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Update #245: Buff Right Out


Knights and mercs, we are rolling out a polish update for Friday. We're constantly working to keep up with the F10s coming in from the community, taking your feedback, fixing bugs and improving everything we can. This update is a big one, hitting on a ton of nice things for you - it's polish Friday! We've improved the rules for Cyber Knights getting new implants, fixed a big bug with Gunslinger's Fanning, made a host of improvements for the Steam Deck controls and clarity of display on its screen, improved noise display of Talents and Items like grenades and more. Let the F10s fall, let the cyberpunk reign!

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[h2]Cyber Knight + Cyber = Rapid Integration[/h2]

When a Cyber Knight takes on a quantum rider into their spine, it changes them forever. The integration of the quantum tactical computer is deep, and it makes them extremely fast, tough, and at times, nearly prescient.

Another benefit of the quantum rider is that a Cyber Knight's body responds exceptionally well to new cybernetics. To bring this lore into the game, we've added the Rapid Integration special rule for Cyber Knights - their recovery time from cyber surgery is now automatically half of what it is for a normal merc. This is also a big help to keep your Knight in the action, as so many missions, heists, and critical outings require their presence.

We also fixed a bug where some of the special rules for implants had bad text in their title and if a cybernetic was installing you couldn't hover over it to see all of its stats until it finished the install. Plus finally, if a slot has no options to install, then it is grayed out and cannot be accessed.

Happy splicing!

[h2]Gunslinger Fanning[/h2]
We've fixed the bug with Gunslinger's Fanning. Once you took some shots with Fanning you were basically locked into Full Auto mode forever. Heck, I think if you had a Sword it would be a Full Auto Sword. ... Now I wish we had this bug back.

Fixed!

[h2]Steam Deck Screen Mode + Controls Update[/h2]
With Update #245, we've made a wide set of improvements for the Steam Deck.

First, we've addressed an issue where due to the small screen of the Steam Deck, a lot of basic UI images were rendering badly. For example, the selection lines for a button could disappear because in the source image (designed for 1080p) the yellow line is only 1 px wide, and when scaled down a bit, that can go to 0 px wide and poof. So, we've updated over 100 images and UI situations in the game in which the Steam Deck wasn't giving good clarity of its UI rendering - from the buttons to backgrounds, class tree and more. None of these were big blockers, but they did make the game less nice to look at - so key work! Thanks to everyone reporting F10s here!


We've improved the display for Full Auto and Grenade Arc on the Deck and controllers. Due to a lack of total button count, controllers start with a single button (RT) bound to changing the target count or adjusting the grenade arc. To still give you the full functionality, we've ensured that it is properly labeled, that the unbound key is hidden, and that the targets/arc loop as you press the single button. So, if you have 4 Full Auto targets, pressing (RT) once will loop you back to 1 target, then 2, 3, 4, and then 1 again. This gives you the full range of options with a single button.

We've also made 3 changes to the Matrix to make it more controller / Steam Deck friendly:
  • The IC panel now auto-scrolls with the selected element. Ahhh, nice.
  • When the Matrix screen came up on your second Turn in the Matrix and you were using a controller, the selection state was left in a bad way that made it really hard to get going for that Turn. This is now resolved.
  • When you disconnected from the Matrix, sometimes your Hacker would not be able to move afterwards, or moving another character would actually move the Hacker (!?!)

[h2]Item/Talent Noise Warnings[/h2]

With Update #245, we've updated how Talents control the noise icons overhead of enemies on the map. Now, when you select a Talent or Item to use, the overhead noise icons will only appear if that Talent or Item creates enough noise to alert them. This is most useful for Grenades where the overhead ear can let you know how many enemies will hear that big boom. It can also give confirmation for Talents like Venom Trap and items like Shock Mine that when thrown, no one will hear it.

In the case of a weapon attack, the regular Ear icon is shown. In the case of noise caused by a Talent, a small box is inserted around the Ear. This can help you spot the difference when it matters.

[h2]Face Talent Alignment[/h2]

It is small but felt important - the Face Talent list now always aligns nicely with the Cold Storage border, regardless of screen resolution.

[h2] v1.10.49 - 5/9/2025[/h2]
- All cyber surgery recovery times for Cyber Knight reduced by 50% - quantum rider hardens their system and speeds integration
- Fixed bug with Gunslinger's Fanning that could keep you locked in Full Auto mode forever
- Improved screen scaling mode for Steam Deck, updated hundreds of UI images to scale better, improve rendering of backgrounds and selection
- Steam Deck / Controller - fixed Matrix IC panel not correcty auto-scrolling with selection
- Steam Deck / Controller - fixed Matrix not having correct selection setup on second turn sometimes
- Steam Deck / Controller - improved controls for Full Auto / Grenade arc, with one button bound it will "loop" to make all options available
- Fixed bug where you might be unable to move after Hacking or Hacker might move when another player moves (!!?)
- Further improved variety of Leverages offered for missions in the Hacking Station
- Fixed issues with character Initiative changing if you reload the first Turn sometimes
- Prevented Face Handbrake Talent from being used with highest priority story missions, such as Meteoric Hotdrop
- Fixed bug with Paused nodes not always sorting to the end of the timeline
- When planning a Talent/Item use that make noise - such as a grenade - the overhead "will hear" icons update to be for Talent
- Improved Safehouse UI for Face Talents so that they always line up nicely with the border of Cold Storage room
- Improved cyber surgery screen by disabling/greying out out slots that have 0 options so it is more clear
- Fixed issue where cybernetic would not show its details while it was installing
- Fixed bug where incorrect attack details in top right were shown when a grenade throw was being planned
- Fixed missing name of some high value Cred Chips
- Fixed recruit character name missing from warning that recruit offer is about to expire
- Fixed bug where sometimes tags on mission deploy screen could be overly large of bump UI down incorrectly
- Removed Screen Scale option (it broke all screens) - use Font Size + Screen Mode