🛠️ Dev Update: Hospitals, Tech Paths, and Combat Overhaul! 🛠️

Hey everyone! We’ve just rolled out a major update that brings new depth and strategic choices to TacticFront. Here’s what’s new:

🏥 Hospitals Are In!

• New Building: Hospitals can now be built!

• Function: Hospitals boost population growth and gradually return a portion of lost troops to your workforce.

• Research Tree: There’s now a tech path for hospital upgrades—improving pop growth, healing, and increasing hospital cap.

Hospital Tech Upgrades:

• Advanced Care Protocols: +2.5% pop growth, +2% troop trickleback per hospital.

• Medical Supply Innovations: +3% pop growth, +2.5% troop trickleback, cap increased to 4.

• Mobile Field Units: +3.5% pop growth, +3% troop trickleback.

• Advanced Bio-Engineering: +4% pop growth, +4% troop trickleback, cap increased to 5.

🛰️ Research Tree Paths for SAMs & Hospitals

• Branching Tech: Specialize your nation—choose SAM upgrades, Hospital improvements, or both, for a tailored strategy.

🛡️ SAM Site Upgrades & Display

• Missile Count Display: SAM sites now show remaining interceptor inventory.

• Cheaper, Faster, Smarter: SAMs cost less, fire faster, and require interceptors (which now cost resources).

• Tech Upgrades:

  • Rapid Reload Protocol: -5 seconds reload time.

  • Extended Tracking Array: +25% range.

  • Hyper-Combustion Fuel: +33% speed.

  • Mass Interceptor Production: +1 interceptor per launcher.

⚔️ Attack & Defense Combat Flow Rework

• Slower, More Methodical Battles: Combat is now slower-paced and rewards planning. Both attacker and defender reinforce fronts automatically.

• Settings-Driven Gameplay: Attack/defense flow matches the intended game settings—no more rush meta!

📊 Other Changes

• Population Additions: New pops are now added as workers and slowly convert to troops over time.
  Coming Soon: A new structure will be added to speed up this worker-to-troop transition—stay tuned!

• Tooltips & Tech Info: More info in the UI—tech levels and requirements are visible and clear.

Summary

• Specialize your strategy with dedicated tech paths for defense or growth.
• Manage your missile stockpiles with clearer SAM inventory and interceptors.
• Enjoy more meaningful, less spammy combat with improved attack/defense flow.
• Plan your workforce: pops become workers first, with troop conversion improved by future structures.

We love your feedback!
More buildings, tech paths, and features are on the way—factories, artillery, and more. See you on the frontlines!