GAMEPLAY / FIELD MANUAL
Explore a persistent city through story contracts, tactical fights and a growing collection of equipment. Here is what you can actually do.
FIVE IDENTITIES / ONE CITY
Your class changes how you fight.
Your choices shape what comes next.
OPERATIVE / RunnerRunner / Weapon damage / disruption
The streets taught him to disappear.
A former courier who moves through the blind spots of the city. Kai rewards an aggressive approach built around weapon damage and well-timed disruption.
OPERATIVE / HackerHacker / Implants / tactical interference
Every locked door has a language.
A former HELIX licensing specialist who escaped with the keys to other people’s implants. Nyx attacks through the network instead of relying on raw firepower.
OPERATIVE / DefenderDefender / Armour / survival
The last wall between them and you.
Once stationed at an evacuation corridor, Bastion now protects the people left behind. His larger health pool and damage reduction make him a durable frontline fighter.
OPERATIVE / MedicMedic / Recovery / sustained fighting
Life is not a corporate licence.
An underground surgeon who removes corporate locks from life-saving implants. Mira combines healing and offensive nanotechnology to recover from difficult fights.
OPERATIVE / EngineerEngineer / Energy / persistent damage
Broken machines make better allies.
A salvager from Station Zero who rebuilds machines that once hunted people. Volt manages energy and deploys a turret for damage over several turns.
COMBAT / READ THE NEXT MOVE
The battle alternates between your action and the enemy’s response. Standard PvE turns give you ten seconds to choose; the introductory encounter lets you learn without that timer.
EQUIPMENT / EIGHT SLOTS, MANY CHOICES
Finding a duplicate doesn’t erase what you already own. Each copy stays in your backpack with its own properties, so you can compare, equip, trade or salvage it.
ECONOMY / EARN, CHOOSE, REINVEST
Better gear opens harder contracts.
Spare gear can fund the next upgrade.
PvE contracts and story rewards provide credits and experience. Claim completed achievement rewards for more credits and parts. From level 2, visit the mine: each extraction costs 5 energy and yields experience and ore, with a chance of crystals. Selling eligible equipment to other players is another way to earn the currency you need.
Use credits for equipment in the NPC shop at the Market, upgrades and cyber-traps. A trap costs 150 credits and is consumed on each taming attempt. Equipment upgrades also require parts; dismantling unwanted gear supplies materials. At the mine, refine 5 ore into 3 parts or 1 crystal into 5 parts.
A seller chooses credits or crystals for each listing. Crystals come from mining and can also be received by selling items for crystals; they can buy player-listed equipment or be refined into parts. Compare the currency and total price before buying. These are in-game resources; this site offers no real-money purchases or cash withdrawals.
Travel to the Market or Auction House with a registered account. Choose an unequipped, non-starter item from your backpack, select a fixed price or auction, and set a duration of 1, 6, 24 or 48 hours. You can keep up to 10 listings open. The listed item leaves your backpack while the market holds it.
A fixed-price purchase transfers the item immediately. In an auction, the current bid is held until the result; if outbid, collect your refund through the market. When the auction ends, the winner claims the item and the seller collects the proceeds. The seller pays a 5% commission, rounded up to a whole currency unit: a sale for 100 returns 95.
An open listing can be cancelled only before it has a bid. After cancellation or expiry without a sale, collect the item back. Purchases and bids also check your level against the item requirement. Check the market’s claim and refund controls after a sale, an auction or an expired listing.
A monthly Battle Pass offers 10 tiers with a free track and an optional premium track for 200 in-game crystals. Earn 20 Pass XP for a PvE victory, 5 for a collected mining extraction, and 25 for a claimed daily job, up to 100 XP per UTC day. Premium lasts for the current calendar month and never renews automatically.
Unlock permanent profile frames, interface themes, gear artwork finishes and combat effects. The style shop accepts credits or crystals. Cosmetics do not change combat stats. At the end of a season, unlocked unclaimed rewards are collected automatically; your cosmetic collection stays with your character. No real-money purchases or withdrawals are offered.
COMMUNITY / THE CITY IS A NETWORK
Registered players can enter live PvP from level 3. Both fighters start with 160 health and 60 energy, using a separate duel ruleset with a 60-second turn timer. A missed deadline loses the duel. These matches record results but award no credits, crystals or experience.
The asynchronous arena is a separate activity against saved defenders; it does not require the other player to be online.
From level 5, form a team of 2–4 for Station Breach. The Choir-20 raid accepts 10–20 players from level 10. Players choose actions for each round: combine attacks, interrupt a dangerous overload with group hacking, or spend energy to support a teammate. Team readiness and coordination matter.
Use General, Trade and Help channels to talk with other registered players. Ask about a contract, discuss a build or find someone for the next run.
Use Trade to find buyers, then complete the exchange through a market listing. Use General to meet other runners and Help to ask how a system works.
BETWEEN CONTRACTS
Not every reward
comes from a fight.
Select a destination on the map and travel along connected roads. Travel takes time; location services and contracts depend on where you are.
Mine ore and crystals, gain experience and develop your mining profession. Collected resources support other systems, and the history helps you track what you earned.
Meet the conditions for cybernetic companions, obtain a trap and try to tame one. Their bonuses support mining; companions do not improve your PvP strength.
Early-access scope: the level cap is 100, while current story and encounter content develops through level 40. This page describes the systems in this release, not a promise of completed endgame content.
READY WHEN YOU ARE
The guided introduction gives you a place to begin.