Two-step verification, DLL repair and Steam wishlist alerts

Your Ascend account holds your membership, your cloud library and your save backups. Starting with 11.9, you can protect it with two-step verification. Versions 11.8 and 11.9 also add DLL repair for installed games, Steam wishlist alerts, review likes, milestone badges and much better Online-Fix support on Linux.

Two-step verification for your account

With two-step verification on, Ascendara emails you a 6-digit code every time you sign in, and you need that code to finish signing in. Someone who has your password still can't get into your account without access to your email. Codes expire 10 minutes after they're sent, and you can ask for a new one from the sign in screen.

To turn it on, open Ascend, go to Settings and find Security. Ascendara sends a code to your account's email to confirm it's you. Ascend members who haven't turned it on yet will also see a reminder on the Ascend home page.

Two-step verification can't be turned off from inside the app. If you need to disable it, contact support in the Ascendara Discord server or email contact@ascendara.app.

• A 6-digit code by email every time you sign in
• Codes expire after 10 minutes, and you can ask for a new one
• Turn it on from Security in Ascend's settings
• Turning it off goes through support
• Verification and password reset emails now come from Ascendara directly, on a redesigned verification screen

Repair games with missing DLLs

When a game won't start because DLL files are missing, choose Restore missing DLLs on the game's page. Ascendara looks up the files that game should have and puts the missing ones back.

The repair files come from Ascend members who choose to share them. DLL sharing is off until you turn it on, and you'll find it under DLL Sharing in Ascend's settings. Only the DLLs listed for a game are ever uploaded, never saves or personal files. A file is approved only after several members report the same file, and approved files are stored publicly so anyone can use them to repair a game. We updated our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy to cover this, and existing users are asked once whether they want to take part.

More for Ascend members

• Steam wishlist alerts: connect your Steam account and Ascendara tells you when a game on your wishlist becomes available, with a new Wishlist tab in your library
• Notifications in Ascend now have badges, and you can archive the ones you're done with
• Like other players' reviews, and get a notification when someone likes yours
• Level and review milestone badges, shown as hexagon emblems, plus a badge catalog that shows your progress
• A redesigned profile page, which is your Ascend profile when you're signed in
• Friends can see your profile even when it's private, and private badges stay hidden from everyone else
• Friend requests now live in the Friends tab, and you can turn on Prevent Friend Requests to stop new ones
• Redesigned Messages and Ascend settings pages
• Playtime flags show up in your notifications, and you can dispute one if it's wrong
• A guided tour of Ascend for new members and trial users

Online-Fix on Linux

Linux now supports Online-Fix games natively, including SteamFix, EOS, Photon and FreeTP fixes. Online-Fix games launch through Proton directly, with the Steam overlay injected. Ascendara also downloads the correct Proton-GE build for your CPU, keeps the newer CachyOS Proton after an update, and installs the Visual C++ runtime for games that need it.

Also in these releases

• A one-time tour on each main page that shows you where everything is
• A portable Windows build, alongside the installer
• Switch between the Live, Public Testing and Experimental branches from Settings
• macOS updates download only the parts that changed
• Use several self-hosted private sources at once
• An Installed Only filter in your library that hides games you own on other stores but haven't installed
• Steam Workshop downloads on Linux and macOS
• Notification colors in the theme maker, and redesigned notifications
• The achievement watcher detects unlocks in many more games
• More reliable extraction for games split across several archives
• The download rate no longer jumps around
• Soundtrack downloads from KHInsider work again

The full list of changes is in the 11.8.0 to 11.9.1 changelogs.