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:UsersAppDataLocalLowLuckyHammersTerraforming 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!