1. Check if your C: drive is not full.
   
2. Make sure your PC meets minimum hardware requirements for the game (you can send us your pc specs).
   
3. Please check your antivirus or DeepGuard, it sometimes prevents games from launching. Try those solutions: https://appuals.com/fix-application-load-error-30000065432/
   
4. If you have a "Citrix Workspace" software installed it may interfere with Unity games, please try this solution: https://support.paradoxplaza.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019138814-Citrix-Workspace-and-Unity-games
   
5. Click "verify file integrity" in game's properties on Steam https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2037-QEUH-3335
   
6. Send us your log file. The Player.log and Player-prev.log file file is located here:
   
   C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\LocalLow\PyramidGames\OccupyMars
   You can post your log file on our discord: https://discord.gg/sv9UWeh
   or send us an email to: eracolonisthelp@gmail.com

If you encounter any issues with the final release build it's possible that your PC still holds old configuration files from previous versions of the game (demo / prologue). To fix that do the following steps:

1. open regedit in Windows
   
2. go to:
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\PyramidGames\OccupyMars
3. and delete this directory key in registry
   
4. if this doesn't help also move the save files away from this directory in windows:
   
   C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\LocalLow\PyramidGames\OccupyMars
5. if this doesn't help also make sure that any Joysticks / Throttle / Rudder pedals are disconnected from your PC as they may interfere with the game controls.

Then verify file integrity of the game in Steam and restart it.
Now everything should work as expected

1. First close other apps like web browsers which may use precious RAM memory.
   
   
2. Launch the game and wait a few minutes without clicking anything - first loading may take longer but it should go through.
   
   
3. The ASUS/SteelSeries Keyboard backlight drivers may interfere with some keyboards. In that case your Player.log file probably shows the following problem:
   
   [Aura Unity Plugin] System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object at AsusAuraWrapper.AsusAuraService.GetDebugLevel () [0x0001b] in <e279d1569fb54ee197f8fe50282a6902>:0
   You can disable the keyboard backlight in settings - you can do this by editing the setting.ini config file in notepad and changing "HardwareLighting" to False:
   Open the following file in notepad:
   C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\LocalLow\PyramidGames\OccupyMars\setting.ini
   and change the "HardwareLighting" section to "False":
   
   { "key": "HardwareLighting", "value": "False" },

We think it would be great to have co-op in this game, but our current development budget is not high enough to achieve this goal, however if the game sells well (and we hope it will) it would give us the funds necessary to add co-op mode after release.

Co-Op was one of the goals unlocked during our Kickstarter campaign so we want to implement it as long as we can pay the bills and keep the lights (and computers) on at the office. We hope that enough players will be playing the game so that we can continue developing it for a long time after release.

In our previous Kickstarter campaign from 2 years ago (Dinosaur Fossil Hunter) 9 stretch goals were unlocked but we ultimately implemented 14 of them into the game (even many of those which weren't unlocked during that campaign).

Our goal is to update the game on a monthly or quarterly basis based on players' feedback during early access and there is plan to continue working on it after release.

Both games take place in the same *universe*, however they have completely different gameplay. One focuses on survival, while the other goes deep into the details of rover's internal components. At this point there is no direct connection between them (like importing saves etc.) other than being in the same universe, however this may change in the future, as we have plans to expand both games after Early Access release.

* Brazilian
* Chinese
* English
* French
* German
* Italian
* Polish
* Russian
* Spanish
* Turkish

later we also want to add:
* Ukrainian
* Dutch
* Romanian
* Korean
* Japanese

Early access is planned to last for at least a year or two, depending on players' feedback.

Here are some tips by our community VIP - Cerber: https://steamcommunity.com/app/758690/discussions/0/2447091420207592791/

You can try Occupy Mars: Prologue - our free introduction to the world of Occupy Mars:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1310520/Occupy_Mars_Prologue/
Here are some videos made by our community:
more videos: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1310520/videos/

Over 20!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-eveNpMd-k

Send us Key request on KeyMailer: https://www.keymailer.co/ the keys will be sent once the demo is available.
In special cases send us an email, but we receive so many we can't guarantee replying to all of them.

Join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/sv9UWeh there you will find some exclusive details, meet the developers and learn more about the development of this game and other our space-related games.

Not at first, but we hope to add this functionality in the future. We will be able to afford the VR development only if enough people buy the game, so please help us by telling your friends about Occupy Mars, we also wish to play a VR version one day

Press V, and you will see the instructions in the upper left corner of the screen (TPP mode).

If a rock is too heavy you will not be able to grab it - try to break the rock into smaller pieces using jackhammer first.

Not for now, but we previously released a separate game "Rover Mechanic Simulator" set in the same universe which is focussed on fixing Mars Rovers:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/864680/Rover_Mechanic_Simulator/

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https://steamcommunity.com/app/758690/discussions/0/3828665107795840880/

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Below older info from Prologue:

Here's a detailed Q&A document prepared by our community VIP - Ziggy:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17FwEwMbGEYFZwvHotFYm-7jXU-eZF91oZcLAzgiAiCA/edit?usp=sharing

Ziggy also prepared this folder with a collection of many previously published sneak peeks, graphics, concept arts and game screenshots in one place: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1FtN8ezTpPgpQk0G2xipjDzdCKht32AT_