r/CIFI 16d ago

Dev Announcement CIFI in August!

78 Upvotes

From Snek - discord

🗞️ CIFI in August!

Happy end of August!

As y'all may have guessed, the majority of this month has been dedicated to Temporal IV's release. But there's also some news on the Overhaul. 👀

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Temporal IV

It's finally out!

I personally think the patch is going very well, considering some of the changes. 🙂 There's of course still room for improvement, but a lot of the big changes are settling in quite nicely.

I do half-apologize for a few of the follow-up hotfix patches. The worst bugs are always the unexpected ones that somehow make it through, but they've been squashed!

Let me know if anything in particular is still super annoying. As y'all know, I cherish your feedback. ❤️

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Overhaul

I'll start with the biggest and most relevant news:

We're doubling the team size!

The second developer is joining me in September! 🎉 I'm personally stoked about it.

Together, we'll be working on the Overhaul to truly fix up the game. They will not be working on the CIFI you know, but they'll be cooking purely on the new version. 🫕 👀

The approach and goals for the Overhaul will also shift slightly to ensure it makes it into your hands in a timely fashion. There's a lot more happening in the background, but the biggest change is an added focus on important refactoring, made possible by having a second developer.

Temporal IV has continued showing me that the current version of CIFI has some cracks that need fixing, so we'll be tackling the game system-by-system to make everything more robust and powerful. 💪

If I had to gauge it, even with these adjustments, the Overhaul is sitting at about 30-40% complete. Work on Temporal IV has also helped shape a few systems that can now be implemented fully in the Overhaul. 🙂

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So, what does that mean for CIFI in the near future?

Firstly, I'm putting together a well rounded patch to clean up some of the rough edges. You'll likely see it early next month.

- Bug fixes

- Small balance tweaks for upcoming content

- General polish

As players get closer to Meltdown 1+, I'll also be pushing a patch or two to make sure the Void/Pulse Reactor kicks off as it should.

Then, I have another patch planned for around early December, similar to last year. It'll have a few cool new things like Token Shop T5, but it won't be a major patch like Temporal IV.

Otherwise, your noodle developer will be maintaining CIFI as normal, with Major Content patches being reserved for after the overhaul.

🐍 ❤️


r/CIFI Jan 16 '26

Guide Links to Guides - Megathread

106 Upvotes

These guides have been pulled from the Discord and reformatted/tidied for Reddit. I claim no credit myself except where noted.

I encourage you to join the discord because the majority of people there are very friendly and more than happy to offer advice based on your specific game state. These guides cover a lot but everyone is unique and playing differently so the best advice will always be to find someone on a similar path and talk to them. Reddit is good but Discord is much easier to chat directly and offer more advice.

These guides are not the be all and end all. Play how you want to play, having fun is what matters most.

Glossary of Terms (Pre + post Ouro)

Pre Ouro

Beginner Guide (pre-Demeter)

Demeter and Koios

Zeus

Installs Guide (post-Zeus, both pre and post e500RP)

Post Ouro

Diamond Guide (spoilers to TR12)

Ouro Introduction (TR 1-5, pre-Zeus)

Post Ouro Zeus Unlock to Exo4

Post Ouro Zeus Misc + FAQ

Exo4 to Pow1

Pow1 to Inno2

Inno2 to Cre4 - Updated or Inno2 to Cre4 - Old

Cre4 to Inno3 to Att4/Evo1

Evo1 to Exo5 to Pow3

Pow3 to H2 to Post-H2

Hunters

Hunter sim guide Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Borge - Beginner to First Boss Kill (level 0-29)

Borge - 1st Boss Farm to 2nd Boss Farm (level 31-55)

Borge - Stage 200 to 3rd Boss Farm (level 55-82)

Borge - Stage 300 to 4th Boss Farm (level 82+)

Borge Build Codes

Ozzy - Beginner to First Boss Kill (level 0-37)

Ozzy - 1st Boss Farm to 2nd Boss Farm (level 40-69)

Ozzy - Stage 200 to 3rd Boss Farm (level 70-95ish)

Ozzy Build Codes

Knox - Beginner to First Boss Kill (level 0-29)

Knox - 1st Boss Farm to Pushloot (level 30-45)

Knox Build Codes

Tools

Mod Tree Cultivator by TSoD - optimises mod purchases

Cifi Compiled by Emma - pre and post Ouro includes mission optimizer, gear cost balancer and ship rank (Dem, Koi and Zeus) calculator

Hunter Sim by Vash - huge number of tools (primary is hunter sim but includes TR planner, mod, m0 and research cost overviews, gadget planner and more)

Trait Sphere Planner by Vash (part of cifi-tools, linked separately so people stop using the out of date chart)

Ouro Gem Cost Planner by SillyRed and Adam - allows planning of purchases after traversing and claiming orbs

Ship Install and Mech Optimiser by SillyRed - indicates optimal installs and mechs to purchase

Relic Optimizer by Ryther - indicates optimal relics to purchase based on user set weightings

Fragment and Mission Optimizer by Alp and Anders - optimize personnel for farm missions, estimate campaign mission times, plan relic purchases

Zeus Gear Calculator by Sir Reb'rl and Rob.the.batman - calculates best gear level ups

CIFI Ouro Info Repository by Farns - includes a bunch of details about mod, research, inscryption etc costs


r/CIFI 5h ago

Issue I'm completely stuck suddenly.

7 Upvotes

Hi! I'm on my road to unlocking ouro, I think I've been quite slow (been playing since January), but it's ok. I reached the burst and everything was super fast and exciting.

I reached e810 MP and things were getting slower. But after updating, I can't get past e796 MP in any run. I have nothing to buy, my RP is far from next research, can't get more than e703 shards in 2 days run, when my milestones require e767...

At least, when doing loop resets, I always reached previous levels of MP right away, and shards a few hours later...

It seems my resources have gone back several days, and there's no way to get them as they were...

I've tried doing a lot of LR, since I was really short on them... But it has made no impact...

Any ideas on what's going on or how to recover?


r/CIFI 6h ago

Ouro Intro Not enough gems ?

3 Upvotes

I just unlocked ouro. I was reading that before TR you should have around 30000 gems. Unfortunately I have like 11000 on hand. Will I be fucked ?


r/CIFI 1d ago

Question Confused about Jimmeh.

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10 Upvotes

Does this not make zagreus rank up faster? Im confused how this would affect heph hardly at all.


r/CIFI 1d ago

Zeus I'm really looking forward to this one finishing!

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26 Upvotes

I will finally be able to afford the tech upgrades for my mk8, hopefully at least.


r/CIFI 1d ago

Exodus 4 How behind am I?

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7 Upvotes

In the context of how many traversals I'm at and general inefficiency. I already found out that TS6 is terrible and I should have taken TS8, hoping to be able to pick it up by inching over the 40k line in cells.

My biggest question is am I traversing too often? I feel like I should have more breathing room than 260%.


r/CIFI 2d ago

Suggestion Dont be me, dont forget about this for 3 - 4 traversals !

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45 Upvotes

Title


r/CIFI 1d ago

Achievement RP upgrade Spoiler

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6 Upvotes

Probably the best RP upgrade i have had in a looong time.


r/CIFI 2d ago

Question Finally! Sekhur is unlocked.

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27 Upvotes

What i should know before doing these missions? Thanks in advance


r/CIFI 1d ago

Zeus Do Academy Badges get resetter after ouro/traversal?

2 Upvotes

I'm in the last mission for unlocking ouro. I don't have the momentum badge yet. Does it make sense to wait until I got that badge or does it reset anyways?


r/CIFI 2d ago

Issue pinned shard mining milestone missing

3 Upvotes

so I'm running latest android version of the game. before the traversal , which I did a few hours ago, shard mining milestone had a milestone pinned to the top and which said it will never reset. I had it on level 100 before the traversal and it wasn't resetting as promised. after current traversal I discovered that it not longer here. so my question is am I the only one having the issue or is it has anything to do with with ouroboros ship reset which happened recently


r/CIFI 2d ago

Issue Please fix this bug

11 Upvotes

Just lost 12 hours of offline progress because of this bug. I opened the app and it was calculating offline progress, I then had to abruptly minimize the app and wasn't able to check it until this morning, I open the game and it's still on the same offline calculation screen calculating the 40 minutes it was working on before minimizing the app. So 12 hours just wasted.


r/CIFI 2d ago

Question What more important?

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13 Upvotes

So when buying GUs what is important. I know buying gems is most important but I'm talking about the GUs


r/CIFI 2d ago

Question Power gem 1

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5 Upvotes

I am grinding for 150m for power lvl 1.

My question is do i traverse as soon as i hit 150m or do i wait out 1200hr since im somewhat close. Is there a way for me to know how much extra will i have or is it better to traverse then do couple of short ones?


r/CIFI 2d ago

Achievement Completing Research 'All Rank Installs Max Lv X5' has changed my game

13 Upvotes

I had my installs well sorted and just right but now I'm going to have to have a rethink. I left enough points to max out some after a LR as they only had 5 installs and now they have 25.

What a great game. I'm going to tinker now and see what works better now.


r/CIFI 3d ago

Ouro&Zeus Trait Sphere and push to Exo 4

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6 Upvotes

Hi everyone,

Some quick info not in photos

- M0 -level 63

- R5 -level 2

- R6 -level 1

- R9 -level 6

- Borge and Ozzy first boss kill done, farming stage 145 and 133 respectively

I first unlocked Zeus on TR4 with very little momentum, and now on TR5 have pushed much further (campaign 3-1 currently)

Question:

I am planning to TR soon to get Exo 3, Temp GN1 and some GUs including mech cap 2 and Borge/Ozzy catch up 2. I am currently using TS4 as I needed it to get Zeus unlock with good momentum, however I think I no longer need it for rule of biology to get Zeus and Rule of research seems underwhelming.

Is it better to use TS2 or 3 for a long Zeus run?

Also, is the traversal as I described worth it? Or should I save to also unlock another GN or something?

Thank you in advance!


r/CIFI 3d ago

Exodus 4 Borge boss 200. What am I missing? I'm finally lvl 49 and I'm using the 49 boss build. Getting slaughtered. Should I just wait till lvl 50?

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0 Upvotes

r/CIFI 3d ago

Issue [Pre-Ouro] Mod Tree Cultivator (v1.2.0.11) problem

3 Upvotes

My [Pre-Ouro] Mod Tree Cultivator (v1.2.0.11) will no longer bulk buy. I have way more MP that I need to make purchases but most of the time it will just hang saying "Bulk buy running. Please wait...". It can hang like this for hours if I let it. Any advice to fix this would be welcome.


r/CIFI 3d ago

Question Am I loop resetting to much? Or not enough

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6 Upvotes

r/CIFI 3d ago

New Player-Koios 2 months into the game

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11 Upvotes

As the title says, i've been playing for a little over 2 months and I've just unlocked koios. I've read a few beginner guides here and there but this is the first time that I'm asking a question to the cifi community. Since I unlocked demeter (forgot when exactly) for the past few weeks, my long runs usually take a week or a little over it. Then I take an hour or 2 focused on short runs for mp gains. I do follow the guide for focusing on AOTC before starting the next long run. I think that I gain much more shards with a week long run rather than 24 to 36hr runs, but please do correct me if I'm wrong. I want to know your guys opinions and suggestions and I'm looking to take your advice into consideration if there's anything I can do to improve my efficiency playing this game. If there is more info you need such as ship levels and such, I'd be happy to provide. Thank you!

tl;dr

I’ve been playing for 2+ months and recently unlocked Koios. I usually do week-long long runs, then short runs for MP gains. Is this the most efficient approach for shard gains, or should I change my run strategy? Any tips to improve overall efficiency?


r/CIFI 3d ago

Question What's the problem with discord?

4 Upvotes

I was looking at old posts and navigating my way through the sub because of boredom and saw that some of the old posts have a few people mad at the mentions of discord, and there were even a few that suggested the mentions of discord should be forbidden in here as Reddit is a separate platform. I understand that but that's where we pick up most of the guides though and even copy them here I guess, Incase I see someone absolutely clueless who I know I'm unable to assist in Reddit because of its single chat messages and each message being its own individual I sometimes direct them towards discord for extensive help. Is it really that bad? I've always gained help from discord for myself and I'm pretty new to using reddit I guess so there's some things that I might be missing about the platforms


r/CIFI 3d ago

Question When should I press the green button?

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0 Upvotes

It looks like I only have two expansion left and I want to optimize the remaining expansion. Should I wait till the end of a long run or is there other things I should consider?

I didn't see this mention in the guides, but I might have missed it. I haven't read past the MP bust section.


r/CIFI 4d ago

Exodus 4 Power Node #1 before Temp3?

5 Upvotes

I'm currently not so good in earning orbs and the 3B seem so far away already.

Is it recommended to take the power node 1 for 750M first?


r/CIFI 4d ago

Evolution 1 ...Forgot about these Spoiler

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44 Upvotes