So as we all know, today we just got a massive update from the first descendant introduction—a brand new season with tons of new content and fixes—a lot of which the community has been asking for. In the latest update for The First Descendant, here’s what’s new:
New Battle Pass
The new Invasion Season Battle Pass arrives, featuring a new Ultimate Weapon, EXCAVA, as the Battle Pass reward and a lot of other rewards like the helmetless head skins of Bunny (Exhilarating Breakaway), Valby (For Freedom), and Sharen (Tactical Decision). And the cute cat back attachment, “With Cats.”
The new battle pass also brings the new Invasion Season Battle Supply Shop, which is completely free. Level up your battle pass and complete battle pass challenges to obtain tokens that can be used to unlock various skins, like Bunny’s “Golden Afterimage” body skin, “Voltage Control Mask” head skin, and also Valby’s “Liquefaction Acceleration” body skin, “Hydraulic Adjustment Helmet” head skin, and many more.
New Descendant: Hailey
Along with the coming of season 1, we will also be welcoming a brand new descendant called Hailey Scott, a sniper-based descendant with a unique set of skills centered around chill damage and strategic positioning:
Passive Skill:
Safe Strategic Retreat: The “weak point damage” decreases when attacking nearby enemies and increases when attacking distant enemies.
Active Skills:
[Active Skill 1] Cryo Round: Fires multiple Cryo Rounds at enemies to deal damage and inflict “Cryo.” Enemies inflicted with “Cryo” receive additional damage from Hailey’s firearm attacks.
[Active Skill 2] Storm Snare: “knocks back” enemies with a “Chill Vortex” and fires a giant Freezing Beam. Hit enemies are inflicted with “Cryo.”
[Active Skill 3] Cold Fury: Grants “Cold Fury” to herself every second. While in the “Cold Fury” state, her movement speed gradually decreases, but her firearm penetration and critical hit rate for firearms and skills all increase significantly. Once “Cold Fury” reaches maximum stacks, she becomes immune to “Knockdown,” and her firearm and skill critical hit damage increases.
[Active Skill 4] Zenith: Equips her “Unique Weapon.” When attacking with the “Unique Weapon,” it greatly increases penetration and firearm ATK and deals additional Chill skill damage. Recovers MP upon attacking weak points. When the “Unique Weapon” skill ends, it decreases the cooldown of the skill depending on the number of bullets.
Research Materials: Collect materials for Hailey through the new invasion dungeons and hard infiltration operations.
New Content: Invasion Dungeons, Inversion Reinforcement System
Invasion Dungeons
HOW TO PLAY
- After completing all existing main quests, the Invasion episode continues with the “Mysterious Phenomena” quest.
- Progress through the main quest “Altered Design” to unlock the new progression system “Inversion Reinforcement.
- Progress through the main quest “How to Hide the Truth” to unlock the new content “Invasion Dungeon.”
- You can enter Invasion Dungeons from the Infiltration Operations Terminal. The invasion event occurs daily in two of the “Hard Infiltration Operation” dungeons. You can choose to play either “Infiltration Operation” or “Invasion” in a dungeon where the invasion event has occurred.
Also, know that Invasion Dungeons can only be played solo.
- The faster you clear Invasion Dungeons, the more Hailey Research Materials you can acquire.
- Clear Invasion Dungeons to acquire Gold and “Ironheart Particles (Inversion Reinforcement EXP).”
Inversion Reinforcement System
This is a whole new leveling system that uses “ironheart particles” to gain “energy.”. As the level of the “Inversion Reinforcer” increases, you will gain “Energy,” which can be used to learn the Inversion Reinforcement Effects such as Hunt, Attribute, Recovery, Survival, and Season.
Here are some tips to know before you start using this new system:
- You can check the Inversion Reinforcement from your inventory.
- Acquire “Ironheart Particles (Inversion Reinforcement EXP)” to level up your “Inversion Reinforcer.” This can be gotten from invasion dungeons.
- When you learn all 4 effects in the same line, the line’s Collection Effect will be enabled at all times.
- You can enable and use 3 of the Inversion Reinforcement Effects you’ve learned.
- You cannot enable two effects in the same line simultaneously.
- The inversion reinforcement effects are applied to all descendants.
- Inversion Reinforcement will be reset at the end of the invasion season.
Hard Difficulty Field Updates: Collect Ironheart Particles
- Added the “Collect Ironheart Particles” task for the Hard Difficulty fields.
- Complete the task to acquire “Ironheart Particles (Inversion Reinforcement EXP).”
- The progress status of the “Collect Ironheart Particles” task will be reset at the end of the invasion season.
That’s a wrap on the latest updates and new features in The First Descendant. Thanks for reading, and make sure to stay tuned for more news and insights.