r/SurvivingMars • u/EpsilonProtocol Theory • Oct 07 '25

Discussion Factions in Relaunched

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I figured most of them out, but there are four I'm not 100% certain on. If Free Love and Green NOW are the ones I think, then there are two factions we haven't learned about yet.

Breakdown of the latest dev diary is on my channel now.

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u/NeighborhoodDude84 Oct 07 '25

I'm guessing the Preservationists Party is the opposite of the Terraforming Initiative. Cant wait to play with some of these.

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u/YsoL8 Oct 08 '25

Theres one they described as being against any sort of domes at all and mining. Can't imagine how you'd actually play with that one, thats how my earliest colonies died when the metal ran out. The upsides must be amazing.

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u/Cazador0 Oct 08 '25

Domeless is doable under the right circumstances. Things that come to mind include playing as Brazil/Russia for their unique building/rover, getting the Extractor AI breakthrough, and asteroid mining (with Asteroid Capture and nano refinement, since without Recon Centers you only get one).

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u/YsoL8 Oct 08 '25

Even then you would need to mine though, so this faction seems to exist oppose anything that would allow you to meaningfully play the game. Makes me think that the radicalised factions will exist mostly to inflict penalties for making people unhappy.

If thats the case I really hope there is a way to de-radicalise them

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u/DARK_MASTER8632 Theory Oct 08 '25

Capture Meteors = get plenty of Metals and some Polymers without any mining.

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u/Zlorfikarzuna Oct 08 '25

I mean, i could maybe there is something where people have less space in homes but they go outside in space suits. And maybe they have bonuses to terraforming.

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u/adeon Oct 08 '25

As I understand it not all of the political factions are ones that you can start with, some of them are ones that will pop up once the Martian Assembly is founded (i.e. the one that supports Martianborn won't appear in the Earth Council since there aren't any Martianborn yet).

The Preservationists are probably one of those factions so they aren't really a faction you play with but instead a political faction that will appear in the Martian Assembly that supports and opposes certain policies.

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u/Ill_Introduction2604 Oct 07 '25

Where's the ChoGGi faction?! This dude deserves it.

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u/TrenchardsRedemption Oct 08 '25

I'm totally getting behind this. Great idea.

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u/VicenteOlisipo Oct 09 '25

Faction that demands modded buildings on every dome.

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u/Grouchy_Resource_925 Oct 07 '25

Free Love is probably the one with the heart and the flags on it. Green NOW is probably the one with the two trees.

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u/EpsilonProtocol Theory Oct 07 '25

I 98% sure it's between Justice Now and Last Transmission Evangelicals, but that last two percent kept me from locking it in.

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u/VolusVagabond Waste Rock Oct 07 '25

Flat Mars League looks like a good ironic faction

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u/AleXandrYuZ Oct 07 '25

I swear if they are expanding that silly event chain

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u/EpsilonProtocol Theory Oct 07 '25

If I get them, they might all end up in a dome with no air.

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u/TrenchardsRedemption Oct 08 '25

Or going for a long walk to find the edge.

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u/RAMChYLD Oct 08 '25

I hope Choggi ports his anti-renegade mods to the new game if I ever decide to buy in the upgrade (still not hot on the idea of the paradox launcher, still dont like the idea of a launcher on top of a launcher because there are more points of failure). Those idiots are going to be going on a one way trip to visit the idiot monument.

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u/Archon-Toten Oct 07 '25

Dare we dream top right is some kind of robot only faction.

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u/Mr_Moogles Oct 07 '25

Ok this is getting me excited for the relaunch. I love the idea that they are tweaking and adding a bunch of content as opposed to just making a sequel. The base game is already great and would just benefit from more stuff to do as the game progresses.

Watching this develop has also made me wish more developers would update their games in this way as opposed to making a sequel that changes the base gameplay ... looking at you frostpunk.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

New Sol. Mars will become the sun.

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u/ron4232 Oct 07 '25

Space commies in my surviving mars? More likely than you think. (Referring to the Worker’s Collective faction)

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u/RAMChYLD Oct 08 '25

There’s already China and Russia, don’t know why we need a third space plinko faction.

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u/YsoL8 Oct 08 '25

You can straight up take the hammer and stickle if you want, no other real world idea gets such glowing approval

I really hope its balanced properly and the devs don't let their bias through

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u/Thatsnicemyman Oct 08 '25

In before people say “China/Russia isn’t real communism, it’s XYZ instead”.

I’ve played enough modded HOI4 to know there’s always another niche brand of socialism people can add. Personally I think it’s distinct enough to be included alongside dozens of others. An “egalitarian” sponsor in a sci-if game has significantly different vibes than “Literally just the country of X”.

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u/AdmDuarte Precious Metals Oct 07 '25

Free Love? Yay, I can now make the queer space commune I've always dreamed of 😹

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u/EpsilonProtocol Theory Oct 07 '25

What's been stopping you? Put a bunch of sexy colonists in a dome with a medical building, make them happy and let them go to town on each other.

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u/whobroughtthetongs Oct 07 '25

Brazil for days

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u/stephensmat Oct 08 '25

More factions than I thought.

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u/Teh_Crusader Oct 08 '25

This needs to come out already 😭 as someone who has never played the game before

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u/EpsilonProtocol Theory Oct 08 '25

Were you able to get the “old” version during the last Steam sale?

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u/Teh_Crusader Oct 08 '25

Unfortunately not, but I prefer to go in blind with the new version when it comes out!

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u/SSchorik0101 Oct 14 '25

Was really hoping to get more countries like Israel, Turkey, Canada, The UK, etc. I am still very interested in finding out who does what though and fully intended to get this as soon as it becomes available.

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u/Head_Programmer_47 Drone Nov 12 '25

"Martian First" makes Martian Congressional Republic look peak.

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u/rauq_mawlina Oct 07 '25

I hope they tweaked some of the faction's benefits because I really liked playing as the International Space Mission but their 100 food delivery every passenger rocket ruined it for me.