Criticized since its launch a few days ago, the Game Pass version of The Ascent begins to (partially) catch up as promised on the grind Steam. Via an update, Ray Tracing is thus arriving, but it will obviously always be necessary to wait for DLSS.
This patch also brings many expected fixes, as well as improvements to all floors.
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The Ascent: the developers will correct the absence of ray tracing and DLSS on the Game Pass version
The Ascent: still uneven versions, but on the right track
The figures attest to this, the technical hiccups at the launch of The Ascent obviously did not prevent the title of Neon Giant from being a hit during its first weekend of launch. And most of these hiccups are obviously soon behind the title. In any case, the first major patch just deployed (available now on Steam and very soon on the Windows/Xbox version since we have to wait for Microsoft's validation phase), promises a lot of things.
First of all, owners of recent graphics cards using the Game Pass version of the game will finally see Ray Tracing in action. Unfortunately, Nvidia's DLSS technology is not yet there to compensate for the performance losses that the RTX generates. However, the changelog promises better performance under DX12, including with RTX enabled.
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Varied and numerous improvements
Various loading times should also be better, while modest CPUs should struggle less with the game. The Neon Giant studio has of course taken advantage of this update to also fix bugs. Problems in cooperation, crashes, connection, saves, translations, gameplay… a large number of the main problems of the game should therefore be repaired.
In addition to the arrival of DLSS on the Game Pass, there is still work for the developer to make the gaming experience more fluid and clean, and he indicates that he is fully aware of this.
