When completing regions inThe First Descendant, you’ll unlock more and more missions and side objectives before unlocking the next region andcontinuing the story. This is a fairly standard mission structure for this sort of game, but what might immediately throw you off is a new mission appearing later on. Here’s what Special Operations are in The First Descendant.
How to complete a Special Operation in The First Descendant?
Special Operations inThe First Descendantare a mission type that’s added to your map uponcompleting all main missions in that region. These are a special type of multiplayer mission where you must deal with waves of enemies, each wave lasting about two minutes. You can complete up to 21 waves, but will periodically receive rewards and be able to abort the mission with the loot you’ve collected so far. The first Special Operation, found in Kingston, has you defend an objective against two waves of enemies to the left and right and a few enemies that occasionally spawn straight ahead.
The rewards from these Special Operations are typically quite good on their own, includingShape Stabilizers and Anomalous Materials. You can see the rewards for each Special Operation on the queue screen upon selecting it. For example, the Special Operation in Kingston offers Anomalous Materials 004 and 005, Shape Stabilizer Form 1, and 19,000 Gold as potential rewards.
Are Special Operations worth running?
If your goal is just to get Anomalous Materials and Shape Stabilizers, there are better things you could do. Unless it’s for specific resources, these only give about two rewards every half hour, which isn’t a great rate of return. However, Special Operations areone of the best ways tolevel your Descendantand weapons. I got a good handful of levels off my first run for both Bunny and the Thunder Cage, meaning I can slap one or two more Modules on each without worrying about capacity limits.
