The First Descendant (previously known as Project Magnum) presents beautiful visuals and attractive and unique characters based in a sci-fi-style player vs. environment worldview. It also provides exciting battles using various skills, actions, and guns, as well as the fun of high-quality PvE shooter battles that target huge bosses.

Experience the fun of strategic boss fights through 4-player co-op and various unique characters, exciting gunplay, and looting. A variety of equipment is necessary for growth, and you can obtain them through clearing scenario missions within the game or in the World Missions where cooperation is crucial and battles with huge bosses.

The player becomes a Descendant in the game and is given a mission to fight against the invaders for the survival of humans and to protect the ‘Ingris continent’. The player can experience a spectacular story by growing stronger through various missions and stories to finally discover the Descendants' secret. You can also feel the First Descendant’s unique atmosphere through high-quality fields developed with Unreal Engine 5 and gain a new experience of reality and SF fantasy coexisting in one place.

The gameplay includes strategic boss fights with 4-player tactics, grappling hooks, unique character abilities, gripping gunplay, and tons of looting. After clearing missions and defeating enormous bosses, players can unlock powerful new characters, equipment, and upgrades. 

The First Descendant is a next-generation third-person looter shooter featuring high-quality graphics developed using Unreal Engine 5.

As various attractive characters, the Descendants, players will defend humanity from alien invaders. Dynamic combat against the invaders can be experienced in environments with stunning visuals using various skills, guns, and freedom of movement. After the Beta last year, our Dev team made sure to improve every aspect of the game, and you will now be able to find those improvements on PlayStation 4 and 5.   

Today, Nexon Games would like to introduce you to exclusive features that can only be experienced on PlayStation 5. 

4K Resolution and Supported Modes

First, The First Descendant’s PlayStation 5 version supports 4K resolution and offers an in-game performance and fidelity mode.

You’ll enjoy stunning visuals in 4K resolution through the fidelity mode. With HDR support, you’ll encounter high-quality graphics of charming and unique characters, various cosmetic elements, and colorful worlds in 4K resolution.

Through the performance mode of up to 60 FPS, enabling smooth gameplay, you’ll experience splendid, fast-paced combat in The First Descendant. Additionally, as we’ll support Variable Refresh Rate (VRR), you can play in a stable gameplay environment without limits to the frames.

Adaptive Triggers

The adaptive trigger is one of the innovations the DualSense wireless controller brought.

In The First Descendant, each weapon class serves a different purpose, and we reflected the characteristics of each weapon in the adaptive triggers. To make every weapon class feel unique, we set different pressure and intensity values for each of our 11 weapon classes, depending on their usage.

For instance, a light handgun’s adaptive triggers will be lighter than a heavy launcher or a sniper rifle with heavier trigger pressures, each providing a unique experience. Through the adaptive triggers, our Dev team created a much more immersive experience when using weapons.

Haptic Feedback

The haptic feedback is another innovative feature of the DualSense wireless controller.

In addition to the vibrations, it has been designed so that the haptic feedback would work in tandem with your character controls and the environment. Bringing the game to life, the haptic feedback can be found throughout the game, such as the direction a boss appears and walks towards, the direction in which you’re attacked when you use a gun, and more.

Furthermore, when using the grappling hook, the key to the speed and dynamic controls of the game, the haptic feedback delivers a much more vivid experience based on your speed and direction.

3D Audio

As you all know, mesmerizing sounds fill the space and perfect the fantastic visuals. PlayStation’s 3D Audio does a great job of bringing the world to life. It’s hard to explain the tension you feel when you encounter the sound of a missile passing by a character in 3D Audio during a battle against a mighty giant boss.

The First Descendant crossplay beta will be fully open to anyone who registers at the official website, and will be available and free to play on PC via Steam, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S starting September 19, 2023 and will run until September 19th.

New features and improvements have come directly from players’ previous beta feedback found on Discord and other official channels, prioritizing optimized performance and significant quality-of-life adjustments. 

Additionally, Nexon will show players how they got to the current events that will be experienced at the beginning of the game via a substantial Prologue as they begin the Open Beta. Why did the Vulgus invade the Ingris continent? Why are they trying to get hold of the Iron Heart? How will humanity fight back? This will all be answered in The First Descendant’s Prologue. 

Below are major updates and adjustments found in the upcoming Open Crossplay Beta:

• Performance Enhancements
  • Improved frame rate performance 
  • HDR and NVIDIA DLSS 3 support 
  • Utilizing latest Unreal Engine 5.2
  • Performance and quality modes for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S
• Quality-of-Life Improvements
  • Revamped grappling hook control and new parkour movements
  • New module (previously called rune) system
  • Improved jump motions
  • Improved gun sound effects
  • Updated UI, UX elements
• Updated Narratives and Prologue
  • New additional storyline
  • A mysterious new map (The Sterile Land) 
• New Gameplay Content
  • 11 playable Descendants and two ultimate Descendants
  • 11 new ultimate weapons each with unique effects
  • 8 Void Intercept Battle bosses 
  • 2 new Void Intercept Battle maps
  • New cosmetic system
  • Improved world missions
• New Open Beta Rewards 
  • Available only to those who participate in the Open Beta 
  • All participants will receive a limited-edition social motion.
  • Reach Descendant level 20 to receive a back-attachment customization item at launch.

Key Features:

• 4-Player Co-Op Play - Team up with other players for four-player co-op strategic battles. Each player’s amazing powers and abilities will lead to tactical battles for the win.
• Charming and Unique Characters: You can play various characters with distinctive concepts and battle styles. We plan to add various customizable elements such as skins for each character to support character decoration.
• Exciting Battles and Dynamic Action Using Various Skills and Firearms: Experience the First Descendant’s exciting battles composed of various characters with unique skill sets, free movements, and chain actions through Grappling Hooks, colorful firearms, and additional effects. With these, the player can create any battle style they desire.
• Battles With Huge Boss Monsters Through Cooperative Play: You can target huge boss monsters with different appearances and abilities through 4 player co-op play. The various difficulties will stimulate your competitive spirit, and you can destroy or extract various parts of the huge bosses through 4-player cooperative play. By targeting the huge boss’s gimmicks, you will be able to experience a more compact team play.
• Motivating Play and Growth: You can equip a character with 3 guns, 4 secondary equipments, and various sub-weapons. Of course, there will also be items to enhance a character or their firearm stats or add a new ability all together. A variety of equipment is a necessary element for growth, and you can obtain them through clearing scenario missions within the game, or in the World Missions where cooperation is crucial and battles with huge bosses. We provide equipment so you can develop the characters to play continuously through character growth and acquiring and combining the various equipment. Use it to challenge yourself with more difficult tasks and enjoy the thrill of clearing them.

The First Descendant is coming to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam) in Q4 2023