At The Game Awards 2023, The First Descendant revealed a Summer 2024 launch by way of a brand new cinematic trailer with the looks of a brand new character. The First Descendant’s latest Crossplay Open Beta began on September 19 and lasted every week. The take a look at supported cross-platform play, together with the Xbox Series, and was out there to gamers from all international areas. Nearly 2 million gamers from over 200 international locations participated within the take a look at, with essentially the most curiosity and participation from gamers in North America. We had been pleasantly stunned by how engaged Xbox gamers had been, with a 5:5 break up in participation between consoles and PCs.
Along with the launch reveal, we’re releasing an infographic to showcase information from The First Descendant’s Crossplay Open Beta. Through the lively participation of quite a few gamers, we’ve seen a number of gameplay-related findings, together with that gamers selected Viessa essentially the most out of the three beginning characters, and Bunny was essentially the most researched character subsequent to the three default beginning characters. As if our gamers knew the story behind the weapon, Hero’s scar was essentially the most used weapon earlier than the Open Beta ended. The Hero’s Scar is a small legacy left by the predecessors of the Descendants, and it represents the hope of humanity. Holding onto that hope, our gamers teleported practically 50 million occasions to save lots of Ingris, they usually displayed their love for The First Descendant not solely by way of their participation within the take a look at but additionally by way of the preferred emote, Send Heart.
As talked about, quite a few gamers participated within the Open Beta, and we obtained quite a lot of suggestions regarding it. We’ve heard some extremely encouraging feedback, like how a lot they loved the sport and the way a lot it’s improved for the reason that final Steam Beta, and we’re very grateful. But simply as importantly, we obtained quite a lot of suggestions on how we will enhance The First Descendant, making the Crossplay Open Beta a useful time for the workforce. The great pleasure and response to the take a look at made us wanting to excellent the sport additional. Based on our gamers’ suggestions, our builders determined to supply a bunch of top-requested enhancements, together with broader mission selection, extra content material within the fields, a extra user-friendly expertise and interface, and even additional optimized graphics, which is why we determined to launch in Summer 2024.
We’ve loved assembly many gamers in the course of the Crossplay Open Beta. Even although the sport isn’t out there for gameplay now, a lot of our gamers are supportive and engaged in our official group and different channels. We’ll proceed to enhance The First Descendant collectively as a response to the help. Thus, main as much as the launch and past, we’ll proceed to speak transparently and hearken to our gamers’ suggestions, and we’ll proceed to share our progress with our gamers.
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