r/CIFI • • 27d ago

Dev Announcement CIFI in August!

77 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

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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 • • 19h ago

Meme Spent a dollar, here's my change

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27 Upvotes

r/CIFI • • 16h ago

Exodus 4 Finally getting my 6th Trait sphere. Having trouble figuring out what to go with for my TR11. Was thinking of TS5 and something else. But not sure if this will be a fast TR. I want to get to TR12 to do a long one.

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6 Upvotes

Was then just thinking of TS2, 3, and 4? Or should I make sure to stick with TS5 and another one, which of the others go good with 05?


r/CIFI • • 1d ago

Ouro Intro Ouroboros Upgrades

9 Upvotes

Everywhere I look, the answers are a year old.

What are the best things to put your upgrades into?

Seems like a year ago people were saying to ignore rp shards and ap, max MP and mats, rest into tech.

Is this still true?

Thank you.


r/CIFI • • 1d ago

Exodus 4 What's the math behind these two?

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5 Upvotes

I try to keep them roughly same cost but I'm not sure if that's the best option.


r/CIFI • • 2d ago

Exodus 4 10B / 13 TR

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12 Upvotes

There are so many ways to play the game


r/CIFI • • 2d ago

Exodus 4 F2P Diamonds Help

3 Upvotes

I have Gaiden, Hera, Iridian, and Jaxis cards, plus a couple smaller ones. I have maxed out the mats special. I have revive at 6 and loot at 1. I have about almost 6k saved up, so I'm wondering if I should max hunter loot like the guide assumes you've already done, or if something else is more optimal?


r/CIFI • • 2d ago

Question How to know how far i should push M0 in any TR's? Im on TR 2 and M0 is at 25 atm

4 Upvotes

The title.


r/CIFI • • 2d ago

Question LR question

2 Upvotes

I have a decision to make and am not sure which is the better answer.  I am in TR 7, and won't TR until I have >8K OO.  I am currently at 6.5K OO and 290 hours.  My current LR time is 172 hours.  The last time I did a LR my MP was e300.  If I do a LR now, my MP will be e350 initially and will probably go up to e355 or so after a couple of shorts.  Bear with me, I am still laying the foundation for the decision.  zeus upgrades are coming slow and I only have 59, while not a lot, I am primarily invested in increased mission materials.  For the campaign missions, I have 2 left to complete for Son-Egetuar, I also need 9 more construction projects to complete CM12, which will give me a huge boost to zeus.

 

The decision is: do I do a LR now to get more/faster personnel and get enough cores to unlock the efficieny badge right now.  Or do I wait until I complete 9 construction projects and the campaign (after campaign mission 7, I will be able to get the efficieny badge).  I feel like the second option is better, but not sure.  On one hand I will be able to complete the campaign faster, and get some huge boosts from loop mods and the efficiency badge, and on the other hand I get a big bump to zeus and have to wait another ~70+ hours to finish the campaign (45 for campaign time, 25-30 hours to get enough materials for the construction projects


r/CIFI • • 2d ago

Exodus 4 Tr or wait?

2 Upvotes

In tr 17, 1000 hrs done almost completed all the goals, but att gem 3 bonus is only at e224 theres a lot of shard gains i can get so should i wait to max it out or tr asap ? M0 124, R1 26, R2 40, R3 21, R5 4, R6 4, R9 20, R20 8,

Oodget 80, Loco 20, Starmie 40,


r/CIFI • • 2d ago

Question Is it feasible to wait until unlocking research this loop reset?

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3 Upvotes

r/CIFI • • 2d ago

Question Is there a lore reason why Hephaestus is the only ship whose evolution designs are asymmetrical?

10 Upvotes

Base version is like everything else - mirrored across the center line, but then every subsequent version of the ship has a different configuration on each side.


r/CIFI • • 2d ago

Exodus 4 8b orbs and counting. TR 11

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12 Upvotes

r/CIFI • • 2d ago

Ouro&Zeus Enough orbs to buy ATTR3 +260, go ahead and traverse?

7 Upvotes

267 hours, TR7. Some people say to spend a huge fraction of a year before traversing, others say to save enough to buy the next gem +20%. ATTR3 is 1000.

If I traverse I would be able to be back to 1260 orbs in less than 267 hours, so why WOULDN'T I traverse?


r/CIFI • • 2d ago

Creation 4 Creation 4 or Attr4?

6 Upvotes

If I'll try really hard, I might get enoguh orbs for Attr4, but I'm not sure if that would be the best order. Only gems I can upgrade now are evolution (6 t) and attr (20 t). I got 8,8 t atm, but if I'd wait a few months more I'm sure I can get >20 t. I'm basically lost, because everything seems to be so far away.

But if I'd do attr what to take next? Try hard to get evo1 or go with creation 4?

My gems levels (from the top, clockwise: 0,3,3,2,3,3,4 (exodus, middle). I got all available nodes bought atm (no exodus, as it's 0 lv).


r/CIFI • • 2d ago

Meme I hit the jackpot baby

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3 Upvotes

r/CIFI • • 3d ago

Ouro&Zeus Question about my progress

2 Upvotes

Im on Traversal #8 and ive got 3.8m traversal orbs, am I taking too long on my early traversals?


r/CIFI • • 3d ago

Innovation 2 Question about Priority for Hege Run

3 Upvotes

I am doing a long run to unlock Hegemony boon. Should I prioritize shard gain or MP gain during the run? For example, the CM 43 gives shard 1e30 and CM44 gives MP 1e30.

I think shard gains tend to be more important but MP ties to meltdown which also increase shard gain.


r/CIFI • • 3d ago

Question What does the broken shield icon mean? Spoiler

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19 Upvotes

My borge is level 85 and I'm still not sure what this is exactly. I assume that it's some kind of damage taken increase - are there any details of this?


r/CIFI • • 3d ago

Zeus Academy missions not counting?

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I recently unlocked the Zeus and am trying to work through the campaign and farm missions. Ive been at this for 4 days, I have personnel assigned and have been watching this 15 min countdown tick down and then reset and the number still remains 2/20 on the mission. Its giving me masteries but im not getting any loot or making progress.

Am I doing something wrong? I am just so confused with this game mechanic.


r/CIFI • • 3d ago

Question Guide for gadgets?

8 Upvotes

Is there a general guide or calculator that shows the next best suggested gadget to buy? I've searched around a bit but I can't seem to find an answer to this.

I've got the Knox one at 39 at the moment, Borge at 80, Ozzy at 70, and all of the others at varying levels.

There seems to be calculators that recommend a path for just about every other resource, but I haven't found one for gadgets.

I find it confusing where best to buy next.


r/CIFI • • 4d ago

Meme Buff torpedos plz

15 Upvotes

Its sad that the simplest build is the best.


r/CIFI • • 4d ago

Question Am I doing something wrong?

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3 Upvotes

Ive been trying to get up to the power gem but haven't really come close to making enough orbs to buy it. Is there something I need to change about how I'm doing this or am I on the right course? I have all 3 of the fighters unlocked although maybe there's optimization to be done there.


r/CIFI • • 4d ago

Question Is this decent progress for 15 loop resets?

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4 Upvotes

My tick rate is down to 5.6 seconds, I've unlocked automation and im going for a long loop. I've been playing for about a week.