KickStarter Underworld Ascendant is a disaster

[Infinitron]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/othersidegames/underworld-ascendant/posts/2340131

LAUNCH DAY! Updates, FAQ, & More

Morning everyone! IT'S LAUNCH DAY!

Kickstarter Backers should have their final game Steam keys unlocked on BackerKit NOW! Please remember to check your email for a notification and make sure your BackerKit is registered under the right email address.

ALL backers are receiving a Steam key, but note that the game is actually DRM-free. (Can be launched without the Steam client or played offline, etc). We are still working on acquiring a non-Steam DRM-free key for interested backers and will update everyone when that is finalized.

Here is a FAQ / Build Notes Doc that we will update over the next few weeks.

We also have another trailer!

Your other KS rewards will appear as a bundled Steam key on BackerKit in a few days (we are waiting on Steam to confirm.)

ADVENTURER+ backers will receive keys for their Companion Creatures on BackerKit today.

To report or follow up on bugs, please be sure to check our Technical Support thread on Steam.

If you have ANY questions, the best way to reach us is at support@otherside-e.com.

It's been an incredible journey with you all, and we still have a couple of plans in mind for The Stygian Abyss post-launch...

Thank you for supporting Underworld Ascendant! Happy Launch Day!

Cheers,

The OtherSide Team

 

[Morgoth]

I'm gonna keep my Backerkit key safe for now, but selling prolly isn't worth it anyway at that low price. I'm just gonna wait a couple of days to get a bigger picture.

 

[Latelistener]

Version 0.3? So like what the fuck let's release it already guys.

 

[Infinitron]

https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/1...cers-had-to-seem-sympathetic-a-ign-unfiltered

WHY BIOSHOCK'S SPLICERS HAD TO SEEM SYMPATHETIC – IGN UNFILTERED

The first few times players encounter a splicer in BioShock, it’s one of the scariest and weirdest moments in modern gaming. For Joe Fielder, who helped design the high-flying world of BioShock Infinite, it wasn’t just a chance to create an intimidating enemy type, it was a chance to humanize one of gaming’s most iconic factions, and he learned how to do it at the hands of BioShock director Ken Levine himself.

“I'd done a pass on [the Splicers], and [Levine] and another one of the writers, Drew Holmes, gave me feedback,” Fielder said on this month’s episode of IGN Unfiltered. “Ken opened up his playbook on how he came about writing the Splicers and some of the influences: Requiem for a Dream, other things like that, [Death of a Salesman character] Willy Loman. I'd written characters who said funny or nasty things, and he was like "no, you have to feel sympathy for them. For horror, you really need to have some sense of empathy. Otherwise it's just scares. That meeting, I felt like, taught me a lot about writing and game writing in particular."

In this month’s episode of IGN Unfiltered, host Ryan McCaffrey sat down with BioShock Infinite designer and Underworld Ascendant creative director Joe Fielder to talk about his path from being a games journalist to developer, the lessons he learned from Ken Levine, what it’s like to write a book adaptation, and plenty more. Make sure to watch the entire episode above.

You can also check out IGN Unfiltered every month, where Ryan McCaffrey sits down with some of the industry’s biggest and brightest voices, including Insomniac Games CEO Ted Price and 3D Realms founder Scott Miller.

 

[agris]

I have a key but something gives me a feeling I should give it a day to make sure nobody's computer is getting cooked

There's no frame cap, so enjoy your 1300 fps movies, and 120+ fps menus. That being said, any aftermarket gpu that emphasizes cooling can run at 100% for days and be fine.

 

[BEvers]

The first two reviews of UA have been published

 

[Infinitron]

The first two reviews of UA have been published

Mess with the 21:9 cult at your peril: https://www.othersideentertainment.com/forum/index.php?topic=6448.0

 

[BEvers]

Mess with the 21:9 cult at your peril: https://www.othersideentertainment.com/forum/index.php?topic=6448.0

Actually, google translate claims it's the opposite:

It took 7 minutes. Half the time I tried to change the resolution to run at 16: 9, and not 21: 9 which he set by default (2560x1080), while writing - 1920x1080. But after the disregard for the Russian community from the next developer, I did not even try to understand whether the game was good. Refand.

Instead of heaps of Russian letters, just squares. And at the same time somewhere the text is normal, somewhere squares.

Well, yes, this is pixel hunting of invisible pixels.

 

[Raghar]

Why these idiots bothered with translation? English only, and they would have half bugs on release.

 

[BEvers]

Italian publisher.

 

[agris]

The optimization for console performance is impressive; I can play at 2560x1600 on high/very high with v-sync locked into 60 with an i5-2500k and r9 290.

Of course, the low resolution textures, aggressive geometry/LOD culling and constant shadow/fog filling are like visual itches that you can't scratch. But it'll run well on console!

 

[agris]

Yeah, I had to uninstall this. I'm sorry I didn't donate the key to the codex.

 

[Max Heap]

Installing right now!

Wish me luck

 

[Shackleton]

The optimization for console performance is impressive; I can play at 2560x1600 on high/very high with v-sync locked into 60 with an i5-2500k and r9 290.

Of course, the low resolution textures, aggressive geometry/LOD culling and constant shadow/fog filling are like visual itches that you can't scratch. But it'll run well on console!

8 minutes later...

Yeah, I had to uninstall this. I'm sorry I didn't donate the key to the codex.

 

[Raghar]

WTF?

 

[Mortmal]

My backerkit pledge of 1.00 triggered the question of whether I wanted a Steam key or DRM-free ... so now it says I have a Steam key as part of my pledge rewards. I didn't get a key yet though

You should have got yours already , after the survey you immediately get the key on the same page, key is hard to see on the page, like it's not the thing that matters the most...47 min in, no reason to uninstall yet, its pretty fun, so far, if not spectacular graphically, run well at ultra on 8 year old rig.No reasons to hate yet.

Oh i need to edit my post, i saved to write this fine post then went back to load my game, it threw me back to the beginning with every tutorial puzzles unsolved but with my inventory items still.
So..FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!FUCK YOU 505 games !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That said have a nice game gentlemen, i am back to fallout 76 till this shit is sorted.

 

[agris]

How are the developers going to put the player in a dark subterranean dungeon with shadows/fog that constantly fill at => 20 ft in front of the player and band like an old 16 bit LCD trying to display 32 bit color. This plus the cartoon style, item highlighting...

I couldn't, I can't.

 

[Lyre Mors]

Excited to hear your impressions, Excommunicator.

I'm sorry what happened to this game for your sake mainly.

 

[Jenkem]

anyone w/ a steam key that want to sell I give 5 dollar one time

maybe 10 if I like you

 

[BEvers]

Sinatar's reached Marcaul now and can't stop laughing at the lizards

 

[DJOGamer PT]

I'm just here to say CODEX cracked this 25 minutes after release. So tomorrow I'll post my impressions.
For now I'll finish my Severance and Dark Messiah playtrough.

 

[PhantasmaNL]

Abandon all hope ye who enter the abyss..

Wow, i read somewhere that de developers basically said, yeah too bad for those masses of players expecting an UU redo, i mean that would be nice and all but we just didnt feel like that was interesting to work on.

So we made the Strobe Dungeon instead.

Wow just wow. Sure why make something customers want? It is not like you need to sell that shit.

The fact that Agris went from cautiously optimistic to fuck this in about 8 minutes... Maybe he can do the Codex review?

 

[BEvers]

 

[agris]

Maybe he can do the Codex review?

:D I'm not going to expend energy on this thing, life's too short and there's too many good games to play.

 

[Mortmal]

Could write a review while putting the same amount of effort they obviously put in the game:" Nothing like Ultima underworld, looks like shit, cant save, backers fucked in the ass". You can use my review for codex curator list.