As your colony grows and your reach expands, you'll discover looming menances and mysterious combatants. You'll need to defend your colonists by researching military tech and building an army of assault drones. In this blog and in the video below, we reveal a quick overview of the combat in Per Aspera!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3sQl2I7_vw
Enemy assault drone forces beginning to congregate at two drone hives!
Once you uncover an enemy base, you'll need to pause your terraforming efforts and redirect your energy towards managing this new threat. These forces may seem puny to begin with, but without any defenses of your own, they'll make short work of your base. To avoid watching your colonists' and base's demise, you can begin researching a new branch in the technology tree: Military.
The beginning of the Military technology tree.
The Military technology tree has several different paths and upgrades available for you to prioritize. You can focus on increasing your production by prioritizing research into more efficient assault drone factories. You can build better defensives by researching improved drone hives or building better shields for your assault drones. You can also increase your overall drone capacity or augment your assault drones' weapons and speed.
A group of one hundred assault drones stationed in their drone hive, vigilantly protecting our colony.
Whichever route you decide, you'll need to get started by building at least two crucial buildings. First, you'll need to build an assault drone factory to produce your units. Next, you'll need to construct a hive. The drone hives serve two purposes: they house your assault drones and also serve as a defensive bastion for your surrounding buildings.
Our combined forces handily crushing the enemy drones and destroying their solar farms.
After you've finished manufacturing your assault drones, you're nearly ready to begin the attack. Gather together your forces and decide on a strategy. Will you focus on crushing the enemy's power sources or prioritize nullifying their assault drones? Do you prefer to play defensively or love sabotaging the enemy's production with quick, decisive skirmishes?
The combat lens demonstrating where our force's current targets are and whether there are any approaching enemy drones.
The combat lens is key to prioritizing and identifying threats. Whether you're staging your forces before an attack or making tough decisions during the heat of the battle, you'll want to frequently consult this lens. Using the combat lens can help you quickly establish where your forces are stationed or where they're currently en route to. The combat lens can also help you locate your enemy's forces and even see if they're on the move.
Slowly removing all traces of the enemy.
Once the enemy's drone forces have been forcibly deactivated, you may be tempted to leave. That would be a mistake, however -- you'd find that the enemy base will begin to repair and rebuild the damage done. It's important to clear out the rest of the base whenever possible to prevent them from building back up. Once the enemy has been completely eradicated, you'll be able to move your own colony in and claim those precious resources as your own!
Per Aspera releases in TWO days!
It feels unreal to type this... but Per Aspera releases this Thursday! The game will be available Dec. 3rd at 9am PST sharp and will cost $29.99 USD. We're excited to share this game with all of you and watch how you terraform Mars. Thank you for your support and see you on Thursday. 🤩
https://store.steampowered.com/app/803050/Per_Aspera/