Cyber Knights: Flashpoint

Cyber Knights: Flashpoint is a modern tactical RPG set in a world where the ecosystem has collapsed and only 112 cities remain, sheltered under massive domes or inside mountains. Artificial consciousness has been created, killed and outlawed globally, while megacorporations, nanotechnology and quantum computing have reshaped society. You play a character equipped to handle this world, choosing jobs and leading a crew through heists and other multi-stage missions.

Plan each job

Build your reputation by choosing jobs without taking on too much heat. Before a heist, work with underworld contacts to trade favors, pay bribes and gain advantages. Plan a route through multi-stage missions, and assign your crew to legwork that may reveal opportunities or threats. Your choices among factions, fixers, rivals, arms dealers and corporate figures can open or close opportunities; who you work for, fail or betray matters. Keep an eye on your heat and try to ensure more people owe you than you owe them.

Tactical combat

Combat uses gridless movement, environmental cover, specialized overwatch and initiative manipulation. Independent enemy unit AI supports different approaches: pick enemies off one by one, create diversions or use advanced technology to sneak past them. Powerful abilities, modified weapons and coordinated tactics can help, but going loud escalates the situation. Move quickly, avoid getting pinned down, complete your objectives and get out alive.

Build your crew

Extensive talent trees, more than 40 multiclass combinations, weapon modding, safehouse upgrades and evolving character traits give you different ways to prepare a crew for a job. You can customize and name characters, changing their hair, outfits, faces, eyes, tattoos, facial hair, accessories and colors.

Squad members change through play in response to your choices, their injuries, their interactions and even whether they take part in particular missions. The Casting Director story engine uses this information to select and place squad members and NPCs in world events and storylines for each playthrough. Characters may become betrayers, friends in need or villains, and new squads and choices lead to different stories.