Разработчик: Atomicom
Описание
WHAT IS JCB PIONEER: MARS?
JCB Pioneer: Mars drops you onto the surface of The Red Planet. Your mission: To survive and prepare Mars for future human colonization.
Experience incredible survival sandbox gameplay and explore Mars using a selection of futuristic, ultra-rugged JCB vehicles designed specifically for the challenge. Mine precious materials, construct large-scale buildings and research new technologies to ensure humanity's future lies beyond planet Earth.
Soon, you'll be able to team up online with other Pioneers to expand your base and earn special rewards. JCB Pioneer: Mars brings the harsh reality of the Red Planet to life with detailed high definition graphics, vehicle physics and weather effects from Unreal Engine 4.
Key Features
- A hardcore blend of survival and construction gameplay- Mine new resources, construct buildings and research new technology to grow your colony
- The power of Unreal Engine 4 provides players an ultra-realistic, breath-taking planetary experience
- Traverse the planet using highly futuristic heavy-duty construction and mining vehicles designed by actual JCB engineers
- Overcome everything the hostile environment throws at you including meteor strikes, dust clouds and electrical storms
Coming to Steam Early Access
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 64-bit (or later)
- Processor: Dual Core Processor
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Modern Dedicated Graphics Card
- Storage: 16 GB available space
- Additional Notes: DirectX End-User Runtimes (June 2010)
- OS *: Windows 7 64-bit (or later)
- Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD, 2.5 GHz or faster
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Modern Dedicated Graphics Card
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: TBD MB available space
Отзывы пользователей
abandoned game
Haven't had an update in a very long time. This game shouldn't even be $24.99. It shouldn't even be free to play. They should take this game down instead of taking people's money with a product that isn't even good or finished. False advertisement scam.
DO NOT BUY
Steam should remove the game from early accsess and decomission the buy button on store
The developer of this game on PC & Steam is closed down so the game is Dead
i would recommend you to not to BUY
the game it self had potential but after 3 years of no Updates to fix the bugs, items, whether, or the broken story line it also missing the promised music
For the most part, I loved this game. The feel was very realistic (if you don't mind giant building-sized 3D printers). It's not Mars - Mars is deadly cold, has dust storms, and the atmosphere isn't dense enough to shield you from cosmic and solar radiation. But even 'hurricane speed' winds aren't that bad in an atmosphere about one percent of Earth's. Still, the game FEELS right.
The problem is it doesn't have an ending. You get to a certain point and realize you've built everything there is to build, explored the whole gaming area, and now you're just poking around at things. It was sad knowing no colonists were ever coming to inhabit my base. But there is still a fair amount of gameplay (I played for about 35 hours) and it's a lot of fun.
DO NOT BUY! Game development is currently either on hold or Cancelled and this game should be reviewed by steam asap. It is unclear if the developers left the game cause they gave up, had money issues, or if GamesCo screwed up. The website aint been touched since 2017ish on the news part and the twitter for both Atomicom and GamesCo last seem to have posted in 2017-2018 before the total radio silence and the publisher's site is long down as well as JCB Pioneers: Mars website community page. It should be noted that both companies share 1 employee higher up as shown when researching both companies on companycheck.co.uk so there might be something there?
Avoid this "game" it is unfinished, extremly lack of content, buggy like sh*t and it is ABANDONED !!!
The devs dare to sell it also on NS Switch as a finidhed product! I see this as a thievery! AVOID THIS !!!
Unfinished, and as someone who likes making small games i'd rather take on a project this size and finish it off when devs decide to leave it in such a state.
I highly suggest not buying it as yes it is abandoned at this point and it's highly unlikely to be finished any time soon at all.
I bought this game when it came out and the first version, while limited, was very playable. But over time some of the updates broke the game in many ways.
Sadly this game is now dead. Company seems to be gone. The developers haven't logged into steam in months. Their official email accounts all bounce back as non working. Please do not buy unless you have money to burn. Sadly this is another game lost to early access problems.
The game is dead, developer has stopped working on this game, can steam team please investigate this as you are trying to sell a game that has no support, I have warned you several times but it seems to me you ppl are only after the money!
After 120 hrs on this game, and as of Nov 2018, I DO recommend this game!
Most of the negative reviews are either wrong (complaints that vehs don't reverse: NOT true!), or reflect people with old computers and outdated drivers.
The game is clean, the veh and planet modelling is cool, and the atmosphere is great. Day/night cycle, oxygen management, power management, waypoints, dust storms, and base building is all there. Veh mechanics are cool, too, with the vehs rolling up and down hills with weight, clanking and clunking, and sliding in the dust if you go too fast.
Some things to know before you buy:
- It only plays as hardcore. If your character dies from lack of oxygen (there is NO pause) you lose all your progress. Don't die. Don't leave the game unattended (just "save and exit" and you and your veh will be teleported back home safely)...keep and eye on the oxygen in your veh (separate from your suit) and you'll be fine.
- Game will not save vehs where you left them. When you "save and exit" you end up back home. So when you venture out and mine badly needed metals far from your base, you MUST DRIVE BACK HOME SAFELY or you'll end up dumping the loot in a crate at whatever point you exited the game
- There is a LOT of driving around Mars to different mining sites...a LOT of driving!
- Yeah, the game might crash, but when that happens the game reloads with you safely in your base, you veh in your garage, and the loot you had safely stored in a crate at the place where you were when the game crashed (I know, not perfect, but better than losing everything)
- It is fun, and if you like base building and exploring Mars, get the game!
This was a very fun little game with lots of potential but its looking like they took the money and abandoned it. Steam really needs to implement a policy with early acess games where they hold half the money until release that would solve this whole problem
I love the game concept, dedication to realism and the survival challenge in this game. However, once the developer decided to take away control of save management from the player, they should have done it with at least two save files, saving in alternating fashion to one and then the other, falling back on the previous one if most recent save got corrupted. My game got wrecked when the mission progress was reset taking me back to beginning of the tutorial when you crash land on the planet, while the map, resource exploitation, and built structures remained unaltered, since there are two separate save files for the map and the player/mission progress, and only the second file fried. Then I cannot get past the first mission cuz I cannot fix the solar panel and restore power to the HAB, since the solar panel does not have any damage, and building deterrioration kicks in only after you pass this mission. The alternative is to manually create back-up save files and manage them yourself, which is what I've done in the second run of the game.
Loved the game since i bought it the one thing i wish i could do is if i choose to remake a toon to not of the quit the game and re enter the game and another nice option would be to allow multiple saves for if you want to have several toons. just something to think about for future updates
Let me get rather quickly to the point.
The game in itself is very promising. The ideas are all in. Great atmosphere. All seems good.
But......oh yes.....
Very soon you'll discover that this game is way too buggy, frustrating.
Now what are the answers from the DEV's:
1. New coding: Since september we're getting informed that some kind of a new coding which is SOON to come. No I don't want to get sarcastic.........but getting this usual bla bla comment for MONTHS now....not very convincing
2. Way more important: Absolutely or nearly NO regular updates from the TEAM (well there seems to be only 1 person behind this communication guy....don't know what to think about this....). You're getting no updates of ongoing improvements, no state about current development....only this standard comment: We're working on the coding!!!! Wow ! Impressed !!!
Now if you intend to buy this: My advice is very clear: STAY OFF OF THIS until they get their new CODING in place (well when...no idea...they're talking already since Months about this so called migration to a new CODING ).
I'm willing to get back to this review and post new updates accordingly...well....we'll see.
For the moment....I'll take a break of at least 3 months before checking any updates of any kinds.
Never saw such a lazy DEV team.
And you want to show the abilities of JCB machinery.....hope these work better in real life.....
Cheers.
If Hardcore mode where when you die you loose everything is your type of game, If you love random crashes and absolutly no Explantion as to how anything works, this game is for you.
However, if you like tutorials that explain in detail how to play, The ability to load a save from before you died, or simply to be able to respawn in your base without all your work gone, this game is not for you.
As the game is now, it's an interesting idea, however, there is no mode other than hardcore, so If you die due to a mistake on your part or a bug/glitch, you loose everything and there is no way to load a Previous save. There is very little in the way of explanation as to how anything is done, I had to go to the forums to find out the basics of how to survive. Exiting the game makes you loose all the progress on your current mission and any collected resources are lost.
It is my hope that they will improve the game over time, but as It is now, I play for fun and having level up all over again and rebuild everything from the start each time I die is not fun to me, so, unless that is how you like to play, I do not suggest buying this game until it improves.
Ok I understand this is an early access game however if your going to release an update on a Friday and not be around to address bugs created by this update does pisses me off. I am now unable to repair my vehicles on top of DRAGGING Ore into boxes now makes them disappear. Yes that’s correct you Drag crap you can’t simply hold down shift and quick move anything. I would say the Landscapes should also be totally redone graphically they are crapy compared to most, everywhere you travel you’ll see jagged lines in all the rocks very poorly made and the lava caves are terrible. To top if off they have these red lines that appear to show you when meteors are about to hit how realistic is that? It takes the immersiveness out of the game completely. Only thing they got right are the Vehicles which you can’t use now. Osiris New Dawn blows this game out of the water even when it was first released. I would have to compare these two games due to how many major similarities they are. I would not buy this game until another year I wish I could get my money back.
As of May 23, 2021 The Game has been Abandoned for at least >>>30<<< months. The Company website is Down and its Email is also Down. No devs have logged in AT ALL in over 4 months. JCB atomicom made a patch back in Nov 2018 which made the game worse in many aspects. Death storms that continue to progress. No more explorer points or harvesting points. (is supposed to and had it early on 2017 but they broke it with patches.) The Cantina does not work. The Bio farm does not work. Recycling does not work correctly. You cant fully upgrade buildings because you cant make a LAB! I'm not a Paid off BOT who has 1000 games given to play for an hour and give a review that is bolongi. the company blog wont Post. The Power Generator does NOT work. A 3 hour review cant tell you that.. and they don't welcome replies. At least someone reduced this BROKEN games Price. Its playable for a while with NO end game possible. I hope that clears it up.
JCB Pioneer:(checkout update i posted at bottom Oct 14, 2017)
Mars -I love the idea of this game, BUT--....some things I noted. (click on this story for full review and game details). - It is NOT Worth 25 Dollars It is far from a finished product. Dev's release patch's that are broken! Bottom line up front... Don't buy this! Patches seem to make the game worse in many aspects death storms now?. No updates to things that important. No suit upgrades or fixes. At the current rate of fixes Im thinking this game might be a ready product in about a year.----------If I could get a refund I would !
I built EVERYTHING, Not easy to do... All structures.. But it's pretty hard to find gear or collectors? that's all that's needed to use for solid power? Once I found it and install it, I find out it erodes very fast and the fuel cant be used in Generator as yet? (27-Sept-2017) I made a bunch of wind generators but never seems to be enough to power all buildings like DORM and Bio Lab and Or Cantina with rest. A refinery takes less power? but those take more? I cant enter them? I can't get water or food without finding Plastic bottles or purification pills, serious?!! This needs a rework. I post on your forums but no response. People need to know this before they spend money. -That said this game is still fun and still squeeky new.
1. You have multiple Memory leaks in game. Game runs slower and slower with time until it crashes. -seems to happen more during the upgrade process-3d printer issues?
2. You recently added a top layer of sand / dust to game which hides holes people get stuck in.
3. ---Fatal error-- Happens a lot. a bit less with graphics turned way down.
4. You cant make water containers with natural elements? Again you must find Plastic Bottles or purification pills to make water / food - And if you make one why cant it be reused to refill with water? Can we make Purification pills or plastics* for making water containers. ? Something.. anything please.
5 No end game content. Can't bring colonists in no matter what you do EVER. Dead end.
6. No official guide available?
7. Official Web site is weak and it's Forum is broken or non responsive. https://community.gamesco.net/viewforum.php?f=3 (Steam is OK however)
8. Being able to Move buildings around or disconnect wires would be very nice.
9. Being able to save or load games would be nice.(Update a way has been found to save game in Steam, Its a bit of a process but I listed how in forum.)
10. I made a space suit.. researched it all the way to max. **Picked a few choice upgrades and skipped many. I can't buy another suit? I can't get back to the earlier ones after upgrade last one.** No path I can see to Max Corrosion (15) max i can see is 10 meaning no path to enter cave safely so far with boxes left unavailible. **I upgraded equipment to max on suits but its not enough to enter the cave. IM STUCK on that too.. no new suit is offered.. and I cant change choices!!** Dead end.
11. One level only - Hard Core. Others are listed but they don't work.
12. I added a few spaces to vehicle inventory and drop in a rare item i find only to find it go POOF. Not on ground and not in my inventory and not in Vehicle ... ARRRGG. (Note recent patch seems to have fixes that.) Loot or inventors drops where you log or go LD at.
13. BOOM! - My advance refinery 2 just blew up! and patence with JCB Mars.
Ok i was on a longer run but this is rediculious. I was repairing all buildings as i do every dam time I get back which BTW is just plain tedious. I was in the process of building my last building and repairing my structures which were about 50% health BTW. And it blows up leaving litterally next to nothing. >_<
I think my next step is put it on the back burner and not recommend this to anyone for now until more bugs get fixed. So far the devs seem receptive. Points to be concerned about..No manual. No instructions. No easy save or load option. Constant errors. invisable rocks. hidden holes. lost experiance. Lost items. Dying without reason. Restart from scratch many times. The game has great potential but its far from a finished product that said it is still fun to play.
I paid for this game. I gave it more than a fair shot. I hope the bugs get corrected.
AGAIN- I found out you can actually make a backup / save through steam it works a bit more difficult to do but worth the time to do, I left instructions on how to do it on disscussion forum.
(UPDATE) 5 October 2017 The Dev team does take comments into account and are working to improve game 2 patches in one month. Since my post they have Fixed the solid fuel generator. Reduce corrosion rate. Made a save / load game button -which is bugged. Made a way to make water using natural resources. No perma food process as yet.
so some nice improvements but a long way to go. Also latest patch has cause death dust storms that are unavoidable.. When you die you better have made a backup save because it all disappears and you start over. I would think they would at least run this on a test server.
Hope it gets fixed but a lot of people are running away from this.
- This is an early realease game so bear that in mind.
(Update 13 Oct) Dev's fixed Cargo with More space - Reduced Killer storms - The space suit was worked on but thats still broken. - One suit only. One line of research allowed only. Does not protect you from all dangers as yet. - Devs fixed Food and water issue! You can now make containers from resources. Game didnt crash in one hour play today. Auto save works now BUT.. no multiple save options other than making a save game manually then having to delete old save game with your backup. if you don't make a backup save and you die. You start over.
Base erodes fast still. Constantly repairing it which really stinks. Needs to be removed or reduced GREATLY. Overall.. Big Improvement.
BOOM. GL all.
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Starting to love it more every time I play, just got a huge update, and i'm pumped to see what the devs have fixed. For now ill say this tho, If you love to Mine stuff, explore a huge map, fix problems, not be bugged by other players or mutant aliens, and build/craft using mined and found resources... You will love this game, yeah it needs work and takes some getting the hang of, but refer to the community blog and continue on as i have and the game doesn't disappoint...
Really enjoying the game. It starts out rough, but if you are patient and learn the ropes, it is very fun. I like the style of the buildings and vehicles. I like the ease of getting resources without the grind. Definitely a diamond in the rough. I see it as a game with a lot of potential.
This game is your typical survival/base building game with the twist that you are a pioneer in a partly failed mission to build a colony ready to receive people on a mars-type planet.
After a short intro where you have to get to the habitat, where the basic structures are placed, you need to accomplish certain assignments to progress, building infrastructure and doing exploration runs to mine resources. The first phase is a time-race as you need to build set of structures in order to survive (O2, water, food), and after the base development phase begins.
While in EA, i do not recommend the game at this stage for mainly gameplay reasons.
On the positive/
- The game is playable and no bugs have been encountered so far.
- Content is adequate for a release in Early Access. Several vehicles, buildings, and upgrades are present.
- While the graphics are not astonishing the overall aspect of the terrain is what you could expert from a martian type planet surface, apart from the obviously shaped bridges and tunnels that allows you to pass through mountain ranges.
On the negative side:
- No pointers are given which makes the first attemps difficult. Pressing needs such as oxygen and water should be better managed in the first phases.
- This game is also ergonomically deficient, inventory management is prehistorical (manual transfer of items and a ridiculously low capacity of storage for every container), individual interfaces are neat but it remains tedious to juggle between all of them
- Controls are horrible, in particular the vehicles where 90% of the time is spent. Between the inability to reverse when needed, getting stuck in certain places, and the really capricious excavator arm which has the shortest reach possible, this renders the exploration and mining experience frustrating, which is the core of the game.
As a conclusion i do not recommend the game at this stage but the content is promising and if some major works are done on the gameplay aspects (this should really be sorted out before making any new content) then this game can be a good one.
A game with a serious identity crisis.
It starts steep and has heaps of bugs. But that's just being in Early Access, and there is proof they are being quickly addressed by the devs. So no need to hang up on them.
The bigger problem is the uncertain genre of the game, which will most likely take a PVP MMO direction.
Right now, the game is unfinished, with lots of content missing, and as such tries to appeal to explorers and builders. While their cash is welcome, they will likely get disappointed soon, as the planned direction is:
"Frontier Gameplay - related to rival corporation narrative with a gameplay involving shooting"
The game has started off with a plan to be an MMO. Great investment in stunning scenery and realistic machinery (designed by actual JCB engineers) that are extremely fun to drive around in the environment. Really.
The team has probably ran out of money, or for any other reason had to do an earlier start, resulting in cutting corners and releasing whatever they had ready. The bugs are fine, as they are being corrected.
The bigger problem is that due to such repurposing the concept has gotten lost, and the genre became extremely fuzzy and inconsistent.
A game with an identity crisis.
So how well is the promise "a hardcore blend of survival and construction gameplay" met?
"Survival" ?
Taking place on Mars, and trying to be more or less realistic there are no zombies, cannibals, dinos or other mythical monsters to survive against. The only realistic challenge here is exposure to the environment. Since that probably did not seem to be interesting enough for gameplay, it has been spiced up with some meteor showers, acid clouds, geysers, tornados, glaciers and radioactive sites filling up the majority of the space that is not prohibitively difficult to drive on. Practically turning the game into a 3D "super mario" where you need to dodge the various obstacles the team could come up with and throw you at. (Or discover and learn the "long-cut" getting to the resources driving around in relative safety.)
Main aspects of survival (O2, food and water) are easily covered after the first few missions, and stop being interesting.
Other more realistic aspects of the Martian environment are missed out (temperature, radiation, seasonal weather and daylight changes).
We do not really know much about our avatar, and his/her physical state of "survival", skills, resilience or anything like that.
There is no growing threat that you should build your armor, base and defenses against, something to keep you challenged.
Unless of course, you add rival companies, who will start to kill you in your quest ripping The Red Planet off of its resources.
(Why else would we go there, really?)
"Adventure" ?
There is a lot of exploration to do.
The map is made up of a mix and match of real Martian geographies stitched together, which is actually pretty much fun to drive around in the cool vehicles (a couple upgrades are advised though).
Driving in the canyons, flats, bumps, craters, edges and cliffs while trying to discover more and more resource ponds is fun. Not hundreds of hours fun, but a couple dozen for sure.
"Construction" ?
You can build your base made of pre-designed buildings, which can be upgraded and specialized. You can refine the minerals you mine and sell them to cover your expansion.
The purpose of this expansion, however is unknown at this point. There are no potential directions to take, no broad set of buildings that you can build. You cannot choose your preference what you want to build or your strategy how to get there. Instead: you are constantly being bombarded with "missions" - which are practically just the game telling you what to build next. And these missions seem to be the primary way to get advancement (financially and in XP). The only _choice_ you can make is in what order you build the buildings the game is telling you to build. Well, such level of handholding may pleasure some players, but not all. Not me for sure. Of course, later it might be more open: to build the buildings that help you better in a PVP combat, but that seems quite far away yet, and is a very different direction from the current "builder/explorer" shape.
"Role Playing" ?
Your player seems to be gaining XP, and get level-ups.
There is however complete mystery about what that means, how that impacts your gameplay (if at all) and what you can do about it.
No choices, no skills to select, no specialization, no unlocking of new possibilities. Nada.
Maybe something interesting comes here later on, but most likely related to the shooting aspect. That's just a guess though.
"Simulation"?
Well, driving around the JCB machines custom-designed for this game in the beautifully crafted map is fun. Really fun.
"Management"?
The game at this point seems to be about discovering resource pools, using the minerals to build up your base, refine them and sell the surplus to (partially) fund your endeavours.
At this point you have to do all this manually: Drive out, dodge the obstacles, discover the resources, mine them, transport back, and move them between your backpack, your vehicle, storage, refineries and 3D printers.
That means a lot of taxiing and packing the resources from A to B. This actually takes up 80% of the gameplay.
There seem to be plans to add workers later on, who might hopefully do some of this grinding for you, but how that's done is unclear.
I am especially wondering how workers will drive around with the resources dodging the "super mario" style obstacles scattered between the resource ponds and your base. What paths will they be taking and how their driving skills' results (the damage to or destruction of the vehicles) is going to be managed.
I do not really think the current design of the game supports this "management" type of direction too much.
All in all, I think a lot of work has gone into the game, great design and working engine (apart from the bugs that you also need to count with at this point).
As a simulation/exploration game it is already quite fun. But I'm not sure if that's enough.
In the future, it might become a great PVP MMO, if you are into that. Right now there is no content supporting that direction.
At the moment it seems more like being a building/exploring game, but with limitations to content, too much handholding, and lots of grinding and silly obstacle-dodging in gameplay. And, if the direction changes, it might be disappointing for current players.
A beautiful and promising game, but with a serious identity crisis.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Atomicom |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 01.02.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 36% положительных (78) |