Surviving Mars' Martian Express DLC Needs to Overhaul its Trains
The journey for Surviving Mars, a Martian city-building simulator developed by Haemimont Games and published by Paradox Interactive, has been anything but a straight shot into orbit. Released in 2018, Surviving Mars' blend of Jetsons futurism and hard sci-fi has enjoyed a surprisingly lengthy lifespan through many updates and DLC, from Project Laika to the Green Planet.
However, after Abstraction Games took over development of Surviving Mars, the course of the game has grown uncertain. Its most recent DLC, Martian Express, added train lines that players have been requesting for years. However, in its current state of limited options and janky mechanics, this content pack for Surviving Mars could use another pass.
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In Surviving Mars, the player's colonists live within massive domes that contain their homes, workplaces, and services. Domes can be connected via passages, allowing colonists to use services outside their home dome, bringing the game up-to-par with similar city-building games that require clever management. There are also out-of-dome buildings like metals extractors that must be operated by colonists, thus being close enough to domes to get accessed safely. This often results in resources being spent to build new domes with new services just to reach a distant deposit of vital metals.
Trains can solve this tedious and costly problem by allowing workers to extend the distance they can travel, carrying both colonists and cargo between domes or directly to a worksite outside the domes' radius. This is especially useful in underground maps where moving Martian colonists between domes can prove difficult in narrow tunnels. However, while trains work well enough on flat
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