The First Descendant Hotfix 1.3.27b Patch Notes (7th May 2026)

Two bugs, two fixes. Hotfix 1.3.27b for The First Descendant went live across Steam, Xbox, and PS5 on May 7th, and it's a tight, surgical patch rather than anything sweeping.

The more impactful of the two fixes targets Viessa. Her passive skill 'Ice Explosion' was triggering on enemies immune to Frostbite, which shouldn't be possible, if a target can't be frozen, the explosion has no business firing. It's the kind of interaction that quietly inflates her damage output in ways the kit wasn't designed to support, so getting this corrected matters for anyone running her in content where immune enemies appear. The Sharen fix is similarly specific: her 'Release Cutting Force' skill, when paired with its dedicated module, was letting attacks clip through terrain and hit enemies on the other side. Unintended wall-penetration in a game built around positioning and cover is a real problem, and I'm glad Nexon caught it quickly.

Neither fix reshapes the meta, but both address mechanical errors rather than number tweaks, which is always the right call. Everything in the update is listed below.