- Hotfix Notes 4.3 - 27 August 2019
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- Hotfix Notes 4.2 - 19 August 2019
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- Update 4 - Hotfix Notes - 2 July 2019
Update 4 Hotfix Build Notes https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F30367253%2Fdedb8c8ac1d9a8261c6c63c01e024f393962d578.jpg Hi all, We've just released a 1.5GB hotfix for Update 4 on PC! Here's what changed: Reduced the force used to move carried objects against obstructions in some cases that were causing the player to be pushed in the opposite direction (for example, you might have been lifted off the ground while stacking crates). Some wooden platforms that were floating are once again grounded. Improved reliability of dragging mechanics for dead bodies. Helmeted enemies no longer have floating helmets upon death. Various lights, bottles and torches no longer disappear based on player distance. Various controller fixes related to switching focus during menu navigation and tooltips not appearing for armor slots. Fixed issue where the button guide bar did not s…
- Update 4 Build Notes - 18 June 2019
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- Hotfix for Update 3 - 2 May 2019
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- Update 3 - Performance Improvements - 10 April 2019
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- Hotfix for Update 2 - 26 February 2019
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- Update 2 - Player Journey & Gameplay Improvements - 14 February 2019
Underworld Ascendant Update 2 Build Notes Video Message From The Dev Team: https://youtu.be/VSv9dP7JvJg Thank you for your continued support of Underworld Ascendant! We have been hard at work on Update 2 and have focused our efforts on the overall structure of the Abyss, the player journey, AI and other gameplay improvements. We believe these changes will significantly improve the overall player experience, especially when starting a new game. We hope you enjoy this update and please continue to provide your feedback. The Stygian Abyss renovated The world is now a series of interconnected levels, accessible through The Grand Staircase. Updated quest flow now focuses on important narrative quests that highlight both new and refined story and content, while allowing the player to freely explore the environment and optional side-quests. As a result of this major change, we highly recommend…
- Jan 22 Weekly Update - 22 January 2019
Hi everyone! This week, we continue to work on improvements to the game for Update 2, coming early February. Some of these improvements include: Making the Abyss one cohesive dungeon Streamlining the first level of the game to include runic spell-casting and adding more narrative context to Marcaul Continued improvements to AI Improved main quest system Improved Doom Counter and faction favor system Adding in quicksave key bindings & more that we're still working on. We look forward to sharing Update 2 with you all! Cheers, The OtherSide Team
- Jan 2 Weekly Update - 2 January 2019
Afternoon, everyone! Here's our quick weekly update while we continue our work on Update 2 while monitoring bug reports that have come in after Update 1 launched. More info to follow on KS rewards, playtest updates, and our plans for Update 2 as we work those out. #ICYMI, we also have a post-Update 1 Survey available here. We'd love to hear from players who have picked up UA again after Update 1, and what else you would like to see improved.
- Update 1 - New Save Game System is Live - 20 December 2018
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- Underworld Ascendant | Development Roadmap December 2018 - 14 December 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F30367253%2F6a549546f22741bff2616cd3e756345231c6ed2f.jpg Greetings, Ascendants! Today we are sharing our post-launch development roadmap beginning with Update 1, which will plan to go live next week. Our goal is to address the biggest issues brought up by the community and to improve the overall quality of the game. We have also included our plans for Update 2, which will go live early next year. Further details and timing are outlined below. We have a discussion thread for the update here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/692840/discussions/0/3216031607494065970/ UPDATE 1 - Next week (Pending QA Review) Save system We’ve completely overhauled Underworld Ascendant’s save game system based on player feedback. The goal is to ensure your efforts as you adventure through the Abyss, particularly during quests, are saved. Under thi…
- Dec 3 Weekly Update! - 3 December 2018
Hey guys! It's the weekend after we pushed Hotfix 1.03, and I spent the majority of today combing through community-submitted reports and queueing them up for our QA team, as well as coordinating Kickstarter goods. (We got a new pass at Resherak in the office, but he's a little too big... sneak peek at the 4" figurines anyways, unpainted, for those curious!) Our priority for this week and the next is tackling bugs and larger issues that have been brought up since launch. This includes working on a save system (more details on this next week, since we're still testing a couple of potential systems right now), the inventory stacking bug, gameplay blockers, crashes, and potential redesigns in combat and the quest system. Today was a heavy meeting day as we hashed out how we'd like to tackle some of the riskier updates (save system, quests, and combat) while fending off bugs. As liveops con…
- Hotfix 1.03 & Dev Video - 30 November 2018
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- Underworld: Ascendant review - a strangely essential development disaster - 29 November 2018
Underworld: Ascendant is positively paranoid that you'll forget that it's an immersive sim. A crowd-funded successor to Looking Glass Studios' landmark RPG Ultima Underworld, created with the input of Looking Glass veterans, its dialogue is full of allusions to the genre's ethos of player improvisation using flexible tools. Experimentation is advised, remarks Cabirus, the papier-m ch beard in a dressing gown who serves as your mentor on the quest to defeat Typhon, an escaped demon king. Later: only the adaptable prosper . Elsewhere: I seek not to teach you, but to make you think. The game's relentless advertising of its own creative inheritance soon grows annoying, and not just because in practice, it's more interested in channeling Ultima's light-fingered stablemate Thief. Looking Glass closed down almost 20 years ago, and its legacy is everywhere, reaching far beyond self-declared imm…
- Nov 26 Weekly Update - 26 November 2018
Hey everyone! A weekly update a little later in the day than usual... So the team has returned from Thanksgiving travels and we spent the majority of today alone just having meetings and brainstorming how and where to go from here. We already have a list of priorities we'd like to work on as quickly (and safely) as possible, and try to maximize our time. We have another hotfix queued up for this week, particularly tackling crashes near the beginning of the game (before even Marcaul!) and common movement bugs, like the player being sluggish in water. We're aiming to have a lot of other fixes in too related to bug reports we've received about AI and combat issues. Additionally, the fullscreen exclusive option and turning subtitles off will be available. Other issues we're working on are upping the consistency of arrows (sometimes they fire, sometimes they disappear, etc), more combat and…
- This is not a review of the wholly unfinished Underworld Ascendant - 21 November 2018
Having poked around at the earliest stages of Underworld Ascendant , I’ve reached the conclusion that it’s just not in a fit state to be released, and as such, not in a fit state to be reviewed. Announced in 2014, this spiritual sequel to the seminal Ultima Underworld games of the early 90s was Kickstarted $860,000 in early 2015, with a ridiculously optimistic release date of November 2016. Two years after that, the product I backed at the time is here. And it feels like it needs at least another two years before it’s close to ready. (more…)
- Development Update Video - Nov 20, 2018 - 20 November 2018
Hi, everyone! We have a short video from the Underworld Ascendant dev team to keep you updated on what the team is working on. https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F30367253%2Fb3e5c48433d50bb76a800ddeb3da267fa5ac67e9.png Click the image to watch on YouTube Thanks for playing!
- Nov 19 Weekly Update! - 19 November 2018
Hey guys! What a weekend, huh? So for anyone new to the forums: welcome! Let's get some of these FAQ out of the way first: I'm a backer and I haven't gotten an email from BackerKit with my key! Log in using your Kickstarter credentials here: https://underworld-ascendant.backerkit.com/ Navigate to your Digital Downloads and you should see your Steam rewards! I'm a backer and I'm missing some digital rewards. What do I do? Certain digital rewards are being bundled by Valve and will be available as another Steam key on BackerKit. We will let you know when those are available! We've been receiving reports of backers having problems downloading the DLC for Companion Creatures and have been working with Valve to figure out how to properly distribute these rewards, since this could affect distribution of our other digital rewards. (We think we recently discovered the issue with this, and we'll…
- Hotfix 1.02 - 17 November 2018
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