If you want to learn more or grab The Martian Express for yourself, get your ticket to ride here - rebrand.ly/PartyElite ! I really like the added mobility early on in the game - it immediately made me change my approach without worrying too much about distances, and I think it's a pretty clever change to bring that 'shuttle' functionality in sooner, and in a more affordable fashion. I'd love to know your thoughts too, and if you have any questions, ask away!

Glad we're seeing content for SM still, though I wish we'd get some more full featured, better planned expansions. Beyond and Below wasn't well thought out.

Really wish there were more upgrades to make trains, with sufficient time and investment, a fully viable or even superior option to shuttles. Bridges for tracks, an upgrade that let you put tracks on slopes, passthrough stations that are dedicated to either passengers or cargo but can't handle both. Trains with more than two cars that require higher tier stations. Passenger station that accepts the dome passage connection so colonists don't have to go outside. There's endless things you could do. Hoping mods pick up the slack.

Looks good, always thought trains should be in Mars games, they are such a good solution. For which reason they've been in media, both Total Recall and Babylon 5 had them IIRC.

If they made the DLCs actually affordable this would've been great

Why wouldn't you build tracks over concrete on the ground? You could create bypass lines that way abd the concrete would mitigate dust.

Makes sense that the train stops as its the track that powers the train and a broken track breaks the circuit of current.

Question: Can I add the Martian Express addon to an existing Saved Game? I ask as I do not see the Station listed in a saved game but I DO SEE IT listed in a new game. Please advise ASAP. Thank you

I find it extremely difficult to build trains without it being detrimental to my whole colony. I must rethink how i space everything. Its an extremely hard learning curve and may have to concede i cant build a functioning train-transport platform. Its sad. I want to be better but dont have the correct thought process.

Hmm, I'd rather invest in expensive shuttles for colonist transportation since they are more reliable. I'd take those fuel and polymer costs over train suicides any day. However, I can see an automatic concrete/metal extraction area with no colonists constantly pumping out resources while the train can be set to resource only and maintaining a supply line. (Automatic rare metal extractor from the DLCs installed in a remote mining location, train sets up supply chain back to main colony)

I had commented on one of the paradox videos a while ago about this kind of thing, the transit system. though I though it would be cool if it were a spire that connected things, kind of bummed that isn't a thing

I get that they're going for a somewhat futuristic yet slim and utilitarian design for the trains, but honestly the design and implementation is really dumb and bad. There's a reason the design for train rails now hasn't changed much since their inception. They work, and they work well. Monorails would have made more sense in this aspect, I think, if they wanted that 'futuristic but slim and utilitarian design' but even then Monorails are a bad technology. The current design, with the train somehow hanging off the side of the track, is completely unrealistic. Beyond the obvious amount of stress and carrying capacity limitations put in place by such a method of connecting train to rail, it provides literally zero way to 'switch' tracks. The track cannot diverge, ever. It would be impossible.

I wonder if a mod for a train tunnel would be viable? Any modder interested are free to use the idea.

so I bought the game but does the seasonpass include everything that they've released afterwards?

nice! i thought paradox forgot about the game when they released those asteroid mining and green planet dlc, as those seemed like super end game types of content. this actually is a big change in the game, making the early to mid game WAAAAY more dynamic! now i really wanna try it out again, especially since i missed the last dlc with digging that said, all on its own it still seems a bit bare bones to me, far from a triple a game. it's like a mid tier single player strategy game and that isnt exactly high praise. i wanna love this game and play it all the time, i really do, but especially growing trees on mars was just soul crushingly slow, but really, most aspects of that dlc were. in a way i agree with some og players who said that only the original, unpolished game was really about survival...

But does it fix "Below and Beyond", a DLC so bad it practically ruined the base game.

That's a mighty fine looking train you've got there!

i thought there was a bunch of trainwrecks with the last DLC that were still being cleaned up. did all that stuff get resolved? the player feedback was so abysmal that i didnt even attempt to play. now another new one?

Tell the devs this video made me buy the DLC after the steam reviews turned me away.

Did it also improve their UX? Because I recently tried to play this game and the map controls were so terrible I couldn't finish the tutorial.

I am nervous about it. I enjoyed the game very much until I bought the below and beyond dlc but it was putting holes in my upper areas breaking the game completely. I got it refunded but wary of more big issues.

Really liked the game, I played on Playstation but stopped because I can only build 10 domes. Because I was stuck on that, I just uninstalled and said screw it, no dlc's for me.

I don't have this "tech upgrades"

Please check out Prehistoric Kingdom

for you wondering if you should get it, DON'T! This is half ass baked expansion and the way the trains work are stupid as hell. The logistic control of resources and its movement between stations is done in the most stupid way that will actually get your colony in trouble if you rely on it, forcing you to micromanage it every time you need a specific resource to go from one place to another. You can't build several stations in the same track. Only 1-1 . You can't connect a track to another one already built. If you want let's say Dome A to have tracks going to dome B and C, you can't just build one station in each and connect them, you'll need to build Station A -> toC, Station A->toB, Station A->toC, stationB->toA, stationB-> toC, stationC->toB , a total of SIX STATIONS instead of 3. Scale that for a large colony and you'll have a picture. The construction of it is even worse, you can't do slopes, you can't build it to go through mountains or underground, so at some point with the amount of stations you'll need to have to connect places, it will become impossible to actually find a path way between 2 points. I would rather pay triple of the price in this expansion if done correctly then this cheap price for this cheap piece of illogical code

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This video had the potential for so many jokes and references to Disney's Monorail it's ridiculous.

Surviving Mars WAS one of the best survival/management game ever. The good development of Surviving Mars ended in the same exact moment Paradox stole the Silva mods and transferred into a pay to install DLC, Shame. Also the game was already a finished game with Green Planet and all the mod community. No one ever needed all this very bad made overpriced DLCs that also broken the original game, no matter if bought/installed or not, Shame; Speaking about Below and Beyond, a very bad developed, conceptually pointless and not needed, as well as overpriced, DLC that affected the code of the original game too, a game that was already what the playerbase was expecting. Speaking about this DLC, it was not needed (you do not expand far away unless planned), it is a bad idea (an early technology that requires settlement to be useful?), is bad designed (only works on flat terrain no matter is a monorail and cannot use tunnels) and bad deployed in the game code (litterally requires more micromanagement that is required to move goods via drone relay. It is essentially broken and also reduces the very essence of the game; the strive for expansion, by adding initial content that no one really want to use. Also it should be a late technology with limitations in terms of maintenance (scrubbing), power management and definitely way more vulnerable to mars environmental disaster. Note: there is a FREE mod that makes you do Tunnels with the same exact functionalities of this very overpriced DLC., but works perfectly Kind regards

Should be free DLC 7 far too much for it. Not buying it only maybe when is on sale.

Good but the train is ugly

Looks pretty sad honestly

Really?? Paid DLC for ( in my opinion ) just a bad designed train? ...OH and more micromanaging??? GREAT!!! Paradox is going the EA way hard, with the lazy paid DLC.

I found this game to be very boring after 1 playthrough. The bubble system is too limiting for a good city building game