- Heat Update 23 - Gold Panning, Treasure Maps, and the Economy - 23 June 2021
Thar be gold in them rivers n' treasure in those hills. Strike it rich, sell large amounts of goods, and start a bank. We added a large amount of features to the economy in the game. We also added many improvements based on player feedback. Stockpiles now have a greater purpose. Going forward, if you stockpile a large amount of matching goods, you will get a much better price for when you sell those matching goods. We also added a bonus price for certain materials or goods that appear randomly throughout the year, so you may just want to stockpile all your goods in hopes of selling it on the day they are in demand. Players may also convert stockpiles that are full of money into a bank. When they do this, they will then gain interest from that money in the stockpile. However, as a penalty for this, the stockpile location is revealed on the map. So it is a risk vs reward scenario. You can…
- Heat Update 22 - Bug Catching and Fishing - 21 January 2021
Schools of Fish and insects have appeared throughout the world! Grab a rod, attach your bait, and cast your line to try catch the biggest and most rare fish you can. Cook up your catch for a tasty meal, or sell them in town and at the shipping bin. Bug Net: Gather some bait using your trusty bug net. Alternatively, you could try shoveling to unearth some worms and beetles beneath your feet. Wooden Fishing Rod: A cheap rod with a short line and a sinking lure. Banded Fishing Rod: A fishing rod with a floating lure. Notched Fishing Rod: A fast-reeling fishing rod with a controllable lure. We are taking the servers down and rolling them back up in order to process the update. We will also be wiping Official servers for this update. If you experience a crash or freeze, please follow these steps, especially after an update as it seems Steam sometimes requires a file integrity check after an…
- Heat Update 21 - Seasons, Temperature, and Weather - 28 October 2020
Seasons and temperature have arrived in Heat! Enjoy the crisp colors of fall, or the long snowy days of winter. Prepare your homestead for the winter time by keeping ample food supply as you cannot farm during this season. Wear some insulated clothes, keep them dry, and light some furnaces to keep warm. The Newspaper now reports the weekly weather forecast, as its important to know when the rains will come. We also improved the weather effects. Be careful not to freeze to death when the temperature dips below zero. Stay warm by placing Heaters, Campfires, and Stoves. You will also want to keep your clothes dry and spend some time in Shelter to warm up. Holding a torch can also warm you up, although at a reduced rate. When its too hot, and you are dehydrated, you will take Heat related damage. Stay Hydrated and wet your clothing during hot summer days in order to prevent overheating, esp…
- Heat Update 20 - Bug Fixes and New Farming Audio - 6 August 2020
Since the last update we gathered feedback and made a list of bugs + exploits to fix. We decided it would be best to focus on fixing these first, before moving on to additional new features. We also added some new audio effects to the farming system. Now that we are done this update, we will be starting work on a next update. In the next update, we plan on refactoring seasons and weather, adding temperature, making design changes to how these systems work in Homestead vs MP, and introducing additional new audio effects to many areas. We are taking the servers down and rolling them back up in order to process the update. We will be wiping Official servers for this update. Community servers should not need to wipe. If you experience a crash or freeze, please follow these steps, especially after an update as it seems Steam sometimes requires a file integrity check after an update to work p…
- Heat Update 19 - Early Access Transition, Merchants, Bankers, and Outlaws - 26 June 2020
We have been working hard on Heat the past few months and put together a large update. Heat will be transitioning out of Early Access with this update, as we have now completed our internal roadmap that we set upon ourselves a year and a half ago when we first released Heat on Steam. In that time Heat has become much more stable, optimized, and has received many new features, many of which were community suggestions. However, even with the optimizations we gained, Heat is still a graphics heavy game requiring a high-end PC. As it was designed and built from the ground up for high end PCs due to its use of high-quality photo scanned graphics and always online nature. While this has hurt the game’s success in the review department, we have always tried our best to be upfront about it by listing the minimum and recommended system specs on the Steam store page, and by doing our best to opti…
- Heat Update 18 - Bug Fixes, Server Sided Optimization, and Stability - 24 March 2020
Over the past months we gathered up a big list of critical bugs to fix, and have been working hard to fix all these bugs. Were releasing a new update today, which which is the result of many bug fixes and changes based on community feedback. It also contains many server sided optimizations and stability fixes. We are happy to see that many have been playing and enjoying the new Homestead mode. We also understand that many enjoy the online modes as well. We appreciate your support and we look forward to continuing to improve the game. We are taking the servers down and rolling them back up in order to process the update. We will be wiping Official servers for this update. Community servers should not need to wipe. If you experience a crash or freeze, please follow these steps, especially after an update as it seems Steam sometimes requires a file integrity check after an update to work p…
- Daily Deal - Heat, 64% Off - 21 January 2020
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- Heat Update 17 - Welcome to Homestead - 21 December 2019
Grandpa has passed down his old farm to you. Help nurture it back to life in the new Homestead mode for Heat. Homestead is a new Single Player mode, in which you build an amazing farm by day, and go to sleep at night. It was inspired by games such as Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley, but we wanted to take it in a different direction, mixing in many survival elements. You can pick from 10 different scenarios which are described below. Each scenario has a different starting homestead, starting equipment, and some have special conditions. The game saves when you sleep at night, you can load up old saves, and it supports full admin commands. List of New Scenarios: Plains Scenario:Grandpa was a Rancher. He lived on a ranch between Washington and Tombstone. Forest Scenario:Grandpa was a Farmer. He lived in a little house on the prairies between Washington and Tombstone. Appalachia Scenario:Gra…
- Daily Deal - Heat, 64% Off - 2 September 2019
Today's Deal: Save 64% on Heat !* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Friday at 10AM Pacific Time
- Update 16 - Animal Farming, Spitting, Fast Travel - 23 August 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34023905%2F7dbac6e65af300910e09ff2ea69e4b83f2b447f6.jpg We hope you have some fun in our new update. This update contains new improvements. We also added more depth to the games economy, and many new features. Start your animal farm with cows, sheep, chickens, and goats. Enjoy milking cows, shearing sheep, and picking up chicken eggs. New provision stations will make taking care of large amounts of animals much easier. We also worked on the fences, so you can now let your animals wander in your pens. Animals level up now, and we also added the ability to sell your animals, and buy farm animals. Higher level animals fetch a higher price. You can also now pick up your animals and put them in your inventory (warning, they are really heavy), to help you move them around. We also put some fun features in, such as throwing eggs,…
- Alpha 15 - Fireworks, Signs, & Farming Revamp - 23 June 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34023905%2Fba51343042ce60fd89ba83537322874f173794c3.jpg Were happy to release another update. We added some new cool new features into the game, plus much more depth to the games economy. Celebrate with a bang by lighting up some fireworks, or just shoot them at your friends. Craft and paint signs to help organize your belongings and express yourself. The economy is deeper in the game now, as crafted and processed items inherit the quality of their input materials. Higher quality items have more health or durability, and sell for much more. Farming has also received attention with a number of ease of use updates and bug fixes. Farming is more profitable and now has a chance of dropping geodes. You can now visualize what the fertilizer and water levels are on the building grid (Hit "Z" to activate while holding a watering c…
- Heat Update Alpha 14 - 2 May 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34023905%2Fa8a6a721ae3da2d47ecc3b4504ce9aeaf047dd2a.jpg Were releasing a new update today, which contains many fixes and changes based on community feedback. We hope everyone is having a good time playing Heat, we appreciate your support and we look forward to continuing to improve the game. We are taking the servers down and rolling them back up in order to process the update. This update should not require a wipe. If you experience a crash or freeze, please follow these steps, especially after an update as it seems Steam sometimes requires a file integrity check after an update to work properly - https://steamcommunity.com/app/656240/discussions/0/1777136225016630475/ Here are the changes for Alpha 14: - Players can no longer gain a trespass score on government land. (This caused the endless heat levels bug.) - Gunslinge…
- Alpha 13 - Outlaws, Gunslingers, and The Law - 23 April 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34023905%2Fd0a2efcb7e13644205488097ede721fe50fa3802.jpg We enjoy seeing everyone playing Heat, we really look forward to hearing your stories, and making the game better. Please continue to share your feedback. Over the past few months we've been gathering the community feedback and have been working on some new systems to address it. This update also contains some new improvements. We are taking the servers down and rolling them back up in order to process the update. We will be doing a full wipe with this update, due to us extensively editing the map. Community servers may want to wipe as well due to the extensive map changes. We will also be bringing up 2 PVE servers. These will have no loot drop on death and invulnerable structures and land flags. However, players will still be able to attack each other and attack NPC'…
- Heat Update - Alpha 12 - 28 March 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34023905%2F47991361896610735740cc3c6943ae4abca396bb.jpg Were happy to release another update, we hope this update makes the starting experience more accessible with a bit less grind up front. Raid mechanics have been changed, alongside other new improvements. It also takes into account community feedback on a number of issues and we also are increasing the max player count to 40 on the servers. We appreciate everyone's input on helping to make the game better. We are taking the servers down and rolling them back up in order to process the update. We will be wiping the servers with this update. Community servers can choose whether they wish to wipe or not. We also merged some of the Official Servers to encourage players on the same servers. If you experience a crash, please visit this thread for troubleshooting (sometimes S…
- Heat Update Alpha 11 - 12 March 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34023905%2Ff3041b39021a754ece312bdfc1d723d7f0b1dbe1.jpg Were releasing a new update today, which contains many fixes and changes based on community feedback. We hope everyone is having a good time playing Heat, we appreciate your support and we look forward to continuing to improve the game. We are working on offline raiding defense solutions, and gathering feedback about our previous updates changes regarding raiding. We believe offline raiding is not an ideal thing, as the player does not have a good way of defending themselves, and no survival game has yet found a good solution to it. Many try putting time barriers on when people can raid, invulnerable land, and other things, and while they can work to a degree, those tend to not be in the best spirit of the games. We are looking into other new solutions that have not y…
- Heat Update - Alpha 10 - 2 March 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34023905%2F0c6c771e9aab465310fd8bd97328a6f8886c5bba.jpg It's great to see everyone playing Heat this past week. We have been working on a new update that we are releasing to help with many issues that came up from your reports and feedback. This update contains additional optimization improvements. Between our Steam launch (Alpha 1) and Alpha 10, we have now seen between 15%-50% performance improvement in on our in-house test machines depending on the settings, biome, and system specs. At 1080p/Gamer + 4 core i7 cpu, we are now getting 60-90 FPS on a 980 GTX, 80-120 FPS on a 1080 GTX, 100-130 FPS with a 2080 TI depending on the biomes. The forests in the game are the heavier areas and the plains and deserts are the highest fps, this is due to the large fillrates of all the tree densities and the variety. We are taking the…
- Heat Update - Alpha 9 - 22 February 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34023905%2Fe62380a1f67ccfc32687c62e8a8678a9a646ce3f.jpg Were happy to release another update. This update contains many improvements, bugs fixes, and some design changes based on community feedback. This update has fixes for a large amount of base raid balance issues. We'll continue to monitor raid balance and appreciate everyone's feedback. There are farming life improvements. As wells now produce normal water. And farm tools allow multiple grid size selections. We also updated the Presidents power position. He now can set an additional tax on the shipping bin of up to 20%. This is to give the President more income earning ability, as the property tax did not produce very much on its own. We also removed the cannon spawn and artillery shell spawn from the President as we received and understand the feedback was that it wa…
- Heat Update - Alpha 8 - 16 February 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34023905%2Face78acc99483a18b384163e3e32baefeb011654.jpg We worked on a number of performance improvements over this past week and we wanted to do an update focused on client side performance. This one is primarily focused on CPU performance. Each update previous to this one also included some performance improvements. This is a continued work in progress, so we plan to keep making improvements in the future. We are taking the servers down and rolling them back up in order to process the update. This update should not require a wipe. If you experience a crash or freeze, please follow these steps, especially after an update as it seems Steam sometimes requires a file integrity check after an update to work properly - https://steamcommunity.com/app/656240/discussions/0/1777136225016630475/ Here are the changes for Alpha 8: -…
- Heat Update - Alpha 7 - 14 February 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34023905%2F8db2920f78d38c56f0ee52ec34f1c14ccb3acdb9.jpg It's been great to see so many people having fun in Heat, we really enjoy hearing your stories, and look forward to making the game better. Please continue to share your feedback. Taking into account the community feedback, we are releasing a new update that helps address some issues, and also contains some new improvements. We are taking the servers down and rolling them back up in order to process the update. This update should not require a wipe. If you experience a crash, please visit this thread for troubleshooting - https://steamcommunity.com/app/656240/discussions/0/1777136225016630475/ Here are the changes for Alpha 7: - Improved client performance for cameras - Improved client performance for physics - Improved client performance for water detection - Smoke S…
- Heat Update - Alpha 6 - 9 February 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F34023905%2F478c7524673ac5488a347a599f468d87854eb795.jpg Were happy to release another update. This one has some improvements we were looking to get out to help with performance and some design changes based on community feedback. We are taking the servers down and rolling them back up in order to process the update. This update should not require a wipe. Here are the changes for Alpha 6: - Improvements to client performance by offloading processing onto other threads. - Resolution Scaling: Added Destroy call to properly get rid of orphaned render textures - Light manager client performance fixes - Flag animation client performance fixes - Improved performance from splat changes to terrain (rakes, hoes, foundations, stations, etc.). Should notice less hitches while doing these activities. - Corrected more issues with sounds…
