KickStarter Underworld Ascendant is a disaster

[MasterLobar]

CM reduced to part-time.

https://forums.otherside-e.com/t/physical-rewards/10148/2

 

[Efe]

i still think they can pull SS3 off, especially if they ride into enhanced edition for old timers and prey for millenials to gather some popularity

 

[BEvers]

Hotfix Notes 4.2


* Underworld Ascendant is finally available on Mac and Linux!
* Fixed rare braindead AI issue and improved enemy awareness.
* The map can be freely accessed using the assigned hotkey.
* Includes if the player changed the Map hotkey to a non-default setting.
* Fixed a hitch when selecting water arrows for the first time in a session.
* VSync is now default to ON for new installs.
* Various LOD popping issues fixed.
* The sound effect associated with targeting the Dash skill now ends properly.
* Joystick combo moves should be easier to perform.
* Better-looking spider webs

Feat Fixes:
* You now get credit for “Combo Attack” feat when you land any attacks where you set up with movement and you have the associated skill.
* Fix for axes and maces counting as swords in stat tracking for feats.
* Fix for the Master Archer and Walking Arsenal (advanced version of Weapons Master) feats not being awarded properly.
* Bark & Bite: Better assignment of credit for fire damage

Known Issues:
* Mac: If playing with a controller, a Mac will not recognize controller inputs as activity and may activate screensaver while you’re playing. You may want to disable your screensaver settings while playing on Mac with a controller. This is a Mac OS issue.
* Foamy Shadow Loaves can no longer be made.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/692840/announcements/detail/3328643868210679038

 

[Efe]

Left a positive review tellings fans of ultimate underworld to buy it...
Misery loves company right?

 

[MasterLobar]

i still think they can pull SS3 off

We'll likely get some hints in the coming days.

(1) Starbreeze Q2 financial results are due tomorrow, there we might learn more about how Starbreeze is getting repaid (my guess on the basis of their Q1 report is $200k per month until all advances are repaid).

(2) UA will be finished completely in the coming days, probably last hotfix plus backer stuff. Then we'll see what happens to the rest of the staff and the Boston office. My prediction is, more layoffs, the Boston office is going to be closed and a small part of the team might be going to transfer to Austin.

This is also the point where their money is bound to run out. It's abundantly clear by now that they aren't going to find a publisher for SS3, so they have to decide if they wish to continue self-funding development (and Starbreeze repayments).

My perdiction is they aren't going to do so and OS will go bankrupt in the next 2-3 months.

 

[Efe]

maybe they could get a slice of that epic pie

 

[Sacibengala]

Hotfix Notes 4.2


* Underworld Ascendant is finally available on Mac and Linux!
* Fixed rare braindead AI issue and improved enemy awareness.
* The map can be freely accessed using the assigned hotkey.
* Includes if the player changed the Map hotkey to a non-default setting.
* Fixed a hitch when selecting water arrows for the first time in a session.
* VSync is now default to ON for new installs.
* Various LOD popping issues fixed.
* The sound effect associated with targeting the Dash skill now ends properly.
* Joystick combo moves should be easier to perform.
* Better-looking spider webs

Feat Fixes:
* You now get credit for “Combo Attack” feat when you land any attacks where you set up with movement and you have the associated skill.
* Fix for axes and maces counting as swords in stat tracking for feats.
* Fix for the Master Archer and Walking Arsenal (advanced version of Weapons Master) feats not being awarded properly.
* Bark & Bite: Better assignment of credit for fire damage

Known Issues:
* Mac: If playing with a controller, a Mac will not recognize controller inputs as activity and may activate screensaver while you’re playing. You may want to disable your screensaver settings while playing on Mac with a controller. This is a Mac OS issue.
* Foamy Shadow Loaves can no longer be made.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/692840/announcements/detail/3328643868210679038

Better looking spiderwebs definitely makes this game worthwhile, now. Let us rock that market.

 

[MasterLobar]

Starbreeze results are out. No new info on SS3 repayments. I was wrong about the repayment scheme. On p.10 they say in Q2, they had no revenue from SS3, so there are no monthly payments. In H1 in total, they are still showing "initial revenue" of 3.7 million SEK (~$400k), the exact same number they had shown in Q1. So there were no repayments since then, and maybe no repayment at all so far. The 3.7 million SEK is likely some kind of weird accounting effect unrelated to actual payments.

https://www.starbreeze.com/sbz-media/2019/08/Starbreeze-Half-Year-Report-Q2-2019.pdf

That leaves me clueless as to when the payments are actually going to be made. It's likely that OS has to make one or several larger lump sum payments and not a fixed monthly amount as I had thought.

Maybe we get more info from further disclosures of the H1 figures.

 

[Child of Malkav]

* Fixed rare braindead AI issue and improved enemy awareness.

Rare. RARE. Like, you know, it didn't happen often.
These fucking people, holy shit.

Edit: typos.

 

[Cael]

* Fixed rare braindead AI issue and improved enemy awareness.

Rare. RARE. Like, you know, it didn't happen often.
These fucking people, holy shit.

Edit: typos.

Hey, man! If they don't think about it, it didn't happen!

 

[Steamboat Willie]

Rare. RARE. Like, you know, it didn't happen often.
These fucking people, holy shit.

Edit: typos.

It is quite rare. I mean, only a couple hundred people ever encountered those issues probably.

 

[Child of Malkav]

Rare. RARE. Like, you know, it didn't happen often.
These fucking people, holy shit.

Edit: typos.

It is quite rare. I mean, only a couple hundred people ever encountered those issues probably.

Bro, when I played it, it was definitely NOT rare. I lost count how many times the AI did nothing, responded to nothing (as in distractions), it could just be ignored completely. Usually was solved by restarting the level but who wants to prolong this game's life that way?

 

[Steamboat Willie]

Bro, when I played it, it was definitely NOT rare. I lost count how many times the AI did nothing, responded to nothing (as in distractions), it could just be ignored completely. Usually was solved by restarting the level but who wants to prolong this game's life that way?

Whoooooosh!

 

[Nyast]

They fixed the "M" (map) key being broken ! Hurray !

.. but they broke the brightness slider, so now some people can't play anymore... Booooh !

https://steamcommunity.com/app/692840/discussions/0/3647273545692778472/

Sledgehamster: Brightness is broken, display is too bright irrespective of what's selected. Please fix.

Flarechess: It's been listed for a potential hotfix if we have enough actionable items and people to act on it!

This is a circus..

 

[Katana1000S]

They finally fixed the map by coding in the keyboard M key at last ... FFS, they call it a hot fix

Hey, this has been one sham and bunch of lies from beginning to end, as an enthusiast of the original Underworld and SS series, and as a backer of this POS garbage game, am absolute sickened to have my good name associated with this in any shape or form

Lets ignore the lies we got for this game for the moment though, lets look further down the line, these lying bastards said almost a year ago that SS3 was more than half way finished, they really said that and it can be proven ... why do we let these people lie to us all the time.

SS3 is not happening ... if in the mere chance it happens under what remains of this skeleton crew, they need to answer some basic lies they have been giving us for a very long time ... SS3 is not more than half finished over a year ago, lets get this lie sorted first, then we can start on the others.

I would seriously consider a major fraud investigation into how Backers money has been really been dealt with here, these guys stink and i smell a rat.

 

[Katana1000S]

Efe troll, once said he would play the game ... pretty sure he is that Sandro retard from the official site, except he never gets round to playing the stupid broken game, he keeps finding excuses to wait for that final fix that is never gonna happen.

Who was that other troll on the official forums, Oh Yes, Flug ... that guy too for the most part sucked b alls, he seemed high on whacky backy most of the time, his various writings were mostly about him, he changed his mind like the weather, honest feedback is beyond guys like Sandro (simpletons) and dope heads like Flug, but the devs sought their advice over blunt honest criticism enthusiasts of genre of the day, is it no wonder UA is a mess?

Fanboys praised them to the hilt, honest criticism feedback resulted in the fan bouys beating us away and getting banned one by one.

End result, Underworld Ascendant ... I rest my case ... the worst game of all time, easily.

 

[Child of Malkav]

What happened with this game needs to be uncovered and documented down to the smallest details. Every bug, every patch, every cut or removed piece of content, every lie, the bans, the forums, the feedback, the reviews, the layoffs, everything. Kind of like how the Internet Historian did with the Fall of 76 video.
This is simply beyond words and people need to be aware of such cases especially in KS.
This game makes Bethesda games look polished and well done. Let that sink in. The impossible happened. At least Bethesda games are functional when compared to this.........this.........I don't even know what this is.

 

[luj1]

>Underworld Ascendant is a disaster
>let's rack up 100 pages discussing garbage

 

[Fedora Master]

>Underworld Ascendant is a disaster
>let's rack up 100 pages discussing garbage

 

[PulsatingBrain]

Is this in any sort of shape to consider buying yet?

 

[Katana1000S]

Pulsating, you are a well-known maggot who likes a freebie, so have some good news for you.

This POS is not the worst game of all time is still NOT worth buying, it is merely the worst made game in the entire known UNIVERSE, let me give ya a little bit of advice, pulsating, you moronic shitty little bastard, see that door at West end of room with the big sign EXIT on it? well, when my big boot swings back and kicks your scrawny little ass that is aimed for east door, you had better hope I suddenly became dyslexic, because you do not want to see what is behind East door.

Now fuck off pig face.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

Fucking lel. Your words have truly put the fear in me

 

[Love]

Lets ignore the lies we got for this game for the moment though, lets look further down the line, these lying bastards said almost a year ago that SS3 was more than half way finished, they really said that and it can be proven ... why do we let these people lie to us all the time.

Spoiler

 

[Glic2000]

I just tried it again, the brightness is definitely broken. It really kills the atmosphere and it's hard to look at. What a weird bug to introduce so late in development.

For SS3, I think they'll just find some D-tier publisher and toss it out as a linear first-person shooter, if it happens at all.

 

[MasterLobar]

So happy Katana is on my team.