In case you missed it: Early THG Alpha access is open to Engineers! (And Officers) (Patreon)

Starting tomorrow, it will open up to Deckhands (and Quartermasters), with a reduced version opening to Bakers Friday and Stokers Monday. Officers and Engineers can grab the latest build HERE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/engineers-grab-153788229

HOWEVER, please note: The content is limited in these early builds. There are no NPCs, the offices are still missing, the buildings are empty, and not all of the currently-done ship structure is there yet. In addition to that, there's still a LOT of work to do! The ship obviously needs TONS of work, for example. This is an alpha, it's a work-in-progress, it's going to feel very unfinished. There will be new versions to download over the coming week as we bring in more stuff. The current build looks like this:

As we work on the Alpha, more will be fleshed out or brought in from other projects. The image below, from an EARLIER VERSION of Belfast used in older images and videos, is illustrative of what this scene will more or less look like once everything is set up:

Also, please note that early access has for some time been a reward for Deckhands and above, and before that it was limited to even higher tiers. Since it's been so long, we wanted to include lower tiers to a degree. The content available to those tiers for this super early access period will likely expand sometime before the Alpha goes fully public as a Steam release.

We'll also try to get some kind of list of hardware requirements for the Alpha. It's difficult to come up with one due to the very fluid and unfinished nature of things, but it's safe to say that you'll want to have a pretty decent PC to run it, Windows only. And at a minimum, you'll need a GPU and drivers capable of running UE5's Lumen and Nanite.

Again, Engineers and Officers can grab the latest Alpha build HERE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/engineers-grab-153788229

If you're an Officer who downloaded a build a few days ago, you'll want to download the latest version. Tomorrow (Wednesday the 25th), it will be opened up to Deckhands and the deprecated Quartermasters tiers.

Feel free to discuss the Alpha on the Patrons' Lounge server, provide feedback, bug reports, etc. You're also allowed to show it publicly in images and videos!

Have fun!