Mars Horizon News

We have a small patch update to Mars Horizon for you!

We have:

• Updated localisation to fix errors, particularly with regard to Chinese/Japanese/Russian rocket names.
  
• Fixed an issue where your custom agency logo would be replaced with the default agency logo in a few places.
  
• Updated the credits
  

You can also listen to our a number of different podcasts we have produced about Mars Horizon!

[h2]This is a general survey about modding and is not tied to any of our current titles. [/h2]
Hi everyone 😁

We are always impressed by our community and the amazing creations you make with our games. Your feedback in discord, twitter, forums and emails all help us make our games better and we thank you for this.

[h3]So with that, we would love to hear from you once more! [/h3]

We are running a survey that could impact the future of our games. The survey is on modding and we are looking for a wide variety of people to take part. It doesn’t matter if you have no experience with mods or create them daily, all information is greatly appreciated. 🙏🏾

Filling in these surveys help us so much, and they only take about five minutes of your time. And to say thank you, we will be gifting £25 worth of Steam vouchers to one lucky entrant of this survey. Entries close Wednesday 27th 2022! 📅

[h2] Complete here[/h2]

Simfest Hobby Edition 28th March - 4th April 2022 is a joint Steam & Auroch Digital event. It is a Steam festival celebrating simulation games, giving the genre opportunity to showcase all it has to offer. As there are so many games within the sim genre, the first Simfest will be the “Hobby Sim Edition”. A Hobby Sim is a simulation game that authentically simulates a hobby or job (or both!).

At Auroch Digital we've lined up a range of excellent streams and panels from games and studios doing interesting things in the simulation game space.

We are also sharing our own experience of making a job simulation game with Mars Horizon, check out the panel we are taking part in below. The panel is being looped multiple times during a 24 hour period in order to cater to different time zones. Make sure to check the schedule to find exact showing times.

[h2]🏗 Panel: What is a hobby Sim and why do people play them? 🏗[/h2]

• Date 3rd - 4th April between 6pm - 6pm UK time
• From the teams working on popular hobby and job simulation games to find out how they made the games, find out how they capture that hobby or job. Where does realism belong in this genre of games? Is it more important to simulate a hobby or job accurately, or does an idealised version suit gaming better? Find out where the line between realism and idealisation is drawn in some of your favourite hobby and job sims!
  

We had some requests to know the specific bug fixes that are part of the Daring Expeditions update.
[h3]Bug Fixes:[/h3]

• Fixes issues with incorrect payloads showing in cutscenes
  
• Fixes some minor UI overlaps and visual bugs
  
• Fixes to achievements
  
• Fixes to narrative pop ups for Space Tourism mission
  
• Fixes minor localization issues
  

Good Luck Aurochnauts!

[h3]Take new risks in Mars Horizon's Daring Expeditions update LIVE NOW. Expect new dangerous missions, new flags, and plenty of Spacepedia updates. The Mars Horizon Daring Expeditions update is now live on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch![/h3]



[h2]What's in Mars Horizon's Daring Expeditions update?[/h2]

[h3]New Mission: Space Tourist 🚀[/h3]
We've added a space tourist mission where you can elect to send a billionaire or an educator into space on their request. This is a high risk mission for your agency, possibly wrecking your reputation or granting you huge rewards. We've also added new narrative events and cinematics for this mission.


[h3]New Mission: Chinese Rover Zhurong 🌌[/h3]
This adds a new mission for players who are playing the Chinese space agency in the game; Chinese Rover Zhurong as a payload to send to Mars! We took inspiration from this recent dramatic accomplishment by the CNSA and have put it into our game along with brand new cinematics which reflect the activity of the mission.


[h3]New Mission: Philae / Rosetta Mission 🛰[/h3]
This adds a playable new mission where the comet that the Rosetta mission targeted appears in the Solar System - and you're able to research a mission to land on it just like ESA did. There's new narrative events which explain the comet's formation and chart its relevance in science. We've also added a bunch of dramatic new cinematics as well as the new payloads.


[h3]New flags, Spacepedia Updates, and Bugfixes 🐛[/h3]
As well as these awesome new missions we've added loads of new nation flags to select when you begin your own custom agency. There are new spacepedia entries for space tourism, the zhurong rover, and of course Rosetta and Philae.

We’ve also implemented lots of bug fixes to address the balance of some missions and some localisation improvements.


[h2]We had a special Rosetta Mission stream with ESA special guest Andrea Accomazzo on the 12th November 🎬[/h2]

On November 12th, 2021 it was the 7th anniversary of the landing of the Philae probe on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, the crowning achievement of the Rosetta mission.

For the stream, the Auroch Digital team was joined by Andrea Accomazzo, who is the Head of Solar System and Exploration Missions Division at the European Space Agency, and who actually worked on the Rosetta mission back in 2014.

He talks about the challenges of the Rosetta mission and how they solved them as we try to land our own Philae probe during the stream.

Catch the stream over on our Youtube page!