The First Descendant (UE5)

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This is a F2P looter shooter similar to Destiny or Warframe and will be released on Feb 2024.

It is using UE5 and looks great and runs surprisingly well with no shader compilation stutters - I have it running at high settings @ 4k 60 FPS using DLSS.

You can play it now as it is on open beta so give it a go and report back your findings :)

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The First Descendant│Official Trailer Reveal (4K)│Gamescom 2022

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My only issue with it is Nexon being behind the pay stuff, Though the mixed reviews seem to be purely server issues, Would have to wait to see how people find the end game grind.
 
Got to level 10. So far the gun play is tight and it does look prettt good. It’s taken a lot from Warframe with mods and frames type thing and a bit from destiny.

You can smell the grind required to play it for free though. I’ll play it some more at the weekend but I’m not going to hardcore play this one.
 
Played sound 6 hours I doubt I’ll play any more.

It’s a pale imitation of warframe’s progress mechanics, Destiny’s mission system, and anthems aesthetics. All wrapped up in a weeb costume, and with some horrific Korean grind at end game no doubt.
 
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Played with couple of mates for 3.7 hours, quite enjoyed that actually, visually some areas look great, Nanite filled etc but others look a bit dated. Runs fine, mechanics are fun, enjoyable as a crew for sure I'd say. Got to level 12 or so in that time.

Frame Gen needs to be toggled when moving from between Albion to other areas for missions sometimes else the motion glitches, other shadow bugs and LOD pop-in too I noticed but otherwise it's fine.


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Performance bench during gameplay, Ultra with Ultra RT 3440x1440 DLSS Quality + FG, without FG it's around 77fps average and I prefer with FG due to the smoothness and no latency noticed so all good.

M1-Win64-Shipping.exe benchmark completed, 33146 frames rendered in 263.797 s
Average framerate : 125.6 FPS
Minimum framerate : 77.6 FPS
Maximum framerate : 140.2 FPS
1% low framerate : 66.3 FPS
0.1% low framerate : 12.5 FPS
 
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Did the tutorial, killed the Gravedigger or whatever it was called, then went to Albion.

Looks impressive in places so far. Not run the benchmark but I’ve locked it at 60/4K and it’s smooth as with RT set to Ultra.

Not sure if there’s much of a game there yet but I will have another go once I’ve got some free time. Does seem to be a mix of Destiny/Stellar Blade so far but I’ve barely scraped the surface TBF.
 
Jumped back on today and enjoyed it a lot more than yesterday. Something clicked today that didnt before. The gunplay is pretty solid.
 
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Well they know how to do character models that's for sure :p
 
Soulja said:
Does anybody else feel like they're playing a knock off version of destiny? :D
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The setting and enemies, maybe. And the ability to level up out of date weapons with newer ones. The rest of it is nothing like it especially in gameplay . It's more like a mongrel of 60% warframe and and 40% division/outriders.
 
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