New Features: New UI The user interface of Surviving Mars has been completely updated to a new visual style Sponsor Goals - Each sponsor now provides a set of five unique goals. Completing those goals awards various rewards from Funding and Applicants to free prefabs of Domes and even free Rockets. The five goals have varying difficulty and can push you to play in a specific direction if you want to get their reward quickly. The more difficult sponsors have tougher goals which sometimes even have a time limit. Sponsor goals are an improvement and an overhaul of the current Mission Evaluation mechanic which is retired with the update. Events Events are story elements that depict different situations arising in the colony and will play out randomly as your colony grows. Sometimes there will be difficult decisions to make, and sometimes your choice of Commander Profile and Mission Sponsor will affect the decision options you have. There are 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... Once in a while its just interesting to see how people may relax and have fun on the red planet. Planetary Anomalies and Expeditions Martian Anomalies are no longer found only in your sector now you can discover them all over the planet. To analyze such a planetary anomaly, you will need to send a rocket to its coordinates on Mars. You will also need Drones, Rovers or Colonists for the expedition. Planetary Anomalies can yield research points, new Techs and Breakthroughs as well as resources and offer bigger rewards than Anomalies in the immediate vicinity of your colony. Supply Pods - You may need an urgent delivery from Earth every now and then, and your rockets can be on the far side of Mars now. Supply Pods are one-use delivery space vehicles that can transport a limited payload from Earth. They are faster than Rockets and can land in any conditions, even during Dust Storms, but incur $100 M extra cost on launch. Also, they can be salvaged after crash-landing. New Points of Interest in your sector new "Research site" and "Vista" locations can be now discovered in your sector map. They boost comfort and research (respectively) in nearby buildings and domes; they are revealed when a sector is scanned; those locations are randomly placed but depend on visible terrain features Sponsor Logos a set of new sponsor logos, based on the national flags of the sponsors Important changes: Completed Milestones now grant Research Points as reward Added a new building - Waste Rock Processor - unlocked by Waste Rock Liquefaction tech Unused research points now go to the cheapest tech if no assigned research exists Shuttles can transport waste rock Updated sensor tower infopanel UI to include information about working units and disaster early warning Added ability to enable/disable shuttle service for storage depots Black Cubes Mystery: Black cubes can no longer destroy passages or appear over deposits Buildings locked behind technologies will now list the tech field and name in their description Added new functionality to Shuttle Hub - switch transportation modes between "people", "cargo", and "everything" Removed Fuelled Extractor's upgrade from Concrete Plants Wildfire Mystery: fix for long-term consequences of not researching the Cure Mission Evaluation removed (replaced by Sponsor goals) Other fixes: Fix for factories to update Production per sol in real time Fix for "Charge" hint for RC Generator (fixed both description and controller shortcut) Fix for closed solar panels to not accumulate dust Fix for the timer of completed challenges - in-game Fix for RC Transport route creation when using overview map Fixes for manual control over a Drone for cable/pipe construction, RC Transport unloading, construction site clearance Fix for misleading text for pause/unpause Fix for game freeze when packing numerous drones over short period of time Fix for colonists migration and job allocation between connected domes - colonists now check if working in connected domes is forbidden when searching for a new dome Fix for load/unload functionality of RC Transport Fix for construction process to properly clear construction site when construction is on the edge of construction range Fix for occasional overlap of buildings Fix for passage placement to limit some invalid passage positions Fix for cable placement when outside of drone hub range, which shows cable lines in unbuildable places Fix for auto-pin option for exceptional colonists Fixed controller button info when using rename feature Fix for Crystals in Philosopher's stone mystery, to no longer spawn with a dome base Fix for Waste Rock Processor model, now does not intersect with pipes Fix for metal deposits placement to avoid inaccessible locations Fix for rocket launch failing because of disembarking transport Fix to keep new deposit positions fixed to map seed Living Quarters renamed to Living Complex to reflect building sizes naming convention Fix to remove concrete terrain once a concrete deposit has been depleted Fix to prevent drones being assigned to destroyed commanders Fix for drones idle movement while waiting to recharge Fix for Research screen tooltip to update cost for repeatable techs in queue Fix to allow sending an empty passenger rocket from Earth (also added a warning) Added on-screen notification for destroyed buildings Updated upgrade rollover text to show available resources Fix for scaling of particle of anomaly scanning Fix for construction rover to properly utilize/deal with resources on construction site Fix for loss of control when performing quick actions in the build menu with a controller Fix for Dome infopanel to better communicate comfort issues Fix for follow-up camera when units disappear Fix for setting traits in School/Sanatorium Fix for pathfinder, reported as automated rover not responding Removed old mission evaluation system and related notifications when loading pre-Gagarin saves Tutorial 3: added shield against player spending all money and unable to continue a tutorial step Various performance optimizations PC specific fixes: [OSX] Fix for window resize and occasional crash after using Command+Tab [Linux] Fix for switch between Full screen and Windowed mode