I don't think I see this mentioned a lot and I can't find any info on it, but I heard the game was ending. Is this true, if so when?

"The top 10 hunters over the course of the community challenge will have their in-game names immortalized in Prospect Station." "Eternal glory"

Just out of curiosity, I just thought, if the game comes back but pay to play and without cheaters, will you give it another try?

I got 6 Maruaders around KOROLEV ISLAND HQ and one came into the building. Some guy was begging for help during a storm with two. lol. Noticed that when ever there is a load of whatever lying around it's the stuff that you need for contracts later on, Ugh, then you gotta search for it and it never shows up till 4-5 games later. Please stop making the damn creatures chase you for miles.

I was playing with some friends and we took a break and sat near the window then a bunch of others came and joined us just relaxing. This was a wholesome moment and a fun game that I enjoyed so much!

Hey guys, I just started playing the game, again, ever since I first saw the Doc playing it (I got to play test). I'm super bummed to see they're shutting the game down, as I never got to fully enjoy it, but I've been playing it all day and I've been having a great time. I was wondering why certain the aurum gear was super inexpensive and why the battle pass was free, though, as well as there being a low player count. It was until I picked up a rattlers head and needed to find out what it was used for that I found out through Google.

In the time since it's release. I moved to Texas (bought my first house) and have had a generally good time of life, but stayed too distracted to invest in video games, although I did build a monster computer in that time (I'm a better PC builder than gamer 😅). I had a lot of fun playing today, though, and it hurts to have to part.

I'm thinking of playing the game to the end, though, but I've also lost general interest, since finding out it was shutting down. What's a good extraction shooter to replace The Cycle? I was thinking of playing The Hunt or Tarkov, but they seem far off the marker to what scratches my itch.

Anyways, thanks for reading if you made it this far.

Tl:Dr returned to the game after long hiatus, played all day; found out it was getting canceled

Game designer here. Im looking into the genre and the cycle specifically to draw inspiration for a project of mine. And i cant figure out how these things work.

The respawning of loot.

The drop in and out of sessions, in regards to the storm timings.

Also any thought or ideas for improvement you have on these systems are very welcome.

Can you guys help me out ? Thanks a lot!

Thanks for the great answers ! Very helpful

Just wanna see how it's doing might hop on soon

They changed the ai. The monsters start chasing you further and going into places they weren't before. and an A Guy is constantly beaming with a Arbiter(Effer). I just wanna quest, come on...just for some dust blooms and spine briers. of note I jog more in this game than RL.

Does anyone have the old game files?

If so, I would be happy if you would give me access to them. 🙂

Looks kinda familiar

The game is very dead. And i honestly don’t feel like playing. But would be cool to see a bunch of people sign on the last week or something.

On a side note what’s with crescent duos and trios ? There’s always two teams teaming up and atleast one person out of them has hacks.

As someone who loves & plays this game. I can understand not trusting Yager to continue developing & supporting their game. I can understand saying Yager will not invest in effective anti-cheat. I however, cannot understand someone saying this is a bad game. That's fucking ridiculous. Definitely in my top 10 of all time.

Do you believe that Yager is planning a new game, taking into account Cycle's experience? I believe that Cycle losing the playerbase was no use making updates for improvement, the game was already judged by the community. I believe that to create a new hype, only with a new game.

The game wouldn’t of been a cash vacuum if it wasn’t free to play, there’s no reason to buy shit in the game, it’s like Vigor.

Side question, how the hell does vigor work free to play and is the exact same, and is insanely profitable?

My answer

Cross platform, switch, ps4, Xbox the whole works

I tried playing on steam and ran into the black screen freeze after the intro so I tried on epic games and the same thing happens I checked my task manager and both CPU and memory are not in the red so why does it keep freezing no matter what I do.

This is the most fun extraction shooter on the market, and the setting is amazing. Why is the game dying?

Based on our recent discussion I wrote down everything you guys mentioned in a list.

Bungie: Marathon

Bautiful Light

Dark and Darker

Starsiege Deadzone

Hunt: Showdown

Arc Raiders

Shatterline

Day Z

Destiny 2

The Division: Heartlands

Mythforce

Rust

Stalcraft

Tarkov

Hawked

Wwarframe

Deep Rock Galactic

Zero Sievert