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.
Next Patch
These are the known info, changes and fixes in the next upcoming patch.
Version: Likely 2.7.0
Release date: Unknown
Changes
- Hunter Vision will potentially be back in 2.7.0, as mentioned by Justin on Discord. Reiterated by Feralus on Discord.
Bug-fixes
- No publicly available information yet.
Other
- No publicly available information yet.
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 2.6.0
- Player Reporting
- It can happen that you get stuck when reporting another player. A restart will fix this and we have it on our "to fix ASAP" list.
Known issues from previous Patch-notes
These are known issues according to previous patch-notes, but do not have an fix announced and was not included in the latest patchnotes.
- 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
- There is a known issue where medkits causes aim to wander of on it's own. A hotfix is being developed for this with information sent out in #announcements and #important-news on Discord.
- Some loot-crates are visually shown as closed, but might already be looted/does not transition into opened graphically after looting them.
- Insurance not giving any payout is being looked into according to Justin in a message on Discord.
Frosty Frontier Fest
- Winter event. Exact details unclear but was announced during the December Dev update. There is also an announcement in the official Discord.
- Sign up for newsletter before December 21'st in order to get free items/cosmetics on the 22'nd December.]
- Unclear if more content relating to this might arrive at 22'nd.
- Official Livestream will be held in connection to this on December 22'nd at (7 PM CET / 1 PM EST) according to Discord announcement. and will be hosted on Twitch, Youtube and Steam.
- A Community Challenge will be available for all prospectors. More details on it will be announced on the 21'st of December according to Patch Notes for 2.6.0
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).
Post season 3
The following content has been previously announced as coming post Season 3-launch but without further informatiuon on when.
Content in-work without public timeline
Content that is known to be worked on or hinted/rumored.
Known content being worked on
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.
- Name change feature has been in the talks for a while and was once said to be available "hopefully sooner rather than later..." by Justin on Discord.
- Account linking just like name change have been in the talks and is said too be coming out at a later date by Justin on Discord.
- Potential Waypoints that are shown on compass/map, but not as a ping, has been hinted at being looked into in a response from Feralus on Discord, to a suggestion made by Jaunus.
- Fixes and updates to audio has been hinted as being fixed/looked into by Feralus on Discord.