It's a great game, but it has a few MAJOR flaws.

The gameplay loop is really fun, you run around looting and killing, extracting and Dropping back in and that's basically the simplicity of the gameplay loop. The game is very heavily inspired by Escape from Tarkov but unlike the realistic route that EFT has taken, The Cycle is ALOT more arcade like making it much friendlier to newer players of the genre.

The visuals also look very good.

Though for some EFT players the Time to kill can make this game borderline unplayable, when you tap someone in the head and assume you've done alot of dmg with a AR but in reality you've dealt like 15 dmg can make the game feel very bad if you have the typical EFT mindset of just head,eyes killing everyone.
In The Cycle you really need to spray if u need to run with rifles.

something else that can make the game quite uncomfortable to play is that due to the longer TTK, it's alot harder to go solo against multiple opponents, however the players in The Cycle are alot more friendlier (atleast for now) than the EFT community so even if you're running solo against a squad u have a good chance of surviving if you try communicating with them.

However

the AI monster animations are subpar at best, they sometimes just slide across the ground when doing melee attacks (i assume they're supposed to be lunge attacks but they don't telegraph them at all at times, making it literally impossible to avoid, especially since their lunge seem to register hits somewhere in the middle of them lunging and not when they actually hit you so u can be up on a cliff and still get hit by their melee when they're below u).

Outside of that the absolutely biggest issue is the spawn killing. they either HAVE TO reduce the amount of players on the servers, making less people spawn in, set something up so people can't drop in if someone's close to the spawn point or remove the persistence servers.
I'd say that in about every 2 or 3 games i have the chance to spawn kill someone cause they drop in either right ahead or right behind me.

It's a great game, but it has a few MAJOR flaws. The gameplay loop is really fun, you run around looting and killing, extracting and Dropping back in and that's basically the simplicity of the gameplay loop. The game is very heavily inspired by Escape from Tarkov but unlike the realistic route that EFT has taken, The Cycle is ALOT more arcade like making it much friendlier to newer players of the genre. The visuals also look very good. Though for some EFT players the Time to kill can make this game borderline unplayable, when you tap someone in the head and assume you've done alot of dmg with a AR but in reality you've dealt like 15 dmg can make the game feel very bad if you have the typical EFT mindset of just head,eyes killing everyone. In The Cycle you really need to spray if u need to run with rifles. something else that can make the game quite uncomfortable to play is that due to the longer TTK, it's alot harder to go solo against multiple opponents, however the players in The Cycle are alot more friendlier (atleast for now) than the EFT community so even if you're running solo against a squad u have a good chance of surviving if you try communicating with them. However the AI monster animations are subpar at best, they sometimes just slide across the ground when doing melee attacks (i assume they're supposed to be lunge attacks but they don't telegraph them at all at times, making it literally impossible to avoid, especially since their lunge seem to register hits somewhere in the middle of them lunging and not when they actually hit you so u can be up on a cliff and still get hit by their melee when they're below u). Outside of that the absolutely biggest issue is the spawn killing. they either HAVE TO reduce the amount of players on the servers, making less people spawn in, set something up so people can't drop in if someone's close to the spawn point or remove the persistence servers. I'd say that in about every 2 or 3 games i have the chance to spawn kill someone cause they drop in either right ahead or right behind me.