> To prevent module swapping from becoming a strategy in Intercept Battles and Infiltration Operations, equipping and removing modules, changing presets, and changing loadouts are now prohibited.

> Increased Enduring Legacy's Critical Hit Damage from 1.7x to 2.3x.

> Increased Secret Garden's Critical Hit Rate from 35% to 50% and Critical Hit Damage from 1.85x to 2.25x.

> Increased Nazeistra's Devotion's Critical Hit Rate from 36% to 45% and Critical Hit Damage from 2x to 2.25x.

> Decreased the trigger rate of Bombardment of Greg's Reversed Fate, but now it also triggers when the weapon is fired at unshielded enemies.

> Increased the amount of Void Shards that can be acquired from Special Operations by about 7 times.

> The Agna Desert, Vespers, Echo Swamp, White-night Gulch, Hagios, and Fortress fields now have a 100% chance to spawn Encrypted Vaults at spawn.

> Applied AMD FSR 3.1.

> Fixed an issue where Lepic could trigger the "Overkill" skill at 0 MP while equipping the "Increased Efficiency" module.

> Fixed an issue where the power of Ultimate Bunny's "Lightning Emission" was determined by the amount of Electricity she had at the time of use, unlike Bunny. The power of Bunny's "Lightning Emission" depends on the amount of Electricity she currently has.

> Fixed an issue where the Ultimate Weapon Thunder Cage's unique effect would deal more than 1.33x damage when monsters were clustered. Instead, Electric Shockwave now deals 2x damage regardless of the number of enemies.

> Fixed an issue where defeating named monsters at the same time as Void Fusion Reactor mission was being deleted allowed the player to use Reconstructing Devices without consuming Void Shards.

> Drop Rate Improvement Plans

> While all of our drop rate systems are operating fairly in The First Descendant, we do understand that some players are struggling with the vagaries of drop rate. To address this, we're planning to introduce a "guaranteed drop" system where you're guaranteed to get the item you want after repeating the activity a certain number of times.

>Balancing

> Finally, some news about balancing. We are seeing a dominance of the skill damage-focused builds of some Descendants. Descendants and weapons that are well-suited for these builds are quite popular now.

> We want the meta builds to change from season to season. We want the Descendants and weapons that are effective in new content to be different from those in previous seasons. Also, we're looking to increase the proportion of firearm-based combat in the endgame.

> We aim to implement the improvements I talked about today during Seasons 1 and 2.