Greetings Terraformers!

For the last few months, many of you have let us know your desire to have access to new expansions for the digital version of Terraforming Mars! The machine is engaged and the engines are ready for takeoff. Prelude DLC is coming on Steam and you can already add it to your wishlist!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1245590


You will be able to discover and play with the 5 new following corporations:

• Cheung Shing Mars: for a building oriented strategy.
  
• Point Luna: increase your Titanium production and enjoy Earth tags advantages.
  
• Robinson Industries: to improve every aspect of your business equally.
  
• Valley Trust: take the advantage over your opponents by drawing three prelude cards instead of two at the beginning.
  
• Vitor: accumulate money along with Victory Points.

Each corporation has its advantages and disadvantages, make sure to adapt your strategy accordingly to your choice!




Before the terraforming starts, you will now have the possibility to make choices which will define your tactics for the conquest of Mars.

Discover the 35 new Prelude cards and customize your corporation: will you start the terraforming process or do you prefer to first boost your corporation mechanisms? Make sure to make the right choice according to your corporation and don’t let your opponents take advance! Enjoy a more dynamic gameplay experience thanks to the Prelude phase.


Seven new projects are added to the game. It’s the occasion to develop new tactics!

• Coordination of Research
  
• Lava Tube Settlement
  
• Mars Surface Survey
  
• Monument to Sci-Fi Authors
  
• Printed Houses
  
• Psychrophiles
  
• Space Hotels

That is not all! More content is to be discovered in the expansion!

• You will be able to face a new Solo Challenge: try to be the first to reach a Terraforming Rating of 63 in 14 generations!
  
• Introducing the Wild Tag: for an action performed, the wild tag becomes a tag of your choice.

Note that you will also be able to customize your solo/online games, depending on which parts of the expansion you wish to play with. Will you go with the Prelude Phase, or just the new Corporations and Projects? Or will you choose to play with all the add-ons? It’s up to you!

Rediscover the game and develop whole new strategies with this new DLC!



Thank you a lot for your support and continual feedback over the last months, terraformers. We are so excited to be able to propose this new content to the digital community and we hope you will enjoy the DLC.

Greetings Terraformers!

It’s a pleasure to us to announce that Jacob Fryxelius, designer of the Terraforming Mars board game will be attending the first edition of the Steam Digital Tabletop Fest!

The event aims at exploring the fusion between board games and their digital adaptation all in the company of industry professionals. During the festival, you will be able to assist to various let’s play sessions and panel discussions around your favorite games.

Check out today what is planned for Terraforming Mars!


You will assist to a round table with a panel of professionals and learn more about the planet Mars and how its exploration inspired both board games and video games.

For the occasion, meet Dr. Jacob Fryxelius, the original designer of Terraforming Mars accompanied by Dr. Tomas Rawlings, developer of Mars Horizon (Auroch Digital) and Mike Roush, developer of Tharsis (Totally Choice). Welcome also Dr. Sian Proctor, Professor at South Mountain Community College, Geoscientist plus Analog Astronaut and Sue Horne, Head of Space Exploration at the UK Space Agency and part of ESA’s ExoMars team.

With such a panel, there are sure to be many things you will learn at this event, so be sure to be there!


Be on time on October 21 at 5PM (PDT) and make sure to set up a reminder on the event main page here: {LINK REMOVED}https://bit.ly/2FFd90f



See you at the Steam Digital Tabletop Fest terraformers!

Dear Terraformers,

A new patch is available on all plateforms! Have a look at the detailed patch note below:


Bugs fixes

• During an online game, two users can have the same Corporation
  
• Overlap of texts when displaying some rules informations
  
• Achievements cannot be unlocked on Steam

Latest improvement

• The beginner corporation is no longer available for ranked games to ensure fair ranked games

Thank you to all those who continue to send us the bugs encountered, it really helps us in our investigations. More content is on the way, see you soon!

Dear Terraformers,

We are delighted to meet you today for the official announcement of the arrival of Terraforming Mars on MacOS! This beta is open to all our Mac users who would like to help us by sending feedback, bug reports and more. As we're narrowing down the last improvements, Mac users' feedback will help us polishing the build for the release.




If you wish to join it, head to https://account.asmodee.net/en/betatests and scroll down until you see the current beta for Terraforming Mars. Then, click on “Join” and follow the instructions that appear on your screen. Update your game, launch it and set ready for a trip to Mars!


Once you have reached the website mentioned above, you will discover a new way to provide us with feedback and reports … a Discord server for our beta testers! This server regroups all of our current betas. This way, you can forward us your feedback directly on it and help us gather all the issues encountered, suggestions and more! Choose the channel dedicated to the game you want to beta test and follow the instructions pinned to share with us your feedback. As usual, screenshots, recordings, save game are always very helpful to the team in charge. Always make sure to forward us as many details as you can!

MacOS beta cleared for takeoff!
Thank you to all our beta testers and have a nice game!

Dear terraformers,

Reinforcements have arrived! We are delighted to announce that a new update is available for Terraforming Mars, fixing various bugs and improving online stability. It is available on all platforms.
Thank you to all the players who helped us during the beta by forwarding us bug reports and feedback!
Due to some fixing in the rules, please note that all the ongoing online games will be cancelled!
You will find below the detailed patch notes:


Rules/cards:

• The Power Infrastructure (194) action is now functional in all cases
  
• When the AI plays the Flooding card (188), the condition for removing 4MC from other players is fixed.
  
• The passive effect of Protected Habitats (173) no longer protects the player's resources from the effects of his own cards.
  
• Carbonate Processing card (43)
  
• Fixed: some players reported that the cost of the card is removed but none of the effects are applied.
  
• Search For Life card (5)

Fixed:

• A crash may occured (rare) if there are no cards left in the draw pile and someone performs this action.

Online:

• During an online game, two users could have the same Corporation
  
• The Server disconnection when switching to another app or when putting the app into background no longer occurs (mobiles)
  
• The user is notified when kicked out of a game due to a timeout when outside of that game
  
• When adding an offline player to your friend list, the player detail UI is now updated

Ingame UI:

• The VP icon no longer overlaps the descriptive text of the card when it is displayed in large format

Tutorial:

• "Next" button visual corruption fixed
  
• Multiple issues (misplacement) with arrow indicator are fixed
  
• Wrong text displayed during the 4th part

Online:

• The online services code (Asmodee.net v5.1 SDK) has been rewritten to improve stability
  
• Player Clock default value is set to 2 hours for both Private and Public online games. (functional only if there is no existing save already recorded before running this update)
  
• A message is displayed when a player is replaced by an AI after his clock ended

Ingame UI:

• Reduction of the flashing effect on the top information during a game

Tutorial:

• Card button and tutorial popup transparency are adjusted
  
• Some buttons of the 4th part were not disabled properly
  
• Allow the user to skip automatically some steps of the tutorial

See you soon for great news and happy terraforming!

Dear Terraformers,
We're glad to announce that a new beta is now available!

To join our beta and check out the various bug fixes and improvements made to the game, you just have to be logged into your Asmodee account, then head to https://account.asmodee.net/en/betatests. You’ll then be able to enter the beta by clicking “Join” and once this is done, you’ll be given a link where you can provide us with your feedback and suggestions, which are very valuable to us.
We look forward to seeing you in the beta!
Here is the detailed patch notes:


Rules/cards:
- The Power Infrastructure (194) action is now functional in all cases
- When the AI plays the Flooding card (188), the condition for removing 4MC from other players is fixed.
- The passive effect of Protected Habitats (173) no longer protects the player's resources from the effects of his own cards.
- Carbonate Processing card (43)
Fixed: some players reported that the cost of the card is removed but none of the effects are applied.
- Search For Life card (5)

Fixed: A crash may occured (rare) if there are no cards left in the draw pile and someone performs this action.

Online:
- During an online game, two users could have the same Corporation
- The Server disconnection when switching to another app or when putting the app into background no longer occurs (mobiles)
- The user is notified when kicked out of a game due to a timeout when outside of that game
- When adding an offline player to your friend list, the player detail UI is now updated

Ingame UI:
-The VP icon no longer overlaps the descriptive text of the card when it is displayed in large format.

Tutorial:

• "Next" button visual corruption fixed
  
• Multiple issues (misplacement) with arrow indicator are fixed
  
• Wrong text displayed during the 4th part

Online:

• The online services code (Asmodee.net v5.1 SDK) has been rewritten to improve stability.
  
• Player Clock default value is set to 2 hours for both Private and Public online games. (functional only if there is no existing save already recorded before running this update)
  
• A message is displayed when a player is replaced by an AI after his clock ended

Ingame UI:

• Reduction of the flashing effect on the top information during a game

Tutorial:

• Card button and tutorial popup transparency are adjusted
  
• Some buttons of the 4th part were not disabled properly
  
• Allow the user to skip automatically some steps of the tutorial

Known issues:

• Unable to see the result of an online game, if the player is not online when the game ends
  
• In some cases, it is possible to target a player even if he has Protected Habitat (173) active

If you wish to leave the beta and continue playing Terraforming Mars:
1- Go into Terraforming Mars’ properties
2- Select the “Beta” tab
3- Select the “NONE – Opt out of all beta programs” option
4- Delete the content of this folder:
C:Users<username>AppDataLocalLowLuckyHammersTerraforming Mars
Make sure that you check all files have been deleted, some of them are set as “hidden” and will need to be revealed to be deleted.

This beta test is limited in its duration. If no serious offenders are reported, the content of the beta will be pushed to the live branch.

Happy terraforming!

Dear Terraformers,

After last week's beta, we're glad to announce the release of a new patch for Terraforming Mars.



You'll find below the detailed content:


Bug Fixes

• Olympus Conference (185) + Research (090) didn't combine as designed
  
• Incorrect behavior of CEO's Favorite Project (149) combined with Search for Life (005)
  
• Ganymede Colony (081) issue with hitbox

Minor fixes

• Glowing hex indicator is now functional for Ganymede Colony
  
• The U.N.M.I Corporation action is now properly labelled
  
• Tooltips in the Settings screen are now displayed correctly
  
• French localization for card 185 Conférence Olympus is now correct
  
• Tutorial - UI improvements

Improvements

• Consult a card info is now easier
  
• Complete rework of the online flow
  
• Players are clearly notified about ressources when they are destroyed, gained or stolen
  
• Grey out unavailable options when choosing resources or targets

More content is on the way, stay tuned!

We'll see you on the red planet everyone!

Dear Terraformers,



The beta branch is now open for every Terraformers who wish to test it and provide us with feedback!

Here is the detailed patch notes:

Fixes

• Hitbox for Ganymede Colony (081) doesn't actually include Ganymede
  
• Glowing hex indicator is nonfunctional for Ganymede Colony
  
• Global parameters bonus aren't always understood by the players
  
• The U.N.M.I Corporation action is labelled as a 'Blue Card' action instead of a Corporation Card Action when played
  
• Player Turn' banner text containing accent characters become slightly misaligned when viewed during gameplay
  
• View Game State button obscures 5th players information tab
  
• Tooltips in the Settings screen are not displayed correctly
  
• Bad french localization for card 185 Conférence Olympus
  
• Card Space Station (25) has too many passive effects
  
• Reduce the average Crash rate reported on Google Play Console
  
• BigCard has a wrong position when you use Power Infrastructure (194) action
  
• Player can't click on "Consulter l'état du jeu" when using card Hired Raiders (124)
  
• Additional Actions stays blocked on the Action panel
  
• Tutorial - The bottom UI overlaps with the "Use" button under the cards.
  
• Olympus Conference (185) + Research (090) don't combine as designed
  
• Incorrect behavior of CEO's Favorite Project (149) combined with Search for Life (005)
  
• Power Infrastructure (#194)'s action consumes power but doesn't give

Improvements

• Less steps to consult card info
  
• Remove the "Display Resolution Dialog" at boot and replace it by in game setting
  
• Grey out the unavailable options when choosing resources or targets
  
• Complete rework of the online out of game flow
  
• Players are not notified about resource destroyed, gained, stolen
  
• UI animation for payment cost is delayed when playing Inventor's Guild (006) or Business Network (110)
  
• Animation of the Inventor's Guild/Business Network is reversed with the wrong amount of MC shown
  
• Add a glow shader to highlight some buttons
  
• In game, when browsing cards / corpo, change left / right arrows asset and animate them
  
• Cut the small delay at the end of a turn
  
• Replace countries flags to represent the language by text
  
• Bind the physical back button with the screen navigation logic
  
• Change the position and visual of the Log button
  
• In game, when browsing cards / corpo, change left / right arrows asset and animate them
  
• Display version number on the main screen
  
• Standard Icon replaced by the “google adaptative” icon
  
• Nice to have for featuring
  
• Tutorial arrows need to be visually differentiated according to their roles
  
• When the card is big on mobile, the top of the card is transparent and the player can see buttons behind
  
• In-game the glow of the top buttons appears too frequently
  
• Tutorial - always place the Next button in the bottom right corner
  
• Tutorial - visual of the Next button has changed

How to join/leave the beta
In the Library tab of your Steam client, browse the left-side list and right-click on Terraforming Mars. Select Properties.



In the new window, visit the Betas tab. In the drop-down menu, select beta and close the window. Steam will download the update.



If you wish to leave the beta and continue playing Terraforming Mars:
1- Go into Terraforming Mars’ properties
2- Select the “Beta” tab
3- Select the “NONE – Opt out of all beta programs” option
4- Delete the content of this folder:
C:Users<username>AppDataLocalLowLuckyHammersTerraforming Mars
Make sure that you check all files have been deleted, some of them are set as “hidden” and will need to be revealed to be deleted.



This beta test is limited in its duration. If no serious offenders are reported, the content of the beta will be pushed to the live branch.

Happy terraforming!

Dear Terraformers,



We're glad to announce the release of a new patch for Terraforming Mars, on all platforms!

You'll find below the detailed content:


Improvements

• If the player benefits from a cost discount on project cards, the affected cards now display their discounted cost, as well as their base cost just below
  
• In online games, the players’ account names are now displayed just above the left side tabs
  
• In local games, the players’ corporations names are now displayed just above the left side tabs
  
• The Event cards are now fully displayed in the Log and Played Cards instead of being hidden, as discussed with Jacob Fryxelius
  
• Tags are now displayed in two columns in the Tags panel, removing the need to scroll down
  
• A special message and a sound effect are now played when all global parameters are complete.
  
• End game scoring animations now follow the general animation speed setting: slow x0.8, default x1, fast x1.5, very fast x2.5
  
• Addition of an automatic zoom on the Noctis tile when playing Noctis City (017) in order to help the user with the tile placement
  
• The tutorial button is now easier to find in the main menu
  
• Loading times have been reduced by technical optimization

Bug fixes

• Protected Habitats (173) now protect the player's plant resources, animal resources and microbe resources against removal by any opponent
  
• Fix for an issue preventing the creator of an online private game from returning to the game’s lobby after leaving it
  
• Fix for the game soft-locking when the player would attempt to leave tutorial 3 before their starting hand has been obtained
  
• Fix for a display issue with the hand of cards during tutorial 3 after the corporation selection step
  
• Fix for corrupted characters in the chat

Known issues

• Incorrect behavior of CEO's Favorite Project (149) combined with Search for Life (005)
  
• Olympus Conference (185) + Research (090) don't combine as designed
  
• Viral Enhancers (074) doesn't lower by 1 the plant cost of Moss (122) or Nitrophilic Moss (146). Instead, the plant is gained immediately after the card is played.
  
• Immigrant City (200) isn’t allowed to be played when MC production is at -4, or -5 with Tharsis Republic

More content is on the way, stay tuned!

We'll see you on the red planet everyone!

Greetings!



We're very pleased to announce that from November 26 to December 3 you can enjoy a 60% discount on your journey to the red planet.
The trip will be all inclusive, so don't miss this offer!

We can't wait to welcome all our new terraformers!

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