The Ascent DLC "Cyber Heist" coming August 18th

...I want to say I'll get it, but don't want to get jumped for liking DLC lol (hides under bed)


This looks fun though
 
Looks good, base game was a blast. I have a snag though. Although i'm probably gonna take more heat than EDMIX EDMIX for buying DLC (YOU MONSTER).

This is the one problem with gamepass, I played the base game on gp and enjoyed the game alot. But i'm not buying dlc for a subscription game which is possibly close to being removed from the service (if it hasn't already) and I would rather spend the money I would use to buy the game and dlc on a game I havn't played yet.
 
hlm666 said:
Looks good, base game was a blast. I have a snag though. Although i'm probably gonna take more heat than EDMIX EDMIX for buying DLC (YOU MONSTER).

This is the one problem with gamepass, I played the base game on gp and enjoyed the game alot. But i'm not buying dlc for a subscription game which is possibly close to being removed from the service (if it hasn't already) and I would rather spend the money I would use to buy the game and dlc on a game I havn't played yet.
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true. I'm more shocked at how much I actually even ended up liking this game. It very much feels like cyberpunk diablo in the greatest way lol

I might buy this DLC, but i don't have much time before fall semester starts for school and might replay Persona 5 for the next few weeks to have the school rpg feels while doing the school feels in real life lol
 
I think I need to buy this game and the DLC. This game is SOOOOOO good and the DLC looks fun. I wish it was 1st party and would stay on Game Pass forever, but it's definitely worth buying.
 
lh032 said:
Is this game still a buggy messed?
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I played the game at launch solo till the end and had no major issues. 99% of problems there were in multiplayer, which was really buggy for a very long time. I think they solved most of it before releasing on Playstation
 
Bartski said:
I played the game at launch solo till the end and had no major issues. 99% of problems there were in multiplayer, which was really buggy for a very long time. I think they solved most of it before releasing on Playstation
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MOTM said:
Played the Game on Xbox, +/- 12 hours and didn't come across a single bug.
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guess i'll buy it then.
 
Is the DLC on gamepass or do you have to buy it. I like this game enough to buy the DLC.

I think I should let my 8 year old play this with me.
 
Looking forward to this.

This studio feels like they could become legitimately great, and I hope their next game is more ambitious given how impressive this was.

I don't think I appreciated the Ascent enough when it released, it was a really good game, I think it just needed more story, world building, dialogue and motivation.
 
I liked this game a ton, one of my favorites last year. But as someone said above I too played this on Gamepass and buying DLC for a game that might be removed feels wrong.
Not sure what to do here. Might try to get it later at a sale on Steam. Is it too demanding for Steam Deck?
 
I like this game but it is bugged (at least the MP side which is the one I'm mostly interested in).

Still, would recommend.

Just FYI: It's one the games part of the monthly humble bundle together with Hot Wheels and others.
 
Day one, no questions about it. Hopefully they'll finally add NG+ to the XB version as well, and fix the co-op issues.

vaibhavpisal said:
It was fixed in under a month.
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Nah, almost every single day someone on Reddit reports his progress was erased. There's something terribly wrong with co-op that corrupts the save file.
 
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hlm666 said:
This is the one problem with gamepass, I played the base game on gp and enjoyed the game alot. But i'm not buying dlc for a subscription game which is possibly close to being removed from the service (if it hasn't already) and I would rather spend the money I would use to buy the game and dlc on a game I havn't played yet.
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Hate to see you miss out based on what might happen. If you like it just plan on buying it if it's ever removed. Probably cheap by then.

Farawayfromhell said:
Yes! Love this game... what a pity that the co-op experience is more bugs than experience itself, very unstable.
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Made me go back and play Alienation on PS4/PS5- Housemarque's amazing multiplayer twin-stick shooter. Hopefully they'll bring it to PC.

DLC looks fantastic! Am definitely buying it day one since I love this game. Don't have GP so paid $20 and is well worth the price.
 
I bought and enjoyed the hell out of the base game so I'm in for this. Melee worked well in Ruiner so I am looking forward to seeing how this compares.

Regarding DLC, if it's done well I don't mind paying for it. I'd rather have more of The Ascent now in the form of DLC than wait another 3 years for a sequel.
 
hlm666 said:
Looks good, base game was a blast. I have a snag though. Although i'm probably gonna take more heat than EDMIX EDMIX for buying DLC (YOU MONSTER).

This is the one problem with gamepass, I played the base game on gp and enjoyed the game alot. But i'm not buying dlc for a subscription game which is possibly close to being removed from the service (if it hasn't already) and I would rather spend the money I would use to buy the game and dlc on a game I havn't played yet.
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That's why you buy the game at a discounted price if you enjoyed it. The Ascent was priced nicely and was going to be part of my gaming library regardless!
 
I didn't realize this is coming out so soon. I loved the base game, so more content is welcome.

P.S.- The Ascent(Steam) is part of the current Humble Choice Monthly. They were doing a promo like $8/month to sign up. There's a few other decent games included.
 
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Final boss down! Loved it.

One large new area with 4 districts + 1 for the finale. Enemies at lvl 30-35, perfectly doable solo with a maxed out character.

They seem to have made plenty of tweaks to the core game as well, the market area is just peak mayhem with object density and a number of enemies swarming you at once, runs without a hitch on XsX.

Noticeable increase in destructibility, especially blasting through walls inside buildings is now very common and the only way to access some of the chests. Areas with perspective change, like top-down view akin to alien breed, just the overall design making the most out of available systems.

Melee could be fun but didn't really play much with the new arsenal. Unfortunately, nothing has changed to fix my biggest issue with the game - to make any of the new weapons remotely viable in late game areas you have to gind and look for RNG spawning bounties for components. I have nothing to do with over 2 million uCreds other than spending them on taxies while it is still impossible to just buy upgrade materials, disappointing.

They did tweak other weapons it seems, maxed out Dealbreaker is back as the ultimate end-game weapon.

I'm no expert on the genre but this is easily my favorite twin-stick shooter of all time, if you liked the core game just get Cyber Heist, it's a blast.
 
Bartski said:
Final boss down! Loved it.

One large new area with 4 districts + 1 for the finale. Enemies at lvl 30-35, perfectly doable solo with a maxed out character.

They seem to have made plenty of tweaks to the core game as well, the market area is just peak mayhem with object density and a number of enemies swarming you at once, runs without a hitch on XsX.

Noticeable increase in destructibility, especially blasting through walls inside buildings is now very common and the only way to access some of the chests. Areas with perspective change, like top-down view akin to alien breed, just the overall design making the most out of available systems.

Melee could be fun but didn't really play much with the new arsenal. Unfortunately, nothing has changed to fix my biggest issue with the game - to make any of the new weapons remotely viable in late game areas you have to gind and look for RNG spawning bounties for components. I have nothing to do with over 2 million uCreds other than spending them on taxies while it is still impossible to just buy upgrade materials, disappointing.

They did tweak other weapons it seems, maxed out Dealbreaker is back as the ultimate end-game weapon.

I'm no expert on the genre but this is easily my favorite twin-stick shooter of all time, if you liked the core game just get Cyber Heist, it's a blast.
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Sounds great. I'll pick it up as soon as I can decide if I should continue on Xbox or start over on Steam and play on Steam Deck.
 
Can confirm with Cyber Heist you can start a new game and play through it with melee weapons. The first weapon shop has a Baseball Bat weapon for cheap 2500 uCredits.

I like the option to play melee. That's neat.

I'm either getting lucky or I feel they adjusted how often gear/weapons drop from enemies. Seems a LOT more frequent. Pretty nice IMO.
 
Been so busy with work I haven't gotten around to playing Cyber Heist. I got a promo for Humble Choice for $8, so I went for it and got The Ascent and Hot Wheels Unleashed. I played through The Ascent on Game Pass the first time around. I transferred my save over to Steam this morning and bought the DLC pack with Cyber Heist + Security and Warrior packs on Steam for $10. Should make it easier to play on Steam Deck and give a little dough to the devs for making one of my favorite games. Gonna start playing tonight on Steam Deck. Glad the Deck has back buttons.
 
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