Game News Underworld Ascendant Alpha Released

[DJOGamer PT]

The RPG Codex would be on suicide watch if they had a life to end.

 

[Invictus]

Finished up uploading/processing my video. Wasn't able to prop surf as well as I'd like to in the game, but I guess that's expected now.

So any comments how is the new area, overall impresions on the game, how’s performance, combat...

 

[Wunderbar]

So I'm uploading my video right now, and there's actually a lot of substance to this Alpha that I didn't immediately realize upon recording my first video. There's actually a few different 'missions' in Pluto's Gate (which I've only recorded the first, which took me probably 40 minutes or so). There seems to be way more after that (which I didn't know until I said farewell at the end of my video lol). I also checked out Upper Erebus (for like a second) before hitting the 'Go back to Malchor' or whatever it's called, button, and there's like an entire town that's built and fleshed out already but isn't optimized and still a bit buggy (in fact, they tell you not to go there, but the gate's still open lol). There's talking NPC's, trading, quest boards, etc. Even a glimpse at the V1 lizard man design from the poll on the UA forums. I'll go speedrun past the 1st mission and do a part 2/3/etc. of Pluto's Gate after I upload this video and other stuff. Then I'll do Upper Erebus. Until then, sorry for being late with this, been a little busy.

could you make some screenshots of trading/quest boards/dialogues?

 

[Nekot-The-Brave]

Yeah, Sure.

 

[Nekot-The-Brave]

Finished up uploading/processing my video. Wasn't able to prop surf as well as I'd like to in the game, but I guess that's expected now.

So any comments how is the new area, overall impresions on the game, how’s performance, combat...

Combat sucks, which is to be expected coming off of the previous pre-alpha builds. I didn't actually kill anything in the video, mostly just snuck past most things and didn't have enough arrows to kill the guy who I did end up shooting. I felt like I had even less feedback when striking harder objects with my weapons, the bone club in particular. I think magic is more fleshed out in the Upper Erebus and mission 2 of Pluto's Gate since you start off with more spells (your inventory doesn't seem to carry over between the two Pluto's Gate missions), but again, i haven't really messed around too much with it. For me, the spells (specifically, the locking one, "bind plant") didn't last very long and/or didn't have the effects that I wanted, which made it seem less useful than I would have wanted. Also, i don't know why the spell wands say "x plant" instead of like, a more... appropriate term.

 

[covr]

Could you upload them here?

 

[Nekot-The-Brave]

Here's the Bonus video Skip to 7:00 and onward for the view of some of the (2) NPCs that aren't Cabirus 9:00 for the Quest Board, Trading, and whatnot

 

[Nekot-The-Brave]

Could you upload them here?

I just uploaded a video instead, gave the timestamps to jump to if you want to check them out. I can probably screenshot the video if you guys need that as well.

 

[Max Heap]

Finished up uploading/processing my video. Wasn't able to prop surf as well as I'd like to in the game, but I guess that's expected now.

Not gonna lie: Seeing you struggle with the throwing mechanics and getting hurt by stacked boxes got a chuckle out of me.

 

[RatTower]

Here's the Bonus video Skip to 7:00 and onward for the view of some of the (2) NPCs that aren't Cabirus 9:00 for the Quest Board, Trading, and whatnot

Really liking the look of Marcaul. I wonder if parts of it can only be entered after finishing certain tasks (the WIP text on the gate kinda implies that - but it may only apply to actually entering the city).