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The Cycle: Frontier

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This product is no longer playable in any capacity. It is covered here for historical reference.

This page is for the 2022 reboot. For the original 2019 battle royal game, see The Cycle.

The Cycle: Frontier
The Cycle: Frontier cover
Developers
Yager Development
Engines
Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows June 8, 2022
Taxonomy
Modes Multiplayer
Series The Cycle
The Cycle: Frontier guide on StrategyWiki
The Cycle: Frontier on MobyGames
The Cycle
The Cycle 2019
The Cycle: Frontier 2022

Warnings

This game requires a constant internet connection for all game modes.

The Cycle: Frontier is a multiplayer game in the The Cycle series.

The game was shut down on September 27, 2023. As of the announcement on June 28, 2023, the game no longer has any items available for purchase for real money, and all players receive the Season 3 Fortuna Pass Premium if they did not own it before.[1]

General information

Official Discord server
Reddit Community Discussions
Official Game Wiki
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Epic Games Store (unavailable)
Epic Games Launcher
Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Windows
Steam (unavailable)
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Always online (requires a constant internet connection to play)
Windows
All versions require a constant internet connection for all game modes.

Microtransactions

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Initiate Pack
Windows
Professional Pack
Windows
Specialist Pack
Windows
Elite Pack
Windows

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\Prospect\Saved
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/868270/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/868270/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud

Video

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
FOV is Vert-.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
FOV is Vert-.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
From 80 to 100
Windowed
The window is limited to 1280x720p ingame. However the window can be dragged to any size.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Windowed Fullscreen only
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
TAA (forced on)
High-fidelity upscaling
DLSS 2.0
Game will be updated with DLSS 3 implementation in January 2023.[2]
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)
Color blind mode
The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, Music, Sound Effects, Dialogue, Hitmarker, Unfocused Window
Surround sound
Binaural Audio
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Needs to be enabled manually
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play
Co-op, Versus
Up to 3 players in co-op.
Shut down on September 27, 2023.[1]
Asynchronous multiplayer

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11, 12
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX
Audio Steam Audio, OGG Vorbis
Multiplayer Epic Online Services
Anti-cheat BattlEye

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10
Processor (CPU) Intel i5-4590
AMD Ryzen 3 1200
System memory (RAM) 6 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 37 GB
Video card (GPU) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760
AMD Radeon R9 270
2 GB of VRAM
DirectX 11 compatible
Other Target framerate for minimum requirements: 30FPS
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/868270/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (868270) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References