The First Descendant’s Major Update Unlocks Ultimate Blair and New Challenges

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Summary

  • Update 1.2.14 introduces Ultimate Descendant Blair, a new event, and the Void Erosion Purge challenge.
  • Ultimate Blair offers exclusive quests, skill modules, and increased player activity on Steam post-update.
  • Support for PS4 and Xbox One versions to end in June 2025 to focus on newer console gameplay.

In the latest iteration of The First Descendant, update 1.2.14, has been launched across all devices, featuring the introduction of a new top-tier character, Ultimate Blair. Players will also notice some modifications in this fresh version of The First Descendant, such as a novel event called Blair’s Protection of Ingris and an optional challenge for players to ramp up the difficulty during the Void Erosion Purge.

Since its launch in July 2024, the initial excitement for the online RPG looter shooter, “The First Descendant,” seems to have faded substantially. Despite breaking early records with a whopping 10 million players within its first week and daily player counts on PC surpassing 150,000, recent Steam Charts data reveals that the game has failed to exceed 10,000 peak players in the last seven days.

With the arrival of Update 1.2.14, there has been a significant surge – approximately 67% more – in the number of players simultaneously logged in via Steam on its launch day. This spike in activity can largely be attributed to players aiming to unlock the new character, Ultimate Descendant. The blueprints for this new Ultimate can be obtained using Amorphous Materials, and required research materials can be gathered from Sigma Sector. Once Ultimate Blair is unlocked, players receive a unique quest tailored to their character, which upon completion rewards them with a chest attachment. Additionally, Ultimate Blair comes equipped with skill modules that can scorch enemies and boost his critical hit rate, critical hit damage, and skill power against affected adversaries.

In the latest update, Ultimate Blair serves as the main attraction, but it’s not the only change. Players can now progress to the five-stage Void Erosion Purge Challenge on Hard difficulty once they complete it on Normal at Stage 30. Moreover, a leaderboard has been incorporated for those tackling it on Hard mode. Additionally, a special event focusing on Blair is introduced, offering daily and weekly challenges for extra rewards. Simultaneously, there are enhancements to The First Descendant‘s weaponry and modules, such as a function that causes unique abilities or core unlocks on an individual weapon to affect all identical weapons.

For the popular game “The First Descendant“, this is likely one of the last updates you’ll see on certain platforms. Despite its recent release less than three quarters of a year ago, Nexon announced in early March that they will be ending support for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions by June 19, 2025. This decision is to enable the developers to concentrate on delivering improved gameplay experiences on current-generation consoles. Although some players might be disappointed with this news, they can transfer their saved progress to newer platforms using the game’s cross-save feature.

The First Descendant Update 1.2.14 Patch Notes

New Descendant: Ultimate Blair

  • You can acquire blueprints and codes from Amorphous Materials.
  • You can acquire materials needed for research in Sigma Sector.
  • Equipping Blair or Ultimate Blair will activate the Descendant Exclusive Quest for Blair.
  • -Completing Blair’s exclusive quest rewards you with the chest attachment Pyromaniac Objet.

Skill Modules

Skill Module 1: Killer Recipe

  • Attacking an enemy inflicted with Burn increases your Critical Hit Rate, Critical Hit Damage, and Skill Power to deal damage. Attacking an enemy inflicted with Burn generates Chef’s Touch.
  • Fires a meatball forward that explodes on impact, dealing damage and inflicting Burn on enemies.
  • Designates an enemy in front and fires Chef’s Touch. It flies in pursuit of the designated enemy and deals damage.

Skill Module 2: Next-level Recipe

  • Creates a Flame Zone under your feet at certain intervals. Enemies that step on a Flame Zone take damage and are inflicted with Burn.
  • Spurts fire forward. Fire has up to 3 levels, and changes in level when Skill Effect Range reaches a certain value.
  • You can acquire Ultimate Blair’s skill modules from Hard Intercept Battles and Module Combine.

Added Ultimate Blair Amorphous Materials

  • Amorphous Material Patterns 013, 029, 036, 042, 056, 075, 082, 093-Variant AC, 105, 106, 113-Variant AA, and 115-Variant AA can no longer be acquired.
  • You can continue using the Amorphous Materials you already have as before.
  • Added the “AC variants” of Amorphous Material Patterns 013, 029, 036, 042, 056, 075, 082, 093, 105, 106, 113, and 115.
  • You can acquire Ultimate Blair’s Enhanced Cell Blueprint, Stabilizer Blueprint, Spiral Catalyst Blueprint, and Code from these Amorphous Materials.

Added Void Erosion Purge: Challenge Difficulty

Unlock Requirements

  • Unlocks upon clearing Void Erosion Purge: Normal Difficulty .

How to Access

  • You can access it via the Infiltration Operations Terminal or the Void Erosion Purge: Challenge icon on the World Map.

How to Play

  • Void Erosion Purge: Challenge consists of 5 stages.
  • Players start at stage 1 and the rest of the stages are locked.
  • After starting Erosion Purge, you’ll need to defeat the Vulgus Legion to fill the target gauge. When the gauge is full, the final Commander will appear. Defeat the Commander to complete the Void Erosion Purge.
  • Complete Erosion Purge within the target time to unlock the next stage.
  • Determination of Outcome
  • Erosion Purge Complete: If you complete the mission within the target time of 12 minutes, you will receive the mission completion rewards and unlock the next stage.
  • Mission Complete: If you complete the mission but exceed the target time of 12 minutes, you will receive the mission completion rewards but the next stage won’t be unlocked.
  • Mission Failed: If you fail to complete the mission and exceed all 15 minutes of playtime, you will not receive the mission completion rewards and the next stage won’t be unlocked.

Rewards

  • Only Rounds, MP and HP items drop from the Vulgus Legion that appear, and you cannot obtain other items, Descendant EXP or Firearm Proficiency from defeating them.
  • Tier X Cores and Weapon Core Amplifiers are available as one-time rewards the first time you complete the Erosion Purge mission.
  • Public Operation Availability
  • Only “Start Private Operation” is available for all stages 1/2/3/4/5.

Season Reset

  • The cleared Erosion Purge stages are reset every season episode, allowing you to acquire the First Completion Reward again after the reset.
  • With the addition of the Challenge difficulty, the existing Void Erosion Purge has been renamed to Void Erosion Purge: Normal.

Added Void Erosion Purge: Challenge Difficulty Leaderboard

  • Added the Void Erosion Purge: Challenge Leaderboard.
  • You can check it on the Void Erosion Purge: Challenge Start screen and the Results screen.
  • The Void Erosion Purge: Challenge Leaderboard ranks players by their highest stage clear time.
  • The Void Erosion Purge: Challenge Leaderboard will be reset as follows:
  • Reset start time: After the server maintenance on 2025.04.16 (Wed)
  • Reset cycle: Season episode

External Components

Added new External Components.

  • Fire Brand, Plague, Enlightened Mage, and Shell Crusher can be obtained in Sigma Sector.
  • Moving Fortress can be obtained from Abyss Intercept Battles.

Reactor/External Component Option Enhancement

  • Added a system that allows enhancing the options of Reactors and External Components.
  • Option enhancement can be performed at the workbenches in Albion or outposts.
  • The increase in value by enhancing varies for each option.
  • When attempting enhancement, there is a small chance of triggering a Critical Success, which increases the option by twice the default increase in value.
  • The amount of materials required for option enhancement increases with each attempt.
  • The amount required stays the same after 5 enhancement attempts.
  • Reactor enhancements require Quantum Crystals and Nano Compounds.
  • External Component enhancements require Energy Control Cores.
  • The amount of materials required to enhance 1 option is as follows.
  • Enhancing 2 options requires double the amount.

Medals

Added a Medal system.

  • Medals are honorary rewards given to players who have achieved outstanding Awards.
  • Medals are categorized by the type of Award.
  • Each time you earn the same medal, the medal’s level increases and its appearance changes.
  • You can view the requirements for earning a medal and claim it in Journal > Awards > Medals menu.
  • You can equip the medals you earn in Inventory.

Added Guide Quests

  • Added ‘Beginner’s Guide’ for new Descendants who want to enjoy The First Descendant.
  • You can check the objectives, rewards, and final rewards of the quests in the Guide Quests at a glance in the ‘View Guides’ screen.

Added New Modules

  • You can acquire new modules from Sigma Sector, Hard Intercept Battles, and Module Combine.

Shop

  • Added new products.

Event

A new Event Challenge “Blair’s Protection of Ingris has” begun. [Announcement]

  • Added Daily Challenge Tasks.
  • Challenge Tasks will be reset every week.

Period: After the 04.16.2025 (Wed) maintenance – 05.21.2025 (Wed) 23:59 PDT

  • Week 1: After the 04.16.2025 (Wed) maintenance – 04.23.2025 (Wed) 23:59 PDT
  • Week 2: 04.24.2025 (Thu) 00:00 – 04.30.2025 (Wed) 23:59 PDT
  • Week 3: 05.01.2025 (Thu) 00:00 – 05.07.2025 (Wed) 23:59 PDT
  • Week 4: 05.08.2025 (Thu) 00:00 – 05.14.2025 (Wed) 23:59 PDT
  • Week 5: 05.15.2025 (Thu) 00:00 – 05.21.2025 (Wed) 23:59 PDT

A new Event Challenge “Weekly Firepower Support” begun.

  • Added a one-time Daily Challenge Task for the event duration.
  • Challenge Tasks will be reset every week.

Period: After the 04.16.2025 (Wed) maintenance – 05.21.2025 (Wed) 23:59 PDT

  • Week 1: After the 04.16.2025 (Wed) maintenance – 04.23.2025 (Wed) 23:59 PDT
  • Week 2: 04.24.2025 (Thu) 00:00 – 04.30.2025 (Wed) 23:59 PDT
  • Week 3: 05.01.2025 (Thu) 00:00 – 05.07.2025 (Wed) 23:59 PDT
  • Week 4: 05.08.2025 (Thu) 00:00 – 05.14.2025 (Wed) 23:59 PDT
  • Week 5: 05.15.2025 (Thu) 00:00 – 05.21.2025 (Wed) 23:59 PDT

Hotfix 1.2.14

Content Improvements

Normal Field Mission/Infiltration Operation Improvements

  • Champion monsters no longer use Skill Interruption or MP Leech.

Kingston ~ The Sterile Land mission improvements

  • Shortened the overall mission target times.
  • Changed the details of some missions.
  • Changed the movement route in the Urban District mission in Kingston – The Destruction.
  • Changed the objective of the Vulgus Data Transmitter mission in Kingston – Grand Square.
  • Changed the movement route in the External Reactor mission in the Sterile Land – Rockfall.
  • Change the movement route in the Kuiper Refinery mission in the Sterile Land – Repository.
  • Changed the movement route in the Barracks mission in the Sterile Land – Restricted Zone.
  • Changed the number of hacking required for the Logistics Facility mission in the Sterile Land – Ironworks.
  • Changed the quantity and spawn timing of monsters.

Vespers ~ Fortress mission improvements

  • Reduced the duration of Occupation, Hacking, and Seizure missions.
  • Reduced the number of Kuipers required for the Transport Disruption mission and the mission duration.
  • Reduced the number of hacking objects required for some multi-hacking missions.
  • Reduced the number of objects to detonate in the Fortress Control Facility mission in the White-night Gulch.
  • Changed the Occupation mission in some Infiltration Operations to the Extermination mission.
  • Adjusted the amount of EXP gained for defeating monsters in Kingston ~ Fortress field missions on Normal difficulty.
  • Changed or removed traps used in some Infiltration Operations.

Void Fragments & Void Fusion Reactors

  • Void Fusion Reactors no longer require Void Shards.
  • Void Shards cannot be acquired from Void Fragments, Special Operations, or quests.
  • The guide message for Void Fragments has been deleted.

Invasion Main Story Mission

  • Removed the Invasion hidden mechanics from the Invasion Main Story mission.

Sigma Sector

  • Increased the Firearm EXP and Descendant EXP gained from High-risk Sigma Sector from 30,000 to 160,000.
  • Energy Control Cores can now be obtained in Sigma Sector.
  • Increased the drop rate of modules from Elite monsters in Sigma Sector by around 1.4 times.
  • Unique Arche Factor EXP can now be earned in Hard Special Operations.

Erosion Purge Difficulty Improvements

  • (Updated) To address the overly repetitive combat patterns caused by decreasing skill usage and increasing reliance on firearms at higher stages, the following changes have been made
  • Skill damage for Advantage Attribute Descendants has been significantly increased in Stages 21–30.
  • Skill damage for Inferior Attribute Descendants has been partially increased in Stages 21–30.
  • Firearm damage for Advantage Attributes has been slightly increased in Stages 20–30.

Erosion Purge Improvements

  • Added Support Drones to Normal and Challenge difficulties.
  • Adjusted the numbers for Awards that are hard to achieve.
  • Respond to Support Requests: 50 → 20, 500 → 50
  • Acquire High-Value Relics: 100 → 1, 250 → 5, 500 → 13, 1000 → 25
  • For these Awards, the Award Points have also been adjusted to match the difficulty adjustment.

Descendants

Ultimate Bunny

  • Lowered the difficulty of obtaining the blueprints and codes for Ultimate Bunny.
  • Amorphous Material Patterns 009, 017-Variant AA, 024, 052-Variant AA, 082, 099-Variant AC, 113-Variant AA, and 123 can no longer be acquired.
  • You can continue using the Amorphous Materials you already have as before.
  • Added the “AD variants” of Amorphous Material Patterns 009, 017, 024, 052, 082, 099, 113, and 123.
  • Increased the drop rates of Ultimate Bunny’s Enhanced Cell Blueprint, Stabilizer Blueprint, Spiral Catalyst Blueprint, and Code that could previously be acquired from these Amorphous Materials.

Serena

  • When a skin without wings is equipped, the wings will now only be visible while a skill is used.
  • The skins without wings are as follows:
  • Albion Administrative Support
  • Dandy Corn
  • (Updated) Serena’s wings no longer appear in Albion.

Weapons & Modules

  • Unique Ability enhancement or Core unlocking performed once on a weapon will now apply to all identical weapons.
  • When you have multiple copies of the same weapon, Unique Ability enhancement and/or Core unlocking performed on one copy will apply to the rest of the identical weapons.
  • If you dismantle or sell a weapon with Unique Ability enhancement and/or unlocked Cores and acquire the identical weapon again, it will have the same Unique Ability enhancement and/or unlocked Cores.
  • However, this does not apply to weapons that were removed before the update patch.
  • If you have more than one copy of the same weapon at the time of the patch, their Unique Ability levels will be combined.
  • Ex. If you had one copy of Smithereens with Unique Ability Enhancement Lv. 2 and another copy with Unique Ability Enhancement Lv. 1, both copies will now be at Lv. 3.
  • If you had two or more of the same firearms with unlocked Cores at the time of the patch, you’ll receive Core Binders used in excess via in-game mail. [Announcement]
  • Firearms with unlocked Core can be dismantled, sold, and used for enhancing Unique Abilities and as materials for Weapon Level Transmission.
  • A warning will be displayed when registering a Firearm equipped with Core as a material for enhancing Unique Abilities or Weapon Level Transmission.
  • A warning will be displayed when selling a Firearm equipped with Core.
  • Improved to apply Explosive ATK for Modules that have Firearm ATK Stats from Rare Modules that can be equipped to all High-Power Rounds for Firearms Modules.
  • Items applied with Explosive ATK Stats
  • Improved Modules that apply both Firearm ATK and Explosive ATK to display Firearm ATK as Firearm (Explosive) ATK.
  • Tooltip Improvements

UI & UX

  • Changed to fix certain icons of small items to make it easier to get to key UI buttons in some menus when navigating with a gamepad.
  • Readjustment Material Icon in Weapon Readjustment Menu
  • Required Item Icon in Reactor Enhancement Menu
  • Implant Material Icon in Reactor Implant Menu
  • Material Details Icon in Craft Core Menu
  • Improved UI to display the current number of Reward Items held when using Selectable Boxes.

Improved UI to display the number of Paint items acquired.

  • Added Craft Core guide.
  • Improved the Sort By order for Firearms.
  • Changed to place equipped weapons front.
  • Changed the Sort By list and basic options in Equip Core, Weapon Level Transmission, Weapon Readjustment, and enhance Unique Ability screen.

Show the mathematical operation used (such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division) that generated the numerical value shown for each statistic.

  • Unique effect UI for Firearms and (Descendant) Skill Tooltip will be updated at a later time.
  • Applied to: Firearm, Module, Accessory, Inversion, Arche Tuning, Reactor, Random Options, Weapon Core Unlocking

Changes were made to the types of items that display notification upon acquisition.

  • Items excluded: Core Tier 1-5, Ultimate Tier Reactor, External Components excluding Ultimate Tier Sets, Ultimate Tier Module
  • Items included: Rare Tier Set External Component
  • Effect application rate (%) is added to Boost Item Icon.
  • It can be viewed in Inventory and View Items screen.

Photo Mode

  • Added Play/Stop and Play Speed option to Descendants pose change function.
  • You can pause and restart the motion in play.

You can change the Play Speed.

  • x 1.0 / x 0.75 / x 0.5 / x 0.25
  • Added Filter option.
  • Added Slow Move function to Camera.
  • Changed the Reset button’s input to Hold.
  • Activating Hide UI hides the mouse cursor as well.

Miscellaneous

  • Changed Item Type Info that was previously displayed only in Single/Group in Emotes Tooltip to be displayed as Emote I Single and Emote I Group.
  • Added details to view DPS in Laboratory Damage UI.
  • Max DPS: Displays the maximum value of Damage per second during battle.
  • Avg DPS: Displays the average value of Damage per second during battle.
  • Modified unnecessary descriptions for some of the External Components.
  • Changed the number of “Premium ETA Voucher” acquired when selling Ultimate Bunny’s “Enhanced Cell Blueprint,” “Stabilizer Blueprint,” “Spiral Catalyst Blueprint,” and “Code” at the ETA-0 Shop from 0 to 3.
  • Ultimate Bunny Code: 15 → 3
  • Enhanced Cell Blueprint, Stabilizer Blueprint: 10→ 3
  • Spiral Catalyst Blueprint: 5 → 3
  • Evolving Skins save Paint information at each of their evolution stage.
  • Paint information set for stage 2 and 3 of Evolving Skin will be reset.
  • Vespers Hunting Dog can now equip Fellow Skin’s “Gift Supply Hat” and “Gift Supply Cloak.”
  • Fellow’s Back Attachments and Spawn/Despawn Skins are now common skins.
  • Hagios Sheepdog and Vespers Hunting Dog can both equip them.
  • Changed the aggregation standards of the “Perform Arche Tuning with any Descendant” condition for Achievements and Battle Pass Challenge.
  • Previously, the highest invested Arche Tuning counts from Descendants were aggregated, but it has been changed to the Tuning counts of all Descendants.
  • Lowered the requirement of the Battle Pass Daily Challenge “Grant Me More Strength.”
  • Kuiper acquired: 5000 → 1000
  • For the purpose of optimization, some of Monsters’ effects have been simplified.
  • Defect Sentry, Defect Scrapheap, Defect Devastator, Fortress Guard, Elite Tracker
  • For the purpose of optimization, the entire body area of some monsters in the Sigma Sector is now Weak Point.
  • Defect Sentry, Defect Scrapheap, Ecive Shredder Trapball, Ripper
  • Added In-game Web Guide button.
  • Web Guide button will be displayed when you need help during your gameplay.
  • Select the button to go to the webpage of corresponding guide.
  • Added Quest Rewards for players in the early stages of the game.
  • Added “Bunny Enhanced Cell” as a Reward for completing The Kingston Normal Zone – Operation Authorized.
  • Added “Bunny Spiral Catalyst Cell” as a Reward for completing The Kingston Normal Zone – Target Spotted.

Bug Fixes

Content

  • Fixed an issue where sometimes the Immunity of “Immortality Obliviant,” a commander monster, is canceled even when all of the monsters it spawned while it had Immunity effect.
  • Fixed an issue where a commander monster falls into the ground when it dies while jumping.

Descendants

  • Fixed an issue where Ines’ “Chain Lightning” and “Floating Lightning” skills cannot hit certain objects.
  • Fixed an issue where some of Ines’ hit effects are applied with an excessively slow speed on a target whose Speed has been undermined.
  • (Updated) Fixed an issue where Ines’ “Chain Lightning” and “Floating Lightning” would disappear when the next target was behind terrain.
  • Now, after the initial hit, if the next target is obscured by terrain, the lightning will return to Ines instead of disappearing.

Weapons & Modules

  • Fixed an issue where the Reset Cooldown effect of “Veteran’s Tactics” Module, one of the Descendant Modules, resets Passive Skill’s Cooldown.

UI & UX

  • Changed to display the completion image when completing all “Today’s Bonus” in the Sigma Sector.
  • Changed to highlight NPCs in Albion when selecting the Acquisition Information related to Sigma Sector in Library.
  • Fixed an issue where “[Aisha’s Squad MIA Recording] James Langdon’s —-” Record appears in duplication at Journal > Records > Operation Records.
  • Fixed an issue where the acquisition source of certain items obtainable through Special Operations was displayed incorrectly in the Library.

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