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:
Bugs fixes
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
Latest improvements
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!