The main characters-aside from the player character, who is mute-boast excellent voice acting, and the dialogue is witty and humorous. The characters, though, are another matter. It finishes with a tease for more story content down the line, but it never hooked me. While the mystery of the Ascent Group’s collapse deepens, its resolution feels anti-climactic. I like the story’s setup, but unfortunately, the plot fails to deliver.
What follows is a tale of political and corporate intrigue, as contractors attempt to secure their livelihoods, rival corporations scheme to take advantage of the shift in power, and you delve into the mystery behind the Ascent Group’s sudden demise. One day, as you perform menial tasks for the corporation in the stinking depths of the city, the media announces that the Ascent Group has suddenly collapsed, leaving everyone’s status up in the air. You begin the game as an indentured contractor for the Ascent Group, the megacorporation that practically owns almost everyone in the massive arcology on the planet Veles. Other negative themes: most of the game’s sidequests task you with morally objectionable jobs, such as drug trafficking, theft, and assassination. One of the game’s hub areas, called Stimtown, is home to a strip club. The game contains a spa in which men lounge in their underwear. Sexual Content: Holographic projections show women performing some suggestive dances. Language: The denizens of Veles prove quite the foul-mouthed bunch, as words like f**k, s**t, and b*****d can be heard (or read in dialogue boxes) regularly. One sidequest requires you to smuggle steroids to a gym. The camera almost always stays high above the ground, so the blood and gore never overwhelms the experience, but it’s clearly present nonetheless.ĭrugs/Alcohol: Numerous bars appear throughout the game world, and a few patrons can be seen stumbling about from having imbibed too much alcohol or even vomiting on the floor. When characters die, they usually leave blood splatter on the ground, but some weapons can even cause them to explode into meat chunks. Violence: Characters wield a variety of guns and blades against their adversaries. But if you’re still interested in discovering a new cyberpunk gaming world, I have good news: The Ascent, a brand new isometric cyberpunk shooter from developer Neon Giant, is here to scratch that itch, and it does not disappoint. I understand if you reflexively pull back at the idea of playing another cyberpunk-themed game right now.
While I enjoyed my time playing the stable next-gen version of that game, I recognize that those who tried to play it on last-gen machines got burned. Hope this helps.There’s no escaping it: as of right now (2021), when gamers hear “cyberpunk,” they likely can’t help but think of the oft-maligned Cyberpunk 2077. Resetting skills instantly removes any cybernetics, changing Augments to one with a different Attribute instantly changes/updates them.Īpologies for my previous conclusion, I literally hadn't changed my augments once until just now. if you have Mono Scrapper in Slot 2, increasing Cybernetics will make the character's arms and body look more cybernetic, up to 40).Īttributes currently affecting the character's appearance are indicated by their values having a circuit board effect around them on the Character tab.Īttribute bonuses from equipment also contribute, but may take a bit to catch up. The Attribute of the Augmentation in Slot 2 affects the look of the character's body (e.g. if you have Hydraulic Slam in Slot 1, increasing Motorics will make the character's face look more cybernetic, up to 40). The Attribute of the Augmentation in Slot 1 affects the look of the character's face (e.g. This was actually incorrect, and I've now determined exactly what causes it:
So I backed up my save and did some experiments, initially concluding that Motorics causes the face to look cybernetic and Biometrics makes the arms and torso look cybernetic. Originally I posted to ask what causes the character to look more like a cyborg, since Google just finds old threads with all kinds of theories total skill points spent, number of deaths, specific augmentations, etc.
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