This small, special update brings to you some important improvements for our Way Generation Algorithm. This algorithm is in charge of everything to do with building roads. Our improvements should up the performance and feel for building roads - Especially on more advanced saves where there was a visible performance degradation.
If you have enjoyed the game and the continuous updates, we would love for you to leave us a review. We would very much appreciate it!
For this Beta, we have decided to keep things simple - If you are playing on the default branch you will be participating and see a new button in the main menu. On Mars, Betas will come to you willingly! The Beta will run for approximately 2 Weeks.
Multiplayer Basics
In Multiplayer, you and up to three fellow Artificial Consciousnesses can tackle the Terraforming of Mars together in Sandbox Mode. Mods do not work in Multiplayer. Multiplayer is Co-Operative only. There are two types of lobbies - Open and Private. Open Lobbies will be shown in the "Join Lobby" Browser, Private ones will require the Host to invite their Partner. There is no password protection.
Gameplay-specifics
Each player will receive a landing site they can freely place anywhere on Mars. The Sectors they are placed in will be automatically unlocked. In Multiplayer, the Building Limit is adjusted so both players can build complete colonies. Research is shared between players. Resources behave like normal. Each Landing Site is its own District, and District rules apply. the Resource numbers shown reflect all of Mars, not just your lander!
How to play
Playing together is pretty simple! One of you has to open up a Lobby, as shown in the GIF below. Make sure to set your Room Type appropriately, leaving the Lobby open may allow other players to enter the Room. When joining, you simply click "Join Lobby" and select the Lobby you want to join for Public ones, or ask your friend to invite you via Steam for Private ones. You can also continue older games by clicking "Resume Game". Terraform Mars together - At your pace!
I/We found a Bug or another Issue
Multiplayer is currently in a Beta stage, so its expected there might still be some bugs lurking about, but fret not! Let us know about the Issue you encountered via this Report Form! We might not reply to every Ticket directly, but we read them all, promise! For General Feedback, please make ample use of the comments of this News Post!
We hope you will enjoy this new way to experience Per Aspera with your friends. Ad Astra!
COOP Multiplayer Beta
MULTIPLAYER BETA
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?
- 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
- 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 - [NARRATIVE] Elya no longer mentions the colony children during the first Carmine attack if she hasn’t previously introduced the Embryo Martian Colonization Project - [NARRATIVE] Improved narrative consistency with Elya death event in the case where no buildings are damaged - [NARRATIVE] Quest to unlock SA-1 now starts when you get the authorization to unlock it - [NARRATIVE] Fixed an issue that could cause the player to be [REDACTED] before they had access to [REDACTED]
- [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
Per Aspera Multiplayer Beta - Round 2!
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
Lunar New Year Sale
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!
Per Aspera Multiplayer Test
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.
About the Beta
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:
How does Multiplayer work?
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.
I encountered a bug, what do I do?
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.
One Year of Per Aspera!
Happy Birthday to Per Aspera!
Can you believe it has been a whole year* already? Goodness, time surely flies when you are terraforming! Per Aspera is our first game as a company, and a labor of love that we have been working on for years, and we have not been slacking off since release, having kept busy reading reports, listening to feedback and updating the game accordingly. We have implemented lots of patches, four major content updates, a free DLC, countless hotfixes in order to address critical issues, add new buildings and features you have requested and suggested, and just generally improved the game.
If you have not picked the game up in a while, it might be a good time to try again. It will look and feel different, and hopefully much better to play. Explore Mars, and make it your own!
* equals 0.53 martian years.
Thank you
Here at Tlön Industries, we are thankful for the incredible opportunity to create the game of our dreams for players like you. We hope you enjoy this incredible journey as much as we do, and we promise you it is not over yet, and there's still fuel in our tanks! Before we talk about what's in the future, though, let us recap what has happened since Release.
Release 1.0
December 3rd, 2020
The journey begins in earnest. Terraform and colonize Mars. We released 5 Patches for this version of the game, and were nominated for the DICE Game Of The Year award.
First Content Update: Treat That Water - 1.1
February 11th, 2021
A little over two months after the release of Per Aspera, we deployed the first major Content Update. For the most part, Treat That Water was a Quality Of Life update, improving on our Lenses, Hyperloop UX improvements and the like. It also brought the Water Treatment Plant, which was highly requested in order to be able to make use of all that water you put on Mars. After all, why not make use of it instead of drilling for Ice, right!?
We released just one Patch for this version of the game.
Second Content Update: Improved Logistics - 1.2
April 3rd, 2021
A month after 1.1, and four months after the initial release, we released the second Content Update, Improved Logistics. Once again, mainly Quality Of Life, allowing you to upgrade roads faster and more efficiently, overhauling storage centers and a general UX pass on everything Production and Logistics. We were nominated for three awards in the BIG Festival:
<*> Best International Game (Finalist) <*> Best Gameplay (Finalist) <*> Best Latin American Game (Winner)
We did not release any Patches for this Update.
Third Content Update: District Planner - 1.3
May 26th, 2021
For our third Content Update, District Planner, we brought on a handful of new features. The biggest one being the District System which the Update is named for. District let you break down your efforts by allowing you to visualize the resources of each district, which are based on Landing Sites, on its own, finally ending the age old question of Is this piece of Silicone anywhere close to my Glass Kiln, or is it on the other side of the planet with no way for me to access it? Also new in this Update was the Terraforming screen, giving you a better visualization for your road to terraforming Mars. Lastly, we improved resource veins by giving them a contextual Build Menu, as well adding Deep and Ultra-deep Veins with higher resource yields, while requiring higher tiers of miners.
We released one hotfix for this Update.
Fourth Content Update: Martian Modding - 1.4
July 9th, 2021
The Modding Update! Create the Mars of your dreams like never before! This Content Update was all about giving you the tools to design new quests, create new resources, or buildings, to modify the Tech Tree, and even modify planet variables! If you haven't yet, check out the Workshop and start making your own Mods after reading our Modding Operational Instructions here!
We released two Patches for this update.
First (Free) DLC: Green Mars - 1.5
October 21st, 2021
Our first really big Update. Green Mars is all about terraforming, and turning the red ball into a lush green ball. We made major updates to our Water Simulation, in order to render how rivers displace into valleys and craters. We added 11 Biomes for Terraforming, with each one having specific requirement to dictate the growth of both Flora and Fauna. Similar to the Water Treatment Plant in Treat That Water, we wanted to give you some additional choices to get food in Green Mars, so we added Farms to the game, which require running water. Did we mention there can be Capybaras on Mars!?
In the newest update to Green Mars, Version 1.5.2, we are adding new, easier difficulty options, and make Changes to Resource Scattering, to guarantee some of every resource in every sector among some other things. Check out the Patch logs here.
What's coming next?
We are glad you asked! We are not done with Per Aspera yet by a long shot, so let's talk about all the great stuff that's coming! There is our next, upcoming Content Update, Version 1.6, which will head into an open Beta from December 16th until December 22nd or 23rd. We have had a lot of requests for this, so we hope you will enjoy this upcoming content. Stay tuned for more Info closer to the 16th!
Obviously, this is a very big system, so we do not quite know yet when the Update is truly ready, as a lot of fine-tuning, fixing, and potentially support systems are still required. This will just be a first look, to collect your feedback, test the systems and see what we need to refine still!
That's cool and all, but what comes after that!?
You want more? Are you sure? Fine, fine. We have One More Thing...
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Update 1.5.2
Anniversary Update
For our 1 Year Anniversary we have a treat planned for you! This patch is just the appetizer, and we have some sweet stuff coming up later today, stay tuned! 😉
If you pay attention to the advanced branch patch notes, you'll already know everything in here. We just thought it might be good to repost for the default branch crowd.
New difficulty options
To open Per Aspera up for even more players, we have added a new, easier, difficulty level to both the campaign and the Sandbox mode.
We also took the liberty to rename all difficulty levels to better fit with the game's theme. The new difficulty option is called Story for campaign mode, and Playground for sandbox mode. They are intended for players who want to experience the game without challenges. Our old difficulty options have gotten glow-ups as well: Easy is now called Simulation. Think of it as AMI's training grounds. Normal is now called Realistic. This is the "real deal" as it so were. Aspera remains unchanged, its translation still is "Hardships", and is meant as a challenge for highly skilled and veteran players.
Changes to Resource Scattering
We partially reworked how resource nodes are generated. The most significant change being that we now have a guaranteed number of each resource in every sector as opposed to the random-only distribution so far. This way, there should be less issues with players being left without any resources nearby. We also added some additional resource clusters in several locations, such as volcanoes. These clusters will not show up in zoomed out views.
Fixed sector projects showing after sector being unlocked by story plot
Fixed available projects count being wrong
Fixed in-game Hover showing up during cutscenes
Fixed issue with the size of the selection box of the Building Panel
Fixed Special Sites not being interactable in Locked Sectors
Added feedback when hovering locked sectors and not in placement
Added condition to rule_temperature_minus_15 to be triggered only if terraforming stage 2 is not active.
Adjusted Colony Asterion's first report to mention the Greenhouse in the KB
Fixed issue that had the Worker Factory output at 0 in certain cases
Fixed issue that had the Assault drones factory at 0 output in certain cases
Fixed rival faction statuses not showing correctly
Fixed issue with battery showing at 100% when was not the case
Fixed issue that would unlock a knowledge more than once
Fixed minor issue with sandstorm spawning
Fixed minor UI issue with the COG Test
Fix Combat Lens detecting mouse clicks when in Pause Menu
Fix Swarm texture not having mipmaps
Fixed several texts for Quests and issues with quest unlocking/resolution
Added advanced landing site entry into the KB.
Fixed null ref exception when first opening BIP on unbuilt or upgrading building, and then scrapping
Fixed swarms moving in sync when created
Fixed swarms not going to next building when destroying its target
Fixed issue when Quitting the game wouldn't reset the music in Main Menu
Fixed Quest Completed condition, it now will correctly report if a quest has been actively completed, rather than just checking the status of the tasks.
🎶 Country Roads, Take Me Home 🎵
Advanced Branch Patch 1.5.2
Anniversary Update
For our 1 Year Anniversary we have a treat planned for you! This patch is just the appetizer, and we might just have some sweet stuff coming up during Rawcember. Who knows? Stay tuned! 😉
New difficulty options
To open Per Aspera up for even more players, we have added a new, easier, difficulty level to both the campaign and the Sandbox mode.
We also took the liberty to rename all difficulty levels to better fit with the game's theme. The new difficulty option is called Story for campaign mode, and Playground for sandbox mode. They are intended for players who want to experience the game without challenges. Our old difficulty options have gotten glow-ups as well: Easy is now called Simulation. Think of it as AMI's training grounds. Normal is now called Realistic. This is the "real deal" as it so were. Aspera remains unchanged, its translation still is "Hardships", and is meant as a challenge for highly skilled and veteran players.
Changes to Resource Scattering
We partially reworked how resource nodes are generated. The most significant change being that we now have a guaranteed number of each resource in every sector as opposed to the random-only distribution so far. This way, there should be less issues with players being left without any resources nearby. We also added some additional resource clusters in several locations, such as volcanoes. These clusters will not show up in zoomed out views.
Fixed sector projects showing after sector being unlocked by story plot
Fixed available projects count being wrong
Fixed in-game Hover showing up during cutscenes
Fixed issue with the size of the selection box of the Building Panel
Fixed Special Sites not being interactable in Locked Sectors
Added feedback when hovering locked sectors and not in placement
Added condition to rule_temperature_minus_15 to be triggered only if terraforming stage 2 is not active.
Adjusted Colony Asterion's first report to mention the Greenhouse in the KB
Fixed issue that had the Worker Factory output at 0 in certain cases
Fixed issue that had the Assault drones factory at 0 output in certain cases
Fixed rival faction statuses not showing correctly
Fixed issue with battery showing at 100% when was not the case
Fixed issue that would unlock a knowledge more than once
Fixed minor issue with sandstorm spawning
Fixed minor UI issue with the COG Test
Fix Combat Lens detecting mouse clicks when in Pause Menu
Fix Swarm texture not having mipmaps
Fixed several texts for Quests and issues with quest unlocking/resolution
Added advanced landing site entry into the KB.
Fixed null ref exception when first opening BIP on unbuilt or upgrading building, and then scrapping
Fixed swarms moving in sync when created
Fixed swarms not going to next building when destroying its target
Fixed issue when Quitting the game wouldn't reset the music in Main Menu
Fixed Quest Completed condition, it now will correctly report if a quest has been actively completed, rather than just checking the status of the tasks.
🎶 Country Roads, Take Me Home 🎵
Watch the Community Manager terraform Mars!
Hey everyone,
to commemorate the Steam Autumn Sale, our new Community Manager, Dom, will be playing Per Aspera, live here on Steam! The party starts at roughly 1800 CET and will last approximately two hours.
Please do stop by, say Hi to him, and ask him all the things* to really welcome him into the fold. We also know he skipped all of Terraforming 101 in Astronaut school, so feel free to help him in his endeavors!
*Community Manager does not yet know everything about colonizing Mars. We apologize for any inconveniences.
