New The First Descendant update has players ruing “nerf we did not need or deserve”

The First Descendant had an excellent debut year in 2024, and there are lot of hopes that 2025 will be even better for Nexon. There are a lot of exciting plans for TFD over the next 12-months, and Nexon has just delivered their first patch of the new year. There’s a quite bit to the update, but there’s one particular fix that has The First Descendant players ruing a “nerf we did not need or deserve”.

Players can check out the 2025 roadmap for The First Descendant to see everything exciting Nexon has announced so far. On January 16th, we will receive the new playable character, Ines Raya, and it’s confirmed that she has electric-based abilities. As for the rest of the year, we are set to get “jiggle physics” at some point in time, meanwhile, Nexon are hoping to add photo mode for Season 3.

Fans of TFD should be excited for the game’s future, but right now Nexon just released update 1.2.3. There is a lot included in the patch notes, and players are tongue-in-cheek devastated by a “nerf” to Ultimate Sharen.

The First Descendant fans bemoan Ultimate Sharen “nerf”

As part of The First Descendant update 1.2.3 patch notes, Nexon listed the following fix for Ultimate Sharen:

• Fixed an issue where when the Descendant “Ultimate Sharen” respawned with the “Classic Maid Uniform” Body Skin equipped, the Descendant’s appearance was incorrectly displayed.

For those who do not own either Ultimate Sharen or the classic maid uniform, the bug resulted in the bottom portion of the maid uniform disappearing to basically show Sharen’s lingerie. Now that the glitch has been fixed, some players on Reddit are tongue-in-cheek saying R.I.P with one user claiming it’s “the nerf we did not need or deserve”.

In more serious changes, there are actual buffs included in the update. They are as follows for weapons and modules:

• Maximum capacity of High-Power Rounds has been increased from 25 – 50.
• Increased the efficiency of the High-Power Rounds Conversion Module
  • General Rounds Charge Improvement: Reduced the number of General Rounds consumed from 200 – 50.
  • Special Rounds Charge Improvement: Reduced the number of Special Rounds consumed from 120 – 30.
  • Impact Rounds Charge Improvement: Reduced the number of Impact Rounds consumed from 25 – 6.
• Reduced the capacity of the High-Power Rounds Exclusive Rounds Conversion Module.
  • Reduced the capacity from 16 to 6 to 12 to 2.

Unfortunately, while the above buffs are appreciated, players are still not happy with how Nexon is using heavy weapons. As per one user on Reddit, “[Nexon] can reduce the round conversion all they want; hell they can make it free and 1:1… the issue is they take a mod slot at all”.

The user further explains that “Nobody wants to give up power or have to flip to a stat stick to fuel the dumb ammo economy in the game for the guns you actually WANT to use. Running out of bullets is the most unfun mechanic you can have in a looter shooter”.

In addition, a lot of players are still upset that Nexon has not fixed the issue with crashes in Albion, with some claiming that game is “constantly crashing and is unplayable”. The next big update for The First Descendant is happening on January 16th with the release of Ines Raya, so hopefully this update manages to fix the issues with crashing and more.

Check out Nexon’s post on X for the full update 1.2.3 patch notes.

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.