Our latest coverage of The Cycle: Frontier.
Yager Developments continues to tweak The Cycle: Frontier based on feedback and data gathered in the PvPvE shooter’s ongoing debut season. This week’s patch focuses on making missions easier to complete and weapons easier to use. Mission clear requirements for both PvP and PvE have been adjusted with lower kill and hunting requirements while endgame weapons have had their recoil [...]
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Ensuring a game is balanced in all aspects is a never-ender ending challenge for developers, especially for PvP games like The Cycle: Frontier. It’s a challenge that the dev team is diving head first into following the start of the PvPvE shooter’s first season. Creative Director Dan Banefelt and Senior Combat Designer Michel Nohra talks about work being done in [...]
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PvPvE shooter The Cycle: Frontier has concluded its pre-season and officially begins its first full season following its Early Access launch earlier this month. The start of Season 1 also marks the debut of the game’s new Fortuna Pass. Like most battle passes, the Fortuna Pass features a reward track with various items that players can unlock for free as [...]
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The Cycle: Frontier is barely a month into its pre-season but the survival shooter is apparently already having problems with cheaters. Yager Developments rolled out the first game patch over the weekend that should help cut down on cheating although they didn’t really go into detail on what they did exactly. “We tuned our values in the afternoon and there [...]
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The Cycle: Frontier has soft launched on Steam and the Epic Games Store and is now free-to-play on both platforms. Developer Yager has also kicked off the PvPvE shooter’s pre-season in preparation for the start of Season 1 and official release on June 22nd. “Experience a high-stakes mix of PvE and PvP action on your own or with friends in [...]
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The Cycle: Frontier, Yager Development’s in-development PvPvE shooter, is officially launching next month with a pre-season soft launch of sorts scheduled for June 8th. Official release is slated for June 22nd which will also mark the start of Season 1. “Welcome to Fortuna III, a forsaken world where the stakes are high and the rewards higher! Prospect for resources and [...]
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It’s been over a month since the last The Cycle: Frontier beta test and developer Yager Developments is now working to act on the data and feedback gathered during the previous round of testing. In the team’s latest dev update, Executive Producer Jonathan Lindsay described the playtest as intense, with over 600,000 players joining the fray throughout its six-week run. [...]
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Uncertainty and unpredictability plays a big part in the core gameplay of session-based survival shooter The Cycle: Frontier. Prospectors never know who and what they’re going up against when they drop onto the surface of the alien planet to hunt for resources. Unfortunately, they also won’t know whether they’re going facing off against other solo players or groups whenever they [...]
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The Cycle: Frontier players having the time of their lives in the ongoing beta test will get a little more time to run amok in the game. Developer Yager Developments has announced that they’re extending the second closed beta by a full two weeks on account of the start delay and issues that still need to be addressed in the [...]
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After a short delay, Yager Developments is now set to kick off the second closed beta test for their upcoming PvEvP first-person shooter, The Cycle: Frontier, tomorrow, March 16th. The beta test was initially scheduled to start on March 10th but was pushed back by a few days while the developers did some last-minute polishing. “There are some things that [...]
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