If this is true then it would be nice to get some official information about the process going forward. However, I don't quite see why Paradox wouldn't take advantage of it if it's as simple as you say. Perhaps having a developer account approved isn't entirely straightforward. Still it gives some hope that this problem will soon be fixed.

There are also Games on GOG that get Patches after two Years, with the Steam-Version receiving five Patches over Time. But that's up to the developers, not GOG, because GOG does not get the Patches. Other Games will be Patched.

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Steam-Patch from 22.03.2018:

Patch Notes: One Small Step For Man #1
New fixes! Check out the full patch notes below. And as ever, please keep reporting your bugs in the Surviving Mars bug forum.

OSX,Linux: Added OpenGL mods' shaders support
Linux: fixed occasional crash when loading savegames
Window: fixed white borders on some UI elements

- UI: Research dialog now scrollable with mouse wheel and camera controls, saves last position on close
- UI: Colonists with special traits are pinned to the menu bar, only when there are less than 100 colonists in the colony
- UI: Voice notification for Pipe leaks/Cable faults disabled for colonies with over 100 colonists
- UI: Tourist trait shown in "Review Applicants" UI
- UI: Fix for cancelation of change of display settings
- UI: Fix for senior colonists workplace display after the research of "Forever Young" tech
- UI: Fix for Automation Upgrade Icon (displayed inconsistently in Fungal Farms)
- UI: Fix for Custom anomaly icon disappearing from time to time
- UI: Fixed missing sounds when some Mods are active
- UI: Martian University infopanel now does not show colonists which are not part of the workforce (senior, child, tourist, stressed, etc.)
- UI: Rockets have correct (default) skin on game start

- Gameplay: Removed exploit for endless export from the Space Elevator
- Gameplay: Refugees are now immune to Earthsick condition
- Gameplay: New dome fractures should be repaired properly (this unfortunately does not affect already fractured domes from previous saves)
- Gameplay: "Vocation-Oriented Society" tech performance bonus now works as intended
- Gameplay: Fix for drones not to be abandoned by RC Rover
- Gameplay: Fix for maximum drones allowed to work on trade rocket
- Gameplay: Resource stockpiles now properly marked as 1-hex large object - should fix drone behavior to move stockpiles adjacent to construction sites rather then underneath them
- Gameplay: RP cost of repeatable techs now increase after each research
- Gameplay: "Alien Imprints" tech effect reduced
- Gameplay: Fix for Fuel Extractor upgrade effect in the Concrete Extractor building (now 30% increase instead of 50%)
- Gameplay: Fix for stuck drones when picking up resources from destroyed farm
- Gameplay: Fix for resource count when interrupting drone after picking up resource cube from RC Transport
- Gameplay: Fix for RC Transport when changing skin while loading resources
- Gameplay: Fix to properly treat RC Transport as resource depot when adding new drone controller (Rover/Hub/Rocket) or changing active radius of drone controller
- Gameplay: Fix for Rocket take-off in some cases
- Gameplay: Fix for RP calculation to allow modifiers to have effect in cases of little RP production
- Gameplay: Workers properly select workplace based on their specialty
- Gameplay: Fix for workplace and training buildings requiring maintenance when turned off
- Gameplay: Easy start now always starts with a Mystery
- Gameplay: Scanning que increased
- Gameplay: Shielded combination of incompatible traits (e.g. Genius/Idiot combo)
- Gameplay: Biorobot gurus no longer create biorobots
- Gameplay: Fix for replacing existing techs by using mods

- Visuals: Dome glass has correct self illumination
- Visuals: Meteorite craters no longer appear over and next to objects
- Visuals: NVIDIA 1050s family now loads "High" setting preset
- Visuals: Fix for proper positioning of newborn child colonist at spawn

I've only asked for one refund which was for a game that wouldn't work on my PC. To do that I went through Technical Support and got the refund when it was clear it wasn't going to work.

All I can find is https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/requests/new as a possible route to a refund.

The patch is only available since 22.03. and GOG needs a few days. GOG also does not work at the weekend. I'm sure the patch for GOG version will be released next week.

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Since the patch from 22.03, there were already two another, smaller patches (the first being released on launch day), and those aren't also supplied to GOG version of the game. So I'm not hoping that suddenly we will got all three of them during next week.

It's really sad.

Three updates have been released on Steam so far. None on GoG.

As was mentioned, GOG can only patch what they have.

The situation of no updates to Surviving Mars also happens with Paradox's own launcher, which uses a third version of game (being Steam and GOG the other two).
The Surviving Mars version served from the Paradox Launcher is also the initial release.

So as far as I can tell, the issue is not with GOG (distributor) or even with Paradox Publishing (publisher) but with Haemimont (developer).

But what's strange is that neither GoG nor Paradox have said anything about this. No eta, no explanation, no reassurance, nothing. Whether or not either of them is at fault for the delay, both of them are at fault for lack of communication.

Would be good to get an official answer from a GOG support person.

From GOG one is used to the fact that their communication to their customers is modest. And as I said before, some games get patches after 2 years, if there are 5 patches on Steam at this time. I'm still waiting with the purchase of Surviving Mars (SM).

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When the update does arrive, how will we go about updating the app? I haven't had to update any of m y GOG apps yet, so if the game doesn't have an internal update method and I'm not using Galaxy, will there just be an update installer?

Yup, an installer will appear on your game download page.

I dug up some info on the lack of patches so far https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/when-will-the-gog-client-receive-updates.1083151/


I mean, it does reference THIS thread but also

"This is from a GoG representative in response to a support ticket I raised:

I apologise for the delay with Surviving Mars updates, we are currently working with the developer on improving their delivery on GOG."

Thanks for the information. If only with all GOG products. ;-)