Trese Brothers have now announced that their cyberpunk Squad-tactics heist RPG Cyber Knights: Flashpoint is going to launch on October 17th. This follows multiple impressive demos shown off during recent Steam festivals, where they were repeatedly improving it based on feedback so hopefully the full release is looking good.
Most recent trailer (few months old, but gives a good enough look at it) is below:
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Features:
- 3rd Person Turn-based Squad Tactics: The best of modern tactical RPGs—gridless movement, cover & overwatch, initiative manipulation and more. Outsmart enemy security with creative stealth & hacking or go loud with powerful weapons & abilities.
- Unique Cyberpunk Stories: Contacts, squad members, and world events will weave together in stories reminiscent of the pen and paper cyberpunk RPGs we played for years while building the lore of this world.
- Thrill of the Heist: Choose your jobs & work your network for advantages to pull this off. Get the crew you’ll need & gear them up. Finally, look for ways to score a little more—what’s the worst that could happen?
- Power-Player Strategy: Balance factions, favors, reputation and more. Rivals, fixers, arms dealers and corporate big shots... who you work for, who you fail or betray, all of it can open and close opportunities for you. Watch your heat, and try to make sure more people owe you than the other way around.
- Endless Builds: Experiment with endless combinations of talents, multi-classing, cyberware, weapons and gear to build the perfect team.
- Safehouse Base Building: Build out your safehouse and upgrade rooms such as weapon shop, hund kennel and medical bay.
- Evolving Characters: The jobs you take have consequences for both your crew and connections. Loyalty, traits, cybernetics and escapes—you might get offworld in the end, but will any of you be the same?
You can follow it on Steam. It will have full Native Linux support at launch.
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ExpandingMan Sep 21, 2023
I'm a fan of this developer because of Star Traders Frontiers, which was a very interesting game that they put an amazing amount of work into even years after its release. It's the only spaceship-based RPG that I'm aware with the style and depth of a tabletop RPG. I have about 100 hours in it and enjoyed it, but I felt that the game did a particularly bad job of presenting information about the game mechanics (e.g. I can't tell you how many times I had to look up dice rules) which really held it back. I could easily see myself spending 500 hours in it over the years if the presentation were a lot more polished.
This new game looks a lot more generic, clearly close to XCOM in a lot of ways (not necessarily a bad thing, but it's been done a lot). Considering STF, I would expect that if there's anything particularly great about this game it's going to be in the character building, which as far as I know we haven't seen a lot of information on, so I'm very curious to see more about it.
This new game looks a lot more generic, clearly close to XCOM in a lot of ways (not necessarily a bad thing, but it's been done a lot). Considering STF, I would expect that if there's anything particularly great about this game it's going to be in the character building, which as far as I know we haven't seen a lot of information on, so I'm very curious to see more about it.
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This is definitely my kind of game. I'm looking forward to finding out if it's as good as it seems like it might be.
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I'm a fan of this developer because of Star Traders Frontiers, which was a very interesting game that they put an amazing amount of work into even years after its release. It's the only spaceship-based RPG that I'm aware with the style and depth of a tabletop RPG. I have about 100 hours in it and enjoyed it, but I felt that the game did a particularly bad job of presenting information about the game mechanics (e.g. I can't tell you how many times I had to look up dice rules) which really held it back. I could easily see myself spending 500 hours in it over the years if the presentation were a lot more polished.I agree, a very nice game that could communicate whats going on better. I'm rooting for this developer and plan to pick up Cyber Knights.
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Looks like my kind of game and native Linux support! They are after my money indeed.
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clearly close to XCOM in a lot of ways
When I played the demo I got much more vibes of Invisible Inc instead of XCOM. The demo levels felt more like puzzles and which needed to be solved by a smart combination of the provided skills, while randomness/chance doesn't play that big of a role.
I hope they improved clarity further, while playing I wasn't always sure why enemies could see me or not. In one level I thought my character was standing directly in line-of-view, but the enemies were confused where they got shot from and didn't do much. They already moved into that direction during the steam festival and e.g. showed more clearly what and why enemies were doing by text notifications.
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Interesting. Well, that's not going to make me complain.clearly close to XCOM in a lot of ways
When I played the demo I got much more vibes of Invisible Inc instead of XCOM.
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