Summary
A recentblog posthas caused further despair amongThe First Descendant’scommunity after originally giving players a glimmer of hope.
The post initially promised to buff every farming location within the game. However, that has now been retconned, and the game’s most popular farming location will be nerfed.
Vulgus Strategic Outpost To Be Nerfed
A new farming strategy has recently risen to prominence in The First Descendant. Using Valby, players have been running the Vulgus Fortress Outpost and, due to an increase in enemies, been getting far more drops.
The blog post from game director Minseok Joo described this new farming strategy as “our own mistake”, stating that enemies have incorrectly been “respawning infinitely,” causing the location to have a drop rate “2-3 times higher than other popular locations.”
The blog post then continued by promising players that “we will update other farming locations to match the efficiency, equivalent to The Fortress Outpost.” With The First Descendant havingnotoriously difficult, verging on seemingly unjust drop rates, this led to delight among players, with the expectation that they would now be able to farm materials at what they considered a fairer rate. Their delight was short-lived.
Speakingon Discord, the developers shared a further update, saying the initial statement was a “misinterpretation during the translation process of the original Korean text.” Mistranslations unfortunately happen, but as far as they go, this was a bad one. Nexon continued, saying that they actually meant that the “Fortress - Vulgus Strategic Outpost” would be nerfed “to match the efficiency of other farming locations.” The original blog post has now been updated to reflect this.
While many were quick to point out that they figured this would have been the case and thatNexonwouldn’t quickly buff so many farming routes, others were understandably frustrated. A compromise of the Fortress being slightly nerfed while other routes were slightly buffed was awidely sharedbut slightly naive expectation.
This issue is the latest in a line of gaffes from The First Descendant’s team.Dodgy paints,plagiarism allegations,AFK farmers,an initial lack of hard-mode matchmaking,unbalanced characters, andpredatory monetization, alongside theunfair drop rates, have all plagued the game within its first month. While this one is a little more understandable, a simple mistranslation rather than anything more nefarious, it’s hard not to feel at least a little bad for the game’s 100k+ daily players.
