View Gear item level and eligible classes on manage inventory UI.
New players are offered to join a recruiting faction after Quest 1 is complete.
Quick Heal now properly includes and prioritizes hero skills.
Material Source UI is more polished and won't display pre-attack UI for Quests not yet reached.
Various UI polish
Faction Chat improvements
Balance
You can't freeze time forever Syren's Maritime now has proper 'ulti' mana costs (30 + 1 / level)
HoSG and Chill Max Time to Raid a Labyrinth has been doubled.
Bug Fixes
Improvements to raid path parsing in raid history (old paths were removed as a result).
Fixed a game breaking bug in new player tutorial.
Level up UI works properly in and out of raid (blinking).
Fixed bug where quick trade would sometimes loop.
Fixes to client thinking achievements had been unlocked right before they actually had been unlocked.
1.6.3 Now Live!
HoSG Build 1.6.3 is now live on Steam.
August 19, 2016 5:20pm CDT
New Features - Optimized multiplayer Raid search to return more players in your pendant range and minimize repeats on back to back searches.
- Hero items are synced across all devices.
Bug Fixes - Many client / server sync issues have been fixed including gold, stone, and item syncing.
- Faction chat is more stable.
- Many other minor bug fixes.
Coming Soon - Revenge Raids - Strike back at recent attackers.
- Cleaner and more useful Labyrinth Design 'Collection' manager. Force opponents to raid one of up to three of your Labyrinth designs - chosen at random - to reduce Labyrinth 'scouting'.
Coming Later - A Third Epic Saga and a new hero!
- Elite Guards
- More!
1.6.0 Coming Soon!
August 15, 2016 3:50pm CDT
We had to shut down the server for a while today to fully implement 1.6.0. Please note that some of the server-side changes we had to implement will cause pre-1.6.0 clients to fail to properly display our "Server is down" message and will instead offer you a New Player button. Please disregard this button (your old account is fine) and hang on a bit longer as we wrap up the new release.
Some things to look forward to: - no more auto-optimization of hero items
- hero items will be seamlessly synchronized between devices for players on multiple devices.
- some faction chat improvements.
- other minor bug fixes and stability improvements.
Baton Rouge Flooding
Iron 27 Inc is located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana which has experienced record flooding over the past few days. A key game update scheduled for tomorrow (Monday August 15, 2016) which targets hero gear and the removal of the "auto-optimize" feature may be pushed back as our studio and some of our team member's homes have been affected.
We will continue to push feature updates and bug fixes as quickly as possible.
Thanks again for your participation and patience.
- the Iron 27 Team
1.5.10 Now Available!
HoSG Build 1.5.10 is now live on Steam.
August 10, 2016 3:45pm CST
New Features - Read news items will no longer persist in player inboxes unless they are 'Sticky'
Bug Fixes - Mouse Wheel zoom should respond more consistently in Territory View.
- Fixed some game freezing UI issues.
- No longer incorrectly show heroes as unlocked on lost unlock Quest.
1.5.9 Now Available!
HoSG Build 1.5.9 is now live on Steam.
New Features - Faction Chat is optimized and more functional than before.
- Erase Labyrinth now resets orbs, traps, stairs, and chest.
- Other minor graphical and game-play improvements.
Bug Fixes - Accidental Quick Trading is no longer possible.
- Life time faction donations updating properly.
- Den graphics update properly in territory on upgrade complete.
- Holy Aegis ability Fixed!
- Equip Optimal ranks active heroes over higher level inactive heroes.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Vera's Revenge Conquered!
Congratulations to Anubis on being the first player to successfully defeat all single player Quests!
Other Shout-Outs
The first 3 players to crack the 1,000 Spider Pendant mark: hbojggzigh, Pornzy, and JuteBeutel
Top defenders / lab designers so far: Dyne, x2madda, Hyacinth, Hamtopia, Qpid, Glorantha, and Blackward
Thanks so much for hanging in there as we continue to improve stability and balance!
- the Iron 27 Team
1.5.5 Update Available!
Be sure to download the latest update featuring:
- Improved overall game stability.
- High Res Hero Portraits
- High Res Faction Emblems
- High Res Worker Images and more.
- Accurate mana costs on battle tool tips.
- Other minor bug fixes.
We are aware of several remaining stability issues and are working hard to knock out the rest.
- the Iron 27 Team
Rapid Patching Woes
We released a patch 20 minutes ago that fixed some things and broke some other (more critical) things, so we released another one to fix the things we accidentally broke. Very sorry for the inconvenience! Please bear with us as we try to get these client fixes to you ASAP (our hastiness can sometimes backfire).
Good to go now. Happy Raiding!
- the Iron 27 Team
Server Updates Incoming
We're moving the game assets that you download on initial install to a separate game server to try to free up some resources for the HoSG API server. This should help keep the game running quickly for everyone. Other server optimizations are also in the works.
