Ascension (Release, v 1.3) - by Big Memka and Shadowman

[BigMemka]

The quest with the Baldwin tablets remained unchanged. I checked now just in case. 4 signs in the city and 2 outside the city.

[anjinsanroland]

The quest with the Baldwin tablets remained unchanged. I checked now just in case. 4 signs in the city and 2 outside the city.

Thank you, I missed one in the city

By the way, I think one of the shops (for example necromancers) should sell holy water (instead of for example flachettes), because there are multiple shops selling the same stuff but none selling/buying holy water.

EDIT: Burning Island has a "shadow over innsmouth" vibe which I like. It was different and exciting.
There is a missing line in my questbook before mages' and fighters' "staff of thoth" quests.

[BigMemka]

Well, we'll think about holy water. It's just that merchants have a limit on the number of items sold. And flachettes is the most popular thing to buy, so for convenience, everyone sells it. And holy water is much less in demand. Especially to sell it at the necromancers? Lol!
The missing line of tasks indicates that either you missed a quest, or it will appear later.
About Burning Island interesting observation. I read this Lovecraft story and watched the S. Gordon's movie "Daggon". And I liked them very much. Although the very idea of turning the inhabitants took from the wad Shadowman "Alien Flower".

[SLON]

I would like to note that this secret caused a big shit at Doomworld, soon after which I was banned there))
I hope that people on zdoom forum are more adequate in perceiving this kind of secrets. Just in case, this is a warning for those who haven't played yet .

I want to point out that Doomworld is obviously the worst site I've ever seen anywhere. Its entire population is a bunch of the most notorious arrogant self-complexed snobs the world has ever seen (and this is not an exaggeration). Whatever you do there, you will receive either insults or accusations of "copyright infringement" in response (which in turn does not them at all prevent from borrowing things from outside).
To be honest, from time to time it seems to me that this is a kind of sect, in the style of the worst conspiracy theories.

[anjinsanroland]

to sell it at the necromancers? Lol!

hehe

The missing line of tasks indicates that either you missed a quest, or it will appear later.

If it is still missing at the end of the game, I will ask for help. If it should be filled before I leave Sorona for the fortress, please help now. It is after "head of achmel" and before "staff of thoth for mages"

from the wad Shadowman "Alien Flower".

While I was searching for this, I found out there are "Heroes of Might and Magic 2" maps created by Shadowman. That explains the style of map pictures in Ascention. I also wonder how I can grab those maps. I wish there was a better catalogue for both your and Shadowman's previous (non-doom) works.

[BigMemka]

Send a screenshot of the quest log, then I'll tell you what quests are missing.

You can find out about other works of the authors in the text document. The Shadowman has a website with his work. But he is Russian-speaking. http://darkwatcher.freevar.com/

[anjinsanroland]

Thanks for the information, I'll look into them.

My quest log is as below;

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[BigMemka]

Yes, I looked. All quests received. After the "bring the head" task, there is indeed a missing line.

[Shadowman]

Thanks for the information, I'll look into them.

My quest log is as below;

As it turns out, the line numbers are the same for the Mariam quest message and the Burning Island quest. When you take both quests, the message about one of them will disappear from the journal. We will fix this bug in the final update along with the rest.

[anjinsanroland]

Thanks for the replies. Now I can continue playing without worry.

EDIT: I've just finished Acsention a 4th time. Though at the last boss fight there was serious frame drop, the whole playthrough was great as always. Thank you very much for all the extra polish and details for an already amazing mod.

[Shadowman]

We are glad that you like our mod!
If possible, write in more detail - were there any other places or situations that should be corrected or improved?

[anjinsanroland]

Apart from the comperative discussion we had on the I3D thread, I would like some parts of the levels to be more claustrophobic.

[BigMemka]

Thank you for your feedback! So far, no one has written about the new map "Adamantine Islands". I would like to hear your opinion about the balance, the boss battle. What if something can be improved. Were you able to quickly solve the puzzle with 4 pictures?

[anjinsanroland]

Island boss battle was hard and satisfying like the boss of the mushroom area. However since Island was hard to begin with, player will be rich and high level when reaching the boss, so the player can easily use tower of defence or other resources to make it simple.

I found 2 of the 3 pictures needed for the puzzle. Then tried with save/load for the 3rd one at the picture selection platform. I didn't know the pictures were the small square ones because there was a beatiful medium sized painting in the area so I was looking for pictures of that size.

Beginning of the level was harder until finding the artifact. Then it got easier until the boss.

My wis/str character was very powerful so my feedback for the balance may not be accurate. Boss battle was hard for me because I was too lazy to return to Sorona to replenish my resources.