The Ascent patch improves DX12, adds ray tracing to Game Pass version

The Ascent is presently receiving a hefty quantity of consideration on a number of fronts. As such, the enhancements are rolling in with the sport’s newest patch which went reside at present. We preferred the sport rather a lot, and it’s presently sitting at a 78% principally constructive ranking on Steam with over 5,000 critiques, so evidently most gamers are liking it too. This patch is presently reside for the Steam model, and will probably be hitting the Home windows Retailer and console variations quickly. The developer goes to proceed its work on the sport past this level as effectively, so there will probably be extra patches sooner or later. As we speak’s patch for The Ascent improves DX12, whereas including ray tracing onto the Xbox Sport Go and Home windows Retailer variations.

As for what precisely at present’s patch for The Ascent had carried out, the primary focuses, as specified within the title, are to enhance the efficiency of the sport in DX12 mode, in addition to add ray tracing. After putting in the replace, there will probably be a 20- to 25-second loading stall upon booting into the sport for the primary time, however this must be the one time that happens. Ray tracing was absent from different variations of the sport, however now they’ll all be as much as par. NPC loading has been improved as effectively, as has basic CPU efficiency for lower-end {hardware}.

The Ascent patch lastly unlocks ray tracing for the Sport Go model

The remainder of the patch’s enhancements apply to all platforms, not simply PC. As for what’s been improved, there’ll now be fewer crashes, points with focus throughout co-op must be higher, and a black display screen on the finish of mission 12 must be no extra. It’ll additionally take much less time to get again to the primary menu, and it fixes weapon replication issues throughout co-op. There are many fixes to saving, reminiscent of decreasing the chance of corruption, plus many gameplay tweaks, like a number of bosses spawning or mission aims not updating.