

Fully customize your character's appearance, skills and abilities to match your playstyle and loot various weapons and gear as you grow stronger.ĤK: 4K Ultra HD not available on Xbox One or Xbox One S consoles. Builds in The Ascent are recommended sets of stats put together by a combination of Skills, Weapons, Armor, Cyberdeck, Augmentations, and more. Your ascent through the arcology will lead you across the path of the most impressive enemies but also unexpected alliances. You must take up arms to stop them from seizing control and embark on a new mission to find out what started it all.Įxplore the world of Veles, alone or with up to three friends, to find out what happened.

The survival of your district is threatened: rival corporations are trying to force appropriation and crime syndicates are looking to boost their black-market augmentation trade. The Ascent Group, the largest mega corporation on the planet, shuts down for unknown reasons, causing the automated security systems to go haywire. This is where ideas such as the central tower came into existence and where we started accentuating. We then needed to assess how this visual direction would integrate with the Greybox layout that was playing so well. One day, whilst sent on a routine assignment to make use of your skills with a cyberdeck, you are suddenly caught in a vortex of catastrophic events. With Ascent, we started with the idea that a chunk of medieval Italy had been ripped out of the ground and thrown into the sky. You get things done, whatever menial task is given.

You play as a worker, enslaved by the company that owns you and everyone else in your district. Welcome to The Ascent Group arcology, a self-contained corporate-run metropolis, stretching high into the sky and filled with creatures from all over the galaxy. The Ascent is a solo and co-op Action-shooter RPG, set on Veles, a packed cyberpunk world.
