Controversial "interactive streaming series" Silent Hill: Ascension lays out how it's tackling fan feedback in new update

Silent Hill Ascension
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The long-suffering Silent Hill fandom will be getting a slight reprise, as the much-maligned “interactive series” 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill: Ascension🌳 is making some changes based on community feedback. 

For th🍸ose lost in the fog and uninitiated, Silent Hill: Ascension is an all-new streamable series broadcast via app and browser for 16 weeks, but the twist is that the entire community can vote in Telltale-esque choices and complete fatal QTEs when characters get into paranatural danger. Twitch Plays Pokemon m✨eets Until Dawn, in a way.

The game comes from developer Genvid - which is now 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:working on a series based o🌠n Borderlands - in collaboration with Dead By Daylight’s Behaviour Interactive and JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot Games. That al❀l sounds pretty promising, but the show-game-live-event hybrid landed on its face when it debuted this Halloween.

Silent Hill fans, in dismay, said Ascension ဣmade “the pachinko game look like a 💞heartfelt passion project.” The complaints were mainly aimed at wonky online infrastructure, annoying microtransactions, and a live chat that’s somehow both unmoderated and sometimes over-moderated. You couldn’t type “澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Hideo Kojima” into the chat, for example. 

In a recent social media post, Genvid announced that some community complai💟nts would be addressed soon: “We hear and appreciate our community’s feedback and are constantly working to improve your Silent Hill: Ascension experience.” The team is currently tuning Rallies, updating the Fate system, and improving the video player and server connection. 

The team also promises that future updates are in the pipeline, but we’ll need to wait for the Wednesday night post-shows to get information about what’s next for Konami’s latest controversial joint. 

The setup for Ascension sees two separate (but connected) occult deaths occur in two separate (but also probably connected) towns, with the series’ signature twisted creature wreaking havoc and emotional trauma as well. Those looking for a more traditional and slightly less money-hungry Silent Hill game are in luck. A 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill 2 remake is in production at Bloober Team, meanwhile, the studio behind indie horror Observation is developing 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Silent Hill: Townfall together with publisher Annapurna Interactive. Both are expected to drop next year when they’ll hopefull♔y fare better than Ascension.

Check out the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best horror games while we wait for Pyramid Head’s proper return.

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