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This makes a start with the PDS sponsor SOOO different :D

No kidding. The patch lowering explorer cost makes Paradox sponsor easy mode now. Explorer rovers are the best way to get science for the first 100 sols or so in a Paradox sponsor game (with the relevant research), so an extremely high cost is justified. The patch essentially doubles your science production early game as you can afford to send over 3 more explorer rovers just for research.

I'd like to get a mod to revert the cost, as I believe it was justified. Hard mode is supposed to be hard, and 1400M is nothing on the easy difficulties.
 
Yes the Mac Version is broken. All icons randomly load and disappear. Especially, the research icons that have yet to show up after my two hours of trying to play last night.

I know Mac's are not gaming systems but usually they can handle city-builder type games. Guess not with this game. Should of just went with the PS4 copy.

Do we have a timeline for Mac fixes? How long do I have to wait to see if my $40 is a waste or not?
 
Not sure if it's been mentioned but the 535% map got changed with the patch (cold areas and resources were moved) possibly other maps too or all of them I don't know. The only one I was familiar with was 44N 112W. Wonder why? Not sure if I'm a fan of fixed resources for each map (replay ability issue) which still seems to be the case, fixed terrain features makes more sense I guess.
 
Hey everyone - just going to reiterate what I said in the OP - please post your bug on the bug forum, that way the Devs can check them out.

:) Thanks!

I've got the opposite question: I'm running the game on my 3+ year old Mac, and I'm actually having very few problems (I think I got a CTD once, nothing crazy). Anything I can do to help out? Provide some specs for a machine that its working fine on or anything?
 
i have a question did you fix the broken ground texture where its gray with yellow and orange spots?
I'm also playing a a gray ground with orange pixels all over. It's playable, but looks terrible.

AMD Phenom X4 with Radeon HD 5750
This appears to only be happening on low-end AMD cards. It is not fixed in this patch I'm sorry, as that will take quite some work I think.
 
Yes the Mac Version is broken. All icons randomly load and disappear. Especially, the research icons that have yet to show up after my two hours of trying to play last night.

I know Mac's are not gaming systems but usually they can handle city-builder type games. Guess not with this game. Should of just went with the PS4 copy.

Do we have a timeline for Mac fixes? How long do I have to wait to see if my $40 is a waste or not?
Just so you know, this is not affecting all Macs; my iMac works fine for instance.

It's not wise to give fix timelines the day after a game release, it tends to set expectations that may not be met. However the main Mac issues (that one plus ones where it will not start at all, and ones where the UI is all pixellated) are very high priority!
 
I really hope you guys will be releasing the patch on GoG soon, and that you will remember to do on time in the future. It is really not a lot of fun when we dont have access to bug fixes in a game we want to play.