MarZ: Tactical Base Defense News

[h3]Calling all commanders! [/h3]

Join us in celebrating the 4th anniversary of Marz: Tactical Base Defense! It's been four years since we launched our game, and we couldn't have done it without your support.
Thank you for being part of our journey and for defending Mars against the zombie invasion.

To show our appreciation, we're offering a special anniversary sale where you can get the game at a whopping 75% off its original price.

Keep on strategizing and fortifying your base, because the battle is far from over.
Here's to another year of thrilling gameplay and endless fun.

Happy anniversary, Marz!
M+M

Hi folks,

Crazy, it's been a year since we released MarZ. A good occasion to let you hear from us again and to say THANK YOU!


How time flies. Our game has been available on Steam for over one year now. As you can imagine, the 4th of April 2019 was a super exciting day for us. We had worked towards this moment for over four years and really hoped if it would pay off. Today we can say we were rewarded.
The game did pretty well, especially for a small indie studio without any publisher. (Some of you might know that we run a two person family business, working as husband and wife team, - we should probably say two and a half as our little daughter was born this year.)
Since the release MarZ was featured several times on Steam and it was in the top 20 best selling games on Steam April 2019. This was of course achieved thanks to all of you who have supported us. You can’t imagine how nice it is to see that you people are enjoying the game we made. Thank you so much. We are really overjoyed to have you players on board.
If you want to make us even happier tell your friends. We are sure there are many others out there who don’t know MarZ and would love to play it.

We may have been a little quieter lately, but of course we weren't idle. As a big THANK YOU and to celebrate it's one year anniversary we've created this new and free update which introduces the survival mode.


The survival mode is a new mode which is available in the skirmish game menu.
This new game mode let you fight against endless waves of enemies. The best thing about it, it also supports Steam leaderboards. So you can compare your high-scores globally or against your friends. Moreover leaderboards also works with custom workshop maps.
Beside of the new game mode we also did some bugfixes and performance optimizations.

Again, in this way we want to thank everyone who plays our game and supports our small two (and a half) person indie studio. Thank you so much!
Have fun with the new survival mode. Stay safe and enjoy!
Miriam + Marc + Marta

Hello Community!

We've been at this years gamescom presenting MarZ at the amazing Indie Arena Booth. Thanks to those great guys we've had the opportunity to showcase our game on a very cool arcade booth.



During gamescom we met a lot of cool people who played the game and chatted with us at the booth. Four guys were even so amazed by MarZ they said it definitely was their personal highlight of the event - wow!



It was also very great to meet all the other devs presenting their own games. One of them was Exor Studios who presented their game The Riftbreaker, which is currently in development and looks very promising. We love the fact that Exor Studios also create tower defense / base defense games with a twist.

Their latest game X-Morph Defense is a unique fusion of a top-down shooter and tower defense game. As the X-Morph fighter you can engage enemy units directly with a diverse arsenal of weapons. There are four distinct forms which specialize in dealing with different kinds of threats. Each form has a basic attack and a special charged attack mode. Your goal is to defend the X-Morph harvesters from waves of incoming human forces. One of the game's key features is the ability to build towers virtually anywhere on the map and to shape enemy paths by connecting towers with laser fences.



Oh and did we mention it has lots of explosions, huge enemies and destructible buildings? If you like action-packed tower defense games you should really check it out here:
(There's also a free demo available)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/408410/XMorph_Defense/

As we see some parallels in our games and Exor Studios were so generous to provide us with some Steam keys of X-Morph Defense, we decided to start a bundle giveaway for our community!
So this Saturday we will giveaway MarZ and X-Morph keys at our Discord server! - YAY! :)

• Join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/p5Bb5AK
• Select a side by typing !humans or !zombies in the #pick-a-side channel
  
• Now you have access to all hidden channels including the #giveaways channel.
  

The giveaway will start Saturday at 10am (CEST) and will last 24 hours. After that, winners will be announced automatically in the giveaways channel. All winners will then get contacted personally with the keys!

You can win a bundle including 1 MarZ and 1 X-Morph key!


Good luck everyone!
Over and out!
Miriam + Marc

We’re happy to announce a new MarZ update which adds two new features you guys have asked for. Introducing: Overlapping energy hubs and no disappearing corpses! \o/


When enabled you can place energy hubs overlapped, which lets you build more dense defense fronts. It also helps in terms of that you won’t need to place them accurately anymore. We’re pretty sure for some of you this is a game changer!


This is a bit of an experimental/fun option but we simply had to add it. It can get pretty messy on some maps! ;)

Both features can be activated in the options menu under gameplay options.

We hope you guys will like the new update.
Thank you for your support and enjoy MarZ!
Miriam + Marc


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Changelog:

• NEW: Overlapping energy hubs – available in options menu
  
• NEW: No disappearing corpses – available in options menu
  
• Bugfix: added scrollable resolution field in options menu
  

Hello dear community.
We have pushed a new patch which fixes some smaller bugs.
Please make sure to update the game via your Steam client.
Following the full changelog since release day for those who didn't notice all other patches we've already pushed out.

Thank you all for your constant support!

Enjoy MarZ!
Marc + Miriam




Patch 14052019 * NEW *

• fixed bug when using direct sell hotkey on hub, hub occasionally gets stucked on mouse + lander gets wrong material
  
• fixed null reference error on wave manager causing no waves starting
  
• fixed bug when selecting and using nuke in slow mo and switching back to another superweapon nuke won't start.
  
• fixed building an extractor is blocked when upgrading a hub and replacing it.
  
• fixed hub connection issues where buildings got connected to wrong hub
  
• fixed bug where a selected building could get stucked on the mouse cursor
  
• changed: vsync is by default activated
  

Patch 02052019

• Engine upgrade. Fixes several crash bugs (Citrix Workspace bug!) and graphical issues
  
• fixed screenshot error when taking screenshot in main menu
  
• fixed grid generation error on re-load skirmish game
  
• changed crew behavior: Crew now only follows an enemy if attack order has been given
  
• changed bug reporter to allow only reports from newest version.
  

Patch 15042019

• fixed debug log spawning bug, possible fix for crash
  
• fixed drones tower upgrade bug
  
• fixed mines special upgrade bug
  
• fixed UI freeze due to drones tower upgrade bug
  
• fixed construction site stucked on upgrade when using hotkey
  
• fixed upgrade and repair hotkey occasionally not responding
  
• fixed snapping bug when switching from hub to an extractor by hotkeys
  
• added back button to screenshot mode
  

Patch 12042019

• fixed bug where in some rare cases two crew members could walk into one building
  
• fixed screenshot hotkey bug, which spawned multiple error warnings.
  
• fixed some smaller workshop UI bugs
  
• fixed some smaller english typos.
  
• bug reporter, description field must be filled out (added because of useless bug reports)
  
• better error handling for older settings file.
  

Patch 09042019 (Tuesday April 9)

• updated internal video player, possible fix for crash
  
• changed achievement save system, possible fix for crash and resulting corrupted save files.
  
• fixed quick support perk now works on all difficulty levels
  
• fixed all mighty achievement
  
• fixed screen edge panning in mission 17, 18, 19, 20
  

Patch 08042019 (Monday April 8)

• fixed upgrading energy node stucked when upgrading a drones tower simultaneously
  
• fixed quick support perk not working
  
• fixed crew member pathfinding not finding a way. Bug occured in workshop maps.
  
• fixed twitch mode mission 3, enemies spawned on blocked route
  

Patch 07042019 (Sunday April 7)

• fixed mission 11 no end screen bug
  
• fixed energy node does not free up energy slots when replacing it and using +1 energy boost perk
  

Hotfix 1 (Saturday April 6)

• fixed mission 6 no end screen bug
  
• fixed skirmish bug (only shows blurred image)
  
• fixed selecting locked buildings with shortcuts possible.
  
• fixed extractor no energy bug when upgrading hub and using protection perk