What you need to know
- The First Descendant is a brand-new, MMORPG looter shooter that has been making waves in the video games community.
- On day two of its official release, though, it seems The First Descendant’s servers are experiencing issues.
- Many players are reporting being unable to connect to the game at all, and others are reporting sporadic disconnects even while in the middle of missions.
- The First Descendant team has acknowledged these issues, so hopefully the servers will be up and running soon.
Update, July 3, 2024 — Updated with the response from The First Descendant team.
Time for a rapid-fire update! Less than five minutes after this post was published, The First Descendant team at Nexon posted an update on Twitter (or X, whatever) acknowledging the ongoing server issues, so we’re officially not hallucinating the outage. It seems the team is investigating the cause and working on a fix — hopefully, we don’t have long to wait until the servers come back online.
Don’t just hang out here, though, our original article is directly below with all the details on the situation.
We have noticed that game connections are temporarily unavailable. ■ Details- Game connection errorWe apologize for the inconvenience caused by this error. We are promptly working to identify the cause and resolve it. Once it’s resolved, we will make a prompt notice. pic.twitter.com/Qk98RZUhFBJuly 3, 2024
It seemed, for a moment, that The First Descendant would narrowly avoid the nearly unavoidable launch day issues of many major multiplayer game releases, but the effect was merely delayed. We’re going into day two of this co-op looter shooter’s existence, and the servers have taken a sudden turn for the worse, rendering many Descendants completely unable to enter Ingris.
To be precise, players first starting the game are experiencing a never-ending, repeated error code when first attempting to connect to the game servers and are unable to get past the main menu. Players who were in the game — even in the middle of a mission — experienced sudden disconnects, leaving them in the same places as players logging on for the first time today. It’s unclear if all players are affected, but the outage is obvious on social media (and it affected the Windows Central team, too).
Right now, we’re either waiting for the server issues to resolve themselves or for The First Descendant team at Nexon to acknowledge the issues and set about investigating a solution. So far, neither has happened, and there aren’t any workarounds that we know off to sneak past the server outage.
We’ll keep you posted on the situation, though, as we’re certainly interested in rejoining the battle, too. You can check out some of the other The First Descendant known issues and launch bugs for more problems players are encountering, but none are as egregious as a full-blown server outage.
Honestly, though, I did fully expect server issues to crop up sooner rather than later, so as long as The First Descendant team works diligently and transparently to restore the game it won’t discount The First Descendant’s chances of becoming one of the best Xbox games. It is frustrating, though, considering that the Xbox Network just experienced an outage yesterday.
When The First Descendant does come back online, be sure to check out our guide for setting up cross-play and cross-save in The First Descendant so you can play with your friends. If this is your first time tuning in, you may be better off with our The First Descendant character tier list or even our general purpose The First Descendant FAQ.
The servers may be down right now, but The First Descendant is now available on Xbox Series X|S or Xbox One, Windows PC via Steam, or PlayStation 5 or 4, and you can download it for free at Microsoft Store (Xbox).
