The First Descendant (TFD), Nexon's take on Warframe-Slash-Destiny, is doing quite well in raw numbers. The game looks a bit like Bungie's live-service epic, but it seems that fellow PC Gamer writer Andy Chalk stepped on toes yesterday in that both games went to the same pool of free icons.

Nevertheless, despite the fact that everyone and their mother seems to be playing it right now, TFD is not exactly beloved by its player base. As of this writing, it is "Mixed" on Steam, with only 51% favorable reviews.

The consensus seems to be that "Nexon made Warframe," with all of the baggage and benefits one would expect from that summary. Annoying free-to-play practices abound, and players claim that there are also quite a few bugs under the hood of the game.

The most interesting so far is ......" The tutorial is also a test of reading speed, at least in the English version. As displayed by user Yellowexz in this game subreddit, the "Descendant Instructor" is a robot meant to impart important information about TFD and its mechanisms, but seems unwilling to actually make you learn anything:

The problem with the The tutorial is about Reactor Enhancement, the core cog in the game's loot treadmill and upgrade system. There is no option to slow down this dialog, and there is currently no option to pause it. In a genre of games with obscure numbers and enough proper nouns to fill a glossary, this seems like bad timing.

A little digging on the game's Discord revealed several threads complaining about this issue: one player wrote that "the accused instructor talking too fast was a problem throughout all three betas," and there was some discussion about whether Nexon tried to slow it down before the full release of the game There is also ongoing debate about whether Nexon attempted to slow it down before the game's full release.

A search of the server's community support channels confirms that similar complaints continue beyond 30 days.

The only workaround for now is to record the tutorials or take screenshots of the individual dialogues and watch them closely later. As you can imagine, this is not ideal. That said, given the 92 score we gave Destiny 2: The Final Shape, the latest expansion to Destiny 2, in our review and the fact that Warframe isn't going anywhere anytime soon, the competition is still stiff and TFD needs to upgrade the game soon! There is a need to.