Hexarchy

Balance / New Content

• New Wonder: East India Company. Under Currency tech. Claims all hexes within range of 3 (old Hagia Sophia bonus)
  
• Hagia Sophia - now makes your hexes nearly invulnerable to culture steals
  

Progression Systems

• Progression may be reset before launch
  
• Level up and earn achievements to unlock swag such as titles and backgrounds for your Player Banner
  
• Added Progress UI
  
• Three starting civilizations with all 10 unlocked by Level 10
  
• View other players with the Explore Players screen
  

Misc

• New score screen
  

Bug Fixes

• Game disconnect logic changed to fix disconnects that could occur when game ends
  
• Fixed an issue where canceling a card play would disable the city food and luxury detail popups
  

Misc

• Bot difficulty for daily challenge and weekly campaign is always Normal
  

Balance

• Logistics now has Mathematics as a prerequisite
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where game could hang at Please Wait in between turns
  
• Fixed an issue where a very large automatic resource sale at the end of your turn could hang the game
  
• Fixed issue where card cost would not be reset when unit built on Barracks and moved back to deck (eg with Conscription)
  
• Fixed issue where Prev and Next page buttons on leaderboard could show the wrong date's leaderboard
  
• Fixed line wrapping issue for resource stack counts >= 100
  

• Friday, 4 August 2023 14:00 BST / 09:00 EST
  
• Monday, 7 August 2023 17:00 BST / 12:00 EST
  
• Wednesday, 9 August 2023 14:00 BST / 09:00 EST
  

Misc

• AI significantly improved, especially at Hard and Harder difficulties
  
• Many performance improvements
  
• Friendly Mode option for custom multiplayer games - when enabled, human players cannot attack other human players unless they are in your territory
  
• In multiplayer, human players will be more evenly spaced out
  
• Turn execution order is now determined by score with lowest score player going first. This is always displayed left to right at top of screen
  
• In multiplayer, while playing events, current execution phase shows at top of screen - e.g. "Ranged Attacks", "Attacks", "Moves"
  
• Camera panning to events slowed down and using an easing function
  
• Added city Pillage confirmation dialog
  
• Upgraded to Unity 2022
  
• Native Apple Silicon builds
  
• When moving a citizen, invalid slots no longer show up
  
• Bot emotes disabled
  
• Can press Enter after entering a multiplayer game code to join
  
• Loading screen changes
  
• Eliminated players now have remaining units killed
  

Balance

• Catapults can now move through woods
  
• City gold maintenance slightly increased
  
• Tutorial / Demo Level 1 adjustments to make enemy cities more accessible
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issues with end turn sound going off at wrong times
  
• Fixed an issue where you could save a card for next turn then redraw your hand
  
• Fixed an issue where the map could go blurry while in a multiplayer lobby while in a single-player game
  
• Fixed issues that could occur when failing a campaign level
  
• Fixed issues where pillaged cities could still be targeted with Charge
  
• Fixed buggy shuffle effect that occur when playing Fuel Forage
  
• Fixed issue where Great Library could result in a player getting multiple copies of a card
  
• Fixed issue where Berserker would cause UI to say a unit still needs orders when it doesn't
  
• Fixed issues where typing a multiplayer game code would scroll the map
  
• Fixed an issue where civ units would show up in the wrong place on the tech tree
  
• Fixed an issue were bots could sometimes build Wonders that were already built
  
• Fixed issue where Wonders built by multiple players would only show up once on the tech tree
  
• Fixed an issue where Found Capital could be played on a hex with an enemy unit
  
• Fixed issue where wrong cost might be highlighted on Jeweler card
  

• Friday, 16 June 2023 16:00 BST / 08:00 PT
  
• Saturday, 17 June 2023 10:00 BST / 02:00 PT
  
• Monday, 19 June 2023 19:00 BST / 11:00 PT
  
• Tuesday, 20 June 2023 02:00 BST / Monday 18:00 PT
  
• Tuesday, 20 June 2023 15:00 BST / 07:00 PT
  

• New Campaign Cards including: Population Boom, Pioneering Spirit, Assassinate and more!
  
• New Wonders including: Statue of Zeus, Djenne Mosque, Great Library and more!
  
• New Buildings
  
• New Abilities
  
• New Promotions
  
• New Civics
  

Misc

• Added a Redraw Hand option at the start of your turn. You can do this for free until you've spent any of your resources.
  
• Bot Emote improvements
  
• Added Bot Emote "Report" button in case they say something you think we should be made aware of
  
• The number of potential capital positions reduced on maps with Far and Normal player separation
  
• Hills and mountains slightly reduced in map generation
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an error that occurred when joining a Single Player game while in a Multiplayer lobby
  
• Fixed an issue causing some events to get stuck
  
• Fixed an issue where the city food and luxury bars would sometimes show / not show at the wrong times
  
• Fixed an issue where application focus changes could cause game start to fail when loading single player
  
• Fixed an issue where the end turn sound would sometimes go off at the wrong times
  
• Fixed an issue where cards wouldn't be highlighted even though they could be played
  

New Game Mode - Weekly Campaign

Campaign Cards

• Population Boom - Add 3 population to a city
  
• Fuel Forage - Gather 4 firewood from a forest hex in your territory or near it
  
• Mass Conscription - Draw 3 unit cards from your deck or discard pile that cost half price
  
• Inferno - Raze an enemy city that you can see
  
• Pioneering Spirit - Found a city on any available hex you can see
  
• Marketing Sweep - Get all resources on the market
  
• Pathfinder - Grant permanent map vision for a large area around a hex
  
• Mass Mobilization - Mobilize all of your units
  
• Onslaught - Give all of your units charge for this turn
  
• Assassinate - Kill an enemy unit
  
• Glorious Project - Make a Wonder in your hand cost 1 gold
  

New Wonders

• Statue of Zeus - All military units start mobilized
  
• Parthenon - Can view the top 3 cards in your deck
  
• Djenne Mosque - +2 Victory Points for each Holy Site you control
  
• Hagia Sophia - Immediately claims all unclaimed territory within 3 hexes
  
• Himeji Castle - Your first card drawn is always a military unit
  
• Great Library - Grants you any technology that has been researched by over a third of the civilizations in the game
  

New Buildings

• University - Grants 3 science per turn
  
• Market - +5 gold and +3 gold for every citizen working the city hex
  
• Monastery - Produces culture and significantly reduces cost of stealing nearby hexes
  

New Abilities

• Annex - Buy a neighboring hex with gold
  
• Forced March - Damages unit for increased movement this turn and Charge
  
• Scorched Earth - Makes a unit immediately pillage an enemy hex after moving onto it. Lasts 2 turns
  
• Volley - Gives a ranged unit +1 range for 2 turns
  
• Invest - Spend 6 gold to immediately get 3 hammers and 6 additional hammers next turn. Usable once per turn
  
• Mass Produce - This card and the next card played go to the top of your deck
  
• Craftsmanship - Produce 1 culture for every improvement or building within 2 hexes
  

New Promotions

• Holy Warrior - Unit automatically captures a hex it's on and produces 2 culture for the nearest city
  
• General - Adds 33% strength to all units on this hex and neighboring hexes
  

New Technologies

• Education
  
• Currency
  
• Advanced Tactics
  
• Theology
  

New Civics

• Industrialism (Economic)
  
• Secularism (Religion)
  
• State Religion (Religion)
  

Balance Changes

• Wonder points changed to 4 and 6 instead of 5 and 7
  
• Pyramids - Automatically collects special resources from its hex and neighboring hexes
  
• Temple of Diana - Reduces culture required for border growth
  
• Chichen Itza - Removes gold maintenance cost for all cities within 3 hexes
  
• Shield Wall Ability - Moved to Advanced Tactics tech
  
• Courthouse Building - Moved to Theology. Now completely removes gold maintenance cost
  
• Combat Medicine Ability - Replaces Healing Ritual and moved to Secularism civic
  
• Units with the Garrison promotion now exert zone of control
  

Experimental Bot Emotes (work in progress)

• AI players will now comment on events that occur in the game
  
• Currently single-player only
  
• Can be disabled in menu
  

UI and other Changes

• Title screen menus reworked
  
• Tech tree panel reworked
  
• Card manipulation hotkeys - Z draws a card, X destroys the card you're holding, C saves the card you're holding
  
• Can navigate to old challenge leaderboards (currently only works for 1 previous leaderboard)
  
• Capture and pillage events now immediately play for all players in multiplayer
  

New Music Tracks

• 4 new tracks by Landon Walter
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed most of the bugs created by the new content (but surely not all!)
  

Misc

• Can click cards stored for next turn to put them back in your hand
  
• Fortify no longer executes immediately and therefore can be undone
  
• Second Charge effect will no longer activate if it causes the unit to leave an occupied enemy city
  
• Removed gold cost from military unit claim ability
  
• Border growth can no longer steal a hex that contains an enemy unit
  
• Border growth can no longer steal a hex that was manually claimed with a military unit
  
• Multiplayer turn timer increased. Time bonus for drawing cards increased (only if more than 30 seconds remaining in turn)
  
• Formula for number of cards drawn at turn start simplified to 5 + (total population / 5), max of 8
  

UI Changes

• When selecting a hex and then issuing an order without selecting an individual unit first, only one unit will be given the order
  
• Units in the selection window are now sorted in the same order as the unit stacks on the map
  
• Current orders for units in the selection window are shown above the card so they can always be seen
  
• Unit ability icons are greyed out if they can't be used
  
• Clicking the unit tokens for a stack will cycle through the units in that stack
  
• Added blue card glow when a card is picked up and can be played without targeting a specific hex (e.g. Import, Infrastructure, Breakthrough)
  
• Maintenance path line thickness decreased
  
• Find game panel in title screen changed
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issues where incorrect unit strength numbers could be shown when playing events between turns
  
• Fixed an issue where the automatic resource distribution when you end your turn could cause the game to get stuck
  
• Fixed a bug where you could mess up with the title screen buttons with a sequence of actions