The First Descendant is scheduled to get a feature in February 2027 that lets players get a desired Transcendent Ability more reliably after a set number of readjustments, director Minseok Joo said in a November Dev Note on Steam on November 9, 2026. Past Transcendent Wave Modulator uses will count toward it retroactively for each weapon.
The Farming Fix
Joo says the team has heard that a Transcendent Weapon with the right options can take “an unreasonably long time” to get, and that the weekly readjustments available through Transcendent Wave Modulators feel insufficient. The feature is still in development, and he promises more specifics once they are ready. He does not give the number of readjustments it takes, and the note announces no change to the weekly limit.
Decorations, Stability, and Penalties
- Albion decorations: Joo says limited memory on certain consoles has kept seasonal decorations out of Albion, adding, “I take full responsibility” and apologizing to players who were waiting. Winter decorations come to Albion and the lobby in the December 17 patch.
- Freezes: a brief in-game freeze that hit every platform, and Xbox hardest, has been fixed.
- Grappling Hook: the team traced its abnormal behavior on certain platforms to a bug from compiler optimization.
- PC memory: abnormal memory growth is tied to NVIDIA shader cache files. Joo says deleting them, as described in a notice linked from the Dev Note, resolves it, and the team is working on the underlying issue.
- Penalties: after August’s Onslaught crackdown, Nexon has set out its criteria: whether a bug was knowingly exploited, whether the method was legitimate, whether Trade or paid currency was affected, whether it continued after a patch, and whether it was repeated or spread. Penalties run in stages, from warnings to permanent bans, under the General Restriction Policy.
What This Means for Players
Because uses count retroactively per weapon, readjustments you make before February still go toward the feature, so it makes sense to spend them on the weapons you actually want to keep. With no threshold announced, there is no number to plan around yet. The next chance for one is the November 15 Dev Live, where Joo promises more detail.
Game Pass members have one more date to watch: our November Game Pass list has a First Descendant Legacy Bundle arriving November 17. If the wait has you looking at other long gear chases, our Warframe guides cover one, including how to get Incarnon weapons and how to unlock the Steel Path.
When and Where
- November: the new Descendant Monet, plus Grappling Hook, Sub Module slot, and Inversion system improvements.
- November 15: Dev Live.
- December 17: winter decorations.
- Toward the end of the year: the team is working on Colosseum-A, a new Transcendent Melee Weapon, and melee build improvements.
- February 2027: the Transcendent Ability feature.
Source: Minseok Joo, November Dev Note, Steam, November 9, 2026.