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Steam News7 July 20261mo ago

CyberJoker Patch 0.9.3 – VFX Overhaul for Cybernetic Card Immersion

Greetings, Resistance Fighters of the Rust Belt! Thank you for all your frontline feedback in our fight against the Machine Regime.

In this update5

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Full CyberJoker update

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Repeated intro

Greetings, Resistance Fighters of the Rust Belt!

What changed

3 fixes2 additions5 changes0 removals
  • Balance
  • Fixes
  • Gameplay
  • Performance
  • UI and audio
changedGreetings, Resistance Fighters of the Rust Belt!
fixed🔹 Tech Cards – Data-Flow Light VFXFixed stretching artifacts on 168×196 rectangular card assets, replacing them with wave-edged, short-form data-flowing light strips that mimic ocular scanner pulses
added🔹 Weapon Cards – Energy Shield Ripple VFXReduced ripple density and added edge falloff logic to prevent water-like distortions from obscuring card text or numeric values
changed🔹 Weapon Cards – Energy Shield Ripple VFXDecoupled ripple animation speed from card rarity tiers – visual behavior is now controlled exclusively by dedicated parameters
changed🔹 Weapon Cards – Energy Shield Ripple VFXExposed independent tunable parameters: [c]Ripple Speed[/c], [c]Ripple Strength[/c], [c]Scanline Density[/c](Weapon Cards only)
added🔹 Crystal Cards – Quantum Refraction VFXAdded a new [c]Refraction Strength[/c]parameter to dramatically increase screen distortion, simulating the light-warping properties of quantum crystals

CyberJoker changes

changedGreetings, Resistance Fighters of the Rust Belt!
fixedFixed stretching artifacts on 168×196 rectangular card assets, replacing them with wave-edged, short-form data-flowing light strips that mimic ocular scanner pulses
addedReduced ripple density and added edge falloff logic to prevent water-like distortions from obscuring card text or numeric values
changedDecoupled ripple animation speed from card rarity tiers – visual behavior is now controlled exclusively by dedicated parameters
changedExposed independent tunable parameters: [c]Ripple Speed[/c], [c]Ripple Strength[/c], [c]Scanline Density[/c](Weapon Cards only)

Thank you for all your frontline feedback in our fight against the Machine Regime. This update delivers a complete overhaul of our three core card VFX suites, fixes legacy visual bugs, and doubles down on the gritty, neon-drenched aesthetic of 2077’s cyberpunk wasteland. All parameters are fully exposed for designer tuning, and every effect maintains consistent playback speeds even at 4x game velocity.

✨ Core Optimizations

🔹 Tech Cards – Data-Flow Light VFX

  • Fixed stretching artifacts on 168×196 rectangular card assets, replacing them with wave-edged, short-form data-flowing light strips that mimic ocular scanner pulses

  • Eliminated visible seams along flow edges for smoother, non-distracting transitions that never obscure core card text

  • Exposed independent tunable parameters: [c]Flow Speed[/c], [c]Glow Intensity[/c], [c]Scanline Density[/c](Tech Cards only, no cross-effect interference)

🔹 Weapon Cards – Energy Shield Ripple VFX

  • Reduced ripple density and added edge falloff logic to prevent water-like distortions from obscuring card text or numeric values

  • Decoupled ripple animation speed from card rarity tiers – visual behavior is now controlled exclusively by dedicated parameters

  • Exposed independent tunable parameters: [c]Ripple Speed[/c], [c]Ripple Strength[/c], [c]Scanline Density[/c](Weapon Cards only)

🔹 Crystal Cards – Quantum Refraction VFX

  • Added a new [c]Refraction Strength[/c]parameter to dramatically increase screen distortion, simulating the light-warping properties of quantum crystals

  • Increased refraction animation speed by 60%+ to eliminate the previously sluggish, barely noticeable effect

  • Fixed a bug causing sparkles to render as harsh white squares – replaced with soft, circular quantum highlights with no hard edges

  • Exposed independent tunable parameters: [c]Refraction Speed[/c], [c]Refraction Strength[/c], [c]Sparkle Density[/c], [c]Sparkle Brightness[/c](Crystal Cards only)

🛠️ Additional Improvements

  • Reorganized material parameter UI into collapsible, card-type-specific sections for faster designer iteration

  • Fixed an issue where the global time uniform was overridden by material default values, ensuring all VFX remain synced to unscaled delta time even at 4x game speed

  • Decoupled glow intensity from card rarity tiers – rarity now only affects glow tint, while brightness is controlled exclusively by the dedicated glow parameter

Source

Steam News / 7 July 2026

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