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Hexarchy

Hexarchy playtest now live!

Hello,

We are excited to announce the latest Hexarchy playtest is now live! So now is your chance to jump into some more action packed games of hexarchy, either solo or with friends! If your friends are busy this week we have you covered as we will now be scheduling some multiplayer sessions dates and times below. We look forward to seeing some of you there!



Join one of our Scheduled multiplayer games



  • 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


If you are interested in future scheduled events join us on Discord for further updates!

Discord

If you have participated in the previous playtests you will be automatically granted access to this playtest - but if you're new to Hexarchy, simply head over to our store page and hit the request access button to gain access. The playtest also includes the game's multiplayer, so bring your friends along too.

If you you missed the last playtest Here is a break down of some of the new features added since the last playtest:


  • 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


As well as bug fixes, balance changes, and general gameplay improvements.

For a detailed breakdown please visit the patch note announcement.

Patch Notes

We hope you enjoy the playtest and please feel free to provide any feedback on the Steam forums or Discord.

Discord

Hexarchy Beta Update 0.624

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


Thanks everyone!

Hexarchy Beta 0.621 and Next Playtest

New Game Mode - Weekly Campaign


Progress through a campaign consisting of 3-5 levels that changes each week. Each level will have 1-3 objectives similar to a daily challenge with generally each level being progressively longer. In between levels you can spend the victory points you've earned to buy powerful one-time use Campaign Cards.

Compete for position on the leaderboard like with the Daily Challenge.


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!)



The next Hexarchy public Playtest will start on Thursday, June 15. Thank you, testers - we couldn't do this without you and your feedback!

Hexarchy Playtest now live! - Until the 15th

Hello,

We are excited to announce that Hexarchy will be featured in Tacticon from May 11th - May 15th. In honour of this awesome event, we will be running a playtest from now through to the end of the Tacticon festival on May 15th!

We hope you enjoy the latest playtest, and all the other amazing games featured alongside Hexarchy in the Tacticon festival!



If you have participated in the previous playtests you will be automatically granted access to this playtest - but if you're new to Hexarchy, simply head over to our store page and hit the request access button to gain access. The playtest also includes the game's multiplayer, so bring your friends along too.

We have added some additional quality of life improvements since the previous update too, that should ensure an even better gameplay experience. We would love to hear your feedback either on the Steam forums or on the official Discord.


We hope you enjoy the playtests and the other great games featured in Tacticon!

Hexarchy Alpha Update 0.597

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


Thanks everyone!

This playtest ends May 1. Thank you, testers!

This playtest concludes May 1. Thank you, testers!

Just like last time, you've given us a lot to work with. Thank you as always for the excellent feedback. There will be more playtests but no announcement on when just yet. Stay tuned!

If you use Discord but aren't on ours yet, we'd love to have you join the conversations: http://tinyurl.com/hexarchy

Hexarchy Binge Night

⚔️ Multiplayer Livestream Event ⚔️



Get ready to prove that our community truly rules Hexarchy! Join us this Saturday night @ 7PM (US Eastern time, EDT) as we queue for multiplayer matches and livestream the epic showdown on Twitch, YouTube, and our Steam page.

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/maintanksoftware

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@maintanksoftware143

😎 Can you outsmart the devs and show off your legendary hexagonal skills? Don't miss this chance to shine! Just load the Playtest and hit Find Game once the event starts and you may end up in our game. See you Saturday night!

Hexarchy Alpha Update 0.592

Misc



  • Ability buttons on the map now disappear while you have another ability selected
  • Added max gold cost to claim territory and max hammer cost to scout gather ability
  • Added warning about multiplayer game settings that could result in map generation failure


Bug Fixes



  • Fixed an issue where the Join button on the "Players are Looking for a Game" dialog would not work
  • Fixed an issue that could cause a multiplayer game to start before all players connected
  • Fixed errors that could occur related to selecting your preferred civ
  • Fixed a graphical artifact that occurred when destroying your civ unit
  • Changes to prevent multiple connection attempts from the same game client
  • Fixed an issue where game client connection errors were immediately disappearing
  • Fixed an issue where a game client connection error would prevent future connection attempts


Thanks everyone!

Hexarchy - new playtest now live!

Get ready to 'Spring' into action - we're running a brand new, limited-time Playtest to celebrate the Yogscast Games Spring Sale. We have been working away adding a whole host of new content since the previous playtest based on your feedback that we are sure you will love.

You can check out the Yogscast Games Spring Sale when it goes live in 1 hours time! here:

https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/yogscastgames/sale/yogscastspringsale




If you have participated in the previous playtests you will be automatically granted access to this playtest - but if you're new to Hexarchy, simply head over to our store page and hit the request access button to gain access. The playtest also includes the game's multiplayer, so bring your friends along too.

Here is a break down of some of the new features added since the last playtest:


  • Civilization Specific Units
  • Civilization Passive Bonuses
  • Tech Tree Changes
  • Balance Changes

As well as bug fixes, balance changes, and general gameplay improvements.

For a detailed breakdown please visit the patch note announcement.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1356810/view/5599705019640215826

We hope you enjoy the playtest and please feel free to provide any feedback on the Steam forums or Discord.

https://discord.gg/rySTNdz

Next Playtest starts Monday, April 17

We're excited to announce the next public Hexarchy playtest will go live in just a few days on Monday, April 17 @ 1600 GMT.

Like last time, Single-player and multiplayer game modes will be enabled.

Now is your chance to test out the latest changes including the most recent update that made major changes to how the 10 civilizations play. As always, we want your feedback and look forward to the community continuing to contribute to how the final game shapes out.

Please fill out the in-game survey when you quit. We read all of these responses. Also, if you want to chat with us and other community members, hop on our Discord: https://discord.gg/rySTNdz

Please report bugs on Discord or using the in-game bug report.

See you in the game!