*Got lots of folks saying, it just like Warframe. I have played very little of Warframe. Perhaps at some point, we'll give that game a full go too.*

The thing the killed Anthem was that the devs literally had no clue how to actually run a looter shooter game. When the game released, people were spamming a certain dungeon for loot, and the devs decided to patch it AND BAN EVERYONE WHO FARMED THAT DUNGEON. It was the most insane thing I ever seen

Whoever said "naw, make em buy the paint" is a true villain 😭

This game is gonna make millions just on that Bunny skin alone. The bakery is insane.

If my wife walks into the room while I’m using that bunny outfit I’m dead lol

The game needs to redo it's entire monetization system. It's main competitor, Warframe, has the exact same item as the Energy Activactor, the Orokin Reactor/Catalyst. Both increase the mod(ule) capacity of the character or weapon. The Energy Activator is worth 1200 caliber or around $25USD, a goddamn Orokin Catalyst/Reactor is 20 platinum... or like $1.67USD... technically even free if you just trade in the game (which is incredibly easy). As a F2P game, yes, it can monetize however it wants, but if it truly wants to live and not be a cash grab, then it has to change this and the other prevalent issues that Cross mentions.

Its a Nexxon game.... Monetization and sub par customer service are core values

Well it has lot of common point with warframe: -you need to buy custom colors, but once unlock in warframe you can use it unlimited -card in weapons and descendant is same thing as warframe -the module is similar to arcane enhancement of warframe -custom skin can also be purchase in warframe. -like warframe mastery rank is important to progress in gearing and progressing in the game -in warframe there are catalysor that double the point for mods on warframe and weapons. (Didn't check if the same thing exist on descendant) -crafting is the same as warframe:launch the crafting go play. Warframe is like that and same as warframe, weapons need to be leveled. People that want to rush the game or try to pay to rush will wasted there money because this game seem to went you to play first and not rush craft everything. They want you to be in a loop or playing, upgrading your stuff, do harder stuff, increasing mastery, unlocking new descendant to increase mastery. Same as warframe. You must no neglect to increase affinity on all weapons like warframe. Like aztecross said, it has very sexy female descendant and it will do retention and cash flow because of sexy caracter like lost ark. Some people will throw cash at super sexy skin. It's easy cash grabber. So overall this game is not like destiny. If you give a go at warframe you will see ressemblance with first descendant by a lot !

the darrell edit was so good it got me questioning my memory

You can lower the gun sounds by switching to the "Midnight Mode" sound preset in settings. it drastically lowers the gun sounds while leaving basically everything else intact.

One more thing I can guarantee you that war frame has evolved dramatically since the last time you’ve played it the quality of life over there is excellent

"I can't have that much shaking in front of me" Truer words have never been spoken. Lmao! I Subbed instantly

Imagine if Destiny had the same fanservice as The First Descendant. “Yo, we need a Well!” “…” “I said we need a Well!” “Sorry, I was distracted.”

Did you guys notice he already had half of the materials for the ultimate bunny lol

I’ve been maining Bunny thru the betas so you better believe I bought that ultimate skin 😂

Aztecross finds out about the Warframe Paradox.

9:59 Cross is not ready for corrupted Vor speech 😂

9:05 The Developer: "How loud is a real life gunshot? Like 150dba, right? We should turn that down to something more reasonable for the game, like 100dba."

Speaking of Grinding, The prestige skin for bunny from tier 1 - 2 literally requires bunny to get 135,000 skill kills and you have to wear both armor pieces because the process only counts, if you have the skin on (helmet and armor have different progress so if you only have helmet on, the progress will only count for the helmet)

its a mix of nearly everything i've witnessed over the last decade thrown into one and for some ass reason i love it

TL;DW It's a D2 public event simulator + Warframe with somehow worse monetization and all the player friendly aspects removed + poor english voice acting + an absurd amount of *extremely* well done fanservice to compensate for the last three points.

id say its fun but the monetization options are def too expensive, def agree

Can’t you speed the farming process like for 10 box?

im patient, i dont mind the grind and the wait , im not dropping no money on content i can unlock lol

This is the most ambitious mobile game I’ve ever seen.

While playing the story missions I don't know how many times my eyes glazed over while my mind started drifting off into who knows where.

Also some modules can only be equipped by an Ultimate Descendant, you cannot just use the normal version, you have to use the Ultimate version if you want to equip certain modules unlike Warframe where you can equip any mods on both normal and prime versions of a Frame.

So far, I am having a blast with the game on a mechanical level. And I love how hard it is to get the next descendent, so it keeps me working toward something.

If they open up a trade market in the future it might save itself from the expensive monetization.

Ajax wearing Nezarec's Sin.

i bought the dino skin and I cant use it on another character on MY ACCOUNT when it says ONCE PER ACCOUNT

I was pleasantly suprised with this game during the closed testing. I didn't even realize it already came out!

The fact that cross is watching that booty shake in a gun fight had be laughing for a bit. He's a national treasure 100%

I can't believe Aztecross didn't mention Warframe at all at 3:30 when this game is borderline a 1:1 copy of WF

The crafting is basically warframe but 16 hours for ultimate bunny is certainly better than 3 days for a warframe to be built, though I agree sinking hours into just getting the parts in the first place only to wait even longer just to get the thing you want is a little much but what can you do

I like the beefyness of the weapon sounds, something many games suffer from in my eyes is lack of weapons sounding powerful.

It’s a Korean game, why is anyone surprised?

Dude I feel like Hugh Hefner with all these Bunny's everywhere.

So, I'm a Warframe veteran. Several hundred hours, went to TennoCon even a few times, etc. May not be the most hardcore fan, but it was my main game for a long time. I would say TFD is more on par with Warframe in it's first couple of years than something like Destiny, Anthem, etc. It's definitely apparent this was made by a dev team from another culture, used to a different market that engages with F2P differently, and does not have a whole lot of experience making a game like this for a global audience. Probably doesn't have a humongous budget, hence why the writing and localization is sub par, it doesn't look too different than default UE5 rendering (which still looks good, not a knock on it), and is more focused in certain areas than others. Here's how I would describe the game: let's say Destiny 2 and Warframe are burger joints that you've been going to for years. You like the food, it's had its ups and downs, but it has been relatively okay. Then a new joint opens up, and you try it out. It's run from someone out of town who wanted to take a stab at running their own burger joint, and you decide to try it. The building looks fresh and new, but the inside and dining area looks a little sparse. The menu has some standard fare and some weird stuff you don't feel like trying. Half of the sandwiches are way too expensive at first glance. You order a standard burger combo and take a seat. The bench is hard and uncomfortable, the table a little rickety. Your food is similar to what you've gotten elsewhere, but it very clearly tastes different and has a couple of hints of something that you can appreciate. It's not the best burger, and overall you like the other joints better, but there's something about this place that makes you want to come back from time to time, if anything to shake things up. That's what I consider to be the First Descendant. I think most people that are already deep in other games aren't going to find this better than those in any way. People suffering from burn out might stick with it for a bit, but maybe not make it their "main game." Some people might try to justify the cost, but most are going to find better value elsewhere. Warframe falls into a lot of the same monetization traps, but at least the costs are a lot more digestible than what Nexon is trying to pull. Nexon will print money for a bit, but the whales aren't going to be as plentiful as they should be to keep a F2P afloat with the across the board prices as they are. If Nexon is unwilling for the game to be some niche game with 3k players in a few months, they need to wake up from their greed, and I understand how unlikely that is to happen. I got board of Warframe and stopped a couple years ago because the treadmill was just too much. However, playing TFD, I'm 50/50 on whether I'm liking the gameplay loop enough to like it solely for the gameplay itself, or if I want to just go back to Warframe, catch up on what I've missed, and stick with that.

Cross I finished campaign last night I really enjoyed & I think it has a lot of longevity just hope they have the content to follow.

The crafting system is like warframe, you get use to it in warframe. A lot of people don't realize that you aren't crafting X and then Waiting for X so you can Use X. Warframe is You use your newly crafted X, while you craft Y, and Farm for Z. Then you use Y while you craft Z and Farm for A and so on and so forth.

10:03 - "And the dialogue that started at the beginning of the mission, would still be going on" Rick Kackis, confirmed as THE First Descendant..!

I was eating than the sniper popped "OFF!!!!!" almost spit my food out lol

So when's the first, First Descendant build battle video?

"Now I'm not saying i dont appreciate this" when talking about that Bunny outift is hilarious XD

To put things into perspective : To add more mod capacity to your frame on Warframe, it costs 20 Platinum (the premium currency) OR you can VERY EASILY craft one using a very small amount of resources, though it will set you back 24hours crafting them. HOWEVER, they have a FREE Battle Pass that will also give you FREE currency to also just buy the Reactors/Catalysts, so you can easily stack them up as a new player too. In TFD, to add more mod capacity to your character will set you back $25, or you can spend around 20+ hours (bear in mind it takes almost close to this to craft literally the same item in WF) to find the materials, and then spend a further few hours to craft one. I looked into its Battle Pass, I did not see anything of the sort that would give you any upgrades. Fun game, yes. Does it respect your time? No. It is depending on people to buy. As someone who has played WF for YEARS, I can bear with grindy games if my time is respected. But I can't defend the games monetization. WF's is not perfect, but its not absurd either. Our trading system essentially makes everything BUT cosmetics free. And even then, the cosmetics can be free too because we can trade the PREMIUM currency. I think Nexon stated they will add trading in the future, but I'm skeptical if they allow Caliber to be tradeable. Also, Nexon created MapleStory. The very same company that had a lawsuit against them for LYING about the drop rates in that game. I'm enjoying the game personally, ( though it can be a drag solo ), but I can not justify spending on it.

Isn't there dungeons aswell in the game at the min?

another thing to note on crafting descendants some stuff can only be gotten from certain areas

Props to the editor, when “Darrel” popped up I was legit confused, like wait that really was his name…man… wait really. Diluc. Man Genshin was awhile back.

nah, as someone who plays warframe, who doesn't have perfect monetization, but certainly solid in comparison to most games, especially this one, the pricing in this game is waaaaay too much. The paints in the beta was craftable, now you have to purchase, where warframe, you purchase pallets and you can use unlimited uses on everything from warframe, weapons, and even companions. The most egregious thing for me is how they do Catalyst/reactors in this game, essentially mod capacity booster. In warframe, it's hard to get, but doable; Either through nightwave for 75 battlepass credit (which battle pass in warframe is 100% free, no premium aspect to it at all), or get a blueprint through sortie or gift of lotus, or 20 platinum. Platinum is 75 for 5 bucks, so that's about 1ish dollars. But the kicker is you can earn that money through the game via other players, so you can honestly get a net positive in warframe if you spend little to nothing. Hell even if you spend money. While FD, it takes 1kish to buy out a mod cap booster for a character, which is basically 20 dollars down the drain, which is fucking insane. Like, back to warframe, prime access or other bundles, you get additional platinum to go with it that around the amound you paid for. Protea prime plat iirc gives like 3k plat, which is a decent cost at 140ish bucks, for protea, her access weapons, accessories (syndana, alt helmet and ephemera), glyph. I wouldn't say it's exactly worth the value, but the fact FD 'ultimates' cost between 50 to 100 bucks and give you barely anything in return of that pay out just shows a great level of greed (Character+ slots+ and a skin) that's it, as I remember, no premium currency as you needed that to even get the thing. The 100 one is the worst because it doesn't even give good stuff, boosters I guess, but warframe prime access gives you near 80 day boosters for buying them, while DF iirc give short lived booster compared to the price spent. What annoys me, is the beta was good, it had everything I had hoped the game would be, but now we just have warframe but greedier and worse grind. Makes D2 eververse seem charitable in comparison.

Not sure if your using steel series headphones, my artic pro with the sonar software is amazing for fine tuning sound / frequency ranges :)

That paint thing sounds like old Destiny 2 Shaders where you had to buy some shades for bright dust and you can only apply it to one piece of armor

I was having fun with the game, got a character to lvl 40, and finallly decided to go and farm the mats for a new descendant. And thats where it just went downhill for me. One of the missions you need to play says it has a 20% drop chance for the material to get that character. It is NOT 20%, but hey looter shooters and fighting rng aint my first rodeo, so I kept doing it. 40 something fucking runs later, I finally got it. Cool, I'm hyped, I'm excited, I go to craft the motherfucka and it tells me its going to take 16 hours, dude... with "PAY TO ACCELERATE" big as shit on the screen and that was it. I told this story to someone and they're like, "dude its the same in warframe". Like thats going to make me feel like the game just didnt shit all over the 2 hours I spent farming the SAME mission. idk.. this game definitely has some fun elements to it, but it aint for me fuck that shit.

Another monetization aspect people haven't figured out yet, is that you cannot delete extra items from your consumables bag. Eventually it will fill up and you will be forced to expand your bag.

In this video, Aztecross discovers Nexon being Nexon.

Didn't destiny also do the consumable paint stuff too a couple years ago?

I appreciate Stellar Blade’s free outfits more after seeing this

My only real issue with pricing is that you can't ever buy just the amount you need. They never let you buy exactly 5000 or whatever you need. They force you to buy a pack that gives you currency thats either always a little too short than what you want or you're left with extra that then makes you feel like it's a waste if you let it sit in your account. Besides that the grind part is fine, that's the entire Warframe grind. Grind hours for mats then wait I think 12 hours for each part to finish then you use those parts to finally make the frame which takes 3 days. Or expedite the time by paying platinum (premium currency) or buying the frame outright. The difference being that in Warframe you can also trade plat with other players allowing you to earn it in-game by trading and never spend a dime.

Wait, so if i don't spend any money on this game, my character will look default the entire time unless I grind mats for the research?

I started playing this today, and I honestly love the freedom in the combat. I be swinging around like spiderman and then landing with a powerful shockwave onto different enemies and everything. The grappling hook is fr one of the best things they have in the game. I usually do things solo, so if I ever decide to join other players as well, then I could also support them a bit easier. I can't remember my character's name, but he be the guy, who can create shields, and force fields and is in full armor, with horns in the helmet.

To put things into context, nexon are responsible for maple story and all of it's controversy. The first descendent is taking the warframe route where it's pay to progress faster, however I do agree the paint system is a little silly. As far as raid level content goes, the harder bosses have raid-like mechanics but I would like to see some raid-esque dungeons later in it's lifetime

I would say if you like PVE in looter shooters, the vibe is definitely here. But if you prefer PVP then D2 or any other shooter is for you. Don’t really like PVP in these types of games so it’s cool I can load into a patrol privately and grind to my heart’s content. I miss that in looter games. They just need to focus on stability, but it’s UE5 no one has truly mastered that engine yet it’s still new

Honestly, yeah, I have a ton of fun with the boss fights specifically. Also, straight up I bought the evolving skin for bunny because that thing looks cool at max rank.

Makes u appreciate destiny that much more I grinned for material to unlock a new descendant and didn't get 1 thing I needed

It sounds straight up like Warframe if it really is the way he's describing it. The way ultimate descendants work is pretty much exactly like prime frames in Warframe.

Warframe has the best f2p model

Most of the cut scenes remind me of Kung fu theater on Saturday mornings.

dient watch all the video and had no sound... so: is this anthem?? I'm confused

as a warframe veteran I can only say that it is fun. yes it is repetitive just like warframe so I have no problem with it. The crafting, I even find it better than in warframe because the wait time is much much shorter in TFD then in Warframe. I hope it only gets better because I think it's really good so far.

the microtransactions are egregious but the division gunplay with destiny powers and warframe progression is a pretty fun mix of gameplay.

The fact that people are going around saying, "that's just the way things are" is the problem with gaming these days. When did we bend over and take this crap as consumers? Don't even start on the buggy game and collision crap that happens that prevent you from moving/dodging. Plus the shit serves lagging out all the time.

This is how i explained the campaign to a friend (we play destiny). Imagine you’re loaded into the Trostland where Devrim is. And he tells you to do 3 public events followed by a lost sector. You then go to the next area, Outskirts, and repeat that process, and repeat it for every area in the EDZ until you get to do a strike. THEN you move onto Nessus and do the same. Colossus fights break it up but feel like they are level checking you… assuming some max level isn’t nuking the boss.

While there is monetization for days, I'm just glad you can just play it and gather what you need for what you want. There's no money gated content. It's a free game. Anything you buy does nothing but support the game for more stuff. Hopefully we'll see more content if enough people buy stuff and they don't just add more cosmetics only.

Yall have NO IDEA how many 50/50's I lost because of DARRELL. Damn you Darrell, damn you all to hell....

I splurged and bought Valby and the battle pass. After nearly two hundred hours in the betas, was glad to see she's still op

I could see this doing something similar to Destiny year 1 2014, in the sense that the foundation is there, what really matters is the first expansion. If the first expansion adds something akin to a raid, another dungeon or 2, vastly improved mission design, solid descendants and ultimate weapons... it could end up pretty good. Just depends on how they support the game. They also need to chill on the monetization a little bit.

Better than other so-called 'destiny killers', but not as good as warframe or destiny. It's very fun, it will remain installed on my drive. A bit grindy but not egregious. Monetization is egregious but seems to mostly be cosmetic/time save

You could hear the disappointment as soon as the video started 😂

The cheek meat factor might be the only thing that keeps this game from dying.

Thanks for the review, man. You just convinced me to stay as Tenno.... 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

At least your able to play the game, only got in for 15 min then crashed. Haven't gotten in since lol.

You make a good key point, a lot of these games are like, someday we will make a raid. And then it's two years later, and no one cared a WEEK later. They follow the Destiny model, except for the fact that they don't drop a raid in the first week. Destiny showed it's potential right away.

Crazy this vid brought u the most views u got in a while ima def be starting up descendant 😅😅😅

Seems accurate on the ultimate. Took me roughly 3 days with 10hrs of play time per day and 24 hrs to research em to get my Ultimate Ajax. Agree on the paint scheme, that's down right criminal tbh. a dollar per armor piece lol.

The data being farmed in this game is CRAZY

Hopefully the devs listen about the colors. Remember D2 had single use shaders on launch. Hopefully they really take feedback into mind. - make colors unlimited use - let me color change default skins - add obtainable skins for F2P players in challenging content (if they haven’t already idk yet) - add a collections tab to reacquire ultimate weapons obtained (yes, like Destiny) and make a craftable item to enhance unique effects instead of grinding for a weapon 4-5 separate times. - add a system that automatically breaks down weapons picked up based on set parameters like the junk function, to cut down on constant inventory management These are some changes that would vastly improve the health of the game

Aztecross is legit scared to say "Warframe"

I think one reason people aren't as mad about the pricing is because it's very similar, basically identical, to how warframe does things. So people coming from there are just use to the price/grind.

I started with AJAX, after about 6 levels, I bought FREYNA love her spreading the toxic venom, I'm using the Thunder Cage sub-machine gun I can't die now

The store system isn’t terrible since they give you descendants through gameplay in a fair way and they give the best one away first. My only issue is the store cost, mainly the ultimate descendants and that you have to by cosmetics for each instead of buying once and it works for all

Going to give this game a try. Tbh the only descendant that particularly interests me atm is Ajax. I like his design and playstyle. Thank god hes a starter. Honestly not sure about the rest atm.

The ultimate bunny outfit is cool and all but once someone walks in and sees that on your screen your cooked😭

my reaction to the game is that it is flat. when you play destiny and warframe you can feel the edges of those games. but descendant is just flat. it works but thats it

the monetization of this game gives me the feeling that a developer of mobile games got the idea and budget to make a full console game.

Are there any Descendants that play similar to a Destiny Warlock?

Imma be honest the ultimate descendant packages are pretty similar to the prime packages for warframe. While I think it is easier to get the prime frames through grinding and the market, in my opinion that aspect doesn’t kill the game for me. I do agree that the paint system needs to change, it should not be you buy a color and it’s a one time use.

if he likes the gameplay, but not the monetization, he should definitely try out Warframe, they have free to play monetization down to a science, best monetization of any free-to-play game out right now

Also this isn't in the season pass yet, its actively in the pre season pass

I don’t want to put this out there but I feel like I have to.. If you preview all of your armor slots with the same color of paint (Given that you only have 1 copy of said paint) when you click accept it will paint your entire suit the color you chose.. I painted my entire skin white using just 2 white paints Edit: 1 paint for the helmet and 1 paint for the suit.. 2 paints filled 9 slots

Someone hasn't played warframe