Hexarchy News

[h2]Updated unit models[/h2]

• What they lack in detail they make up for in stylistic consistency with the terrain
  

[h2]Player elimination[/h2]

• Can now eliminate enemy players from the game by capturing or razing all their cities
  
• Can win the game by eliminating all enemy players
  
• Added new daily challenge objectives for eliminating enemies
  

[h2]UI Updates[/h2]

• When units or cities require additional gold for maintenance a red path will blink showing the maintenance path
  
• Added floating text when promotions or other buffs are applied to units
  
• "We love you" bonuses on a city now show as hearts instead of stars and don't show on enemy cities
  

[h2]Misc[/h2]

• Bot nerfed in tutorial
  
• Improved bot order generation performance
  
• Added new music tracks
  
• Several bug fixes
  

Bug Fixes and Minor Improvements

• Now works correctly on M1 Macs
  
• Fixed a problem where it would let you play Infrastructure when you couldn't
  
• Can now select a target hex near the bottom of a screen when playing a card
  
• Should no longer be easy to accidentally play cards when trying to destroy them
  
• Improved analytics and error collection
  
• Many other minor fixes
  

Known Bugs

• Cannot start a manually created multiplayer game. Can still use the "Find Game" option to use matchmaking
  

[h2]New Scoring System[/h2]

• Points now work like they do in games like Settlers of Catan
  
• You earn points for hexes, population, units, wonders, and holy sites
  
• The game ends when a player reaches 100 points
  
• If you lose hexes, cities, etc, you lose points
  
• This system makes the end of games more exciting since dramatic changes in score can happen in a single turn and there may be paths to victory even if you got a slow start
  

[h2]New Daily Challenges[/h2]

• Daily challenges now include 1-3 random objectives
  
• Try to complete the objectives in the shortest number of turns possible
  
• Like before, results are announced on Discord and the high score gets the Daily Champion role!
  
• If two players have the same turn count, the player with the most points at end has the high score
  

[h2]Tutorial Improvements[/h2]

• Added tutorial objectives
  
• Improved tip display
  
• Reorganized tips
  
• Several tutorial fixes
  

Hexarchy is a fast-paced strategy game. It takes the consequential decisions of a multi-hour 4x game and packs them into an action-packed hour long game.