KickStarter Underworld Ascendant is a disaster

[Glic2000]

I thought Valve was literally made of money.

 

[Tigranes]

Yes, just not his money.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Crap... refunding a backer copy does not seem to be possible even though Steam says this and I meet the requirements: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6345-QIDX-7244

Can I still refund my pre-order after the game comes out?

Preordered games that have been released are still eligible for a refund, as long as the refund request is submitted within two weeks of the game’s release, and the game has been played for less than two hours.

Good.

Maybe this will teach you an important lesson.

 

[Eggs is eggs]

Is Typhon supposed to be Tyball from the original UU? And I'm assuming Ascendant is their substitution for Avatar.

 

[taxalot]

Is Typhon supposed to be Tyball from the original UU? And I'm assuming Ascendant is their substitution for Avatar.

I haven't played it but don't bother with continuity.
Ultima Underworld is supposed to happen in the same universe than the other Ultima games except it's not actually ; Shroud of the Avatar is Ultima 10 but really they will never admit it and supposedly Underworld Ascendant is both a sequel to Ultima Underworld "in the same universe" but not actually and it's also in the same universe of Shroud of the Avatar but really not actually.

 

[Curratum]

I think Tyball is just the end boss of UA. The big bad is Typhon but they couldn't bother modelling and animating him, so they just put up an oversized lich in the last level, which I think is Tyball and that's it.

 

[Big Wrangle]

But who was typhone!?

 

[Jenkem]

But who was typhone!?

Only true immersive sim fans will get this...

 

[Nifft Batuff]

Just tried it out, but having an issue where turning mouselook back off (to pick up items) causes the mouse to pan uncontrollably across the screen left and right. Seems like it'd be great to play with otherwise.

I have the same issue (tried on UU2.)

 

[SlamDunk]

Crap... refunding a backer copy does not seem to be possible even though Steam says this and I meet the requirements: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6345-QIDX-7244

Can I still refund my pre-order after the game comes out?

Preordered games that have been released are still eligible for a refund, as long as the refund request is submitted within two weeks of the game’s release, and the game has been played for less than two hours.

Uh.. you can only refund games you've bought through Steam.

Yeah... I realized this while falling asleep last night.

Good.

Maybe this will teach you an important lesson.

Well, there are good and bad Kickstarters. I'm a very proud backer of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, for example.

 

[Avonaeon]

Just tried it out, but having an issue where turning mouselook back off (to pick up items) causes the mouse to pan uncontrollably across the screen left and right. Seems like it'd be great to play with otherwise.

I have the same issue (tried on UU2.)

Wrote the author of the hack, and he pointed out that DOSBox has an issue where the tab key will get stuck, if you've tabbed in and out of the game. So if you have the issue, try pressing the tab key while in the game. Worked for me (Although I only tried it on UU1).

 

[Nifft Batuff]

Wrote the author of the hack, and he pointed out that DOSBox has an issue where the tab key will get stuck, if you've tabbed in and out of the game. So if you have the issue, try pressing the tab key while in the game. Worked for me (Although I only tried it on UU1).

Thanks, I will try it after work.

 

[Big Wrangle]

Decided to check some more videos and holy shit, the dialogue is gamey as fuck. Now, I have no issue with games trying to explain and elaborate on mechanics via the game's narrative like in Prey, immersive sims and all, but Ascendant is just so fucking blatant about it. There is integrating mechanics into the world, and then thete is shoehorning things that any normal person can figure out into the writing.

 

[Curratum]

I AM HERE NOT TO TEACH, BUT TO ANNOY!

People told them the narrator is complete shit, they said they would tone it down, they did not.

 

[Max Heap]

Aaaaand steam reviews are back to "Mostly Negative".

Still not a single review on metacritic.
User Score's at a proud 2.1 already though.

 

[Big Wrangle]

It's gonna be like Shroud of the Avatar where journalists collectively shrug and move to other things.

 

[Curratum]

I tweeted Jim Sterling and PC Gamer, can't hurt to try.

Edit: Max, I hope you did put up a negative review, I didn't recognize which one is yours but I thumb up all negative ones so it's good I suppose! :D

 

[Big Wrangle]

Jim Sterling taking the piss at Underworld Ascendant would essentially be burning the corpse. If it triggers Razorfist and he starts screeching at dissenters again, that would be worth it.

 

[Curratum]

This is exactly what I want to see at this point, tbh. Let it all burn.

 

[BEvers]

The player numbers are a thing to behold, less than five days after release and people have already lost interest. I do hope we get at least one English language magazine review at some point.

They chose a terrible time to launch it too, when their target audience is busy playing better and more polished games:

 

[Big Wrangle]

Who will win
A comeback of senile industry veterans to a respected genre everybody cried for
or
One snake oil merchant with an online spin-off nobody asked for

 

[Max Heap]

I tweeted Jim Sterling and PC Gamer, can't hurt to try.

Edit: Max, I hope you did put up a negative review, I didn't recognize which one is yours but I thumb up all negative ones so it's good I suppose! :D

Oh don't worry. I slapped a red thumbs down onto that game's review page just for wasting my time.
It's literally the first time I ever wrote a negative review. Then again I haven't really been taking any chances with my other purchases.
I only got this because I've been following it forever - just to get it over with.
But thank god I didn't pay full price for it

 

[BEvers]

That really takes some skill.

 

[TemplarGR]

The crowdfunding era of crpgs is over. It just produced mediocre games and now it can't even produce that. We are entering the dark age officially again....

 

[Big Wrangle]

Good, now we can give eurojank devs more attention.