In concept video showing asteroids. Whether they appear in the game, or the idea completely abolished?
It'll probably make it in before release, because it has to be accompanied by proportional asteroid collision.
You should take a look at the confirmed features list. https://forums.uberent.com/threads/confirmed-features-list-2-0.44950/
Entire fields. But only a few of them will be usable at a time. Once one is used to smash a planet (or is moved out of orbit) another asteroid will replace it. That's the plan anyway.
In the alpha version of the game we were building metal extractors regardless of the place, and it is now possible to build them only for deposits. Is it possible to make the system when the extractors can be built anywhere, but get faster will be the ones that are on the metal deposits. This system has been used in total annihialtion
Metal maps are going to be something left for modders. Uber's stated that they aren't really a fan of the idea (and I see why personally. It fit for TA but PA is so large scale and anti-turtling that it wouldn't really work well)