The Ascent is a cyberpunk isometric shooter/RPG that can be played solo or co-op. The Ascent also has some compatibility issues with DX12 which causes the framerate to hit the floor, though developer Neon Giant did confirm to me that it was working with NVIDIA to get this resolved as soon as possible.I will start this by saying I have had quite a few crashes playing this game… but… I’ve been enjoying it despite that! Yet, when the boss didn’t load in and I couldn’t proceed, I exited out and reloaded my save, only to be swarmed by a ton of enemies just before said boss came to fill my screen.Īnother instance had the game completely crash to desktop altogether unexpectedly, though this happened only once, and in intense gunfights I found my character stuck inside the scenery, locking me in place for the enemy to overwhelm and eventually kill me. In one instance I didn’t notice and managed to get through almost an entire main quest, mistakenly thinking I was supposed to just be walking towards one big boss unopposed. After watching a cutscene or fast traveling to a location, enemies and quest markers failed to load in properly.
The most problematic of these was also the one I most frequently ran into. With your (and many others’) life on the line, you embark on a new mission to find out what caused this sudden downfall. Corporations battle it out for control of technological assets across Veles, and it just so happens ‘The Ascent Group’ has recently shutdown for unknown reasons, putting the survival of your district at risk. The more affluent and ‘free’ people live at the top, and both your affluency and social standing are lower the further down you are. Essentially a slave to a corporation with little to no rights, you live your life down on the lower levels of this towering, layered world. Taking place in the cyberpunk world of Veles, you’re an ‘indentured’ citizen. As such, the opinions and criticisms shared in this review are largely based on my time exploring Veles solo. The game does allow for co-op multiplayer both with friends and strangers online, but due to low player numbers during the review period, playing online multiplayer proved to be incredibly difficult.
I’ll note now that, for the vast majority of my time with The Ascent, I played in single-player. Seven months later and the dust has settled, and now it’s the turn of Neon Giant’s The Ascent to try its hand at satiating our cyberpunk cravings. Performance problems aside, it somewhat delivered on this vision, but it still left many with a bitter taste in their mouths. CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077 promised us a futuristic, cyberpunk universe, teeming with things to see and do. December 2020 brought with it one of the biggest disappointments in recent video game history.
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