Guide for The Ascent - Walkthrough overview

Introduction

Hello everyone, and welcome to the walkthrough for The Ascent, my first ever walkthrough here on TrueAchievements (or anywhere else for that matter). Because this is my first walkthrough, I am open to any feedback - positive or negative - that can help me improve this or a future walkthrough. Therefore, please let me know what you think. With that out of the way, let's begin by describing the game and give a quick overview of the walkthrough.

This walkthrough has been updated to reflect the changes made to the game with patch 3 (version 4.2.4.0).

While the game has received a couple of patches to fix many issues (read here for the latest patch notes), some players report that certain achievements remain buggy. If you do decide to play the game, I recommend doing a full SOLO playthrough to minimize the risks of buggy achievements. Many issues in the past were related to playing the game in co-op. Unfortunately, I cannot test if these issues persist for new playthroughs after the latest patch but I have not experienced any game-breaking bugs myself.

The Ascent takes place in a cyberpunk-themed dystopian world Veles, inside a metropolis run by corporations, where you and everyone else are working off their debts as indents, one cycle after another. When the most powerful corporation, The Ascent Group, suddenly and mysteriously shuts down, you will need to investigate what happened while the other corporations are fighting for control. The game plays as an isometric shooter with some lite RPG elements, like character customization and leveling up, and can either be played solo or with up to three friends in co-op.

Walkthrough overview

I will start the walkthrough with Basic information and general tips. Unsurprisingly, here I will explain the basic gameplay and mechanics of the game.

The main part of the walkthrough will follow the natural progression of the story. This will be split up into sections corresponding to each main mission, excluding the last section where I grouped the last three main missions together. As you progress through the story, many side missions will become available. All of them need to be completed, and I have tried to do these as efficiently as possible. Progressing the story, completing side missions, defeating enemies, and discovering new locations reward you with codex entries. We need to fully fill the codex, so I have included where certain entries are added to the codex.

Mop up: After the main missions are completed we will mop up the remaining achievements. Two achievements are related to co-op gameplay. Since the game supports local co-op, we will unlock these using a second controller. So, don't worry if you don't have any friends (that play this game). Although this is not necessary, I suggest doing the co-op achievements in a separate playthrough, so we don't accidentally mess up our game save for future use. We only need to progress this co-op playthrough to the very first enemy encounter, mere minutes after starting the game, so I still consider that it requires only a single playthrough to complete the game.

Additionally, if you just want to see the Codex Entries or Cyberdeck Upgrades and where to obtain them, I have included these in separate sections as well.

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