Summary
- Millennium Frost: Easy to farm, but not much better than standard pistols in The First Descendant. 116 characters
- New Beginning: Easy to farm and solid mid-game handgun with decent crit chance. Skip previous option. 103 characters
- Final Masterpiece: Best handgun with fantastic 20% crit chance and great damage modifier, despite low DPS. 110 characters
The First Descendant is a free-to-play game, with an optional cash shop. It operates as a live service game. Gameplay takes place in third person, and can be best described as a looter shooter, with role-playing game elements. Players take on the role of Descendants, and battle an alien race, the Vulgus, to save humanity.
The First Descendant: Best Sniper Rifles, Ranked
First Descendant has a decent range of sniper rifles available, although some are much better than others.
As with most looter shooters, there is a wide range of weapons available to players in The First Descendant. This includes a fair number of handguns. There are three tiers of weapons, standard, rare, and ultimate. Not all of the handguns in the game are worth taking the effort to acquire though, as some are better than others.
6 Millennium Frost
Better Than The Standard Pistol
- Tier: Rare
- DPS: 120
- Rounds: 15
- Fire rate: 600
- Critical rate: 1%
- Critical damage modifier: 1.8
- Reload speed: 1.24 seconds
The bottom entry on this list of best handguns in The First Descendant is the Millennium Frost. It isn’t much better than the single standard pistol, but it is easy to farm. It has a 50% drop rate from the Storage: Vulgus Strategic Outpost in The Storage area of Agna Desert.
For players looking for an easy-to-acquire, dependable sidearm, that won’t be a main part of their build, then Millennium Frost might be a decent pick, although any other handgun on this list will be better.
5 New Beginning
Decent Crit Rate And Modifier
- Tier: Rare
- DPS: 120
- Rounds: 16
- Fire rate: 750
- Critical rate: 10%
- Critical damage modifier: 1.8
- Reload speed: 1.15 seconds
The First Descendant players can head to the Shipment Base area of White-night Gulch, where New Beginning has a 50% drop chance for completing the Altar. This means that this is a pretty easy handgun to acquire.
It is probably a good idea for players to skip the previous handgun on this list completely, and farm New Beginning. It is a solid mid-game handgun with a decent critical chance stat and a good critical damage modifier. Yes, there are better pilots, and players who are investing in skills for a handgun build might want to aim for one of the ultimate handguns. But as a basic sidearm, this is a good choice.
4 Red Wolf
Good Critical Rate And Fast Reload
- Tier: Rare
- DPS: 122
- Rounds: 12
- Fire rate: 545
- Critical rate: 12%
- Critical damage modifier: 1.8
- Reload speed: 1.05 seconds
Red Wolf is one of the best handguns in The First Descendant. With its good critical rate state and pretty high critical modifier, it suits players who take the time to place their shots. The fast reload speed is nice too.
This handgun can be farmed with a 50% drop chance from completing the Lost Supply Depot: Vulgus Strategic Outpost. Players can head to the Lost Supply Depot area of Vespers to pick this mission up. Overall, this is a good handgun from the rare tier, although either of the two ultimate handguns would be a better choice.
3 Rose Of Aisha
Fantastic Critical Hit Chance
- Tier: Rare
- DPS: 125
- Rounds: 14
- Fire rate: 666
- Critical rate: 20%
- Critical damage modifier: 1.8
- Reload speed: 1.12 seconds
For players of The First Descendant that do not want to spend time farming the materials to unlock one of the ultimate tier handguns, then the Rose Of Aisha is the best choice of weapon. It has a critical rate as good as the best handgun in the game, with a decent critical damage modifier.
It is a little harder to farm than the previous rare-tier handguns on this list. It has a 50% drop chance from completing The Repository: Vulgus Strategic Outpost. Players can head out to the Repository area of Sterile Land to pick up this mission. Overall, this is a solid handgun.
2 The Last Dagger
Contender For Best Handgun
- Tier: Ultimate
- DPS: 123
- Rounds: 12
- Fire rate: 600
- Critical rate: 12%
- Critical damage modifier: 2
- Reload speed: 1.2 seconds
The Last Dagger is one of the two ultimate-tier handguns in The First Descendant. The process of unlocking ultimate-tier weapons is a little different, as they cannot simply be farmed. Instead, the player has to acquire the blueprint, and then farm the research materials before completing the research project to unlock The Last Dagger.
The Last Dagger is a good pistol, and worthy of second place on this list. The critical rate stat is a bit on the low side, but it has a great critical damage modifier. The magazine size is average, as is the reload time. But overall, a good handgun and well worth owning.
1 The Final Masterpiece
The Best Handgun
- Tier: Ultimate
- DPS: 119
- Rounds: 20
- Fire rate: 499
- Critical rate: 20%
- Critical damage modifier: 2
- Reload speed: 1.1 seconds
The Final Masterpiece takes the top spot on this list of the best handguns in The First Descendant for a fair few reasons. Most notably, the fantastic 20% critical hit chance and the great 2x critical hit damage modifier in this third-person shooter.
The First Descendant: Best Shotguns, Ranked
The First Descendant has a wide range of weaponry available to players, and this includes some pretty good shotguns.
Reload speed is also very good, as is the 20-capacity magazine size. The only slight downside of The Final Masterpiece is low DPS. However, the other stats being so good mitigates this completely. Overall, this is the top handgun that players of The First Descendant can aspire to own.
The First Descendant
- Released
- July 2, 2024
WHERE TO PLAY
- Developer(s)
- Nexon Games
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One, PC
- Genre(s)
- Action RPG, Third-Person Shooter
- OpenCritic Rating
- Weak
