The Cyber Knights: Flashpoint alpha launched very successfully. Several hundred of you have started playing and providing feedback. This starts a massive new phase of the project -- the march to Steam Early Access release. Were hearing so much daily about the fun & challenge, surprises, and ideas for improvement; its amazing. This is a huge step forward for the project and another moment to look back and thank all of our backers who helped make this possible.

Alpha Backer? Check your email!

If you backed at the Alpha Tier ($60 or higher), you should have received both an invitation email from App Center and an instructions email from andrew@tresebrothers.com. If you do not see them in your inbox, please check your spam folder. If you have questions or didnt get the email, reach out to us here on Kickstarter or in our Discord (type max!addrole and then check out the #alpha channels).

Alpha Phase 1 Recap

From our in-game analytics:

• Total Games Played: 1500
• Total Missions Completed: 300
• Loot Boxes Looted: 1,122
• Turns Processed: 5,535
• FPS Checks Performed: 186,000+
• Total Alpha Events Recorded: 298,000+

Phase 1 focused on the core tactical gameplay experience the mix of stealth and combat and your teams ability to pull off its first heist. Phase 1 was limited to:

• A team of 3 mercs armed to the teeth and ready to go
• One multi-stage mission to attempt
• A tiny slice of the game without any leveling, recruiting, healing, story, contacts, etc.
• No built-in replayability (had to start a new character)

Now after running for 10 days, Phase 1 is over and its time for --

Alpha Phase 2 Launches!

With each phase, the scope of gameplay will increase and more systems will be available to the alpha players. Alpha phases help us put a spotlight on different areas of the game; phase 2 is all about training your team and trying out new angles of stealth and combat gameplay. With a new heist mission available, the option to repeat missions, and the ability to level up your squad -- Phase 2 is significantly bigger than Phase 1.

• Skill trees for your three mercs are now available
• Two multi-stage missions to attempt
• Replay missions with the same squad to level up (up to level 6), try new ways with new abilities

Alpha Phases and Duration

With each new Phase, were providing new prompts in Discord for gameplay areas where we are specifically seeking feedback. Thank all of you for the thought and care youve been putting into your feedback! Everyone has been doing great staying on topic and focusing on the core goal of each phase. From our previous alpha experiences, this entire process will take 6-12 months, will include many Alpha Phases and possibly 100+ updates. This is a marathon process that includes you in the games development, not a quick sprint or stress test. Your feedback shapes the game as it grows from the central kernel of tactical missions to the full game experience by the end of the alpha.

If you havent yet: join us and help shape the game!

If you cant find the invite emails but know you backed at the Alpha Tier ($60 or higher), let us know! Reach out to us here on Kickstarter or in our Discord (type max!addrole after joining if you included your Discord username in the Kickstarter survey, or DM @Liviana for help getting set up). We look forward to hearing your thoughts on the game!

Reward and Stretch Goal Progress

For completeness, we have included the progress bar infographic in this update. We are excited to see a big white checkmark next to the Alpha! If you have any questions about rewards or stretch goals, check out the graphic or reach out to us.

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Explore the dystopian cyberpunk future of 2231 as you command a company of shadow mercenaries working for the highest bidder. Cyber Knights wraps a world full of consequential story choices and significant character development around a rich core of classic and new mechanics. The game combines tactical elements like stealth, hacking and tense combat with strategic features like base building, contact management and in-depth squad customization. Cyber Knights invites you to jack in and explore a unique cyberpunk world and the immersive, human stories of your merc team in the dark future of 2231.

• Turn-based Tactics: Deep and tactical gameplay using a turn-based, gridless third-person combat simulator. Cover! Overwatch! Recoil!
  
• Dynamic Cyberpunk Story: Unique interwoven narrative with depth, meaningful player choices and hundreds of hours of gameplay
  
• Sophisticated Missions: Combine stealth, hacking and combat across multi-stage missions. Gain pre-mission advantages from Contacts
  
• Endless of Builds: Experiment with endless combos of Jobs, cyberware, weapons and gadgets to build the perfect team
  
• Evolving Characters: Your team evolves as the story, your choices and battle leave lasting wounds, add Traits and threaten to strip their humanity
  
• Safehouse Base Building: Construct a custom safehouse and upgrade rooms such as weapon shop, hund kennel and medical bay.

Cyber Knights strikes a unique tone with a futuristic setting that has passed through the messy near-future to arrive at dystopian 2231. Man-made environmental disasters have ravaged our biosphere. Artificial consciousness has been created, subsequently murdered, and then strictly outlawed at a global level. Megacorporate colonies and research stations dot the solar system from Venus to Jupiter. Quantum computing has radically altered the digital landscape and the very meaning of privacy and digital security.

The game's threaded stories originate from both inside and outside your team -- weaving together threads from your hired mercenaries, criminal connections and history that just won’t die. These stories operate on three interconnected and at times overlapping levels -- personal stories (your team), contact stories (your employers) and event stories (city-wide).

And every choice you make and mission you run will impact your character's permanent Traits, changing them in both subtle and big ways. Their stories and your choices combine to create a unique narrative for every game, every Knight and every team.


The second game our studio created, Cyber Knights RPG, took hundreds of thousands of gamers on an gritty cyberpunk roller-coaster, trying to get rich or go down shooting. The classic Cyber Knights has always had a huge following within our community and we are xcited to come back to the world and stories we started creating there so many years ago with an all new game, Cyber Knights: Flashpoint.

We’re weaving together the genre’s classic themes with the unique setting and history of Cyber Knights to create some of the most cutting, gripping and human stories we’ve ever told. Betrayal, sacrifice, trading away humanity for an advantage, living fast and dying young, revenge and testing the bonds of friendship and trust -- it's all here under the New Boston dome.