KickStarter Underworld Ascendant is a disaster

[Nekot-The-Brave]

So I heard this game was bad? I mean, I probably could have guessed that with the release date being so early when it clearly needed a couple rounds of polish.

I saw that it got a 25 in my PC Gamer magazine.

Hope they can fix it. Haven't played it since I made my videos.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I heard the end of the trilogy and legacy won’t come until next year.... some time. Prolly need a core I9 to run it by then.

 

[Eggs is eggs]

Yeah, even if Jon Van Caneghem started now a kickstarter with the promise of a new and shiny M&M in the vein of MM6-8, i wouldnt give him a damn ruble. Its obvious at this point they all went fucking senile

He has a company and they have a shitty mobile Puzzles and Dragons clone. You can feel a little bit of JVC's humour and a HOMM influence in it but 95% of it is the usual mobile F2P crap.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Do we want a MM in the 6-8 style? I’ve only seen vids of M&M 10 but it doesn’t look terrible and I don’t mind the old 3-Xeen style tbh. Beats that crazy shit from MM2. Loved MM1.

Ugh 9... that needs to be buried or modded as a pet project.

 

[Nekot-The-Brave]

Love MM 4-5.

 

[BEvers]

This week's dev posts:

 

[Viata]

I still fail to see this supposed risk they took in this game.

 

[Eggs is eggs]

Yet another poorly planned Kickstarter project. Software development has been around for 40+ years at this point. How do people not know how to properly plan and budget?

 

[Fedora Master]

Yet another poorly planned Kickstarter project. Software development has been around for 40+ years at this point. How do people not know how to properly plan and budget?

Developer nerds don't. The guys who actually run the business do.
It's like wondering why drugged up rock stars can't plan their own tours.

 

[Nano]

Paul Neurath is a business runner. But I guess he's at a disadvantage because the last time he ran a studio was in the 90s (and he ran it into the ground).

 

[Curratum]

Paul Neurath is a business ruiner. There.

 

[Immortal]

Holy fuck those Steam posts are so on the nose it's insane.

I remember telling Infinitron how glaringly obvious it was these guys had no idea what they were doing. (I recall him defending them as "it's too soon tell" styled arguments)
Those "proof of concept" videos were a joke though.. as if someone had never cracked open the engine before but was already planning their magnus opum.

Now when the money is gone and the lights are turned on. It's all Woe is me.. muh family and muh children.
Maybe learn Unity and streamline your workflow processes before you start writing checks you can't cash?

 

[Rahdulan]

Yet another poorly planned Kickstarter project. Software development has been around for 40+ years at this point. How do people not know how to properly plan and budget?

As someone who's not in the video game industry I can only speculate, provided it's like most other industries, that may be because creatives are not business people and as much as we like to demonize the Suits you kinda need someone who knows how to allocate budget, set timetables for milestones, etc as well. It helps if they're into video games and in touch with reality, though.

Then again inXile has Fargo and see how that turned out so what do I know?

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Then again inXile has Fargo and see how that turned out so what do I know?

Yep.... sure does.

 

[fantadomat]

Then again inXile has Fargo and see how that turned out so what do I know?

Yep.... sure does.

That one is better

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Agreed.

 

[Wulfric Pinewood]

I wanna present this epic movie:

 

[zapotec]

Did they get the orc costumes from Peter Jackson's garage sale? :D

 

[BEvers]

 

[Curratum]

This is just embarrassing. I have been listening to the exact same sort of language and attitude for 12 months now.

 

[BEvers]

That Discord post has been deleted. Another change of plans?

Here's the new weekly update (quoted in its entirety):

Jan 2 Weekly Update
2 January - Flarechess
Afternoon, everyone! Here's our quick weekly update while we continue our work on Update 2 while monitoring bug reports that have come in after Update 1 launched.

More info to follow on KS rewards, playtest updates, and our plans for Update 2 as we work those out.


#ICYMI, we also have a post-Update 1 Survey available here.[www.surveymonkey.com]

We'd love to hear from players who have picked up UA again after Update 1, and what else you would like to see improved.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/692840/announcements/detail/1715207569480099729

 

[Jenkem]

I wanna present this epic movie:

 

[Hines]

Another critic refuses to commit to a full playthrough of Underworld Ascendant because it's in such a terrible state, sparing Otherside a negative review.

I’ll be honest – a big part of the reason I’m not formally reviewing Ascendant is because I just don’t want to play any more of it. But the fact that it’s so blatantly unfinished – and that Otherside is so rapidly working to get it in decent shape – means anything that I say about it could be outdated within a week. Between the time I finish writing this article and the time it’s published, Ascendant could be a completely different game*. Granted, that’s always true in an era where games are getting more post-release support than ever, but it’s especially evident when a team tries to pass off a wrongheaded alpha as a completed project.

https://gamecritics.com/mike-suskie/this-is-not-a-review-underworld-ascendant/

 

[ColonelTeacup]

It's not every day you see a developer having his games in the Top 10 and Worst 10 of all time.

Todd howard as well.
Redguard and Morrowind.

 

[Steamboat Willie]

Read the Positive Steam Reviews and see if you can find one without the word "potential". They all acknowledge the game is a piece of shit but they talk about how there's potential for something good as though the game was still in early concept stages or something.

There are still two absolute cuckwads on the official forum who both claim they haven't played or even watched the game on stream or YT and both keep posting hopeful bullshit and defend the devs and the game.

I saw that. The biggest one is Sandro, I wonder if its the same Sandro from Ultima Online Second Age. They keep responding to dev updates with stuff like "sounds like things are coming together nicely!" Imagine saying that about a game that has already released in a dumpster fire state.