- Thanks for the Memories! - 24 May 2024
Hi Martians! We’ve been on an incredible journey since we launched back in early 2020, thanks to you, our incredible community. However, after 4 years, we have taken the difficult decision to sunset Memories of Mars, closing down online multiplayer servers on June 25th, 2024. In addition, Memories of Mars will no longer be available for purchase on all platforms, effective immediately. Players who have purchased the game on or after April 24th, 2024 will be eligible for a refund. More information can be found here: https://505.games/MOMSunset For some of you this news may not be a huge surprise, but we also understand for those still playing, this won’t be the update you wanted to hear. We want to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you for your support over the years. It means more than you know! Take care, The Memories of Mars team
- Patch 7 is here - 13 May 2020
Hello Martians! We have another minor patch for you! We will push it live in around one hour from now, so 10 UTC. This time the focus was on performance and bugfixes. Client-side performance should have improved significantly on lower end platforms. while server performance also got more stable due to netcode optimizations. There is still more to be done, but we wanted to give you an update now, so the worst performance offenders are already fixed. We also fixed a number of bugs you guys reported, so find the full changelog below. Changes: - Fixing map holes accessible by jetpack or jump boots - Improved Building netcode performance and reliability - Fix for gaps between triangle foundations and ceilings - Fix for bad LODs on lore devices - Enabled light color customization of T2 and T3 headlights - Fix for missing focus when going into unconcious while ingame menu is opened (softlock)…
- New Major Patch! - 23 April 2020
Hello Martians! We have another major patch for you on all platforms! This patch will also come with a second attempt on higher server hardware, so please be patient if servers take longer to restart after the patch went live. We plan to release the patch at around 10 UTC today. Have the highlights of the patch and full changelog below! Highlights: - New secret underground area to explore - UI Optimization - Rendering Optimization for Player Buildings - Fix for non-interactible player-made devices when logging in - Changed Player Name texts behaviour to only show when looking at players, instead of always showing them - Changed "Fall Out Of World" behaviour to teleport back to surface instead of killing the player - Deployed mobile 3d printers now decay if not used - Multiple client and server crash fixes - Banned players will now see a ban reason and duration when trying to log in - Bi…
- Information about lost progress - 16 March 2020
Hello Martians, We are very sorry for the inconvenience, but today's PC patch went very sideways and caused all running servers, including console servers to not save progress anymore after 14:30. We are trying to figure out how this happened and will give you guys an update as soon as we know what's up. We will also give everyone who lost progress a generous gift package as compensation to help get you back on track. That will be handed out later this week. Thank you and very sorry this happened. The Dev Team
- Patch 5 Changelog - 16 March 2020
Hello Martians! Today we will be releasing Patch 5 for the Steam-Version. Console versions are currently on an older version of the game, but we will try to get this and all previous patches onto PS4 and Xbox One as soon as possible. Unfortunately patch-certification on console platforms can take a few days to a week, so please be a bit more patient :) Changes for Patch 5: - added health gain to Lemonade consumable. - WorkOrders are now unpinned after a storyline has been finished - fix for Pillar foundation collision issue - Fixed Despawn Animations of Scuttler and Mantis blending back to normal after completion. - Fixed half of AI of Melee Mantis - Allow Deployables to be placed on devices - Fix for highlighted slot shifting to random empty slot upon dropping/equipping items from inventory after sorting items - added interface volume slider - added Dynamic Flops Counter option - impro…
- MEMORIES OF MARS LEAVES EARLY ACCESS! - 13 March 2020
Martians, Today is a big day for the team as we leave Early Access! The latest release contains the new and improved version of Memories of Mars (1.0). An experience shaped during Early Access by the community. We would like to thank you again for all the feedback you offered over years of continuous work. This is not the end of the journey, we will be monitoring the performance of the game to take any future decisions but we can already tell you that we have more content in the pipeline. Please, be patient as our response time might be a bit longer over the coming weeks as new Martians join us! For this release we are working with hosting provider GPORTAL. Enjoy the Survival with friends setting up a private server on: https://www.g-portal.com/ Who are GPORTAL? GPORTAL are run by gamers for gamers, never settling for "that will do". GPORTAL have amazing one-off bespoke just-for-gaming…
- MEMORIES OF MARS LEAVES EARLY ACCESS AND LANDS ON PS4, XBOX ONE AND PC - 12 March 2020
Martians, Today is a big day for the team! We are leaving Early Access and releasing the game on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC! This multiplatform release contains the new and improved version of Memories of Mars (1.0). An experience shaped during Early Access by the community. We would like to thank you again for all the feedback you offered over years of continuous work. This is not the end of the journey, we will be monitoring the performance of the game to take any future decisions but we can already tell you that we have more content in the pipeline. Please, be patient as our response time might be a bit longer over the coming weeks as new Martians join us! For this multiplatform release we are working with hosting provider GPORTAL. Enjoy the Survival with friends setting up a private server on: https://www.g-portal.com/ Who are GPORTAL? GPORTAL are run by gamers for gamers, never…
- Patch 4 goes live! - 11 March 2020
Hello Martians! We have another patch for you to fix many of the bugs you reported recently. Find the changes below: - Fix for "elevator loot bug". if you die on an elevator, your loot container should spawn correctly now. - Smaller UI + controller fixes - Private Servers will now store their database in a different path than before. All old savegames should be moved to the new location automatically, no further action required. If you see any issues with that, please let us know and we can help you. More information about this will be found in the next version of the Handbook, which we plan to make available very soon. - Fix for loot trackers showing location in the volcano area without a way to dig them up. Unfortunately this will not yet fix already broken trackers, only prevent from trackers getting broken in the first place. We are working on a fix for existing trackers. - Button t…
- New Hotfix + Private Server crash fixes! - 9 March 2020
Hello Martians! We are pushing a small hotfix/patch live. Changes are as follows: - Fix for the server crash pestering the live servers the whole weekend - Fix for most if not all private server crashes. If we missed any, please let us know and we will take care of them for the next patch. If you are confused by the many error messages on server start: those are expected and can be ignored. They don't change the behaviour of the server and are debug messages accidentally left in the build. - Improved Mech VFX - Improved Mech AI - Small changes on loot distribution - Fixed minor UI issues - Fixed some map issues - Fixed jetpack sound being played when vaulting through windows - Fixed not being able to register a Stasis Chamber built on triangular foundations. - Made some UI elements more clear and fixed localization issues. -> For example: We changed the controls for rotating building pa…
- MEMORIES OF MARS Rolling Out v1.0 Content Ahead of Multi-Platform Release - 5 March 2020
Hello Martians! Here is the changelog for the major patch we will push live during the day. Currently we plan on having the servers back up around 13:00 to 14:00 UTC, but due to the gigantic amount of code changes (more than 3000 changes since the last patch) we can't 100% guarantee it yet. We started early by shutting down the existing servers already and get a head-start to mitigate all potential issues. We will keep you updated on the progress during the day. But for now, have the highlights of the patch with the full changelog further below. Keep in mind that this is mainly a polishing patch to get the game ready to leave Early Access and secure the console release, not a patch to introduce large amounts of new content. We have more content in the works for future patches, though ;) Highlights: - Most importantly: Adjusted night-time brightness ;) - Full controller support for the e…
- End of Early Access and the start of something new! - 27 February 2020
Hello Martians, It has been a long time since our last communication, we acknowledge the radio silence and lack of updates since the new year. We have been working hard on a couple big items… but we couldn’t share the news with you until now. Around one year ago we started preparations to bring Mars onto additional gaming platforms and around six months ago we reassigned a big chunk of our developers to the task of porting the game to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. But there was a clear directive to keep working on PC in parallel and make sure that all versions of Memories of Mars share the same code and feature-set. As a result of this direction the PC version benefited from a constant flow of optimizations, Quality of Life improvements and new features required or intended for the console version release. We even have full controller support for PC players now! We've come a long way, so…
- February 2020 Update - 19 February 2020
Hello Martians, As already teased, we are working on something bigger behind the scenes. As some of you already found out via gaming news websites, we have been working on console ports of Memories of Mars in the past months. The PC version is of course still being worked on and we plan on releasing a new major patch in a couple of weeks. What it will contain, as well as more information about the console ports will be shared in a bigger announcement next week. Please stay tuned! What we can share today is some information about the big re-balancing that will be part of the next patch: - We have re-designed the current enemy variations, as well as added new tiers to them. - Enemy variations will have more unique behaviour and a clear distribution in the world to fit more with the expected difficulty level of each region. - Enemy tiers are now fully colour-coded: - Tutorial/Earliest game…
- Christmas Patch goes live! - 13 December 2019
Hello Martians, We just pushed a patch live that contains a lot of nice changes. We worked quite hard to push out a final big patch before our Christmas break and this is it. Please be sure to carefully read the full changelog below, there are some big changes you should be aware of. Changelog for Season 8 Patch 9 Changes and big additions: - We added a progress bar to the loading screens and optimized general spawning behaviour - From now on the behaviour for buildings and PVP areas is as follows: Every building part that touches or is inside a PVP area will be treated as destructible. Any building part outside will be safe. - We added a lot of logs and debug output in this release to find some of the trickier bugs out there. We might ask some of you to run the game with special arguments to enable the outputs. - Increased durability of armor pieces - First small batch of rebalance of…
- Patch 8 goes live! - 6 December 2019
Hello Martians, we got another patch for you! This time we have some long-coming AI fixes, as well as slight quality improvements. We should also have a final fix for the protocol issues. Finally we added back the server ping in the server browser. Here is the full list of changes: Changelog for Season 8 Patch 8 - Fixed Server crash - First batch of fixes for the inventory duplication/disappearance bugs. We have a server-side fix, but clients might still show wrong data. A work-around is a relog, as the server has the correct data at least. - Fixed more stuttering issues with the boss, drone and general AI - Fixed client crash - Fixed bug where buildings were sometimes not interactable because the rank wasn't correctly initialized - Fixed FlopsEvent notifications for enter, leaving and claiming being queued up way too often - Wieldables will now prioritize empty slots with ghosts over t…
- Patch 7 incoming! - 3 December 2019
Hi Martians, as promised, here comes the new patch including the following fixes and improvements * Fixed another issue that can cause the "spawning dead" issue. This should hopefully be the final fix for this annoying bug! * Fixed multiple server crashes * Fixed a bug that would cause the server to crash when a player dies in a laser * Fixed multiple client crashes * Protocol improvements and fixes, fix for the space capsule category * Fixed bug which made learning the new weapon blueprints impossible to learn * Fixed interior AI spawners spawning too big enemies. * Change 2 for fixing the Scopes. This is still WIP and will be balanced over the next patches. * Fixed an issue where pining a protocol would cause the server to save the data twice * Improved effects of projectiles * Fixed bug where items with durability would have their max durability reset after a server restart. * Fixed…
- Patch 6 is live! - 29 November 2019
Hello Martians! We have another patch for you! It fixes a bunch of issues and improves the quality of some features. Most notably it fixes the "stuck protocol" issue that many of you have been experiencing. If you still have problems with protocol completion after this patch, please let us know! Changelog for Season 8 Patch 6 - Improved particle effects of memory capsule - visual improvements for caves, rocks, clouds, tool displays and smoke grenade - multiple crash fixes - fixed not being able to throw grenades sometimes - Disabled broken body parts system for now (the system was half-broken and caused errors across the board. we will evaluate if we want it back at a later stage.) - Fixed weapon crafting objective in "Applied Science" protocol - First fix for scope zoom (full fix will come in the next patch) - Another fix for protocols not completing - Deployables (like the mobile prin…
- Patch 5 Live - 27 November 2019
Hello Martians! We just pushed a patch live that should fix the most critical issues remaining from the last days. The full changelog of the patch is as follows: - Fixed Claim Gifts button not appearing in the menu. This should help people to get their welcome package as well! - Fixed a bunch of crashes - Deuterium harvester must now be built inside the PVP area to work. (it's a safe-guard against exploiting, as it shouldn't have been possible to build outside before) - Added new blueprints to loot - Adjusted amount of FLOPs dropped from elite enemies, like the Mantis Sapper - Soft Disconnect improvements. This should help with the "spawning dead" issue that many of you were experiencing. Please let us know if you still encounter this issue! - Improved quality of spawn ui map. - Fixed explosive objective of "Reverse Engineering" protocol - Players in PVP areas will now only see allied p…
- Memories of Mars Patch OUT NOW - 22 November 2019
Hello Martians, We have yet another patch (the biggest this season so far) for you. We made sure to include as many critical fixes as possible while also implementing a lot of your feedback. Some of the changes are not 100% confirmed so we rely on your feedback to see if more work is needed. Please read the patch notes carefully as there are some important game-changers in there. - Fix for crashes on consuming items - More No-Building zones in critical areas - Fixes on the landscape - Fix for Mercenary and Enforcer Headlights - Slight AI loot rebalancing (a bigger one is WIP) - Fix for protocols not being able to be completed - Fix for settings not being saved - Fix for crash on getting hit - Fix for random crash - Fix for flop event and alliance messages appearing randomly - Fix for crash in inventory - Slight server performance improvements - Fix for item stacking issues - Fix for ref…
- Season 8 starts NOW! - 19 November 2019
Hi Martians, Here we are finally… The beginning of a New-Mars era is nigh… So before jumping in this revamped journey, let’s recap a last time the main expected changes: • First and foremost, you’ll have several new challenges to take up... o The Juggernaut is going to join the dance and you should not underestimate it o The Vanguard armor will allow you to take a tactical advantage on many situations o The deadly Ice area as the place to be, in order to “negotiate” with other players o The quest for Intelligence clues and the real Martians events o The secret lab bunker and its traps o The last resort with the Memory Capsule • On top of it, let’s state a last time: No more season! No more Emergency Capsule, no more Memory Back-up Center… Everything will be reset and it will be a new start for everybody as new opportunity to save your Memories of Mars! • And finally, as expected, we wou…
- Upcoming Season 8 Features - 8 November 2019
Hi Martians, On this second post about the upcoming Season 8 featuring a new Mars there is a very relevant point: to make sure the implementation of all the content is smooth we will require a little extra time, therefore we are postponing the change of season to the 19th of November. We thank you in advance for your patience and would like to take this opportunity to share some additional information on the upgrades that you’ll experience on Season 8. As previously mentioned, the collapse of Mars remains a mystery and a potential threat to anyone left behind, but you will be able to warn Earth and call for rescue… While exploring Mars you’ll find and collect intel fragments and hints that will allow to lift the veil and learn the truth… However it will not be a walk in the park… And while you will hunt for story fragments and environmental evidences, you could end up in “interesting” a…
