The Ascent Patch 5 is now available across all platforms. Are you looking for the full The Ascent Patch 5 patch notes? Look no further; we’ve gathered them in full right here on this page.
At the center of The Ascent Patch, 5 is the addition of the new transmog feature, allowing players to tinker with the appearance of their armor by visiting the in-game Stylist. Alongside, The Ascent Patch 5 comes with eight brand new fashion items, including the Habber Cap, Street Headset, Habber Shirt, Blood Direct t-shirt, 2 Blob 3 Blob t-shirt, Slick Trousers, and Habber Jeans.
The Ascent Patch 5 also addresses several performance and stability issues across both PC and console. In addition, there are fixes to gameplay, photo mode, save progress, audio, achievements, and visuals. For a full breakdown of what’s included, you can read through the full The Ascent Patch 5 patch notes right below.
The Ascent Patch 5 Patch Notes
Performance (PC)
- Fixed some instances of slow loading for Client Players when entering new areas in Online Coop.
Stability (all platforms)
- Fixed some rare crashes on the Xbox One Game Pass version of the game.
- Fixed a crash experienced by some Players on Xbox Series X during ‘Trading Places’ (Mission 3) that could occur during the ‘Access Ship Bridge’ objective.
The Ascent Patch 5 – Save Progress (all platforms)
- Fixed an issue for some Players where applying the Halloween Skull Ink resulted in other inks vanishing.
Coop
- Fixed numerous stability issues.
- Improved joining stability on Game Pass for hotjoining Players.
- Fixed an issue where the ‘Select Profile’ screen appeared on the Start Screen for hotjoining Client Players in some circumstances.
- Various Local Coop fixes made to improve interactions with Vendors.
- Fixed an issue where the Client Player would sometimes not be able to overwrite a Profile after accepting an invite if there was a connectivity issue.
- Fixed an issue experienced by some Players where Main Menu UI elements would disappear after the Player closed the Select Profile tab, before accepting the invite to a game.
The Ascent Patch 5 – Gameplay (all platforms)
- Fixed a navigation issue that could occur during ‘Empowerment’ (Mission 4) where Client Players could be taken in the wrong direction during the ‘Override Distribution Hub’ step.
- Fixed an issue where the Player could be unable to close the Taxi overlay if they trigger a Taxi at the same time as a Vendor.
Photo Mode
- Fixed an issue where the Player could trigger a Taxi ride, whilst in Photo Mode.
- Fixed several issues where a softlock could occur when using Photo Mode during Taxi or Tier Elevator usage.
- Fixed some minor Photo Mode UI glitches.
- Fixed several issues with Photo Mode in Local Coop, such as Player 2 being unable to close the UI after activation & the Pause UI not appearing.
- Fixed an edge case crash in Photo Mode that could happen when picking up an item at the same moment that Photo Mode is invoked.
Audio
- All Coop Players should now be able to hear each other’s bullets.
Achievements (all platforms)
- Fixed the ‘Flatliner’ Achievement issue where the Codex entries for Celine & Hung were sometimes not unlocked correctly.
- Fixed an issue experienced by some Players where the ‘Hygiene’ Achievement was not being given when using certain sinks/toilets.
Translation (all platforms)
- Fixes and improvements made to localization across the game.
Visuals
- Fixed some minor UI issues.
The Ascent Patch 5 – Misc. Fixes (all platforms)
- Numerous minor collision fixes addressed.
- New ‘Downloadable Content’ button has been added to the Main Menu so you can easily find new content for ‘The Ascent’ for Steam and Xbox consoles. It will be added for Game Pass PC in our next patch.
- We’ve added a build number to all versions of ‘The Ascent’, this is to aid in debugging future community issues. The number can be found in the lower right-hand corner of the Main Menu. Please use this number when reporting issues, many thanks!
The Ascent is available worldwide for PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
