The First Descendant Trophy Guide

“Ready to Move On?” is one of the first trophies you’ll earn. It unlocks naturally as a part of the early story beats.

The First Descendant’s Story follows a fairly repetitive gameplay loop;

• You first enter a new region and then speak to some NPCs.
• You’ll then get 2-5 Missions in the area, marked by purple icons on your HUD and Map.
• After completing those Missions, you’ll either get access to the next region or an Infiltration Mission.
  • Infiltration Missions are longer, more story-led missions that take 15–20 minutes to complete on average, and typically end with a boss fight.
• In the next area, you’ll need to speak to another NPC and then you’ll be given more purple mission icons.
• This repeats until you’ve explored every area in a region, then you’ll be returned to Albion to take on a Void Intercept Boss Fight.

After clearing every mission and infiltration in a region, you receive that region’s trophy. In the case of “First Sweep Operation,” you’ll need to do this in the Kingston Region.

Void Intercept Battles are repeatable battles against powerful “Colossus” Bosses. They play a large role in farming components for both characters and weapons, so you’ll find yourself completing a lot of these.

When it comes to the story, however, you’ll need to face one after each region you clear in order to progress the story further. As such, there are 8 you will need to face in order to complete the story, and they will each unlock after clearing a region.

The first Colossus Void Intercept Battle you get access to is the Grave Walker, which you’ll unlock after clearing Kingston and unlocking First Sweep Operation. You’ll then have to defeat Grave Walker to progress the story and, upon doing so, will unlock the “Pre-emptive Strike for the Future” trophy.

As per First Sweep Operation, complete all the Missions and Infiltrations in the Sterile Land to unlock “Hope Within the Dust.”

As per First Sweep Operation, complete all the Missions and Infiltrations in the Vespers region to unlock “Knock, Knock! Who is it?”

Modules are one of the many ways to modify and upgrade your characters and equipment. Modules each have their own specific effects which can do many things from increasing your health and shields to reducing your skill cooldown and improving your accuracy. There are literally hundreds of Modules, each with different effects that can be used to create some really effective builds.

In order to unlock the “Is This How You Insert It?” trophy, you simply need to equip any module in any slot of either a Character (Descendant) or a Weapon for the first time.

Ultimate Weapons are a gold/yellow colour and typically need to be crafted via Anais by first collecting or crafting the four weapon components and then crafting the gun itself.

The easiest one of these weapons to farm and craft is the Thunder Cage, which you’ll have a Side Mission for as well. To farm the components for Thunder Cage, you’ll need to run the following Battlefield Missions until you have all four components:

To easily check which components you have, press , then tab over to “Access Info” and select “Weapon.”

From there, select the “Thunder Cage” weapon to see a list of components and the quantities you’re carrying.

Once you have the four components, take them to Anais in Albion and pay 100,000 gold to begin the Research. Research on Thunder Cage takes 4 hours, but once the research is complete you’ll have your first Ultimate Tier weapon and will unlock the “No Hope for the Vulgus” trophy.

From Mastery Rank 3 onwards, you will be able to transfer the level of a weapon to another via the Workbench in Albion, by choosing the “Weapon Level Transmission” option.

Essentially, let’s say you have a Level 40 gun that you really enjoy using, but you’re far enough in the story that everything that drops is Level 60, or even 100. You can make your Level 40 weapon a higher level by consuming a higher-level weapon into it via Weapon Level Transmission.

Whenever you get an Ultimate-tier weapon, like the Thunder Cage, it will be Level 1, and pretty useless because of that. However, by using the Weapon Level Transmission feature of the Workbench, you can significantly increase the weapon’s level, making it more formidable.

To use the Weapon Level Transmission function, you will also need a Phase Exchanger. These items can only be received either via the Battle Pass or by crafting them at Anais. Ultimate-tier weapons will require a Precision Phase Exchanger instead.

They’re fairly easy and cheap to craft, but you do have to wait a few hours for the research to complete.

From Mastery Level 5 onwards, you can improve the unique ability of an Ultimate-Tier weapon via the workbench in Albion.

To do so, however, you will need two of the same weapon. Essentially, you combine the two weapons to enhance the ability of one.

Fortunately, once you have crafted the Thunder Cage and reached Master Level 5, you can speak to the Descendant Instructor to receive a tutorial quest for doing this. The Instructor will give you a second Thunder Cage entirely free, no research or resources required.

Take it to the workbench, following the objectives of the side quest, and you’ll be able to upgrade the Unique Ability of your Thunder Cage for free, unlocking this trophy in the process!

There is an incredibly high chance that you will unlock the “Out of Weapons” trophy naturally. You’ll be picking up weapons left right and center for hours and hours all throughout the story campaign and any and all side-content. With that many weapons filling up your limited inventory slots, you’re bound to scrap far more than just 50 of them.

However, on the off chance that you sell all of your surplus weapons, here’s your signal to start scrapping them!

It’s easy enough, you can mark a weapon as junk by tapping on it in your inventory, then just hold to scrap every weapon that you’ve marked as junk. You’ll then get some crafting resources back in return. If your inventory is full of weapons you don’t want, hold to mark them all as junk, and then hold to scrap the lot (excluding ones you have equipped.)

In Albion, there’s an NPC called Anais, via whom you can research many things from Upgrade Materials to Weapons, to full-on Descendants. There are even a couple of side-quest tutorials that pop up as you work through the story, teaching you the ropes by having you craft the “Bunny” Descendant and the “Thunder Cage” weapon.

Using Anais’ services for the first time to craft absolutely anything will unlock the “The Sensible Life of Research” trophy. If you don’t earn it naturally throughout your time playing the story, you’ll certainly unlock it while working on other trophies such as No Hope for the Vulgus.

Reactors are special items you can equip to enhance your stats. Depending on the type of reactor, you can also significantly improve the efficacy of your descendant’s skills.

To enhance a reactor, you will need to have several Ion Accelerators, which you can craft via Anais. Additionally, this functionality is not unlocked until you reach Mastery Rank 6.

Ultimate-tier Reactors need “Precise Ion Accelerators” rather than a standard Ion Accelerator.

When you have a Reactor you wish to upgrade, and the required resources and Mastery Rank, go to the Workbench in Albion and then enhance your reactor to improve its effects. Upon doing this for the first time, the “This Reaction’s a First” trophy will unlock immediately.

Okay, so, technically the “Power! O, Infinite Power!” trophy is a bit of a grind, but after completing most of the story and (I’m sure) a plethora of other content, you’ll have earned enough Master EXP to be somewhere around Mastery Rank 12-14.

Each time you reach a new Mastery Rank, go to the “Prime Hands” in Albion to make the upgrade official. Don’t worry if you forget to upgrade for a while, either, as you’ll continue to earn Master EXP even if you don’t Rank Up.

Increasing your Mastery Rank has many perks including increased inventory, consumable, and storage slots, increased Descendant Module Capacity, and more.

Your Mastery Rank persists between characters, too, so you won’t lose progress by switching characters.

By speaking to Sillon in Albion, you can improve the efficacy and effect of your weapon and descendant modules.

To unlock the “This is Great, Sevenfold” trophy, you need to improve a single module at least 7 times. Note that while most modules can be improved up to 10 times, some can only be improved 5 times.

Each time you upgrade a module, it will cost you an increasing number of Kuiper Shards, as well as an increasing amount of coins. Kuiper Shards drop from most enemies in most activities, so you’ll earn a lot of them naturally, but you can also get Kuiper Shards by dismantling modules (see Execute Order 77 ).

I recommend upgrading an “Increased HP” Module for this trophy, as that’ll be one of the most useful modules to have upgraded, and that module is also used in a lot of great builds from what I’ve seen.

By speaking to Sillon in Albion, you can combine 4 modules you don’t want in exchange for 1 random module.

To unlock the “And Combining, to Boot” trophy, you will need to do this at least 7 times. To begin, you’ll need to have collected at least 28 modules you don’t want or need. This won’t be difficult because you get Modules from almost every activity and enemy, so your module stores will fill up pretty quickly.

A good bet is to use modules you have duplicates of, as you’ll rarely need any module more than once.

By speaking to Sillon in Albion, you can dismantle unwanted or unneeded modules in exchange for Kuiper Shards, which can then be used to upgrade modules you do want (See This Is Great, Sevenfold).

To unlock the “Execute Order 77” trophy, you simply need to dismantle a cumulative total of 77 modules in this way. You’ll be collecting modules like crazy, whether you want to or not. Practically every activity and enemy can drop modules so you’ll quickly end up with an inventory filled with modules.

A good option is to dismantle any duplicate modules you have, as you’ll very rarely need multiples of the same module.

If you went to the effort of completing the Main Story campaign, then you will already have at least 7 out of 10 Void Intercept Battles under your belt, which means merely completing just three more to unlock the “I Can See the Future of the Colossi.”

You can easily replay Void Intercept Battles via the World Map. Even just fighting the Level 10 Grave Walker 2 more times will be more than enough.

That said, since most Descendant and Weapon components need to be acquired from Amorphous Patterns that can only be opened at the end of Void Intercept Battles, you’ll likely find yourself fighting Colossi far more than just 10 measly times.

In The First Descendant, there are some wave-based missions called “Special Operations.” Every region on the map has one available and they’re typically something you’ll end up running in the hopes of specific patterns to acquire specific character or weapon components. On top of that, they’re a really great way to earn exp quickly (something you’ll really want to do for Slot Maketh Module).

The first of these that becomes available is the “Defend Albion Resource” Special Operation in Kingston; the first region.

In this mission, you will receive rewards at specific wave thresholds, the first of these is after Wave 7. Fortunately, though slow, the first 7 waves are very easy and the enemies go down very quickly. Reaching the final wave is a whole other challenge, but reaching Wave 7 in a walk in the park.

Upon clearing Wave 7 of Kingston’s Special Operation, you will receive the “Special Operation Task Squad” trophy.

When you are fighting Colossi in the Void Intercept Battles, you’ll notice that they have various destructible components all along their body. Typically on their knees, chest, or shoulders.

The larger components, usually just the ones on their shoulders, can be grappled once they are damaged enough. When shooting these components, you’ll notice that they change color. From blue, to light blue, to yellow, and then—finally—white. When a component is yellow or white, you can grapple to it.

Once a removable part has been grappled, you’ll be able to directly attack it with physical strikes by mashing . Deal enough damage in this way without being knocked off, and the part itself will fall away.

To unlock the “Good Things Happen Twice” trophy, you need to do this a cumulative total of two times. As noted in the trophy description, though, doing this during the “Retrieve the Ironheart” Operation does not count towards the trophy.

To unlock the “Descendants, Assemble” trophy, you will need to unlock at least 5 Descendants.

Typically, Descendants are quite difficult to unlock. First, you need to find the blueprints for all of their components, then you need to find the Descendant’s Code, then you need to collect all the resources for crafting the components, research them via Anais for 4 hours, and then research the descendant themselves for even longer. This is a lot of work.

Fortunately, there are 4 descendants in the game who require significantly less work, so you can actually avoid doing all of that by only collecting the five easiest descendants to collect.

The first one is obviously your first descendant, who you will get for free. At the start of the game, you can pick Ajax, Viessa, or Lepic, and you’ll get them instantly, no farming required!

As you progress through the story and unlock more regions, there are 4 Descendants you can acquire with just a little bit of farming. The components for Bunny, Freyna, Sharen, and Blair do not need to be crafted, they actually drop in their complete form. Therefore, you can simply run and re-run the relevant activities until you have all four of their components and then deliver them to Anais to research the descendant. This requires less time, less resources, and a lot less farming!

The table below details the components you need, where to find them, and their drop rates. Once you have all 4 components for a Descendant, take them to Anais to research the Descendant and add them to your roster!

After collecting and unlocking a total of 5 Descendants, the “Descendants, Assemble” trophy will unlock!

There’s a fairly strong chance that—unless you swap out frequently—you will reach Level 40 with at least one character before finishing the story. However, the reason I’ve put this trophy here is that you will need to reach Level 40 10 times over to earn the Slot Maketh Module trophy.

You’ll notice that when placing modules on a Descendant or a Weapon, some of the module slots have an icon on them.

When you place a module into that slot with a matching icon, the cost of that module is halved. For example, a maxed-out Cerulean “Increased HP” Module costs 16 Module Capacity to place. However, if it is placed in a Cerulean slot, the cost is reduced down to just 8.

By taking advantage of this, you can equip a Descendant or Weapon with an array of highly advantageous modules despite your limited module capacity.

Each Descendant and Weapon only has two such slots by default, but you can add more by using a “Crystallization Catalyst.” This enhancement material needs to be crafted via Anais in Albion by bringing her several rare resources:

To expand the Module Capacity of a Descendant or Weapon, you first need an Enhancement Material called an “Energy Activator.” These need to be created via Anais in Albion, and crafting them requires a series of rare resources:

To unlock the “Place for Something Special” trophy, though, you only need one Energy Activator. You’ll actually get one for free after completing the story’s final mission, and there’s a Side Quest you can collect from the Descendant Instructor in Albion that leads to another free one. You get that Side Quest after reaching Level 40 with any Descendant for the first time. You should use one for this trophy, and the other for Modules Maketh Descendant.

If you used these already in other places, though, you’ll need to farm the resources listed above and craft a new one via Anais.

Once you have an Energy Activator, don’t just use it on any old Weapon or Descendant, you will only unlock this trophy if you use it on a weapon that uses Special Rounds. Special Round weapons have an orange bullet icon on them. I used mine on the “Greg’s Reversed Fate” Ultimate Special Weapon.

To use the Energy Activator, open the weapon’s Module menu, then select “Module Additional Settings” and then “Max Capacity UP.”

Use the Energy Activator and the Maximum Module Capacity of your weapon will increase, unlocking the “Place for Something Special” trophy.

To expand the Module Capacity of a Descendant or Weapon, you first need an Enhancement Material called an “Energy Activator.” These need to be created via Anais in Albion, and crafting them requires a series of rare resources:

To unlock the “Modules Maketh Descendant” trophy, though, you only need one Energy Activator. You’ll actually get one for free after completing the story’s final mission, and there’s a Side Quest you can collect from the Descendant Instructor in Albion that leads to another free one. You get that Side Quest after reaching Level 40 with any Descendant for the first time. You should use one for this trophy, and the other for Place for Something Special.

If you used these already in other places, though, you’ll need to farm the resources listed above and craft a new one via Anais.

To use the Energy Activator, open any Descendant’s Module menu, then select “Module Additional Settings” and then “Max Capacity UP.” Use the Energy Activator and the Maximum Module Capacity of your Descendant will increase, unlocking the “Modules Maketh Descendant” trophy.