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The Cycle: Frontier
Released On: Jun 8, 2022
59
5.4
All Platforms
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
59
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
80% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
20% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
59
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
80% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
20% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
This interesting free-to-play shooter set on an intriguing alien planet
can be immensely satisfying or (more often) painfully frustrating
depending on how you fare and how well you manage your equipment and
finances in the face of losing everything you’re carrying upon death.
The Cycle: Frontier is a game that has a great foundation for the future. The PvPvE shooter shows no mercy. Other players will try to steal your loot and the only thing you can do is either run away and hopefully lose them or fight back and kill them before they kill you. The feeling when extracting after a tough run is phenomenal. A recommendation for anyone who’s looking for a free PvPvE shooter. However, the game also has still a couple of issues, which need to be fixed.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 33 User Ratings
5.4
36% Positive
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
21% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
42% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 33 User Ratings
5.4
36% Positive
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
21% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
42% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
This game was the best PvPvE extraction shooter I have played in the last 25 years. It checked all the boxes I expect from a game, albeit a difficult game requiring some dedication.
First and foremost, it featured an excellent level design, with lots of variety and depth (despite only three maps).
Secondly, the fantastic audio atmosphere also greatly contributed to the tension. You had a total immersion with flora, fauna, mobs, weather, interaction sounds. Every sound seemed carefully crafted and fit the purpose.
Finally, definitely a gorgeous lighting, with weather changes over great derelict sci-fi extra-terrestrial environment.
One could play solo, in duo or trio squads.
As a PvPvE game, one could decide to go full blast PvP, or rather sneaky and focus on Quests (some were grindy, some were exploratory, some forced you to go PvP).
The weapons felt very very good. Simple enough to not worry about extreme customisation, but with enough variations and specificities that you could realy find the ones that suit your gameplay. And best of all, you could immediatly identify them based on their in-game sound, which was great to evaluate risks of going PvP. Again, props to the first class sound design!
The extraction mechanism was fun. The events were creative (Laser Drill, Storm, Oil Pumps, Dungeon, Forge...).
Really, I can't stress enough how this game filled a void in the general gamescape, and is sorely missed by a core of avid players.
I spent more than 2200 hours on it and was not bored nor ready to see it disappear. A real shame.
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With over 600 hours on the game. I consider this game as one of the best PVPVE with extraction on the market. It is completely underrated and deserves to be much more known.
Strengths: - the sound design is absolutely excellent. One of the best sound design on FPS.
- The gameplay is very good and so is the atmosphere of the game. There is really a challenge and a difficulty that you feel.
- The game is demanding and requires you to relearn the basics of FPS, it's a big change from what we're used to seeing now.
- The developers are listening to the community and doing a great job.
- The shooting sensation is enjoyable and the fights are really tactical and immersive. You can do well with a good AIM, or by using your brain to deceive the enemy.
- The activation of the voice in localized gives incredible situations in the game.
Weaknesses: - The quests are a bit repetitive.
- The game is sometimes frustrating (like all extraction games). You have to get used to it and learn to play better.
- The updates have an annoying tendency to break the game every time.
Otherwise, it is an excellent game that has nothing to envy to an EFT or a hunt showdown.
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Mostly flash with very little substance. The incredible graphics and overall design draw you in but there’s not much to keep you there.
The Cycle: Frontier is well-polished but undone by tedium and a lack of imagination.
There’s a great game somewhere inside The Cycle, and lush world design, clever environmental layout, and solid gun feel all point towards it. Unfortunately, it’s all rendered into tedious, cynical nonsense by a mobile-game style approach to progression and monetisation, and a thin, repetitive core loop.
Game is a solid 9 but deserves a 10 to balance out the CoD kids and biased journalist reviews giving it a 0-3
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Cool scavenging concept for the royale game style, the non-player enemies are cool and would be nice to see that expanded.
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Графика и дазайн локаций красивые, но на этом все.
Ттк вдвое больше даже чем в апексе, я минут 10 кругами бегал под плотным обстрелом двух пати по 3 человека и не умирал. Очень мало шансов перестрелять двоих.
Нет смысла выполнять задания фракций, потому что они ничего полезного не дают, кроме рецептов крафта обвесов. Они по сути и не нужны, того арсенала, что выдают на старте, с головой хватает на кучу забегов. В этой игре буквально интереснее собирать баги, чем дрoчить квесты.
Игроки спавнятся примерно в одних и тех же местах, поэтому многие пати бегают по спотам и убивают всех на старте.
На релизе остались все технические проблемы беты: крашится звук, рандомно просаживается фпс и тд.
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El juego desde el principio es malo. El entorno tiene colores bonitos, pero está mal optimizado (yo juego con una RX 6600 y tiene feos bajones de FPS). El tutorial es aburridísimo y lo tuve que abandonar porque me pedían como objetivo una cierta cantidad de items que no podía obtener ya que me habían mandado de vuelta a la base (la misión de mejorar el camarote). El juego consta de recolectar cosas a granel y disparar una que otra bala de vez en cuando. El problema es que si te matan pierdes todo, y para que no te maten tienes que escapar en una nave gigante que todos la ven y que se demora como 1 min en despegar. Al final todos campean las bases donde tienen que llegar las naves para robarle los items a los que recolectan. Las misiones que tiene son ultra repetitivas a más no poder. En fin, un juego con potencial por su entorno colorido, pero insufrible como propuesta jugable.
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Summary The Cycle: Frontier is a free-to-play PvPvE Extraction Shooter driven by suspense and danger. Prospect for resources and other riches on an abandoned alien world ravaged by a deadly storm, inhabited by monsters, and frequently raided by other ambitious Prospectors.