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High stakes, high chaos, and the most unpredictable twist on capture-the-flag yet. Outwit rival squads, face mutant wildlife, and secure three biocores in this fast-paced, squad-based FPS where wild events can turn the tables in an ever-shifting BioPunk arena. This is ASCENDANT - bring backup.

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Weapon Inspecting Dev Update

3 Feb

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@Devs: Is the Beta shut down forever until release?

Should I uninstall and wait for the game to come out for purchase or will there be upcoming beta play?

MrBadBehavior

13 Jan @ 2:47am

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New Ping System Dev Update

28 Jan

Previously pings were tinted the color of the player who did them. In the interest of simplicity, less rainbow HUD and this not seeming common in other games, we opted to tint them using the friend/enemy colors (Enemy ping vs other pings) for consistency and customization.

New system at a high level:

Pings now animate in (VERY fast) but hopefully better than an image popping on screen before
Pings show distance to the opposite side of the screen, to move the detail away from the cross-hair area. This has a "deadzone" to prevent it flip-flopping if the player is near the centre of the screen
If a ping has finished arriving, is off screen, or more than 15m it'll shrink to tidy up on the HUD
As pings can now shrink, they can also expand if a player chooses to look at it. Doing so also raises the ping so it shouldn't interfere with the thing being pinged (so shouldn't cover up PvP targets for example)
Ping responses should now show underneath the distance line, resulting in it being a bit tidier.

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Some additional guns?

Since last beta i had a feeling, that there is not enough weapons. And today i've got it! There should be some powerful pistol like hand canons in "destiny" or Caldwell Conversion Uppercut in Hunt Showdown, but! visual design should be like Robocop`s pistol in movie / Far Cry 3:Blood Dragon, or like Johny Silverhand`s pistol from Cyberpunk2077...

Degrolion

20 Jan @ 6:25am

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Nudity?

The Australian Classification board has rated this product MA15+ for: STRONG VIOLENCE STRONG NUDITY ONLINE INTERACTIVITY I get strong violence part. Though a game like this doesn't strike me as the type to feature strong nudity. Is there any validity to their warning? What nudity does this game actually feature?...

GusMan06

29 Oct, 2024 @ 10:14am

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Gunplay is good. 80s theme not so good.

Seems like the creator is stuck in the past and thinks making that theme into a pvp game is a good idea? I mean truly, the retro theme is really bad. Lots of cliche and cringy fireworks, final countdown music. Cmon. I actually really like the gunplay, It’s good. But I think you DOA’d the game with the dance party ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. sigh Sorry for the harsh critique....

MurkWahlberg

15 Jan @ 10:07am

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The game won't be F2P

Are you gonna buy it?

ClubChick YT

26 Oct, 2024 @ 7:17am

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Patch Notes - 6th of January, 2025

8 Jan

Onboarding

New characters can now make use of all colours when setting up their first appearance, as opposed to being restricted to just common and uncommon colours.

Events

When playing solo (i.e. completely without teammates) during the lightning strike event, lightning strikes will more often try to avoid striking right on top of you.
The lightning strike event has now been given ambient audio (this should always have been there but wasn’t working correctly).
Recent changes to the gorlizard control turned out to be a bit too much, so it has been given some of its health back (but not all of it). Its melee attacks are now also considered to be sweeping, so they can hit multiple targets.

Environment

Lighting across the entire map has been reworked.
The roadway tunnels in the vault have had a visual uplift.
The centre of the map, within/under the earthtree has been opened up to make room for the new custom weapon station.
Lots of little art updates have happened around the map.

Match Rules

Custom weapons can no longer be bought from any shop in the map. Instead, there is a bespoke custom weapon station in the middle of the map. This means that buying your custom weapons can be a bit more dangerous, as everyone needs to do so from the same location.
The way NPCs spawn around the wilderness has been reworked. For the most part, you won’t notice any differences. The main difference the changes will bring is how the map deals with distributing NPCs if the server is running out of space to hold more NPCs. Previously, this could mean that NPCs spawned around some players but not others, whereas now the “left-overs” will be distributed evenly around all players in the wilderness.
You can now respawn directly on teammates, as long as they are not in PvP combat, close to enemies, downed/dead, or in a vehicle.

Weapons & Consumables

More weapon modules have received bespoke appearances.
The pistol has had some visual updates.
The audio to go with battle rifle reload animations has been updated.
Smoke from smoke grenades now generate from seeded values so random spread should be the same on different clients.
Hacking devices can no longer be used on doors affected by an EMP.
The slow from Cluster - Shock Bombs now lasts for 1.5s (down from 3).
Area healing from beam gloves once again does 50% reduced healing to yourself. This reduction was changed to 25% when we played with duos, as there were fewer teammates to heal with it. However, as we are back playing in teams of three by default, the self-healing reductions have been put back again.

Movement & Animations

Sprint speeds are now the same for all weapons, and those speeds are in line with what the pistols and beam gloves had. In other words, all other weapons now sprint faster than before. Their animations and audio have been updated accordingly, as well.
Weapons now have bespoke transition animations for going in and out of ADS, as opposed to just being linear blends. This should make the transition between animation states feel less robotic.
Updated the sprint animation for beam gloves.
There is now more in-air control so you can more easily adjust your direction of travel mid jump or fall. To avoid this result in some insane velocities when using wind vortices, there are diminishing returns on the in-air controls at more extreme velocities.
The pistol firing animations (and audio) have been completely reworked to feel more satisfying.
Weapons now have ‘inspect’ animations (default keybind is ‘I’). These are still a work in progress.
These animations are purely visual and thus won’t interfere with gunplay. Shooting during an inspect animation will instantly interrupt it.
Directional start and stop movement animations have been improved.
Victory animations have been improved.

Creatures

The audio for the gorlizard’s spit attack has been updated.
The different cattermaw types have been given some bioluminescent effects to make them easier to tell apart in the new lighting.
Vehicles
You can now interrupt a vehicle weapon reload by switching seats (to stop you being locked into the seat until the reload is complete).

Lobby

Lighting across the entire lobby has been reworked.
The Thunderdome has received a number of updates:
Its visuals have been polished.
You can now receive multi kill celebrations (e.g. double kill, triple kill, etc.).
Lightning strikes can now hit in the Thunderdome, which removes bits of the floor.
Pulse bombs can now spawn in the Thunderdome.
Some vendors around the lobby have had their appearances improved.
The time trial achievement times have been updated following some recent layout changes.

The HUD has had a complete visual rework to go in line with the more recent updates to the rest of the UI style.
Hitmarks have been given a complete visual overhaul. Shield and body hits should be further differentiated, critical hits will stand out a lot more, and new down and kill confirm effects have been added. Sound effects to go with these have also been updated.
The crosshair will now remain fixed in the world during camera movements incurred from animations (e.g. while reloading a weapon). In other words, what the crosshair points at in the environment won’t change due to the camera movement, as the crosshair will move on screen to compensate. This should make it easier to maintain a steady direction of travel during reloads.
You now unready (and cancel matchmaking) on the ‘N’ key instead of ‘Y’.
The keybind to switch seats in vehicles is now on the HUD.
The accolade screen at the end of a match has received a complete visual overhaul.

Other Updates

Ambient audio around the wilderness has been updated.
Player character dialogue volumes should now automatically go down if the announcer needs to say something.
More voice lines have been added to vendors.
Fresnel shaders (a subtle glow around the silhouette of characters) has been made a bit stronger to go with the new lighting.
Melee attacks can now be made from slightly further away. If your character is far away from the target, they also dash towards them as part of the attack, and the camera will automatically adjust to better align the animation with the recipient. This does not apply when meleeing creatures.

Bug Fixes

More performance improvements have been made.
A lot of minor collision issues around the map have been smoothed out.
Fixed a number of cliffs around the map that could be a bit inconsistent to climb based on exactly where you approached them. You should no longer fall off them if you approached from the wrong direction.
Fixed various areas where NPCs could sink into the floor.
Fixed an area in the security building where you could get into the walls.
A few double doors around the map were ever so slightly less tall than regular double doors, preventing the player controlled gorlizard from being able to get through them while crouching. This should now be fixed so that the gorlizard can consistently get through all double doors.
The player controlled gorlizard’s spit and leap attacks can now damage the EMP device.
The quad print team upgrade should now spawn quads with the correct custom vehicle skins.
Deathbringer and turret vehicle weapons will no longer start with empty magazines.
Characters should now blink properly.
Fixed an issue where objective markers could point to the wrong place if you disconnected and reconnected to the game.
Bots should now have matching hit zone modifiers to players (a few body parts weren’t exactly the same).
Kiran now belongs to the correct group as far as reputation goes.
Fixed an issue where copied shotguns could end up with modules in the incorrect slots. If you have any left-over shotguns with invalid modules, they will not be usable in matches until fixed.
Team upgrade stations should no longer claim to be offline when they’re in fact online.
Fixed some pop-ups that couldn’t be closed with ‘Escape’ so that they now can.
Modules that adjust the size of the beam glove area heal applied the size difference twice to the visuals so the area ended up looking bigger or smaller than it actually was.
Fixed an issue that could break weapon swapping if you picked up a weapon off the floor at the same time as you used a consumable.
The objective icon should now properly go transparent when towards the centre of the screen even when carried by an enemy.
Fixed various issues caused by the reactor meltdown’s door breaking in conjunction with EMPs and the keycard door.
And a lot of other things that are not ‘player facing’ enough to be worth calling out…

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