Landings, Critters and Drones

Since I updated to the latest build available on GOG.com, planetary landings are just a chore.  I used to get around the stupid terrain by just holding the jump button and moon bouncing all around.  Mostly alleviating the difficulty of navigating the nonsensical terrain.  Now that I can't hold the button down, it's just...tedious.  And it seems that about 1 in 5 critters (and drones) are crazy OP, like 10x the hits or more.  Was that on purpose?  It's just irritating with critters, 'cause I can skip them, but there's no indication on which will be OP, so I just come upon them again and waste my time trying to kill them.  But with the drones, they kill me and I can't kill them without a lot of stupid jumping around for 5 minutes, and I can't even explore the planet.

Please tell me if the crazy over-powered critters and drones were on purpose.