If you currently play The First Descendant and sink your time into farming EXP from different missions, the growing epidemic of players using AFK farming is probably a source of frustration for you. While you’re working hard to collect materials so you can unlock more Descendants, the last thing you want to see is someone standing there after one shot.
In The First Descendant, there are many open battlefield missions that players can enter and become a part of. They don’t have to use the join option via the mission beacons if they don’t want to, they just have to be in the mission area and take a single shot.
As soon as that shot hits an enemy, they are added to the mission, and become eligible for the same rewards as the other players involved.
It can be pretty obvious to see someone farming EXP like this because they don’t move around much at all. They just stay put to reap the rewards of other players’ hard work.
Another way to farm EXP, which seems to have become popular – and a problem – in The First Descendant, is to join the dungeon-style missions, become a member of the party by taking on those bigger missions and bosses, and then… Do nothing. .
These are much more of a nuisance to party members participating in the action because when such a mission occurs, it is because the players joined the public channel for the mission and left it open for other Descendants to join them. Missions like this happen in teams of four; and, depending on the difficulty, being a down player could mean the failure of the mission.
Although The First Descendant is a free-to-play heist shooter, it is an extremely cooperative game. Players are impressed with the devs for the support they give to players in the game, but they don’t seem to be gearing up to fix this issue.
With so many players complaining on reddit on AFK farming, it’s no wonder there’s a clamor for a a kick/vote to kick function. But, how Relative_Brain415 rightly comments in his own post, vote-to-kick features can be “very toxic to any game.”
Instead, they suggested that an AFK check would be a better alternative. AFK checks usually appear as a popup on a player’s screen, and the game will automatically disable them if they don’t respond.
A commenter on Relative_Brain415’s post suggested that a combination of an AFK check and voting feature would be the best combination. I tend to agree with that. If I go AFK for some reason, I use the map to teleport to a safe point. I can’t say I’ve ever left my Descendant standing around in a live mission area to rack up points.
Players witnessing others using AFK farming should feed their concerns back to Nexon. The devs are obviously listening and willing to adapt their game based on feedback.
In the meantime, why not read more about The First Descendant at Pro Game Guides? Read about how The First Descendant is proving addictive, with some players clocking in 100+ hours in the first week alone or check out Which Descendant should you start in The First Descendant and why?
