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Winter Update Highlights ⭐

Changelog v0.185.4 -> v0.199.1 [ Winter Update ]

New Features:

• Balanced & reworked oxygen consumption & production - we have found some leaking oxygen in our calculations so we've made a complete re-work of it. Oxygen in the landing capsule is no longer infinite - prepare other sources of oxygen and make sure, that your production can meet your needs. If you have a big base, prepare that it may need more oxygen now.
• Increased anti-meteorite system rocket capacity
• Added fulfillment level info on the horizontal tank
• Added fulfillment level info on the Mars Truck
• Corrected launch pad methane & oxygen requirements
• All repair kits can now fix tools and helmet
• Minigame speed points won’t be created inside of the buildings
• Made some icons on the radar more visible on Olympus
• Added auto-detecting of QWERTZ keyboard
• Polished model of the workbench to better fit the workshop
• Added checkbox in the game options for faster or slower airlock opening
• New Technology: possible to pick up more than one rock with a grabber
• New Technologies: Added infinite technology feature
• It is now possible to unload trailer while in TPP view
• Player can now fix helmet on the workbench
• Added a signal when the device goes out of range of Remote Controller
• Possibility to explode outposts with dynamite
• The loot dropping from exploded outpost or outpost destroyed by meteorite is now being stacked inside of the box enabling the possibility to pick it up all at once
• Player can now start the Freeplay game without losing items collected during the Campaign
• Created new effect from rover's arm for rock targeting
• Hangar rework and improvements
• It is now possible to open the hangar door from the outside
• Changed texture and added ramp to reach hangar's outside lever
• Added notification informing about collecting all required items for the launchpad
• Changed order of the tutorial videos
• It is now allowed to give longer names to your saves
• Added Christmas-themed decorations!
• It is now possible to fill the oxygen bottle partially even if the source have not enough resource to refill it to the max capacity
• Black spacesuit can now be worn with or without the ROG logo
• Added possibility to stack items while sorting the inventory
• Added possibility to open the tablet's radar (map) while driving
• Improved shortcuts to the ESC menu in tablet
• Added fulfillment level info on the vertical tank
• Improved F4 report menu and added a field for e-mail address for better communication with players
• Added option on the map to check O2 level in starting capsule
• Added sorting button to more inventories
• It is now required to close the capsule's door before going to sleep
• It is now possible to have more than one target point in the same color
• Implemented overall optimization improvements in the game

Critical Bugfixes:

• Fixed another case of autosave blocking the game
• Fixed another case of infinite saving
• Fixed saves not loading after a few hours of gameplay
• Fixed eating, healing and replacing suit battery using gamepad
• Fixed few cases of game crashing
• Fixed player not being able to interact with greenhouse panel
• Fixed handling items or opening things making player die
• Fixed player stuck in rover
• Fixed various issues with loading the game
• Fixed pressing F4 when opening fuse hatch freezes player
• Fixed missing soldering and hot air tool on workbench
• Fixed issue with game crashing after detaching cables
• Fixed another case of infinite sleep
• Fixed issues with saving the game
• Fixed invisible rover issue
• Fixed crashing when heading one particular direction with rover
• Fixed breathing outside without helmet and not dying
• Fixed electricity points being stuck
• Fixed crashing when picking up the rocks
• Fixed various crash causes occurring after the halloween patch
• Fixed various causes of issues with loading saves
• Fixed game crashing after escape sequence and loading the freeplay
• Fixed blocked player while opening the inventory screen
• Fixed various issues of player not being able to save the game
• Fixed player not being able to load the save
• Fixed save issues occurring after the meteor shower
• Fixed game crashing on quicksave
• Fixed issues with stuck cursor
• Fixed random crashes
• Fixed crashes occurring near fallen meteorites
• Fixed player falling through the map
• Fixed save load hanging up after clicking on Start
• Fixed player being unable to use ESC or TAB after mining

Bugfixes - High priority:

• Rebalanced meteorite event to make it more player-friendly
• Fixed issue with stacking vegetables in player's inventory
• Fixed missing loot in the ITS
• Fixed false "not enough oxygen" message, making the player unable to go to sleep
• Fixed missing "press Q to switch variant" message in some languages
• Fixed items falling below workshop floor
• Fixed blocked interactions after attempt of picking up CO2 bottle
• Fixed too much consumption of O2 in rover
• Fixed reappearing scrapped outposts
• Fixed grinder targeting issues
• Fixed issues with placing storage cabinet in lobby
• Fixed lightning storm causing drop of FPS
• Fixed inventory box duplicating planting tool
• Fixed holes in textures
• Fixed invisible outpost close to the Olympus
• Fixed unbreakable silicon rocks
• Fixed receiving electricity points where player shouldn't be rewarded with them
• Fixed player not being able to interact with fridge
• Fixed some missing translations in game options
• Fixed incorrect interaction with cabinet in outpost
• Fixed issue with oxygen disappearing from the base
• Fixed issues with repairing the board on the workbench
• Fixed broken antenna timer
• Fixed infinite silicon ores dropping from the rock
• Fixed not radiating uranium rocks in Olympus
• Fixed issues with replacing battery extension after the meteorite hit
• Fixed speed point minigames not rewarding player
• Fixed blocked building panels
• Fixed dome having a light even when it's not connected to any source of power
• Fixed issue with CTRL+F9 behaving as if player pressed F9 alone
• Fixed player positioning next to the chair in survival capsule
• Fixed disappearing starting equipment
• Fixed floating rover near Alpha Base
• Fixed player being able to take the helmet off inside of opened landing capsule
• Fixed cloning circuit boards on the workbench
• Fixed a gap between colliders on some buildings, causing player able to throw items in there
• Fixed various bugs with assembling the rocket kit (eg. disappearing fins)
• Fixed missing information about picking up the pendrive to the inventory box
• Fixed issues with getting on the ATV
• Fixed - if the game was saved while being in the crane camera, the camera is broken after load
• Fixed items being duplicated in containers
• Fixed player stuck after exiting inventory
• Fixed disappearing interactive boards from supply drops
• Fixed issue with disappearing rocks after having them load into a truck by hand
• Fixed player being able to unlock all blueprints from the same tablet
• Fixed issue with building recipe not being updated after acquiring the missing part
• Fixed issue with frozen hand after picking up vegetables
• Fixed issue with unlocking technology on the research table with the gamepad
• Fixed H key not always working properly
• Fixed incorrect loading of book decoration variant after loading save
• Polished building recipe list
• Fixed reappearing Olympus walls if being blown up before
• Fixed player not being able to access the fuse box
• Fixed player being blocked if hit by a meteor
• Fixed player stuck after using night vision
• Fixed rover extensions hanging in the air
• Fixed game freezing when standing between two airlocks with no helmet and "low oxygen" warning
• Fixed issue with O2 in base resetting to 0 when adding new buildings
• Fixed player not being able to use ECU or battery display
• Fixed negative O2 use on pump display
• Fixed player being allowed to roam around outside of the base without a helmet
• Fixed inverted O2 and pressure in the starting capsule
• Fixed player locking inside of the ITS
• Fixed rover sinking under the terrain after player left the base
• Fixed unplugged hoses from the pump station still working
• Fixed charging truck by onboard solar panel taking too long time
• Fixed Freeplay parameters transferring from one save to another

Bugfixes - Normal priority:

• Fixed FOV resetting after sleeping
• Fixed missing texture after replacing poster
• Fixed not enough space in rover's welder UI for longer numbers
• Fixed issues with rotating ghost when approaching it
• Fixed motocross brakes to work more accurately corresponding to physics
• Fixed false info from botany tree indicating that there are points to be used
• Fixed too bright light flash when entering the airlock
• Fixed flickering socket textures in battery rack
• Fixed printing screws in buildings sets too expensive
• Fixed various issues with blinking textures
• Fixed blinking dirt texture on airlock
• Fixed issue with cut off tornado vortex
• Fixed missing aurora on the sky during solar storm
• Fixed building a greenhouse causing bugged blueprints tab in tablet
• Fixed invisible tornado from inside of the medium or large dome
• Fixed air bubbles appearing after the meteor storm
• [DE] Changed stamina and tiredness translation
• Fixed disappearing destroyed battery packs after pressing LMB
• Fixed player not being able to scan and destroy rocks
• Lowered volume of sounds of explosions and launching the rocket
• Fixed ready to load rock not showing as ready to load
• Fixed no visible board in small crusher's panel
• Added a female body model to the black suit
• Fixed floating hair in the female character profile
• Fixed flickering texture on destroyed base
• Fixed player being unable to drop wall signs picked up from the supply drop
• Fixed ATV not falling down after destroying hangar
• Fixed sticky circuit boards
• Fixed FSR in TPP causing duplicated scale image
• Fixed missile from rocket kit being stuck in player's body
• Polished Jetpack model to look better on the heavy suit
• Fixed dirty levers on the big crusher
• Fixed misplaced lever in survival capsule
• Fixed rover arm cursor falling under the rocks
• Lowered the positioning of hangar door ramp
• [PL] Changed description of the Spectral Detector I
• Fixed cables and vents not giving back any resources
• Added possibility to grind the Kilopower standing in the Alpha Base location
• Fixed ghost of rocket kit floating in the air after running through the airlock
• Fixed issue with loading or starting the game without being alt-tabbed
• Fixed tornado animation graphics disappearing after taking out the spectral detector
• Fixed decoration variant not being remembered after placing the decoration
• Corrected textures of some objects in abandoned bases
• Fixed issues with water spot value fluctuations
• Fixed flickering flashlight light on particular graphics settings
• Changed launchpad oxygen store value

Bugfixes - Low:

• Fixed old type solar panels floating
• Fixed glitchy windows of normal connector
• Fixed issue with CO2 scrubber making sounds even if there's no power
• Fixed issue with horizontal tank rendering distance
• Fixed missing textures during meteor shower
• [ESP] Fixed too large seed translation text
• Fixed ITS sinking into the ground after opening the door
• Fixed unhealthy look of the lettuce
• [FR] Fixed translation for the science bench name in the tech tree
• Fixed unpleasant flashing of highlighting of some decorations

• Circuit board box items may disappear if you put the box in the printer's inventory
• Circuit boards after fixing manually on the workbench can’t be used
• Wrong layer order of Player and tablet UI while driving inside the MarsTruck
• Missing speed up points while building workshop
• Manually assembled rockets can be duplicated
• Rocket kit is being printed incredibly fast
• Blue outline of the multimeter is visible from a high distance
• Inside the survival capsule printer items on the printing list are labeled as "book"
• Pumpkin icon isn't always visible on UI when hovering over it
• Different player hair color in tablet view

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