KickStarter Underworld Ascendant Pre-Release Thread

[taxalot]

This isn't the first time/game that it happened. GOG are fucking retards, plain and simple.

Well. Pretty much like refugees, it's nice saying that all games should be available anywhere, but would YOU like to host Underworld Ascendant on YOUR store ?

 

[Heretic]

GOG refused them because of the expected flurry of refunds and chargebacks, would be my guess.

 

[taxalot]

Or maybe because it's total shit and despite those being very low, GoG at least has SOME standards.

 

[Max Heap]

GOG has BT4 though, so "screening for quality" doesn't sound very plausible.

I don't think Underworld Ascendant will end up being anything but mediocre at best, but fuck GOG and their choosing policy.

Spoiler

Big anime tiddies sell.
Broken kickstarter promises are returned.

Sound choosing policy from a business perspective if you ask me.

 

[Nyast]

It is starting. Steam users slowly starting to awake to all the cut off features. Me:

 

[Curratum]

I am still laughing about the Flug situation. Watching the dude crack over the last 6-8 months has been interesting.

 

[Nyast]

I genuinely thought he had been banned from the official forums. The timing was weird, and he's still posting in other communities ( https://forum.quartertothree.com/t/...ught-to-you-by-zombie-looking-glass/76311/549 ) which makes it extra weird to me.

 

[Curratum]

He was always cautiously optimistic about everything, even when confronted with dev statements about cut content, then he started shifting his tone into something more bitter and critical, then he just left, I think, because he could not contribute anything positive. Devs sure love having their forums an echo chamber of praise from the 5 people who still do that there.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

I'm going to play it because what the fuck else is coming out soon at this point, nothing to lose

No, please stop giving money to feed these games! The video games market is a total train-wreck. Stop buying remakes/spiritual successors/etc.! Stop playing these games! Otherwise you are guilty as these developer!
I want my Ultima Underworld back! My Fallout! My Thief! My Deus ex! My System Shock!


I am sad.

 

[Latelistener]

No user reviews

 

[getter77]

I want to hope they can somehow pull this off---even in the best of cases, I'd reckoned this could just walk down a solid, roughly parallel path to something like Consortium and get there eventually. Weird they can pivot forward from---broken and hollow far less so.

 

[Curratum]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtJuxtSlyWw

 

[Nifft Batuff]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtJuxtSlyWw

 

[Curratum]

Even if we completely ignore the retarded visuals for the lizards and the idle states that have been allegedly fixed in the release build, you still have:

0:09 flickering texture / z-fighting on the base of the left wall
0:10 massive visual artifact / shadow that shrinks as the player approaches, probably related to the black smoke volume that remains after the glitch is gone
0:16 lizardman gets stuck on geometry and twitches
0:33 lizardman's sword strapped on his back magically floats into his hand, missing animation
0:55 more texture flicker / z-fighting near the center of the screen as player jumps a story down
0:56 very obvious LOD change / detail pop-in happening some 20 meters away from the camera
1:21 more LOD pop-in

 

[Nifft Batuff]

My God...

 

[Nyast]

They've said they fixed that stuff in a recent build. I don't know why, but I'm sceptikal. Few weeks ago, the amount of holes and glitches in the world was so high that I thought there would be no way to fix them all in time. There's nothing more immersion killer than seeing the skybox through a hole.

But still, that's cosmetics.

What's far more worrying to me is the poor state of the AI. I have seen absolutely zero evidence that they've been addressing that. I swear, if I see another skeleton stuck in a wall while I'm running around it, bashing it with my sword, I'll rage-quit and uninstall that piece of garb...

 

[Background Character]

All kidding aside that's a nice tumbleweed, would take home

 

[Curratum]

I've been listening to their forum community guy tell people how "the team has finished another art pass on levels" for about six months now. They can shove this bullshit where the sun doesn't shine.

 

[Moink]

GOG has BT4 though, so "screening for quality" doesn't sound very plausible.

I don't think Underworld Ascendant will end up being anything but mediocre at best, but fuck GOG and their choosing policy.

Spoiler

Big anime tiddies sell.
Broken kickstarter promises are returned.

Sound choosing policy from a business perspective if you ask me.

Those anime tiddy games are also considered good games for their genre

Underworld is very likely not.

 

[BEvers]

2 hours.

 

[taxalot]

All kidding aside that's a nice tumbleweed, would take home

on a country road ?

 

[Avonaeon]

Any backers here that have gotten their keys yet? Or know if the backer build will get converted into the full game?

 

[Whisper]

GOG has BT4 though, so "screening for quality" doesn't sound very plausible.

I don't think Underworld Ascendant will end up being anything but mediocre at best, but fuck GOG and their choosing policy.

Spoiler

Big anime tiddies sell.
Broken kickstarter promises are returned.

Sound choosing policy from a business perspective if you ask me.

Those anime tiddy games are also considered good games for their genre

Underworld is very likely not.

Only retards would play anime games.

 

[BEvers]

Any backers here that have gotten their keys yet? Or know if the backer build will get converted into the full game?

They're planning to send out keys at the moment of the game's launch, but may start an hour earlier (i.e. an hour from now).

 

[BEvers]