On May 22, 2026 Nexon posted the next weekly report for The First Descendant — “Results of the Crackdown on Abusive Users, May 15–21”. The same week saw Hotfix 1.3.28b roll out, cleaning up residual bugs from 1.3.28. The “ban wave + hotfix” pairing in TFD has become a ritual — it now happens weekly, every Friday.
Inside the Report
Nexon’s reports run dry — no headline numbers, but a consistent cadence:
- Violation categories. Cheating, exploiting (farm-bug abuse), RMT (real-money trading and account sales), chat-rule violations.
- Sanction tiers. From 7-day or 30-day temporary blocks to permanent bans with season-progress rollback.
- Community ask. Report through the in-game form. Nexon is explicit that reports are processed by a live team, not pure automation.
There are no specific volume figures in the public note — Nexon, on principle, does not publish ban-wave totals the way Activision does. But the background noise across community subs that week made the scale clear: this was a heavy pass.
Hotfix 1.3.28b — What Got Fixed
The hotfix is surgical:
- Crash fixes on a handful of ultimates in coop instances.
- Loot-table corrections on two Hard-mode bosses (no drop-rate nerfs — they fixed drops hanging in the queue).
- UI fixes for the shop and inventory — small items, traditionally bundled together.
- Server-side session-stability fixes for the KR region.
Full notes are on the Steam announcement page.
What This Means for Players
Two practical points:
- The live cycle is alive. A regular hotfix cadence shows Nexon didn’t strip the live team. TFD is in a normal post-launch loop, not a “shipped and forgot” one.
- The RMT crackdown is real. Account trading and farm-as-a-service are banned aggressively. If anyone is offering you a “boosted account” — that’s a ticket to a permanent ban with 100% certainty.
For Players Using Software
The weekly The First Descendant ban wave is not “all automated.” Nexon follows the same model as Krafton and Bohemia: the first wave catches obvious signatures; the second one — 48–72 hours after the hotfix — catches behavioral patterns. Our TFD catalog and tool roundup consistently show several vendors going DETECT for a day or two after each Crackdown report, then recovering. Don’t load into an active session during the first 72 hours after 1.3.28b. And never on a main account.
Bottom Line
A “weekly ban wave + surgical hotfix” pairing is the best signal of a live anti-cheat operation. Nexon is building in TFD the same discipline Riot runs in Valorant: small, regular hits instead of one loud action. For cheat buyers, that translates to a single takeaway: the safe window has narrowed to 4–5 days between hotfixes — no more.
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