KickStarter Underworld Ascendant is a disaster

[Zed Duke of Banville]

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

Underworld Ascendant is such a train-wreck that it provides a bit of passing interest in examining the disaster. Certainly more than was generated by my attempt to play the game, which ended with it failing to load the next area after the tutorial was completed.

 

[MasterLobar]

Another deadline not met.

"Originally we had promised that we would start shipping physical goods early this summer, and it’s nearly the end of August. We apologize for the delays."

https://forums.otherside-e.com/t/august-19-2019-weekly-update/10149

No new deadline set.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

So happy Katana is on my team.

You should give him a big, lovely kiss

 

[LESS T_T]

Joe Fielder, director of UA, is no longer working at Otherside: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joefielder/

Writer & Director

Company Name OtherSide Entertainment
Dates Employed May 2015 – Aug 2019
Employment Duration 4 yrs 4 mos
Location Concord, MA

Worked on System Shock 3, Underworld Ascendant, and Underworld Overlord.

Looks like he will continue to contribute writing on SS3 as freelancer.

Freelance writing for System Shock 3, [unannounced Molasses Flood project], ZED, Star Wars: Battlefront 2, [unannounced Ghost Story/Irrational project], The Flame in the Flood, & Lost Within.

(This makes me imagine if Tim Stellmach took the role of director on the stealth game.)

 

[MasterLobar]

I always enjoyed watching Joe Fielder's project update videos. Joe seems to be perhaps the nicest guy you are going to meet in the gaming industry.

Also important to note he joined after the kickstarter. He isn't responsible for the lying and fraud in the KS. He took part in the lying and deception that followed after the KS, but I understand everyone has to put food on the table, so no hard feelings for that.

I don't think he is responsible for the direction the game took. I think he took directions from the top guys.

Good luck, Joe. Hope you'll get the chance to make a game again some day without being subordinate to a bunch of sociopaths.

 

[Tacgnol]

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

The development and post support has provided more entertainment than the game ever could.

We got to watch the slow motion train wreck that was the development to initial release, and then we got to witness the developers digging a deeper hole with their lacklustre attempts to fix the product.

 

[Efe]

Katana1000S post your screenshots first.
you're just whining for sake of whining. you neither pledged on KS nor bought it later on.

bloody whining culture millenials, there is one in every thread!

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

Don't besmirch his good name.

 

[Katana1000S]

Efe, you are wrong again. I did buy it, its still installed on one of my PC's, never finished it of course as its a big steaming pile of dog turd, but I did buy it and feel the fool for doing so.

Ask me what screenshots you would like to see, or any way short of giving out my personal details of proving ownership and I'll do that, then you can apologise to me once I've done that.

Asshole.

 

[Efe]

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.

i'm the asshole when you are the one spewing bullshit like this shit? show me yourself playing this before claiming im not.

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

spewing bullshit like shit?

 

[MasterLobar]

KS backer rewards live tracking doc.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ErSXSN7hdDP-8kfw7SUEqywIy011W1IGQO9kuFrAJsE/edit#gid=0

 

[BEvers]

 

[BEvers]

She immediately deleted these last two comments.

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

Now is the best time to jump into this pool full of razor blades and burning tires!

 

[ciox]

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

By the way, when I mentioned it was odd that a community manager was generating high tier backer deliverables, some folks said good for them. Well OK, but my comment was that a community manager is essentially optics PR on some forums.... not a dev, or product manager. When I see comments like those above from a community manager it tells me:

1)_ For a community 'manager', that is some awful management of optics and speaking out of turn.
2_ The deliverables will be a good effort I am sure but they cannot possibly be what backers were hoping to get -IE shit.

 

[MasterLobar]

Is she talking about funding? They got $2-3 million from 505?

So if we assume - after refunds and discounts - UA sold 20,000 copies at full price (which is a *very* generous estimate) and all went to 505, they made $600,000.

So they lost $1.4-2.4 million.

 

[Efe]

but they are still in business which should attest to their determination to create ss3

 

[Katana1000S]

To my arch enemy Efe who simply must be one of the twits from official forum, you complete and utter mong, you suggested i did not own the game and had no right to have a say how badly its went ... well here i am to challenge you again asshole.

Here is my proof I bought this crap POS game and from the beginning too, now lets see you prove you have played even 5 minutes of it and within your truth of hearts say hand on heart its a good game, come back when you are ready SANDRO Clone.

 

[Mustawd]

bahahaha, that’s great

 

[Haba]

A genuine plane tickets, bitch moment.

 

[Efe]

im lobarandom on official forums
thats the first 5 minutes of the game, you literally bought it just now?

 

[Curratum]

im lobarandom on official forums
thats the first 5 minutes of the game, you literally bought it just now?

I'd say that's as much as a sane human being can stomach of it.

 

[Katana1000S]

Bought it just now??? Bought it just now???

I bought it day one you absolute MORON, bought it day one because I had high Hopes I was wrong and others were right.

This game is a complete and utter sack of larks vomit.

Now its your your turn Efe boy, lets see you prove you own the game and actually prove us wrong that this is a good game.

Prove it Efe/Sandro ... I stepped up to the plate, now its your turn ... TURD BOY !