This major milestone unlocks a much needed option to increase the pace of play by skipping through enemy turns that aren't exciting to watch or are not directly impacting your team. This isn't likely the final improvement we can make to pace of play but it is definitely the biggest so far. We've also added much needed step out mechanics for grenades as well as the Agent EX's Shadow and Glitch Talents. This greatly increases the value and versatility of these Talents and lets you use them with the same asymmetrical advantage around corners that you are used to with weapons. Even better news, we're not done! June is still ticking and we've got 3 more major milestones to hit. Let's go, New Knight V2 and Crafting!
We did say the end of June would be BUSY! So here we are with back-to-back major milestones (DOMINION and now GO FAST), each a much needed feature that has been in the works and testing for months now arriving at last. If you like this maniac pace of updates and improvements, please hit the review button! There is no better way to thank our team steamthumbsup

Skip Enemy Turns

In any tactical game, playing at your own pace is a key part of enjoying yourself. For some players, enemy turns in Cyber Knights: Flashpoint have always dragged on, especially as there can be a lot of enemies who are walking, patrolling, hunting your mercs without finding them and this can soak up time. With this major milestone update, we've finally hit the goal of adding a Skip Enemy Turn option for you to decide how fast or slow you want to play. With this new feature, whenever an enemy is taking their turn, a prompt shows above the enemy turn banner inviting you to skip ahead, fast forwarding the rest of their turn. If you do so (default, ESC or (B) on controller) the enemy's movement for the Turn will be rapidly displayed as a red movement destination and then their Turn will be over and on to the next thing! If the enemy is deemed to have some important impact on the Turn, such as finding a body, spotting a merc or running into your Overwatch firing zone, the turn will not be skippable. Therefore, this fast forward feature is most helpful during patrolling, hunting and enemies sent by the Sec AI to investigate troublesome events on the map. Once the firing starts, there will be less skippable enemy turns. We're excited to hear your feedback on the feature and how to improve. It drastically increases the speed of play but we could dig deeper and try to squeeze more if you, our players, are hungry for it. For example, we might:

• Add an option to skip every enemy turn possible without requiring you to hit a key. Without a doubt this sacrifices battlefield and tactical awareness for speed but let us know if you'd want this.
• Further improve the types of turns that can be skipped, including combat turns.

Hit us up on our Discord, the Steam forums or in F10s - you know we are here to chat and eager to improve, so let us know what you'd like to see to further polish this lovely new feature.

Step Out for Grenades, Glitch, Shadow

We're very excited to make Grenades, Glitch and Shadow so much more natural to use. The days of having to risk an extra AP to step around a corner to throw your grenade are finally gone. With step out nicely integrated - just like firing your weapon - your merc will automatically step out around corners to get the best line of sight toward whatever you're targeting.
For Glitch and Shadow which don't bounce when they hit something impassible but are fully stopped, this is even more important to make the Talents useful at sharp angles around corners. It's a huge improvement to bring all the Talents that rely on line of sight or throwing arcs up to the same standard so there isn't a confusion or surprises as you try to execute your team tactics.

Targeting Improvements for Slashslide, Glitch, Shadow

We've improved the targeting rules for Slashslide, Glitch and Shadow to prevent them from being used directly on top of another merc of enemy. In the case of Slashslide and Glitch this prevents the ... glitchy ... result where you and the enemy are occupying the same space, clipping together. Assuming they survive! And for Shadow, this avoids the very hard to predict behavior where you can't be sure which way the enemy AI will interpret the Shadow wants them to look.

Sync Talent Upgrade 6

We've added a 6th upgrade node for the Cyber Knight's Sync Talent which grants another +10m range. This will help for those players that know they like to split their team up but still want the advantages of the power strategies like Knight using Precomputed Advantage on themselves as their last action for the Turn, smashing a 25 Initiative for the next Turn and then using Sync to get the entire team to the front of the starting line for the Turn. That extra +10m helps everyone stay in the quantum rider's envelope and get those advantages.

v1.7.3 - 6/21/2024

- Skip enemy turns by hitting cancel (ESC, B) - movement is previewed and skipped - Skip enemy turns especially speeds up gameplay during enemy patrols, hunting and when moving to investigate - If enemy is "in the action" their turns cannot yet be skipped - Turns of enemies considered far enough away to have no impact are still skipped without camera focus (see options) - Cornering / Step Out now works for Grenades, Glitch, Shadow, Slashslide - Improved targeting rules for Slashlide, Glitch, Shadow and other Talents to avoid targeting directly on top of merc/enemy - New Cyber Knight upgrade node for Sync Talents offers third +10m range - Fixed issue when purchasing treatment where the availability of space at the clinic (1/2, etc) was not shown - Fixed lock up after setting Flexible Difficulty in Safehouse - Fixed hovers over NBS Cubes in Safehouse HUD