KickStarter Underworld Ascendant is a disaster

This guy literally joined Otherside the month this game released. I wonder how much he knew about the disaster in the making before joining.

 

Old video got taken down, and I can't edit the post. Apparently they put out a video that was shot last week instead of uploading the correct version from this week:

 

Only in UA can you see a dev "excited" about fixing an arrow bug.

Which all backers had reported 6 months ago when the alpha got released, shall I add.

 

At least they seem to be self aware:

 

Why does he have to draw the patch notes on a whiteboard? They couldn't make a video real quick or something? I could make something more professional looking in like half an hour and I just make stupid shit for youtube

 

They have no $$$$ for anything professional looking.

 

Something interesting
https://steamcommunity.com/app/692840/discussions/0/1742227264201826239/

 

Too late:

 

It doesn't really tell us anything, though.

 

This shit will be in the $1 tier of an indie bundle within a few months.

 

Imagine being so embarrassed of a project that you don't even advertise the fact that you did something for it.

 

I wouldn't play this even if I got paid for it.

 

Apparently, by their paid testers, they thought the same thing...

Zep--

 

This guy used to host Gamespot live shows.

 

He's 2 or 3 steps below the Dorito Pope.

Maybe a Dorito Arch Bishop or something.

Zep--

 

Knowing Chris Avellone's recent credits pattern, we can safely conclude he wrote two sentences and called it a day.

 

Getting paid for your input is an immeasurably better gig than getting paid for your output. It's good to be the king.

 

I worked with them for a month in September to help the Creative Lead with the script and other writing. I did about 30 (?) days of work.

The 1st draft of the scripts and storyflow was already there when I arrived, I was mostly there to take some tasks off the Creative Director – part of my help was I rewrote the existing script for Cabirus (and then Joe rewrote it to match some elements he was looking for – the script structure didn’t change very much) and some of the faction Memora.

Originally, I’d come in for System Shock 3, but they indicated if I could help with Ascendant first, they’d welcome it (most of the studio was focused on it). I’m now back to helping on System Shock 3 (for that, that’s a very small assignment at the moment).

Paul Neurath, Warren Spector, and Joe Fielder and the devs were always pleasant to me – they genuinely cared about the game.

I rarely advertise the games I’m working on anymore because I just want to write in peace. I was grateful for the experience, though.

Other titles I’ve worked on that you may not know about include Omensight, Alaloth, The Walking Dead: Overkill, and Degrees of Separation (which will ship next year), all for different reasons. There’s other unannounced ones.

 

https://steamcommunity.com/games/692840/announcements/detail/1715205666459397418

 

The absolute madmen are really doing DLC!

"The original plan was to have people start rolling on to DLC now and a few peel off for future project concepting that any developer would normally do. But given where the game is we feel it's more important to update and improve UA now, other stuff later. It's better for our fans, for our brand and for each of our own psyches."

 

Apropos MCA

If their vision is shit, they can resurrect Arthur Clarke and Isaac Assimov and pay them to write 2 quests and a companion, it wont matter anyway. This game is a laughing stock though. Excuse me for not paying for this sack of shit only to comb the game for sentences written by Chris fucking Avellone. Hell, may my fingers rot away if I'd even torrent this vomit.

 

Why not just write shit on a piece of paper and throw it in the trash?

It's as effective and less time consuming.