Hexarchy

Misc

• Added audio cues for enemy units entering your territory, battle victories, and battle defeats
  
• Enemy units in your territory are highlighted in red
  
• Please Wait notification between turns changed
  
• City name panel highlights when mousing over a city to give resources to it
  

Fixes

• Random civ selection for Hegemon now works correctly
  
• Fixed an issue where sometimes the green text highlight on a card cost wouldn't be reset when drawing a card
  
• Fixed an issue in multiplayer where turn timers could desync and cause a disconnection
  
• Fixed an issue where Frenzy could not be used on 2 units on the same hex in the same turn
  
• Fixed an issue where unit models could show up as the wrong team's color
  

Misc

• Turn limit reduced for most game lengths
  
• Ranked multiplayer games on Continents map type will no longer have a player with their own continent unless all players do
  
• Various optimizations that improve late game performance
  
• Border growth events are faster without "Fast Events" enabled
  
• Shortened title screen load times by a few seconds
  

Multiplayer Stats File Changes

• More information is available in the player_stats_.json that is created after a multiplayer game
  
• File location: C:\Users\\AppData\LocalLow\Main Tank Software\Hexarchy
  
• Added turn by turn player score breakdowns
  
• Added resources gained from an order
  
• All research orders are logged, including Great Library researches
  
• Orders for buying and selling resources now include the resource bought or sold
  

Fixes

• Fixed glitch that could occur when researching at a tech after loading a saved game
  
• Fixed a rare issue with AI order generation that could cause the game to get stuck
  
• Fixed an error that could occur when clicking the "Retry" button in the menu immediately after a turn starts
  
• Fixed issues related to quitting back to title screen immediately after a disconnect
  
• Fixed an issue that occurred when East India Company captures a Holy Site
  
• Fixed an issue for some text in Korean
  
• Various other minor error fixes
  

Optimizations

• Reduced polygon count for some models
  
• Various small optimizations
  
• Graphics presets "High" and above now use deferred shading which should improve performance on modern GPUs
  

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with road rendering that could cause late game stutters when issuing orders
  
• Hopefully fixed an issue where the game could detect a controller device that constantly scrolls the camera
  
• Fixed an issue where unpayable gold maintenance could show on a city for a turn
  
• Fixed an issue where the bottom and top right corner of the maps could sometimes not easily be targeted when panning the camera with the keyboard
  
• Fixed an issue where latency from a previous order could cause a selected stack of resources to disappear
  
• Changed a font for French and German that caused some characters to render incorrectly
  

Misc

• Various performance improvements
  
• Camera zoom limit animation changes
  

Fixes

• Embarked Settlers no longer block other Settlers on neighboring hexes from building cities
  
• Fixed an issue where the game server could continue to run after exiting to the title menu, causing performance degradation
  

Fixes

• Fixed an issue that could cause game stuttering
  
• Fixed an issue where the Level 65 achievement was set to Level 66
  
• Fixed an issue where the next turn Gold received text could word wrap
  

Misc

• Late game performance optimizations
  
• Minor UI adjustments
  

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the game server thread would not always shut down properly after exiting a single player game
  
• Fixed an issue where the game could hang on quit
  
• Fixed an error that could occur when viewing challenge leaderboards
  

Ladder Season 2 Begins

• Ladder rankings reset on July 16, 2024
  
• Your best Season 1 ranking can still be showcased using the distinct Season 1 and Season 2 badges
  

Level Cap Raised to 100

• Various cosmetic rewards added for levels 50 to 100 (Badges, Avatars, Banners, Titles, Pets)
  

One More Turn...

• Players can now choose to continue playing after a single-player game ends
  
• This will not affect your challenge scores, Hegemon scores, or your level progress
  
• Game balance and performance may suffer as the game continues beyond its intended length
  

Retry Button

• Challenge players can rejoice in only having to click 1 Retry button to restart a challenge or any other Single Player game
  
• Retrying a Daily Challenge will count as a challenge attempt
  
• Using the Retry button will use the same map generation seed for skirmish games
  

Data Collection for Next-Gen AI

• We're collecting information on player behavior to experiment with creating a new AI
  
• This data is automatically collected in multiplayer games but is by default not collected during single-player
  
• If you wish to help us out, it can be enabled for single-player in the game menu. Be aware that this could result in a large amount of data being sent to our servers so is not recommended on a metered network connection
  
• This is experimental and in the extremely early stages - it may not lead to a better AI
  

New Achievements

• Beloved - Get 25 We Love You points. Rewards: The Beloved title and Bald Eagle pet
  
• Woodchuck - Control 10 lumbermills. Reward: Beaver pet
  
• Polar Super Power - Control 5 tundra hexes. Reward: Penguin pet
  

Multiplayer Game Technical Log

• A technical log file is now available after a multiplayer game which can be used to discern what actions the other human players took during the game
  
• On Windows the files are located at: C:\Users\\AppData\LocalLow\Main Tank Software\Hexarchy\player_stats_.json
  
• This contains statistics about the game in JSON format - you may need a technical background to make use of it
  

Misc / Fixes

• Can now view previous challenge results without completing the current challenge
  
• Warship now correctly gives a Victory Point like Catapult and Cannon
  
• Fixed the Daily Challenge screen Discord button
  

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Pathfinder promotion could block Warship movement
  

Balance

• Fort grants vision of the surrounding area
  
• Great Lighthouse grants vision of the surrounding area
  
• Infrastructure and Conscription can no longer be played while potential target cards are stored for next turn
  
• Can build roads through allied territory
  

Misc

• Can mouseover player names on leaderboards to view their unique banner
  
• Farm and Winery models updated
  
• Holy Site model updated
  
• Iron, Stone, Marble, and Salt graphics updated (no more cubes!)
  

Fixes

• Fixed an issue that was allowing players to identify bots in multiplayer games
  
• Fixed an issue where palace hammers would be lost for a turn when capital is moved to a new city
  
• Fixed an issue where an enemy unit could show in the selection window on a hex where it no longer is
  
• Fixed an issue where a pillaging a city could remove ownership for a hex being worked by a different city
  
• Fixed an issue in tutorial level 2 where it could ask you to pickup a resource in your inventory when there is none
  

New Naval Unit

New Unit Ability

The Vikings

New worlds

Other balance changes

Conquer the continents tournament!

Full patch notes

• Ranged naval unit
  
• 7 strength
  
• Unlocks with Astronomy
  

• Turn a unit into a boat that can travel over water
  
• Requires hex with Harbor in most cases
  
• Costs 1 Hammer
  
• Units that have embarked once can re-embark without a Harbor
  
• Movement bonuses are only 50% effective on embarked units
  

• When you Embark a unit, draw a card that grants Charge once per turn
  
• Get luxury resources and extra victory points when pillaging
  

• Unlocks a tech tier 2
  
• 8 strength
  
• Cost 3 Hammer or 2 Luxury
  
• Can Embark for free from any hex
  
• Card gains 1 strength every 2 turns
  

• Unlocks at tech tier 3
  
• Cost 3 Hammer or 3 Luxury
  
• For this turn, give a unit +8 Strength, Charge, and Mobilize
  

• Pangea - classic one continent
  
• Continents - 2 or more continents with bonus islands
  
• New World - 2 or more continents but all players start on the same one
  

• Jaguar starting strength increased to 5
  
• Scout gather ability always costs 1 hammer
  
• City maintenance over water without harbor reduced
  
• Harbor no longer grants free resources when built
  
• Vanguard cost reduced to 2 Hammers
  
• Military Engineer cost reduced to 1 Hammer
  

• "Fast Events" menu option to significantly increase speed at which events play between turns
  
• New "No Immediate Charges" game setting to disallow Charge attacks for a unit on the turn it was built
  
• Max zoom level increased slightly
  
• New Achievements!
  

• Pillaged cities no longer block movement on the turn they were pillaged
  
• Fixed an issue where a captured city could permanently say it requires more Gold
  
• Fixed a rare issue that could cause multiplayer co-op matches to hang
  
• Fixed an issue where UI could get messed up when joining for a multiplayer game from a single player score screen