Future Content

Many things are added, removed or changed on fortuna over time, but as luck would have it, some of these things can be predicted.

Here we try and help Prospectors keep up with upcoming changes and additions to The Cycle: Frontier, so that they can prepare accordingly.

Disclaimer Please keep in mind that this is a community-driven post that is based upon publicly available posts and interpretation of said post. Yager is not involved in the writing of the information contained within, nor does it reflect their internal planning and release-schedule. Anything contained in this post is subject to changes or misinterpretation. We strive to keep it updated with as good of a source that we can, but even Discord-posts from CM's may not always turn out as expected.

Content in upcoming patches

Content and changes hinted or confirmed for upcoming Patches.

Next Patch

These are the known info, changes and fixes in the next upcoming patch.

Version: 2.6.0

Release date: Expected to release on 14^th December 2022 as mentioned on Discord by Feralus.

Changes

Changes to matchmaking for both New players and Balance overall
- to further improve QoL for new players. Mentioned by Feralus on Discord for 2.6.0
- to lessen risk of people running into overgeared players, like by changes to MMR-brackets/Matchmaking calculations. Mentioned by Feralus on his off-duty account at Discord.

Bug-fixes

Fixes to finally correct the AI-desync issues. Feralus shared some information that AI-desync issues should finally be fixed in 2.6.0 over at Discord

Other

Feralus hinted that some "rewards for something" is "coming later this month". By the wording and the known Patch-date, it can be assumed that this will arrive in 2.6.0.

Post-2.6.0 / Frosty Frontier Fest

This is content known to arrive within short, but unclear if it is part of patch 2.6.0 or a potential patch the week after.

Frosty Frontier Fest

Winter event. Exact details unclear but was announced during the December Dev update.
- Sign up for newsletter in order to get free items/cosmetics on the 22'nd December.
- Unclear if more content relating to this might arrive at 22'nd.

Content in future seasons

Content that have been confirmed or strongly hinted towards specific upcoming seasons.

Season 3

The following content has been announced for Season 3.

New Tools of the Trade
New enemy – The Howler is a force to be reckoned with, and their ability to fly makes for a new and unique threat on Fortuna III.
Improvements to the Station, Fortuna III, and some QoL updates
Events
New Quests
- Both Campaign and Missions as revealed in December Dev Update
New gadgets / consumables for more tactical depths
New Sci-Fi weapons
New Fortuna Pass content
Anti-Cheat improvements
Economy changes was announced during the December Dev update.
Loadout presets finally confirmed and scheduled for season 3.
Free loadout run was announced in the December dev update. Allowing a player to go in with a free set that they will be able to keep if they succesfully extract with it (This can be compared to Scav in Tarkov from the sound of it).

Content without set date

Content that have been announced or mentioned as being worked on but still have no set date, patch or season that it is expected to release on.

Currently working on

The following content is known or mentioned to be worked upon currently, but no specific date or patch for when it releases.

Changes and new content

and MMR-system. Unclear if matchmaking is the same as planned for 2.6.0. As for MMR, Feralus mentioned it as being on their plate at the moment over at Discord.
gameplay adjustments
wipe adjustments
Weapon inspect animation

Known issues

These are known issues that are currently being worked upon but have not been mentioned as to when they will be fixed.

Known issues from latest Patch-notes

These are known issues according to the latest patch-notes, but do not yet have an fix announced. Last updated for Patch 2.5.0

Hunter Vision will remain disabled for now as Yager is still trying to figure out issues with it. Still a big priority on their side.
Weapons
- There are multiple hit registration issues present at the edge of the AOE when shooting with the Komrad.
- No-reg hitmarkers and kill markers reports are being investigated by the team.
Fortuna Pass
- Claiming an Archetype displays duplicate body parts beside it (Chest, Gloves, Boots).
- After completing one level purchase in the 'Fortuna Pass', the next consecutive purchase displays the icons of items from the previous purchase.
Gear visibility
- In match, Prospectors doesn't see their Backpack (can be evident when emoting) but can see other Prospector Backpacks.

Known issues mentioned outside Patch-notes

Prospectors spawning ontop or right next to other prospectors
In-Game report system crashing the game (Workaround is to use the report-channel on Discord)

Post season 3

The following content has been previously announced as coming post Season 3-launch but without further informatiuon on when.

Hinted content and rumors

Content here may have been hinted towards or rumored and as such, may or may not actually be added. Please keep this in mind when reading this section. Some hints or rumors here will be more or less plausible than others. Make sure to check the sources and decide for yourselves.

Mid-Season Events. This has previously been hinted at being possible but was recently brought up as hopefully being possible "once things are more... stable" by Toast
Seasonal Rewards. Some form of permanent reward for participating in seasons, such as cosmetics, were hinted at by Toast on Discord, as a possibility in the future, but it's still not confirmed or set in stone.
WIPE-Mechanic. Changes for how wipe works was hinted at by Toast on Discord, in order make them "a lot more fun and something to actually look forward too".
Quest-overhaul. Possible big overhaul of quests for Season 3 along with the previously confirmed new quests, was hinted at by Toast on Discord.
Item-bartering. Potential barter systems to get different items by trading in other items has been hinted at several times as an alternative to player-trading (which is not endorsed by Yager), recently it was hinted at again during G-Star QnA
Leaderboard/Ranking. During G-Star QnA it was hinted that some form of way to measure which Prospector that is the best is being looked into.
New NPC's and NPC-loot. More enemy types as previously announced will be coming to TCF and during G-Star QnA it was hinted that there will possibly be some form of enemies that might drop Weapons and Gear in the future.
Potential Christmas/winter-event(?). Hinted by Kev on his off-duty Discord account. Please keep in mind that it was a simple reaction to a question and falls much more into rumor than hinted content. Some more substance has been hinted towards this in a announcement on Discord, another update with Justin potentially hinting towards something around xmas.