Mars Horizon's Daring Expeditions free update now live, plus a special stream to celebrate
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Take new risks in Mars Horizon's Daring Expeditions update 🚀
Expect new dangerous missions, new flags, and plenty of Spacepedia updates. The Mars Horizon Daring Expeditions update is now live on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch!
Get a look at one of the new missions in our special stream. We played the Rosetta mission, which saw the Philae probe successfully land on a comet, as part of its 7th anniversary with a member of the European Space Agency who worked on the mission. You can watch our special Rosetta mission stream here.
Read on to find out what else is included in Mars Horizon's next update and get more details about this amazing stream 👩🚀
Mars Horizon's Daring Expeditions update 🌠
New Mission: Space Tourist 👩🚀
We've added a space tourist mission where you can elect to send a billionaire or an educator into space on their request. This is a high risk mission for your agency, possibly wrecking your reputation or granting you huge rewards. We've also added new narrative events and cinematics for this mission.
New Mission: Chinese Rover Zhurong
This adds a new mission for players who are playing the Chinese space agency in the game; Chinese Rover Zhurong as a payload to send to Mars! We took inspiration from this recent dramatic accomplishment by the CNSA and have put it into our game along with brand new cinematics which reflect the activity of the mission.
New Mission: Philae / Rosetta Mission
This adds a playable new mission where the comet that the Rosetta mission targeted appears in the Solar System - and you're able to research a mission to land on it just like ESA did. There's new narrative events which explain the comet's formation and chart its relevance in science. We've also added a bunch of dramatic new cinematics as well as the new payloads.
New flags, Spacepedia Updates, and Bugfixes 📚
As well as these awesome new missions we've added loads of new nation flags to select when you begin your own custom agency. There are new spacepedia entries for space tourism, the Zhurong rover, and of course Rosetta and Philae.
We’ve also implemented lots of bug fixes to address the balance of some missions and some localisation improvements.
Rosetta Mission stream with ESA special guest Andrea Accomazzo 👩🚀
November 12th, 2021 was the 7th anniversary of the landing of the Philae probe on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, the crowning achievement of the Rosetta mission.
For this stream, the Auroch Digital team were joined by Andrea Accomazzo, who is the Head of Solar System and Exploration Missions Division at the European Space Agency, and who actually worked on the Rosetta mission back in 2014.
He'll talked about the challenges of the Rosetta mission and how they solved them as we tried to land our own Philae probe during the stream. This was your first look at Mars Horizon's next update so give it a watch for some tips for your own playthrough!
Daring Expeditions Stream with ESA✨
Date: 12th November
Guest: Andrea Accomazzo
Hosts: Mike and Ladell from Auroch Digital
Where to watch the stream? Auroch Digital YouTube Page - Watch the stream here!
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