The Cycle: Frontier 3.4.0 Patch Notes

Yager announced that The Cycle Frontier‘s Patch 3.4.0 drops tomorrow. More AI changes, Weapon Balancing, Matchmaking, Anti Cheat improvements, and a long list of bug fixes are on their way. This update will be deployed tomorrow, and the game will go into maintenance on June 7, 2023, at 8:00 AM, becoming inaccessible for a few hours.

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Weapon Balance, my old friend, it's nice to see you again! As a fun fact from our data, the three weapons that are the most requested to receive a balance pass are the Manticore, AR-55, and C-32 Bolt Action. This is something that we are always investigating and keeping tabs on behind the scenes, but after our feedback from the 3.2 patch, it seemed there were a few weapons that needed a bit more than just a damage value changed, so we’ve made a few more changes to lightly poke the meta to encourage a nice mix of weapons and keep things feeling fresh with your encounters. The vision that is planted in our brains here is to make sure our early game weapons feel like early game weapons without nerfing them into the ground or making them unusable in engagements with higher-geared players. However, with a TTK this short, sometimes that perfect balance can be hard to find. Having said that, minor changes are the plan for this one, let us know what you think!

Manticore (MK1 & MK2):

AR-55(Rusty, MK1 & MK2):

PDW (Rusty, MK1 & MK2):

C32(MK1 & MK2):

Damage falloff multiplier: 1.0 -> 0.7

We’ve heard your feedback that something just doesn't feel quite right, and we’ve noticed it in our matches as well. In order to address it, we’ve done some deep dive investigating to answer a few questions: Is matchmaking working as intended? Is "beginner matchmaking" working properly? Now this covers a really wide range of variables and not every player's reported issue can lead to the same outlier in the way our game matchmakes, but we’ve made some major changes to the way our matchmaking registers and removes players on a server, to prevent server over population, which we believe should fix squad separation issues as well. We intend to continue keeping a close eye on this topic, so please don't hesitate to reach out and let us know if you experience or notice any differences!

Fighting cheating is our number one priority, and we are aware that for some of our players the current state of the game is not ideal. As with every patch, 3.4.0 will contain various backend improvements and tweaks to our anti-cheat formula. In addition, we have added new systems to the game to help detect and prevent the kinds of cheats we have found to be the most common. While we would love to go into detail about exactly what is being changed, any info we give on our methods is unfortunately information that can be used to circumvent those methods. Regardless, we do expect that these changes should have a noticeable effect on the state of the game, and we will be monitoring them closely after they go live and adjusting them as necessary.

If you would like to contribute to the games anti-cheat efforts, reports are always one of the most useful resources at our teams disposal. Simply sending a report in-game can go a long way, and you can also make use of our #reports-and-appeals channel in our official Discord server if you would like to give some more detailed information to our anti-cheat team or would like to include a video clip with your report.

We hope these changes go a long way towards improving your experience on Fortuna, until next time Prospectors!

This one is a significant change for us, and we discussed methods to address item duplication in a way that was quick and impactful. This change will ensure the game instance has shut down and all players have left the instance before dishing out insurance reimbursements.

Additionally and for clarity, players participating in this exploit will receive a ban if they are found to be duplicating items. Don't give into the temptation!

While some of these issues might take a bit longer, we are still investigating and aim to find fixes and address these as soon as we can.

We are aware of your feedback that you want to see a default weapon skin setting.

We are investigating changes to the process of selling items smoother.

Deysnc Issues – we are cautiously keeping an eye on this topic and working with players where possible to investigate these instances.

Getting kicked back to the lobby is currently under investigation.

We received a bunch of reports that performance has taken a hit in Season 3 and are investigating.

Our Welcome Packs descriptions need to be reworded to reflect the disappearance of mandatory wipes.

Streaming tools can lead to crashes for some players.