Alien Horizon

New version feedback

First of all, thank you for this wonderful game. I usually don’t go for alphas, betas or early access but I’m very glad I opened an exception to this masterclass colony sim.

I struggled to decide if I should post this here or on Steam but I decided here because of less noise. So, here are my observations with this new version.

I noticed that when there is a power shutdown the logistics office from the ship is the first one to shut down. I don’t know if this is okay: one because it is directly connected to the ship and, second because when you do have an external logistic office that seems to be the last one to shut down.

(my biggest issue so far) the job assignment AI. When you don’t have enough people to fill the jobs the AI seems to fill generic jobs with geologists and doctors first, leaving your mines and clinics understaffed. Always. And when you do have enough colonists, the AI does not reassign them back to their mandatory position. First I found annoying when my colony was 200 people but now, with close to 1000 this is really hurting.

Balance between construction and maintenance: I know you can set the focus on the construction offices but I dare not change them to anything other than maintenance because there is never enough people doing it. Like idle workers but still a lot of maintenance to do. I have not digged too much on this, it is just an impression. Maybe a future feature would be a global slider to determine what percentage between construction and maintenance? Just throwing ideas out there.

Clinics are still hoarding food. This is not new. I believe they get it for treatment purposes but when there is a shortage people start starving while the clinic is full of food. My workaround is just shut it down till the trucks remove the food and then just turn it back on, but that is less than ideal.

There is some weird issue with farms. Every once in a while it’ll not get the nitrate or sulfate it needs and just shut down. I noticed this on multi-queue farms but I have not seen in single queue farms (so far). Worst? Unlike the first two this seems random. Sometimes it works fine, sometimes it doesn’t. The worst kind of problem to pinpoint are these sporadic ones but I though it was worth mentioning like …

Missions. Yeah, sometimes the crew gets stuck somewhere but I know this is not new and, like the previous one, it is random.

And last, also a random one: Sometimes when you are not in full screen and alt-tab somewhere the game will go black and it is necessary to reload the previous save. The UI is still fully functional but nothing else is visible. I have not encountered this on full screen, just windowed mode. I think you’re moving to a new framework / code base (?) so maybe this won’t be an issue when you finally migrate.

Thank you again for the game, I hope some of those obs helped somewhat and the best of luck. I’ll keep trying to go over year 10 without losing half my colony ;) :o

The new version 23.03.31 won't launch on Winodows 11 but the 22.12.20 works. Here are the logs,

C:\Users\xxx\Downloads\AlienHorizon_23_03_31\Release\netcoreapp3.1> dotnet.exe .\AlienHorizon.dll

Unhandled exception. System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load DLL 'nvapi64.dll' or one of its dependencies: The specified module could not be found. (0x8007007E)

   at System.Runtime.InteropServices.NativeLibrary.LoadFromPath(String libraryName, Boolean throwOnError)

   at System.Runtime.InteropServices.NativeLibrary.Load(String libraryPath)

   at AlienHorizon.Program.Main() in C:\Users\akher\OneDrive\Documents\Projects\NextFrontier\TheNextFrontier\Program.cs:line 22

We are back in business.

came across this Nov. 2021 video:

Alien Horizon by Nookrium

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I was looking for a game like Earth Orbit Stations and found this gem. It's a really fun, punishing, thinking kind of builder game that you don't see much of anymore. It reminds me a bit of Frost Punk in that it's not a walk in the park and demands you to logically plan out your base while not wasting precious resources or time. Thanks for making it!

My first video on YouTube from Alien Horizion had over 100 views in the first 5 days. I have a small channel with 117 subscribers so that's almost 100%. One of the best titles on my channel. Thanks and good job ^^  

AltRon !

Alien Horizon - Play-Test # 1 - Ein neuer Horizont [Deutsch] - YouTube

That game is awesome already. The potential is there to become an excellent one.  

Great game so far, thank you very much :) 

The game seems to have a problem with my screen resolution. I have a 16:10 Monitor (1920x1200) and run full screen. When I try to click on the bottom row of buttons, the map is running away. For now I just switched off border panning but I wanted to mention this.

When I switch to 1920x1080, the display still seems to be 1200 high but the buttons move a bit up and I can reach them without panning. So the game seems to use two resolutions at once.

  quand jesai dinstaller le jeux a la place sa me telecharge un fichier avec tous les config mais pas le jeux comment faire?

I actually saw this game on GamerZakh also and I was very interested, I own way more than my share of this genre. This game is awesome, I can see this getting to be as big if not just as great as Surviving Mars. Actually I own that one too but I like this game better, there's way more information given in this game. I love the information blocks that gives the option of reading what each thing does or not. There are a few things missing in the tutorial but so far the tut is good (better than most) The only problem I had was that the game started in a window and everything was so small I had to get my reading glasses to see the menu to go fullscreen. I didn't find any bugs or have any problems. I can't wait to see some of the stuff on the roadmap. The graphics are a little clunky but not that bad. I will leave with this: game play is way too slow lol It took 4 minutes IRT to get the mine built at 3x speed. Someone should write a guide for this game soon. I;ve been going through all of the menu items and I still haven't figured out how to get water lol. Keep up the great work!

So the devs are aware, I found this game through a YouTube video by GamerZakh. I decided to download because of the free release. Thank you Purple Nebula for using this early distribution model so players can try the game out in the early stages. *Thumbs up*

Did you do it in linux ?

It invariably crashes when I try to create a new colony. I tried changing display resolution and also fiddling with colony parameters just to see if it changed anything, but it didn't.

I'll be watching to see if there is a stable release in the future ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Love this!

Best tutorial I've seen for a game like this by far.

UI/UX is, again, not just best-in-class but best I've seen for this type of game.

The survival/industry/production system is complex in a way that feels rich rather than overwhelming.

Only downside is that I was having some trouble with bugs that were making it hard to break into the mid game but that was before the latest version. Excited that when I came back to write this I see that a new version has released. Gonna try it now.

This is extremely promising. I wish that the early game would be a bit faster though and the ground can get a bit graphically too busy with a lot of slopes and elevation variation. Power and life support lines also desperately need to be able to cross roads, even once streets are unlocked since they don't entirely replace roads. I also had an hard crash when I would a truck beneath the ship that was assigned to 'office'. Clicking the go to workplace button on that truck caused the game to crash without any error messages. It seems that the truck appeared once I had acquired more trucks than the ship logistics section could handle.

Besides that feedback, I would highly recommend anyone remotely interested in the genre to give it a go.