The tank now talks back. Native haptics — you feel the ground through the tracks, and it's different on sand, grass and mud. Bushes tickle. Your cannon lands like a hammer, and ramming with the plow is the hardest hit in the game. There's a toggle in the menu if you'd rather it stayed quiet. A world that remembers. Explosions leave scorch marks. Tank tracks stay in the dirt. Cannon shells fly slower than minigun rounds so you can tell your guns apart at a glance. Rebuilt research. Extra cannon barrels and tesla arcs are now research projects instead of hidden stat upgrades — one purchase arms your tank and your whole turret fleet. Fourteen projects across two pages, and the whole tree is affordable in a single playthrough. Self-repair for everyone. Free, four times faster, and it kicks in whenever you're not defending a drill or fighting off the finale. A much bigger swarm. Roughly twice the enemies on screen, each one dying faster, with a whole rebalance underneath so it's chaos rather than a wall. Also: deep water is survivable to cross and lethal to linger in · no more lava lakes blocking your own base approach · one-tap audio toggle · smoother difficulty from Tethys to Titan.

The game now asks once, after you clear a planet, whether you'd like to rate it — and there's a Rate the Game row in the menu. It asks twice at most, then never again.

NEW: ARRIVAL BY DROPSHIP Every drop now begins with a heavy four-engine lander coming down through the dust, holding on its jets while the belly doors slide open, and climbing away once your tank is on the ground. Tap to skip it if you're in a hurry — you get control the moment the doors part. LOSING A RUN READS PROPERLY When your tank goes down, the drill is destroyed or the base falls, the frame now closes in and opens back up as you respawn. STAR MAP - The wormhole to the next galaxy stays dark until you've actually cleared the one you're in. - Locked planets no longer zoom in on a mission you can't launch. - Fixed: a fresh save could start on the second galaxy's first planet. MENU - "Continue" instead of "Close" while you're mid-level. - Leaving a level now asks first — no more losing a run to a stray tap. - The Star Map row is hidden when you're already on the star map. - Discovery's back button returns to the menu instead of dropping you into a live battlefield. FIXED - The music no longer restarts every time you open the menu.

• The first thing you research is now the minigun, not a turret — and it is the cheapest project on the shelf, so it lands on planet one instead of two levels later. • The deploy guide no longer fires during the opening. It waits until you actually choose to buy a turret, and then arrives immediately instead of a second and a bit later. • The walls, the floor and the outbuildings now reach the actual edge of the map. They used to stop short of it, leaving a strip of ground beyond the wall that looked like a gap in the base. • The onboarding arrow could point off the top of the screen. It now always stays in frame, on any phone. • Ramming with the plow is louder and consecutive hits climb in pitch, so ploughing through a line reads as one escalating run rather than the same crunch repeating.