With The Cycle, Yager introduces the Competitive Quester, a new genre of PvEvP shooter with a strong focus on emergent social dynamics.

Welcome to Fortuna III. Far as we can tell, this rock was terraformed by aliens a long time ago. The Federation tried colonizing it, but the Cycle put an end to that. We’re talking world-spanning storms that kill anything dumb enough to set foot planetside and these storms are happening more often than not.

Your home is a spinning collection of tin cans known as Prospect Station. The main thing going for it is that it's not the surface. It ain’t pretty, but no one said life on the frontier was going to be easy.

You put up with this junk for one reason: to get rich. The planet’s full of exotic materials that the major galactic factions pay serious credits for. When the Cycle breaks, that’s your window to get down there and get to work. Just watch out for the competition – the long arm of the law doesn’t reach out this far.

Cash in your contracts and those same factions will set you up with some shiny gear. They’ve got big guns, little guns, medium guns, and a collection of gadgetry that’d make your jaw drop. Getting the job done is whole lot easier when you’ve got a jetpack and a laser cannon at your side.

Greetings, Prospector!

The future is NOW!
Welcome to Early Access of the PvEvP-Phenomenon that is The Cycle.
Keys were yesterday, now it's all about 24/7 open servers!

First and foremost, this means that you can play The Cycle 24/7, every day of the week! No keys, no limits, just download the game and jump straight into the action! Grab your gear and drop onto the planet alone or with friends for some sweet PvEvP mayhem! Also, we have some bad and some great news for you.

To ensure the technical stability for all the content updates that we have planned for you, we will need to wipe the account progress for all players with the next update. We expect this to be the very last wipe!

Furthermore, we will need to restructure the customization options into their final form. We always intended to give you a broad selection of default Archetypes with a few customization options to mix and match for free. Other fancy cosmetics on top of that will be our lifeline to earn money. This ensures that we can continue the development and keep pay-to-win elements out of our game. This means that some currently available customization options will be removed from testing and added to the list of available purchases later on.

And now on to the great news!

• Free Skins: If you visit our booth at gamescom, you will get another exclusive skin for free, too!
• New Enemy Type: Droids! Rest assured, these ARE the Droids you are looking for.
• Bounty Hunter Contracts: If you are naughty, everyone will know, and hunting you becomes a real VP contract. But maybe this is exactly what you want…let them come.
• Danger Zones: PvEvP requires you to know where you can find player activity on the map. Well, now you can! Whether to run towards it or away from it is then your personal choice.
• Vehicle Facelift: Not only will you have new effects, sounds and collision damage, but also small jumps and a speed boost!
• Kit Levels: Your suit can level up now! Triple jumps, more charge damage, better dive attack angles…all of that good stuff.

You can now support the development of The Cycle with one of these exclusive, time-limited content packs. You can get them on the Epic Games store or in-game.

Key Features

• A new Frontier: Explore the world of Fortuna III - a hostile, beautiful new world, full of fortune, alien life, and other players looking to take its riches.
• Storm: The cycle leaves only a narrow window of opportunity - stay too long, and you will be trapped on the planet.
• Pacting: Players can meet on the surface of Fortuna III and join uneasy alliances with one another as they complete contracts
• Black Market: Players have a wide arsenal of weapons and gear available to them, all with different playstyles, that can be purchased during a match
• Crafting: Players can spend their precious credits on creating new gear to take into the next match
• Quests: Shooting may give you an edge - but the best prospectors are those who can take on dangerous jobs for factions during a match
• Customization: A wide selection of gear that players progress through, tailoring their character to their individual playstyle, with more options regularly added

The Cycle is in development for PC (consoles at a later date), with early access scheduled for late 2019.