Starship Troopers: Terran Command News

Greetings Troopers,

We have exciting news to share with you today, but first we would like to take a moment to thank all of our fans for the amazing content you have shared since the opening of the Steam Workshop beta.

We are pleased to announce that on March 14th we will be releasing the Scenario Editor along with Steam Workshop functionality: you will have the chance to create your own unique maps and scenarios and to share them with the community on Steam Workshop.

We believe that this will take your gameplay experience to a whole new level, not only because you can now customize your experience, but also because now you have endless possibilities for playing whole new content. So mark your calendars and get ready to unleash your creativity!

We're also looking into preparing a special live stream on slitherinetv in which we'll showcase how the Scenario Editor works, so keep posted to know more details.

We'll see you on the battlefield!

Greetings Troopers,

today we are releasing a new update for the beta:

v2.3.5 - e28008140773 - Beta

Improvements

* Editor - Missing decorations will no longer crash loading the scenario, they will instead be silently skipped
* Editor - Added TE_UnitSpecialSet to set units to “special” from triggers
* Editor - Weapon ranges are now shown for selected units in editor
* Editor - Moved back some unused units as “moddable” unit types
* Editor - TE_MusicPlaylist now shows a list of available music states

Bugfixes

* Editor - Removed the option to delete players, as it is causing several crashes
* Editor - Fixed AI team number display in editor
* Editor - Fix for make dropship units removeable

Citizens of the Federation, attention!

The time has come to put your strategic skills to the test. We are proud to announce that the Beta for the Map Editor and Steam Workshop functionality is now open for Starship Troopers: Terran Command. Get ready to take control of the battlefield and build new maps to show the Bugs what humanity is made of.



How do I access the Open Beta Branch?

It’s this simple:

• Right-Click on Starship Troopers: Terran Command in your list of games in the Steam Library.
  
• Select "Properties".
  
• In the menu that appears, select the BETAS tab on the left side.
  
• Click the drop-down list and you will see "beta - Open Beta" as an option. Select it. You can now close the Preferences Menu.
  
• Steam should now automatically update your game to the Open Beta Branch. If it does not start automatically, click the Update button.
  

In order to access the Steam Workshop for the game, you also need to join the Starship Troopers: Terran Command Workshop beta Steam user group:

• Open the group: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/sttcworkshopbeta
• In the top right click the green button to join the group.
  
• You should now be able to access the Steam Workshop if you go to “Community Hub” → “Workshop”.
  
• You can now Subscribe to Steam Workshop Items. Afterwards, they should show up in the game’s scenarios menu. Currently, you need to restart the game for new subscriptions to show up.
  
• Publishing scenarios to the Steam Workshop can be done from inside the Scenario Editor.
  

Your feedback is critical to our mission

We encourage you to share your thoughts and suggestions on the STTC Discord channel.

For the Federation!



Open beta update v2.3.4

Editor features:

• Steam Workshop support (BETA)
  
  • You can subscribe to scenarios in the Steam Workshop, after which they will show up in the Scenarios screen (after restarting the game).
    
  • You can publish scenarios directly to Steam workshop from the scenario editor, by clicking “Publish” inside the scenario editor.
    
  • Steam workshop is currently in beta, to gain access to the workshop you need to join a STTC workshop beta group. Instructions to do this are in the main menu of the game on the beta branch.
    
• Reworked Editor UI: many parts of the editor have been polished for a more user friendly experience. Trigger system ui was completely restructured and cleaned up.
  
• Support free rotation of all decorations using "shift".
  
• Added filter box for decorations panel.
  
• New scenario save/load panel, replaces the “Custom Scenarios” part of the Scenarios screen.
  

Extended control groups:

• Units can now be assigned to multiple control groups.
  
• Turrets & bases can also be added to control groups.
  
• Controls have been changed to support adding to multiple control groups by default.
  
  • Ctrl + creates a control group without removing the units from existing groups.
    
  • ALT + creates a group and removes units from the existing groups.
    

Fixes:

• Editor - fixed bug where the editor would automatically place decorations.
  
• Editor - disabled navigating the editor ui using arrow keys, as this conflicts with the on-map scrolling.
  

Last week at Slitherine Next we had a special guest: Lukas Nijsten, Creative Director of the Artistocrats.

Together we wrapped up 2022, and had a look at what is next for the game in the first half of 2023.

In case you missed it, you can watch it here:

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In short, there were a lot of announcements!

The highlights:

• The scenario editor will be released alongside Steam Workshop support in Q1 2023
  
• A new DLC is in the works! We can’t tell you everything yet, but one thing we can say is that it’s going to be a new campaign with new units set on a new volcanic planet. Make sure to watch the teaser below! It’s going to be fully revealed in 2023
  
• Lukas expanded on the developers’ plan for the new game mode coming in 2023
  
• And much more! Be sure to watch the full video for a full account
  

As a consequence, we decided to update the roadmap.



Last but not least, as mentioned above, here’s the teaser for the new environment: the volcanic planet.

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See you all in 2023!

Greetings troopers,

As you might have heard, Slitherine is going to host its Slitherine Next live event next week on Tuesday. Slitherine Next is a new three hours long live show which will showcase upcoming content for all of our major games, including of course Starship Troopers: Terran Command.

Lukas Nijsten, Creative Director of the Artistocrats, will be with us to let us know what is next in store for the game, and to give a live update to the development roadmap.

See you on Tuesday December 13 at 3 pm GMT on our Twitch channel for the pre-show, and at 4 pm GMT for the start of Slitherine Next.