Update 12 (Space Race)

-Below you can find the CHANGELOG:
Hello, fellow Martians! I am Boyan Ivanov and today I’m here to share some juicy details about the cool new features coming in Space Race - the first expansion for Surviving Mars.
NEW AND IMPROVED SPONSORS (PAID FEATURE)
- With Space Race, we wanted to improve upon the variety of each playthrough and make the choice of sponsor matter even more. Each sponsor in Space Race has a new unique building and a unique new vehicle that may be a Rocket, Rover, Drone or even new type of Probe. All of these dramatically change the way the individual sponsor plays and develops their strategy.
- Blue Sun’s vehicle goes in a bit of a different direction. The Harvester is a new Rover that can harvest concrete from concrete deposits without the need for an extractor building. It works similarly to how the Transport rover can gather surface metals deposits. Buying two or three harvesters and setting routes to harvest far away concrete deposits allows Blue Sun to play without the need to expand to new concrete deposits as the initial ones are depleted.
- Japan utilizes the cute new Wasp Drones that can fly and focuses on automation and stronger specialists. Brazil has the Rare Metals Refinery building which allows you to convert Waste Rock into Rare Metals combined with Brazil’s high export price of rare metals and receiving funding from arriving colonists they are one of the wealthier sponsors allowing you to rely more heavily on imports from Earth.
EVENTS (FREE FEATURE)
- Events are story elements that depict different situations arising in the colony. They allow us to explore the daily life of colonists on Mars, to show how people cope with life in extraterrestrial conditions and how they respond in case of emergencies.
- We have added more than a hundred Event chains, each telling a different story of life on Mars, with more than 250 individual Events. Perhaps a Dust Storm caused a major malfunction in a Fusion Reactor, or a Renegade sabotaged the launch of a Rocket returning to Earth... Sometimes it’s just interesting to see how people may relax and have fun on the red planet.
- We also use Events to give more weight and variety to certain game mechanics. Having lots of Renegades in the colony may lead to an entire Dome going rogue and declaring independence. When a Colonist snaps due to low Sanity an event may pop up with the colonist barricading himself in a building and refusing to come out.
AND SO MUCH MORE!
- These were just the major features that the Space Race expansion and accompanying Gagarin free update will bring to Surviving Mars. Both will also include a number of smaller, yet fun, features like new decorations, the ability to colorize your buildings using different palettes, "Research site" and "Vista" locations on maps, which boost respectively Comfort and Research in nearby buildings and Domes, new Dome skins, new Achievements for the expansion, as well as a number of bug fixes and balance tweaks.-