KickStarter Underworld Ascendant is a disaster

[Big Wrangle]

Razorfist is the "if I shout and repeat my argument multiple times I win by default" kind of guy.

 

[Nyast]

Posting this gem here:

 

[thesheeep]

Posting this gem here:

I don't get it.
What's the problem with that video?

Just looks like someone grabbing and dragging stuff through water.
Well... I guess the water effects look quite glitchy.

 

[Curratum]

The problem is that the game doesn't feature deep, swimmable water and this is someone clipping through the world.

 

[BEvers]

 

[theSavant]

KickstarterEra.txt

Ask yourselves: are you really aware of what you are affectuating with you behavoir?

Hi! Yes! I am reffering to you ranters.

I think most of you are ranting because your expectations didn´t match with the state the game is in right now. And I am thinking that you are disappointed because you did not get the game you hoped for at release because its unfinished. I guess further that you would be glad if all the issues you mention would be repaired and the game will be in a stable and finished state some day.

Okay now. I have to ask you a Question. Do you seriously think that the consequences of your
ranting and thumb down voting will be raising the posiibilities that you get the game you wished for at first place (and maybe you supported the devs for)?

Do you think further maintainance and hard work will be put into a project which has an overwhelming destructive amount of downbeating "reviews" on a mega influencial platform like steam?

What do you think is happening now? Much more people will invest money so that the Devs are able to finish their game? Or do you think a contrary development will occur?

Think before Ink. Thank you.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/692840/discussions/0/3020122487776309336/

Star Citizen all over again. Backers trying to convince "haters":

"We must praise them, so they are motivated to fix the issues!"
"We must keep on spending money, so they are motivated to finish the work!"

 

[Arthandas]

Dead on arrival, two people surprised.

 

[fantadomat]

If you want to understand Razorfist, watch this video from 2012: https://youtu.be/J1nqdKiLnTU?t=262

He's an immersive sim fanboy who is angry at people for rejecting Deus Ex: Invisible War because it hurt the genre.

It is even worst,he pretends to be anti-sjw but slurps white tears and enjoys the last Deus Ex shit pile. Can't stand that retarded hypocrite and lover of mexican cocks early in the morning!

 

[Nyast]

Starting to stream from level 5:

 

[BEvers]

Hotfix announced! From Discord:

We pushed an update yesterday that fixes localization issues with French, German, and Russian games. Working on another hotfix that will go out either today or this weekend that will address the keybindings and other player preferences being lost between play sessions

 

[fantadomat]

When i see a "procedural generation" in features,then it is a hard pass for me. They could have made a decent game if did go for the handcrafted level design. Jumping on a fad is the stupidest shit ever.

 

[Glic2000]

They tried to do the Trespasser concept of making everything physics-based and then hoping the gameplay would somehow "emerge" from that. I backed during the Kickstarter and followed development fairly closely. They spent so much of that first year just mucking around with their physics-based "gameplay."

Actually, if you want a good laugh, go back and look at the KS pitch and compare that to what the game turned out to be.

 

[BEvers]

 

[Nifft Batuff]

Procedural generation? Where? When??

 

[Max Heap]

It's hilarious. Everything you've listed is fair game, of course.. but you just haven't reached the REALLY bad stuff yet.

Like, I wanna see your face when you accept your second mission in Upper Erebus and realize the whole level has been reset, and you have to do it all over again.

And I wanna see your face again when you accept your third mission in the same level.

And of course, the holes in the level design, the framerate issues etc.. all of that is coming back at a power of ten in the later levels.

Well...
What can I say...

I'll probably write a follow up to all that stuff, but just as a little teaser, let me summarize the last two hours in one image:

Spoiler

Oh yeah... I didn't die there.
I just fell into a bottomless void leaving the level far above me.
This was after looking for some stupid ass fish for OVER 1.5 HOURS! I mean I should have known better. Of course they didn't put a trigger that kills you under the level to avoid shit like this. I still crawled out there.

So I reloaded and whoop-de-fucking-doo the portals back to Marcaul were gone.
So I'll probably have to cancel and redo the mission. 1.5 hours for fucking nothing!
Cancelling missions by the way locks the room with the mission board for an indefinite amount of time. I don't know why.
I don't even know why this has to be locked!

But everything at its time. I gotta grab something to eat and rest first before I continue on with this catastrophe.
This shit's giving me a headache.

 

[V_K]

So between the mission-based structure and the glitches, it looks like they ended up with a spiritual successor to a different 90s classic - namely, Daggerfall.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

So between the mission-based structure and the glitches, it looks like they ended up with a spiritual successor to a different 90s classic - namely, Daggerfall.

That's a RPG.

 

[Unkillable Cat]

So on a scale from

to

How much of a train wreck is this game?

 

[BEvers]

The mid-game level Nyast is showing is crazy glitchy - invisible walls, missing textures, missing geometry, getting stuck on corners, falling through the floor, floating objects, water that's super slippery like ice... And at one points he "floods" the level, but it doesn't extinguish the torches, they stay lit underwater! :D

 

[Viata]

they stay lit underwater

I guess they are taking inspiration from Sponge Bob:

 

[Bocian]

Good stuff
Expeditions: Conquistadors
Stasis
SRR / DF / HK
SitS
KCD
Star Traders: Frontiers
BEDLAM
Battletech

Bad stuff
BT4
TToN
WL2
PoE
Darkest Dungeon
UAscendant

Undecided
InSomnia
D:OS
Banner Saga
Vigilantes

The fact that you rate shadowrun shits (and trannytech) as "good" while you're undecided about a clear incline that are Vigilantes, says more about you than it should.

 

[Siveon]

The fact that you rate shadowrun shits (and trannytech) as "good" while you're undecided about a clear incline that are Vigilantes, says more about you than it should.

How dare he have an unfinished opinion.

 

[Bocian]

How dare he have an unfinished opinion.

It's the Codex, bro. The quality of opinions is being shat on, not the fact of possessing them.

 

[Nano]

im14andthisisdeep

 

[Nyast]

Streaming session finished.

I had lots of fun, for all the good ( and bad ) reasons.

Highlight of the day is setting half of the level on fire accidentely, I'll try to find that moment in the vod. It was glorious, running at 2 fps.

The entire level 5 is a huge WIP where absolutely everything is floating above ground, full of holes, bad placement, etc.. But the overall level design / layout was interesting and many times I felt lost and didn't know where and how to go to other places.

The more I progress, the more I'm convinced that the interest of that game lies in its environmental exploration challenges.