The First Descendant Gets Gameplay, PS5 Graphical Options Ahead of Upcoming Launch | Push Square

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Nexon's fairly imminent launch of looter shooter The First Descendant is out next week, launching on 2nd July, and we've got some gameplay glimpses to whet your whistle in the meantime. In addition, PS5 graphical features have been added to the game in response to feedback from last year's Crossplay Open Beta.

In a trio of character gameplay trailers, we are introduced to a trio of Descendants, the first of them, if you will. A total of 19 will be introduced over the course of the game, including 14 original and a further five high-performance versions, known as Ultimate Descendants.

Since the beta, PS5 players have added a Balanced mode to the graphics settings, bridging the technical gap between its Fidelity and Performance modes. In addition, Unreal Engine 5's Virtual Shadow Map tech, a bleeding-edge high-resolution shadow mapping technique, has been added, as well as Ray Tracing and AMD Frame Generation options for those who need more to fiddle with.

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Are you on board for The First Descendant? Does it look like something worth checking out? Let us know what you think in the comments section below.

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The game looks fine enough but the voice acting has been pretty terrible so far.

3rd person pure destiny copy.....

I’d be open to trying it. Erdtree is proving more frustrating than fun and I don’t have anything else lined up til August for my solo gaming, so yeah, why not? I’ll try it. It looks iffy, but it’s free, so I’ll get a half hour out of it worst case scenario

This game looks like if Anthem was a 6/10 instead of a 4/10.

I enjoyed the beta, so I'm actually looking forward to this.