HEXTERMINATE News

• The calculations behind the ramming mechanic have been revamped. The mass of both ships is now taken into account: a smaller ship ramming the player will now mostly bounce off but if the player get rammed by a larger ship that will hurt a great deal.
  
• The tooltips for missile interceptors and engine disruptors now inform you of how much energy these modules use when activated.
  
• The achievement "'tis but a scratch" now uses the ship's health, rather than the bridge's.
  

• Marauders and Pirates can now roam better, being more capable of finding sectors to target as the various factions expand.

• Regenerative armour has had its regeneration rate reduced (10% per second to 5% per second), as it was vastly superior to the other alternatives.
  

• Fixed a complicated campaign progression bug which would happen if the Pirate Flagship had its base of operations set to a sector which was deep in Iriani space, and it was then conquered by that faction.
  
• Fixed a visual bug where the player's fleet would no longer show as being a flagship fleet after a game was reloaded. This had no mechanical impact.
  

• When in the Shipyard, the module tooltip will now display the damage type dealt by a weapon.

• Fixed a crash if the player entered the Cradle of Isaldren after a shipyard had been built there by another faction.
  
• Fixed a case where the achievement This isn't even my final form wouldn't be granted.
  
• Fixed a specific variant of a bridge where the tooltip and shipyard description were showing different values.
  

Well, that was a ride! Actually shipping the game and seeing people playing HEXTERMINATE has been a rewarding experience. The community which has been taking shape in the forum has been very positive and constructive, crucially contributing to tackling some particularly critical bugs in a timely fashion.



With four patches released over the past week, covering crashes, progression issues and people with enormous monitors (Hi Brian!), the coffee stock has taken a noticeable hit.



Having fixed the most critical bugs over the course of the last week, development will be split in two ways:

[h2]Regular updates[/h2]

As the previous week has seen several updates go out, you can expect continued support covering stability & progression fixes, as well as quality of life tweaks to make the game more enjoyable to play.

On the roadmap for the coming week:

• Further tweaks to ramming, to take into account the mass difference between the ships.
  
• Ensure fleets which are jumping into the current sector do so safely, so they cannot immediately collide with other ships.
  

[h2]Major updates[/h2]

In parallel to the regular updates, development will start on a large update which will bring in new features and more complex modifications. To be clear, these are free updates, not paid DLC.

The still embryonic plan includes:

• A new game mode, Infinite War: while the Campaign takes the player through a structured route, Infinite War will procedurally generate a new galaxy and populate it with the various factions. This should greatly increase the game's replayability.
  
• Additional anomalies: to increase the complexity of the Infinite War galaxy, certain sectors will have modifiers regarding how ships and modules behave. The Campaign already has a black hole where shields do not work particularly well, so this will get developed further.
  
• New faction: a new faction will be added, specific to the Infinite War mode.
  

Thank you for reading and I hope you keep enjoying HEXTERMINATE for a long time to come.

The Dev, Pedro

• The shipyard now displays all titles for all the various subsections (Engines, Armour, Addons, etc).
  
• Modules in the shipyard now have considerably extended tooltips, providing more information about their functionality.
  
  
  
  
• Reinforced bridges no longer boost the individual bridge module's health. Instead, they provide a bonus to ramming damage reduction for yourself and your fleet (30% to 60%, depending on rarity).
  

• The cooldown of Engine Disruptors is now linked with their rarity level. The higher the rarity the lower the cooldown, from 30s at "Common" to 15s at "Legendary".
  
• Bridges which boost movement speed now provide a larger bonus (increasing 10% per rarity level, rather than 5%).
  
• Regenerative armour regeneration has been increased, going from 2% per second to 10% per second.
  
• Ships undergoing ramming maneuvers will now take substantially more damage themselves on collision.
  

• Fixed the "time played" not being reset if the player started a new game after loading a different game. This would cause the new game to potentially be much harder than expected.
  
• The ship stats window in the shipyard will now take into account bridges which increase the fleet's damage.
  
• The perk window was not updating correctly after the player collected additional perk points.
  
• Fixed a typo in Chrysamere's speech.
  
• Fleet Intelligence officer now correctly describes the cooldown of the Particle Accelerator: 20s, rather than 30s.