Terrans development plan has been derailed as you may be aware. The team have been progressing with planned updates that have at this point come to a complete stop. We will not waste your time with excuses and reasoning why that is the case, only to say that we have taken this opportunity to step back, assess and plan a way forward. With that said Heathen Engineering have not shut down and will not abandon the game nor the players that have supported it. We are not yet in a position to announce our future plans for Terran but want to let you know that we are here, and we are working away. We will not be communicating on the state of Terran again until we have some news for you, and we will be available on the forums - happy to answer any other questions we can. In the meantime, please be safe, wash your hands and we hope to see you again soon.

Patch 1102 is available for PC, Mac and Linux with a host of system and gameplay improvements with more to come. Terran may be released but that doesnt mean we have stopped listening. Many of the adjustments youll find in this patch were inspired by your feedback. Want to see what's coming next? check out the Terran Roadmap on Trello

Patch 1102 Key Updates:

• Research requirements have been adjusted giving you access to Dust and Rock worlds from the start as well as the Battlecruiser.
• Station mechanics have been changed and will no longer force an attack. Stations now slow and damage hostile fleet elements over time giving defenders more time to react.
• Sight has been changed such that you now require line of sight to see enemy fleet elements and system detail.
• Warships now have a missile barrage (used in combat), missiles apply area damage and are most effective against clustered formations.

Additional Notes:

• General performance improvements have been applied to several sub-systems involved with the galaxy map. This should notably improve performance in late game.
• Added a notification when it has been 5min since with no active research task. This is to help remind players they arent currently researching anything.
• Dust, Rock and Battlecruiser technologies no longer require initial research. These technologies will be available for use and upgrade from the start. This change is retroactive and will apply to existing saves.
• Added links and UI elements directing players to the Terran Walkthrough play list from the tutorial screen and menu
• You can no longer build space stations if you have insufficient credits and resources to do so.
• Corrected issues with the in-game tutorial not accurately highlighting areas of interest in the system panel
• The minimal ship count for the Fleet Editor window will now update based on the number of ship types you have added to the fleet
• Star systems can no longer be colonized unless you have direct line of sight from a ship, station or star system.
• Issues with Music and UI sound effects have been corrected.
• Warship damage output has been increased with the addition of missile barrages. Missiles apply an area of effect damage type on impact and are most effective against tightly clustered ships.
• Gar ships have new attack patterns in combat
• Adjusted the frequency of damage effects on structures and Gar when in combat
• Adjust the base armour and shield strength of Gar
• The intro window displayed at the start of a new session has been updated to explicitly state the object, Conquest and to describe the objective.
• Station mechanics have been changed and now apply a snare and damage over time effect to hostile ships within its range. This change also applies to citadel systems
• Enemy fleets and system information now requires direct line of sight, enemy influence area is still available without direct line of sight.

Heathen Engineerings Terran to include post-release content updates.

Heathen Engineerings Terran will be released on March 21st 2019!

Patch 1076 is live for PC, Mac and Linux!
Patch 1076 brings support for Steam Workshop, Multi-language and another pass of bug fixes and optimizations. For patch notes please see the 'Patch 1076 iteration' card in the Terran Roadmap.

Steam Workshop

Multi-language Support

Patch 1066 is live for PC, Mac and Linux!
Patch 1066 updates the underlying engine and addresses a number of bugs and general improvements. For patch notes please see the 'Patch 1066 iteration' card in the Terran Roadmap. Summary of changes follows:

• Engine update applied, an additional update will be required to bring the engine to the target version and is expected to be available around the end of Q1
• Corrected an issue when attacking a station where it would not be possible to auto resolve the battle.
• Corrected an issue with the technology panel which would case the 'read panel' to display the wrong technologies information
• Corrected an issue with Gar elements that have fled a battle that would cause them to immediately return to the site of the previous battle.
• Updated various UI elements to generally improve quality and performance.

Patch 1034 is live for PC, Mac and Linux!
Patch 1034 addresses a critical bug identified with the previous patch (#1024) where in with the system panel while viewing an unclaimed system. The bug could cause build buttons to be disabled when they should be active thus preventing players from claiming the world. A hot fix has been built, internally tested and released to both Beta and Default targets. We will continue to iterate with frequent small patches over the coming weeks with Steam Announcements reserved for hot fixes and major patches. For the latest view of whats being worked on head over the Terran Roadmap on Trello ... find it here.

Patch 1024 is live for PC, Mac and Linux!
Patch 1024 brings with it a host of new features as well as polish to existing mechanics. In this patch we are introducing Gar capital ships, powerful, ornate symbols of your empires might. We are starting with 3 Gar to choose from and plan to introduce more options as we round out Phase 3. Each Gar has a unique visual style, stats and bonuses and 5 unique abilities. Coupled with the new Gar capital ships is a revamped progression system, adjustments to economy balance, AI behaviour and more. Below you will find a list of the major changes and additions with this patch.

• Economy Report A new metrics display detailing your economy can be found in the trade view. This view shows a breakdown of credits, resources and influence generated by population, trade hubs, industry hubs, research hubs, fleets, star systems, stations, citadels and the effect any exchange settings you may have.
• Technologies The Progression Grid system has been replaced by a Technology Research system. Clicking the Research icon in the lower left of the screen or accessing it from menu you will be presented with the technologies available to be researched. You can research any available technology and if unavailable view the technologies required to unlock it. Technologies can be further upgraded via additional research. Each addition / upgrade pass on a technology may have multiple options for example when researching upgrades for Molten worlds you may choose to improve colony, trade, industry or research output.
• Gar Gar have been re-introduced to the game in a new incarnation. Gar are massive ornate ships that represent your organization as a whole, serving like a capital. Each Gar has a set of unique abilities which may be passive effects, active abilities or special start conditions. Passive effects and active abilities have associated technologies and can be upgraded in the new Technologies system. Gar are now tied to the main victory condition that is you must defeat an organizations Gar to completely destroy them and similarly if you lose your Gar you are defeated.
• Combat Improvements The combat sections of the game have been improved with new UI updates, normalized control schemes and new input functions such as the elevation control when issuing a move order.
• Exploration Awareness is now calculated for all elements on the strategy map. In general, you will always have good awareness of map elements that are near a populated station or system or near one of your fleet elements. This change now means that you must have awareness of a system before you can claim it such as by calming a nearby system or by sending a fleet. The intent is to add new features to the game that will require this mechanic more on that to come.
• General Balance Improvements With the new research system, and related changes we have re-worked most of the maths involved with the game. Organizations will in general start slower needing to research and develop before they begin major expansion. Ships will need to be researched and upgraded before you start on a military conquest push, etc. The outputs of worlds, growths of populations and stats of ships have all been adjusted accordingly. This is expected to take several iterations to balance but will offer more diverse paths to victory.
• Ship Unlock Organizations now start with a single ship technology and must research new designs and related upgrades in order to unlock additional ships. The strength of any given ship class is now dictated by the upgrade path you choose to invest in. The intent to is to expand on the roster of available ship technologies over the life of the game.
• Major Engine Update The underlying engine has been upgraded from Unity 2017 to Unity 2018 (latest stable version). This upgrade should further improve performance and help insure the tech side of the game is in a good position for future efforts e.g. gives the game a longer viable life.

Patch 747 is live for PC, Mac and Linux! 747 adds notifications, tutorial tips, improvements to AI organizations, progression and a lot more.

Notification System

AI Update

General Improvements

• Recon, Tactical and Heavy ship unlocks have been tied into overall progression. Government and Corporation organizations will unlock these at 5, 15 and 25 progression points respectively. Armada organizations will start with Recon unlocked and will earn Tactical and Heavy at 10 and 20 respectively.
• Defeating fleet elements, stations and citadels will now award the victor credits, resources and boost influence progression slightly. In addition, the loss of fleet, station or citadel will have a similar but greater adverse effect.
• Construction and maintenance costs have been adjusted to smooth the high end of the progression curve. Maintaining large numbers of heavy fleets should be more manageable now.
• Systems linked to stations or citadels receive a production bonus. For the time being this is a fixed bonus (same for all) the intent is to tie the strength of this bonus to organization progression e.g. more established organizations benefit more.
• When a station is destroyed all systems that were linked to it will receive a major influence boost in favour of the organization that destroyed the station. This will accelerate the rate at which such systems convert.
• Fleets that idle near un-linked (no station link) systems will periodically apply a major influence boost in favour of their organization. This will decrease the time for conversion to begin as well as decrease the time to reverse a conversion when defending such a system with a fleet.

Known Issues

• AI Organizations are not managing their stations and citadels effectively, this makes it easy to blitz them in the early game as they are not building adequate defences. This will be corrected in later patches.
• A few conditions have been noted in testing where stations are not changing ownership correctly when an organization is defeated e.g. remain owned by a now dead organization. This makes it impossible to claim these systems but doesn’t affect victory conditions.
• Log events may occur referencing stations that have recently been destroyed. These log events do not adversely impact the game but are in error and will be corrected in a later patch.
• Trade Administration for Resources / Credits fails to calculate the correct exchange rate if the organization has a negative resource production. Generally, this won’t adversely impact the game assuming you boost your base resource production before running out of resources completely e.g. build more industry improvements. We will correct this issue in upcoming patches.
• While it is now possible win or lose the game, there is no fan fare for either condition e.g. we have not yet implemented the ‘Victory’ or ‘Defeat’ screens; Achievements will award on your first corp, gov and armada victory.

Patch 743 is live for PC, Mac and Linux! 743 adds 3 new ships to the game in addition to bug fixes and optimizations.

New Ships

• Corrected tooltip errors on the Skirmish configuration screen
• Heavy and recon ships should now correctly be locked until the related progression node is unlocked
• Achievements should be now be awarded correctly. Note that the conquest victory related achievements cant be earned yet as a result its not possible to earn the completionist achievement.
• General optimizations There is an on-going process to optimize every system of the game, these changes should have no player visible impact aside of course from the game running better.

• We are aware of long load times when transitioning away from the galaxy map such as when loading a battle from the map or when returning to the menu from the map. This is due to the time it takes to unload the galaxy; something we do to insure better performance in battle for example. We are working to improve this with each successive patch.
• AI is not brilliant The NPC organizations are using a simplified AI for the time being, an improved AI process is under development and will be introduced in later patches. This is part of the reason the conquest victory achievements cant be earned. Put simply the AI isnt in it to win it yet and is simply growing and org for you to play against.
• Need for a tutorial We are aware of the need for an in-game tutorial and improvements to the game guide. These are tasks we are working on and will introduce in upcoming patches. In the mean time you can access the quick start guide by pressing F1 in game or on the web at https://www.youareterran.com/gettingstarted

Patch 743 is live for PC, Mac and Linux! 743 adds 3 new ships to the game in addition to bug fixes and optimizations.

New Ships

• Corrected tooltip errors on the Skirmish configuration screen
• Heavy and recon ships should now correctly be locked until the related progression node is unlocked
• Achievements should be now be awarded correctly. Note that the conquest victory related achievements cant be earned yet as a result its not possible to earn the completionist achievement.
• General optimizations There is an on-going process to optimize every system of the game, these changes should have no player visible impact aside of course from the game running better.

• We are aware of long load times when transitioning away from the galaxy map such as when loading a battle from the map or when returning to the menu from the map. This is due to the time it takes to unload the galaxy; something we do to insure better performance in battle for example. We are working to improve this with each successive patch.
• AI is not brilliant The NPC organizations are using a simplified AI for the time being, an improved AI process is under development and will be introduced in later patches. This is part of the reason the conquest victory achievements can’t be earned. Put simply the AI isn’t in it to win it yet and is simply growing and org for you to play against.
• Need for a tutorial We are aware of the need for an in-game tutorial and improvements to the game guide. These are tasks we are working on and will introduce in upcoming patches. In the mean time you can access the quick start guide by pressing F1 in game or on the web at https://www.youareterran.com/gettingstarted

Heathen Engineerings Terran enters phase 3 of its planned Early Access cycle. Patch 738 is available on the beta and main builds for PC, Mac and Linux now.
Dont know how to access beta? Read this. You can find more news, dev notes, images and videos on the Terran home page or the Terran Roadmap on Trello.

Patch Summary

New Game Mode

Organization Influence

Space Stations

Citadels

Combat Improvements

Battle Groups

• Balanced: this option attempts to distribute the various types of ships that make up your fleet across multiple groups no less than 5 but not more than 10 if possible. For players that want a lot of command control this is a good option as it gives you the greatest number of battlegroups to issue orders to.
• Class: this option groups ships by class e.g. light, mid and heavy. If movement/attack control is your focus this could be a good option for you. This option results in no more than 3 groups.
• Role: this option groups ships by combat role e.g. recon, support and tactical. Each combat role excels at a specific style for example tactical ships have heavy armour and weapons and are good in a head on fight where recon ships are fast and agile good for hit and run and for drawing out fleets away from structures. This option results in no more than 3 groups
• Category: this option groups by Class + Role combination as described above and results in no more than 9 groups.
• Swarm: As the name suggests this simply lumps all ships into a single group, this greatly limits your command options, but it also simplifies control for players that prefer to spend more time in pilot mode than they do in command mode.

Progression Grid

Other Additions and Improvements

• Engine update
• Vulkan API removed due to stability issues
• Heathen Systems update (foundation code of the game)
• UI update
• Streamlined GUI
• Improved key bindings and key mapping systems
• Improved visual effects across the board
• Improved audio (systems)
• And new sound FX and music with more to come
• New ships
• Carriers! & their strike craft
• Better turrets (visuals)
• Bigger galaxy (more star systems)
• Support for much larger space battles

Known issues and gaps

Heathen Engineering’s Terran enters phase 3 of its planned Early Access cycle. Patch 738 is available on the beta and main builds for PC, Mac and Linux now.
Don’t know how to access beta? Read this. You can find more news, dev notes, images and videos on the Terran home page or the Terran Roadmap on Trello.

Patch Summary

New Game Mode

Organization Influence

Space Stations

Citadels

Combat Improvements

Battle Groups

• Balanced: this option attempts to distribute the various types of ships that make up your fleet across multiple groups no less than 5 but not more than 10 if possible. For players that want a lot of command control this is a good option as it gives you the greatest number of battlegroups to issue orders to.
• Class: this option groups ships by class … e.g. light, mid and heavy. If movement/attack control is your focus this could be a good option for you. This option results in no more than 3 groups.
• Role: this option groups ships by combat role … e.g. recon, support and tactical. Each combat role excels at a specific style for example tactical ships have heavy armour and weapons and are good in a head on fight where recon ships are fast and agile good for hit and run and for drawing out fleets away from structures. This option results in no more than 3 groups
• Category: this option groups by Class + Role combination as described above and results in no more than 9 groups.
• Swarm: As the name suggests this simply lumps all ships into a single group, this greatly limits your command options, but it also simplifies control for players that prefer to spend more time in pilot mode than they do in command mode.

Progression Grid

Other Additions and Improvements

• Engine update
• Vulkan API removed due to stability issues
• Heathen Systems update (foundation code of the game)
• UI update
• Streamlined GUI
• Improved key bindings and key mapping systems
• Improved visual effects across the board
• Improved audio (systems)
• And new sound FX and music with more to come
• New ships
• Carriers! … & their strike craft
• Better turrets (visuals)
• Bigger galaxy (more star systems)
• Support for much larger space battles

Known issues and gaps

Phase 3 patch of Heathen Engineerings Terran is prepping for beta release in the coming weeks. This patch as its name might have suggested starts the 3rd and final phase of Terrans planned early access. During this phase the development effort will be on content and polish as well as player feedback and bug squashing thats a given. Updates to web, social and store fronts are also in the works as we work to improve player information and lines of communication with the team. Terran Web Site Terran Roadmap The full details of the patch will be published on release day to be determined. While you wait here are a few of new features you can expect to see. Carriers The first of 3 heavy class warship categories we will be introducing during Phase 3. The support craft a carrier hosts give it a much greater strike range than any other ship category, but these massive ships have relatively low armour and few turrets so use with caution.
From massive citadel stations to small defence platforms combat structures can host a large array of fast firing long range turrets and long-range support craft. Citadels Citadels replace the concept of a capital star system and can be built on any star system currently under your control. With a citadel present the system becomes immune to outside influence and its own influence radius is greatly increased. Capturing a citadel system requires combat and the citadel station is a match for most any single fleet. Influence The concept of star system control has evolved into the influence system. Influence is increased by developing your economy, industry science and military power. Each system you control contributes to your galactic influence and effects all systems within its influence range. This game play system means it is now possible to take control over other organization's systems without a single shot fired.
Warship fleets, citadels and other structures have a very strong influence on the systems around them and can be used to insure your influence is the dominant influence in a region but also encourage attack from your competition. Progression Grid The influence system is tied into organization progression. Put simply the more influence you generate the more nodes on the progression grid you can unlock. Progression grid nodes can unlock new abilities like Terraforming, improve your efficiencies such as decreasing maintenance cost or increasing population limits of your colonies as well as expanding your capacities such as ship count and citadel count.
Where you start on the progression grid depends on what type of organization you choose to start the game with. Governments start with a bonus to population and expansion in an area with similarly themed nodes for example. New Combat Features The combat UI has been simplified and split into two modes that players can easily toggle between while in combat.
Command Mode, this is the starting mode and plays a lot like an RTS where you issue move and attack orders to your battlegroups. Thoughtful command and battlegroup structuring is key to victory in most battles, simply throwing a death stack of big ships at a target is a good way to lose a lot of expensive ships.
Pilot Mode, this is the traditional Terran combat view where you have direct control of a warship in 3rd person space shooter action style. New with this patch you can now take control over any ship in your fleet at any time and can freely toggle between modes (command and pilot). When the player is directly controlling a ship (pilot mode) all other ships in that battlegroup will take lead from your actions e.g. will target your target and so forth. And Lots More!

• New ships
• Improved Turrets
• Expanded galaxy
• New Organization Type: Armada

Phase 3 patch of Heathen Engineering’s Terran is prepping for beta release in the coming weeks. This patch as its name might have suggested starts the 3rd and final phase of Terran’s planned early access. During this phase the development effort will be on content and polish as well as player feedback and bug squashing … that’s a given. Updates to web, social and store fronts are also in the works as we work to improve player information and lines of communication with the team. Terran Web Site Terran Roadmap The full details of the patch will be published on release day … to be determined. While you wait here are a few of new features you can expect to see. Carriers The first of 3 heavy class warship categories we will be introducing during Phase 3. The support craft a carrier hosts give it a much greater strike range than any other ship category, but these massive ships have relatively low armour and few turrets so use with caution.
From massive citadel stations to small defence platforms combat structures can host a large array of fast firing long range turrets and long-range support craft. Citadels Citadels replace the concept of a ‘capital star system’ and can be built on any star system currently under your control. With a citadel present the system becomes immune to outside influence and its own influence radius is greatly increased. Capturing a citadel system requires combat and the citadel station is a match for most any single fleet. Influence The concept of star system control has evolved into the influence system. Influence is increased by developing your economy, industry science and military power. Each system you control contributes to your galactic influence and effects all systems within its influence range. This game play system means it is now possible to take control over other organization's systems without a single shot fired.
Warship fleets, citadels and other structures have a very strong influence on the systems around them and can be used to insure your influence is the dominant influence in a region but also encourage attack from your competition. Progression Grid The influence system is tied into organization progression. Put simply the more influence you generate the more nodes on the progression grid you can unlock. Progression grid nodes can unlock new abilities like Terraforming, improve your efficiencies such as decreasing maintenance cost or increasing population limits of your colonies as well as expanding your capacities such as ship count and citadel count.
Where you start on the progression grid depends on what type of organization you choose to start the game with. Governments start with a bonus to population and expansion in an area with similarly themed nodes for example. New Combat Features The combat UI has been simplified and split into two modes that players can easily toggle between while in combat.
Command Mode, this is the starting mode and plays a lot like an RTS where you issue move and attack orders to your battlegroups. Thoughtful command and battlegroup structuring is key to victory in most battles, simply throwing a death stack of big ships at a target is a good way to lose a lot of expensive ships.
Pilot Mode, this is the traditional Terran combat view where you have direct control of a warship in 3rd person space shooter action style. New with this patch you can now take control over any ship in your fleet at any time and can freely toggle between modes (command and pilot). When the player is directly controlling a ship (pilot mode) all other ships in that battlegroup will take lead from your actions e.g. will target your target and so forth. And Lots More!

• New ships
• Improved Turrets
• Expanded galaxy
• New Organization Type: Armada

Patch 637 is available in beta for PC, Mac and Linux now. Dont know how to access beta? Read this.
For more details on patch 637 check out the Terran Roadmap on Trello where we have added additional detail outlining the tasks currently in progress, items pending release, the latest release items and much more.

Summary

UI Overview

Empire Management

Ships and Fleets

Known Issues

• Some dialogs and panels do not block mouse movements as desired e.g. dragging or scrolling the ship list in the Fleet Menu causes the camera to move or zoom in the map view. This will be corrected in an upcoming patch.
• Fleet maintenance costs are not deducted from income at current, this is deliberately disabled as we balance initial and maintenance costs of ships and fleets and how that will grow as fleets increase in power and size.
• Ship Editor decals do not display as expected, this is due to changes in rendering and in general ship structure and will be corrected in upcoming patches.
• Additional debug hooks are still active in fleet structures which can cause notable slowdowns during the initial shots fired during a battle and at key events such as merging flotilla together on the map. These will be removed as the system is proven stable.
• Vulcan rendering API is proving fragile and is very sensitive driver updates. Overlays such as Nvidia Experience screen capture and similar have been observed to cause renderer resets (flash to black on-screen aka a hiccup). We are considering possible solutions to stabilize these conditions and have a launch option configured in Steam for Windows platforms that will allow the player to force the game to run in Direct X.
• Contact missions have not yet been assigned map coordinates but can be accessed via the Logs view. As a result, you will be flying these missions solo (with out flotilla support). We will be updating the contact missions in the next few patches to include a presence in the galaxy requiring you to navigate a flotilla to target before engaging and thus allowing you to auto resolve or fly the mission with the support of the flotilla you engaged with.
• Scanner range / visible range indicators (bubble outline around your systems and fleet elements on the map) do not initialize correctly in all cases. We have identified several cases where the display of the scanner range simply doesnt render though is applied and tested, these will typically self-correct as you transition from local space (combat, stations, etc.) back to the home view or load and reload a profile (Main Menu to Home view).
• Pirates do not grow in power or attack, this is deliberate as we test other systems. We will be enabling pirate AI in later patches where in pirates will become an aggressive threat and will grow/develop over time. For patch 637 they are simply a target you can engage infinitely from the map.
• Results of battles do not affect either party, e.g. ships lost are not removed from either you or the enemy. This will be corrected in up coming patches, ships damaged or lost in battle will be damaged or lost in the fleet element. Ships will automatically repair over time a process that can be speed up by being near colonies or military outposts.
• There are known balance issues with some weapon combinations that can result in grossly overpowered ships and ship combinations. These will continuously be balanced of the course of the Early Access as we add additional abilities, weapons and ships to tune the space combat experience.

Patch 637 is available in beta for PC, Mac and Linux now. Don’t know how to access beta? Read this.
For more details on patch 637 check out the Terran Roadmap on Trello where we have added additional detail outlining the tasks currently in progress, items pending release, the latest release items and much more.

Summary

UI Overview

Empire Management

Ships and Fleets

Known Issues

• Some dialogs and panels do not block mouse movements as desired e.g. dragging or scrolling the ship list in the Fleet Menu causes the camera to move or zoom in the map view. This will be corrected in an upcoming patch.
• Fleet maintenance costs are not deducted from income at current, this is deliberately disabled as we balance initial and maintenance costs of ships and fleets and how that will grow as fleets increase in power and size.
• Ship Editor decals do not display as expected, this is due to changes in rendering and in general ship structure and will be corrected in upcoming patches.
• Additional debug hooks are still active in fleet structures which can cause notable slowdowns during the initial shots fired during a battle and at key events such as merging flotilla together on the map. These will be removed as the system is proven stable.
• Vulcan rendering API is proving fragile and is very sensitive driver updates. Overlays such as Nvidia Experience screen capture and similar have been observed to cause renderer resets (flash to black on-screen aka a hiccup). We are considering possible solutions to stabilize these conditions and have a launch option configured in Steam for Windows platforms that will allow the player to force the game to run in Direct X.
• Contact missions have not yet been assigned map coordinates but can be accessed via the Logs view. As a result, you will be flying these missions solo (with out flotilla support). We will be updating the contact missions in the next few patches to include a presence in the galaxy requiring you to navigate a flotilla to target before engaging and thus allowing you to auto resolve or fly the mission with the support of the flotilla you engaged with.
• Scanner range / visible range indicators (bubble outline around your systems and fleet elements on the map) do not initialize correctly in all cases. We have identified several cases where the display of the scanner range simply doesn’t render though is applied and tested, these will typically self-correct as you transition from local space (combat, stations, etc.) back to the home view or load and reload a profile (Main Menu to Home view).
• Pirates do not grow in power or attack, this is deliberate as we test other systems. We will be enabling pirate AI in later patches where in pirates will become an aggressive threat and will grow/develop over time. For patch 637 they are simply a target you can engage infinitely from the map.
• Results of battles do not affect either party, e.g. ships lost are not removed from either you or the enemy. This will be corrected in up coming patches, ships damaged or lost in battle will be damaged or lost in the fleet element. Ships will automatically repair over time a process that can be speed up by being near colonies or military outposts.
• There are known balance issues with some weapon combinations that can result in grossly overpowered ships and ship combinations. These will continuously be balanced of the course of the Early Access as we add additional abilities, weapons and ships to tune the space combat experience.

Patch 602 is available in beta for PC, Mac and Linux now. Dont know how to access beta? Read this.
For more details on patch 602 check out the Terran Roadmap on Trello where we have added additional detail outlining the tasks currently in progress, items pending release, the latest release items and much more.

Patch Summary

Patch 602 is available in beta for PC, Mac and Linux now. Don’t know how to access beta? Read this.
For more details on patch 602 check out the Terran Roadmap on Trello where we have added additional detail outlining the tasks currently in progress, items pending release, the latest release items and much more.

Patch Summary

Patch 591 is available in beta for PC, Mac and Linux now. Dont know how to access beta? Read this.
For more details check out the Terran Roadmap on Trello where we have added additional detail outlining the tasks currently in progress, items pending release, the latest release items and much more.

Patch Summary

Roadmap Update

Patch 591 is available in beta for PC, Mac and Linux now. Don’t know how to access beta? Read this.
For more details check out the Terran Roadmap on Trello where we have added additional detail outlining the tasks currently in progress, items pending release, the latest release items and much more.

Patch Summary

Roadmap Update

Patch 581 is available in beta for PC, Mac and Linux now. Don’t know how to access beta? Read this.
Organization Policies With patch 581 we have introduced the policy system. The policy system is meant give players more control over their organizations allowing you to personalize the stats, capabilities and ideology of your organization to your style. Policies will affect your organization as a whole and can increase growth rates, improve population density, grant new abilities or mitigate adverse effect such as from rebellion. The policies you have applied may also have political impacts aligning you with or against other organizations in the galaxy. The initial set of policies introduced are basic and work primarily to adjust progression rates for your organization. Each organization type has its own set of available policies specific to the nature of Governments, Corporations, Syndicates or Private organizations respectively. As Early Access continues we will be introducing policies with more substantial effects coupled with greater consequences. Galaxy Update New systems, improved galaxy generation and the return of costing. With patch 581 two new regions have been enabled and will populate with star systems. The new Western Fields and Eastern Cradle regions have been enabled and configured to support up to 340 systems combined. Generation of the galaxy its self has received an update for improved procedural placement and population of star systems. As the generation system is tested and stabilized it will allow players to control the starting state of the galaxy on creation of a new game. With the galaxy update we reenabled the claim cost for systems and worlds and have introduced an ‘imminent domain’ feature of the population system which will cause worlds in systems you control to populate over time rather or not they have been directly colonized. This new feature helps accelerate the early growth of new corporations and governments. Each scanned world in a system you control will slowly populate decreasing its colonization costs and contributing a small amount to influence, if left alone long enough the world will eventually colonize effectively for free. The rate this occurs and the contribution to influence will be affected by the policies and abilities of your organization.

Notes

Known Issues

Patch 570 is available in beta for PC, Mac and Linux now.
Patch 570 is focused on organization development, we have updated the planet management screen with a focus on budget distribution replacing the ‘Asset Improvement’ modules and are introducing station upgrades allowing corp and gov leaders to upgrade the planetary stations that orbit each controlled world. Over the next several beta patches we will be introducing Organization Policies and Principles which apply organization wide effects as well as new status conditions such as rebellion, invasion and cleansing which can be applied to populated worlds. For more details on patch 570 and the upcoming updates be sure to check out the Terran Roadmap.

Notes

Known Issues

Patch 555 is available for PC, Mac and Linux now.
Patch 555 expands Rena Borsch tasks and includes a host of bug fixes and general improvements to rendering, gameplay, AI and UI as well as an update to the underlying engine. The Roadmap has been expanded to include additional detail on recent changes and current development efforts.

Notes

Known Issues

Patch 545 is available for PC, Mac and Linux now on the beta branch. Don’t know how to access beta? Read this.
Patch 545 introduces a number of changes and improvements to NPCs, contacts and the tasks and missions they offer. Rena Borsch has been updated and will offer players a series of repeating tasks which reset on the 3rd ‘Investigation’ task. Over the next few patches we will be introducing additional tasks and two new contacts Saige Marie and 12CE881.

Notes

Known Issues

Patch 535 is available for PC, Mac and Linux now on the beta branch. Don’t know how to access beta? Read this.

Manufacturing

Ship Parts

New Game Experience

General Improvements

Known Issues

Patch 525 is available for PC, Mac and Linux now on the beta branch. Don’t know how to access beta? Read this.

Manufacturing Preview

New Ship Parts

Display Settings and Optimizations

Known Issues

Patch 517 is available for PC, Mac and Linux now on the beta branch. Don’t know how to access beta? Read this.

Interface

Ship Editor

Weapon Systems

Ship to Ship Combat

Known Issues

Patch 481 is available for PC, Mac and Linux now on the beta branch. Don’t know how to access beta? Read this.

Patch Notes

Game

Technical

Patch 471 is available for PC, Mac and Linux now on the beta branch. Don’t know how to access beta? Read this.

Patch Notes

Community Features

Technical

Patch 463 is available for PC, Mac and Linux now on the beta branch. Don’t know how to access beta? Read this.

Patch Notes

Ship Types

Space Flight and Exploration

Technical

Game

Patch 441 is available for PC and Mac now on the beta branch. Don’t know how to access beta? Read this.

Patch Notes

Organization Types

Technical

Game

Patch 412 is available now on the beta branch. Don’t know how to access beta? Read this.

Patch Notes

Getting to know stellar assets.

Technical

Game

• Terrestrial: x5 to residential space x1 to common matter x0.25 to uncommon matter x0.0125 to rare matter x5 to commodity production x5 to leisure value x5 to storage capacity
• Dust: x2 to residential space x1 to common matter x0.5 to uncommon matter x0.0175 to rare matter x15 to storage capacity
• Rocky: x3 to residential space x1.5 to common matter x0.125 to uncommon matter x0.0025 to rare matter x20 to storage capacity
• Ocean: x4 to residential space x0.5 to common matter x0.35 to uncommon matter x0.02 to rare matter x5 to commodity production x2 to leisure value x1 to storage capacity
• Ice: x1 to residential space x0.75 to common matter x0.3 to uncommon matter x0.015 to rare matter x10 to storage capacity

Patch 396 is available now on the beta branch. Don’t know how to access beta? Read this.

Patch Notes

Technical

Game

The Sector K72 preview build is available on the Beta Opt-In now!
March proved to be a challenging month for the Heathen Engineering team with a force majeure event impacting the tech side of the team and consequently delaying the planned launch of the Sector K72 patch. As part of the process of getting our feet back under the tech team we are releasing a preview build of the Sector K72 patch to the Beta branch accessible to all gamers that own the game by simply opting in to Beta through your Steam client. Frequent small updates will occur to the preview build with little fan-fair till the Sector K72 patch is complete and ready for the main branch.

Whats in the preview?

Galaxy Map

Organizations

Pilot Enhancements

Contacts

Alpha One Station preview

Fleet Management

How frequently will new patches come?

When will Sector K72 be ‘complete’?

What comes after Sector K72?

Need to know more?

Heathen is happy to announce Terran’s Sector K72 patch is scheduled to release to beta build in the last week of March. While we still have plenty of work to be done the massive undertaking that kicked off in November of 2016 is to a point where we need your feedback to insure the best possible results.
If your not sure how to ‘opt-in’ to the beta build check this link from Steam out, no password needed of course. Beta is available to everyone who owns the game. Sector K72 is a massive change from the current live build and includes a change of engine, serialization (how we read and write stuff to disk), asset loading (how we sort stuff in memory) as well as a slew of new gameplay features; its basically a whole new kit and with a lot more to offer.

Terran Tester

So What’s New!

Map

But wait there’s more!

Fleet

Exploration

Contacts

Organization

The Profile

It’s time for another update on the long-awaited Sector K72 patch. Heathen Engineering’s development team has been focusing on ‘Asset’ management gameplay and has made some significant progress. The following is a sneak peek at where the team is headed with this feature. The current state is nearly there but still subject to change of course as it has not yet passed internal testing.
In Terran you can form or join organizations such as governments and corporations (more to come). As a government or corporation, you can claim ‘Assets’ such as planets, stations, asteroid fields and other stellar bodies as your own.
Many of these assets can and need to be developed in various ways to yield a benefit for your organization. Populations need to be managed for stability, optimal growth and to insure they are providing the benefits you want. So, what kind of benefits do assets provide? Assets usually increase your influence regardless of what organization type you are. As a government, the focus lies on size and prosperity of your population, access to resources and of course the strength of your fleet. As a corporation, the focus needs to be more on your research and industrial capability as well as the security provided by your fleet.
What can you do with an asset you ask? Assets at their core provide a place for your population to live and work. You can implement various improvements to your asset to promote the growth of its population and the development of its various capabilities. The population its self is divided into 8 major demographics each sensitive to cultural factors in different ways. Your asset improvements, your actions as an organization and the galaxy at large all impact the local culture of your asset and thus impact your population and through it the benefit you realize from that asset. Assets also offer an exploration opportunity. An asset may have various special traits including primitive species, exotic flora and fauna, unique environmental conditions and or historical artefacts. These traits can be researched and in some cases exploited for special benefits on the asset or across the organization. Follows are a few examples of how traits can impact your asset and organization.

Primitive Species

Exotic flora and fauna

Environmental conditions

Artefacts

More to come

Heathen Engineering is hard at work and making good progress on the Phase 2 transition patch. As we mentioned in our last announcement we hit a snag in patch testing on Sector K72 which untimely resulted in us taking on a heap of additional work. That work is progressing along nicely and we expect to have release dates for the patch in the coming weeks.
You can follow along with the progress of the patch via the Terran Roadmap on Trello, our lead developer updates Trello as he works e.g. it is a candid view from our developers. Heathen will continue to bring you updates and announcements as we progress and as always, we are available through the Steam Community Hub.

So, What’s Coming?

Organizations

Contacts

Character Development

Exploration

Changes and Fixes

Engine Update

Main Menu

Dashboard Update

Ship Manager

It might be just the time of year, but there's a definite excitement in the air. We at Heathen Engineering like to think it's because of our upcoming Early Access Phase 2!

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Build 1.0.20160901.52

General Updates

Key Updates this patch

Redefined UI

Introducing CAM

New Training Area

Currently available in the Training Area:

Coming in the next few updates:

Build 1.0.20160612.3

Patch Notes

• Notable engine update; this update is to a ‘beta’ build of the target engine in preparation for the target ‘live’ version of the engine reaching ‘stable’ build. Some stability issues are expected.
• Changes to screen effects in this patch are the first of wave of ongoing improvements to rendering performance and quality changes. Completion of this process is dependent on the stable release of Unity 3D 5.4.x or later.
• New feature: ‘Part Parenting’ or the ability to ‘link’ parts such that the movement of the parent translates to the movement of all children accordingly.
• New Feature: ‘Programmable Parts’ or the ability to define behaviours and the steps of the behaviours for parts to execute on triggered events. At current only ‘hull’ type parts can be ‘programmed’ to trigger a single behaviour ‘always’, on movement (speed, turn, etc.) or on a defined value for shield, armour or structure or with weapon groups or on ‘stance’ change (offensive, defensive, balanced).
• New Feature: ‘Stances’ – three defined cases ‘Balanced’, ‘Offensive’ and ‘Defensive’ have been defined and can be switched by pressing the default keys of ‘Z’ = Defensive, ‘X’ = Balanced and ‘C’ = Offensive. Defensive stance improves shield recharge rates and will augment defensive instrumentation once implemented at the cost of firepower. Offensive stance improves firepower notably but suspends inherent shield recharge rates and degrades the performance of defensive instruments (once implemented) Balanced stance is the default stance and offers no noted advantages or disadvantages. Note that the transition of each stance is a ‘trigger able’ event e.g. programmable parts can respond to the change of each stance.
• New Weapon: Hunter Missile Manufactory M mount class missile type weapon with moderate complexity requirements. Missiles are more effective against armour and structure than against shields.
• New Components: 11 new hull components added
  • T frame type A, B and C general hull component added
  • Shield, Armour and Structure core hull component added
  • TC1 and TC2 thrust and torque core hull components added

• With no parts in the ship editor you cannot save a template nor can you change the category of the template.
• Copying a part that has child parts incorrectly copies the child parts such that they are visible in editor but not included in the resulting ship template.
• Parenting parts does not update in the Undo/Redo history - subsequent ‘undo’ after a parenting operation can result in unexpected part placement.
• Some transitions out of programming mode back to editing mode can cause program steps to become orphaned.
• Latest engine update and shader updates have changed the lighting effect in some areas; more work is required to complete the transition to the new models.
• Part parenting options for the "At Speed", "At Turn" and "With Weapon Group" value options have an known issue with saving the trigger value.
• The pause menu ‘Return’ button does not return the player to menu.
• New fields are missing tooltips and multi-language support; this will be updated in the patches to follow.
• On player death the game may stutter as it returns to the previous menu.
• Initial load sequence and mission load sequence can stutter on some machines.

• Additional general use ship components are in design and testing now along with new Light, Mid and Heavy hull components. These will be released in smaller patches over the following weeks. These will be introduced to the ‘beta’ opt-in depot on Steam available to all players prior to release to the live game.
• Additional ‘launched’ weapons similar to the new Hunter Missile Manufactory and new dual cannon turrets are in testing and will be released in smaller patches over the following weeks. These will be introduced to the ‘beta’ opt-in depot on Steam available to all players prior to release to the live game.
• Ship Editor ‘Free Flight’ training mission simulation is being redesigned to help teach new pilots the basics of flight and combat. The new mission simulation will feature repeatable scored challenges focusing on manoeuvring, targeting and basic ship functions such as stance. The simulation will also include a central ‘gauntlet’ area offering a scored session of endless enemy waves to test yourself and your ship against. The initial changes to the ‘Free Flight’ simulation will be released to the beta branch with the next minor patch update and be further refined according to player feedback. Be sure to watch the announcements for all the latest information.

Build 1.0.20160330.23

Patch Notes

Changes and Additions

• A new transform tool has been introduced to simplify and speed up part positioning and rotation.
• The ‘Components’ menu has been re-worked as a tab page more in-line with other UI elements.
• The new Parts tab organizes your parts into Hull, Weapon and Misc categories and further groups each list by relevant factors such as Class.
• The new Templates tab allows you to quickly view your saved design templates as well as standard templates. The Template tab group has also adopted the Save template button formerly located in the left hand panel.
• Placeholders have been put in place for upcoming features - these should be clearly marked with ‘Coming Soon’ where applicable.
• A new Beam type weapon has been added and can be found under the M Mount group in the Weapons tab of the Parts group.
• Ship part attributes and category calculations have been adjusted and re-balanced to produce more predictable results as well as to resolve a number of bugs such as over powered torque, excessive mount point counts and over powered shield recharge rates. More details will be revealed regarding the calculations as the system matures. You will find this detailed on the the Gameplay section of the You Are Terran web page along with other important aspects of Terran as they are finalized.

Known Issues

• Linux 32-bit builds are presenting memory use issues - this build target is not an advertised feature of the game and may be postponed if there is insufficient game demand for the feature. This will not adversely impact the Linux 64-bit build target cycle.
• Linux 64 bit builds are presenting a graphics device initialization issue as noted in the previous patch. Heathen has added additional Linux resources to the team’s available resource pool to speed resolution of this issue.
• Loading hang occurs on some machines - some users will experience a temporary hang as the game loads, this is most common on the first run since reboot or after updating from a patch. The cause of the issue is the load sequence of the asset bundles and will be addressed in later patches.
• Recent UI changes have affected the layout for VR presentation modes - some headsets may clip the combat HUD edges (horizontally). As UI changes are finalized the system responsible for UI adjustments for the VR presentation mode will also be updated to correct these issues.

The Beta build for Heathen Engineering’s Terran can be accessed from your Steam library. To learn how, take a look at this entry on the Steam Community Product Betas. This patch brings a load of fixes and changes around ship handling and mechanics (the stats, category mappings, etc.). In particular, the maths applied to ship stats have received a lot of attention with fixes for thrust and torque over-calculations (flies like a bathtub problem) and category balance issues. Changes to the stat and category calculations will be most apparent with regards to thrust and torque as well as max weapon mounts. Ship stat ‘capacity’ values have been re-enabled for power, cargo, complexity and drone storage and bandwidth in preparation for additions due later in this build cycle. Along with the patch the Terran web site is getting a major update. While the site is still under construction, there is a great deal of useful information for players and spectators alike. Below you will find the current fixes, changes and additions available in the 20160330.X patch on Beta. Be sure to join the community on Steam and let your voice be heard! Available as of build 20160330.6 You can see the current build in game on the Dashboard in the Notification tab!

Fixes:

• Corrected S, M and L mount point counts that were resolving higher than they should be on ships with large numbers of parts. This change will likely lower the available mount points on your saved ship templates. Weapons above the available mount point count will simply be disabled when in space.
• Corrected torque & throttle calculation on ships with large numbers of parts. This was causing ships to hit the maximum allowable throttle and torque values quite easily and is responsible for the ‘flies like a bathtub’ point noted by the community.
• Corrected LH2 hull component default material; this was incorrectly using the LH3 material

Changes:

• Part category bonus has been changed to a penalty. When applying parts to a ship in a category not supported by the part, the parts contribution will be reduced by 20%. This is effectively the same result as the previous model however it allows parts to ‘support’ categories in a more flexible manner. Previously support was a category ‘range’ as in (from X to Y); now ship parts can ‘support’ any combination of categories.
• All category values have been adjusted, the same distribution pattern is in effect, however the maths have changed resulting in new values. Ship ‘health’ should be generally lower for Tech level 1 and lower ships and the relative difference between the light, mid and heavy classes has been increased. More work is underway in this area along with additional details on the main site and updates to the Ship Editor to better express ship stats and the effect of category selection.
• Several low level systems responsible for spawning, destroying and managing ships in space have been updated to improve performance and reduce processing. Changes should be transparent in game. These changes will be highlighted later in the Early Access as the game approaches a stage involving the TSDK (modding kit).

Update v1.0.20160319.13 This is the first patch for Heathen Engineering’s Terran and is strongly driven by community feedback. The typical process would see this patch on the ‘Beta’ release for a longer period of time before being applied to main or default however we feel these changes are reasonably stable and yet substantial enough to warrant an accelerated push to main. Among the major update we have also passed the initial tests of the Mac build however the Linux build is still being worked on by the development team. In-game guidance, improved tooltips, tutorials and other usability concerns are an on-going area of attention for the development team. As always we encourage gamers and spectators alike to be as vocal as possible about what works and doesn’t work for you as a gamer.

Tips:

• Most fields have tooltips, hover your mouse over a field 1.25 seconds. Configurable values for tooltip delay are on the list ;)
• You can scroll panels by clicking and dragging them e.g. similar to touch controls.
• Your ship will face the direction of the camera by default … tap V or the middle mouse button to disable this. You can also use WASD for turning and pitch as well as Q and E for left right and R and F for up and down. The best pilots make use of all of the above. Try counter turning (turn in the opposite direction) when making a hard turn for faster breaking as your ship lines up.
• Full speed is not the only speed. Turrets must track their targets and at closer ranges high speed movement can make this difficult, slow down when attacking near targets for more accurate shots.
• You can set your launch option to “-show-screen-selector” (without the quotes) to force the launcher to display. The launcher lets you set the resolution and window mode and if applicable which monitor it will render to.

Fixes:

• Mac build should be available and running now. Testing is not quite complete however the initial tests (load and basic play) have passed.
• Corrected an issue where in cannon shot sounds would not play
• Corrected an issue where combat sounds would not respond to Combat SFX audio group e.g. turning down the SFX volume wasn’t correctly affecting all SFX sounds.
• Corrected scroll window response. Multiple causes at play we believe we have them pinned down and corrected however will be monitoring.
• Language select has been re-enabled. NOTE: English functions as the fall back language for fields still pending translation.
  • Danish: Human completed, new fields pending
  • English: Base language
  • Japanese: Human completed, new fields pending
  • Portuguese: Human completed, new fields pending
  • Spanish: Human completed, new fields pending
  • Swedish: Mechanical, pending human translation
• Pause during space flight will now correctly release the mouse, a new pause screen has also been added; see the changes section for more information.
• Corrected an issue with UI colour updates causing excessive stress on the UI and thus much slower load most noticeable when loading a ship template with a large number of parts.
• Handled several conditions that could cause UI behaviours to fail to initialize in the correct sequence yielding various odd results such as the ship in the Ship Editor moving with the camera, parts to appear to remain in the Ship Editor even after being removed, etc.
• Corrected Item Detail Panels (right side list of items in Ship Editor) mouse over test which could cause the panels to respond as if moused over even when they were not in view.

Changes:

• ITS UI layout such that the side panels are fixed to the edges of the screen allowing the removal of the Camera-Mouse tracking when in the ITS view.
  • Changes to available workspace area required additional changes to the side panel layouts and widget layouts … see below for more details.
• Media player widget has now been completely merged with the Co-pilot as a result it is available in its full form in all programs.
• Ship Widget has been merged with the detail panel (right side panel) and forced to its open state. As a result, the active ship is always visible (in ITS) and access to the ship management panel is always available.
• Archives program has been merged with Dashboard as a Tab with workspace window. Access this under the Co-pilot when on the Dashboard.
• Profiles and Settings has been merged with Dashboard as a Tab with workspace view. Profiles may only be accessed when not currently on mission (e.g. it won’t respond while paused)
  • Input mapping button has been changed to a normal button and renders on the Settings tab of the Dashboard under Profiles.
• Ship Editor Control Group and Capacity glyphs have been moved to the side panel, functionality of these controls is available on the Templates Tab. Additional text has been placed above the control group controls to help with confusion. Additional attention will be paid to this area over coming updates.
• Materials section has been hidden as these are not fully implemented and were only adding to UI confusion for the gamer. These will be re-enabled in an upcoming build.
• Saved templates have been moved to render below the Ship Widget when in the Ship Editor program.
• ‘Test Flight’ button has been moved to a dedicated panel labelled ‘Simulation Settings’ to help indicate its use. This button starts a ‘simulated’ mission e.g. a place to test your design.
• Update several controllers to better manage asynchronous tasks in particular regarding the initialization of ships and loading of ship templates.

Additions:

• Pause now renders the ITS Dashboard which slightly adjusted behaviour. Note the full array of settings are available in the pause view however some settings may not take effect until the start of the next mission.
  • The available programs will be replaced with pause specific functions such as ‘Return’ which forces a return to the ITS and exit from mission space.
  • Profiles will not respond when selected from the Settings Tab
• New Archive entry for the ITS Dashboard and Pilot Settings This is the first of many entries to come which provide details on the UI layout, specifics on individual fields and more.
• Tutorials! The tutorial button has been re-enabled with new tutorial steps for the UI changes. No audio is available for this build however the Dashboard and Ship Editor should have the high level tutorials complete for the English language with other languages forthcoming.
  • Additional Tutorials will be added for specific areas of the game and its UI over time.
• New Ship Editor tools The Symmetry and Centre buttons have been implemented!
  • Symmetry: Only applicable when adding new parts, you can now automatically apply parts symmetrically on X, Y and or Z … yes symmetry on all 3 axes is supported.
  • Centre: the parts … or the ship on any or all axes. Parts can be centred as a group or individually making it much easier to bring multiple parts in line with each other. TIP: Tap the Centre tool button after opening its panel and the Ship will snap to the centre view area.

Key Known Issues:

• Linux build is experiencing issues with initialization. The development team is working hard on these issues and will resolve ASAP.
• Thrust and Torque values are calculating higher than expected resulting in ships with overpowered steering … e.g. handles like a bathtub. The calculations responsible for this are being looked into.
• Rendering performance is unusually poor inside the mining complex of the Solo Combat simulation. The development team is aware and reviewing solutions.
• Control Group settings are not being saved to the Ship Templates, this is a bug and the development team is looking into it.
• Not all fields are translated & some translation values cause text to overlap. Translations are an on-going work in progress and will be improved with each build. Expect new or recently added or changed fields to have incorrect or missing translations.

Heathen Engineering’s Terran is available now on Steam Early Access! Today, March 21st, marks the start of early access Phase 1; and we at Heathen Engineering want to make certain you understand what this means. Early Access Phase 1 is not a complete Terran; the focus of this stage of early access is the ship editor, flight mechanics and other aspects dealing with the ships and related components. This is an opportunity for gamers to jump in early and help the development team build a better Terran.

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Early Access to start on March 21st 2016! Heathen Engineering’s approach to Early Access is an iterative or phased approach with each phase building upon the last, and having its own distinct areas of focus. This approach is not uncommon in development but may be new for some Early Access gamers. The first phase of Terran’s Early Access is not played as a rough but full example of the game, instead it will present a modified rule set with attention to the current area of focus. The initial phase of Heathen Engineering’s Terran is focused on the Ship Editor function of the game and its related elements such as ship components, category types and “ship mechanics” - the handling and utility of ships in different scenarios.
During Phase 1 most of the “ITS apps”; the in game equivalent to functions or modes, are disabled. This includes those within the ship editor application. All rules have been adjusted to account for the disabled parts. Initially, aspects such as energy use and even type restrictions will be ignored while the focus is solely on the ship building tools themselves. According to Heathen’s Development team, the early access player will be able to build any kind of ship they desire, regardless of how expensive or how complex the ship is. Under normal game rules, a player’s skill concentration, resources, materials, or in game cash limit dictates just how complex and elaborate a ship they can build. Players in Phase 1 early access will also have all parts available at their disposal. During normal game play, advanced parts and exotics must be discovered, researched and built by the player or scavenged or purchased from the galactic market - all aspects of the game not in play for Phase 1. So what does Phase 1 bring us? Phase 1 will provide the creative gamer a free ship building editor where they can design anything they dream of. The Ship Editor test mission function has also been adjusted to give the player a tailor made set of test missions based on the current phase objectives.
So when will the rest of the game be implemented? We will be implementing each piece of the game in phases, each with its own focus area. Phase 2 for example is listed as introducing population management, manufacturing and similar game features. The Roadmap is meant to give players a real time look at progress. The development team is working under a rapid deployment model with two updates or more per week at this time. So how long is a ‘Phase’? Officially phases don’t have deadlines – therefore there is no published date for phase completion. However, the development team has stated that it does not expect phases to run for extended periods of time. Depending on the nature of the phase, some will run longer than others. How many phases are there? At the moment 2 phases are shown on the roadmap along with the ‘Dev Work’ list. Phase 1 and 2 do not comprise the full game however and additional phases are expected. The Press Kit page for the game currently lists a purposed three-phase approach with Phase 1 (March 21^st) focused on base game functionality, Phase 2 introducing the lion’s share of the game’s features and Phase 3 to round things out. Per the development team, this is not to say there will not be additional phases if needed; this approach really looks to engage the player base not just as testers who paid for the pleasure but as contributors to the games implementation.
What is the cost of Heathen Engineering’s Terran Early Access Phase 1? Early Access Phase 1 is priced the same as the full release. The cost *will not* be increasing throughout each phase. According to Heathen Engineering, the reasoning for this approach is that Early Access for their team is neither about marketing nor funding the game’s development; it’s all about building a better game by inviting those already excited about Terran to get involved and help finish the build out. So when will the full release be? A full release date hasn’t been announced yet and would likely be moving based on the progress of the Early Access Phases. Heathen has stated that Early Access isn’t meant to run long; and they are expecting a rapid iteration up to full feature set. In short - we will have to wait and see how the Early Access progresses.
Be sure to check out the Roadmap and you can follow @HeathenEngineer on Twitter and Like the project over on Facebook and visit the main site for even more Terran information.

Heathen Engineering has updated the Terran Press Kit page with new images, facts, links and more. On the kit page you will find all the information needed to write articles, blog, build fan sites and more. Looking for more information? ... need a different format? ... You'll find contact details for Heathen's press group on the page along with a discussion form where you can leave your feedback on the kit. Not a member of press? ... You'll find lots of useful information on the press kit page not just about the game but also the development team. Heathen Engineering's Terran is still under development and some information will change as the game progresses. The Press Kit page will be keep up-to-date with the latest information, media and links. Be sure to check back often or better still sign up for the Heathen Engineering shout out e-mail.

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Galactic Quests

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Native VR Support

• OS: Ubuntu 12.04+ 64bit. SteamOS+
• Processor: Core 2 Duo Processor or EquivalentMemory: 8 GB RAM
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: Shader Model 4 capabilities
• Storage: 6 GB available space