Occupy Mars: The Game News

[h3]It's time to summarize The Steam Game Festival![/h3]

First of all, we would like to thank you for playing Occupy Mars Demo during the summer festival! We've gathered tons of valuable feedback and suggestions that we couldn't have collected in any other way.

For us, the demo was a great success: over 50k people downloaded it in 10 days, and our wishlist numbers almost doubled! Moreover, our developers' stream had almost 4k concurrent viewers! We didn't expect so much interest in our game. It motivated us to work even harder on improvements.

To make sure we didn't miss any important feedback, we've prepared a special survey for you. Click on the image below to fill the short feedback form:


To sum up - thank you! To all of you who played, who shared their feedback with us, who sent bug reports. Thanks to your help - we will make Occupy Mars great!

[h3]Don't worry about the dust storm![/h3]

The Prologue is now in the final testing stage to be released this month. This free to play version will give you more playtime, more features and a way to verify if we are going in the right direction with implementing your suggestions.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1310520/Occupy_Mars_Prologue/

Remember to add the Prologue to your Wishlists. After the Prologue, we will only focus on the final polishing of the main game.

[h3]Exciting future[/h3]

We have more good news coming up in the next weeks, as we are working on our Development Roadmap. Make sure to Follow our community so you won't miss any update. Stay tuned!

Yours sincerely,
Occupy Mars Team

We'll be hosting a Q&A session on our Discord server today: June 18th, 2020, at 6.30 PM CEST. Feel free to ask us anything about Occupy Mars. We're ready for your questions! ːsteamhappyː





Be sure to ask your questions on Occupy Mars: The game - general discussion channel.

See you there!
Occupy Mars Team

https://store.steampowered.com/app/758690/Occupy_Mars_The_Game/

We would like to invite you to our developers' stream of Occupy Mars Demo today: June 18, 2020, at 5 PM CEST / 8 AM PDT. ːsteamhappyː

Be sure to join on one of the channels below:

• Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/758690/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ThePyramidLab/
• Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/pyramid_games

During our live stream, you can ask us anything, chat with developers and have fun! 🚀




Feel free to join an amazing community on our Discord server and visit our social media. Don't forget to play the demo! We're waiting for your feedback. :)

Occupy Mars Team

The Steam game festival starts today: June 16th, and will last up to June 22nd!
Our demo mission continues so if you haven’t tried out Occupy Mars Demo yet, you can still do this! Play the demo and have fun!





Occupy Mars Demo is a small introduction to the world of Occupy Mars. As a member of one of the first successful Mars colonies, you have been sent to Remote Research Station located inside the Gale Crater. You have to complete your tasks and do everything you can to survive!


[h3]How to download a demo?[/h3]

You can download the demo from Occupy Mars steam store page during the Steam Games Festival, it will be available until June 22nd. If you encounter any issues, please contact us on our Discord server.




During the Steam Game Festival, you can expect more streams, a chat with developers and more! More information will follow in a few days so stay tuned!

In the next few weeks we will launch the Prologue (which will be a longer version of the demo).
The Prologue will give you more playtime, more features and a way to verify if we are going in the right direction with implementing your suggestions. Remember to add the Prologue to your Wishlists.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1310520/Occupy_Mars_Prologue/




Occupy Mars Team

https://store.steampowered.com/app/758690/Occupy_Mars_The_Game/

We've just pushed out an update to the demo! ːsteamhappyː


The most important thing in the new version is the upgraded Feedback Reporter tool.
By Pressing F4 you can type in your feedback / bugreport or suggestion.

Every information you send is collected in our Workshop Tool here: workshop.occupymarsgame.com

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Use the text description to tell us as much as possible about the issue. Select one of the checkboxes below to let us better filter the reports. By selecting "Bug" a log file will be sent automatically to us so we will be able to quickly check the problem :)

We've also launched a public bugtracker where we are putting the most common bugs from the workshop. In this trello board you can see what we are working on at given moment.

The full 0.40.0 changelog (features added during last 2 days) below:

• improved feedback reporting system
  
• added mouse sensitivity slider in settings
  
• improved the volume balance of some sounds
  
• added additional quality setting for slower PCs
  
• added possibility to type values manually on more panels
  
• added additional tutorial panels and fixed typos in some panels
  
• the mission introduction text is now shorter and easier to read
  
• fixed problem with some external joysticks/hotas which caused unwanted player movement
  
• fixed problem when sometimes dust storm appeared earlier than it should
  
• fixed problem with walking into Heavy Rover while keeping cable in hand
  
• fixed problem with dying from unpowered crusher rollers
  
• fixed the one rock that didn't want to be put in the trailer :)
  
• fixed graphical interference on hud during storm when inside the base
  
• fixed problem with crash on RTX GPUs after sitting inside Rover on fantastic settings
  
• rolling cables which were connected to a destroyed building
  
• improvements to some shaders and materials
  
• fixed invisible tools on quick change
  
• improved TPP orbiting camera
  
• fixed crouching icon on HUD
  

The next steps on our way to Early Access are:

• Steam Games Festival - where you can expect more streams, a chat with developers and more
  
• in the next few weeks we will launch the Prologue (which will be a longer version of the demo)
  
• the Prologue will give you more playtime, more features and a way to verify if we are going in the right direction with implementing your suggestions
  
• Remember to add the Prologue to your Wishlists. After the Prologue we will only focus on the final polishing of the main game (please remember that the demo shows maybe 2% of the full game)
  

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1310520/Occupy_Mars_Prologue/

Let's make an amazing Mars game together!





Best Regards,
Occupy Mars Team


https://store.steampowered.com/app/758690/Occupy_Mars_The_Game/