Hello, fellow Martians! 👨🚀👩🚀
Co-Op Progress Update: Major Fixes & Internal Testing 🚀🔧
While Co-Op Mode is not yet available publicly to players, our team is actively working behind the scenes to ensure a smooth and stable multiplayer experience. Internal testing is ongoing, and we've been making solid progress—thanks to dozens of detailed test sessions.
What’s Happening Right Now? 👨💻👩💻
Our internal QA and dev teams are working closely together, tracking down network-related bugs, improving session stability, and refining gameplay mechanics. Multiplayer testing takes more time than usual due to the complexity of real-time synchronization and networking issues, but we’re committed to getting it right.
Top Priority Fixes We've Made So Far 🛠️
🔹 Disconnections & session freezes
We’ve resolved several critical crashes and disconnections, especially those that occurred during sleep, when joining existing games, or when interacting with devices.
🔹 Inventory sync & item loss bugs
Common problems like empty inventories after loading, vanishing items, or mismatches between players' inventories have been fixed in the latest internal builds.
🔹 Sleeping issues & animation loops
The notorious infinite sleep loop bug and related animation issues have been addressed — no more eternal naps on Mars. 😉
🔹 Vehicle-related glitches
Issues such as falling through terrain after exiting vehicles, jetpack disappearing mid-air, and visual bugs with broken vehicles have been corrected.
🔹 World loading and terrain bugs
We’ve made improvements to outpost visibility, terrain generation after loading, and various placement issues that were previously disrupting the experience.
When Will Players Get Access? 🧪
We’ll continue to invite groups of players who signed up for the co-op playtest to help with stress tests and further debugging as soon as the Co-Op build reaches a stable internal milestone. After playtests, once we’re confident in the performance, Co-Op Mode will be released as an update to all existing owners of Occupy Mars.
What Else Will Be Included? 📦
The Co-Op Update won’t just bring multiplayer — it will also include critical bug fixes, quality of life improvements, and some smaller new features to the base game. We’ll share more details in the full changelog closer to release.
Thanks for Your Patience ❤️
We know you’re excited — and so are we! Thank you for sticking with us and supporting the project. Co-Op takes more time and effort to get right, but we’re getting there. Stay tuned for more updates, and keep an eye on our official roadmap to follow development progress.
See you soon on Mars (with friends)! 🌕
Take care,
Occupy Mars team