Per Aspera News

Welcome to the Multiplayer Beta! We are excited about bringing this new shared sandbox mode to the PA community, and we hope you enjoy the experience of terraforming Mars as different threads of AMI (up to 4 players). Why terraform alone when you can do it with friends?

Check out our Info Post for the Multiplayer Beta here.


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PATCH 1.6.0 IMPROVEMENTS
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- Added SFXs to certain conversations, menus and buildings
- Planet Shader optimizations
- Performance improvements
- Added Low Quality improvements
- Population tooltip now shows research efficiency of population
- Polar temperature tooltip now shows information about the pressure change rate and polar temperature


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PATCH 1.6.0 FIXES
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- Improved Flora Equation to better take into account structure placement
- Fixed orbital icons in buildings using the same sprite as normal icon
- Fixed orbital icons breaking in [REDACTED] Lens
- Fixed close selection marker being drawn even if far but with alpha zero
- Fixed maintenance lens throwing error when opening when another faction has a maintenance facility
- Fixed building shadows on planet showing on back side in certain sectors
- Fixed space shader showing all flora instead of only metal
- Fixed camera not setting correctly the distance factor on intro cinematic
- Fixed orbital icons in buildings using the same sprite as normal icon
- Fixed orbital icons breaking in [REDACTED] Lens

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PATCH 1.6.0 BALANCE CHANGES
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- [BALANCE] Research lab and animal sanctuary bonuses now increase linearly with the number of labs/sanctuaries instead of exponentially
- [BALANCE] Campaign plot-related special sites removed from Sandbox mode
- [BALANCE] Dialogue after global meteor shower event no longer mentions damage if none was incurred.
- [BALANCE] Advanced landing site now comes with 10 polymers
- [BALANCE] Fixed narrative ordering issue regarding Nathan and Elya dialogue about unlocking SA-9
- [BALANCE] Reduced campaign end game space elevator project launch repetitions
- [BALANCE] Added chemicals as a construction resource for batteries
- [BALANCE] Microsuns and black polar dust now raise the planetary average temperature
- [BALANCE] Maintenance tooltip shows total health percentage of the entire colony
- [BALANCE] Resource tooltips show the total number of mines/factories and will indicate if more mines/factories are needed to meet the current demand
- [BALANCE] Military drone capacities reduced
- [BALANCE] Sandbox COOP: Each initial landing site on multiplayer and sandbox starts with 30 extra steel, 15 extra aluminum, and 5 extra electronics. The starting building limit is increased by 50 for each additional player.
- [BALANCE] Sandbox COOP: Buildings no longer decay on Sandbox and Multiplayer mode for the first 200 Sols

Hey everyone!

You may, or may not, remember we already held a Beta for our upcoming Co-Op Update in December, right before Christmas. Today we'd like to announce a second round for that Beta, starting this Friday, March 4th, as long as we do not find any martian bugs in the last moments. 😉
We have since worked a lot on fine-tuning the experience and hope you will enjoy this new way to experience Per Aspera.

The Beta will run for approximately two weeks, and while we are certain there should not be any egregious bugs left we will be open to any and all Bug Reports via the forums and our publisher Raw Fury's Bug Report Tools which you can also use to report any bugs for the live game.

Stay tuned for the deployment of the Beta, and instructions on how you will be able to participate on friday!

- The Tlön Team

Hey everyone,

happy lunar new year to those of you celebrating!
We are running a 50% Discount for Per Aspera during the sale. You can also find other Games published by our lovely publisher, Raw Fury, discounted up to 90%! It does not get much better than that!

Happy discount-hunting, and have a great weekend!

Hey everyone,
today we would like to invite all of you to our Open Beta for our upcoming Multiplayer Update!
Before we get into the Hows and Whats, we would like to talk about the Why of offering a timed Beta first.


[h3]About the Beta[/h3]
The Beta will run from today, December 17th 2021, until Sunday, December 19th 2021.
Our Multiplayer works via Peer 2 Peer, as such there are no servers involved. In some rare cases, this direct kind of connection can cause problems for some players.
Mods are not usable in Multiplayer.

How will be able to participate in the Beta by changing to the Multiplayer-Beta Branch.
Please refer to this Gif as to how to change Branches:


[h3]How does Multiplayer work?[/h3]

• Multiplayer is available in Sandbox Mode only.
  
• You and up to three of your friends team up to terraform Mars together.
  
• It is a Cooperative experience. So you're all in this together.
  
• You can save your game and resume it later.

[h3]I encountered a bug, what do I do?[/h3]
You can, of course, post a Bug Report right here on Steam. Please make sure to mention that it is related to Multiplayer, and/or mark it in the Topic Title. It'll help us make sure this Beta does actually work for you all weekend!
You can also use Raw Fury's Bug Reporting Tool. We see every report coming in via this tool, so nothing will be lost here either.

Please provide us as much information as possible. Seriously, the more information we have, the better we can try to fix issues, especially for desynchronization.