suggestions severely to assist permit its sport to achieve its fullest potential.
Talking with Recreation Rant, The First Descendant’s director Minseok Joo emphasised how essential participant suggestions is for the free-to-play, live-service sport and to know its neighborhood wants with “sincere” suggestions all through its testing interval. After all, making an attempt to maintain up with the likes of Apex Legends, Remaining Fantasy 14, and Future 2, takes numerous laborious work and extra importantly, for a studio, is persistently being in contact with its playerbase.
“We have run three public exams already, and we’re having conversations with our gamers relating to suggestions. Simply sincere suggestions, forwards and backwards.” expressed Joo. “We have been doing this in neighborhood areas corresponding to YouTube or our Discord server. On one hand, we make it some extent to showcase our sport at such a giant occasion like [Summer Game Fest], however then again, we additionally prefer to have a small AMA session with customers on-line.”
Making an attempt to continuously and persistently stability the looting expertise whereas additionally giving gamers a problem is one thing that The First Descendant retains their eyes on. Gamers will clearly have some reservations upon leaping into one more MMORPG with a battle cross and microtransactions, however Joo has mentioned that they’ve adopted a extra player-focused method to those issues.
“We have run technical exams, and in these exams, we have had discussions about microtransactions,” mentioned Joo. “We have obtained numerous suggestions, particularly relating to microtransactions, and we have determined to terminate the microtransactions that gamers will not be glad with. We made certain to share that data inside our neighborhood virtually immediately.”
The First Descendant shall be launching for Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PC on 2nd July.
