So I grabbed The Ascent for Xbox from Game Pass, and it was all very pretty - clearly made by DEEEP fans of the cyberpunk genre.
First disquiet came trying to go through the character customisation options - I kept finding myself off in random menus, with no clue as to how I'd arrived there. Then eventually, I noticed it was from having the left stick ever-so-slightly off to the left or right while moving up or down.
So I get into the game, and the first mission, first encounter, Ferals in the SI... You crouch down... to shoot over an enemy? Then these little $%^$ers run at me, and I'm spinning wildly on the spot, because the character can only fire in dead straight lines, and there's only ~16 segments in the full 360 of the character's turning circle, whereas the opponents can run in from anywhere, and there's no target highlighting, no target stickyness or locking, and all my shots seem to be going over their heads.
This was described as "Diablo 3 with guns" but doesn't feel anything like Diablo to play. I'm actually wondering if it's a mouse-oriented game, where you'd shoot by mousing the precisely controlled reticle onto the target. That might also explain the wacky menu behaviour (which works better with the D-Pad).
Has anyone had more success with it?
First disquiet came trying to go through the character customisation options - I kept finding myself off in random menus, with no clue as to how I'd arrived there. Then eventually, I noticed it was from having the left stick ever-so-slightly off to the left or right while moving up or down.
So I get into the game, and the first mission, first encounter, Ferals in the SI... You crouch down... to shoot over an enemy? Then these little $%^$ers run at me, and I'm spinning wildly on the spot, because the character can only fire in dead straight lines, and there's only ~16 segments in the full 360 of the character's turning circle, whereas the opponents can run in from anywhere, and there's no target highlighting, no target stickyness or locking, and all my shots seem to be going over their heads.
This was described as "Diablo 3 with guns" but doesn't feel anything like Diablo to play. I'm actually wondering if it's a mouse-oriented game, where you'd shoot by mousing the precisely controlled reticle onto the target. That might also explain the wacky menu behaviour (which works better with the D-Pad).
Has anyone had more success with it?