Patch Notes: Mars Frontier

New this week in Mars Frontier:

Health Bar Color Updates

🐲 Happy Lunar New Year, Martians! 🐉

We’re celebrating with a quality-of-life update based on your player feedback. Players across all Battlehouse games have been requesting more visual cues about the health of units and buildings, and this week we’re here to deliver. Health bar colors have been updated to the following scheme:

• Buildings and units with health at 0% to 10% will have a red health bar.
• Buildings and units with health at 10% to 50% will have an orange health bar.
• Buildings and units with health at 50% to 75% will have a yellow health bar.
• Buildings and units with health at 75% to 100% will have a green health bar.

To see where the design team currently stands on various Community suggested features and game improvements, check out the Mars Frontier “Voice of the Commander” Tracker.

Have feedback to share about this week’s releases? Let us know over in the “mars-frontier” channel within our TR Discord Server.

Good hunting, Martians!

New this week in Mars Frontier:

Welcome to Season 18!

Welcome to Season 18! Going into the new season, all Leaderboards and PvP Points are reset, meaning that it’s a fresh start for YOUR Alliance to be the new the dominating Alliance of the Season, and win the Seasonal Clan Tournament Grand Prize of 10,000 Gold for your Alliance at the end of the Season in 3 months from now. Does your Alliance have what it takes?

For a sneak peak at what’s coming up this season in Battlehouse games, check out the Developer Roadmap in the most recent edition of the Battlehouse Dev Blog.

Game Improvements

We’ve also made another high in community demand quality-of-life improvement to the settings menu interface!

The immersion based “screen shake” effect that occurs after a building is destroyed is now optional, so players who are sensitive to the screen movement or players that experience additional game lag from the effects can turn them off if they choose to do so.

Head on into the settings menu, scroll down to the new “Enable Screen Shake” preference, toggle it over to “No”, and then hit “Apply” if you want to turn the effects off at any point.

To see where the design team currently stands on various Community suggested features and game improvements, check out the Mars Frontier Voice of the Commander Tracker.

Have new feedback to share? Let us know over in the “mars-frontier” channel within our Thunder Run Discord Server.

Good hunting, Commanders!

New this week in Mars Frontier:

End of Season 17 Alliance Tournament

🎆 Happy New Year, Commanders! 🎇 From January 2nd – January 9th, 2020, rally your Alliance and head to the regional map for your chance to be the strongest Alliance of Season 17!

Be one of the Top Alliances with the most Clan PvP Points to win between 3,000-10,000 Alloy, divided evenly among the top 10 members of your Alliance.

Tournament ends on January 9th, 2020 at 1700 GMT at which point winners will be announced, prizes awarded, and leaderboards will be reset for the new season.

Season 18 opens on January 9th, 2020!

• For a sneak peak at what’s coming up next season in Battlehouse games, check out the Developer Roadmap in last week’s edition of the Battlehouse Dev Blog.
• To see where the design team currently stands on various Community suggested features and game improvements, check out the Mars Frontier Voice of the Commander Tracker.
• Have new feedback to share? Let us know over in the “mars-frontier” channel within our Thunder Run Discord Server.

Good hunting, Commanders!

New this week in Mars Frontier:

Central Computer Level 8

🎄 Happy Holidays, Martians! 🎄

Valentina and company have been hearing your feedback loud and clear, and we’re ready to celebrate the holidays on Mars with the mega update you’ve all been patiently waiting for. Effective today:

The Central Computer level cap is raised to Level 8, paving the way for new maximum levels for your production, storage, and research buildings!

Upgrade your Robotics Lab to research new max levels for some of your favorite units.

New Unit Level Upgrades

Upon completion of your new Robotics Lab upgrades:

• Mining Droid is now upgradeable to L13.
• Heavy Miner is now upgradeable to L13.
• Blaster Droid is now upgradeable to L13.
• Excavator Droid is now upgradeable to L13.

Turret System Update

The Mars Coalition has made a huge technology breakthrough, and our Turret Systems are ready for an overhaul!

• To update to the new “turret head system”, you’ll have to have at least Central Computer Level 4. Click any turret at your base, followed by the Update System button. This will allow you to build Turret Emplacements with changeable Turret Heads.
• Go to the Defense section in the Build menu to build a Turret Emplacement.
• Each Turret Emplacement has it’s own level, and each Turret Head has its own level independent of the emplacement.
• Click any built / completed Turret Emplacement followed by Change Weapon to build any unlocked Turret Head.
• After clicking Change Weapon, select the unlocked Turret Head that you’d like to build on that Turret Emplacement.
  • Note: Currently only the Light Rail Gun, Defensive Cannon, and LRAT Cannon are enabled, but we’ll enable the Radiation Tower and EMP Cannon at a later date.

Game Improvements

And that’s not all! We’ve also made some improvements to the settings menu interface!

• The settings menu is now scrollable, allowing for more player preference options.
• A new setting option now gives players the ability to toggle the mousewheel scrolling behavior for in-game chat, and regional map zooming.
• Soon more setting options will be added that allow players to toggle screen shaking effects, and in-game chat window orientation. Stay tuned!

For a more in-depth guide of the Turret Emplacement system featured in another Battlehouse game, head on over to the Battlehouse Forums.

Have feedback to share about this week’s releases? Let us know over in the “mars-frontier” channel within our TR Discord Server.

Good hunting, Martians!

New this week in Mars Frontier:

Level 7 Central Computer Build Time Update

Heads up, Martians! Valentina and company have been hearing your feedback on the Voice of the Commander Tracker loud and clear regarding the 30 day build time for the Level 7 Central Computer being too long, and they want to help! Effective this week: the previous 30 day build time has been reduced to 14 days.

Even better than that, one of our recon rovers is reporting that Central Computer Level 8 and more are just around the corner. Read more in the latest issue of the Battlehouse Dev Blog.

Have feedback to share about this week’s releases? Let us know over in the “mars-frontier” channel within our TR Discord Server.

Good hunting, Martians!

New this week in Mars Frontier:

New Warehouse Levels

Heads up, Martians! Valentina and company have been hearing your feedback loud and clear on the Voice of the Commander Trackers, and while most new developments will take some time, we wanted to give you something that’s been high on the request list for awhile in the form of new Warehouse levels.

Effective as of last Friday: the Warehouse is now upgradeable 2 more levels up Level 11, and all existing levels have a little bit more capacity (ex. an L1 Warehouse now has 6 slots instead of 5.

You no longer have to defeat the event base to unlock Level 9, but if you do you can still get a free Warehouse level.

Have feedback to share about this week’s releases? Let us know over in the “mars-frontier” channel within our Thunder Run Discord Server.

Good hunting, Martians!

New this week in Mars Frontier:

Welcome to Season 17!

Welcome to Season 17! Going into the new season, all Leaderboards and PvP Points are reset, meaning that it’s a fresh start for YOUR Alliance to be the new the dominating Alliance of the Season, and win the Seasonal Clan Tournament Grand Prize of 10,000 Gold for your Alliance at the end of the Season in 3 months from now. Does your Alliance have what it takes?

Good hunting, Commanders!

New this week in Mars Frontier:

End of Season 16 Alliance Tournament

From September 26th – October 3rd, 2019, rally your Alliance and head to the regional map for your chance to be the strongest Alliance of Season 16!

Be one of the Top Alliances with the most Clan PvP Points to win between 3,000-10,000 Alloy, divided evenly among the top 10 members of your Alliance.

Tournament ends on October 3rd, 2019 at 1700 GMT, at which point winners will be announced, prizes awarded, and leaderboards will be reset for the new season.

Season 17 opens on October 3rd, 2019!

Good hunting, Commanders!

New this week in Mars Frontier:

Welcome to Season 16!

Welcome to Season 16! Going into the new season, all Leaderboards and PvP Points are reset, meaning that it’s a fresh start for YOUR Alliance to be the new the dominating Alliance of the Season, and win the Seasonal Clan Tournament Grand Prize of 10,000 Gold for your Alliance at the end of the Season in 3 months from now. Does your Alliance have what it takes?

Good hunting, Commanders!

New this week in Mars Frontier:

End of Season 15 Alliance Tournament

🎇 Happy Independence Day, Commanders! 🎇

From July 4th – July 11th, 2019, rally your Alliance and head to the regional map for your chance to be the strongest Alliance of Season 15!

Be one of the Top Alliances with the most Clan PvP Points to win between 3,000-10,000 Alloy, divided evenly among the top 10 members of your Alliance.

Tournament ends on July 11th, 2019 at 1700 GMT, at which point winners will be announced, prizes awarded, and leaderboards will be reset for the new season.

Season 16 opens on July 11th, 2019!

Good hunting, Commanders!