The First Descendant fans beg Nexon to change “incredibly greedy” system

Since its launch last month, The First Descendant has quickly become the favorite free-to-play spectacle for many. TFD is an absolute blast, and it is set to get better in just over a week with the launch of Season 1. While players are full of praise for the game and developer, many The First Descendant players want Nexon to change an “incredibly greedy” system that is not player friendly and pales in comparison to games such as Warframe.

The release date for The First Descendant Season 1 is August 29th. Nexon has been teasing the abilities for Hailey, and TFD is confirmed to be at Gamescom 2024 as part of Microsoft’s three showcases throughout this week. In addition, leaks have revealed three playable characters for the future, perhaps for Season 2 which is pegged for early-December.

We absolutely cannot wait for Season 1 to begin as there is a lot of exciting planned content from the introduction of Hailey to new weapons, a new Colossus, and the debut of Ultimate Freyna. While all of this is fantastic, many players would also like Nexon to change the paint system.

The First Descendant fans want Nexon to change paint system

On The First Descendant subreddit, OP Ug1uk has shared a post titled, “Paint system has to be changed, it should be very high priority“. In the post, the user argues, “Consumable one time use paints are ridiculous… Some paints feel like false advertising as they look so drastically different in game than when you purchase them, you essentially don’t get the thing you paid for.”

The OP further elaborates, “I don’t care if they [Nexon] raise the price of paints if they are universally infinitely reusable. I’ll pay 1-2 dollars to have a paint I can apply to everything but .50 dollars to get a paint on one helmet that doesn’t even look like what you paid for is ridiculous”.

Paint system has to be changed, it should be very high priority.
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In the replies, many agree with the OP’s system that the TFD paint system is “garbage”. One comment says, “Paints should be a 1 time unlock. Period. Not per character. But global”. Another user has highlighted the following reasons as to why it “is the worst paint system I have ever seen”:

• Very limited and poorly thought out palette.
• One time use colors.
• Colors that look one way on the outfit screen and completely different in the actual game.
• Each color has to be purchased individually for an extreme price.
• No purchasable color palette sets.
• Some parts of the outfits can’t be colored such as the energy tubes,wires, cylinders, mask glass etc.
• Can’t recolor descendant special ability energy (for example bunny’s energy is stuck on blue with slight yellow accents).
• Armors with certain patterns (Freyna’s snake leather skin jacket, Bunny’s kitty jacket) get erased/removed when colored.
• No way to recolor yet maintain outfit patterns.
• Can’t recolor accessories.
• Mask glass can’t be recolored (Bunny kitty helmet glass is stuck on red).
• The armor is not divided into enough sections to color, so you are stuck recoloring large chunks of the outfit even though you want to recolor only parts of it.
• Some parts of the outfit should be recolor-able but are not (palm trees in tropical beach outfit (men).

Other comments call the paint system “incredibly greedy and not player friendly,” and many replies say it is especially terrible compared to Warframe. One comment says, “You’d think they’d IMPROVE 1 of Warframe’s most loved features, not nickel and dime it…,” to which another comment says, “I want warframe paint system. I actually bought warframe paints, but not even think about it in this game. Too greedy”.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like the paint system is set to change anytime soon as Nexon hasn’t commented on the issue. The developer has done a good job of listening to the community and updating the game based on feedback, so hopefully a change is made to the paint system sometime in the future.

For more The First Descendant, we have a guide to the best skills and loadout for Viessa, along with the best skills, gear, and mods for the hugely popular Bunny. We also have a guide for Freyna along with fundamental tips for beginners.