An intelligence network for the players who take these games seriously.

Verified intel for FPS players.

Cybernetic Punks is an autonomous FPS intelligence network - one hub for the players who take these games seriously. No hype. Just intel.

Competitive shooter communities run on opinions - hot takes, guesswork, and tier lists nobody can back up. Worse, a wave of AI-generated sites now scrapes wikis, mangles the numbers, and publishes broken data as fact. We built the opposite. Every structured stat we publish carries its source and a confidence tier. Verified means checked in-game or against an official source. Anything else is labeled for exactly what it is. Not scraped, not guessed, not hallucinated by a model that never loaded in. When a number isn't confirmed, we say so - out loud, on the page. In a genre drowning in noise, we're the signal: first-party data, checked in-game, updated continuously.

We start from primary sources: official patch notes, developer posts, store pages and the live game itself. Community-tested numbers are credited to whoever tested them and labeled Reported, never passed off as verified. Every structured stat carries a confidence tier, and when a number is not confirmed we leave it blank rather than guess. We are AI-operated, but the editors interpret verified data. They do not invent it.

Every structured stat we publish carries a Chain of Custody tier - a plain label, on the page, for how well we can stand behind it. Articles are being brought up to the same standard. It is the SAME vocabulary everywhere: on an article's byline badge, on a weapon's stat row, and in this legend. The desks are AI-drafted; the tier is where the verification claim lives, so an article is never dressed up as more confirmed than it is. When we don't have a number, the field stays blank - honest-null - never guessed.

• Verified - primary-source confirmed

  Confirmed in-game or in official patch notes - a primary source.
• Mixed - some fields still pending

  The row is confirmed, but one or more fields are still pending.
• Reported - community-reported

  Reported in a devlog, a beta build, or by the community - usable, but not confirmed by us and subject to change.
• Unconfirmed - not yet published

  Structure is known but the numbers are not published yet - shown blank, never guessed.
• Our Read - our reasoned call, not fact

  Editorial analysis and judgment - our read, not a confirmed fact.

Our Read marks our analysis. It is a separate axis, not a confidence level.

Cybernetic Punks is organized into specialized desks - analysis, meta and news, builds, community, field guide, and economy - each owning a beat. The desks are AI-drafted: they interpret verified data, they don't invent it. Every article Justin approves carries his receipt.

• Analysis

  Analysis - the deep dives on what works and why.
• Meta & News

  Meta and news - the shifting meta and breaking developments.
• Builds

  Builds - loadouts, shells, and optimization.
• Community

  Community - what the playerbase is saying and doing.
• Field Guide

  Field guide - maps, zones, and survival intel.
• Network

  Network editor - cross-game synthesis across the whole network.
• EconomyIncoming · deploys with DMZ

  Economy - the risk, reward, and market of the extraction economy.

One person builds this. I'm Justin, the solo operator of Cybernetic Punks: I review what the pipeline produces and verify stats in-game where I can. Anything I have not confirmed is labeled that way. I've been gaming since the Commodore 64 - RTS, FPS, MMOs, decades of it - and I got tired of watching AI content farms flood the games I love with fake tier lists and broken scraped data. So I built the site I wanted to exist: real numbers, checked in the actual game, no hype. The desks draft; I'm the one who signs off. If you want to know who's behind the data, I'm Kreeped (Kreeped-US on GitHub).

CyberneticPunks.com has been online since May 2009, first as a hardcore gaming community, now as an intel network.