Also, upcoming is an overhaul to the campaign system, making it much more sandbox and open, removing the linear missions and making it realistic exploration style. However, there is one major disadvantage to this:
FROM MONDAY UNTIL THE END OF THE MONTH (at latest) THERE WILL BE MAJOR CAMPAIGN CHANGES - THIS MEANS YOUR SAVE GAMES WILL BECOME INVALID!!!!
I understand it is unpleasant, but it will certainly be worth it, due to the following changes occurring during this month. We will try to make efforts to keep compatibility, but it is certain that at the start of next month, there will be no backward compatibility of saves.
- Tech Tree (research individual items like in RTS games, so you determine the tech level you are on)
- Global Objectives (fulfill major goals such as assessing the geological history of Mars as well as water distribution and present and past presence of life, and so on. These objectives are progressively completed via individual missions, which contribute to completing these overall goals)
- Mars Encyclopedia (real facts about Mars will progressively be unlocked by completing missions, so at the end of the space program you will have a full encyclopedia on Mars)