Ever wondered just why TerraTech asks you link up your Twitter account? Ever speculated just what we do with that information, or whether there’s any advantage to you handing it over?
Are we planning to take over the world, secretly posting pro-TerraTech tweets from your account when you’re asleep, converting each of your friends one by one? Or are we accessing your photos, printing them off in the office and drawing rude captions on the amusing ones? Sadly, that’s a rarity.
In fact, there’s a good reason why we’d encourage you to hook up your Twitter account to your adventure on the off world: You’re getting more game for your money.
With the latest update to TerraTech, linking up your Twitter account not only allows you to easily take a snapshot of your creations and share them with the world – now a staple for our biggest fans – but doing so now also means you can dispatch specific vehicles to pop up in other people's games.
The launch of the new Invasions system, which utilises the game's awesome AI to let you send off Tech to take on rival player' bases, is also tied into sharing on Twitter. Every vehicle you share on the social network (using the game's built in tools) will then automatically start popping up in other people's games, taking them on while you're doing the washing up. Or sat on the bus. Or, dare we say it, while you're wrapped up in your own game on TerraTech.
We also now have a process in place for us to manually review and promote the best invaders to be included in the preloaded set of population Techs that can spawn in player's main game, too. So if they are deemed 'good invaders', they have a chance of living on permanently in the game.
As a result, if you want to fully immerse yourself in the TerraTech universe, feel free to plug the game into your Twitter account to let your Tech start taking on the world lovingly crafted by our development team while you get on with living in the real one.
