★ Beginner's Guide and Advanced Tips and Tricks
★ The First Descendant Roadmap
★ Season 1 | New Update
★ New Characters: Hailey and Ultimate Freyna
☆ Season Guides: Battle Pass | Invasion Guide | ETA-0
☆ New Void Interception: Death Stalker
☆ New Weapon: Frost Watcher
You must finish the main story to unlock Hard Mode in The First Descendant. Read on to learn how to unlock Hard Mode, how to change difficulty, its rewards, and its differences when compared to Normal Mode.
Late Game Guides | ||
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Post-Game Guide | Hard Mode Guide | Advanced Tips and Tricks |
List of Contents
To unlock Hard Mode, you must finish the Heart of the Fortress quest in the Fortress Region. To unlock the quest, you must progress through the main storyline as this is the last mission in the main storyline.
Rewards change in |
Map | Area | Rewards |
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Kingston | The Destruction | Reactor
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The Fallen Theater | Reactor
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Grand Square | Sensor | |
Sterile Land | Rockfall | Reactor
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Repository | Reactor
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Restricted Zone | Reactor
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Ironworks | Reactor
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Classified Area | Reactor
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Vespers | The Lumber Yard | Reactor
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The Ruins | Reactor
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Lost Supply Depot | Reactor
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Moonlight Lake | Reactor
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Timberfall | Reactor
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Echo Swamp | Misty Woods | Reactor
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Abandoned Zone | Reactor
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Muskeg Swamp | Reactor
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Derelict Covert | Auxiliary Power | |
Agna Desert | Vermilion Waste | Reactor
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Remnant | Reactor
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The Storage | Reactor
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The Mining Site | Reactor
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Miragestone | Reactor
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White-night Gulch | The Mountaintops | Reactor
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Moongrave Basin | Reactor
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Observatory | Reactor
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Shipment Base | Reactor
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Hatchery | Reactor
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Hagios | Dune Base | Reactor
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The Corrupted Zone | Reactor
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Fractured Monolith | Reactor
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Forward Base | Reactor
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Starfall Road | Reactor
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Fortress | The Aurora Forest | Reactor
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Frozen Valley | Reactor
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Fallen Ark | Reactor
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Convertor Facility | Reactor
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Defense Line | Reactor
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Character | Ammo | Skill |
Fire | General Rounds | Tech |
Chill | Special Rounds | Singular |
Electric | Impact Rounds | Fusion |
Toxic | High-Power Rounds | Dimension |
Non-Attribute | - | - |
When you are out to do Battlefield Missions, you can get items with your desired specific compositions by checking the Difficulty Level Rewards on the World Map. Each week, there is a different item rotation for each location. Refer to the list above for this week's rotation!
On Infiltration Operation missions, you can now get Ultimate Amorphous Materials! These materials contain most of the better blueprints with high acquisition chances!
Key | Command |
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Opens the Map |
To change to Hard Mode, first open up the World Map. After doing so, select the World Difficulty found on the bottom right of the World Map. From there, you can choose between the two difficulty options: Normal and Hard Mode!
The main difference between Normal and Hard Mode is that Hard Mode has exclusive rewards for Void Intercept Battles and Infiltration Operations.
Completing these missions will reward you with some highly coveted Ultimate Amorphous Materials and Shape Stabilizers with better acquisition chances!
All Void Intercept Battle Bosses
In Hard Mode, the enemies you encounter in open areas will have additional modifiers that either strengthen or weaken them. For efficiency's sake, you are incentivized to build around these modifiers.
In Infiltration Operation missions, you can change the reward pool before you start. This additional option allows you to have a better agency with the items you want to get!
Depending on your team's kill performance, you will have increased chances or downright guarantee a specific reward. Each reward pool will have different options where you can apply a debuff to your team or strengthen enemies.
The more you apply options, 10% will be added to the base 100% of the Kill Score. Optionally, you can choose to reroll the options by spending 1000 Gold!
Hard Mode Guide
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