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Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri

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Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri cover
Developers
Looking Glass Technologies[1]
Publishers
Retail Virgin Interactive
Digital Nightdive Studios
Engines
TED engine[2]
Release dates
DOS March 5, 1996
Windows (DOSBox) June 25, 2015[3]
macOS (OS X) (DOSBox) June 25, 2015[3]
Linux (DOSBox) June 25, 2015[3]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives First-person
Genres FPS, Strategy
Themes Sci-fi
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Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri is a singleplayer first-person FPS and strategy game.

On modern systems, the game's issues range from cutscenes not playing to armor regeneration speed being dependent on framerate and not working with high frame rates.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions
TTLG Forums - Terra Nova: SFC

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Pre-packaged with DOSBox.[4]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Two demos were made for the game (download): one of them has a single mission not in the main game, while the other has three unique missions that show the events leading up to the beginning of the main game. The one-mission version reports itself as 'version D1.01', while the three-mission version identifies as 'version D2.00'.

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch is v1.09. The GOG.com release is already patched.

Fix missing cutscenes

If the GOG version (and potentially Steam) is missing briefings proceed with the following:

Method[citation needed]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\TN.
  2. Open TN.cfg in a text editor.
  3. Change all mentions of c:\tnnova to c:\tn
  4. Now, mount the .iso file from <path-to-game>\CD\TNF108.cue.
  5. Open the contents of the .iso file, and copy over the MOVIE folder into <path-to-game>\TN.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System Location
DOS
Windows <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
macOS (OS X) <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]
Linux <path-to-game> (mounted in DOSBox)[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

Options menu.
Options menu.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Two options for resolution: 320x200 and 320x400.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
For DOSBox toggle with Alt+ Enter (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
For DOSBox use an unofficial build (see the glossary page for other workarounds).
60 FPS
120+ FPS

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
For DOSBox use the DOSBox Mapper (see the glossary page for other 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
FX, music, speech
Surround sound
Subtitles
No subtitles for the most part. The extraction pilot's dialogue is subtitled, while mission briefings have both audio/visual versions and text versions (though the A/V versions have no subtitles). The FMV scenes and squad members' comments during missions aren't subtitled.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Audio Interface Library 3.03[5]
Cutscenes Smacker [5]

Map editor

Terra Nova World Editor allows creating custom landscapes for the game. Heightmaps are also available.

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 5.0
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 60 MHz
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 30 MB
Video card (GPU) SVGA 256-color
1 MB of VRAM
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 7 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.7 Lion or later
Processor (CPU) Intel Core Duo 2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) 64 MB of VRAM
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint 17
Processor (CPU) 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Video card (GPU) OpenGL compatible
256 MB of VRAM


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 File/folder structure within the installation folder reflects the path(s) listed for DOS game data. For the GOG.com release, file changes in DOSBox are redirected to <path-to-game>/cloud_saves/ even if GOG Galaxy is not used (this folder contains all redirected files, so some files in the cloud_saves folder might be temporary files or other files that do not contain saves or settings).

References

  1. Looking Glass Technologies Terra Nova Page (retrieved) - last accessed on 17 May 2023
  2. PC Gamer UK: "Technology Bombardment" (April 1996, page 14) - last accessed on August 9, 2017
    "Terra Nova looks even better, but mercifully hasn't increased the demands on the processor to a significant extent. The TED engine that drives the game is undoubtedly one of the most advanced available today."
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Release: Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri - GOG.com
  4. Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri · AppID: 368600 · Steam Database - last accessed on 9 June 2023
  5. 5.0 5.1 Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri UK manual.