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Vortex808 31 Jul 2021 22:17:35 15,593 posts
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@Phattso re Deaths door

Is it good? Or not started it yet?

Edited by Vortex808 at 22:18:11 31-07-2021

Phattso 31 Jul 2021 22:20:14 27,426 posts
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Haven’t really gotten into it yet. Hoping to stick a couple of hours in tomorrow morning.

nickthegun 1 Aug 2021 09:58:32 87,711 posts
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Dunno if this was explained in game but if you hack over the yellow circles on the floor, stuff happens. I accidentally found out when a gun turret popped out and started shooting bad guys.

dfunked09 1 Aug 2021 10:02:23 2,406 posts
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For all of the tutorial screens that pop up it feels like very little is actually explained... Hacking definitely wasn't handled well (I've just been wandering round holding Y and hoping something happens)

Need to figure out how to get ICE up to 2 so that I can hack more stuff. I'm guessing that's just a collectible like some of the other cyberdeck ones I've found...

StarchildHypocrethes 1 Aug 2021 10:10:34 33,974 posts
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It says at one point that anything yellow can be hacked. So doors, chests, those circles on the ground etc.

And yes, cyberdeck upgrades are found dotted around. Each one unlocks / upgrades one stat. I've got 5 so far I think. Still cant unlock anything at ICE2 though

ChiefGB 1 Aug 2021 10:59:00 13,815 posts
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Jesus, the loading times on ascent on 1x, the initial load takes several minutes. I don’t think they are even trying on last gen anymore.

nickthegun 1 Aug 2021 11:16:57 87,711 posts
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Ugh, the sound bug is driving me absolutely insane. I'm getting every time I play and its like glass in a blender.

I've just started turning off the effects slider now which, obviously, isn't ideal.

Edit: quit to menu seems to fix it, so you don't have to close out the entire game like I first thought. Small mercies and all that.

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InfiniteDan 1 Aug 2021 11:36:30 169 posts
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Anyone else playing The Ascent on Series X, are you finding the TV doesn't go into HDR mode? Is there an HDR mode for this game?

dfunked09 1 Aug 2021 11:40:58 2,406 posts
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There's no HDR unfortunately and no raytracing on console despite what the store says.

wuntyate 1 Aug 2021 11:41:58 17,493 posts
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ChiefGB wrote:
Jesus, the loading times on ascent on 1x, the initial load takes several minutes. I don’t think they are even trying on last gen anymore.

It's nuts. Pair that with the amount of crashes and I've sacked it off now. Five crashes so far, each time waiting on it to load. It may as well be on a bloody cassette.

Can't be arsed. I'll be back once it's more stable.

dfunked09 1 Aug 2021 11:42:22 2,406 posts
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@nickthegun
For me quit to menu either crashes the game completely, doesn't do anything or probably 1 time out of 10 actually quits to menu.
I've just been closing the game to get around it.

DUFFMAN5 1 Aug 2021 11:55:36 26,890 posts
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ChiefGB wrote:
Jesus, the loading times on ascent on 1x, the initial load takes several minutes. I don’t think they are even trying on last gen anymore.

Likewise for A.C. VAG..., It takes forever. I/Eivor just wants to make love (with consent) with lady Saxons and pillage, like any good viking.

Darth_Flibble 1 Aug 2021 13:00:45 5,592 posts
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Few things about the ascent, have not seen any upgrades for the cyberdeck (about 4 hours in total and seen chests I can't open)

Twice now I couldn't fire a gun after pausing

also I hate sometimes they throw in some much higher level enemies on current level missions. While they isn't a penalty for dying apart from going back to a not far away checkpoint

Phattso 1 Aug 2021 13:04:15 27,426 posts
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@Vortex808 two hours into Death’s Door now. It’s nice. Great vibe. Not punishingly difficult. Bosses and mini bosses have a manageable number of (well telegraphed) attacks. Failures feel like my own and not the game being a dick. Puzzles barely deserve the name.

I’m not feeling where that Essetniol rating EG gave it is coming from just yet though. Nor does it have a grip on me like Hollow Knight did.

UncleLou Moderator 1 Aug 2021 13:07:03 40,723 posts
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I find Death‘s Door quite … boring so far. It‘s very, very beautiful, but it is so by the numbers, I can’t help but feel I‘ve played it a thousand times already.

Phattso 1 Aug 2021 13:09:26 27,426 posts
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I’m not bored when playing jt, but for sure it doesn’t linger long in the memory once I’ve switched it off.

Vortex808 1 Aug 2021 14:03:56 15,593 posts
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Ok, thanks Phattso, will dial back from it for now.

Maybe if it ends up on game pass I'll give it a go.

Frogofdoom 1 Aug 2021 14:08:09 17,973 posts
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nickthegun 1 Aug 2021 14:17:51 87,711 posts
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Darth_Flibble wrote:
Few things about the ascent, have not seen any upgrades for the cyberdeck (about 4 hours in total and seen chests I can't open)

You might have picked one up by accident? You don’t have to do anything to activate the upgrade which contrary to the rest of the game and confused me at first. I picked up two or three upgrades before I stopped looking for a cyberdeck vendor.

also I hate sometimes they throw in some much higher level enemies on current level missions. While they isn't a penalty for dying apart from going back to a not far away checkpoint

I quite like that. It’s not enemies for the current mission but a future mission/side quest/dungeon crawl. If you’re feeling fancy, it’s good to farm XP from them.

Derblington 1 Aug 2021 15:21:58 35,161 posts
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@Phattso
Takes a couple of hours to really get going but once I was into the Ceramic Manor it had it’s hooks in me. I’ve been playing it on an off since release, though I cracked my head and got a concussion so I’m just getting back into it after most of a week off of everything.

Phattso 1 Aug 2021 16:23:13 27,426 posts
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Ah, I'm about halfway through that now. Let's see if it picks up for me.

StixxUK 2 Aug 2021 07:36:23 8,755 posts
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I'm just hooked on flying back and forth from my town to London on Flight Sim currently

Gave Ascent a bit more time, it isn't as dull as I first thought but don't think I'll stick with it much longer. It is very beautiful though. Can't believe it doesn't have HDR, one of my first thoughts was "I bet this looks incredible on a 4k HDR set!"

Sharz 2 Aug 2021 07:42:25 2,121 posts
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Kind of like Ascent but equally feeling "is this it". Unlocked two augs now so have active abilities but already the running around with identikit enemies is wearing thin.

Malek86 2 Aug 2021 10:21:21 12,331 posts
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Ascent absolutely needs a bigger font. Lately I've been getting to the point that I outright refuse to play games like this.

creepiest-lizard 2 Aug 2021 10:31:50 2,977 posts
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Anyone else find The Ascent a bit easy? I don't think I've even died yet and I must be 8 or 9 hours in. I'm even doing side missions way above my level and everything just gets wrecked by my upgraded grenade launcher and early game machine gun.
It does all feel a bit one note. Beyond looking very nice there isn't much to it.

Vortex808 2 Aug 2021 10:37:55 15,593 posts
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o/

I died three times on the first 'boss'. Until I realised there was a jump/dodge button. D'oh! did that get explained? I usually try all the buttons first, but it seemed such a hand-holdy intro, I didn't this time round...

I quite like it, but it is super-janky. Very pretty (even with too small a font on my 55" telly)and i will keep going, but I have already had many bugs, like can't continue after pause, and I've pretty much just started it!

nickthegun 2 Aug 2021 10:41:51 87,711 posts
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Yeah, I steamrolled through it until I got to the spider-bot where the real enemy is the tiny, tiny stage.

First time I got there, five bosses spawned in (I think the ones they kill in the cut scene afterwards) who murdered me. Then I just couldnt get away from the fire and kept getting caught on the scenery until, ironically, the spider-bot got caught on the scenery and I put it out of its misery.

It was seemingly a huge difficulty spike, though.

StarchildHypocrethes 2 Aug 2021 10:50:12 33,974 posts
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Hah, that's exactly where I brick-walled before heading away for a few days. It's an absolute shit.

nickthegun 2 Aug 2021 10:59:35 87,711 posts
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I was one try away from backtracking through the entire level and upgrading the laser the robots drop.

Its very nice giving you an anti-robot gun but by that point all the rest of your guns are like level 4. And, obviously, you might not have had anti-robot armour drop which is an issue because the shops are fucking useless.

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