The First Descendant: Best Settings

This guide will help you make all the settings you may need in the game in the best possible way.

Best Gameplay Settings

  • Damage Display Options
  • Weapon Damage Details – Off
  • Skill Damage Details – Off
  • Show HP/Shield Values – On
  • Show HP/Shield Increase/Decrease – On
  • Show Status Effect Text – On (Ally)
  • Set to ‘Off’ once you learn the debuff icons

Control Method

  • Sprint Control – Toggle
  • Grappling Hook Connection – On
  • Select Grappling Hook Connection Guide, We recommend #2, but feel free to experiment.

Audio Settings

  • Advanced Sound Options
  • Battle Voice – Off

Controller Settings

  • Aim Assist
  • Aim Assist – Camera Auto Rotate Level – 50 to start
  • If it’s still aggressive, try 30
  • Aim Assist – Sensitivity Level – 50
  • Aim Assist – Auto-Tracking Level – 50

M&K Settings

  • Control
  • Hardware Cursor – On
  • Sensitivity,We recommend lowering it to 30 to start. Adjust as needed.
  • Change Buttons
  • Grappling Hook – Side mouse button (if able)
  • Roll – Shift
  • Sprint – Ctrl or any comfortable keybind
  • Skills – Rebind to keys near WASD (Q, E, F, C, etc.) If you play Warframe, make your skills 1-4. Use the mousewheel to swap weapons.

Graphics Settings

  • Graphics (Console)
  • Graphics -Performance
  • Frame Generation – Off
  • Motion Blur – Off

PC Graphics Settings

  • Graphics (PC)
  • Graphics -Low
  • Ray Tracing – Off
  • Performance
  • Additional Options – NVIDIA if possible, AMD for other GPUs
  • Frame Generation – Off
  • Maximum FPS – 60 or 144, depending on display refresh rate
  • Advanced
  • Visibility – Medium
  • Textures – High
  • Shader Quality – Medium
  • Object Quality – Medium or High
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