A new major update is now available! Now you can play three story campaigns all at once. Survive an unexpected conflict on Ceres and unravel a mystery on Ganymede. You can switch between three storylines at any moment. Make a colony life easier trough trading items between worlds. Ceres and Ganymede colonies now have a unique set of buildings and units.
Combat layer is now part of campaigns. Construct various defense structures to protect your colonies. Build railgun, missile and laser turrets, military bases, combat drones and train troops.
Now you can pause and adjust the game speed.
A better in-game options screen now has many additional options to adjust your video settings and change resolution without quitting the game.
New set of achievements is also available.
If you minimize the game or run it in a window mode, game can now properly run in background.
Now that all three story campaigns are set up we will be able to release future updates more frequently, adding new features and fixing bugs. Some of new features in upcoming updates will include:
A brand new AI pathfinding for astronauts
Manual turret control
First person mode
Combat survival missions
Version v0.83 is now available
What's new:
- adjusted AI astronaut behaviour, especially when repairing buildings
- fixed tooltips for mining items
Version v0.82 is now available
What’s new in v0.82:
- Now you can use a global production screen where you can build all the production items that your colony buildings can produce.
- Popup tooltips in colony storage can now display where to find a specific item.
-A better shader compatibility with DirectX 10.
- Now it’s enough to conduct a specific research only in one colony. No need to research same tech in other colonies. Please note that not all research items are available on all worlds.
Version v0.81 is now available.
A new version v0.81 release notes. What’s new:
- To free storage space now is possible to remove unwanted items from a colony storage by clicking on a trash bin icons in a colony storage window.
- A new set of buildings specific to Ceres and Ganymede colonies. To accelerate development of new colonies now you can build a transport hub to receive and store production materials from Mars. Then you can quickly setup essential infrastructure to begin mining of the local resources.
- Tooltips are now mouse over popups.
- Message notification when you receive materials from another colony.
- Material icon will animate above the building when a production queue is complete.
- Apartments bug is fixed.
- Cobalt on Ceres bug is fixed.
- An earthquake bug that can destroy an entire colony is fixed.
- Now you can clear all items from a building queue.
- In the options window now you can choose not to display tutorial messages.
New major update available! v0.80
New major update is now available! Now you can build a three colonies on a different worlds at the same time. This version also has a sandbox mode. At this moment a Mars terraforming campaign is fully playable while the next update will add campaigns to Ceres and Ganymede together with a combat layer.
We highly recommend starting a new game when playing this new version! Old save files might work but due to a major gameplay overhaul using an old save game file can cause unpredictable behaviour.
GUI is completely redesigned to match the new style of gameplay. Also money is no longer used as a resource in game. Levelling system is also excluded from this version. New structures and units will become available once you provide a necessary construction materials.
Now some buildings are producing materials needed to construct other buildings, craft new items and build units. Specific materials are only available on some worlds. That means you will have to develop all three colonies at the same time to gather all the necessary materials.
Some materials can only be extracted in mines, therefore mining is becoming a very important aspect of the game. To conduct a mining operations first you must build a mining vehicle in the factory that will survey the map and place probes on the ore rich spots. Click on the probe to see a survey report and then place a mining facility close by.
To exchange materials between colonies you must build a landing pad to receive materials and a launch pad or maglev launcher to send materials.
A new units such as a flying repair drone will aid your astronauts in keeping your colony in good shape.
Many new features and gameplay changes are in this version so please expect a few bugs here and there. We are working hard to bring you a new update as soon as possible while we continue to implement community feedback into the game. Looking forward to hear your comments and suggestions regarding this new update. Thank you for playing!
Development update - New worlds
A new update is coming soon with a sandbox mode for all three worlds. Developing colonies at the same time on all three maps will be possible.
A mining rig on Ceres.
A view from Ganymede.
Also expect many other improvements based on your feedback. Thank you for playing. We appreciate your continued support.
Development news
Just a quick update regarding game development. We are very busy implementing a whole bunch of new improvements based on a recent community feedback. Including a new user interface skin and a flying maintenance drone that will aid engineers in repairing buildings. Most of our work right now is focused on a two new colonies: Ceres in a the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. Ceres will be a combat oriented campaign and will feature deployment of a defence system to repel ground and space attacks against a mining colony. Ganymede campaign will feature an exploration of the subsurface ocean. We are also working on a sandbox mode for all three maps.
In order to release a new update we have to finish both new maps. To work properly, a game mechanics now require managing all three worlds at the same time. We are working day and night to bring you a new update as soon as possible. Please stay tuned for a new development updates!
Version v0.712 is now available!
21/02/2016 - v0.712 What’s new:
- improved engineer pathfinding and building maintenance
- buildings awaiting repair will have a repair icon
- improved placing of buildings on the terrain
- multiple save/load files
- holding a Shift key now adds ten units to building queue
- now it’s possible to remove items from a building queue. removing with a Shift key removes 10 units, Ctrl clicking is adding or removing all items.
- a better compatibility with Windows 10, especially 32-bit version
Version v0.711 is available!
14/02/2016 - v0.711
- ability to add more then one item in a queue when building multiple goods
- maintenance astronauts are now reacting faster
- buildings with structural integrity under 30% are now colored in red
- switch production building shortcut buttons
- turret upgrade now has better guided ammo
- added hotkey shortcuts for common tasks
- new in-game and main menu option screens
- various user interface fixes
- added close current window button
- now it is possible to build titanium in a factory
- graphical fixes when playing on lower quality settings
- ESC key now opens game options
- various bug fixes
First update coming tomorrow!
Thank you for all your support, bug reports and suggestions! Tomorrow we will release a first update addressing various gameplay issues and featuring a few new improvements.
