Update: Nexon has revealed several of the new event skins you can grab during the Winter Festival. These include a Santa, elf, and hooded winter cloak outfits.
There also appears to be a full blown skiiing costume? Or just something you’d wear if you absolutely couldn’t stand the cold.
Check out the post on X, embedded below, for a taste of the new skins.
Original post: Nexon has announced that its upcoming Xmas themed event for The First Descendant will launch on December 5. It goes by the name ‘Winter Festival’ and features four in-game events and two accompanying web events.
Winter Festival runs all of the way through to New Year’s day, and you earn an exclusive title just by logging in. Throughout the event period, Nexon will drop new weekly challenges that provide you with further rewards.
Depending on the number of days you login after that, you earn even more rewards. These include ‘Tokens’, a special currency for this event, which you can spend in Anais’ Token Exchange Shop for extra rewards.
Slap in some Xmas decorations in Albion, and you’ve got yourself one of the best free to play gaming Christmas events. Let’s take a look at everything that’s included in the event.
Albion Gets in the Xmas Spirit
We’re going to start with the most exciting feature of the event: Xmas decorations in Albion. Nexon proved terrific at decorations during the Halloween event, so we’re really excited to see what the team comes up with for Xmas.
You can get a teaser of these by checking out our featured image at the top of this article.
Winter Festival Login Event
- Begins: December 5
- Ends: January 1
- Reward: Festival Light title
This one is pretty simple: login during the event once and you earn a free title: Festival Light.
Descendant’s Year End Celebration
- Begins: December 5
- Ends: January 1
The next in-game event provides weekly challenges to complete, providing you with a variety of cosmetic rewards.
Here are the challenges and rewards:
Week | Challenge | Reward |
1 | Beat two Infiltration Operations on any difficulty | Warm Cookie spray |
2 | Own a Fellow | Gift Supply Cloak fellow skin |
3 | Beat two Void Intercept Battles on any difficulty | Merry Snowman back attachment |
4 | Research five times | Happy Dreams (Enzo) makeup |
Attendance Check Advent Calendar
- Begins: December 5
- Ends: January 8
We’ve called this an advent calendar, as that’s kind of how it operates. You earn a ton of rewards depending on the number of days you login during the period.
The maximum rewards arrive on day 14, which requires you to login 14 days cumulatively, not consecutively.
Here are the total rewards you can earn, per day.
Here are the rewards per day:
Days | Rewards |
1 | – Winter Festival Box – Red Nose Sleigh grappling hook Suspicious Deer Camouflage makeup (Hailey) – 30% XP boost (7 days) – Ten Descendant Exchange Tokens – 500 Descendant Growth Tokens |
2 | Mid-Air Maneuvering ultimate module |
3 | 500 Descendant Growth Tokens |
4 | Winter’s Breath x3 |
5 | Enduring Legacy |
6 | 500 Descendant Growth Tokens |
7 | – Standard Descendant Support Box – Baby Deer (Valby) makeup – Baby Rudolph chest attachment – Prankster spray |
8 | Open Gift emote |
9 | 500 Descendant Growth Tokens |
10 | Special Synthetic Calcium x2 |
11 | Greg’s Reversed Fate |
12 | Elf Festival x3 |
13 | 500 Descendant Growth Tokens |
14 | Special Descendant Support Box |
Anais’ Token Exchange Shop
- Begins: December 5
- Ends: With Season 2
You have a lot longer to enjoy this event than the rest, as it runs the entire gamut of season 2.
Visit Anais’ Token Exchange Shop and you can exchange Growth Tokens and Exchange Tokens for a wide variety of rewards:
- Normal Descendant
- 300,000 Gold
- 30,000 Kuiper Shards
- Ultimate Bunny Research Material Collection
- HQ’s Gift Box
- Crystallization Catalyst
- Descendant Transcendent Module
- Energy Activator
- Blueprint
- Advanced Shape Stabilizers x4
- Gold Boost
- Weapon Proficiency Boost
- Kuiper Shard Boost
- Descendant XP Boost
You can purchase several of these items numerous times, but others have a purchase limit.
Anais’ Winter Festival Web Event
- Begins: December 5
- Ends: January 15
This is a simple event that challenges you to login to a web page to earn rewards. You can also beat personal and co-op goals to earn even more rewards.
The web page isn’t live yet, so we’ll have to wait until December 5 to see more.
Twitch Drops
- Begins: December 5
- Ends: January 1
Lastly, there’s the Twitch Drops event, which provides you with additional rewards for watching live streams of The First Descendant.
Kindly, you only have to watch 90 minutes of Twitch to earn the maximum rewards this time around. That includes:
Duration | Rewards |
30 mins | Smile Neon Green Paints x2 |
60 mins | Gift Tree spray |
90 mins | Sledding emote |
And that’s it! You can read the full Winter Festival notes on Steam.