The Ascent |OT| Sci-fi Shooty-shooty filled with lots of booms

[Cels]

I don't think there is evil intend. It's a problem, but you all make it sound like it's on purpose. Like it says in the FAQ, they are working on it.

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where did i say it was "evil intend" by the creators of the game? all i said it was shitty that this is the state of things. it's definitely something we've seen on the windows store before and i'm not sure if there is anyone who's particularly deserving of blame. for example, control got DLSS on steam well before game pass.

 

[GoldenFlex]

for online coop, can one person be on steam and one person be on the gamepass app?

 

[Putosaure]

The lack of lighting effect and environment shadows on the player character is really distracting

 

[chandoog]

Is there any ETA when the Xbox version might get the patch which adds the difficulty options ?

 

[funo]

How do I get more grenades?

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Pretty sure you don't, from what I understand you just "refill your grenade meter" by killing/hitting enemies until you can throw it again.

 

[Sky87]

for online coop, can one person be on steam and one person be on the gamepass app?

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No, Steam can only play with other Steam players. People using GamePass PC can play with people on Xbox though.

 

[Ushay]

Played the prologue with my son today and was quite impressed with it.

Mechanics take some getting used to,, and some of the tutorials are vague but gets the point across. The UI is also a little cluttered at times and making sense of the stats seems a bit much at this stage, hopefully understand it later on.

And my lord, the visuals are beautiful on Series X. Just stunning sometimes. And the shooting is so satisfying.

 

[flyinj]

Can someone clarify what the dev has said about DLSS + RT on Gamepass?

Is it a simple bug that will be fixed very soon (like in a day or two), or did they purposefully disable it in the Gamepass version and might enable it in the future?

 

[ScrewyAurum]

Very weird, only difference in specs compared to mine is i'm running a 5900x. Using the same driver. Have you played any other games with DLSS or Ray Tracing lately without issues? If so, i'd consider reinstalling (only a 17GB download).

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I fired up death stranding to check DLSS, and its not working there as well. Seems like a driver issue. Will try reinstalling.

 

[GoldenFlex]

No, Steam can only play with other Steam players. People using GamePass PC can play with people on Xbox though.

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darn

 

[calibos]

There are quite a few ass hole hot takes in here with no respect to the devs that are present. Sad really.


Congrats to Neon Giant on the release! Looking forward to digging in later!

 

[Gravemind IV]

I am really digging it so far. Great atmosphere and graphics are really impressive on one X, is it 30fps because it feels smoother somehow?

Am I missing something regarding options though? Is there no way to turn off damage numbers, adjust sensitivity or remove the giant 'NEXT' button in cutscenes?

Are health packs automatic or is there a dedicated button? Also, if something doesn't have a yellow outline it can't be netbacked right? Cause I am spamming it in fear of missing something.

 

[flyinj]

There are quite a few ass hole hot takes in here with no respect to the devs that are present. Sad really.


Congrats to Neon Giant on the release! Looking forward to digging in later!

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Yeah I'm pretty confused as to what the dev has actually said about the issue

 

[Lengusta]

I like it so far, the detail in the game is the kind of detail i'm expecting in next gen games.

Just need to hurry up with that quick resume

 

[Bugalugs214]

Really liking it so far. The menus and text are way too fiddly and small though. Gunna stick to it.

 

[Jogi]

Played just a tad past the title, and I don't think a game has ever been this atmospheric. The world comes to life so fast.

 

[Cels]

Im playing on steam and it looks like RT and DLSS are busted for me actually.

None of the RT effects are working as intended and only incur the cost. For example, turning on RT reflections actually removes all reflections from rough surfaces that are present with RT off and do not actually enable RT reflections. RT Ambient occlusion has no effect, neither does shadows.

DLSS is not working either in any mode with no gains whatsoever, and in fact dlss off is more performant.

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pretty weird. sounds like they have some work to do to get RTX/DLSS actually working then....on both steam and game pass.

at least the game's all right so far. trying to figure stuff out, but i did the first mission in online coop and things seem to work ok. i read some people say that online doesn't work for them but haven't experienced a problem with the online yet.

the main problem i'm experiencing is stuttering, especially during explosions and loading new areas. the stuttering may be attributable to a shader cache issue - https://steamcommunity.com/app/979690/discussions/0/3050611107169701612/#c3050611107169718682

the game is definitely spotty on the technical side but i'll hop back in once they do hammer those issues out

 

[Sky87]

I fired up death stranding to check DLSS, and its not working there as well. Seems like a driver issue. Will try reinstalling.

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Sure, let me know how it goes for future reference in case something similar happens to me or anyone else.

 

[Soul Lab]

DX12?

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yes, I selected DX12 in the settings

 

[Fantastical]

Sounds like this game came in hot. Going to wait a bit for some patches before trying.

 

[rntongo]

This is game is great. Only qualm is a lack of melee combat when enemies are too close. Also they're not fully utilizing the Velocity architecture which they could update in the future.

 

[Jiraiya]

Game is a looker on series x and I'm only just past the first feral boss. I thought the player model was off with the environment at first....but I think I'll appreciate them standing out more once the action escalates. Focus is on enemies most of the time...but the player model is quick to recognize when I need to see where I'm at.

 

[Bufbaf]

Played a bunch of hours with a group of 3, it was super fun. Performance on RTX 2060 with rtx on, obs on and vtube studio on, however, was something my PC doesn't see every day lol.

 

[StudioTan]

Thanks! It's currently not turned on, it might get enabled in a patch, we are investigating it.

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This need to happen! These visuals scream HDR....but I'm sure you know that already hehe

Congrats on the release!

 

[Black Mantis]

I realize the studio small but man the choices to create a black character (let alone any other race) are hilariously poor. Literally generic white dude faces with no black folk features, throw some dreads on him, and make his skin black. Like no matter how hard you try, it just looks like your character is doing black face.

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Yeah, I couldn't go through with making a black character because of this!

 

[j3d1j4m13]

Really not loving how side missions will display a low level then be in areas with higher level enemies around it or, even worse, in an area you can't even access yet. Besides that it's been pretty fun.

 

[THANKS]

Anybody beat the mech at the Cosmodrome on solo? It absolutely shreds me.

 

[pink]

this game is pissing me off

on a 3060 i'm getting directx errors and a ton of flashing textures in game, its killing me

 

[Meadbeard]

Watch out for the quest anabolic express, it's a level 2 quest yet the area it sends you to is full of level 10 enemies that you kill you very quickly.

 

[j3d1j4m13]

Watch out for the quest anabolic express, it's a level 2 quest yet the area it sends you to is full of level 10 enemies that you kill you very quickly.

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Just made a post about this. There's another side mission I have that does the same thing. Worst thing about that Anabolic quest is you can't even access that area until later in the game. Absolutely baffling.

 

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[J-Wood]

I started a single player character it now want to play with friends. Can I use my same character and help them out or do I have to start a new person?

When I joined my friend who just started it asked if I wanted to over write my level 3 character so that's why I was unsure

 

[Jaded Alyx]

Just made a post about this. There's another side mission I have that does the same thing. Worst thing about that Anabolic quest is you can't even access that area until later in the game. Absolutely baffling.

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The first side quest I got apparently wants me to kill enemies in a certain way and I can't even do that yet.

 

[cowbanana]

Played 3 hours on PC so far. Just what I wanted. Amazing city visuals and fun gameplay.

 

[Spasm]

Just had my first crash on XSX fighting the Fullchromes. When I got back in, the 2 I killed were still dead, so that's nice at least.

 

[XVerdena]

Why are the subtitles/texts so tiny lmao, I can't read anything on my tv

 

[Snefer]

So the PC version is a stuttering mess due to the shader compilation issue, and the XSX version has motion blur which can't be disabled.

Yeah will be giving this a miss for the time being.

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Good shout on the motion blur. That will be disabled in the next patch for xbox.

 

[kmfdmpig]

Have you tried bumping up the text size in the Accessibility menu? You can make it pretty damned big.

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That's good to hear. I can never read in any game and that was the case with Ascent as well.

 

[pink]

Good shout on the motion blur. That will be disabled in the next patch for xbox.

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yall know what to do about this

 

[Rumenapp]

Fast travel by subway and taxi to any district is pretty awesome

 

[ScrewyAurum]

Sure, let me know how it goes for future reference in case something similar happens to me or anyone else.

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So I am completely stumped at the moment. I did a clean driver install and check both Ascent and Death Stranding. Both gave the same result with DLSS on vs Off, i.e no difference in the performance gains. Performance profiler shows that there is no memory or cpu bottlenecks either.

Had some windows updates I ran and still no change.

At this point I am thinking it was a hardware or OS issue. But before I take a drastic step I decided to run Cyberpunk and tested out both RT and DLSS.
In that game everything works as intended. RT effects are working, DLSS gives a boost of anywhere from 15%-35% depending on the scene.

At this point I am not sure what is happening with Ascent and Death stranding DLSS.

Im gonna try testing control as well, just to check.

 

[NeptunePirate]

Good shout on the motion blur. That will be disabled in the next patch for xbox.

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Oh my gosh, this is great to hear! 🤘 Motion blur always messes with me.

 

[Snefer]

Is there any ETA when the Xbox version might get the patch which adds the difficulty options ?

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I don't know exactly when, but it's already in the pipe so to speak.

treating different pc storefronts differently is silly; exactly the same kind of stuff square enix pulled with nier automata

from the faq on steam:

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The quote is correct, we are working on it, but the difference is not just a storefront as one might think, the windows store version is quite literally a different version of the game/engine. As much as we would like it's not just a flip of a switch.

 

[Mudo]

I just played 2.5 hours on XSX and had a blast.
There are lots of little issues that need to be patched but the game is pretty, music is awesome, and the combat is fun. Add in skills augments loot etc and it's just a really fun time overall.

 

[Snefer]

yall know what to do about this

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I am not an engineer, but my first guess is that the graphics card stopped working with the game basically. Sounds like reboot time or driver issue, if it persists, let me know?

 

[Nuclearaddict]

Snefer I'm really enjoying what I've played so far on XSX! Congrats to you and the team.

 

[wafflebrain]

I'd seen the initial trailer but wow this is impressing a lot more than I expected, was NOT expecting this level of detail, scope, and exploration. The city and all the npcs on screen at once 👀

Incredible job, especially for such a small studio.

edit: Also don't sleep on looking at the 3d models in the lore section of the menu ya'll. You can rotate em 360 degrees, a real showcase of the attention to detail and art that went into this. Can't say I've ever seen a model viewer in a game that included buildings lol but it's much appreciated, the model for Arcology in particular looks incredible.

 

[Rumenapp]

I'm seriously impressed by these graphics on SX, the highstreet colors and reflections are amazing!

 

[jonamok]

Playing the Game Pass version on an RTX3070 and all the RT stuff is greyed out. Every time I select DX12 it just drops back to 11. Also no DLSS available? This happening to other PC players?

Also, even on High (not Ultra) this slows to a crawl with any pyrotechnics, even an exploding barrel tanks the frame rate. Only playing on 1440 ultrawide.

Only a couple of hours in and the game itself is fine. I'll stick with it for a while.

Edit: Caught up with the thread. So the GP version was released borked then, with no DLSS etc.? And the ultrawide is just a zoom in too? Think I'll park it here until they get it ready for actual release on Windows.



Gonna be a while isn't it?

 

[Bardeh]

Played a couple of hours now. The visuals are just mind-blowing, the density of the environments and the lighting are sublime. I love how punchy the guns sound, and the music is awesome.

A few niggles though - I don't know if it's just me, but the map hurts my brain and I find it really difficult to use. I would much prefer it to be less stylised, and more readable.

The red colour scheme for the menus is striking but it's too harsh and affects readability.

The menu text is way too small when playing on a TV. I've tried on PC on a monitor and it didn't bother me, but on my Series S on a 1080p TV I'm having to squint.

I'm having stutters on PC when a new graphics effect happens for the first time, but it doesn't happen on Series S.

Overall I'm excited to play more tomorrow, and hope some of the issues everyone's having get fixed!