I've played an hour and a bit of The Ascent, it's really good looking, plays pretty well too.
Yeah me and my mates played some tonight, got to level 9/10 - pretty decent. Visuals are great, very stylistic and really good vibe to it. I couldn't tell you a single thing about the story but I haven't put any effort into it either, skipping every cutscene and not reading what the NPC's say.
It's good fun gameplay in co-op, though I'd expect to get a bit bored single player. Mind, I've only got 1 augmentation, and no mods, and limited guns with limited upgrades. Need to see more before I make a judgement on that.
It does need polishing up though, certainly needed a bit more time in the oven. After the first cutscene my player refused to move. Later, we couldn't find the enemies required to complete an objective and spent a lot of time looking for them. In the end, we decided the game must have glitched so we quit out to the main menu to restart. As we pulled out, everybody's game crashed. Once we were back on, loading back in fixed it, but it does destroy your trust in the game and could make us wonder later if something is difficult or broken.
We're all enjoying it though, shows good potential.