The Ascent
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| Developers | |
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| Neon Giant | |
| Publishers | |
| Curve Digital | |
| Engines | |
| Unreal Engine 4[Note 1] | |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | July 29, 2021 |
| Reception | |
| Metacritic | 73 |
| OpenCritic | 74 |
| IGDB | 72 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Monetization | One-time game purchase |
| Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
| Pacing | Real-time |
| Perspectives | Bird's-eye view |
| Controls | Direct control |
| Genres | ARPG, Shooter |
| Themes | Cyberpunk |
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The Ascent is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view ARPG and shooter game.
General information
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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| GamersGate | |
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| Green Man Gaming | |
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| Humble Store | |
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| Microsoft Store | |
Xbox Play Anywhere. | |
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| Steam | |
Rename steam.exe and launch the game directly from the game executable. |
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Essential improvements
Skip intro logo
Modify Game.ini
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[/script/movieplayer.movieplayersettings] bWaitForMoviesToComplete=False bMoviesAreSkippable=True StartupMovies= |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\TheAscent\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor |
| Microsoft Store | %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\CurveDigital.TheAscent_1ezqdnbhnc70m\LocalCache\Local\TheAscent\Saved\Config\WinGDK\ |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/979690/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
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| Steam | %LOCALAPPDATA%\TheAscent\Saved\SaveGames\ |
| Microsoft Store | |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/979690/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
| System | Native | Notes |
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| Steam Cloud | ||
| Xbox Cloud |
Video
| Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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| Widescreen resolution | |||
| Multi-monitor | Vert- scaling and spanned HUD. Use the related PCGW community tool as a partial workaround. |
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| Ultra-widescreen | Vert- scaling. Use the related PCGW community tool as a workaround. | ||
| 4K Ultra HD | |||
| Field of view (FOV) | Use the related PCGW community tool. | ||
| Windowed | |||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | |||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | Forced TAA | ||
| High-fidelity upscaling | DLSS 2.0 |
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| Vertical sync (Vsync) | On / off | ||
| 60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives. | ||
| Ray tracing (RT) | Reflections, shadows and ambient occlusion. | ||
- The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.
Film grain
- The game might ignore the film grain setting, re-enabling the effect upon game restart even if it has been disabled.
| Forcefully disable film grain by editing a config file |
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[SystemSettings] r.Tonemapper.Quality=3 |
Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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| Remapping | ||
| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse input in menus | ||
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support | ||
| Full controller support | ||
| Controller remapping | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | |
| Controller sensitivity | ||
| Controller Y-axis inversion |
| Controller types |
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| XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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| Xbox button prompts | ||
| Impulse Trigger vibration |
| PlayStation controllers | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. |
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| Generic/other controllers |
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| Additional information | ||
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| Controller hotplugging | ||
| Haptic feedback | ||
| Digital movement supported | ||
| Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
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| Separate volume controls | General, music, sound effects, dialog, cutscene. Dynamic Range Compression (DRC) presets. | |
| Surround sound | 5.1 support tested successfully. | |
| Subtitles | ||
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| Royalty free audio |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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| English | ||||
| Simplified Chinese | ||||
| French | ||||
| German | ||||
| Japanese | ||||
| Korean | ||||
| Polish | ||||
| Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
| Russian | ||||
| Spanish |
Network
Multiplayer types
| Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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| Local play | 4 | Co-op |
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| LAN play | ||||
| Online play | 4 | Co-op |
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Issues unresolved
Shader compilation stutter
- The game suffers from severe shader compilation related stutters during gameplay, this occurs whenever a new effect is displayed and thus whenever a new shader has to be compiled.[2][3]
Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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| Direct3D | 11, 12 |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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| Windows |
Middleware
- No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.
System requirements
| Windows | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | 10 | |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i5-3470 3.2 GHz AMD FX-8350 4.0 GHz |
Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz |
| System memory (RAM) | 8 GB | 16 GB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 35 GB | |
| Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 AMD Radeon R9 390X 2 GB (Nvidia), 8 GB (AMD) of VRAM | Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑ Unreal Engine 4 engine build: 4.26.1[1]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/979690/in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (979690) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
References
- ↑ Verified by User:Aemony on 2021-09-17
- ↑ Unfixable stutter? - last accessed on 2023-07-03
- ↑ Stuttering is related to shaders caching - last accessed on 2023-07-03