{"id":325792,"date":"2025-10-18T21:34:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2164020"},"modified":"2025-10-18T21:34:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:34:46","slug":"the-ascents-latest-patch-is-causing-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-ascents-latest-patch-is-causing-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ascent&#8217;s latest patch is causing problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/the-ascents-latest-patch-is-causing-problems.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Players of The Ascent have reported a number of problems with its most recently-released patch.<\/p>\n<p>This week, developer Neon Giant released an update (2.1.4.0) for The Ascent on Xbox and Windows 10 platforms that was meant to bring parity with the Steam version. That is, it included DLSS support for Windows 10 (and, as a result, the Game Pass on PC version), as well as co-op, stability and mission fixes.<\/p>\n<p>However, players have reported that this patch has negatively affected the cyberpunk-themed twin-stick shooter, including hits to framerate, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/theascent\/comments\/p8exuh\/hitching_stutter_on_pc_gamepass_version\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stuttering<\/a> and asset loading problems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-08-21-the-ascents-latest-patch-is-causing-plenty-of-problems\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-08-21-the-ascents-latest-patch-is-causing-plenty-of-problems\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Players of The Ascent have reported a number of problems with its most recently-released patch. This week, developer Neon Giant released an update (2.1.4.0) for The Ascent on Xbox and Windows 10 platforms that was meant to bring parity with the Steam version. That is, it included DLSS support for Windows 10 (and, as a result, the Game Pass on PC version), as well as co-op, stability and mission fixes. However, players have reported that this patch has negatively affected the cyberpunk-themed twin-stick shooter, including hits to framerate, stuttering and asset loading problems. Read more Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":325793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Ascent&#039;s latest patch is causing problems | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Players of The Ascent have reported a number of problems with its most recently-released patch.This week, developer Neon Giant released an update\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-ascents-latest-patch-is-causing-problems\/\" 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