Knights and mercs! This week's update brings you awesome new Custom Difficulty options to help you play just how you want to (thanks to all the players suggesting these!) as well as a big basket of new possible Retirement matches to make your team's retirement slides even more presonalized and more reactive to each merc's Loyalty.

We're excited to add 2 new Custom Difficulties - a limit on how often the Sec AI can summon reinforcements and a limit on how early any storyline that offers Retirement can appear. These two new options let your further tune Cyber Knights: Flashpoint to play the way you want to play!

As always, a big thanks to everyone playing the game, posting feedback and most importantly - leaving a review If you like the constant stream of updates, please take a moment to thank our small team with a review!

Since you'll always be seeing a lot of updates around here, we want to reiterate our saved game policy so everyone understands our commitment to your games. No saved game will ever be invalidated by an update. All new content and features will be added immediately to all saved games (with the reasonable exception of New Game options). You never have to restart if you don't want to. This is a studio commitment that we have made and kept for many years and games. We stand by it. So do not stress about the deluge of updates that is coming your way - heist on my good heisters.

Under Speed and Timers in Custom Difficulty, you can now find the Minimum Delay between Reinforcements setting. This setting will allow you to reduce the number of reinforcements in the game by adding an addition rule to the Sec AI's Escalations.

Every Sec AI has its own rules about how often it can call upon reinforcements but this new custom difficulty overrides that setting. You can go as high as limiting Reinforcements to once every 6 Turns.

All existing games and standard Difficulties leave this new option at 0 Turns, which allows the Sec AI to do whatever it wants (Sigma BLACK will use 0 Turns, while most other Sec AI will use 1).

Under Speed and Timers, you will also find the new Retirement Team Power Level setting. This setting determines the minimum Team Power Level required before the game will start offering any Retirement Storyline - specifically at the moment, the Daedelus Bloc Storyline, but this setting would apply to all future retirement expansions any any modding expansions that include Retirement offers.

So, for those players who might feel like Power Level 6 is too early for the Retirement storyline to appear and want a longer campaign to develop your team before the offer starts, you can now tweak this with Custom Difficulty.

If you want to create a special kind of challenge run, you can reduce the Team Power Level for Retirement to 4 and see if you can survive the Daedelus Bloc storyline at that early stage.

All existing games and standard Difficulties start with this as a default of 6 which is what it was before this setting was introduced.

We're excited to have finished a project to double the size of the current Retirement slide options with a new wave of 50 Retirement matches. These matches are also specially coded to take more ranges of Loyalties from 30% to 80% into account, driving good and bad results at different levels of severity.

This wave uses the Casting Director to match to a wide variety of Traits, relationships, backstory tags, and tags you might have picked up during missions or legwork. The set of 50 is roughly broken into 3 equal sized groups that match to the primary retirement result (what happens to you?), the secondary result (relationship or interpersonal result) and the tertiary result (something personal).

While this adds a ton of new options, it still does not mean that every character or merc will appear in the slide show (you need to match a primary result to get a mention in the slide show) but there is much better coverage in all the games that we looked at from player's F10s.

We also fixed a bug where some Hidden characters in your roster (created or hidden by certain storylines) were claiming Retirement matches incorrectly, sometimes leading to certain retirement options that should have appeared not showing up.

Remember that Retirement slides update every time you open the Retirement screen, so if you check some old teams, you'll see all these new fixes and new options immediately appearing.

With Update #89, we fixed an issue with the early tutorial where the first guard you were supposed to interact with was being culled by the system that removes enemies who are unfairly close to the player start position. In this case, this caused an odd bug and made the tutorial more confusing. We've resolved this one!

- New custom difficulty setting to control minimum turns between reinforcements

- New custom difficulty setting to control minimum Team Power Level for retirement

- Added 50 new retirement matches to help fill in your character's post-campaign story

- More retirement matches for 30% or 40% or lower Loyalty (bad) and for 60%, 70% and 80% (good!) Loyalty

- Fixed bug where some characters hidden by storylines could steal Retirement matches invisibly

- Fixed issues with existing retirement matches to correct missing names, etc

- Fixed Tutorial bug where starting guard discussed in the instructions is missing

- Fixed typos and minor story issues

- Fixed issues with SHOTGUN MILKSHAKE prison break mission - repeated dialog and inability to extract

Today we're kicking off a two-week sale & celebration around the game's 1-year full-launch anniversary (June 2nd)! 🎉🎉🎉 Thanks to the great reviews you all have given us on Steam, we've been able to pour a whopping 80+ free updates into the game so far, with more to come as the Cyber Knights playerbase continues to grow.

If you'd like to mark the moment with us, there are lots of great ways to do it.

• Join 9,000+ players in the Trese Brothers Discord[discord.gg] to share your characters' stories, talk tactics & character builds, build interest for mods you want to see when modding support is added, and more.

• Come chat with the devs during our official celebration stream, 2pm EST on https://www.twitch.tv/TreseBrothers -- ask us anything, hear about what's in store for the future, learn more about the lore behind Cyber Knights, and enjoy the party with us.

• Spread the word! Check your Steam friends for ones who have played similar games, shoot them a message asking if they've heard of Cyber Knights. We're 34%-off until June 10th and one of the highest-rated tactical RPGs on Steam; it's a great time to pick up the game.

When we launched Cyber Knights, we left a smattering of lore tidbits and story hooks outside the scope of the main playable content teased and available to be expanded on if they captured enough interest. Mercenaries in your squad aren't just a pair of arms to shoot a gun with, but characters with backgrounds and traits[cyberknightswiki.tresebrothers.com] that help distinguish them and the stories you create with them each playthrough. Sometimes they even bring stories of their own.

We're very excited to expand on one of the stories that's garnered the most interest from players, a merc who agreed to undergo a cutting-edge chemical neuro treatment on a team in the UKF (Ultimate Kill Fight) combat sports league. She put her life on the line for a promise of fame and fortune, but was left with broken promises and a deadly Neuro Rot disease.

Now, through 5 new hand-crafted missions, you can help Zasha do more work with the doper and combat drug dealer who has been keeping her alive so far. Will you risk yourself and other squad members to seek out the nearly unobtainable proprietary chemicals needed to finish her neuro conditioning, before she deteriorates beyond the point of no return? Perhaps even more important to her in the end, will you take the chance for revenge on those who abandoned her entire UKF team to this horrible fate?

Separate from the Zasha storyline, we've released two additional proc-gen Legwork storylines. These Legworks can attach to many different Contacts and can reappear, offering another way other than missions to help Contacts gain Influence (and you gain Favors with them).

We're always excited to use these to expand the world-building of the New Boston Zone, sending your mercs to dockside cargo yards and to the top of the dome (with serious risks if the merc you choose isn't up to the task).

With this update, there is a new service level for Combat Drugs which makes Last Witness and Polzak-72 readily available through fully upgraded dealers. In addition, through Zasha's storyline, an entirely new Synth Pit Drugs service can be obtained which offers exciting variations of illegal melee-focused combat chems.

Your Contact's Favors can already be used to steer their choices during their Limit Breaks, as well as getting access to valuable Leverage. With this update, we've added a new option to call in your Favors. Whenever purchasing something from a Contact who owes you a Favor, you can trade that Favor for a 25% discount on the purchase.

Obviously, the value of this trade is highly dependent on what you are buying. You'll want to be sure to save up extra Favors for these purchases with Contacts like those selling Cyberdecks, Programs, Armor and more.

We're excited to be restarting the map pipeline as part of the 1-year anniversary. While Cyber Knights already includes a wide selection of maps with hundreds of mission objective combinations, we're returning to the forge for a big drive of adding maps again. During the drive, we're hoping to add another 30% to the game's maps library for both story and proc-gen content.

Stay tuned for the first of these new maps and more to be coming out during this 2 week sale & anniversary celebration.

Thanks all! Hope to see you in Discord[discord.gg] any time and on our Twitch for the celebration stream on June 2nd.

Since you'll always be seeing a lot of updates around here, we want to reiterate our saved game policy so everyone understands our commitment to your games. No saved game will ever be invalidated by an update. All new content and features will be added immediately to all saved games (with the reasonable exception of New Game options). You never have to restart if you don't want to. This is a studio commitment that we have made and kept for many years and games. We stand by it. So do not stress about the deluge of updates that is coming your way - heist on my good heisters.

- Extended Zasha's Neuro Rot storyline to completion (death, revenge, 2 legworks and 5 missions, new ending Traits)

- Added new proc-gen Legwork offered by Contacts in drugs, medical, smuggling hi-tech - tagging cargo shipments

- Added new proc-gen Legwork offered by Contacts in milsec, corporate or syndicate factions - scaling comms tower outside dome

- Added new Synthetic Combat Drugs services via storyline (3 levels)

- Rebalanced Zasha's Neuro Rot Trait - more HP reduction, more Wound Res reduction, less Move Speed penalty, as it increases to 4 gains -Pure Armor and -Stress Res

- Unlocked new service level for Street Combat Drugs (level 4)

- Now spend a Favor to gain 25% Discount on any purchase from a Contact

- Fixed issue where you could not ESC to pause until at least one player took a turn

- Fixed issue with Simsteam timeline events sticking around even after removing mercs

- Fixed 2 cases where movement could lock up when moving near certain bridges or elevation

-Fixed bug where keys to pan camera were Y ... ASD instead of WASD