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Anonymous06/02/25, 18:35No.2057168
Cyber Knights: Flashpoint just got out of the EA.
It's an xcom-like cyberpunk turn-based tactics.
Thoughs?
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Anon06/02/25, 19:35No.2057231
i liked the demo when i tried it ages ago. not a bad indie nu-xcomlike at all
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Anon06/03/25, 24:59No.2057447
>trese brothers
oh shit i had no idea they made a new game just bought it with no further research
in a sea of lazy devs these motherfuckers are the only ones who actually put in work, star traders frontiers came out in 2017 and still gets monthly content updates
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Anon06/03/25, 05:31No.2057515
I played the first two(the three stage tutorial and then the rooftop extraction) missions.
I don't like the visuals, the way it controls or the UI(having to click on a specific part of a character's portrait and then another click just so I can see how much damage a weapon deals, or having to hover back and forth between characters to how much of a chance to hit I have on them, or not being able to easily access the recoil stat), I absolutely love everything else. It's like Invisible Inc in a few places that I enjoy and a fun TBT in all the other places I also enjoy.
I love the heist mechanics and the escalating Sec AI responses, I love the recoil mechanic, I love the classes so far(gunslinger's dual iron was the sickest shit), I enjoyed the not Phantom Doctrine legwork mechanic and the leverage mechanic, I liked the idea of full auto being an AoE attack, I like the way Initiative works in the game and the Yield turn mechanic, and the music was sick as shit.
It's just a shame it looks like shit. Like I recall Templar Battleforce didn't look amazing but the artstyle looked okay enough that I never spared it a second thought. Here it's genuinely alpha/placeholder material and same with the animations.
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Anon06/03/25, 10:47No.2057652
>turn-based
I sleep
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Anon06/03/25, 15:54No.2057838
The official wiki is pretty expansive already.
https://cyberknightswiki.tresebrothers.com/
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Anon06/03/25, 20:34No.2058114
I utterly fucked the first heist(Octane's Dpoint) but god damn if it was fun as hell
>split my guys in two so that I can have my hacker and gunslinger pick off the wireghost and start hacking the terminal in silence, while my other group goes around looting lockboxes
>fuck that up 3 turns in and my cyber knight gets spotted, also realize that my sniper is fucking useless and has no low noise attacks
>fuck it, lets go loud
>turtle up in the terminal room, let my hacker go wild with getting the files while my three guys pick off reinforcements and goons in a very pitched firefight(Gunslinger fucking rocks)
>got everything, time to extract with just two turns and an exit platform that's really far away
>make the dumbest mad dash using my armored Cyber Knight to tank proximity mines placed in the way and the AP boost talent to just get us over the finish line in time
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Anon06/03/25, 20:52No.2058129
Been playing it for a while. It's honestly pretty fantastic for an XCOM-like. It's also not nearly as braindead as nuXCOM. despite having similar gameplay. If I have one criticism it's that the start of the game is pretty punishing. You really can't afford to fuck up at the beginning. Even just getting wounded early on is a headache because your dude will be laid up for a week or more at a point where you don't really have characters to spare. Then after that they'll have a wound debuff that you won't be able to afford to get treated at a clinic, and even if you can afford it that's another week lost and the cost will probably delay the development of your base as well. Picture related, my EX-Agent "Haunt" is gonna be in the medbay for 15 days and takes a permanent wound debuff as well. And then on top of THAT they'll get increased stress which can lead to all kinds of bullshit. This can quickly spiral out of control in the early game, which means that you can't afford to take a combat-first approach to missions since you can't afford to get shot. Compounding on this is that the early game has several story missions that are likely to feature combat in relatively quick succession. After the initial set of missions you get plenty of time to heal and do some casual legwork, but those first thee missions or so you have to play super careful. That said, stealthing through the levels and wrecking guards without getting detected is very satisfying and once you have some cash to spend, a spare merc or two, and maybe even an inhouse clinic, injuries stop being as much of an issue, but it's a bit frustrating that this issue is most punishing early on when you're not yet familiar with the game and thus more likely to make those costly mistakes in the first place.
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Anon06/04/25, 09:29No.2058611
>ok ill have a look
>the sims2 modpack artstyle
gross
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Anon06/05/25, 24:14No.2059340
Feels weird that they gave cameltoe to the female corpo suit of all outfits.
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Anon06/05/25, 24:30No.2059346
refunded. the movement is clunky as heck.
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Anon06/05/25, 04:13No.2059433
The trannies over at somethingawful hyped it up so it must be shit
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Anon06/05/25, 17:21No.2059768
Game's ugly as hell and the the way movement is handled is extremely annoying, but damn is it not fun. I think I prefer Frontiers overall, but this was worth the wait.
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Anon06/06/25, 06:56No.2060249
I don't quite get how the AI works in this game. I did my usual Invisible Inc strategy of going loud at the end of a mission in a frantic rush to grab everything in my path to the extraction point but here it seems like they keep hunting in completely random directions even though I get spotted by cameras along the way or I'm engaged in a gunfight somewhere(maybe they aren't in noise range?), I don't know why they wouldn't zero in on me instead of slowly hunting for missing guards and bodies.
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Anon06/07/25, 05:34No.2060967
I dropped it for now. I figure with them literally dropping a new update every day I can come back to it in a year or two and it'll be a lot better, and I hope so because I really liked what I saw but there's too much I dislike about it.
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Anon06/10/25, 05:49No.2063216
this game needs more polish before I commit to buying it. It looks cool but the graphics are kinna retro / garbage. Also I'm guessing the game still has quite a bit of jank and hasn't worked out all the bugs yet.
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Anon06/10/25, 12:30No.2063453
Probably my biggest criticism so far is that I don't feel pressured to do jobs, really. There are deadlines but the game doesn't feel time sensitive if that makes sense. I do jobs because I want to, not because I have to. Which feels at odds with the setting. If people are injured and I need to take time to heal up, it's no big deal to just wait and miss out on an opportunity or two. With mercs being paid a percentage there isn't any real pressure to make money. There probably needs to be some sort of money sink added to the game, monthly costs associated with running the base. Maybe mercs should have some sort of amount per month they need to earn or else they take loyalty hits. Could even have it so that if they hit certain goals for amount made they get loyalty bonuses.
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Anon06/13/25, 12:13No.2066463
Thoughts on the class balance? Feels like aside from the obvious meant to be broken strong classes like the CK and Face, there's a couple of standouts and a couple more situational but still good picks. Like I wouldn't bring a sniper everywhere but on the maps where sightlines are good dear god they're amazing. Granted even considering that, I'm having difficulty shaking off my default mixed mission squad of CK/CS, Hacker, Ex-Agent, Scourge.
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Anon06/14/25, 07:04No.2067042
>Phantom Guide 3 -> 4 - Additional Reaction +1, Move speed +2%
>Deep Wire 3 -> 4 - Additional Reaction +1, +5% Move speed, +3% Evasion
Not all traits are made equal I guess
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Anon06/15/25, 06:16No.2067702
So for crafting it's in my best interest if I'm only upgrading a merc's weapons with crafted ones to fill up the mod slots as well yeah, instead of making the mods separately? For some reason I thought the intrinsic effect bonus rolls would be like the actual intrinsic effect blueprints and not a chance that I get a bonus ion batt and blade grip tacked on
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Anon06/18/25, 05:09No.2069964
How much of the starting crew actually have specific storylines implemented? I know the vanguard has one that I assume is finished and I know the game randomly assigns the "undiscovered prodigy hacker" sibling to one of the others but who else? Hit the funky spot I'm kinda just been breezing since PL5 on challenging/normal and it's now PL 7 so I'm considering a restart and try out the new origin. Going to make a melee CK this time, just need to figure out if the extra speed/move detection from coyote is better of if dock worker's power is more worth it
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Anon06/19/25, 04:37No.2070844
>none of the music is online yet
God damnit I want to hear that "combat" theme that sounded like something out of Troubleshooter again.
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Anon06/19/25, 17:18No.2071232
Didn't realize they posted a preview of the newest class on their discord only considering that it makes an appearance in various screenshots and briefly in the trailer. Warmachine being built on cybernetics and integrated weapons sounds pretty cool. Granted fully loading it up with all 3 weapons means 4/6 slots are taken which is a rough allocation and probably has slot conflicts with the standard melee cybernetics as well