Yager The Cycle: Frontier Season 2
Art Blast

Season 2 of The Cycle: Frontier introduces a new map to the game, daring our players to explore and loot the “Depths of Tharis Island”.

Our talented team of artists had the challenge to create the first accessible “Progenitor alien ruins” without giving away too much. The goal was to inspire players with the awe and curiosity of an archeologist or cave explorer descending endless chasms, following waterfalls into the dark, or crawling behind the walls of dormant ancient machinery.

One of the tasks for the team has been to add depth to the location, hinting at its backstory, and rumors of incredible riches and terrifying beasts dwelling in those caverns. We also needed to show players they are not the first prospectors to visit the island. Two of the three key factions in the game, Korolev and Osiris, had operations running on Tharis Island, and none of their staff made it out during the evacuation. Players can follow several new questlines to uncover what happened to them. Various new and exciting character, weapon and melee skins have been added to the game telling the story of a mysterious cult harassing the research and miner teams and preventing them to get to the legendary core of Tharis island.

It was a pleasure to see that much new content added by our very dedicated team. Many features of the new map required close collaboration of nearly every discipline. For example, we created minable glowing crystals that players feel sorry for when they get hit by a pickaxe, or the ominous thing deep within the map that features some of the most exciting gameplay, impressive environment art, sound, and great VFX.

Mathias Wiese, Art Director
YAGER

Concept Artists

Yuriy Mazurkin – Principal Concept Artist

Viktor Fedotov – Senior Concept Artist

Lukas Kuhn – Concept Artist

Alessandro Tommasini – Concept Artist

Character Artists

Mauricio Garces – Lead Character Artist

Carl-Christian Gehl – Character Artist

Victor Regis – Character Artist

Environment Artists

Fabian Bodet – Lead Environment Artist

Matthew Brady – Senior Environment Artist

Jesus Orillan – Senior Environment Artist

Tuur Sangers – Environment Artist

Angel Dura – Environment Artist

Technical Artists

Malte Szellas – Junior Technical Artist\

Malte Szellas – Junior Technical Artist – YAGER – The Cycle: Frontier Season 2

Malte Szellas – Junior Technical Artist – YAGER – The Cycle: Frontier Season 2