Cyber Knights: Flashpoint News

Knights and mercs, another update is touching down on the streets of the New Boston Zone. With Update #251, contacts who dislike you have gained more teeth to try to hurt you during their Influence Limit Breaks, we've added double-click or double-press for controllers to confirm move, fixed an issue where Dr. Ashe was not appearing at the start of every game, improved the balance of the Eleventh Hour storyline, smoothed out gameplay timing to avoid delays during use or buffing by map area of effects like Sniper' JTAC and fixed a pile of bugs around Limit Breaks and your Face's Care and Feeding Talent.

If you are enjoying the pace of improvements and our focus on responding to community suggested improvements, we hope you'll help us share the game by leaving a review!

Thanks to @jotwebe Discord for providing the screenshot for the update tonight through the community Photomode event.

[h2]Enemy Contacts Strike Back[/h2]
As we continue to expand the sharpen the claws of the underworld simulation, we're excited to bring online more Limit Break options for Contacts. Update #251 releases 2 new options for Contacts who are your enemies - those with negative Trust, Enemy or Burnt status. These new options allow a Contac to either leak intel and lies into the underworld to raise your team Heat by +25 as they try to make your heist-life harder, or they might instead try to harm your network by going after a vulnerable allied Contact, spiking their Exposure by up to +80%.

These new results are sure to help you hate your enemies much more actively. Which is good, because more options to hurt them in return are coming too!

[h2]Double-Click or Double-Press to Move[/h2]

With Update #251, we've added the option to enable double-click to move with a mouse or double-press to move with a controller. For mouse players, this allows you to play the game more actively with only a mouse, possibly speeding up movement. For controller players, this allows you to plan movement with (Y) and execute your movement with double-pressing (Y).

For starters, we've left the option off by default but we're interested to see everyone's preference after seeing it in action. You can turn on double-click or double-press to move under Options > Controls > Mouse and Controller Options section.


[h2]Paging Dr. Ashe ...[/h2]

We had an issue with that last release where your friendly starting doctor, Dr. Ashe was in hiding. We pushed a hotfix for it earlier today, but it is now resolved fully in this update. If you had a game without a starting Doctor, just reload the save and Dr. Ashe will appear.

This was also exposing an unfortunate issue where if you tried to pay for Treatment for a merc but there were no providers available, it could result in a lock-up in the Roster. We've fixed this too while we were figuring out the Dr. Ashe issue.

[h2]Map Area of Effect Delays[/h2]
Some very old code caused a nearly 2 second delay after using some Talents like Sniper's JTAC. We've resolved this delay and cut it down to nothing - play faster, heist more my friends!

[h2]Limit Break and SImStream Issues[/h2]
With Update #251, we've fixed up a number of popular F10 and confusion points around Limit Breaks.

• The Face's Care and Feeding Talent was not actually rerolling negative Limit Break options and just offering you the same thing.
  
• Sometimes the SimStream Detox couldn't reduce your Stress, because your Stress had (invisibly) moved up past 100% to like 120%. Then putting that merc into the Detox still didn't make a visual difference.
  
• Mercs could be put into the Detox even after they had started a Limit Break which could cause issues with their status. This has been resolved and if your merc is pending a Hype or Stress Limit Break, they cannot be shoved into a detox. This is a rare case, but always led to issues.
  

[h2]v1.10.67 - 5/23/2025[/h2]
- Enemy Contacts with Influence Limit Breaks have new options - bringing the Heat on you or causing Exposure to your friendly Contacts
- Double click to confirm and move on the map with option to disable under Options > Controls > Mouse Options
- Fixed issue with Dr. Ashe not always appearing at the start of a new game (sorry!) - she will immediately appear on game reload
- Improved enemy setup in Eleventh Hour map, reduced 2-3 starting patrollers per map instance, added +1-2 Turns for Assassin's walk
- Enabled 2/4 cosmetic options for face plates from last release which we failed to turn on
- Tweaked rules for fighting over elevation, giving less disadvantage to attacker on low ground
- Fixed bug allowing you to commit a merc to a SimStream Detox session when they had a Limit Break pending
- Fixed bug where SimStream Detox chamber might fail to remove Stress
- Fixed bug that could lock up Roster or other screen if there were no available Doctors for Treatment
- Fixed bug where hidden or extracted characters could be buffed / damaged by moving map areas or Leverages
- Fixed odd delay after character used or triggered map AOE like JTAC, Poison Cloud or other
- Fixed bug where Face's Care and Feeding did not successfully reroll Stress Limit Breaks
- Improved UI for cyber surgery screen to avoid hover for implants you have installed going out of screen
- Improved UI for Mission List to be large enough to show 3 rows of tags without overlap

Knights and mercs, as we close in on the big launch day (June 2!) we've got another update for you! Update #250 arrives with a boost to the max level cap (and with it, Talent Limit!), 15 new proc-gen combos split between Boosted VIP and Exfiltrate objectives, stability fixes for crashes in Counter-Intel Pod and freezes on enemy movements on the map, new appearance cosmetics for cybernetic plates on the side of the year, some controller-focused fixes for Matrix IC List, and another round of tweaks to make the "Can Hear" and "Can Shoot" values shown during plotting movement even more accurate.

A huge thanks to everyone leaving a review just this week! We're pushing updates relentlessly to improve the game, so we appreciate you taking a minute to share if you enjoyed the game!

Thanks to @Bubblegum on Discord for providing the screenshot for the update tonight through the community Photomode event.

[h2]Max Level Cap to 36[/h2]

With Update #250, we've raised the max character level cap from 32 to 36. This increases the Talent Limit by +1 and adds a total of +5 Level Points for 4 levels. If you've been grinding already at Level 32, you might have accumulated enough XP to suddenly have one or more of these levels instantly, so don't be surprised by that.

[h2]+15 New Proc-Gen Combos[/h2]

The proc-gen system has really blown up in the last months as we pushed the map count out to 30 and the objectives count out to 14. The proc-gen combos in which a map can be played with a specific objective are now up to 246 possible! Update #250 really pushes on Boosted VIP, which was available on so few maps, ensuring now that it has a wide pool of maps to pull from and should no longer appear repeatedly on the same small set of maps.

We've also just improved and refined VIP start points, paths and extraction points across the extensive set of combos for these 2 objective types, as they need a bit of extra time and balancing to make them as awesome as they can be, since there are so many dynamics at play.

[h2]Counter-Intel Pod Lock up[/h2]

We fixed an issue that could cause a lock-up in your Counter-Intel Pod if you tried to trade Tokens for Favors but don't have any viable Contacts. in this case, you should look at training your Face's Insider Hustle Talent.

[h2]AI Improvements[/h2]

In the last few updates, we dropped some major improvements to the enemy AI - with local alert, being able to fast forward everything, more accurate enemy prediction and more. Of course, there are bugs that have fallen out of that and with this update we're dealing with the first wave of them we've been tracking. We've fixed multiple places where the enemy agents could get stuck trying to go somewhere, or VIP Hunters that might lock up a turn upon finding a body. Some enemy agents could get stuck trying to reach a hunting destination and lock up the turn as well.

[h2]New Appearance Options[/h2]

With Update #250, we've added 4 new appearance options with cybernetic plate or trio of plates on either side of your dome. For the right chromed up look, these add a great bit of extra metal and we're excited to keep adding more cybernetic face adjustments to the characters in weeks to come.

[h2]Improved Can Hear and Can Shoot Measurements[/h2]

We found and fixed some issues in the calculation for how many enemies can hear or be shot from a movement destination when planning. The planner was using a slightly different location than was being used once you had arrived. This should help close up any edge case issues for this system and make it more reliable than ever.


[h2]An Update on Translations[/h2]
For the past few months we've been working on translating Cyber Knights into a starting set of five additional languages: German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese. Cyber Knights is our first game with translation support and we've learned it is absolutely as complicated as everyone says it is. 😅

We've made significant progress, but it currently isn't good enough to be launch-ready. And on top of that, we've run into an issue that may force us to change the software we're using to manage the translation workflow process. So we need to go ahead and announce that translated versions of the game will now be a post-launch addition, likely later this summer. Our apologies to the folks who have been looking forward to these! We've been doing our absolute best to get these ready, but with 11 days to go until launch we have to make a decision and we would rather delay translations than give you bad ones.

We'll plan translations' release to coincide with a future sale. In the meantime, if you're bilingual and willing to help give us feedback on early versions of the translations, please let us know!

[h2]Matrix HUD IC List[/h2]

We've improved the UI behavior for controllers and Steam Deck in the Matrix IC List. If you are taking actions there - like using a program to disable an IC - the selection will not reset to the top of the list. This is a major boon for controller players, we hope you enjoy it!

[h2]Other F10s[/h2]
We're grinding F10s every day to improve and polish. We re-fixed the issue with Warner-Braun Eleventh Hour so it really only appears after PL3, improved Contact Limit Breaks with Enemies or Burnt Contacts to make their messaging more clear, fixed issues with disabled security Tally display and more!

A huge thanks to everyone supporting us in these final days.

[h2]v1.10.65 - Update #250: Cap Raiser - 5/22/2025[/h2]
- Raised max character level cap to 36 (+1 Talent Limit, +5 Level Points)
- Added 11 new proc-gen combos with new maps offering Boosted VIP objective
- Added 4 new proc-gen combos with new maps offering the Exfiltrate objective
- Fixed issue with Counter-Intel Room freezing if you have no Contacts you can trade Tokens for Favors
- Fixed issue with enemy agents sometimes getting stuck hunting
- Fixed issue with enemy VIP Hunters getting stuck on certain security events like discovering bodies
- Added 4 new appearance options for side of head cybernetic plates and tri-plates
- Fixed issues with forehead jacks not always removing cleanly
- Updated cybernetic "Heart" slot to more widely applicable "Chest" slot
- Improved UI behavior in Matrix IC List - now last selected is maintained after taking action if possible
- Fixed more cases where a sight line or weapon number (can shoot, can hear) could be wrong during movement planning
- Fixed bug that could result in a hidden IC list panel even though there was 1 IC
- Improved display of Contact Limit Breaks for Enemies and Burnt relationships
- Improved display when Sec Tally is disabled for any reason (hacking, pitched battle, etc)
- Refixed Eleventh Hour story start at to Power Level 3+
- Fixed box colliders on some props to avoid sight line interference (big wall screens)

Knights and mercs, we've got another update for you this evening - landing with all sorts of new content. Update #249, adds a new proc-gen (repeatable) Legwork storyline that sees you working down on the underground Mystic River, a new Underworld Hub Contact type to connect with, fixes issues with the Plan B rooftop oddly re-appearing mid-game, adds +4 new cybernetic implants, fixes the Move Speed display bugs, rebalances Soldier's Savagery and Vanguard's Jamkit, adds new hovers to the Matrix HUD and fixes the cursed "hacker moves when I move another character bug" that was lurking out there, and more! So let's dig in!

Thanks to @Bubblegum on Discord for providing the screenshot for the update tonight through the community Photomode event.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1021210/view/542231772987917457

A huge thanks to everyone who left a review this week - our tiny team of 3 is working hard to earn them, so if you enjoy the relentless pace of updates, please share the game by reviewing it.

[h2]Mystic Legwork[/h2]
We've added a new Legwork story that will repeat over time as a contact needs help down on the underground Mystic River watching over a dock in advance of a high-risk smuggling delivery. Don't get shot by river pirates and whatever you do, do not go in the drink!

[h2]Underworld Hub: Corrupt Official[/h2]

With Update #249, we've added a new category of Contact that you can connect with through the Underworld Hub with Tokens. With the new Corrupt Official category, you can get access to a Arrowhead Security Chief who can offer you some interesting services and military-grade gear more reliably or earlier than you might otherwise get access to. Don't snooze on upgrading that UHUB!

[h2]New Cybernetics and Move Penalty Mitigation[/h2]

First up, we've fixed the display issues around Move Speed buffs and debuffs, and Move Speed Penalty Mitigation - once you had all 3, things were starting to get weird in the buff/debuff breakdown. We have also upgraded Move Speed final value to show in the Combat Stats block alongside AP/MP as it is so critical and hard to chase down if its spread across 3 buff/debufs.

Along with the change make Move Speed display clearer, we're working to balance out any Move Speed buffs from cybernetics to ensure that they have a nice chunk of Move Speed Mitigation as well, so we can be sure to differentiate different types of implants.

In addition, Update #249 continues to fill out the options in the existing cybernetic services with new options and ensuring that every cybernetic slot has exciting, different things for you to consider. The Warner-Braun cybernetic service - coming from a megacorp know for their biomed - now offer the ADVX Filter and Trache-Vitaflow, upgraded versions of the ADV Filter and Trache-Lifeflow.

In new cybernetics land, the Street Wetware cybernetic service is added some new options with 2 new Leg implants, the Thunders-X which are for heavy carry characters - offering major Move Penalty Mitigation, Strength and some HP to sweet the deal.

[h2]Savagery and Jamkit[/h2]

With Update #249, we've made some adjustments to the rules for Vanguard's Jamkit and the balance of Soldier's Savagery.

First, for Jamkit, we've added it to the list of Talents allowed to target previously disabled devices. This can allow you to bump the duration of a device, keeping it disabled for longer periods of time. We've also improved the description of the Knight's Security Scramble and Vanguard's Jamkit to be clear they have this capability.


For Savagery, we've made some sizeable balance changes to this very powerful passive Talent. It's recharge rate has been slowed to every 6 Turns but we have increased its base Duration from 1 to 2 so that it always is useful. No one enjoyed getting a "until end of Turn" Savagery buff with their last AP! In addition, we've focused Savagery on what is about - adding % of Ballistic Dmg as Pure Dmg and Critical %. We've dropped the errant Long Range Accuracy buff, and reduced its starting buff but made all upgrade nodes add to both to Ballistic as Pure Dmg and Critical %.

[h2]Matrix HUD: Colors and Snakes[/h2]
We've made a few final changes the host scales for matrix with this upgrade, modifying the color scale to be Gray-Green-Yellow-Orange-Red-Ultra. We've improved the hovers in the HUD over both the Q-Sec AI and the host Security Color so that you can see the entire scales of both Colors and Snakes and get a sense of what you facing.

[h2]Eleventh Hour Push-Back[/h2]
We've pushed the Warner-Braun Era storyline Eleventh Hour back from minimum of Power Level 2 to minimum of Power Level 3, as this has been rated one of the harder mission sets in the early game. While it will push back the availability of a great recruit, it also makes it more fun/possible to take on the challenging multi-stage mission and pull it off.

[h2]Fixing Co-Conspire Issues[/h2]

Co-Conspire was creating missions that had no linked Contact. You'll have to run or ignore the ones on your timeline if you have any from this bugged period, but any new ones created by Co-Conspire will be good to go.

[h2]Other F10s[/h2]
We are fixing huge numbers of F10s daily right now, as polishing and bug fixing is a big part of our focus in these final weeks. We can't list every little thing here, but a ton of minor map changes were, navigation tweaks, typos, etc etc.

We also fixed the issue where your Hacker might start moving during someone else's Turn. Sorry about that! Bad Hacker!

[h2] v1.10.63 - Update #249: On the Mystic - 5/19/2025[/h2]
- Added new proc-gen Legwork offered by Contacts in drugs, smuggling or hi-tech to protect a underground dock
- Added new Contact category "corrupt official" to Underworld Hub Contact finder option - locate corrupt milsec security chief
- Fixed bug with a confusing "Plan B" appearing sometimes in storylines as a scav mission
- Added +2 new cybernetics to Warner-Braun service - ADVX Filter, Trache-Vitaflow
- Added +2 new cybernetics to Street Wetware service - Thunders-X with heavy Move Penalty Mitigation, +Str, +HP
- Better aligned service level and implant levels in Warner-Braun cybernetics service
- Adjusted all cybernetics that directly add Move Speed to split their bonus between Move Speed and Move Penalty Mitigation (power to +Reaction)
- Fixed issue with Move Speed buff/debuff printing incorrectly in roster screen, added final Move Speed to top line stats
- Rebalanced Vanguard's Jamkit Talent - can now target disabled devices, improved description for Knight and Vanguard security Talents
- Rebalanced Soldier's Savagery (+1 base duration, removed +1 duration node, recharge rate 6 Turns, removed Long Range Accuracy, reduced Pure Dmg buffs)
- Adjusted Matrix color scale to start with Gray instead of Blue
- Added Matrix color scale to the Matrix HUD hover (Gray, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red, Ultra)
- Added Matrix Response scale to Matrix HUD hover (Boa, Sidewinder, Timber Rattler, Pit Viper, Diamond Cobra)
- Fixed issue where Hacker start suddenly moving after end their Turn after matrix disconnect
- Fixed bugs with Co-Conspire not successfully linking mission to a Contact
- Fixed issue where you could use Co-Conspire Face Talent with Missing or Dead Contacts
- Renamed street gang enemy Benders to Skipjacks
- Pushed Eleventh Hour story start back to Power Level 3+ instead of 2+

Knights! The countdown to launch continues and this week we are hosting a photo mode event, both here on Steam and over in our Discord. We want to see your shots from in game!



Anything goes! Cool poses, photos of your mercs in action, big whole level shots, your team before they head off for a heist, whatever you want. You can share your screenshots here through the Steam screenshot system and/or you can hop over to our Discord to join our thread there!



Any screenshots you share during this event could be used as the cover image (or otherwise used) in an update post between now and launch!

To jump start things, we've included some recent photomode images and screenshots in this post from our community members jotwebe and y0w1d! Hopefully they provide some inspriation for you! Can't wait to see your coolest, funniest, or most over the top shots!



We’ve opened up a discussion here on Steam in the General Discussion forum for aIl of your posts. If you post in our Discord, head to the Photo Mode Event thread to join in on the conversation!

Knights and mercs, we're busy accelerating our pace here as we approach the launch date. The Early Access runway is ending, and its time achieve full launch flight. Let's gooo!

With Update #248, we've added over 100 new Weapon Mod Blueprints in Power Levels from 3 to 6 including a pile of new Intrinsic crafting-only Blueprints. We've also added 25 new quips for enemies to say during local alert, improved the map boundary system drastically, buffed some Hacker Traits, improved the Contact Limit Break UI to be more clear, added more hovers to the Merc Limit break screen, improved looting in a number of story missions, and fixed a monster pile of your F10s!

If you are enjoying the relentless pace of improvements and updates, please take a moment to share the game in any way you can! Leaving a review step #1 and I bet you can do it in under 30 seconds ːsteamhappyː - it is a race, go!

[h2]Added over 100 new Mod Blueprints[/h2]

With this update, we've released a huge number of new Weapon Mods into the looting tables. This includes over 50 Weapon Mods that are in the previously unachievable 5-6 Power Level range as well as over 20 Weapon Mods that are in the Rare, Exotic and Legendary sets that help pad out and give more options for Power Level 3-4.

In addition, we've released a new series of Intrinsic Weapon Mod Blueprints for your NanoFab. These new Weapon Mod Blueprints come in like "Single Shot Damage 2" and open up exciting new combinations and power highs for your crafted weapons. We've been told if there is Series 2" there must be a "Series 3" somewhere, but we're not saying anything else about it.

These new mods are currently all available as lootable Blueprints. In addition, we've made improvements to the loot tables for a number of story missions that were not rolling up the best well-balanced loot like Sibling Job and Slagga Smash.

[h2]Camera Boundary Rebuild[/h2]

We've rebuilt the camera boundary in levels to make it much nicer. The new system is a bit more meta (because you can see the bounds) but also just feels much nicer. First, we've removed the "quite rude" shove that it used to give you when you got too close to the bounds. Second, we've moved all the bounds back about 10m in most levels (lots of levels to check, so we're still working on making sure they're all just right!) and finally made the bounds itself visible when you get close enough, so you know why your camera may be stuck.

Polish until it flies!

[h2]Local Alert Rules + Quips[/h2]

With Update #248, we're following up on all the excitement and love we've received for the new Local Alert system. It seems you all are especially enjoying the new in-world quips. So we will work on keeping them coming! We've added 25 more quips with Update #248, to continue to build out the sense of the world, the heist and the enemy response to a Cyber Knight's team.

[h2]Limit Break Improvements[/h2]

With this update, we've focused on a number of clarity and UI issues with the Limit Break system that were making it confusing or less than optimal to use.

• We've adjusted the text for Contacts who have negative Trust in Limit Breaks to make it clear that - due to the fact that they don't like you - you can't steer their Limit Breaks with Favors.
  
• We've fixed an old bug with Cyber Knight Attribute offers that were not taking the points that you assigned at character creation into account in the display.
  
• We've added hovers to all of the Attribute offers in merc LImit Break, so you can see the bonuses of Attributes right there.
  
• Hid the Face's Care and Feeding Talent in Limit Breaks if you have no charges ready.
  
• Buffed Hacker's Limit Break Trait Data-Fusion up to +25 Matrix AP.
  
• Since we're talking about Hacker Traits, let's just mention that we buffed Hardstop to add more bonus Dmg and SCU Turns.
  

[h2]F10 Crushing[/h2]
We've fixed a whole lot of exciting F10s with this release as well. Big stuff (how sometimes Legwork selection got locked on controller) and little stuff (what item is selected next in the grid after you sell an item). We also fixed a highly reported F10 about weapon numbers - how many can hear and how many can attack - become incorrected based on the order of operations you might taken in the UI.

And as always, we are working hard on map improvements - this update we focused on some new adjustments to the Exfiltrate VIP job type to make sure the extraction points are always in a good spot for optimal challenge and fun.

[h2] v1.10.57 - Update #248- 5/16/2025[/h2]
- Added 53 new Weapon Mod Blueprints (Power Level 5-6, Rare, Exotic or Legendary) Blueprints that can be looted or mission rewards
- Added 23 new Weapon Mod Blueprints (Power Level 3-4 Rare, Exotic, Legendary) Blueprints that can be looted or mission rewards
- Added 30 new "series 2" intrinsic Weapon Mod Blueprints that can be looted or mission rewards
- Added 25 new quips for humans and drones in different states and events
- Fixed issues with Local Alert system were enemy agents who are Stunned or Brain Wormed were still participating
- Improved map boundaries - visible when the camera gets near, no more "push back"
- Contacts with negative Trust are clearly marked in Limit Break, explaining why you can't use Favors with them
- Buffed Hacker Limit Break option Data-Fusion up to +25 Matrix AP
- Improved Hacker Trait Hardstop with more Dmg and SCU Turns
- Fixed issue in Limit Breaks for Cyber Knight where Attribute total "buffed by Limit Breaks" included New Game allocations
- Added hovers for Limit Break offers to raise Attributes showing their bonuses
- Hid Face's Care and Feeding Talent during Limit Breaks if it has no charges
- Fixed a number of Exfiltrate VIP mission extraction points to be better placed versus VIP
- Improve loot table rolls for missions like Slagga Smash, Sibling Job, Carnivore and others
- Fixed issue where weapon numbers in bottom left (how many can I attack, how many will hear) could become incorrect while plotting moves
- Fixed issue where Legwork selection could become locked in some cases
- Fixed issue where selling item 3 in a list of (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) would select 2 instead of 4 after sale
- Fixed issue where characters could get oddly large in New Game
- Improved enemy move plotting when attempting to attack up/down elevation