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. 

NEXON released a new trailer for The First Descendant's 2nd update to Season 1: Invasion, featuring the newest Descendant Ultimate Freyna, a new Void Intercept Boss Battle, Halloween-themed content and much more, which will be available to all players starting October 10, 2024.

The First Descendant’s Season 1: Invasion Second Update includes:

• Ultimate Freyna - Ultimate Freyna will make her appearance in Season 1 with her exclusive modules Toxic Moisture and Venom Injection. 
  • Toxic Mixture module will trigger Necrosis instead of Room 0 Trauma, increasing her Firearm ATK as enemies gain stacks of Necrosis. If an enemy reaches max stacks, her firearm critical hit rate will also increase.  
  • Venom Injection module consumes resources to recover the player’s shield and increase Skill Power Modifier, while inflicting Corrosion on enemies. Enemies inflicted with corrosion suffer reduced Toxin Resistance, making them more vulnerable to Ultimate Freyna's Toxic attacks.
• Freyna’s Exclusive Story - In Freyna’s exclusive Descendant story, explore the inner mind of a crestfallen hero, gripped by the guilt of surviving alone after failing to save her love and comrades.
• Hailey’s New Modification Modules
  • Supercooled Kuiper Round: When Hailey’s unique weapon is used, the Firearm ATK and Fire Rate is reduced, but it increases Weak Point Damage in return. The increase in Weak Point Damage decreases on firing the unique weapon, but increases again on successful Weak Point attacks.
  • Cryogenic Cluster Shot: The Cryo effect is changed to Cryogenic and attacking an enemy inflicted by Cryogenic with firearms deals additional AoE damage to nearby enemies, useful to clear out common monsters.
• New Void Intercept Boss Battle: Death Stalker - Lurking in the darkness of the Void is where the Death Stalker can be found. Known as one of the most powerful Colossi encountered so far, players will need to venture into the Void and uncover the mysteries of the Death Stalker to protect Albion. 
• Ultimate Weapon “Frost Watcher” - This cold and deliberate weapon was designed with a built-in Chill Arche catalyst to allow anyone to fire Cryogenic bullets that course through the entire body and delay their movement, which few Albion Descendants can handle. If a Descendant can handle it all, Frost Watcher can provide them with the most cold-hearted skill in battle.
• 400% Infiltration Operations - Experience a greater number of monsters for endless battles in the all-new 400% Infiltration Operations.
  • These Operations include an exclusive currency as a unique reward, which can be used to obtain special items that can be traded to ETA-0.
• ETA-0 (Mysterious Merchant) - Every Friday to Sunday, the mysterious merchant ETA-0 will visit Albion, offering a variety of goods in exchange for vouchers. These vouchers can be earned through 400% Infiltration Operations or by exchanging surplus weapon blueprints. Items available for trade include Descendant blueprints, weapon blueprints, materials, inventory expansions, paints and more. Days may vary depending on the player’s time zone.
• Halloween Galore - With Halloween just around the corner, the city of Albion has been transformed with dark and mysterious Halloween decorations. Special skins, cosmetics, and hair dyes, perfect for Halloween night will also be available in the shop.
• Ongoing Player Event - Players can now join the “Freyna's Encrypted Vault Shop” event on the official website. Accomplish in-game missions, collect points, and use them to unlock Encrypted Vaults for a variety of rewards.

The First Descendant will utilizes the PS5 Pro’s enhanced GPU and Raytracing Architecture to deliver improved lighting, shadows, and reflections, while incorporating PSSR for higher resolution and FSR 3.1 Frame Generation for smoother performance, offering players better image quality and frame rates.

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 available for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam).