Build 25424853

This update introduces a brand-new way to strengthen your defenses, alongside another round of performance improvements, gameplay fixes and quality-of-life changes.

⚡ NEW — Booster Pads

Booster Pads can now appear on the battlefield and provide powerful bonuses to towers built on them.

There are currently three types:

• 🎯 Range Booster — +100% Range

• 💥 Damage Booster — +100% Damage

• ⚡ Fire Rate Booster — +100% Fire Rate

Choosing which tower gets access to a Booster Pad can have a huge impact on your defense.A well-positioned Sniper can cover an enormous part of the battlefield, while a Damage or Fire Rate boost can turn your main kill zone into something much more dangerous.

⚙️ Performance

• Significantly improved performance around later waves, especially around Wave 12 and beyond

• Further optimized the enemy path system

• Improved leaderboard update behavior — scores are no longer uploaded unnecessarily during a run

🔧 Gameplay Fixes

• Fixed tower Range visualization sometimes remaining visible after selecting another tower

• Fixed Range visualization disappearing while the tower detail panel was still open

• Improved the Range visualization color for better readability

• Fixed enemy counter inconsistencies

• Enemy spawning now properly reacts to increased game speed

• Fixed an issue with the upper part of the Tesla Tower becoming visually misaligned

• Fixed placement interactions around Mineable Asteroids

• Fixed Miners being placeable inside other Miners

• Fixed Tech Tree purchases sometimes not displaying what was being purchased

🛠️ Development Continues

Thank you to everyone participating in the Astro Company Playtest and sending feedback and bug reports. I'm continuing to work through reported issues while also improving performance, balancing and polishing the game before the next stage of the playtest.

Every report helps. ❤️