Hexarchy News

[h3]Ranged Attacks[/h3]

• Archers, Crossbowmen, Catapults, and Cannons can now attack from a distance
  

[h3]Immediate Single Player Moves and Attacks[/h3]

• In single player, move and attack orders will now execute immediately
  

[h3]New Content[/h3]

• Vanguard Promotion - permanent charge
  
• Shield Wall Ability - immune to ranged attacks this turn
  
• Bread and Circuses Ability (replaces Legacy) - fills city happiness to half and gives food
  

[h3]New Art[/h3]

• Lots of card art has been updated
  
• New music tracks
  

[h3]New Tutorial[/h3]

• Now split into 3 levels
  
• Introduces concepts at a slower rate
  
• Limited tech tree
  

[h3]UI Changes[/h3]

• Can now drag cards to play them
  
• Right click now issues Move and Attack orders
  
• Tech tree panel has been redone - now shows which cards are in your deck, destroyed, and which wonders have been built
  
• Hold shift or alt while mouse wheel scrolling the tech tree to scroll horizontally
  
• Buttons that now let you toggle between automatically distributing and selling excess resources when your turn ends
  
• Holding ctrl while clicking a resource stack picks up the entire stack
  
• Hexes you can reach in one turn are highlighted when selecting a unit
  
• Popup in bottom right shows what resources you're spending to play a card
  
• Hammer and resource counts change based on the cost of the card you're playing
  
• When researching a tech, cards that you'd be able to play this turn are highlighted
  
• Cards in your hand are only highlighted if there is a valid target for them
  
• Units that need orders have their icons highlighted on the map
  
• Various other new UI cues
  

[h3]Other Changes[/h3]

• Mine, Pasture, Fishing Hut now gather resources immediately when built
  
• Added Firewood card to base deck card - only for burning
  
• Building a lumbermill immediately adds one Firewood to your hand
  
• Charge can now trigger twice in the same turn
  
• Units only have zone of control when fortified
  
• Slavery disabled
  
• Unit line of sight changes
  
• Many bug fixes
  

Thanks everyone!

We're thrilled to have Hexarchy included in #TurnBasedFest on Steam!

For a limited time, we've enabled multiplayer and daily challenges in the demo - now's your chance to check it out!

Also, don't forget to check out other great turn-based games that are participating in the festival: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43077188/sale/TurnBasedFest

When playing single player the game server no longer runs in a separate process. This should resolve some issues players were encountering.

Let us know if you encounter any issues. Thanks everyone!

[h3]Visual Overhaul[/h3]

• All new terrain art
  
• New terrain biomes (cosmetic only for now)
  
• New fog of war graphics
  
• New road graphics
  
• New building arrangements to prevent clipping
  
• Yield and resource overlay arrangement changes
  
• New civilization colors
  

[h3]Misc[/h3]

• Notification when building an improvement on a hex that successfully collects a resource
  
• Menu option for adjusting the size of resource overlay icons
  
• UI sizing tweaks
  

Thanks everyone!

[h2]New Abilities and Mechanics[/h2]

[h3]Charge! Ability[/h3]

• Makes a unit attack a neighboring hex after moving this turn
  
• Costs 3 hammers, 3 gold OR 1 horse
  
• Researched from Military Tactics
  

[h3]Maneuvers Ability[/h3]

• Allows a unit to ignore zone of control for this turn
  
• Costs 3 hammers, 3 gold OR 1 horse
  
• Researched from Military Tactics
  

[h3]Flank Attacks[/h3]

• Attacking the same hex from 2 directions causes attacks from the second direction to unleash massive double damage
  

[h2]UI Improvements[/h2]

• Increased size and clarity of yield and resource icons
  
• Added an icon for each unit that shows up on the map
  
• Added mouse wheel zoom
  
• Terrain resources will now show on discovered but currently fogged hexes
  
• Improved the selected hex panel
  
• New graphics for the card frames
  
• New card backs
  
• Card cost icon size increased
  
• Gold collection and payment is no longer animated when playing events between turns
  
• Added a hex details popup that appears when you mouseover a hex
  
• Slightly increased the amount a card must be moved up before being played to reduce accidental plays
  
• Added a debug panel that can be toggled in the menu - shows game timers and more
  

[h2]Graphics Improvements[/h2]

• Animals are smaller and there are multiple ones per hex
  
• New tree graphics
  
• Lighting improvements
  
• Units are smaller
  
• Most improvements are smaller
  

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Fixed an error related to the discard pile
  
• Fixes for the ability icons that appear on top of hexes
  
• Fixed unit sleeping Zs showing on top of UI panels
  
• Fixed yield and resource icons showing on top of UI panels
  
• Fixed an issue where random things would be highlighted when moving a worker
  
• Removed random partial text that was in the bottom left of the screen
  
• Loud duplicate sounds no longer play when giving attack and move orders to a unit stack
  

[h2]Misc[/h2]

• Tips are now disabled by default when not doing the tutorial