Surviving Mars - Start a Colony on Mars, from Haemimont Games/Paradox Interactive
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Re: Surviving Mars - Start a Colony on Mars, from Haemimont Games/Paradox Interactive
The base game is free for the next few hours on Steam.
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Re: Surviving Mars - Start a Colony on Mars, from Haemimont Games/Paradox Interactive
If you miss it free on steam, it's 75% off on GoG and EPIC for the next few days too.
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Re: Surviving Mars - Start a Colony on Mars, from Haemimont Games/Paradox Interactive
All the new DLC is getting hammered pretty bad on the forums. Seems like this might be a misfire. Disappointing because I loved Surviving Mars with the terraforming expansion. I was looking forward to hoping back in. Maybe once some of the bugs being reported are fixed.jztemple2 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 4:00 pm I'm finding the Surviving Mars: Mars Lifestyle Radio DLC to be a disappointment. Apparently all instrumentals (I've been listening an hour and haven't hear a song actually sung) and not very inspiring. I was hoping for something like The Free Earth Channel but it's not in the same league at all. I've requested a refund. I've canceled my refund request because I'd have to start my game over again . Oh well, maybe the channel will grow on me
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Re: Surviving Mars - Start a Colony on Mars, from Haemimont Games/Paradox Interactive
I can definitely report that there is a serious bug in the cabling construction feature. You'll lay out the desired cable construction and then come back a while later and the blueprint is just gone. Very annoying. However, once a cable is built it seems to be stable.
The underground stuff isn't thrilling me. I'm trying to lay a cable down this section of underground but even though it shows I can lay it the cable doesn't get built. Apparently there are a lot of issues.
The underground stuff isn't thrilling me. I'm trying to lay a cable down this section of underground but even though it shows I can lay it the cable doesn't get built. Apparently there are a lot of issues.
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Re: Surviving Mars - Start a Colony on Mars, from Haemimont Games/Paradox Interactive
Yup, the Below & Beyond DLC is a buggy mess. The update breaks the existing game mechanics as mentioned about. The asteroid mining doesn't work for me since after several saved game reloads and retries my asteroid lander was never able to launch from the asteroid so all the work I did there was wasted. The underground clearing is bugged. Overall a lot of the problems also include that there is no clear tutorial that actually shows how to do things. I've requested refunds on both DLC but since I've gone over two hours on them I don't know what will happen.
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Re: Surviving Mars - Start a Colony on Mars, from Haemimont Games/Paradox Interactive
Thanks for the report. This was my first refund request. I did keep the other DLC fluff with the dome buildings and music. I hope they do fix it. I think I am ready to touch this again as a meditative play through.
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Re: Surviving Mars - Start a Colony on Mars, from Haemimont Games/Paradox Interactive
Since I'd played both DLC more than two hours Steam declined my refund requests, but at least I'm on record in case Paradox decides to authorize refunds for the DLCs. It also make me more inclined to go to the Epic store if there is any deal there since Steam is going to be so strict on their rules.
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Re: Surviving Mars - Start a Colony on Mars, from Haemimont Games/Paradox Interactive
The first Hot Fix has been released to try to fix the hot mess that Below & Beyond brought to the game. The patch notes are in the spoiler tags:
I will post below the Known issues. These are things that worked before the DLC, so I'm still not going to go back to playing the game till they tell me that everything is working like it should.
Spoiler:
Known issues
• Dome births cannot be controlled.
• The game crashes when a lander rocket is departing with drones in cargo while the asteroid moves out of range.
• Youths, adults, and seniors occupy child-only buildings.
• Same anomaly events are found multiple times on the surface, breaking the game balance.
• There is no warning about an unloaded cargo when launching a rocket back to Earth.
• Crash related to Inner Light Mystery on old retail saves.
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Re: Surviving Mars - Start a Colony on Mars, from Haemimont Games/Paradox Interactive
There's a new DLC out for the game, this one created by two modders, called Surviving Mars: Martian Express
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Re: Surviving Mars - Start a Colony on Mars, from Haemimont Games/Paradox Interactive
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- Lordnine
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Re: Surviving Mars - Start a Colony on Mars, from Haemimont Games/Paradox Interactive
Now there is one I haven’t heard of in a long time. Was Outpost winnable? I remember always losing after about 30 minutes regardless of what I did.
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Re: Surviving Mars - Start a Colony on Mars, from Haemimont Games/Paradox Interactive
I think on first release it was just broken.
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