The First Descendant

They had a long live stream today for their First Anniversary stuff. I didn't catch it but I'm sure we will be getting cliffnotes later today or tomorrow. They did drop these two teaser trailers though.

Here is the first TLDR I've seen.

Axion Plains Demo tomorrow, fyi.

https://tfd.nexon.com/en/news/3051395

Also, the 2B outfit (Damaged) is sure to trigger a multitude of people:

The Axion Plains demo was very short, and very curated. Can only play Nell, Ult Freyna, or Ult Bunny. All the specific setups that you can tweak a bit, but the gear / cores are custom made, so not what we'll be using. It is exactly what was shown during the Dev Stream awhile go, one mission and a partial encounter with Wall Crasher.

I used Freyna and didn't bother with Nell as there was no option to build her how I plan too on release. The mission was pretty good, imo, very hectic and the new Elite mobs were a good addition. Nothing really game changing, and the new dmg resistance mechanic didn't feel obnoxious. The hoverbike was alright, I think its size is scaled up too much though. The zone itself, or what we had access to was very plain, no hills or canyons. I do hope that the full zone is very active with a nice variety of missions (I fear it wont' be though).

Been playing some of the new stuff in Axion, along with doing the Story missions. As someone who loves the 400% dungeons, this stuff is fantastic. The big elite mobs are pretty tank for sure, but they are a good fight. Using Ines with no issues so far, just mass death. The Wall Crasher encounter is pretty tame, but it has a huge HP pool, so they really really really want players to have fully upgraded weapons (which I do not have). I did pitiful dmg to the one I fought with 6 other people, 2 bailed. Failed the intercept, no loot sadly.

So, I have Nell fully built and she's a blast to play once you understand how she works. I didn't like playing her at first but now she maybe my favorite so far. She does take almost full cats to start to shine though. She has some great burst dps. I also completed the Vortex and leveled it to 10. It moves but I need to mess with it some more because the two bike races I tried, I still couldn't complete the fastest time. I was two seconds off. I'll start arche leveling Jayber now since he got a huge buff. Sadly, I've already completed most of the expansion stuff already but it was fun and in the right direction for the game.

A modified Orca can almost complete all the races, I just need to cut some corners better. Nell is still a bit wonky on applying her mark, especially on Wall Crasher, other that she is great. If it weren't for how buggy this patch has been it would have been better received.