Hey Settlers! Combat Update is here. This update adds a new planets (asteroid) where you face enemy drones as negative event. Every 5 mins, a group of stronger alien drones will try to damage your base, you will need to build turrets to destroy them.
This update also adds a new game mode, "Base defense mode" where you can also play any planet you unlocked previously as a tower defense game, where the negative events turn into the attackers trying to destroy your colony.
You have 3 type of turrets that perform differently; Defense Tower

• Purpose: General-purpose tower designed to handle groups of smaller enemies effectively.
• Attack: Rapid fire with medium range and damage.
• Special Ability: Can prioritize targets based on proximity, focusing on clearing close threats quickly.
• Best Use: Ideal for crowd control and protecting key areas against swarms of enemies.

• Purpose: Long-range tower specialized in eliminating high-priority single targets.
• Attack: Slow rate of fire with very high damage and extreme range.
• Special Ability: Critical shots that deal extra damage to enemies with high health.
• Best Use: Perfect for taking down armored units, bosses, or enemies at a distance before they get too close.

• Purpose: Area-of-effect (AoE) tower capable of dealing damage to clusters of enemies.
• Attack: Fires missiles that explode on impact, dealing splash damage over a large radius.
• Special Ability: Can be upgraded to track fast-moving targets or deliver cluster missiles for larger explosions.
• Best Use: Effective against groups of enemies or units that tend to bunch together, providing powerful area denial.

• Enhancement: While placing a pod, now you will be able to see the connections with an arrow indicator to better decide the position of the pods that you are unfamiliar with.
• Enhancement: In the later stages of game, destroying expensive pods release way too many resources around, which lowers the FPS for some low end devices, resource container are now object pooled.
• Bug Fix: Disable auto scroll if no gamepad connected
• Bug Fix: delay on show spaceship part trigger first click