Hex of Steel News

Hello-Hello fellow players, how have you been ?
For my part, hard at work ! As always :)

As you can see, not only have I started working on a second game (For those of you who are not aware of this, I talked about it here), but I keep working actively on HoS ! Having a lot of fun myself playing it a little every day outside of "work" :p

Anyway, this is not the topic of this announcement.
A friend of mine, Thomas, developper of Cauldrons of War - Stalingrad amongst others contacted me and asked : Hey, we should make a bundle with our games !
I never actually thought about this possibility but the idea was great, so I agreed ! Then we thought about teaming up with other people, talented people (Hi Carlo from Until the Last Plane) and Philippe, who made SGS Afrika Korps.
We decided to offer 15% off all of our games. If you guys planned to get those games, well now is the time !

This bundle will be active for some time, probably until the next steam sales.

I guess that's all for me guys, I wish you tons of fun playing those games, and see you on the battlefield ;D

[h3]Added[/h3]

• Many units for Turkey.
  
• M-22 Locust.
  
• Vickers Mk. VI B.
  

[h3]Changes[/h3]

• Neutral while not at war gain 1/10th of their income (peaceful economy).
  
• Pressing escape will now close all tooltips.
  
• You can now zoom in the minimap using the scrolling wheel and drag the content around (parent).
  

[h3]Fixes[/h3]

• Attacking an enemy unit while being neutral was possible. Now you will have to join or create a faction to attack an enemy unit when being neutral.
  
• Pressing ‘escape’ didn’t close the stats panel in research.
  
• Pressing ‘escape’ didn’t close the reserve / deploy panel.
  

I have a new laptop and this update was generated with it. I don’t know how it is going to perform so, if there is any problem like game crash or game not launching let me know so that I revert to the previous version. On Mac everything seemed fine but I cannot test it on Linux or Windows.
Thanks !

[h3]Added[/h3]

• Continue previous save button in the main menu.
  
• More info in the core units panel/list.
  
• Disband unit keyboard shortcut ‘delete’. Can be changed to whatever in the settings.
  

[h3]Changes[/h3]

• XP needed to reach next rank of commander goes up a little bit with every next rank. Currently it is a fixed 20 XP per rank, now first to second rank will be 20, second to third might be like 23 and so on.
  
• Core units panel will now stop scaling right before it reaches the bottom of the screen.
  
• Core units in the core units panel will be ordered by experience and price.
  
• Changed the organization of the units in the order of battle, they will now be organized by price then by name. So the best units will be on top, and they will be ordered by name if the option in the settings is turned ON, otherwise by experience.
  
• Matilda IV, Me Bf 109 D, Centurion Mk. I graphics.
  

[h3]Fixes[/h3]

• Core units number wasn’t refreshed when you were deleting core units through the OOB.
  

[h3]Added[/h3]

• Live chat in the multiplayer menu to talk to other players. For now I'm using a free version of the plugin so there's only 20 slots available, so like 20 people connected at the same time. You will be disconnected automatically from the chat as soon as you leave the multiplayer menu.
  
• Recon icon on units on the board.
  
• How many units you can deploy directly on the UI next to the deploy button.
  
• Showing core units in the basket.
  
• You will now be able to click on the core units number as it is now a button, it will show a drop down menu with a list of your core units and you will be able to click on them to select them.
  

[h3]Changes[/h3]

• Changed all the BFs-110 back to fighter category.
  
• Changed the Me 210 and 410 as well as all the mosquitoes back to the fighter category.
  
• Messerschmitt BF-110 D and F graphics.
  
• Panzer II and I Ausf. A graphics.
  
• Updated stats of several planes and tanks.
  
• Updated manual.
  
• Reduced manual’s weight by 10MB.
  

[h3]Fixes[/h3]

• Pressing 'escape' closed the deploy panel but also brought the menu panel.
  
• Bug in the store where when buying core units and you were getting over the limit they would get added but not counted as core units.
  
• Submarines under water lost their half opacity and you couldn’t tell if they were underwater or not.
  

I already started prototyping the multiplayer for my next game ! It won't be PBEM but real time.
I am also streaming when I work on discord, if you are interested, join me here ! We are already 70 :D

[h3]Changes[/h3]

• Obice da 210 22 graphics.
  
• Cannone da 149 modello 35 graphics.
  

[h3]Fixes[/h3]

• M5 3-inches had 9 MPs.
  
• Japanese railway gun had no graphics.
  
• Croatia’s territory wasn’t accurately placed in the following scenarios : Europe 1941, Europe 1943, Eastern front 1941, Eastern front 1943, Eastern front 1944.
  
• Reinforcement tiles were missing / need in the following scenarios : Operation Grapeshot, Battle of Montecassino as well as I added a factory near Palermo for Operation Husky / Defense of Sicily.