🌟 What’s New

This week brings major planetary warfare upgrades with the new Orbital Bombardment and Ground Invasion systems, a redesigned Ground Combat UI, smoother combat flow, and dozens of bug fixes and performance improvements. If you’ve been waiting to crush enemy worlds in style, now’s the time.

🆕 New Features

• Orbital Bombardment System — Added comprehensive orbital bombardment mechanics with UI controls, allowing fleets to weaken planetary defenses before invasion.

• Ground Invasion — Implemented ground invasion capability integrated with bombardment UI for a seamless planet conquest workflow.

• Ground Combat UI Redesign — Enhanced battlefield visualization with army strength bars displayed above unit columns for better awareness.

⚔️ Combat Improvements

• Damage Visualization — Incremental damage application synchronized with weapon effects for more engaging combat feedback.

• Destroyed Ship Feedback — Clear visual indicators when ships are destroyed in combat.

• Ship Detail Panel — Panel now closes automatically when combat begins.

• Combat Flow — Smoother battle completion and input handling for consecutive battles.

• Auto-Resolve — Fixed to jump directly to the final combat state.

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Fixed multiple combat UI issues including scroll isolation, input handling, and grid cell highlighting.

• Resolved ship targeting bug where destroyed ships could regenerate.

• Fixed timing issues so destruction animations play at proper turn end.

• Corrected ships having zero energy capacity in combat.

• Fixed double damage and combat synchronization issues.

• Resolved input handling problems when switching between combat and starmap views.

• Fixed ground combat final screen to properly display complete phase results.

🎨 UI/UX Improvements

• Enhanced scroll wheel isolation between UI panels and galaxy view.

• Improved memory management in combat UI systems.

• Better defender priority handling for grid cell movement conflicts.

• Cleaner, modular architecture for combat UI components.

🛠 Technical Updates

• Refactored project documentation into a modular structure for better maintainability.

• Resolved SpatialGrid naming conflicts in CombatManager.

• Reduced test suite orphan count and fixed various test failures.

• Removed debug print statements and cleaned up temporary test files.

🚀 Performance & Stability

• Improved combat animation system performance.

• Enhanced memory management across UI systems.

• Better error handling for bombardment operations involving Building resources.