Dear courageous assassins, we have now conducted the second update for the game.
The specific details are as follows:

1. Fixed the bug that prevented achieving 100% accuracy in levels 3-5.
   
2. Optimized the calculation method for headshot rate and accuracy within the game.

Thank you for your continued attention and support.
We are committed to providing you with a better gaming experience.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2161430/_/

+ Just added arrows and texts for help in tasks passing.
+ A lot of fixes

Dear players,

We are so happy to have an embracing and patient community. We apologize for not updating here for a while due to product decisions, updates on our previous games and searching for new teammates.

As we promised, because the project achieved more than 1000 wishlists we are sharing our roadmap and playtest dates with you.



General Timeline

30 June 2023 - Alpha 1
14 July 2023 - Closed Playtest 1
21 July 2023 - Closed Playtest 2
11 August 2023 - Alpha 2
18 August 2023 - Closed Playtest 3
25 August 2023 - Closed Playtest 4
1 September 2023 - Beta
15 September 2023 - Open Playtest 1
29 September 2023 - Version 1
2 October 2023 - Demo Release
9 October 2023 - Steam NextFest October 2023
9-29 October - Demo Updates
November – Release

Closed Playtest #1- 14th July 2023

Our first playtest will be on the 14th of July with 240 players capacity.

Our first 50 members in the community will gain access to Playtest #1. Also, we will choose 10 random people from our discord community. Each chosen tester can also invite 3 friends to the playtest.

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Thank you for your support and patience.

Wield your swords! :sword:

-Add map system and mapping.

Hey everyone,

Another daily hotfix and this is the 4th! We've got a range of fixes and stability improvements involving Multiplayer, Savegames and more.

Fixes

• Fixed ATM's not sending or receiving money properly in multiplayer
  
• Added feedback to 'Save and Quit' for clients
  
• Added more Savegame stability to prevent loss of saves
  
• Fixed using the Slimeway sign as a client would kick said client from the game
  
• Fixed Pawn Shops taking money from clients when buying but not giving the bought items sometimes
  
• Fixed ambient music not being affected by the music slider in the settings menu
  
• Fixed multiple food item tooltips relaying incorrect values of effects
  
• Fixed clients seeing a white box as their weapon when joining another player
  
• Fixed Tikey missions not showing a HUD marker back to his barrel during jobs
  
• Doubled Slimeway betting time to 30 seconds
  
• Fixed the Verified Tick showing in GetaJob when the player doesn't know the Founders Pack
  
• Fixed some small padding issues in LandLord app
  
• Fixed some typos throughout dialogue texts

Again another huge thanks to those who's helped us identify issues and shown support. We're going to keep at it as always!

We wanted to take a quick look back at the following week, and all of the changes from the five patches this week.

Companions

• Added a companion system. Companions come in two varieties. The first are summoned pets. Witches, and in the near future conjurers, will be able to summon pets. The second type are NPC companions, who will fight alongside you until they die. NPC companions are a part of the scenario, and can not be summoned via spell.
  
• Added a companion version of the Commander, who will aid you in protecting the artifact. He wields a large flaming sword, and will assist you in battle, as well as verbally taunting enemies.
  
• Witches now have the ability to summon skeletal pets. This ability requires bones as a component. Those can be purchased from vendors in limited quantities. They also drop from skeletons and shamans. Their pets will be stronger based on how many ranks they have trained the pet skill in. You also will gain additional active skeletal pets at a time based on the skill rank, maxing out at 4 pets at a time. If you try to summon more pets than your skill rank allows, it will replace the oldest pet with the newly summoned one.

Dungeons and Scenarios

• Introduced a new system to support protecting objects from being destroyed. This is used in the Protect the Artifact scenario, on the artifact itself. It was designed to be reusable, for additional future scenarios.
  
• Implemented a new wave spawner system, which can be reused in diferent scenarios. This system allows for scaling numbers of NPCs, modified also by difficulty settings, for scenarios such as the newly added one today.
  
• Added a new scenario: Protect the Artifact. This scenario opens up after you complete Raiding Camp or Retrieve the Artifact. It sees the Hideout fall under enemy attack. The players will need to protect the artifact being housed there until the enemy retreats. This will involve enemy encounters of escalating difficulty. You can unlock this scenario by completing the Retrieve the Artifact scenario.
  
• Completing Raid Camp or Retrieving the Artifact will now unlock the Protect the Artifact scenario.
  
• Completing the Protect the Artifact scenario has become an alternate way to unlock the Sealing the Rift scenario. You must be level 35+ to unlock Sealing the Rift.
  
• Added a Stash to the scenarios where the Commander spawns at the end. That includes the Cutting off the Head, Raid Camp, and Showdown scenarios.
  
• You will now only lose 1% experience from deaths in the following scenarios: Cutting Off the Head, Showdown, and the soon to be released Protect the Artifact. You will still lose 2% in other scenarios, but in these three scenarios in particular, death is expected to be more common. And we don't want to punish players more than necessary for attempting the more difficult encounters.
  
• Players should now start most scenarios near the commander, solving the need to locate them before getting started. The exception to this rule are cases where the Commander is spawned after the encounter.
  
• Revamped the Show Scenario screen. You now see a small map and location drawn on it, and a description of each scenario. This allows you to receive details on the quest that you unlocked previously. Where previously you only had the name of the quest to remind you of it's goal beforehand. The new scenario screen will now automatically pick a random mission as the first highlighted quest when it pops up. Allowing you to simply accept the quest and get a random one from those you qualify for without any decision making, if you so choose.
  
• Optimized The Hideout.
  
• Improved generated stash placement.
  
• Werewolves will no longer spawn in the daytime scenarios. They will fall back to a different NPC type in those scenarios.
  
• Fixed a bug which was preventing the Rift implosion effects from playing for online clients.
  
• Fixed a bug that was causing the Retrieve the Artifact quest to show up as "Unknown" when browsing multiplayer sessions.

Items and Loot

• Increased Fire Staff damage radius.
  
• Bones can now be purchased from shopkeepers and magic vendors, in limited quantities.
  
• Skeletons, mages, and shaman now drop bones sometimes. Those can be used to summon skeletons using a new Witch/Mage ability which allows you to summon skeletal pets.
  
• Socketed items now drop more commonly than was previously the case from destructible props, and treasure chests.

NPCs

*]Some NPCs have a random chance to be stubborn when it comes to pursuing the player. These NPCs will continue to chase for much longer distances than others.
• NPCs now have a way to override special cases to allow them to define more strict rules about when they spawn. The werewolf implementation below is an example of this.
  
• Introduced a new Demon Raid Boss. This boss scales down lower than most demons, allowing it to be seen earlier on. He has a variety of special abilities, will taunt players, and can command reinforcements.
  
• Introduced two new Werewolf NPCs. Werewolves are the first lycanthrope monster type. This is the first NPC type which can outrun players. They are more susceptible to magical or fire based damage, than physical damage. Their offense includes combination attacks and retaliations. You will begin to see Werewolves at level 7, with a stronger rank of them beginning at level 15. Both variations have multiple color variations.
  
• Introduced new Barbarian Spearmen NPCs. These NPCs have a sword and shield. Heavy defensively, but slow moving. You'll begin to see them at level 5.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Spider Leap timeline.
  
• Fixed a bug which was causing some NPC armors or weapons to float in the air for a few seconds after they died.
  
• Fixed a bug which was allowing Orc Legion to spawn when the group level was below level 5. They were intended to have been restricted to level 5+.

Skills and Abilities

• Witches now have the ability to summon skeletal pets. This ability requires bones as a component. Those can be purchased from vendors in limited quantities. They also drop from skeletons and shamans. Their pets will be stronger based on how many ranks they have trained the pet skill in. You also will gain additional active skeletal pets at a time based on the skill rank, maxing out at 4 pets at a time. If you try to summon more pets than your skill rank allows, it will replace the oldest pet with the newly summoned one.
  
• Hold Undead (Witch/Mage) is now a child of the Summon Skeleton ability in its tree.
  
• Hold Undead (Witch/Mage) now receive +1 to it's damage bonus for every 2 ranks of Summon Skeleton trained.
  
• Defensive Stance (Warrior/Guardian) is now a wispy full body effect that allows you to continue to see your characters body more easily, without being obscured by the barrier.
  
• Flame Shield (Mage/Conjuration) no longer has the bubble around your character. This is replaced with a full body flaming appearance.
  
• Berserk (Warior/Berserker) also received an aura appearance update. It removed the bubble effect in place of a glittery full body particle.
  
• Continuing that same theme, Vampiric Draw (Mage/Witch) has a new dripping blood appearance when active, in place of the old bubble based aura.
  
• Last but not least, Frost Winds (Mage/Wizard) got the aura improvement pass. It now has a full body frost effect in place of the old bubble method. Making it easier to see your character's features.
  
• Increased Fireball (Wizard/Mage) damage radius.
  
• Added new particle effects for stun, dizziness, or knockdowns.

Sounds

• Added additional voice overs for the Commander. This includes quest dialogs, and combat taunts.
  
• Added new NPC Taunt sounds.

Transmuting

• Introduced a new crafting ingredient: Lycanthrope Fangs. These can drop from Werewolves, or in the future other lycanthropes. They are used in transmuting.
  
• Introduced 17 new transmuting recipes which can upgrade some types of gear from magical to rare using lycanthrope fangs.

User Interface

• Revamped the Show Scenario screen. You now see a small map and location drawn on it, and a description of each scenario. This allows you to receive details on the quest that you unlocked previously. Where previously you only had the name of the quest to remind you of it's goal beforehand. The new scenario screen will now automatically pick a random mission as the first highlighted quest when it pops up. Allowing you to simply accept the quest and get a random one from those you qualify for without any decision making, if you so choose.
  
• You can now zoom the camera out to a further distance than was previously possible.
  
• You can also now zoom in closer than before.
  
• If you zoom in significantly, the camera will tilt forward.

Miscellaneous

• You can now zoom the camera out to a further distance than was previously possible.
  
• You can also now zoom in closer than before.
  
• If you zoom in significantly, the camera will tilt forward.
  
• Improved aggro switching system.
  
• Networking optimizations.
  
• Added an animation to when players are knocked back.
  
• Animation optimizations.
  
• Made some dwarf sizing and grounding adjustments.
  
• Fixed a ragdoll related issue that could cause issues when destructible objects were destroyed.

• Replaced F12's function with F11 to avoid issues when taking screenshots.

Hey everyone, here's what changed:

• Granite God Mesa has more slanted ground sections at Turn 1 and 2.
  
• Granite God Mesa has Turn Signs and Hazard Signs to help players with navigation.
  
• Granite God Mesa lighting rebaked.
  
• Dust emission increased 25% - 50% depending on vehicle class.

Welcome to the sixth week on Mars!

We are thrilled to announce that the testing phase for build v0.122.2 is now complete, and it has just been switched to the default branch. Rest assured, if you encounter any issues, you can always revert to the previous branch on Steam.

Check it out here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/758690/view/3687931332330630923?l=english

In this update, we have introduced several exciting additions:

Autowalk feature
Suit charging from batteries and transformers
Building trailers and containers without the need for Big Crusher
And that's not all! This update also includes numerous other features and fixes.

We are currently reworking the save system, and while a major fix will be available in the next update, we have already resolved some of the issues with saving and loading the game.


In the upcoming weeks, we will provide you with more detailed information about our plans, as we have an exciting major update scheduled for June/July. Stay tuned for further updates! ːsteamhappyː

Don't forget that you can always press F4 to automatically send us feedback, including screenshots and logs directly from the game.

For collecting priority bugs, we have a pinned forum thread available:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/758690/discussions/0/3829792817308237223/

Wishing you a fantastic weekend on Mars!

Warm regards,
The Occupy Mars Team

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P.S. Calling all Rover enthusiasts! Check out our previous game, Rover Mechanic Simulator:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/864680/Rover_Mechanic_Simulator/

It's part of the same Occupy Mars Universe, and we have prepared a special bundle just for you:

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/28017/Occupy_Mars_Universe_Bundle/

[Update]

• Skill "Shield": Adds the effect of partially recovering magical power when defending against enemy attacks.
  
• Trait "Upgrade Shield": Added "Additional increase in magical power recovered when defending" effect
  
• Adjusted downward the amount of magic consumed when using skills
  
• Content reinforcement of Hidden Ending that can be confirmed after clearing the 4th Dimensional Rift that can be confirmed in the stages of Chapter 7 and 8
  
• Added previews of weapon skills "Low-flying Rush" and "Distortion Barrier" in the Durahan menu