The Ascent Patch Brings Ray Tracing To Windows Players

The Ascent is a stable expertise that, sadly, wasn’t created equal throughout all platforms. The cyberpunk co-op shooter is accessible on Steam in addition to Xbox platforms, together with Recreation Move for console and PC. Nonetheless, gamers rapidly found that options current within the Steam model, comparable to ray tracing and DLSS, have been lacking from the Recreation Move model. The expertise has additionally suffered from quite a few bugs. Gamers are justifiably miffed about the entire thing, and developer Neon Big has taken step one in righting the ship by releasing a patch aimed toward correcting quite a lot of points.

A brand new patch is now dwell for Steam gamers and can be coming to Home windows 10 and Xbox “shortly”, in line with Neon Big’s patch notes. You’ll be able to learn the complete listing of fixes right here, however some massive fixes embody:

• Fixes to enhance efficiency in DX12, additionally with ray tracing (Steam & Home windows 10 solely)
• Ray Tracing is now accessible to gamers on the Home windows Retailer 
• Launched a brand new system to avoid conditions the place save recordsdata may develop into corrupted.
• Fixes to conditions in co-op the place the host leaving the sport may trigger the shopper to lose progress.

This patch ought to hopefully make The Ascent a greater expertise as a result of it undoubtedly has some good concepts. In his assessment, Recreation Informer video editor Alex Stadnik says that whereas the sport has its fair proportion of flaws, its issues “don’t detract from my general enjoyment of the sport. I gained’t write my thesis on its commentary on capitalism, however I’ll fondly keep in mind my co-op classes the place I tore by this cyberpunk world.”

The Ascent is accessible on Xbox Sequence X/S, Xbox One, and PC. 

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