Cyber Knights: Flashpoint news & patch notes

Let's keep the midsummer content updates rolling! This week, we've brought another set of cosmetic options to your heisters, improved how your Face's Armwork Talent is displayed during legwork, improved the display for ally turns and how allies could sometimes be targeted by debuffs, made another pass of polish on the Matrix tutorial, improved the crafting help text in weapon bench of the NanoFab and more quality of life improvements coming right out of your F10s!

A huge thanks to everyone playing and posting and if you are enjoying the steady stream of updates - please take just a moment to leave a review for the game. Everyone one helps us keep going ːsteamhappyː

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Scars of Past Heists

With Update #95, we've added 3 new cosmetic options in the face detail category that let your mercs wear their scars from past heists on their sleeves ... no, their faces! These new options now allow you to create a single big scar line across the face, or a scar that breaks across the nose and mouth or finally a triple claw across the eye. While such scars might be a matter of choice to some in 2231, others wear them with pride, refuse to go under the knife for something so cosmetic or trivial, or can't afford the work. Or maybe they keep them as a memory of a past heist gone wrong.

For some players who have asked after another skin detail look, we have added a smoother skin without any blemishes or freckles.

Armwork yer Legwork

With update #95, we've followed up on some community requests to improve the display of your Face's Armwork Talent while you are considering Legwork. In the case that your Talent is out of charges now, your Face will still appear in the list with a note that charges are not available.

There are some Legwork cases where you Face is disqualified from using Armwork - specifically in Legwork that require hacking. In these cases, the Face now appears and it states that Armwork is blocked so that these cases are always clear and not a mystery.

This basically removes any case where the Face and their Armwork Talent is not appearing. When they do appear and the Talent is disabled, a reason is provided.

Improved Matrix Tutorial

With this update, we have made a few minor tweaks to the matrix tutorial to help reduce any friction when passing through it. We've updated the text to be more inclusive of the Wireghost, we've also fixed a few typos.

We moved one of the tutorial steps that details Disconnect until after you've spiked the CPU successfully. And we addressed an issue around using Overlock and Hardstop where the tutorial text would not recognize that the Talent had been used correctly.

Finally, we added some new secondary objectives that appear after you've hacked the CPU - to disable a security device or download some paydata - to help give further guidance to those players getting to the end of the tutorial.

Craft Weapon Rules

We've improved the text for weapon crafting to be more clear why you have a 0% chance sometimes to roll an intrinsic. Where this was previously expressed as -70% Intrinsic chance now the guide clearly states that your Intrinsic Chance is 0% due to your recipe setup.

Better display and debuff rules for Allies

With Update #95, we've improved the banner displayed when it is not your turn so that it can make a clear distinction between enemies (who are fighting you) and allies (who are fighting other enemies on your team). This can help in missions like the Ward War where allies are showing up often to lend a hand.

Also, we've fixed some issues with how allies were treated by map area of effect zones like Strike Zone. Allies were previously incorrectly being debuffed by these zones but are no longer effected.

v2.7.33 - #95: New Boston Scars - 7/25/2026

- Added 3 new facial scar options to faced details in appearance

- Added new face detail texture - smoothest, no blemish or freckles

- Improved Legwork in regards to Armwork - Face without Armwork charges is shown, Face blocked by rules is shown

- Enemy turn banner now clearly displays "ALLY TURN" when it is an ally taking a turn instead of an enemy

- Improved matrix tutorial by tweaking some step ordering, better detecting buffs used and adding post CPU Spike secondary objectives

- Prevented debuffing map area of effect from targeting allies (such as Strike Zone)

- Improved message in NanoFab crafting breakdown when your Instrinsic Chance % is wasted because you didn't include a Weapon Mod Blueprint

- Fixed issue with enemies using Talents at wrong moments, often buffs too early

- Fixed dialog in Neuro Rot arc that mentioned the wrong Traits at the end

Welcome to midsummer content party of updates! Help us keep the New Boston zone busy by heisting away, and enjoying new content of all types raining down on this domed city. With Update #94, we've rebuilt the private corporate army for Jupiter Group to include their own branded specialists, some new abilities and unique challenges. With 10 new types of enemies, they are packing a wide variety of challenges you won't find else where. During this process, we also rewrote some of the decision tree on how enemies decided if they should use a Talent or not, which makes them use more Talents (yay! ... yay?). We also added a new enemy to the UltraTek corporate army with one of the new abilities as well, and improved the prioritization of Limit Breaks and simulation actions for enemies, especially around Power Plays, so they might be more dangerous to your team.

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Introducing Jupiter's Private Army!

Jupiter finally has their own customized private army with a total of 10 new soldiers, captains and drones. The Jupiter corporate army is immediately going to make storylines like Daedelus Bloc more challenging and exciting and will appear in your next mission you run against the megacorp.

They are fearsome, bringing some weapon and Talent combations previously unseen, plus a bevy of new Talents to contend with. Jupiter especially excels with the J6 SIG running the backfield and rising Priority Reports while the J7 Mechas charge, soaking up the fire and the rest of their army tightens the noose around the heisters. Don't let yourself get caught on this one!

Here are some of the highlights!

• Douser - unnaturally fast shotgun bearing soldiers who can toss up a temporary invulnerability

• Moonshot Division - deadly corporate snipers deployed with Trauma Kits and long ranged Overwatch capability

• J6 SIG - field comms soldier carrying powerful communication equipment commonly employed in corporate quantum countermeasures. Be ware - J6 SIG can momentarily punch through your Cyber Knight's disruption and raise the Sec Tally by +3 to +5 when Alerted.

• J2 Anchor - field captain capable of rallying their own troops with additional speed and accuracy while calling out targets with Marked Target. Watch out for the Pure Damage punch of these Revolvers!

• J4 FireCOM - full auto trained shock troops carrying Raildart SMGs custom-built by Jupiter to be extra good at Shredding Armor.

• J7 Mecha - melee weapon equipped infantry drone. Equipped with internal nano-sprayer to repair Armor Damage and capable of raising a short-term Invulnerability field, the J7 Mechas are designed to soak up damage as a way to give cover to the long range troops packing in behind them. Just don't let them and their nano-edged katana reach you.

• J3 Extinguisher - carrying Jupiter's signature Raildart and given license to carry 3 types of grenades into battle, the Extinguishers are all around support champs. Heal, dissolve enemy armor or blow enemy up? Which do you prefer?

Enemy Talent Decision Trees

We've expanded the enemy decision trees about when to attempt different types of Talents during their Turn. This means that enemies are more likely to use Talents they were previously holding in reserve. The result we're seeing is their buffs are being used more readily, some more grenades are being thrown, and enemy debuffs like Priority Report are readily used.

We also redid the prioritization decision of which Talent to use, switching it to a weighted decision instead of a strict priority. Before, if enemies prioritized Overwatch, they would always use Overwatch first. Now they have a heavy chance to use Overwatch but also have a chance to surprise you with that Full Auto or Grenade. All in all, this is helping more types of Talents being used.

More Talents + More Types of Talents = win for fun and challenging enemies!

UltraTek SIG Corps

Along with the addition of Jupiter's new private army, we have enabled the UltraTek captains to now start carrying similar comms equipment and using Priority Report as well. Be careful if you see one of their SIG Corp - Stun them, kill them quick. Their Priority Report can break through your Knight's quantum disruptions and reach the Sec AI and raise the Tally by +3 to +5. Just like being seen - if the enemy is Stunned or killed before the end of the turn, the report is canceled.

Enemy Contacts & Influence

Listening to the community, we've heard how enemy Contacts may squander their opportunities to reach Power Plays and convert those Power Plays into dangerous swipes at you. Most notably, sending Head Hunters. With this update, we've an enemy Contact's level of focus on you as an enemy and they are more likely to try to make your life difficult rather than getting side tracked.

Please let us know, if you see an enemy Contact who manages to achieve a Power Play - do they feel more threatening as they go for another Limit Break and possibly Head Hunters?

v2.7.27 - #94: Jupiter's Private Army - 7/18/2026

- Rebuilt enemy intelligence around selecting and using Talents - enemies are more happy to use Talents in more scenarios more readily

- All new private army for Jupiter Corp with 10 new enemy types and multiple new unique new combos, weapons, Talents

- New Jupiter enemy J6 SIG carries comms equipment, can rapidly raise Sec Tally once Alerted with Priority Report Talent

- New Jupiter enemy J7 Mecha infantry drone carries deadly nano-edge katana, ability to repair its own armor and ability to raise 1-hit invulnerability multiple turns in a row

- New Jupiter enemies J3 Extinguisher and J4 FireCOM carry Jupiter proprietary raildart SMGs that excel at shredding armor

- New Jupiter enemy J3 Extinguisher packs a unique combination of grenades for any situation - stun, armor dissolving and healing for allies

- Big upgrade in challenge level and fun when battling against Jupiter, including in key storylines like the Daedelus Bloc

- New enemy type for UltraTek - SIG Corp carries comms equipment, can rapidly raise Sec Tally once Alerted

- Improved prioritization of actions for enemy Contacts (more Limit Breaks, more Head Hunter chances)

- Fixed issue where some games that had recruited the Retired Sniper from the UHUB would stop loading

A big welcome to all the Knights and mercs who are joining the fun in the last 2 days of the Summer Sale! Welcome to the heist - as always, we advise: speed, stealth, or firepower, pick 2! Let's make it a great summer of content updates and heisting together. With Update #93, we've made major improvements to Stress Limit Breaks, allowing you now to "pick from 2" as well as adding 5 new temporary Trait options and toughening up the existing options. We've also improved the filters for Contacts especially to make using Face's Co-Conspire Talent easier, fixed issues with the new recruit Traits like Integrated Weapon, added a missing option for Limit Breaks, fixed the Big-Hunt XPE blueprint and made some important fixes for the Zasha storyline, especially around her possible death.

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Stress Limit Breaks: Pick from 2 and +5 New Options

With Update #93, we've upgraded how Stress Limit Breaks to put a bit more agency into your hands. Before, Stress Limit Breaks just selected a single option and you had no choice but to take it. This could feel like a huge loss or sometimes felt inconsequential. At best, you might have your Face's Care and Feeding Talent to generate a re-roll which could be sometimes ... worse?

Now Stress Limit Breaks will offer you 2 choices. This simultaneously means (1) you can dodge the worst results because you now have a choice, and that (2) Care and Feeding reroll is much better now, but also (3) the results can be nastier because you've got some choices.

So, to go along with upgrading Stress Limit Breaks to "pick from 2" we've increased the penalty of all the temp Traits, changed the limits on which some of the other effects will appear (Hype Flush will only appear when you have over 60% Hype, something worth wiping out!) and the risk of a character demanding a Pay Rate increase starts at a much lower Discontent threshold.

Also, to fill out the new system, we've added 5 new Stress Limit Break temp Traits that bring new ways for a merc to get angry and "check out". These focus on forcing you to shuffle your group composition when mercs get these as Stress Limit Break results.

• Off-Duty: for 30 days the merc refuses to go on any mission

• Cash Grab: for 30 days the merc's Pay Rate is +6%

• Seeing Red: for 30 days the merc suffers +10% Stress whenever NOT sent on a mission

• Backseat: for 30 days the merc suffers +10% Stress when IS sent on a mission

• Vulnerable: for 30 days the merc suffers -50 HP, -100% Stress Res and -100% Wound Res

Good news but bad news - at least now you have the choice to avoid these wonderful options!

New Contact Filters: Co-Conspire & Messages

We've added some new convenience filters to the Contact list filters with Update #93. The top add is the Co-Conspire filter which immediately brings the list down to just Contacts who are eligible to Co-Conspire with you. This reduces any wasted time paging through your list looking for the right friend to buff with your Face Talent.

Second, we've split out Conversations as its own category so that you can rapidly find any Contact who has a story offer, recruit offer or proc-gen offer pending. Along with this, we carved out a None filter which allows you to quickly remove any Contacts who don't have anything active at the moment.

At the same time, we fixed the issues with dead Head Hunters showing up in the wrong categories and refusing to disappear if you unchecked "Dead".

Perfect Limit Break

For those Knights who are taking their career deep into the Boston underworld and running their team to perfection, we've fixed an annoying issure reported in F10. The Hype Limit Break system would never offer you the option to remove the final 10% Discontent. This is now resolved (the classic > vs. >= issue strikes again), and now you can make your Knight truly happy.

Fixed Assassination Extractions

In the original 2 maps that supported the assassination objective type (there was such a time !?!?) were having bugs with the latest changes to reveal all extraction points in advance. The bug showed all extraction points - oops!

We have made the system a bit more flexible and resolved the bug - only the real extractions will be revealed now.

Extended A12 Sea Platform

With Update #93, we've fixed an issue with the A12 sea platform map where characters could get stuck on the other side of a hovertruck that landed nearly on top of them. By expanding the deck area on this corner of the sea platform, we've ensured that you can't accidentally get stuck over there.

v2.7.25 - #93: Stress Repo - 7/8/2026

- Stress Limit Breaks now offer a "pick from 2" style instead of just "pick from 1"

- Added 5 new Stress Limit Break temporary Traits (Off-Duty, Cash Grab, Seeing Red, Backseat and Vulnerable)

- Rebalanced Stress Limit Break mix to make the offers more varied and challenging

- Improved mission deploy rules - if character is required by mission, then no Trait or Tag will block them

- Fixed issue with the original 2 maps that were used for Assassinate VIP showing "all the extractions"

- Fixed A12 Sea Platform level to ensure hovertruck landing does not trap characters or enemies in corner

- Fixed bug where new Integrated Weapon Trait's Cybernetic Weapon Damage was overriding the bonus from Will, not adding to it

- Fixed missing/bugged terminal in FISHGUT PROTOCOL mission of Zasha's storyline

- Fixed an issue where Zasha storyline contact Mareck Barlow could have a duplicate face with another contact on older saved games

- Fixed bug where no amount of Limit Breaks would ever offer to remove the last 10% Discontent

- Added new filter for Contacts who qualify for Co-Conspire

- Added new filter for Contacts who have specific story Messages to start a conversation

- Added new filter for Contacts by faction for Head Hunters

- Fixed filter issues with Dead Head Hunters showing up in wrong categories

- Fixed Blueprint bug with Big-Hunt XPE

- Fixed bugs with Blueprints in missions rewards showing up as Armor -1

- Fixed issues with Sniper recruit "Revenge Rekindled" could end up with Deltaware Trait without cybernetic

A big welcome goes out to all the new Knights and mercs who have gotten on the heist train during this year's Summer Sale! Thanks for heisting with us - here is the second of some summer-of-content new updates for you!

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UHUB: Body Modding Warmachine

A new Warmachine recruit is now available from the Underworld Hub. We're starting on a march now to push all classes in the UHUB to having at least 2 options. The next new recruit will be a Scourge followed by a Agent EX.

The new Warmachine comes from a deep body modding scene in New Boston that was pushed to dip into cybernetic weapons and then ended up down the path of the Warmachine. Their recruit interview questions offer a choice of 3 different deactivated cybernetic storylines to back up their already impressive starting line up of cybernetics. What can they say, they've been moddin'!

Improved CombatLink Cyber

With Update #92, we've improved the Evasion ratings for all CombatLink cybernetics, making them more of a dodge play for your characters. Hopefully the improved stats can help those characters who might be playing a dodge-tank or just relying on that extra Evasion to get missed. We'll keep an eye on this class of cybernetic and if this adjustment helps push it more readily into the meta and if not, we'll adjust again.

Fixed Ricksham Drips "Spotted" Issue

With Update #92, we fixed a tricky issue that had been hanging around the Ricksham Drips Power Play for a long time. In that Power Play, you escort a friendly envoy, Dakota, on two separate missions. The bug was that she could carry her alert level (often Spotted) from the first mission to the second one, as no explicit cleanup was done.

This is now resolved, when leaving the first mission, Dakota's alerted status will be reset to Hidden so she can properly "keep her head down" in the next mission!

Fixed Map F10s by the Heap

With this update, we ransacked the F10 heap about map bugs, hitting on all the remaining most common cases. We fixed reported cases where extraction was either automatic or too easy, we fixed cases where there were multiple extraction points right next to each other or they were listed in objectives but not available in the map. We also fixed map issues with there VIP might start in sight of a security camera. And finally, we fixed a number of issues where on a Compromised VIP mission, their bodyguards might end up in a crate or wall by accident.

v2.7.23 - #92: The Final Form - 7/3/2026

- Added new Underworld Hub recruit option - Warmachine from the body modding scene

- Added 3 new chances for Deltaware Reactivation cybernetics through recruit interview (SynthBuild ROM, M-Grade CombatLink, Lumen Trident)

- Improved balance of CombatLink cybernetic, increased Evasion %

- Fixed issue with Mil-Grade Matrixware not being able to upgrade past Level 2

- Fixed issue with dismissing recruits showing the choice tagged as "Reject Retirement"

- Fixed bug where Ricksham Drips VIP Dakota would start second mission with the same Alert Level (Spotted) as end of first mission

- Fixed bug with Custom Difficulty settings in Safehouse not always saving

- Fixed cases where proc-gen "cross zone" mission might be super easy or auto-victory

- Fixed cases with missing or duplicated extraction zones in proc-gen

- Fixed cases where exposed VIP might spawn into a camera sight cone

- Fixed issues were VIP ally VIPs might spawn into a wall

Welcome all Knights and mercs who have piled into the New Boston zone during Summer Sale! Thanks for heisting with us - here is the first of some summer-of-content new updates for you!

With Update #91, we've added a new Underworld Hub Hacker Recruit (who offers some unique new friends, services, and cybernetic options), fixed a missing tag issue with the Revenge Rekindled Sniper causing them to not get a deactivated cyberware storyline, fixed an issue with Unknown Bioweapon Scourge only have 1 Trait instead of 2, and fixed the text description issue that was making the unique Redline Adrenal reactivated cybernetic look bad. We've also fixed a few storyline typos and dialogs as well as buffed the Reliable Shot and Bull-Built Traits.

As always, all updates of all kinds are safe with all of your games - just check out the save game policy below.

If you're new to the game or a veteran heister, please take a minute to share the game with a friend and to leave a review! Every one helps us keep pushing with more content, features and updates for you!

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UHUB: Atlanta-Born Hacker

A new Hacker recruit is now available from the Underworld Hub. We're starting on a march now to push all classes in the UHUB to having at least 2 options. The next new recruit will be a Warmachine, followed by a Scourge.

The new Hacker is a skillful tech operator but has some Traits and backstory that lend to fighting in the real world as well. Their recruit interview questions offer a new deactivated cybernetic storyline, access to a rare Utility Programs service or access to a rare Mil-Grade Matrixware cybernetic service that adds 6 new cybernetics, including the cool Feedback Dispersal Net, a cool skin slot option for any matrix diver.

Underworld Hub Token Costs

With update #91, we've adjusted the balance of the token costs for finding a new Contact or new Recruit through the Underworld Hub. Now, locating any new recruit or any new contact costs 2 Tokens instead of 1.

Of course, Tokens are free and just take time to accumulate, so this is not a hard cost increase. However, it means if you are in a rush to find either, you may need to be slightly more picky about who pops out (you need a Hacker for an upcoming mission, you have less options to avoid the first offer and seek a second).

Revenge Rekindled & Unknown Bioweapon

We fixed two recruits who were waiting for adjustments. Thanks for all the F10s to help us track these down. The fixes are, of course, retroactive - so if you already have these characters then the changes happen automatically upon loading your game and they are built in for any player who encounters these recruits down the line.

• Revenge Rekinlded Sniper now has the missing Deactivated Deltaware tag which allows them to start the Cyberware Reactivation storyline above 60% Loyalty

• The Unknown Bioweapon Scourge was always missing a second Trait that could be leveled up by Hype Limit Breaks. The character will now start with either Secretive or Bull-Built.

Redline Adrenal Description Fixed

Redline Adrenal is one of the reactivated cybernetics that you can earn through a special merc-focused storyline. While it has been highly superior to Greyline Adrenal since it was added, it used the Greyline's text formatter which made it look pretty crap.

We have now updated the description to correctly represent the Redline's full capacity, especially its second charge, Move Speed and Initiative buff.

Zasha Trait Renaming

With the new addition of the Zasha storyline, there was some confusion about the value of the 2 possible Traits you could get at the ending. The word "Primed" was used for the lesser Trait, which a lot of players found confusing.

We have now updated the names to be more clear - "Neuro Prime" is for the best result and "Neuro Survivor" is more clearly for the lesser result (earned if you Neuro Rot Trait reaches level 4 before being cured).

Trait Upgrades

Both Reliable Shot and Bull-Built have gained minor improvements with this update. Reliable Shot now adds a little extra Ballistic Damage and Bull-Built packs on an extra +10 HP.

v2.7.21 - #91: Out-of-Towner - 7/1/2026

- Added new Underworld Hub recruit option - Atlanta-born Hacker with a knack for fighting too

- Added new change for Deltaware Reactivation cybernetic, added 6 new implants through new Mil-Grade Matrixware service

- Underworld Hub Recruits now cost 2 Tokens

- Fixed issues with Sniper recruit "Revenge Rekindled" - choice #1 correctly makes Contact in debt, choice #2 adds Tag for deactivated deltaware

- Fixed issue with Unknown Bioweapon Scourge recruit only having 1 Trait

- Fixed issue with text formatting for Redline Adrenal not showing correct rules (activates twice, includes buff, heals only at activation)

- Renamed Zasha's possible resulting Traits to be "Neuro Prime" (best) and "Neuro Survivor" (lesser)

- Fixed some switched dialog lines in Neuro Rot Storyline

- Trait Reliable Shot gains Ballistic Damage bonus (ranging from +3% to +10% max)

- Trait Bull-Built got slightly improved HP bonuses (+10 HP)

- Fixed safehouse shadows issues on Ultra quality

Knights and mercs - another weekend update is landing hot in the NBZ. With Update #90, we've delivered some major performance gains across the game and some very commonly used visualsystems (outline sight lines) and specific maps (Skyrise). We've also fixed the issue preventing Zasha's revenge storyline from continuing, completed a pass of weapon rebalance (Shotguns, Revolvers), tweaked Gunslinger's Gun Kata, added a new Sniper Rifle, revealed objectives in assassination missions earlier and fixed a host of other bugs and F10 reports from players! Not bad for a Friday!

If you are enjoying the constant pace of updates and expansions, and all the community-driven fixes, QoL and improvements, please give us a moment of your life and leave a review! ːsteamhappyː

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Performance Boosts

With Update #90, we have completed some major performance rewrites. The game has never been particularly performance demanding, but there are some levels (looking at you Skyrise) that were worse than others and some onscreen effects (Outline and sight cones) that could add up.

• Skyrise Levels have the troublesome props within them improved to be more FPS friendly. These should run more smoothly on all quality settings.

• We have rewritten the outline component to be less CPU intensive. While it is a small boost, we've seen multiple FPS increase when playing with Outlines on, especially on larger levels.

• Enemy Sight cones were pretty heavy to render if you had them all toggled on. It was never that bad with just one. We have rewritten the shaders and masking system to be more performant. It should have significantly less of a drag on your CPU and FPS when they are all enabled.

Zasha Storyline Fixes

We've made some adjustments to the Zasha storyline with Update #90. First, we've made it required to bring Zasha along on the FULL KITCHEN SUNDAY job, which can be challenge as she made be injured from neuro rot treatments. Second, we've fixed the story match issue that was preventing her revenge arc from starting, so now you can chase that side of the storyline to completion as well.

Ward War Fix

We also fixed a bug at the end of the Ward War, where if you sided with Brave Star, one of the two Los Zagales gang bosses might survive mysteriously. This is now resolved for future playthroughs, though there is nothing we could do about it if you've already passed through this point.

Shotguns, Revolvers, Oh My!

With Update #90, we've made some balance changes to Shotguns (better) and Revolvers (reduced to be more in line).

• Shotgun Armor Shred has increased, jumping up by +15% at the starting weapon to a baseline of and rising more rapidly to 80% before going all the way to 90% in high Power Levels. This helps early game shotguns be far more reliably in shredding than they were before.

• All Shotguns have gained the Heavy Hit Rule with a +100% Crit Dmg bonus opposed to the default +50% Crit Dmg bonus they had before. This helps shotguns further benefit from Critical Hits and make their Ballistic Dmg punch even more powerful.

• All Revolvers have had their baseline for Heavy Hit reduced from 150% Crit Dmg to 100% Crit Dmg. So, in practice, all Revolvers lost +50% Crit Dmg out of the box.

• For Heavy Hit, this delivers 2 category of hitters - Shotguns are not as strong but still qualify, and then Sniper Rifles and Revolvers are matched as the heaviest of hitters.

Gun Kata Upgrades Tweaked

For the Gunslinger's Gun Kata Talent, we have rebalanced the upgrade nodes in the second row to completely remove the (major) Critical % bonus that Gun Kata was adding. You will have to find your easy crits elsewhere. With this tweak, we've changed these values over to Ballistic Damage, adding +10% Ballistic at each step. This pushes Gun Kata's upgrades to be more pistol focused, where Crit % covered both Pure Damage (from Revolvers) and Ballistic Damage (from any type of Pistol).

New PL 2 Sniper Rifle

With Update #90, we've added a new sniper rifle for sale in the basic kit at Power Level 2. This sniper rifle is the Downwind XT. It has a more straightforward setup than the only other Power Level 2 Sniper Rifle for sale which is the Rare, Longsight Red, which has significantly higher noise valuea nd range. The new Downwind XT allows for a smoother progression from your early-game PL1 Sniper Rifle to PL 3 without having to accept a massive spike in noise. Enjoy!

Assassination Extractions Revealed

We have completed the work to reveal all assassination mission extractions in advance of killing the target. This lets you pre-plan your path and exit more effectively and brings us to the completion of this arc of work to improve extract point visibility.

Buying with Favor Bug

We have resolved the issues purchasing anything with Favors that could result in (1) no money being charged or (2) inability to purchase with the Favor discount if you could not afford the full price.

v2.7.13 - #90: Big Game Hunter - 6/12/2026

- Big performance improvement package for Skyrise levels - smoother play, better FPS

- Big performance improvement for sightlines rendering - smoother, better when "show all" is enabled

- Big performance improvement for outlines - clean lines, better FPS

- Fixed story matching issue preventing Zasha's revenge storyline from appearing

- Fixed story issue where Zasha was not required to go on the FULL KITCHEN SUNDAY job

- Fixed story issue in Brave Star end of Ward War where second gang boss might not actually end up dead

- Rebalanced all Revolvers to use +100% Crit Dmg as baseline for "Heavy Hit" rule instead of +150%

- Upgraded Shotguns base Armor Shred % from 50% to 65%, quicker climb to 80%

- All Shotguns upgraded to +100% Crit Dmg from +50% and gain "Heavy Hit" special rule

- Added new Downwind XT Common Power Level 2 Sniper Rifle for sale that does not have extra range/noise of the Longsight Red

- Rebalanced Gunslinger's Gun Kata +50% Crit at fully upgraded to +30% Ballistic Dmg at maximum level (more Pistol focus)

- Adjusted all Assassinate VIP proc-gen missions to have pre-revealed exits

- Fixed bugs when purchasing with Favors (sometimes free, sometimes could not buy)

- Improved balance of starting Tally / Turn on Assassinate VIP missions (on average, 1 less Tally/Turn)

- Improved access to the Assassin's Deed Achievement in more storylines (killing Octane, etc)

- Fixed bug allowing player to remove all programs (but not one at a time) when deck is damaged

- Fixed some cases where retirement story could appear early

- Rebaked lights in some levels where lightmaps had gotten chunked

Since full-launch, Cyber Knights players have enjoyed a steady stream of new content and improvements, backed by our updates-never-break-save-games policy. Cyber Knights launched with a full scope of content already providing hundreds of hours worth of replayability, and we’ve continued to deepen and expand that over 80+ updates -- multiple expansions' worth of free content we’ve been able to add thanks to your support and Steam reviews.

We thought it’d be helpful to take a look back at some of the most notable updates across several areas:

Mission variety & story content

Our custom-built “Casting Director” story engine mixes hand-crafted story lines with proc-gen content, working hand-in-hand to evolve your characters and bring an exciting variety of events as your Knight grows in power. As you advance your timeline in the safehouse, the Casting Director draws from a pool of missions and storylines that your characters’ / contacts’ Power Level, backgrounds, and traits qualify for, weaving them together in unique ways each playthrough.

Screenshot by player Zone Trooper.

Some of the most notable additions have been:

• The Ward War Era has been a major expansion, creating a faction conflict and demand from both sides for your unique talents. You can choose a faction to champion based on who you think will be better for New Boston; play both sides for your own gain; or let it play out on its own.

• The ally unit system used extensively in the Ward War era first debuted in an extension to the Truck Job storyline; game-controlled friendly NPCs add a new level of tactical variety and atmosphere to large-scale battle missions.

• We just extended the Zasha storyline, tied specifically to this merc’s background in the Ultimate Kill Fight combat sports league. Will you risk making powerful enemies, or leave her hanging just like they did?

• We’ve expanded a range of more dynamic merc-driven storylines that could apply to multiple recruits:

  • several updates adding Shadow Sites you can learn about from mercs with a megacorp background if you’ve raised their loyalty high enough.

  • mercs who come to your team with mysterious deactivated Deltaware cybernetics can reveal how you might be able to help them reactivate it, giving you one-of-a-kind cutting-edge cyberware.

  • losing a merc in action is painful, but what happens when a squad member you thought you left behind turns out to still be alive?

• Contacts in your network also continue to get more dynamic storylines, with a wider range of Power Play storylines, and Compromised and Imprisoned storylines that can eliminate them permanently if you don’t save their life.

• The Skyrise mission environment has been another significant expansion, bringing not only new maps but entirely new kinds of mission objectives, security devices, and even new music!

• All of this is in addition to multiple new maps + proc-gen objectives bringing the pool of total mission combinations to over 400. 

We built the Casting Director engine to be infinitely expandable, letting us (and soon, modders -- let us know if you’d like to get early access to modding tools) continue to add depth and replayability to your adventures in the New Boston Zone. We want this to be a game you can come back to year after year, with new origin stories, retirement stories, and a wide variety of events in between to create your story each playthrough.

Quick reminder: all of these updates are made possible by players like you leaving a review!

Most games on Steam receive reviews from fewer than 3% of the players that have bought them. All it takes is a few quick words and a thumbs-up to help keep Cyber Knights growing for years to come! Please head to CKF's Steam page and leave a review now if you haven't already.

Character classes, recruits, & gear

Character build options are a huge part of the fun in Cyber Knights. We’ve added a ton of gear and cybernetics over multiple updates through the past year, a steady stream of new recruits through the Underworld Hub, and two new character classes so far:

• The Wireghost is the most recent addition, an alternative hacking class with more meat-space infiltration talents and a very different Matrix hacking style, including the ability to wirelessly connect to Matrix Hosts through security devices themselves instead of having to reach a terminal to jack into. 

• The Warmachine class was added shortly after launch and has become a big part of many players’ run and gun teams. This cybernetic weapons master excels at chaining kills and debuffing enemies while dealing damage.

In addition to all of the weapons, weapon mods, items, cybernetics, matrix programs, and armor with mechanical impacts for your characters, we’ve added dozens more visual customization options from new tattoos to headphones to backpacks and more.

Tons of quality-of-life improvements

Our player count has grown tremendously over the past year, and with it, a lot of fresh feedback. Thank you to everyone who’s given feedback through the in-game F10 system where it’s easy for us to sort and prioritize, but also to the many thoughtful discussions in our Discord and the Steam forums. 

• most extraction points now revealed in advance

• adjust keybinds in the middle of a mission

• +33% more reactive music tracks

• ESC menu access any time (no waiting for enemy turns to end)

• a log of what's added to your sec tally

• bookmark sorting system for gear, mercs, and contacts

• sort & filter selections stay remembered

• quick start pre-built squads

• frame rate cap setting

• instant item nanofab

• vertical camera rotation

• shorter matrix tutorial

• adjust equipment from mission deploy

• Steam Deck fine-tuning

• better character dialogue infoboxes

• mission fail retry last turn and other flow improvements

• virtual gamepad option for touch-enabled devices

• SFX improvements

• cyberdeck uninstall all programs option

• extra item carry node simplification and buffs

• mission preview from the Hacking Station or Field Ops selection

• bulk sell

• craft multiple items at once

• more hover-tips throughout

• option to disable auto-extraction

• turned unit highlighting on by default, improved outline overlap handling

• Quit to Desktop option from pause menu

• Show Blueprints in Inventory option for easy comparison to physical items

• Double-click to move option

• Red Skull icon on targeting preview if a full hit (not Glancing Hit) is guaranteed to kill target

• Increased speed of play by improving smoothness and speed of all turn and camera pans and transitions

• so. much. more! 😄

We’re a small studio always juggling a lot of things, so we have to carefully prioritize ideas and sometimes rule out suggestions that are too far out of scope. But it feels great to have implemented so many suggestions and hope you’ll keep them coming.

Enemy variety & challenges (and difficulty customization)

Drones don’t just mean roboguards any more; from flying Lance VTOLs to deadly turret emplacements to heavily-armored hover tanks, megacorp and milsec factions have some serious new firepower to try and stop you with.

Contacts of any kind that you’ve crossed too many times have more options up their sleeve too, with new unique Head Hunters that could potentially intercept you mid-mission and cause chaos trying to kill you.

If you need to purchase new gear to fend off these threats, Matrix hacking always has good paydata available, but several updates have added new Matrix IC types, new Matrix host maps, and new security AI lurking within.

While you have the tools to tackle all of these challenges with firepower or stealth as you prefer, we’ve also added new options to our extremely customizable difficulty settings so you can always play the game your way:

• Adjust or disable the sec tally per turn to ease or eliminate any rising pressure during missions.

• Set a minimum turn delay between reinforcements to keep the Sec AI active but limit its ability to throw bodies at you.

Translations

Finally, much of our work this year has been on expanding the kinds of players and platforms we’re able to bring the game to. We released our first 6 translations (German, French, Polish, Italian, Spanish (LatAm), Brazilian Portuguese) in March, finished Spanish (ES) soon after, and are now working on Simplified Chinese. We’re continuing to evaluate further translations based on where our wishlists are coming from, and are looking at how to enable community translations through modding as well.

What's stood out to you this year?

Screenshot by player n0bra1ner.

As fun as it is to list all these additions and improvements, your experiences are where the joy really happens. Planning out the big heists, mowing down a group with full-auto, getting your last squad member out just ahead of the hover tank, playing the sec AI like a fiddle, unlocking the good stuff from the Contact you've pushed to power, earning the hard-won loyalty of your mercs enough that they tell you they have something secret to share, perfecting the drip for your fully-customized merc squad, realizing you're %&#@ed as head hunters make the sec level skyrocket then figuring out how to pull it off anyways...

Every day we hear about awesome moments from you in our Discord chat, Steam forums, on social media, etc., and let me tell you: it keeps us going. Thank you so much for diving in to Cyber Knights, telling others about it, and giving us the opportunity to keep expanding it!

We've got several more big items planned from the current post-launch roadmap before the end of the year, and are looking forward to scoping out a new one after that and enjoying adventures with you for years to come.

If you like what we put into our games, please give our Steam developer profile a follow to stay in the loop on future projects as well. And we'd love to see you comment on this post with something you've had fun with in the game this year.

Happy heisting, Knights. We'll see you under the dome.

Knights and mercs! This week's update brings you awesome new Custom Difficulty options to help you play just how you want to (thanks to all the players suggesting these!) as well as a big basket of new possible Retirement matches to make your team's retirement slides even more presonalized and more reactive to each merc's Loyalty.

Our Save Game Policy and Updates

New Custom Difficulty: Reinforcements Limit

Under Speed and Timers in Custom Difficulty, you can now find the Minimum Delay between Reinforcements setting. This setting will allow you to reduce the number of reinforcements in the game by adding an addition rule to the Sec AI's Escalations.

Every Sec AI has its own rules about how often it can call upon reinforcements but this new custom difficulty overrides that setting. You can go as high as limiting Reinforcements to once every 6 Turns.

All existing games and standard Difficulties leave this new option at 0 Turns, which allows the Sec AI to do whatever it wants (Sigma BLACK will use 0 Turns, while most other Sec AI will use 1).

New Custom Difficulty: Retirement Story Limit

Under Speed and Timers, you will also find the new Retirement Team Power Level setting. This setting determines the minimum Team Power Level required before the game will start offering any Retirement Storyline - specifically at the moment, the Daedelus Bloc Storyline, but this setting would apply to all future retirement expansions any any modding expansions that include Retirement offers.

So, for those players who might feel like Power Level 6 is too early for the Retirement storyline to appear and want a longer campaign to develop your team before the offer starts, you can now tweak this with Custom Difficulty.

If you want to create a special kind of challenge run, you can reduce the Team Power Level for Retirement to 4 and see if you can survive the Daedelus Bloc storyline at that early stage.

All existing games and standard Difficulties start with this as a default of 6 which is what it was before this setting was introduced.

New Retirement Matches

We're excited to have finished a project to double the size of the current Retirement slide options with a new wave of 50 Retirement matches. These matches are also specially coded to take more ranges of Loyalties from 30% to 80% into account, driving good and bad results at different levels of severity.

This wave uses the Casting Director to match to a wide variety of Traits, relationships, backstory tags, and tags you might have picked up during missions or legwork. The set of 50 is roughly broken into 3 equal sized groups that match to the primary retirement result (what happens to you?), the secondary result (relationship or interpersonal result) and the tertiary result (something personal).

While this adds a ton of new options, it still does not mean that every character or merc will appear in the slide show (you need to match a primary result to get a mention in the slide show) but there is much better coverage in all the games that we looked at from player's F10s.

We also fixed a bug where some Hidden characters in your roster (created or hidden by certain storylines) were claiming Retirement matches incorrectly, sometimes leading to certain retirement options that should have appeared not showing up.

Remember that Retirement slides update every time you open the Retirement screen, so if you check some old teams, you'll see all these new fixes and new options immediately appearing.

Tutorial Bug Fix

With Update #89, we fixed an issue with the early tutorial where the first guard you were supposed to interact with was being culled by the system that removes enemies who are unfairly close to the player start position. In this case, this caused an odd bug and made the tutorial more confusing. We've resolved this one!

v2.7.7 - #89: Retirement and Custom Difficulties - 6/4/2026

- New custom difficulty setting to control minimum turns between reinforcements

- New custom difficulty setting to control minimum Team Power Level for retirement

- Added 50 new retirement matches to help fill in your character's post-campaign story

- More retirement matches for 30% or 40% or lower Loyalty (bad) and for 60%, 70% and 80% (good!) Loyalty

- Fixed bug where some characters hidden by storylines could steal Retirement matches invisibly

- Fixed issues with existing retirement matches to correct missing names, etc

- Fixed Tutorial bug where starting guard discussed in the instructions is missing

- Fixed typos and minor story issues

- Fixed issues with SHOTGUN MILKSHAKE prison break mission - repeated dialog and inability to extract

Today we're kicking off a two-week sale & celebration around the game's 1-year full-launch anniversary (June 2nd)! 🎉🎉🎉 Thanks to the great reviews you all have given us on Steam, we've been able to pour a whopping 80+ free updates into the game so far, with more to come as the Cyber Knights playerbase continues to grow.

Join the Celebrations

If you'd like to mark the moment with us, there are lots of great ways to do it.

• Join 9,000+ players in the Trese Brothers Discord to share your characters' stories, talk tactics & character builds, build interest for mods you want to see when modding support is added, and more.

• Come chat with the devs during our official celebration stream, 2pm EST on twitch.tv/TreseBrothers -- ask us anything, hear about what's in store for the future, learn more about the lore behind Cyber Knights, and enjoy the party with us.

• Spread the word! Check your Steam friends for ones who have played similar games, shoot them a message asking if they've heard of Cyber Knights. We're 34%-off until June 10th and one of the highest-rated tactical RPGs on Steam; it's a great time to pick up the game.

New Zasha storyline extension

When we launched Cyber Knights, we left a smattering of lore tidbits and story hooks outside the scope of the main playable content teased and available to be expanded on if they captured enough interest. Mercenaries in your squad aren't just a pair of arms to shoot a gun with, but characters with backgrounds and traits that help distinguish them and the stories you create with them each playthrough. Sometimes they even bring stories of their own.

We're very excited to expand on one of the stories that's garnered the most interest from players, a merc who agreed to undergo a cutting-edge chemical neuro treatment on a team in the UKF (Ultimate Kill Fight) combat sports league. She put her life on the line for a promise of fame and fortune, but was left with broken promises and a deadly Neuro Rot disease.

Now, through 5 new hand-crafted missions, you can help Zasha do more work with the doper and combat drug dealer who has been keeping her alive so far. Will you risk yourself and other squad members to seek out the nearly unobtainable proprietary chemicals needed to finish her neuro conditioning, before she deteriorates beyond the point of no return? Perhaps even more important to her in the end, will you take the chance for revenge on those who abandoned her entire UKF team to this horrible fate?

New Proc-Gen Legwork

Separate from the Zasha storyline, we've released two additional proc-gen Legwork storylines. These Legworks can attach to many different Contacts and can reappear, offering another way other than missions to help Contacts gain Influence (and you gain Favors with them).

We're always excited to use these to expand the world-building of the New Boston Zone, sending your mercs to dockside cargo yards and to the top of the dome (with serious risks if the merc you choose isn't up to the task).

New Combat / Synth Pit Drugs

With this update, there is a new service level for Combat Drugs which makes Last Witness and Polzak-72 readily available through fully upgraded dealers. In addition, through Zasha's storyline, an entirely new Synth Pit Drugs service can be obtained which offers exciting variations of illegal melee-focused combat chems.

Favor Discount for Purchasing

Your Contact's Favors can already be used to steer their choices during their Limit Breaks, as well as getting access to valuable Leverage. With this update, we've added a new option to call in your Favors. Whenever purchasing something from a Contact who owes you a Favor, you can trade that Favor for a 25% discount on the purchase.

Obviously, the value of this trade is highly dependent on what you are buying. You'll want to be sure to save up extra Favors for these purchases with Contacts like those selling Cyberdecks, Programs, Armor and more.

Maps Pipeline Begins Again!

We're excited to be restarting the map pipeline as part of the 1-year anniversary. While Cyber Knights already includes a wide selection of maps with hundreds of mission objective combinations, we're returning to the forge for a big drive of adding maps again. During the drive, we're hoping to add another 30% to the game's maps library for both story and proc-gen content.

Stay tuned for the first of these new maps and more to be coming out during this 2 week sale & anniversary celebration.

Thanks all! Hope to see you in Discord any time and on our Twitch for the celebration stream on June 2nd.

Our Save Game Policy and Updates

v2.7.1 - #88: 1-Year Celebrations and Storyline Drop

- Extended Zasha's Neuro Rot storyline to completion (death, revenge, 2 legworks and 5 missions, new ending Traits)

- Added new proc-gen Legwork offered by Contacts in drugs, medical, smuggling hi-tech - tagging cargo shipments

- Added new proc-gen Legwork offered by Contacts in milsec, corporate or syndicate factions - scaling comms tower outside dome

- Added new Synthetic Combat Drugs services via storyline (3 levels)

- Rebalanced Zasha's Neuro Rot Trait - more HP reduction, more Wound Res reduction, less Move Speed penalty, as it increases to 4 gains -Pure Armor and -Stress Res

- Unlocked new service level for Street Combat Drugs (level 4)

- Now spend a Favor to gain 25% Discount on any purchase from a Contact

- Fixed issue where you could not ESC to pause until at least one player took a turn

- Fixed issue with Simsteam timeline events sticking around even after removing mercs

- Fixed 2 cases where movement could lock up when moving near certain bridges or elevation

-Fixed bug where keys to pan camera were Y ... ASD instead of WASD

Knights and mercs! Another Sunday and another exciting update is hitting the streets of New Boston. With this update, we've given special attention to areas of the save system, retry turn options and game pause system that have come up time and again with players as areas we could improve. We've gone through all the player incoming in forums, F10s, and on our official Discord to pull together the most common and important suggestions on how to improve and wrapped them up in #87 and stuck a big cyber bow on top. We hope you like the results!

Our Save Game Policy and Updates

ESC at any time to Pause

We have upgraded the ESC and game pause system to allow you to pause any time, including during enemy turns. This is basic convenience to let you quit, load save or take other paused action when one or 5 enemies are about to take their turn. To bring up the pause menu, just hit (ESC) or on a controller (B) during an enemy turn.

This can be especially useful at the tail end of Turns, where a few enemies might be clumped up and something you did not want happens and it was previously impossible to stop the action from rolling into the next turn.

In order to allow pausing during enemy turns, we had to bump the old "Skip Turn" from (ESC) to (TAB).

Remember, if you save or load during any point in a Turn, it saves and loads from the start of that Turn - not mid turn. Also, note that this does not work once turn processing and the Security AI and the red overlay appears - that is the point where we are saving the state for the turn and it cannot be interrupted.

Quick Save (F5) and Quick Load (F9)

With Update #87 we've added a Quick Save (F5) and Quick Load (F9) set of hotkeys. These are bound by default and will always save into the 10th Save Slot for your convenience. Now with a single keystroke you can save into the quick save slot and later reload to that spot without needing to go through the extra work of opening the pause menu, save menu and picking a lot.

Also, these hotkeys work during enemy turns. So, if you have a good checkpoint in your quick 10th slot, and you see that your team is spotted and the 8 nearby enemies are going to unload full auto on you, you can hit F9 to quick load without needing to ESC (which works now during enemy turns) to bring up the pause menu or wait to see the action you might not want to see.

Remember, if you save or load during any point in a Turn, it saves and loads from the start of that Turn - not mid turn. Also, note that this does not work once turn processing and the Security AI and the red overlay appears - that is the point where we are saving the state for the turn and it cannot be interrupted.

Retry Turn (F8) and from Retry Defeat

We've expanded the availability of Retry Turn to include the defeat screen if your difficulty allows it. Previously, you could lose a level and that might bar you from returning to the previous Turn or mission to retry the part that went wrong, unless you had a save slot prepared.

The Retry Turn button now simply appears on defeat and allows you to drop back into the final turn of the mission, when things went so dastardly wrong (or did they go wrong earlier than that?) and give it another go.

Skyrise Hit Balance

We've been collating and counting feedback on Skyrise Hit multi-stage mission for a bit and have finally made some adjustments that should help address player feedback.

• First, Skyrise Hit now only appears at Power Level 6 or above (where it was previously only at PL 5+).

• The XP reward for Skyrise Hits is now 150% above regular rewards (where it was previously only 50% above).

• The Sec Tally required to cause an Escalation has been raised to 15 from 12, which can give your team a little more breathing room, especially in the first Stage.

We know not every player will agree with the changes, but we're excited they should help keep Skryise Hit at the right spot in the meta.

v2.6.33 - #87: Dockside Power Wash - 5/24/2026

- New hotkeys - F5 to quick save and F9 to quick load without opening pause menu (can be run even on enemy turn)

- New hotkey - F8 to reload turn without opening pause menu (can be run even on enemy turn)

- Now hit ESC during enemy turn to pause game and open the pause menu at any time (except during turn processing)

- Now allowed to Retry Turn from defeat screen to jump back into the level and try the last turn again

- Adjusted Skyrise Hit balance - now appearing at Team Power Level 6+ (instead of 5+)

- Adjusted Skyrise Hit balance - price tag now at +50% over regular multi-stage mission, now +150% XP over regular multi-stage

- Adjusted Skyrise Hit balance - Sec Tally required for Escalation bumped to 15

Info on the challenge can be found below the wrap up:

It's been a busy month with our First Floor Challenge. Lots of chatter both on Steam and on our Discord all month about the tough choices and changes this challenge required. It was interesting to see the different priorities folks had - which rooms were the most important to them and why. Some highlights from the month:

Coelocanth posted their safehouse over on our Discord choosing the Triage Clinic, Nano-Scrubber, UHub, and NanoFab.

Alphafox chatted on Discord quite a bit about how the limitations made handling both Wounds and Heat require creative solutions to manage.

Over here on Steam, there was a conversation about priorities with several folks chiming in. Everyone agreed the Nano-Scrubber was a non-negotiable, but from there different priorities were revealed. Halastar said they would build UHub, Counter-intel, and then either Triage or the Simstream Detox. While Zozzero prioritized Field Ops, the Hacking Station, and Simstream Detox. Others combined these two priorities with Earthseaknight wanting Field Ops, UHub, and Detox and EuchreJack saying they'd build the UHub, Triage, and Detox. Thank you all for participating in this challenge over the last month! We enjoyed seeing the discussions and the differing priorities and reasoning behind folks building decisions. As always you can pick up a challenge any time you want to mix up your gameplay a bit and we'd love to hear about it here on Steam or over on Discord.

Once again another huge thank you to our Trese Boosters, whose support allows us to host these challenges and other community events and activities! We will be back with another Community Challenge soon! --------------------

Hello Knights! It's time for another CKF Community Challenge! This time we are asking you to limit how much you build in your safehouse. What rooms are most important to you? Which ones are you totally fine skipping? Are there rooms you will miss, but will still choose to not have?

There is only one requirement for this challenge:

• You may only build on the first floor of the buildable space your safehouse. You may not build anything on the bottom floor of the safe house.

There are no limitations on what you can build in your 4 buildable rooms, but you only have those 4 slots available.

As always, we want to see and hear about your adventures tackling the challenge so here are some ideas for what we’d love to see:

• Screenshots of your safehouse along with why you chose the particular rooms

• How you chose to overcome the challenge of not being able to build some rooms you might normally build

• Any other creative ways you want to share your experience with this challenge: memes, interpretive dance, gifs, etc

No matter what you choose to share, please share at least one screenshot of your safehouse. Thank you again to our Trese Boosters. Your support lets us run these Community Challenges and other community events. We’ve opened up a discussion post here on Steam in the General Discussion forum for aIl of your posts. If you post in our Discord, head to #first_floor_challenge to join in on the conversation! We look forward to this upcoming month and I'll be back at the end of the challenge with highlights from the community!

Knights and mercs! Sunday's update goes after a set of highly requested improvements directly from our players. We're always watching the stream of F10s, Steam forums and our official Discord to help big suggestions bubble up to the top of our priority list. This update and the next one or two more will be focused on crushing through a big list of player favorites.

Tonight's update adds 2 new options - one to skip the mission expiration warning and another to show touch controls on screen for touch enabled devices. In addition, Update #86 now remembers all of your sort and filter settings in the safehouse between play sessions and visits to/from the safehouse, as well as allowing you to change keybindings during gameplay or from the safehouse (without returning to the main menu). Plus, we've dropped in a number of fixes for final Ward War issues, an old proc-gen Hacking bug and more.

Thanks to everyone supporting us, and if you enjoy the constant stream of updates and improvements, all we can ask is that you take a quick minute to leave a review!

Our Save Game Policy and Updates

Safehouse Remembers all Sort & Filter

For a long time, the safehouse's many inventory, market, cold storage and cybernetic screens all remembered your sort and filter choices. However, this memory lasted only as long as you stayed inside the safehouse and was lost as soon as you quit the game or went on a mission.

Update #86 makes the simple change to persist this memory between play sessions and between visits to the safehouse broken up by running missions.

You do have to set the filters and sorts one more time before they start to be remembered. Enjoy less clicks!

Adjust Keybindings on Mission or Safehouse

There was an old and arbitrary restriction before that keybindings could only be modified from the main menu. With Update #86, we've ironed out this wrinkle and you can now modify your keybinidngs anywhere. This is especially useful when on a mission and you're trying to get the right setup and you can change it and immediately try it before tweaking it again.

New Option: Skip Mission Expiration Warning

If you are feeling comfortable with the timeline system and want to skip some additional interruptions, we've added a new option that may appeal to you. We're excited to deliver this widely requested feature - the option to skip the mission expiration warning. The timeline does not stop, the mission expires, the Exposure consequences hit your Contact and you keep moving forward. With this option on, you're skipping missions because you plan to do so, so the warnings are just extra stops you don't need.

For this, check Options > Gameplay > Stop Timeline and Warn before Mission Expires.

New Option: Virtual Gamepad

If you're using a device like a Windows tablet or another touch-enabled device, the new virtual gamepad controllers can help you play the game more rapidly and with fewer missing options. This option adds a new set of buttons and controls to the HUD, allowing you to pan, rotate and zoom the camera by touch, as well as execute the most important controller functions - (A) and (B) from an XBox game controller (confirm, cancel) as well as next target to speed up gameplay.

For this, check Options > Controls > Mouse and Controller Options > Touch Controls

Fixed Hack Files Missing Contact

One of the first proc-gen mission types we ever added - to hack a system and find 3 Files - had a really old bug in it, where the Contact who gave you the mission would not actually be assigned to the mission.

This has been resolved for all future missions of this type, including those created by the Face's Co-Conspire.

Continued Ward War Follow up

With Update #86, we've continued to fix a number of more minor bugs with the Ward War. Here is a run down -

• For the end of the Ward War, there was a possible scenario where you had to either run a mission or exit your saved game before the official ending storyline would pop. This absolutely weird requirement is now removed. Oops!

• We fixed an issue the Ward War conclusion storylines that could result in a very nonsense conversation to be started after you finished everything, stating basically that you waited to long and its all canceled.

• We fixed bugs stemming for the Ward War where Contacts who hate another Contact in their faction might offer missions against their faction (as a way to spite the hated contact).

v2.6.29 - #86: Options Trader - 5/17/2026

- Added option to disable Mission Expiration warning in Options > Gameplay for expert players

- All filters and sorts set during a play session in safehouse are remembered next time you load/return to safehouse

- Can now change mission and safehouse keybindings from the Options > Controls while on missions or in safehouse

- Added option to turn on virtual gamepad for touch screens in Options > Controls

- Fixed bug with hack only mission to download files where the contact was always lost

- Fixed Ward War ending bug where you might need to exit to main menu to cause the final storyline to appear

- Fixed Ward War conclusion issue if you delayed second Legwork, the delay could still pop up at the end

- Fixed bug where Faction-Loyal Contact who hates a Contact in their Faction would offer missions against their own Faction

- Fixed bug that could opt Zasha out of certain storylines - now more available

- Improved core shader performance

Knights and mercs! We've got another big follow-up to the Ward War that addresses some areas the Era could feel more engaged, improves the mission HUD for long press End Turn for controllers, improves some Matrix UI, and fixes a big set of community F10s!

Before we dive into the specifics, let us welcome the thousands of new players who have dived into heisting in the New Boston Zone these last weeks - we're here to chat and hang out all the time on our Steam boards and on our official Trese Brothers Discord.

Our Save Game Policy and Updates

Ward War: Gain Era Score from Any Faction Mission

With Update #85, we've tied the Ward War Era into more of the game's simulation to improve pacing and your ability to affect it by supporting your Contacts in any job or mission.

With Update #85, completing any mission for Brave Star or for Los Zagales will increase the Era Score by +4% for them. Failing any such mission will cost them -2% to their Era Score. This is only positive (never reducing the other faction score) and around 1/2 what you can get for a Ward War specific mission. But it can help if you roll a regular mission for Co-Conspire instead of drawing a Ward Ward specific mission or you just get a proc-gen mission from a Brave Star contact - anything you're doing to help them, helps their position in the Era conflict.

This means, Scav missions, Assassinations, Bodyguards, the Carnivore storyline - anything kind of proc-gen or story mission that you complete during the Ward War will bump the score a little bit for your favored Faction.

Ward War F10 Drive

We're still chasing minor F10s from the Ward War and getting them wrapped up:

• For the final Los Zagales mission "PENTHOUSE CON" we fixed the missing link to the objective on the matrix terminal and the fact that sometimes the second stage might start with the objective for the CPU Spike already completed (too easy!)

• We fixed the Sleaze 4 program from the Era echo Shadow Site as it was badly linked to Sleaze 3

• We fixed the AR and UAR from the Era echo Shadow Site having the visuals of an E-Rifles

Controllers: Long Press for End Turn

With Update #85, we've updated the visuals of the HUD for controllers to make the long press option on X to end your current turn more clear. A press bar now appears under the HUD button. You can still go up and use the button by hitting (X) to get into the HUD, pressing up and then using (A) to activate it, but you can also just hold down (X) to end your turn the fast way.

Hacking UI Fixes

For the matrix HUD, we followed up on a few community F10s to improve this. Thanks for all the feedback!

• There were some badly linked hovers in the top left of the matrix HUD - now fixed.

• If you arrived at an RCU with a door linked to it, but the door had been opened by another source (a door switch, etc) then it was not clearly marked as "already opened, cannot be controlled". We've improved that one.

Movement Plotting Issues

We fixed a number of movement plotting and destination issues with this one - specifically a lock up that was happening for flying drones (was hotfixed earlier), an issue where sometimes characters could run from building top to building top without going down stairs - just flying. Also, we resolved an issue that could cause the AI to lock up if they were standing under a bridge with a walkable area on top, which could cause them to skip terms.

v2.6.27 - #85: Roll Up - 5/12/2026

- Any mission for Los Zagales or Brave Star during Ward War will now effect score (+4%) including proc-gen, story, etc

- Fixed issues with Sleaze IV from Shadow Site being mislinked to Sleaze III

- Fixed bug in PENTHOUSE CON mission where second CPU Spike could already be completed at the start of the stage

- Fixed bug in PENTHOUSE CON where objective would not highlight the target matrix terminal in 1/8 possible cases

- Improved display of long press in HUD for End Turn button when enabled

- Fixed bugs in specific map areas where character or enemy might be able to run through thin area from one rooftop to another

- Fixed bug with Hardened Targets sometimes appearing in random missions after attempting the ending of the Ward War

- Fixed mismatched hover text matrix HUD

- Improved clarity of messages in RCU if a door has already been hacked or opened by some other means

- Fixed specific bugs when AI standing on bridges with walkable area underneath might get confused and not move for multiple turns

- Improved modal pop up anchor for appearance color picker so that it will not hover over top of character while picking colors

- Fixed bugs with AR and UAR coming out of Shadow Site that looked like E-Rifles

- Fixed bugs with enemy drone movement sometimes locking up

Knights and mercs! We are excited to follow up the new Ward War Era with a major patch that addresses the majority of community issues reported (there are still a few open F10s ... ). But first, let us welcome the thousands of new Knights who have poured into New Boston these last weeks - thanks for playing, posting on the forums, posting up reviews and joining us on our official Trese Brothers Discord.

With Update #84, we've addressed most of the reported issues with the wind down of the Ward War and the "echoes" that can follow after. We've also added new echo options to further increase the variability of the aftermath and some new exciting bonuses. We've also deployed an automated saved game path for those players who were stuck at the end of the Ward War with a single dialog like "The Ward War " ... and nothing else. The rest of the changelog is very focused on specific Ward War situations, scenarios and arcs that we've improved or resolved bugs with - so let's dig in!

And of course, the all important saved game policy -

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New Ward War Echoes

In the aftermath of the Ward War, the results are played out in a series of positive and negative echoes for each faction. This approach let us honor the different paths you may have taken - playing both sides, running the starting mission, the final mission, keep their scores close or winning for one side or the other by a landslide - by translating that into a pool of positive and negative results after the War Ward ends.

With Update #84, we've added 6 new results to the echo set and fixed the reported bugs for a few others. Thanks for all of the F10s!

• We've increased the possible Trait additions to Contacts to include more options - now including Indebted and Generous for the positive side.

• We've added 2 new Shadow Sites that can be revealed as positive echoes by the factions (one each) - with new never before seen Blueprints, Weapons, Weapon Mods, and Matrix Programs.

• We fixed the Imprisoned Contact negative echo to have some more front-loaded dialog to explain why this happened and how. It was a bit ... mysterious before. Thanks for the F10!

• We fixed issues with "doubling up" for the Ward War Echoes - where the Compromised tag could get doubled or the Contacts might gain 2 Bellicose Traits as a result. Thanks for the F10!

• We fixed the reported issue where the Ward War echo might hit some Contacts with major wave of Exposure, but the real value ended up being much smaller than advertised. Thanks for the F10!

With these updates and fixes, we are now up to 22 possible results for the echo set and still have a lot of additional ideas of things we can keep working into this set to make the Ward War ending dice roll a bit different every run.

Fixed Ward War - Stuck at Ending

For those players who might have been stuck at an unintentional Paused timeline node at the end of the Ward War, your saved game has now been automatically fixed. There was a bit of surgery to do to unwind some contacts who were picked by the Casting Director to participate in the ending that didn't actually start due to you not having enough Contacts to fill all the roles.

If you re-open one of the games that was stuck, you'll should see a new event appear on your timeline within a few days - with a Contact reaching out directly about an opportunity to score a win for their faction to end the Ward War.

We also fixed a bug that allowed some mission and legswork to continued to be created even after the Ward War was officially over.

Ward War: Shadow Site Bugs

While there may be other Shadow Site bugs still lingering, we fixed 2 big ones for the Ward War with this update -

• If you ignored the Shadow Site offer from a Contact and it reached the end of your timeline, it would time out quietly without any dialog. Story events usually don't do that - instead forcing you to chose - so you could feasibly accidentally have lost access to this story on this one.

• In the Los Zagales Ward War Shadow Site, if you picked up the bugged Blueprint for the Meltdown series of E-Rifles, it would cause a cascade of loot destruction, and could cause anything picked up after it to be lost into the void.

Contact Trait Improvements

For all Contact Traits that affect mission prices, we've increased the bonus or penalty to ensure it is really felt. A 5% chance for Generous just doesn't make the Contact stand out, so we've double and even tripled the starting bonus at times and made sure that the high end bonus is desirable and the penalty is awful.

The affected Traits were: Greedy, Skeptical, Generous, and Ops First.

v2.6.17 - #84: Ward War Reverb- 5/5/2026

- Fixed issues with Ward War getting stuck at a jammed paused node at the end of Era for some games

- If you were stuck at end of Ward War, reload game to start a ending mission arc

- Added 2 new Trait possibilities for Ward War contacts to the end-of-Era results sets

- Added 2 new Shadow Sites to end-of-Era results sets

- Now up to 22 end-of-Era results that echo after the Ward War is complete

- Fixed issue in PENTHOUSE CON where matrix host could be really close to the entry point

- Fixed bug with Compromised end-of-Era result doubling up on Compromised Tags

- Fixed bug with Exposure for entire Faction end-of-Era result giving far less Exposure than expected

- Fixed bug with Imprisoned end-of-Era result not having clear dialog explaining how it happened

- Fixed bug with Ward War proc-gen missions and Legwork that could continue to appear even after War Ward ending missions

- Fixed Ward War Era - sometimes the dialog for the Head Hunter dispatched would be shown for the flipped faction

- Fixed bug with Ward War Era Shadow Site offer at 35% Score - if it timed out, it did not pop a dialog/choices

- Fixed bug with Ward War Shadow Site loot - bugged Meltdown E-Rifle Blueprints could cause other loot to disappear after mission

- Raised the mission price changes for Contact Traits Greedy & Skeptical (negative) and Generous & Ops First (positive) to matter more

Knights and mercs! We are on the last big weekend of the 40% off Ward War sale and excited to bring you another round of improvements, fixes and suggestions directly from our community. With this update, we have resolved the Casting Director matching mistake that was preventing Ward War Shadow Sites from running and also moved them from 50% requirement to 35% Era Score. We have fixed a ton of small dialog and scoring mistakes in the Ward War (this thing is BIG!) and improved the looting distributions during the Era as well. For Legwork, we've improved some of the font size consistency in the offer and added a special narrator line of dialog to all conversations for Legwork results - being clear what Legwork ended, what the % chance was and whether it was a win or loss.

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Era Shadow Sites at 35% and now Running

With Update #83, we fixed an issue where the Ward War Era Shadow Sites would only be matched by the Casting Director in extremely rare cases. This was our mistake and now they are very match friendly, they are sure to find someone even if you didn't know anyone in the faction anymore (did you kill them all?)

We have also moved the goal post for Shadow Sites to 35% down from 50% so that they are easier to achieve and to give some extra motivation to "play both sides" for these juice rewards.

Finally, for anyone who has played through the end of the War Ward, we were careful to adjust the requirements for these to run after the Ward War if you qualified, so that no one misses what they were owed.

Era Ward War Improvements!

The Ward War Era is quite large - and we've heard a lot about little things we need to improve, re-write, make more clear. With this Update #83, we've hit a ton of the suggestions from the community, being more clear about how to play both sides.

There were a number of mistakes with scoring, with the most noticeable one being that at the end of any Ward War mission, you'd get the score reported before the change for the mission was made, so it always felt like you were not getting points or getting the wrong points.

We've improved the looting distribution for the Ward War special missions as well to help them be more exciting.

New Limit Break for Enemy Contacts

Enemy Contacts keep getting more teeth - all the more reason to want to be able to exact your revenge - and with #83, they've gained a new Limit Break option to "tighten the noose" on your team. Their agents are working the underworld, trying to track down your safehouse, haunting your haunts, paying bribes to try to isolate or attack your team. This result will cause rolls for up to 20% Stress to all of your mercs - who each get a chance to resist based on their own relationship with Stress - but this can be another big way that an enemy Contact can take a swipe at your team directly.

Legwork Results - Win or Loss

We have added a new automatic dialog from the narrator at the start of every Legwork result conversation. The single line of dialog lists the Legwork that was run, the chance of success it had, and whether it was a loss or a failure. This helps make it very clear the context for the following narrative dialogs that describe the results.

Skyrise Hit Terminals

We found and fixed one of the two Skyrise Hit maps that would claim that it was offering matrix hacking during the mission briefing but then when you arrived, the terminals were missing. This is now resolved for all newly generated Skyrise Hits. If you have a mission that was generated before this patch, it will likely not get a terminal (in most cases, it won't ... in a few, it will).

v2.6.15 - #83: Update #83: Ward War Improvements and Shadow Sites

- Fixed issues with Ward War Shadow Sites not match - now Shadow Sites correctly appear over 35% Score for either faction

- Fixed Ward War scoring issues - sometimes score was reported before the adjustment, sometimes Brave Star got 2X the score, sometimes Brave Star got negative

- Improved Ward War dialog, fixed issues with flipped factions or confusing lines

- Improved Item, File and Account looting distribution during the Ward War

- New Influence Limit Break options for enemies - attempting to tighten a noose of surveillance causes +20% Stress to team

- Added new automatic success/loss dialog to the start of all dialogs reporting Legwork results

- Fixed bug with some Skyrise Hit missions not having matrix terminals even though they advertise them

- Updated default Edge Scroll Size to 10px, options can now set from 1px to 60px

- Improved consistency of text size in Legwork offer screens

- Upgraded over 250 extraction points in proc-gen missions to being pre-revealed for better early mission planning

- Fixed missing dialog in Deltaware Reactivation storyline

Knights and mercs! It has ben a wild weekend with so many new players joining and so many players getting into the Ward War already! We've already prepared a patch with a lot of nice things plus the immediate Ward War fixes we could pull together. We've added a little new Ward War content, fixed ragdolls, fixed an entire category of map bug F10s, added long pressing (X) for end turn on controllers and move! So let's dig in.

But first, if you are enjoying the free updates, please take a short minute to leave a review. Our tiny studio needs every one ːsteamhappyː

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New Ward War Event

If you push either faction in the Ward War to over 10% (by your own actions, not by ignoring it) you will now get a new little story event - an introduction to a currently unknown Contact in that faction who wants you to work for them.

This can help expand the number of Contacts in your faction roster, helping you use more Co-Conspire and gain more options for Legwork and missions, as well as meet new friends, gain access to additional services, etc.

Ragdolls Spastic Fix!

We have finally found and resolve the root cause the ragdolls sometimes going wild, stretching beyond reasonable limits or sometimes flying 29 meters across the map. It was in the hand-off between the character being animated and the ragdoll letting physics take over. Hopefully, you will all find that this bug is gone for good.

Controllers: Hold (X) for End Turn

With this update, we're adding a new binding for controllers. Whatever button you have bound to hopping selection into the HUD (by default, that is (X)) you can now long press this button to End Turn without any other interaction or use of the D-Pad.

We hope you find this helpful! Currently, we are working on the visualization of it in the HUD, there is no indicator once you start holding.

Map Rule fixes - Spawns & Security

With this update, we've made widespread fixes to ensure the correct rules are carried out when a new mission is started. Much like removing all empty SCU nodes from the game, this is another wholesale fix that should really wipe this class of issue out in a single strike. Here are the two rules applied today -

• No enemy will start in a position and rotation that allows them to see one of your mercs or a VIP on your team. This bug no longer exists.

• If you are in a full combat mission, no security devices will appear. This bug no longer occurs.

v2.6.3 - #82: Ward War Follow-up - 4/20/2026

- Added new minor Ward War event - reaching 10% score for either faction can gain an introduction to a previously unknown faction member

- Fixed rules around ensuring that Ward War starting storylines are mutually exclusive in all scenarios

- Fixed issues with dead bodies/ragdolls going spastic or flying high in the air

- Fixed bug with mission deploy screen shortcuts to roster not picking the right merc

- Fixed all occurrences of enemies spawning within sight of a character at the beginning of a level

- Fixed all occurrences of security devices appearing in any combat-only level

- Fixed bug with Scourge's Purge Talent that could use 2 charges instead of 1

- Fixed bug where selection (and therefore hitting space or (A) on controller) could get stuck in Objective list if an objective was removed or changed ("every time I try to move, the camera focuses on this terminal?")

- Added long press on (X) to End Turn for controllers

- Fixed description of Sluice node

- Fixed issue where camera could get locked if you skip action cameras and set camera transitions to none

- Fixed bug on Mac OS that could result in being unable to load a game from the main menu if it Cloud Sync'd from elsewhere

Knights and mercs - we're dropping another huge and free content expansion today - a new Era, the Ward War! This period of time sees great upheaval in New Boston as two major factions go at each other in the Wards, each calling for your Cyber Knight to heist and fight on their side.

We designed Cyber Knights to allow for years of expansions that would fit seamlessly into the game's existing content and features. With the proc-gen story system and Casting Director's ability to search for and match the right characters and contacts to fill any story role, a major content update like this just stirs and expands the pot that is already over-brimming with potential for new stories and twists with each run through Cyber Knights: Flashpoint.

If you are enjoying the continued stream of free new content and updates, please take a minute to leave a review to help our tiny team continue!

If you have any concern about your saved game or updates - see our diamond-plated Saved Game Policy below - no saved game is ever invalidated and all games get the Ward War immediately.

The Ward War Era

With the blessing of the New Boston Council and the UNA government, a multi-billion dollar contract has been handed down to the premiere New Boston milsec corporation - Brave Star.

The Ward War sees the milsec faction, Brave Star, facing off against the scrappy street gang, Los Zagales for control of Ward 4 and Ward 7.

New Boston is housed under the massive, mile high dome that has protected the core of the city from the nano-fallout for decades. As the worldstorms settled, a new collaboration between New Boston, the megacorps and the UNA government saw the city break new ground on the "Wards" - multiple square miles of new housing and business districts outside the dome. Protected by towering walls, low range ionized shielding and monstrous 24/7 industrial blowers that waft any nano-dust up and over them toward the ocean, the Wards allowed opened the door for almost 2 million new inhabitants to immigrate and flood into New Boston.

A decade later - the situation in Wards 4 and 7 has reached a breaking point as the Los Zagales gang now completely controls the dilapidated, sprawling and ruinous slums and habstacks. The UNA and New Boston have joined forces to sponsor the Brave Star milsec corporation to destroy the Los Zagales leadership and restore law and order to the Wards.

Out-gunned and out-funded, the situation is dire for the Los Zagales. But it is just as tenuous for Brave Star, who will need to fight an asymmetrical battle and constantly show results to their UNA sponsors or risk having the contract pulled.

Fight for a Faction, Play Both Sides, or Ignore it All

As a Cyber Knight and a major player in the underworld of New Boston, your services are in high demand by both sides of the conflict. Your Contacts will be vidding you constantly, as the developments in the struggle rage on. Brave Star knows the war can't be won in a straight fight and needs your help to locate and wipe out the Los Zagales leadership while the street gang needs you to blunt Brave Star's advances and hit them where they are not protected.

The Ward War Era is run on a score system - where each Faction is battling to reach 100% score. The conflict and events will move on its own, raising the score if you aren't getting involved. Whenever you do get involved by running a job or legwork, you'll help tip the scores for the Factions one way or another, steadily pushing someone toward a winning 100%.

The pay is good, the risk is high, and there are consequences looming for either faction. You will have to pick your opportunities to get involved. You can play both sides, you can pick a favorite, you can try to avoid it and just protect your friends - there will be winners and losers any way it goes.

Opportunities, Risks, and Rewards

The new Ward War Era comes with exciting waves of new content, let me sum up:

• Once the Ward War starts, new Contacts will start to filter into the game, as you become more familiar with the leadership on either side of the War.

• Brave Star and Los Zagales can offer 4 new legworks that are specifically tied to the Ward War.

• Brave Star and Los Zagales can offer 4 new proc-gen mission objectives where you're thrust right into the conflict, often in full battle mode and on the clock.

• The UNA and New Boston have given Brave Star full control of the skies over Ward 4; scout hovers and heavily armored military transports circle overhead constantly, always offering the threat of a dropship of Brave Star soldiers interjecting themselves unexpected.

• As you support either side in the Ward War you may earn new enemies! If you support one side too much, expect the other side to put a bounty on your head and hire Head Hunters.

• If you support one side enough, the leadership there can surface a Shadow Site mission against the enemy faction or against their corporate sponsors which offer unique and high-powered rewards.

• Supporting one side or the other can cause major ripples of Influence and Exposure through the Factions - forcing Contacts to be Compromised or rising to Power Plays.

• During the Ward War, your Contacts in Los Zagales or Brave Star also will see an option appear in their Influence Limit Breaks that let them increase their Faction's score - so feed your Contacts their Influence for all 3 meals and get cooking!

Featured Forum Discussion: Favorite Mission Types?

We've got a big discussion going in the Steam forums, asking what mission types you most enjoy and some related Qs about objective combos you'd like to see. We'd love to hear your feedback on this, so hop in and let us know: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1021210/discussions/0/809100133028451046/

7 translations are live! Next up: Simplified Chinese

In March, we released 7 translations for Cyber Knights: Flashpoint including German, Latin American Spanish, European Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, and Italian.

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v2.6.1 - MILESTONE: New "Ward War" Era

- New Story Era: Ward War kicks off any time at Team Power Level 5+

- Take a side in the ongoing conflict or ignore it - first Faction's score to reach 100% wins with big bonuses and penalties doled out

- 4 new Era-specific proc-gen mission objectives (Intercept Commander, Air Support Siege, Combat Escort, Crashed Scout Hover)

- 4 new Era-specific Legwork to assist either side of the ongoing conflict

- New opportunities to meet up to 10 new contacts on either side of the conflict - make enemies, friends and more

- Use your involved Contact's Limit Breaks to push the Ward War Era score higher for their faction

- Shadow Site opportunities can become available for helping either side of the ongoing conflict

- Head Hunters may be dispatched to prevent you from assist the other side of the ongoing conflict

- Added new Head Hunter, the deadly Lady Niner and her shotgun volley attack crew

- Adjusted timing on Specter from the Past storyline to prevent it from re-appearing again too quickly

Knights and mercs - we've got another update round here, coming with a bunch of fixes and improvements that have wide application. We're excited to upgrade more than 1000 proc-gen extraction points to pre-revealed, make some balance tweaks to every shotgun in the game, improve the Safehouse HUD funcitoning, improve physics handling of ragdolls and fix a heap of your F10s.

The relatively quiet update schedule and lack of content updates over the last week can only mean one thing - something big this way comes. Give us another week to keep cooking, we are excited to share!

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Extraction Point Planning

With Update #80, we've completed a sizeable project going through the thousands of possible exists for the now over 400 proc-gen combos (map X objective) that the game has to ensure that as many of them as possible have their objective pre-revealed even when there is a goal requirement blocking your exit. This helps your team plan their heist with the best intel you've got, knowing you've got to spike the CPU over there (etc) and then split and run for either the maintenance tunnel or access ladder.

The big change here is that the objectives now appear as "Locked" but you can click on the or select them and the camera will scroll to where they are and highlight them. Previously, in many cases they were simply invisible until you had completed the primary goal.

With this sweep we've upgraded 1142 extraction points to being pre-revealed. We have not completed 100% of the task but this covers a lot of maps and situations. Enjoy!

Shotgun Noise Balance

We've addressed an old balancing issue around Shotguns, which are one of the few weapon classes that don't have access to silencers. While they are still "loud" weapons that will be mostly reserved for combat operations, we have shaved down their firing noise by a nice % to help compensate - especially for the higher Power Level ones - for the lack of silencers in their kit.

Thanks for all the feedback on weapons on the forum - we're constantly watching, listening the looking to improve. As part of the on-going shotgun conversation, we are excited to confirm that Full Auto Shotgun variations are in the pipe and will be coming.

Safehouse HUD and Heat

After the recent rebuild of the HUD and pushing all of the global stats to the right hand side, we've had some issues with the Team Power Level, Heat and Head Hunters % disappearing during specific screen transitions. The biggest offender was story events in the Safehouse, which could cause those 3 stats in yellow to disappear until you made another screen transition, such as opening the barracks or Command HQ. Glad to say this is now resolved!

Another Round on Ragdolls

^^ A good example of what we are trying to avoid!

On some OS and GPUs, ragdolls were still being very wild. Sometimes, they might decide to fly 40m into the sky or just go stretchy and bounce across half the map. This was caused by differences in how physics were being interpreted and the speed of different machines letting the physics system simulate faster or slower. We've made another round of improvements here to hopefully clamp down on issues and to ensure that the ragdolls have a better, consistent look on all platforms.

Other F10s!

We fixed a big mountain of very important F10s this week, helping to stem the flow of reports from the active community playing every day.

• Prox-mines that were switched over with Kill Switch were not applying their full damage to enemies, often doing very low values. This has been resolved and they now go BOOM correctly as well as stealing the enemy turn.

• We've improved navigation on the mission maps to make them more friendly. Previously, you could only click on the glowing shape on the map to select the node, but this led to an enormous amount of misclicks where players were clicking on the bubble but without any result. We've improved the UI here to allow clicking on the data bubble to select the node as well.

• We fixed an old issue with two crafted armors that were very similar possibly showing up as duplicates in your equipment screens.

Simplified Chinese is Coming!

v2.5.59 - #80: Late Night Drop - 4/10/2026

- Upgraded over 1000 extraction points in proc-gen missions to being pre-revealed for better early mission planning

- Reduce firing noise radius for all Shotguns at all Power Levels by some %

- Fixed issue with Prox-Mines converted by Kill Switch doing too little damage to enemies

- Fixed issue with Security Camera spotting a dead body that should have been blocked by Refract when reloading a level

- Fixed issue in safehouse where Heat and other stats disappear from HUD after running a dialog

- Fixed issue where reloading a level could result in the loss of AP/MP granted by cybernetics

- Improved click-ability of mission node map - clicking on the text bubble now also highlights the node

- Fixed issue with duplicate armors appearing in equipping screen when there were very similar armors with different intrinsic properties

- Improving ragdoll implementation, reducing crazy behaviors sometimes

- Improved main menu language dropdown to avoid languages going "below the fold" and hard to spot

Knights and mercs, after a big burst of new content, a momentary pause to resolve issues, bugs and community F10s is in order. So let's hold up our QoLs and bugs get them fixed! With Update #79, we resolved issues with the Wireghost Deltaware, the Shadow Site Nuke III and Rapid Attack III programs, the Skyrise Hit missions being claimed by multiple contacts, improved our existing translations and continue to make daily progress toward releasing Simplified Chinese translation.

As always, a huge thanks to everyone playing and posting, and especially to those who left a review this week to help us keep doing what we're doing ːsteamhappyː

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Deltaware: X-Drip Mindflare

With Update #79, we've fixed the broken Wireghost Deltaware that was previously broken with an empty Talent and named the X-Drip Specter. Now, the unique cybernetic spliced into your spine provides an instant Nuke-like ability to wipe out the IC within a single node. While it has a very long cooldown, this gives your powerful Wireghost an ace up her sleeve.

This fix will work for any character before or after the Deltaware Re-Activation mission.

Shadow Site Programs: Nuke & Rapid Attack III

With Update #79, we've fixed the special Shadow Site reward Programs Nuke III and Rapid Attack III which were accidentally left linked to the Nuke II and Rapid Attack II. These programs now correctly offer unique and upgraded versions of the classic programs - more Damage, more Charges, more!

Fixed: Skyrise Contact Swapping

For a while, we've had a bug with the Contact who offered the Skyrise Hit mission suddenly swapping to another Contact. It especially seemed that Taylor Strizek liked to volunteer for this kind of bloodshed!

With this fix, the contact for the mission will stay stable. Also, we've resolved the issue where too many Skyrise Hits could be offered, in some situations they were coming fast and heavy and kind of overwhelming other types of proc-gen missions.

Continued Translation Improvements

With this update we've completed another round of over 200+ improvements to translations, cleaning up confusing dialog, gender issues, plurality and more.

In addition, we identified and fixed a set of lines in English that were not translated - specifically a number of the hovers in the Matrix HUD. We have now finished translating and fixing those strings.

Simplified Chinese is Coming!

(^^ An early build, showing some text in Simplified Chinese and the game font)

v2.5.57 - #79: Hold 'em Up - 4/2/2026

- Fixed issue with Wireghost Deltaware X-Drip Mindflare (renamed) not having a Talent effect

- Fixed issues with Matrix Programs Rapid Attack III and Nuke III (now using their own stats) and reduced program size slightly

- Tweaks and improvements, dialog fixes for Specter from the Past storyline

- Fixed multiple Matrix HUD hovers and safehouse tags that had been failed to be translated

- Improved over 200+ lines of translated text across the 7 languages

- Fixed bug where multiple Skyrise Hits could be offered at the same time (too many!)

- Fixed bug where the Contact offering Skyrise Hits could change suddenly (looking at you, Strizek!)

Knights, we are excited to drop even more content into the merc-driven storylines we have been building up over the last few months - now with a story that can resurface an old name, someone you thought was dead. And it turns out - they badly need your hel ! This update pairs with the recent "Depths of Loyalty" and "Deltaware Re-Activation" updates to further expand on merc-driven story content.

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Merc-Driven Storyline: Unexpected Specter

This is a storyline and a Casting Director ability that we've been talking about for a long time and we're excited to roll it out into game. The Casting Director has a wide range in its ability to match and pick appropriate characters and contacts to fill roles within stories, and it even has the power to reach into the grave and find someone there.

With Update #78, we've added the first "post-humous" stoyline, where a dead merc can reappear as an echo in the game. In this case, as you'll find, they weren't as dead as you had thought and are now in need of your help - if you can pull it off.

This storyline and the Unexpected Specter mission unlock after Power Level 5.

Fixed Death Tags

With this update, we resolved issues with character's death tagging to make sure it is clear and now lists the name of the heist on which you died. In the future, we hope to further upgrade this tag to include the Contacts and Factions that you were working for (if any) and working against.

Retirement Re-Sort: Loyalty First

As we prepare to add more Retirement slide options to the game, we've completed a review and some housecleaning of the Casting Director's Retirement matching rules and made some improvements.

While we fixed a few bugs and improved some of the matching rules for some retirement outcomes, the big change was to adjust how the retirement list is sorted. Previously, three sorts were used in priority - seniority on the team (top), Loyalty (fallback) and Level (super fallback). This gave an enormous amount of weight to seniority and the date you joined the merc company above all else. We have redone the sorting order to shift seniority to the super fallback position, preferring to sort by Loyalty, Level and Seniority only if Loyalty and Level were the same.

This has refreshed and updated some of the retirement results that you team may have previously received.

The next move in this space is to load up on more retirement results so that everyone - even on large teams - can get a full set of slides.

Matrix APUs Rising

With Update #78, we've improved the dynamic nature of matrix templates in order to make APU nodes (which allow your Hackers to have big impacts on the meatspace Sec Level and Tally) more available throughout the matrix hosts in the game.

This follows on the press to make Access Gates and Sluices more widely available in matrix hosts, ensure that you're getting chances to see and interact with all the extended features of the matrix.

APU nodes are Alarm Processing Units and may be spiked like a CPU. However, if you spike an APU, it can reduce the Sec Level of the meatspace Sec AI. Once the Sec Level is reduced like this, the Sec Tally needs to retread old ground, regaining the Tally that was taken away. As it does so, the Sec AI does not get Escalations on those "lost levels" and so you are effectively blocking the next set of Escalations. These are very powerful nodes and a fun way for your hacker's influence to cross-over into the real world.

Empty SCUs Fixed

With Update #78, we have also fixed the persistent problem that you could encounter empty SCU nodes in some hosts that had no security devices connected to them. These dead-end nodes ended up as Trap havens and not nice places to go. Matrix templates will no longer generate such mistakes.

Simplified Chinese is Coming!

v2.5.55 - #78: New Merc-Driven Storyline: Specter from the Past - 3/29/2026

- New merc-driven storyline: a merc who you thought died on a previous heist resurfaces deep in an enemy prison

- Improved availability of APU matrix nodes to allow manipulation of real-world Sec Level

- Fixed all cases where SCU could appear in matrix without any attached security devices

- Improved retirement result sorting to prefer Loyalty and Level as more important than seniority on the team

- Fixed description of "Like Family" Trait to include its effect - Loyalty never drops below 50%

- Fixed death tags showing up incorrectly for dead characters - now showing the heist they died on

- Removed bold from fonts where used to emphasize to increase readability in languages (relying only on color tagging)

- Reduce memory footprint from fonts

Knights and mercs, we are following the big merc-driven story update with an update expanding the matrix, improving translations, fixing some Talent descriptions, hitting some key balance points for early-game and fixing your F10s.

Thanks to everyone checking out these updates, playing the game and especially to those who have left a review to help us keep going ːsteamhappyː

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4 New Matrix Templates

With Update #77, we've focused on matrix hosts that can include SCUs and expanded the catalog with 4 new templates. We are also continuing to keep the pressure to get more Access Nodes and Sluices nodes across the matrix set so that they are seen more often.

Persistent AOE Talent Durations

For a while, the Talent durations for all Talents that create persistent AOE zones on the map had issues if you started to upgrade their duration, they could show as incorrectly extended like 15 Turns (!!). With this update, we have corrected these durations so that they stay reasonable, which has helped Talents like JTAC, Strike Zone, Venom Trap, Tox-Cloud, White Noise and many others.

Power Level Limits

We've pushed a few more Power Level limits into the game to help content appear at appropriate times, with specific focus on certain types of stories and challenges not appearing too early.

• Certain Head Hunters, including Le Sidewinder and his cadre of mecha infantry bots, has been limited to Team Power Level 4 or higher

• Power Play storylines have been limited in all forms to Team Power Level 3 or higher

Translation Improvements

Simplified Chinese is Coming!

v2.5.53 - #77: SCUs Rising - 3/25/2026

- Added 4 new matrix templates to increase variety and challenge levels within SCU hosts

- Fixed issues with JTAC, Strike Zone, Venom Trap and other persistent AOE areas with duration changing suddenly during training

- Fixed bugs where certain armors had high Blueprint output count

- Fixed bug with Sluice node in one matrix template where you could not access it

- Added Power Level filter to come Head Hunters (such as Le Sidewinder with all mecha helpers) to avoid them appearing too early

- Further prevented challenging Power Play storylines to appear before Team Power Level 3 through any path

- Moved the HUD pop up when completing crafting to the bottom of the screen to block less

- Fixed death tags showing up incorrectly for dead characters

- Improved some cover for chain link fence and corrugated metal props

- Improved over 500 string translations with better word choice, clarity and plurality especially in compound effect strings

Knights, we are excited to hit a new milestone with our merc-driven storylines - now when mercs who have deactivated deltaware implants hit 60% Loyalty, storylines may begin to appear where they work with a splicer to scheme how to steal the things needed to get that one-of-a-kind implant re-activated. This update pairs with the previous "Depths of Loyalty" update from October to wrap up this set of merc-driven story content.

In translations land - we are now releasing the European Spanish translation, are announcing the upcoming Simplified Chinese translation 《赛博骑士：闪点行动 Cyber Knight: Flashpoint》and are looking for community members to help in the review process (see below). Thank you to all who have provided feedback on the other newly released translations! We've provided UI improvements where needed and accepted many suggestions.

If you are enjoying the updates and constant improvements, please take a moment to leave a review! ːsteamhappyː

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Re-Activated Deltaware!

This new type of new merc-driven storylines allows you to re-activate deltaware on those mercs that have dead weight implants installed. You may have selected this option from the merc's recruitment interview and been left with a cybernetic slot occupied by a deactivated implant. Now, by working with a splicer, these mercs have hatched a scheme to get this powerful deltaware re-activated and back into the action.

Spanish (ES) Released!

While the big translation release last week added Spanish (LATAM) for Latin American players, this update adds the European Spanish translation to the game. Thanks for all your support and helping us get to this exciting day!

As always, the best way to share feedback for anything in Cyber Knights remains the F10 system (or on Steam Deck, left stick click).

Simplified Chinese is Coming!

When we announced and launched our first set of languages - we always knew that if things went well, we would start to work to expand that localization footprint. Today we are excited to share that we have started the localization project for Simplified Chinese version of 《赛博骑士：闪点行动 Cyber Knight: Flashpoint》 with our translation partner.

If you know Simplified Chinese -

We are currently seeking players who have put in hours with Cyber Knights: Flashpoint who know Simplified Chinese and would be able to comment on and review the language's glossary and slices of translations in the game over the next couple of weeks.

If you are already versed in Cyber Knights terminology and know Simplified Chinese, please help us get the best result by joining our Discord (http://discord.gg/tresebrothers) and pinging @Liviana about it!

For other languages -

We are continuing to look at further translation projects based on wishlists received, so thank you all for expressing your interest, posting and sharing the game. We also plan to add support for community translations when modding support is released later this year.

Knight Wireghost Multi-Class Bug

In previous versions, you could cause your Knight to end up in a very odd state if you started New Game, quit without finishing it, and then started again. In the exact right order of operations could result in your Knight being a Knight + Hacker multi-class but having the cybernetics for a Wireghost. This would leave your Knight unable to upgrade or uninstall your cyberware and therefore you could not change your multi-class setup either.

This is now resolve for all games that have the issue - just open the game and you'll find your Knight has been switched to a Cortex Wetware and you have full options again.

Translation UI/Text Updates

With Update #76, we are continuing to work diligently to address the feedback you've sent in by F10 on translations and places where the UI is not working correctly when the text gets too long or you increase Font Size too high.

We have completed another big run of F10s here, fixing bulk sell window, the confirmation windows, Talent description pop ups and more.

v2.5.51 - #76: Deltaware Restored to Life - 3/20/2026

- New Cyber Site storylines can connect to mercenary backstories, offering high-risk mission to reactivate dead deltaware

- Hunting the needed pieces to re-activate your deltaware requires Loyalty 60%+ on merc, Team Power Level 5+

- Cyber sites offer challenge multi-stage missions and one-of-a-kind cybernetic implants

- Improved over 200 string translations with better word choice, gender, plurality or terms not being translated

- Improved UI responsiveness for longer translated text / font scaling in many areas (talents, confirm window, bulk sell)

- Fixed bug where combat log for enemy taking armor damage was flipped (said Restored if it was Shredded)

- Fixed bug where a Knight multi-classed with Wireghost might sometimes come out as a Hacker and be stuck (auto-fixed)

- Improved default selection for New Game picks like Weapons and Implant to avoid 2 selected items on screen sometimes

- Fixed Covering Fire debuff to be correctly colored/classified when looking at enemy status

- Fixed some Armor Blueprints that had issues with 10+ uses incorrectly

Knights and mercs - let's take a look at this weekend update which has a new community requested feature - Uninstall All Programs for a Deck, 6 new matrix host templates that add more Sluices and Access Gates, reformatted the main safehouse HUD, improvements around Shock Mine edge cases, a mountain of F10 bugfixes and a ton of small but important updates to the translation text and how the UI responds to longer translated content.

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Uninstall All Programs

If you want to rapidly swap programs without as much clicking, you can now use the Uninstall All Programs option from the Roster > Manage Deck > Change Deck screen. This button does what it promises - it removes all the programs from a deck, which makes it unusable until someone reloads programs, but if you are moving a lot of programs around, this might be much more efficient.

6 New Matrix Templates

We've followed up on last update's +4 matrix templates with additional +6 new very cool host templates that will do even more to bring the once rare Sluice node more into circulation.

Reformatted Safehouse HUD

As a way to improve the safehouse HUD, ensure that all fields (Team Power Level, etc) are always in the same place between different screens to make room for longer translated room titles, we completed some work to reformat the main HUD. This pushes all of the values into the right hand stack, makes their padding more consistent, breaks them into groups with small vertical lines and also allows the left hand side room title to wrap if it becomes to large.

Thanks for all the F10s!

Shock Mines and Step Out

We fixed a rare situation with this update where an enemy might attempt to step out to make an attack (stepping around a corner) and by doing so, step into your Shock Mine area. This was causing a game freeze and is now correctly handled - the enemy is stunned, the attack is canceled and the game resumes with the next character or enemy on the Initiative track.

A huge thanks goes out to everyone sending in F10s to help us catch cases like this.

Translation and UI Responsiveness

With Update #75, we've continued to work on fixing your feedback on translations and places where the UI is not performing as well as it should with longer text and up to +25% Font Size. We have completed big jobs like rebuilding the safehouse HUD for room titles, fixing multiple issues in New Game with tabs and points remaining, fixed many (but not all) of the issues you could get in hacking with much longer labels in the HUD and node map and improved multi-class screens for translations.

We're also continuing to improve translations, gender and plurality issues within the translated content. A huge thanks to everyone playing and posting F10s to help us laser focus on what needs to be improved.

v2.5.49 - #75: Surprise Slash! - 3/16/2026

- New Uninstall All Programs button under Roster > Manage Deck > Change Deck

- Added 6 new matrix templates to increase the occurrence of Sluice and Access Gate nodes

- Improved dialog choices listing UI responsiveness for longer translated text

- Improved UI responsiveness for longer translated text / font scaling in many areas (new game, multi-class, hacking, safehouse HUD)

- Improved options screen UI responsiveness for longer translated text

- Fixed bug in matrix where IC woken up by Escalation would not have their icon in far away nodes reset to blue

- Fixed bug with enemies attempting to attack and stepping out in a Shock Mine, getting Stunned stops attack but was locking game

- Fixed bug with Timeline Team History not properly showing hover for controller or keyboard

- Fixed bug where the Blueprint hover in mission planning was not always showing the right Blueprint details

- Fixed missing cover shield on front and back of truck on River Street Bridge map

- Fixed bug with Sluice preventing access to data branch of matrix host

- Improve some cosmetic placements to avoid clipping or odd looks

- Continued to improve string translations with better word choice, gender, plurality or terms not being translated

Knights and mercs - let's take a look at tonight's update which has something juicy for for everyone. With Update #74, we've added 2 new classified Shadow Sites with exciting never-before-seen loot (6 new weapons, 3 new armors, 6 new weapon mods, 2 new programs), added 4 new matrix templates to bring the Sluice node into more hacking encounters, and rebuilt the display for the timeline history in preparation for using it to track more events in the game. As we are following up on the Translations milestone, we've also made over 100 improvements to translation, fixed 15+ places where translations were missed and the English was still show and fixed a ton of places where a long translation might overrun or wrap badly in the UI.

Our small team of 3 game devs is hard at work bringing you the latest and great updates constantly. If you're enjoying the steady pace of improvement and expansions, please consider leaving a review!

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New Shadow Sites

With Update #74, we've released two new unique variations of Shadow Sites - a new Matsumoto underground code foundry boasting new programs and new armors as well as the UltraTek prototype weapons program for the Ocra HAR E-Rifle and accompanying unique weapon mods.

These new sites are options for your mercs who already have Shadow Site tags or add tags during your career. Be sure to get those mercs to 60%% Loyalty to be able to trigger the reveal of the site and the addition of the mission.

In total, this new round adds 2 new programs, 6 new weapons, 3 new armors and 6 new ER/Blade mods.

New Matrix Templates

We've also added 4 new matrix templates that will help bring the rare Sluice node more into circulation. When you encounter a Sluice Node, you'll find that all of its connections are one way - either IN or OUT but never both. This forces special routing in and around the node, forcing you to often take "one-way doors" through the Matrix.

So, be sure to scan ahead of yourself to see a Sluice node's connection set.

These additional templates also help buff the RCU matrix set for more variation and include Access Gate nodes as well.

We also fixed that one PTOR-Relay host that had 3 active CPUs! Never seen anything like it.

Rebuilt Timeline History

With this update, we've taken a moment to revisit and rebuild the timeline history. The old UI focused on a table where every row showed its full details but reduced the total number of rows you could see on screen and made it harder to post smaller events to the history log.

With this rebuild, we've compressed ever event down to a single line with its Title + Date. If you want to see the full details of the event, you can hover or select the event and it will pop up to the side with all the regular details you'd want to see.

This is especially important as we are preparing to update the types of events coming into the timeline history to include more events and some of small scope, so having them compressed will allow this type of logging, with more rows added.

Translation / UX Updates

With the TRANSLATION milestone now live, we're excited to be receiving feedback from players on places we can improve via the F10 system. Currently there have been 4 big areas of improvements that are captured in this update:

• English text that was missed - either accidentally written into code or for some other reason, this English text was missed during the entire process. Now it is playing catch up (like "Snap: On" or "Snap: Off"). We fixed over 15 cases of this as players dove into the game and reported the issue with F10.

• Longer strings overrun the UI - either due to longer words within the source language especially when combined with the Font Size option, there are still many places to keep working on with this type of issue. However, we slashed through the first 25 cases to get improvements for this build, including the green text in all weapon and armor hovers, the accuracy log being overly crammed, the rename window being too small and more.

• Translation mistakes, typos, missed terms - working with the translation team and from community F10s, we've fixed over 100 mistakes of varying sizes with the translations to keep improving. There will be on-going work to do in this area, so thank you advance for your F10s helping us more rapidly identify hot spots.

Fixed: Cold Storage "Go Crazy"

If you were running into an issue where Cold Storage could suddenly go haywire, stop updating images or show items you'd already sold it was due to one bad Armor Blueprint that is now fixed. Apologies for that!

v2.5.47 - #74: Shifting Sand - 3/12/2026

- Added 2 new Shadow Site loot sets (UltraTek, MATS) including 2 new programs, 6 new weapons, 3 new armors and 6 new ER/Blade mods

- Added 4 new matrix templates to increase the occurrence of Sluice and Access Gate nodes

- Compressed the display for the timeline Team History, allowing for more items on screen and better detail in hover

- Fixed bug with the "PT-Relay TOR" host template having 3 CPUs

- Fixed 25+ places across game where text wrapping or text overflow were causing issues (new game, EQ, accuracy breakdown)

- Fixed bugged armor blueprint which could cause cold storage to go hawywire

- Fixed issue where class icons were not always coming out correctly in training tree

- Fixed 15+ strings that were not translated (some combat logs, timeline "X more", "Snap: On" etc)

- Fixed some strings that were showing their code instead of translated string

- Improved over 100 string translations with better word choice, gender, plurality or terms not being translated

Knights and mercs - we are excited to announce we have launched the game's initial set of translations for 6 new languages: French, German, Italian, Spanish (Latin America), Polish and Brazilian Portuguese. In the following 1-2 weeks, European Spanish will follow. We'll continue to evaluate other languages for the future based on wishlist counts.

We hope all of our bilingual players who see this will dive in to check out the work we've done and help us share the game with your friends who might not have been interested without an option to play the game in their native language.

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If you find improvements we need, we'll make them

Thanks to a professional translation team we've worked with and many rounds of private beta community feedback, we're feeling very good about launching translations, but we don't expect that in a game as large and text-heavy as Cyber Knights, on our studio's first time internationalizing a game, that we will have gotten everything perfect.

We're a small team, and even with the professional assistance we've gotten, a couple dozen eyes between their team and ours can't compare to the thousands of eyes this launch will bring.

So please do let us know if you see anything in your language's translation we should take a closer look at; we're ready to quickly make improvements wherever you find they're needed.

Enjoy diving in with the new languages! You can bet we'll continue to have more new game content coming soon too.

Hit F10 to Share Feedback!

As always, the best way to share feedback for anything in Cyber Knights remains the F10 system (or on Steam Deck, left stick click).

Your feedback is automatically tagged with your language and put into a special bucket in our system to help us categorize and process issues with translation and how the UI might not always handle extended text due to translation perfectly.

We will be processing your F10s with determination and diligence to improve the game in every way we can.

Future Translations & Community Translations

We're finishing some extra work now on our European Spanish translation, correcting some pieces that didn't quite make the quality threshold in time for launch.

We'll consider translating to more languages depending on wishlist counts, so spread the word if you'd like to see your language added.

We also plan to add support for community translations when modding support is released later this year.

Also in this update...

Respec Extension

With this update, we've also doubled the respec timeline from 10 to 20 days. This gives you an extra 10 days at the start of the game to freely play around with your builds before needing tokens from your Simstream Trainer. And, in addition, when you get a new recruit now you also have 20 days to respec them freely to try to find their new build.

Controllers can get HUD Objective

With this update, we've made another important controller update to allow them to select objectives in the mission HUD. Then using the (A) button, you can get the camera to scroll to the objective if it has a visible target. This HUD selection was the last known controller gap (something you simply couldn't do) and it is great to get it wrapped up.

v2.5.45 - #73: Milestone: TRANSLATION

- Added game translations for: French, German, Italian, Spanish (Latin America), Polish and Brazilian Portuguese

- Translation for European Spanish coming soon

- Doubled the length of Free Respec at start of game and for new characters to 20 days

- Improved HUD for controllers, can now select and (A) objectives to scroll map to check them out

- Fixed issue with TRUCK JOB stage descriptions

- Fixed issues with header text overflowing bounds in screens like options on small resolutions

- Fixed bug where Wireghost's new -1 Connection Burn / Turn was not stacking correctly in UI even though it was applied in Matrix

- Fixed bug with game pause menu allowing input through to matrix even when paused

- Improved hover anchoring in cyber surgery screen to ensure no hover goes off screen

- Fixed imprecise rounding display of Team Power Level making it look like you reached TPL 10 (but actually 9.95) and got no achievement

Knights and mercs, tonight we have a big update setting down in New Boston. It has new bonuses wired in for the Extra Item Carry nodes, improved Blueprint selection for Secondary Objectives, some key fixes and balance around Turrets for Shadow Sites, and a massive pile of fixes for F10s reported by the player base. For your F10s and the chance to improve the game, we thank you!

If you're enjoying the steady pace of improvement and expansions, please consider leaving a review!

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Unlock: Extra Item Carry Nodes

We're excited to roll out the next steps in the plans around improving the Extra Item Carry nodes on your class trees. With this update, we've made 1 clarification, 1 simplification and 1 buff -

• Clarification: we have renamed the node "Unlock: Extra Item Carry" instead of "Passive: Extra Item Carry" as passive is a type of Talent.

• Simplification: there was no reason to have the upgrade nodes stacked vertically instead of stacked as a usual row of upgrades. We've made this node more like other nodes.

• Ok, another clarification: we fixed the incorrect text on the nodes claiming that they allowed only specific item types when they in fact allow "any item" to be carried.

• Finally, the buffs; with Update #72, each Unlock Extra Item Carry node has gained very nice class tree buff for your characters. Every node in all classes adds +0.1 Action Points and a powerful buff (above what you can get for 1 Level Point usually) that focuses on some of the core aspects of your class (Hacking for Wireghost/Hackers, Ballistic Damage for Soldiers, etc). These buffs are on the unlocking node, which means this node is valuable even if you decide not to purchase the upgrades and actually expand your item capacity. It also means you can get 2 of these nodes if you multi-class for a total of +0.2 AP and other excellent bonuses.

Shadow Sites Fixes + Turrets

First, if you had an issue with Shadow Site where the loot was shown in the objective llst as "ERROR" we have fixed this issue. We have both fixed it so that it cannot occur again and fixed it so that if you have a game that is currently on that mission in that state, it will resolve itself automatically when the game is opened.

Shadow Site mission description also now mentions the name of the merc who gave the tip on the site, in case you want to know exactly who it was later.

Finally, Shadow Sites are much more likely to include Turrets as a defensive mechanism. This is a great place to bump their priority, as Shadow Sites are supposed to be heavily defended. In a scavenger looting mission, you usually also can route around them if you can't straight up fight them, or it is time to invest in some more drone Talents to be able to jam them and pass them by.

Secondary Objective Blueprints

With Update #73, we've completed some significant rewrites to how Blueprints are selected when offered as the reward for secondary objectives like going fast or taking out a number of enemy guards. This should both increase the variety of Blueprints that can be offered by also widens the range of Power Levels they can be pulled from, which should have the overall effect of making these rewards more interesting to chase.

Mission Power Level

For those players playing on difficulty levels that reduce Power Levels, we've made some changes to how they display in the mission list. The mission list will now give you the Power Level at which the mission was generated at and not reduce it due to your difficulty Power Level offset and base. This prevents some difficulties from always so many missions as Power Level 1 incorrectly.

String / String Key Fixes

As we are wrapping up the translation for a public beta to Steam, we are chasing and resolving any string issues caused by the preparation of the source for final translation efforts. With this update, we've fixed the mission description for HIGH STREET and one of the Fadelight Blades missions that had both disappeared, fixed new typos, and fixed an issue with barracks tag sets in the Safehouse sometimes switching over to a key instead of legible text.

We're excited to be in the final motions with this project and will be bringing it to you soon.

Other F10s

With Update #73, we hammered the F10 list hard! The full list is in the changelog below.

We fixed an important bug that was allowing you to possibly gain more than 6 cybernetic implants. If you had entered this state, you won't be able to replace any implant again until you uninstall enough to return to the fair limit.

We fixed the lingering issue that the last Account wouldn't sell with hotkeys.

We rebalanced some of the Heavy Damage intrinsic Blueprints.

And we fixed a bug in New Game that could cause a lot of "invisible programs" to be spammed if you swapped Hackers repeatedly.

And so many more - but see below for everything. A huge thanks again to everyone in the community submitting an F10!

v2.5.43 - #72: Shattered Glass - 3/5/2026

- Powerful bonuses and +0.1 AP available to all classes in the root node for extra item carry (cost = 1 Level Point)

- Clarified text for extra item carry nodes - training a node allows +1 item carry of any type

- Simplified tree structure for extra item carry nodes - single line of upgrades instead of two singles

- Improved Blueprint selection for mission secondary objective rewards

- Shadow Sites are now much more likely to have Turrets defending them to increase their risk factors

- Fixed bug where a Shadow Sites might end up with missing loot that is shown in objectives like "ERROR"

- Improved mission description for Shadow Site missions to identify the merc who provided thie tip

- Improved display of missions in the mission list to show correct Power Level even with scaling applied

- Switched contact names in HOVERDROP WIPE description - description had Ghoul / Octane flipped

- Removed some Limit Break Temp Trait options from enemy contacts that didn't make sense / just noise

- Fixed bug locking up the game after the use of some attack Talents like Skullshot

- Fixed bug with melee weapons that shred armor suddenly stating they cause tiny amounts of Pure Dmg instead

- Fixed issue with HIGH STREET mission and Fadelight Blades missions where the mission description could be broken

- Fixed mismatched extraction points and objectives in Resupply Station map

- Fixed UI bug that could allow installation of more than 6 cybernetic implants

- Fixed bug that could prevent selling of the final Account using hotkeys

- Fixed matrix bug that could cause program charges to be incorrect on second connection to matrix

- Fixed new game bug that would leave extra inaccessible Programs around if you swapped Hackers during start

- Fixed issue where "0 Ready Mercs" on roster would show as broken string

- Fixed progression issues with Heavy Damage 1-3 Intrinsic mods

Join us on Friday, March 13th at 1pm US Eastern for a Trese Brothers developer livestream here on Steam!

Come see how far the game has come, hear about the next free expansions we'll be adding from the post-launch roadmap, pick up some tips & tricks from the creators of the game (or one-up us by sharing your own strats), and enjoy a good hang out with us.

Knights and mercs, this time when the hover truck comes down to drop off the update, it has a big F10 fixer, quality of lifer, translation prepper. The last few updates added story expansion with each one, and we've circled back now to clean up some of the issues being reported by the community and also to wrap up some text improvements for the next big phase of this thing called Cyber Knights!

We've made controller improvements, clarified rules for Leverages, added mission detail hover to Field Ops and Hacking Station, fixed bugs with Matrix Nuke, Full Auto with 2 AP and made a sweeping set of improvements to mission descriptions. And more - lots of F10s, thank you!

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Steam Deck / Controller Improvement

With Update #71, we've improved the consistency of the control scheme for controllers, Steam Deck and keyboards alike. Thanks to feedback from Zoarster on Discord, we have a new set of improvements we can work on in this is the first of a couple coming down the pipe.

On controller and keyboard, there was some confusion about which was the priority action if you had both a movement destination set and a Talent selected. This is a common situation because you want to be previewing the Talent range from your new location. The common pattern of play is to pick a movement destination, preview the Talents to ensure that they will work from your location and then to cancel (B) or execute (A) the move. However, if a Talent was selected, (A) would execute the Talent instead of moving the character. And if you hit (B), it would cancel the movement, not the Talent (until you hit (B) again).

This left the execute (A) and cancel (B) basically considering different actions the priority and makes the game harder to play. We have now straightened this out - if a movement destination is set and a Talent is selected, hitting (A) will execute the move and (B) will cancel the move. If a movement destination is not set, then hitting (A) will execute a Talent and (B) will cancel the Talent.

Hopefully you find this improvement helpful! Excited to hear from the community on it.

Clarified: Leverages can't stop Hunters/Bodyguards

We've had some questions recently about the Leverage that blocks Reinforcements. We've added some clarifying rules text to the Leverage to make it more clear - this Leverage can block Reinforcements sent by Security Escalations only - it is not enough to block Head Hunters, VIP Hunters or Bodyguards who are arriving to help a beleaguered VIP.

Mission Preview in Hacking Station / Field Ops

As your are browsing the mission list in your Field Ops and Hacking Station rooms, considering which Leverages you might want to spend your precious tokens on, it was not uncommon to need to drop out of the Command HQ to examine the missions in detail again. Which was which? Which was for Octane again?

We've helped resolve that issue by bringing the mission details panel into the Field Ops and Hacking Station rooms directly, making them hover off to the right of the Leverages list so you always know what mission you are picking Leverages for.

Mission Description Highlights and Improvements

As we continue to work on the translation project for the game, we had to make some wholesale improvements to the mission description text within the game to prepare it for translation. It was a bit of a wild west, not sticking to a clear enough format to share with the translation team to get consistent results.

Thankfully, the result of standardizing everything is that the highlighting of names, classes, factions and game terms within the mission descriptions is now so much more accurate and consistent. Everything should be lit up for you to help you parse the description faster and recognize game characters.

This did require about 10 hours of manual work and rewriting of strings, relinking and all sorts of error prone tasks. We did a ton of testing, basically kicking off every type of mission in the game and checking its text but we are sure to have missed mistakes. If you see any mission descriptions that are odd or show up as code instead of narrative text, just be sure to hit F10 and we will get them resolved very quickly.

So Many More F10s!

We also just fixed a general mountain of F10s for Update #71. We fixed strings that had broken in victory a few other places due to translation work. We fixed issues where you could get stuck in Full Auto mode if you only had 2 AP. We fixed Lumen Spear and other self-damage Talents not always doing the correct amount of damage. We resolved map bugs with reinforcements in open fields, matrix balance for a number of missions, off-centered and misplaced security devices, lockers you could walk into ... bugs and more F10s! Fixed! All fixed. Thank you for submitting them!

v2.5.39 - #71: When I say GO! ... - 2/26/2026

- Improved controller support so (A) when having both movement waypoint set and Talent selected executes the movement, not the Talent

- Clarified rules for Reinforcement blocking Leverages which cannot prevent arrival of Head Hunters, VIP Hunters or enemy VIP Bodyguards

- Added hover to Hacking Station and Field Ops Leverage lists to show details of mission

- Fixed rare issue where you could get stuck in Full Auto mode and unable to switch weapon with 2 AP

- Matrix Nuke button now correctly grays out of lacking AP to use

- Vastly improved highlighting of names, factions and terms in Mission descriptions

- Fixed issue with not taking self damage when using Lumen Spear abilities

- Fixed a possible lock up at the start of Sibling Breakout

- Fixed some open field reinforcements appearing in odd places

- Improved balance/scaling of matrix hosts in Sibling Breakout and Cube Run missions

- Fixed invisible wall bouncing grenades near stairs in River Street Bridge map

- Fixed bug where reinforcements might appear without outline on to match other enemies

- Fixed some security devices slightly off center or misplaced

- Fixed map bugs with lockers you could walk into in some maps

- Reduced overload of pings when a target of an AOE effect might be invalid

- Increased mission loading performance

- Fixed recruit dialog typos

Knights and mercs, we're here to drop another expansion of the Contact Limit Break system on the New Boston Zone. Tonight, the focus is on your enemies or those who hate or hold grudges against individuals on your team and allowing them to pay Head Hunters handsomely to settle these scores. Of course, this is in prep to release a new wave of Head Hunters into the NBZ ːtoxcloudː In addition, we've released variations of the latest head ware cosmetic options, and completed more parallel work with the game's translation team to get the English source into the best shape it can be.

Thanks to everyone playing and especially those enjoying the latest focus on improving the Contact simulation. This keeps opening up new and exciting possibilities. Cheer us on with a review! ːsteamhappyː

Our Save Game Policy and Updates

New Head Hunter Sources

While some hostile Contacts (those with status Burnt or Enemy) could dispatch Head Hunters against you through their Limit Breaks, Update #70 significantly increases the number of Casting Director matches that can allow for a Contact to decide that they do want to send Head Hunters.

To expand this footprint and help find more cases where a Contact on a Power Play may choose to send Head Hunters, we've built out the match set so that any Contact who Hates, Hunts, wants to murder, etc etc a member of your team (including your Face or Knight) may now choose to dispatch Head Hunters. This covers a number of Contacts who previously might not have opted into the option and generally increases the chances that you'll see Head Hunters coming out of Contact Limit Breaks enough to keep things more dicey out there.

Which is important, because in the next update, a new batch of legendary Head Hunters are coming to the NBZ and we need to make sure they've got contracts!

In addition, we've expanded a few places where it feels cool to have a specific storyline always risk generating a Head Hunter call. We've specifically added two story beats that allow Head Hunters to be sent - one for the starting Scourge (August) and the Syndicate Boss he tried to take out as part of his backstory. This Badu Jack may discover - on a Power Play Limit Break - his would be poisoner on your team and decide now is the time to take revenge.

In addition, the megacorporate lead behind Taylor Strizek's lab may also send Head Hunters if you've completed Truck Job Part 2 and dealt a disastrous blow to her organization.

Appearance Headphone Variations

Some of the most recently added cosmetic options were the headphones joined by a headband. They're a cool look for different characters but the band that was included could make them hard to use with certain hats and hairstyles as it was could cause a lot of ugly clipping.

Thanks to the players who requested the option, we have included new variations of these cosmetics simply without the band, which allows them to be used in more cases.

Improved Clarity / Fixed Text and Rules

As the translation project keeps ripping along, we've been making a lot of changes to the underlying English rules text for the game. In some cases, we've been removing old strings, other places we've been improving our consistency of use of terminology (in this update, Recovery Time vs. Injury Time is now always used correctly). And we've been doing other things that will be invisible to players in English, like splitting text for genders, reducing the complexity of some of the strings for translation, etc.

We also fixed a number of strings that accidentally got bumped and turned into string codes instead of English text.

If you do see a string that switches to a code, please F10 it and we will fix it quickly.

We're excited to be moving forward with our community review of the game translations! Stay tuned for more news and next steps for a upcoming public beta.

v2.5.33 - #70: Hunters Stalk the Shadows - 2/20/2026

- Contacts who specifically hate/hunt a merc on your team can now send Head Hunters when on Power Play

- Added two new cases where Contacts might send Head Hunters based on existing stories - after Truck Job Part 2 and starting Scourge's Syndicate target

- Added 2 modified cosmetic options - headphones without the band if you want to use them on hair / hats or other options that were clipping badly

- Improved English rules text for clarity, consistent usage of terms like Recovery Time and Injury time, simplified some Talent descriptions

- Fixed issues with random strings appearing as string keys instead of English due to mistakes in translation effort

- Fixed issue with the cybernetic eye implant popping off the side of some character's faces