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Incubation: Time Is Running Out

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This page is for the 1997 Battle Isle game. For the Battle Isle game also known as "Battle Isle 4", and released in 2000, see Battle Isle: The Andosia War.

Incubation: Time Is Running Out
Incubation: Time Is Running Out cover
Developers
Blue Byte Software
Publishers
Retail Blue Byte Software
Digital Ubisoft
Engines
Extreme Assault
Release dates
Windows October 21, 1997
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives First-person, Bird's-eye view
Controls Multiple select
Genres Shooter, Strategy
Themes Sci-fi
Series Battle Isle
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Battle Isle
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Battle Isle 2 1994
Battle Isle 3 1995
Incubation: Time Is Running Out 1997
Battle Isle: The Andosia War 2000

Incubation: Time Is Running Out is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person and bird's-eye view shooter and strategy game in the Battle Isle series.

The game was released as Incubation: Battle Isle Phase Four in Europe. It received multiplayer support with post-launch patches, and an expansion pack The Wilderness Missions.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Available as "Battle Isle Platinum". Includes Battle Isle, Battle Isle 2, Battle Isle 3, Incubation: Time Is Running Out, Historyline: 1914-1918, and their respective expansions.
Windows
Ubisoft Store
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Available as "Battle Isle Platinum". Includes Battle Isle, Battle Isle 2, Battle Isle 3, Incubation: Time Is Running Out, Historyline: 1914-1918, and their respective expansions.
Windows
Free demo versions of Time is Running Out and The Wilderness Missions are available from Archive.org. Mirrors for English and German versions are available from Incubation Archives.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
The Wilderness Missions Includes the 1.03 patch necessary for multiplayer support.
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch for Time Is Running Out is 1.03, and is available from Patches-Scrolls and Incubation Archives. It includes the 1.02 patch which is crucial for multiplayer support.
The latest official patch for The Wilderness Missions is 1.52, and is available from Patches-Scrolls and Incubation Archives.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\DATA[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Work\Saves[Note 1]
<path-to-game>\Work\Saves2[Note 1]
The base game uses Saves, The Wilderness Missions uses Saves2

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Ubisoft Connect

Video

In-game options menu (move mouse to bottom of main menu to view).
In-game options menu (move mouse to bottom of main menu to view).

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Capped at 27 FPS.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Mission briefings only.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Polish
Retail only. Details

Network

Multiplayer functionality is only available with the 1.02/1.03 patches for the base game, and natively in The Wilderness Missions expansion.

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
4 Hot seat
LAN play
4
Online play
4 The official multiplayer service has been shut down.
Asynchronous multiplayer
Play by email.

Connection types

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
2D
2D only with dgVoodoo2 v2.6 (DX5), and dgVoodoo2 default profile.

Issues fixed

Missing audio in cutscenes

Use ogg-winmm CD Audio Emulator
  1. Download latest release package
  2. Extract contents of package into the game directory
  3. Make a backup copy of sound.dll (if it exists)
  4. Rename winmm.dll to sound.dll

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 5
Glide 2.1, 2.4, 3.0
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Audiere

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 90 MHz
System memory (RAM) 16 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 260 MB
Video card (GPU) 2 MB of VRAM
DirectX 5.0 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References