The First Descendant doesn’t make it simple for gamers to unlock new characters with out taking part in for them, leaving gamers pissed off with the RNG-based grind for supplies.
Whereas there’s the choice for gamers to buy the bottom Descendants ($6-20USD) or Final Descendants ($70-100 USD), folks clearly wish to sidestep the steep price and unlock all these characters with out paying.
Nonetheless, the method of getting sufficient supplies to get new characters takes a very long time. Base Bunny will get spoon-fed to the participant early on by way of the principle quest, however different characters aren’t so easy.
For these unfamiliar, right here’s a quick and considerably simplified rundown of how unlocking new Descendants in The First Descendant works:
First, you must purchase sufficient supplies to craft 4 completely different analysis supplies, three of which you must wait 8 hours for (18 hours for Final variants).
Crafting every of those requires you to acquire a blueprint as nicely, with drop charges that modify from as excessive as 38% to as little as 2-3% on the Final Descendant elements after finishing sure missions.
You additionally should get the suitable Amorphous Materials from a completely completely different set of missions, one thing that provides you the chance to roll for these blueprints. If you happen to beat a boss however don’t have the Amorphous Materials to roll for the blueprint you want, you’re out of luck.
Then, in spite of everything that, you must wait 16 hours (36 hours for Final variants) for the Descendant to craft, though you may pay your well past that timer as nicely.
Getting only a single new character can take days of grinding and ready in case you don’t really feel like paying for them.
It’s additionally doable for the character you labored so laborious for to be a downgrade in comparison with who you have already got, though that’s an issue that may be prevented by studying our The First Descendant character tier checklist.
This led to quite a lot of posts with gamers displaying simply how shut they have been to unlocking the character they wished. They’ve been spending hours upon hours grinding by missions solely to get gated by one materials RNG simply gained’t give them.
“Finished this identical mission for five+hrs and never as soon as has it dropped the singular piece I really want. I do now have a ship load of amorphous mats however just a few form stabilizers,” the unique poster stated.
“You’ve got each run 20% likelihood that it drops…. that theoretically means you may run 100 instances and get nothing…. as a result of each time the sport roll the cube new with a 20% likelihood to get it… it doesn’t memorize or make an observation what number of time you could have performed the mission,” one participant defined.
The really random nature of those drops means it might take gamers days of grinding the identical missions time and again simply to get a brand new Descendant.
Drop charges on these blueprints are so inconsistent that gamers consider the builders are mendacity concerning the odds, although no proof to again that up has been introduced.
Nonetheless, they’re pissed off with the system, calling the RNG course of “rage inducing” and “abysmal”.
That stated, this sentiment isn’t totally common. Although the vast majority of gamers assume gating base character unlocks behind a development wall of this dimension is irritating, some folks love the grind.
“I’m ashamed to confess this however I kinda love grindy looter shooters. Already 6,260 hours into Warframe, I might see myself placing a pair thousand into this in the event that they enhance and additional assist the sport,” stated one participant.
Those that love placing dozens and dozens of hours into getting new gear love the problem required and the reward on the finish of it, and people gamers are prone to be those who keep on with the sport long-term.
Contemplating The First Descendant has constantly hovered round 200k gamers at peak hours on Steam because it launched, the problem of getting new characters hasn’t satisfied folks to place the sport down.
