Hi Martians!  

We’ve been on an incredible journey since we launched back in early 2020, thanks to you, our incredible community. 

However, after 4 years, we have taken the difficult decision to sunset Memories of Mars, closing down online multiplayer servers on June 25th, 2024.

In addition, Memories of Mars will no longer be available for purchase on all platforms, effective immediately.

Players who have purchased the game on or after April 24th, 2024 will be eligible for a refund. More information can be found here: https://505.games/MOMSunset


For some of you this news may not be a huge surprise, but we also understand for those still playing, this won’t be the update you wanted to hear. 

We want to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you for your support over the years. It means more than you know!

Take care,
The Memories of Mars team

Hello Martians!

We have another minor patch for you! We will push it live in around one hour from now, so 10 UTC.

This time the focus was on performance and bugfixes. Client-side performance should have improved significantly on lower end platforms. while server performance also got more stable due to netcode optimizations. There is still more to be done, but we wanted to give you an update now, so the worst performance offenders are already fixed.

We also fixed a number of bugs you guys reported, so find the full changelog below.

Changes:
- Fixing map holes accessible by jetpack or jump boots
- Improved Building netcode performance and reliability
- Fix for gaps between triangle foundations and ceilings
- Fix for bad LODs on lore devices
- Enabled light color customization of T2 and T3 headlights
- Fix for missing focus when going into unconcious while ingame menu is opened (softlock)
- Fixed bug where item slot highlights were missing in the equipment and weapon modules widgets while dragging items.
- Adjusted the threshold for when the health cracks appear
- Fixed incorrect orientation of rifle/sniper muzzle flash. Added separate muzzle flash for sniper rifles.
- Fix for server crash when spawning AIs
- Retroactive fix for completed pinned workorders
- Fix for stick input in menus
- Decreased AI loot protection time.
- Added new meteor ore vfx.
- Inventory and Item netcode fixes
- Adjusted explosive charge description to make it more clear that it is not meant for buildings.
- Improved Server Performance by netcode updates
- Fixed Wieldables not being attached all the time and invisible when they shouldn't
- Fix for grenades causing no impact damage
- Fixed some device interactions failing
- Adjusted networking distance of playermade buildings and devices to increase server and client performance
- Fixed client crashes on all platforms
- Supply trackers can now be used on rock meshes and ice meshes as well (not just sand)
- Fixed helmet headlight not updating light color when changing customization while equipped
- Fix for flickering of context buttons.
- Fix for softlock when dying while ingame menu is open
- Another try to fix the broken supply tracker map texture on consoles.
- Fix for admin terminals and building parts showing wrong timers and protection state
- Fix for Loot All being possible on other player inventories with the hotkey (exploit)
- Big client performance improvement.
- Added more loot and more enemies to second dungeon.

Thank you and stay safe,
The Dev Team

Hello Martians!

We have another major patch for you on all platforms! This patch will also come with a second attempt on higher server hardware, so please be patient if servers take longer to restart after the patch went live. We plan to release the patch at around 10 UTC today.



Have the highlights of the patch and full changelog below!

Highlights:

- New secret underground area to explore
- UI Optimization
- Rendering Optimization for Player Buildings
- Fix for non-interactible player-made devices when logging in
- Changed Player Name texts behaviour to only show when looking at players, instead of always showing them
- Changed "Fall Out Of World" behaviour to teleport back to surface instead of killing the player
- Deployed mobile 3d printers now decay if not used
- Multiple client and server crash fixes
- Banned players will now see a ban reason and duration when trying to log in
- Big fix for meteor and supply tracker spawn locations
- Graphical quality improvements on meteors
- Tons of smaller QoL improvements

Full Changelog:

- New secret underground area to explore
- Fixed context action bug in the customization UI
- Adjusted unconscious player threat factors for AIs
- Adjusted color of PvP event map marker
- Added pulse to map marker compass indicator
- Increased display duration of loot tracker entries
- Fixed floodlight customization bug
- Fixed region notifications for nested regions
- Notify of message changed to members of the same alliance
- Fix for FlopsUI not showing up if player spawns in active event
- Set Full Servers to show by default
- Fix for server crash when purchasing flops and then dying
- Fixed protocol progress sharing
- Implemented an icon for the currently loaded ammo inside the item slots
- Fix for "Deployable do not respect the customization when dropped"
- Fixed button prompt for "Open Inventory" objective in the tutorial
- Moved minimum number of players for flop event amount to RuleSets for private servers
- Polish of Doployable Customization
- Prevented mutliple interactions with research center
- fixed potential crash and workaround for sorting issue in refineries
- Implemented InvitePlayers-Button in ingame menu
- fixed that some dropped items are counted to pickUp-item objective
- Fix for disappearing player markers
- Adjusted drone and mech attacks
- Reintroduced base ownership combo box
- Updating no building volumes on snow area to prevent from players occupying the entire area
- Adjusted stability rules of gate frames
- Triangle walls and flipped triangle walls can now be attached to each other
- Fixing floating pebbles
- Adjusted the allowed penetration depth of building parts
- Fix for meteor and tracker spawn pre-generation. we should have around 2k more valid locations now
- Adjusted weapon hard damage
- Meteors just got a whole brighter
- Implemented BanReason
- Adding no building volumes on the western edge, from south to north of the PVP sphere in snow region
- BuildingPart mesh instancing (rendering optimization)
- Restored few missing voiceover lines
- Localization updates for all languages
- Changed Player Name texts behaviour to only show when looking at players, instead of always showing them
- Adjusted AI acid loot
- Fix for player meshes sometimes being invisible to other players
- Changed 'FellOutOfWorld' behavior to teleport to closest spawn area instead of death. Death is still fallback for the unlikely case of not finding a respawn area
- Fixed some quite visual issues with rocks and their undersides
- Extending loot region of the crater in order to fix no loot issue
- Adjusted bayonet melee durability loss
- Enabled processor device detail customization
- Small asset optimizations (+ distmantling device slight look improvement)
- Deployables can now have a decay time
- Fixing players get stuck issues
- Adding and replacing more riverbed mining nodes within the riverbed region
- Set the decay time of mobile 3D printers
- Proper fix for jetpack sound being played when in flying mode but not jetpacking
- Restored colored default visuals of player devices
- Fix for non-interactible player-made devices when logging in

Thanks and stay safe,
The Dev Team

Hello Martians,

We are very sorry for the inconvenience, but today's PC patch went very sideways and caused all running servers, including console servers to not save progress anymore after 14:30. We are trying to figure out how this happened and will give you guys an update as soon as we know what's up.

We will also give everyone who lost progress a generous gift package as compensation to help get you back on track. That will be handed out later this week.

Thank you and very sorry this happened.
The Dev Team

Hello Martians!

Today we will be releasing Patch 5 for the Steam-Version. Console versions are currently on an older version of the game, but we will try to get this and all previous patches onto PS4 and Xbox One as soon as possible. Unfortunately patch-certification on console platforms can take a few days to a week, so please be a bit more patient :)

Changes for Patch 5:
- added health gain to Lemonade consumable.
- WorkOrders are now unpinned after a storyline has been finished
- fix for Pillar foundation collision issue
- Fixed Despawn Animations of Scuttler and Mantis blending back to normal after completion.
- Fixed half of AI of Melee Mantis
- Allow Deployables to be placed on devices
- Fix for highlighted slot shifting to random empty slot upon dropping/equipping items from inventory after sorting items
- added interface volume slider
- added Dynamic Flops Counter option
- improvements on UI feedback for controllers
- Fix for being unable to perform sit-down action in tutorial
- fix for incorrect textures on algae farm
- fix for already broken supply trackers.
- fix for client crash when interacting with a device
- fix for resting not cancelling properly
- Founding date of alliances is now displayed according to set language
- Fixing flickering floor issue in the dungeon
- Fixing floating ores
- Added text field for unsuccessful ping attempts
- Fixed jump & double-jump.
- Added previously missing team members to the credits
- updated localization for all languages
- Fixed Server Crash caused by launching memory capsule
- Added hold action to open the map with gamepad
- fixed a bug where key binding collisions were shown twice
- Private Servers: fixed a problem where the MULTIHOME string was used for PublicIP as well
- Changed input action name "Show Last Menu Context" to "Open Last Menu".
- Vaulting Improvements. Works more reliably and even if it isn't, player shouldn't be stuck anymore.
- Moved the pinned protocol widget slightly up.
- fixed double click + some other bug in algae farm
- Fixed vaulting interaction being cancelled in the middle of the animation sometimes
- fixed drag visuals for building recipes
- adjusted "Insufficient Skill" - message in research center
- fix for ingame menu being closed when going unconscious / dying

You reported a lot of bugs to us over the weekend and we still have some issues in need of fixing in our bug tracker! We are working hard to fix them, but due to the on-going Covid-19 situation in Germany, where our studio is located, and around the world, we might be a bit slower and less responsive than usual. Please take care of yourselves during the next weeks as well!

Best Regards,
The Dev Team

Martians,

Today is a big day for the team as we leave Early Access! The latest release contains the new and improved version of Memories of Mars (1.0). An experience shaped during Early Access by the community.

We would like to thank you again for all the feedback you offered over years of continuous work.

This is not the end of the journey, we will be monitoring the performance of the game to take any future decisions but we can already tell you that we have more content in the pipeline.

Please, be patient as our response time might be a bit longer over the coming weeks as new Martians join us!



For this release we are working with hosting provider GPORTAL. Enjoy the Survival with friends setting up a private server on: https://www.g-portal.com/

Who are GPORTAL?

GPORTAL are run by gamers for gamers, never settling for "that will do".
GPORTAL have amazing one-off bespoke just-for-gaming servers, a crazy self-developed backend system and control panel and our own kick ass DDoS protection.
GPORTAL are more than the best technology, they are more than their 17 years of industry experience.
We are gamers at GPORTAL, we know the importance of having the best online experience, with minimum lag, ping and disconnects.

Stay tuned and see you in Mars!

Limbic Entertainment & 505 Games

Martians,

Today is a big day for the team! We are leaving Early Access and releasing the game on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC! This multiplatform release contains the new and improved version of Memories of Mars (1.0). An experience shaped during Early Access by the community.

We would like to thank you again for all the feedback you offered over years of continuous work.

This is not the end of the journey, we will be monitoring the performance of the game to take any future decisions but we can already tell you that we have more content in the pipeline.

Please, be patient as our response time might be a bit longer over the coming weeks as new Martians join us!



For this multiplatform release we are working with hosting provider GPORTAL. Enjoy the Survival with friends setting up a private server on: https://www.g-portal.com/

Who are GPORTAL?

GPORTAL are run by gamers for gamers, never settling for "that will do".
GPORTAL have amazing one-off bespoke just-for-gaming servers, a crazy self-developed backend system and control panel and our own kick ass DDoS protection.
GPORTAL are more than the best technology, they are more than their 17 years of industry experience.
We are gamers at GPORTAL, we know the importance of having the best online experience, with minimum lag, ping and disconnects.


Stay tuned and see you in Mars!

Limbic Entertainment & 505 Games

Hello Martians!

We have another patch for you to fix many of the bugs you reported recently. Find the changes below:

- Fix for "elevator loot bug". if you die on an elevator, your loot container should spawn correctly now.
- Smaller UI + controller fixes
- Private Servers will now store their database in a different path than before. All old savegames should be moved to the new location automatically, no further action required. If you see any issues with that, please let us know and we can help you. More information about this will be found in the next version of the Handbook, which we plan to make available very soon.
- Fix for loot trackers showing location in the volcano area without a way to dig them up. Unfortunately this will not yet fix already broken trackers, only prevent from trackers getting broken in the first place. We are working on a fix for existing trackers.
- Button to flip building parts can now be rebound to a different key
- Added option to disable the laser dot
- Customization of the building applies to the whole building again when the server is restarted
- Fixed "Set to Default" for "Swap Items on Drop"
- Fixed rocks having metal sounds when walking on them
- Updated structure health modifier icon
- Fix for loot trackers or meteors spawning outside of world bounds
- Added admin tools button to the in game menu on private servers
- Added hotkey to navigate to related skilltree for locked recipes
- Fixed bug where projectiles weren't always properly customized
- Fixed building hp modifier bug
- The admin tools UI now closes properly

Currently known issues we are working on for the next patch:
- AI become invincible when shot from long range - work-around is to kill them via melee hits.
- AI can suddenly despawn in the middle of a battle.
- Still some issues with private server connections and visibility in server browser. We are on it!
- As said above: already broken existing loot trackers will not yet be fixed by this patch, but will be fixed in the next patch. Keep them in cold storage until then :)

Small heads up: Due to work required for the console launch tomorrow, it might be that we are slightly less responsive. Please be patient if we do not immediately respond to you, we will try to catch up with everyone as soon as we can! Thanks for understanding.

Best Regards,
The Dev Team

Hello Martians!

We are pushing a small hotfix/patch live. Changes are as follows:

- Fix for the server crash pestering the live servers the whole weekend
- Fix for most if not all private server crashes. If we missed any, please let us know and we will take care of them for the next patch. If you are confused by the many error messages on server start: those are expected and can be ignored. They don't change the behaviour of the server and are debug messages accidentally left in the build.
- Improved Mech VFX
- Improved Mech AI
- Small changes on loot distribution
- Fixed minor UI issues
- Fixed some map issues
- Fixed jetpack sound being played when vaulting through windows
- Fixed not being able to register a Stasis Chamber built on triangular foundations.
- Made some UI elements more clear and fixed localization issues.
-> For example: We changed the controls for rotating building parts. You can press the E button (melee button) to flip the current building part downwards and upwards, while the mouse wheel is only rotating on one axis anymore. Please check the key prompts in the lower left of the screen while in building mode!
We will improve upon this in the next patch by making this button assignable for different keybindings.
- Customized armor is now correctly displayed in the UI
- Fix for an exploit: You can no longer build building parts you don't have the skill for!
- Fix for an exploit: camera can no longer fly around while character is spawning from stasis chamber!

Known issues:
- We are close to have a fix for the "elevator backpack bug", we just want to give it more testing before pushing it live to make sure we don't break something else.
- We are still trying to find a fix for the broken loot trackers, but are getting close as well.
- We are also investigating the issue of building customization only saving the first 64 parts.

We are aware of more bugs of course, but above should be part of the next patch already.

Additional Info:
- Explosive Compounds and Deuterium now need an additional or different resource to craft. So if you are having trouble, you should try some other combinations. Just some *fuel* for thought ;)
- Thanks to everyone who uses the new ingame report feature! We are getting a lot of nice bug reports and ideas from you through it and could already fix a lot of smaller issues due to them. Keep 'em coming!
- In case you missed the announcement a few weeks ago: We performed a full server wipe for the major patch on the 5th last week. So if you are missing your savegames, this is expected and not a bug! There are no further wipes planned at this moment and we will take care to announce it more obvious in the future as well, to make sure everyone is aware of what's happening.

Best Regards,
The Dev Team

Hello Martians!

Here is the changelog for the major patch we will push live during the day. Currently we plan on having the servers back up around 13:00 to 14:00 UTC, but due to the gigantic amount of code changes (more than 3000 changes since the last patch) we can't 100% guarantee it yet. We started early by shutting down the existing servers already and get a head-start to mitigate all potential issues.

We will keep you updated on the progress during the day. But for now, have the highlights of the patch with the full changelog further below. Keep in mind that this is mainly a polishing patch to get the game ready to leave Early Access and secure the console release, not a patch to introduce large amounts of new content. We have more content in the works for future patches, though ;)

Highlights:

- Most importantly: Adjusted night-time brightness ;)

- Full controller support for the entire game and UI
- Implemented a "Report" feature. You can use it to report other players, buildings, bugs, etc.
- Added new voice overs to the game to tell the story of the clones.
- Implemented a player list.
- Big re-balance of enemies, including new variations.
- Big re-balance of recipes.
- Big re-balance of loot distribution.
- New VFX and SFX for enemies, spaceship and weapons!
- You can now cancel the loading screen to get back to the main menu in case it takes too long.
- The last visited server name is now shown beside the continue button.
- Added some new secret weapons and tools.
- First bunch of improvements for Private Servers: Playing locally on your own machine or with friends in your LAN should work without additional arguments again. Please read the new handbook instructions carefully!

Rest of changes:

- Fix for the "spawn undead" bug, finally!
- Many adjustments to Bloom effect levels in the game
- General VFX improvements
- Polished the main menu
- Mech doesn't walk out of crater anymore
- Blocking volumes for critical areas like the dungeon
- Meteor blocking improvements
- New projectile trails
- Multiple client crashfixes
- Multiple server crashfixes
- Ingame map polishing
- optimizations of post process materials
- small map adjustments like moving a lore entry to a less dangerous location
- voice chat improvements/fixes
- achievement fixes
- protocol fixes
- localization fixes
- spaceship improvements
- exploit fixes (like building harvesting device outside of ice area)
- Added simple CameraShake to spaceship
- Updated skilltree tab to show flops/survival points when skilltrees are focused
- Supply Tracker can now be seen again when held (it was quite dark)
- Populating elite mantis within specific POIs.
- Adding loot zones for the Dungeon
- Visual improvements for Gender Selection!
- Added sounds to the spaceship launch sequence.
- Adding elite mantis in snow region.
- Adding special drone in snow region.
- Improved audio optimizations and fixed bugs in the audio system.
- Finalized tracker items and loot
- Recipe and skilltree update
- Increased projectile impact energy
- Protocol Adjustments
- Fixed Skilltree related achievements not unlocking properly
- New enemy attack and explosion sounds
- Projectile trails will now use tertiary weapon customization color.
- Added hold-action background variations. Added/Updated hold-action graphics.
- Track Deployable Devices' owner and display it along with other info such as health, description, etc.
- Added missing wieldable action prompts.
- Fixing landscape hole issue.
- Fixing a player got stuck issue in mountain 2 area.
- Increased projectile impact energy for better physics "oomph".
- Several fixes for the modify weapon and load weapon modes.
- Fix for holograms being affected by a buildings default customization.
- Fix for being able to navigate out of the in game menu to the respawn UI below it.
- Fix for "Remove all markers" being available if the PDA was closed previously while it was selected.
- Fix for disappearing patterns after unlocking a pattern and then reopening the pattern UI.
- Fix for deployables not being deployable in active PvP areas.
- The split stack UI can now be closed without closing the PDA immediately after.
- Added a capacity threshold indicator to the HUD.
- Unstuck Improvements: StuckInGeometry check now independent of time.
- Fix for tooltips not disappearing after using the split stack UI and then closing the PDA.
- Reduced opacity of unavailable building recipes.
- Fixed bug where pinned protocols were not getting unpinned upon completion.
- Fix for the PDA preview panel not getting reset correctly when switching between tabs.
- Made Loot All action much faster (~50x in the measured case) and also fixed another huge hitch when dropping items with drag/drop using the mouse.
- Adjustments to Alliance permissions and promotions:
- A member with any kind of permission cannot act on ranks or player of a rank that is not below their own
- Add rank and edit rank name is only permitted to the leader, hence the button to add was removed from roster of all other members
- Increased FLOPs amount for PvP events.
- Increased maximum stack sizes of ammunition items.
- Adjusted wieldable light sources and tool durability.
- Implemented region notification widget.
- Adjusted colors of oxygen and nutrition bars.
- Crafted items will now automatically go into available ghost slots.
- Implemented interaction fallback overlap at player feet. That means you don't have to look directly down and iron ore blueberries to pick them up.
- Increased spawn range of the mech.
- Disabled overloaded logout prevention feature.
- Added checks to AI Spawners to decrease chance of AIs spawning in player buildings.
- Adjusted AI group aggro distances.
- Removed T3 resources from T2 mining tool and T2 Printer recipes.
- Decreased damage of toxic acid puddle.
- Increased HP of elite AI.
- Increased deuterium looted from drones.
- Decreased weight of resources.
- Increased FLOPs rewards for protocols.
- Fix of spawning from stasis chamber having placed something in font of it
- Reduced crafting time of growing recipe(s).

Immediate Known Issues:

- Dying on an elevator will not spawn the loot container for your own player. A workaround is to log out and back in and it should spawn for you most of the times.
- Some error messages disappear too fast to be able to read them.
- Private Servers will also get a second update for public-facing servers (playing with friends over the internet instead of locally)

Fixes for the above are already in the works and will be part of one of the next patches.
If you find any more issues, please let us know as usual, so we can fix them.

Thank you and all the best,
The Dev Team