Occupy Mars: The Game News

[h3]Are you ready for your mission to Mars? Our free prologue version of Occupy Mars is NOW available on Steam! 🚀[/h3]



[h2]Live Stream![/h2]

What's more, we are streaming live now, so make sure to join us!

1. Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1310520/
2. Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/pyramid_games
3. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/PyramidlabPl/

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

[h3]Survive the Prologue and help us prepare for the full Early Access release![/h3]

After the Demo version presented during the Steam Games Festival we've prepared a survey for you. Below you can find the answers from that survey. We've tried our best to implement as many of Your requests as possible in the Prologue.



We've also asked you about features most expected in the Prologue version. After reading your answers -we've managed to add most of those requested (and more - you can find the changelog here) (except translations) which are almost done but will be added in the next updates.



You can now play with saves, change key bindings, automatically load rocks on trailer, invert mouse, fix PCB and survive many shorter sandstorms!

While playing the Prologue remember to Press F4 during the game to send feedback to us. Thanks to your invaluable feedback we will keep updating the game to prepare the best possible Early Access launch of the full game.



Play Prologue and have fun!
Occupy Mars Team

The Prologue is in the final stages of testing before the release. Thanks to your amazing feedback and suggestions, we've added lots of improvements that require additional tests and fixes. Due to this, we have to postpone the release date of the prologue slightly. The prologue will be released in August.



New features added since the Steam Festival Demo version:

• new semi-automated grabber & simplified rocks loading mechanic for Heavy Rover
  
• possibility to change key bindings
  
• possibility to plug in oxygen to the Rover / buildings
  
• enabled save system
  
• possibility to produce water bottles from the well
  
• enabled well expansion
  
• implemented workbench for fixing PCBs
  
• new missions after the storm
  
• new night sky
  
• new interface including HUD
  
• new item icons
  
• improved rocks physics
  
• dust storm ends quicker
  
• new printing animation
  
• new animation of unloading rocks
  
• prologue intro cinematic
  
• new animated tutorials
  
• player’s AI sounds in the spacesuit
  
• hundreds of bugfixes and optimizations
  
• and much more!

All those changes were implemented thanks to your feedback and they bring us much closer to the release of the full game in Early Access later this year.

Meanwhile take a look at our new prologue teaser:

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

Stay tuned!
Occupy Mars Team

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

While waiting for the prologue version, here’s a new devlog for you! ːsteamhappyː

Today we would like to talk about vegetable cultivation inside your Mars Base, which will be a crucial part of your mission. As a colonist, one of your main tasks will be to establish a reliable food source on Mars.



Inside the Main HQ, you can grow potatoes and beetroots, but before you start cultivating plants, you need to build devices, which will allow you to do it, e.g. hydroponic shelves and optionally plant incubator. At your disposal you’ll have a seed tool used for planting seeds. Besides, you have to make sure that your base has power and water connection because your plants need light and water.🌱



The next important step is planting seeds, but you have to choose if you want to plant seeds directly on hydroponic shelves or plant them in plant incubator first, which will speed up germination. The choice is yours!



If you would like to plant seeds in an incubator first, remember that once the crops have germinated, you have to replant them into hydroponic shelves. Growing potatoes and beetroots on hydroponic trays from the beginning won’t require replanting them later but it will take longer. In the full game there will also be additional steps where you can replant your crops into fields and greenhouses.

While cultivating, you have to monitor the parameters (like: temperature and water level) on an ongoing basis and manage resources wisely if you want to grow food successfully. 🥔



The prologue is close to launch. Stay tuned for upcoming updates. If you have any questions or just want to talk with devs and other future colonists, feel free to join our Discord server!

Best Regards,
Occupy Mars Team

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

[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/