Surviving Mars News

Surviving Mars: Below and Beyond is the brand new expansion with Paradox Interactive reviving the game under a new developer with Abstraction and there's a free update too.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/09/surviving-mars-below-and-beyond-dlc-touches-down-with-a-free-update

Surviving Mars: Below and Beyond is the brand new expansion with Paradox Interactive reviving the game under a new developer with Abstraction and there's a free update too.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/09/surviving-mars-below-and-beyond-dlc-out-with-a-free-update-surviving-mars-free-to-keep

• A new area to explore right beneath your colony. Uncovering what the Martian Underground has been hiding from us, perhaps we can even find something rivaling our wonders.
  
• Expand your colony into the Underground, providing shelter against the hazards from the surface and bringing you closer to richer deposits.
  
• Be careful, as there may be underground marsquakes that can lead to dangerous cave-ins.
  

• Venture to asteroids as they fly past Mars, giving you a limited window to visit them.
  
• Set up temporary mining outposts to extract as many rewards as you can from each asteroid.
  
• Bring back Exotic Minerals, a new resource exclusive to asteroids, to improve your colony on the Martian surface and its underground.
  
• Some asteroids may not be as they appear and have a mystery to solve while you are on them.
  

• Unlock multiple specialized buildings, rockets, and upgrades in the underground and on asteroids.
  
• Gain benefits and upgrades for your entire colony.
  

• Amphitheater - a new building to comfort your colonists and increase tourists' satisfaction.
  

• Construction Ranges - You can now hold CTRL (Y on Xbox and Triangle on Playstation) to see dust ranges of other buildings and other relevant ranges.
  
• Reorder tech queue - You can now easily adjust the order of techs within your research queue.
  
• Leak Icons - Cable and Pipe leaks now show icons above them so you can easily locate them.
  
• Cycle Grids - You can now cycle through different power grids and life support grids by clicking on power or oxygen and water in the top bar.
  
• Extended Resource info - We expanded the Top UI tooltips with more information per resource.
  

• Custom Colony Name - Change your colony's name to best fit your colony.
  
• Dome birth limit - Besides allowing and forbidding births, you can now also allow births as long as the dome still has available living space.
  
• Must include Filter - Colonist filters now have an option to include all colonists with a certain trait or specialization, even if they have undesired traits.
  

• Rebalanced the Door to Summer event.
  
• School Spire; reduced the odds of the genius trait being given.
  
• Smart Apartments; reduced resident slots and increased maintenance cost.
  
• Medical Post; reduced number of colonists that can use it per shift and increased service comfort.
  

• Drones that are “busy” with transporting resources do not get added to the cargo of a Lander rocket when the asteroid moves out of range. This can occasionally cause a crash
  
• After salvaging an asteroid lander, its contents are dumped on the landing pad. Any drones and RCs part of the cargo can not be used
  
• Pin menu does not show incoming Asteroid Landers from Asteroids
  
• There is no warning about an unloaded cargo when launching a rocket back to Earth
  
• Drones occasionally try to get to the unreachable area on Asteroids in order to gather resources
  
• The camera is out of the map if the player clicks on the Astronomer's pin while s/he is in orbit (Dying Wish mystery)
  

• Even after clearing debris, the area is uneven and unbuildable
  
• Some cave-ins are unreachable and therefore cannot be cleared which prevents further exploration.
  
• Shuttles can fly ‘too high’ vertically in the Underground.
  

• MAC: Many UI images don't show up in the Mac build
  
• Black squares are shown instead of B&B content icons on Epic build (Mac)