The Hive News

Hello everyone, today we are releasing update 0.122 for The Hive

Our plan for this update was to fix bugs, add new gui information and new kind of stats to items

• New item properties
  
• Critical strike - Deal double damage
  
• Poison - Deal 40% additional damage over 4 seconds
  
• Maim - Lower targets damage by 30% for 5 seconds
  
• Life Leech - Gain a % of damage done as health
  
• Armor pierce - Ignore X defence
  
• Reflect - Return X damage when hit
  
• Unit selection now has highlight on middle gui
  
• Double clicking unit on middle gui selects it
  
• Construction bar size fixed
  
• New font added to options, loadingscreen and ingame
  
• Medic skill cooldowns are longer
  
• Maps now have more enemy patrols
  
• Enemy patrols show in the minimap
  
• Attack damage removed from levelup
  
• Tab selection fixed
  
• Boss names changed
  
• Resources renamed to Minerals
  
• Middle gui now shows tooltip on Food, mineral, population and dna
  
• Insectoid eggs added to the first spawning pool
  

Best of wishes

~Sauli

Hello everyone, today we are releasing update 0.12 for The Hive

Our plan for this update was to to add new unit, new unit abilities and more items.
We also worked on improving the A.I and pathfinding

New Insectoid Unit - Rhino
27 new items
New Medic ability - Resurrect
New Avatar ability - Chain bolt
New Queen ability - Call worker, spawn unit
New Rhino ability - Taunt
Squads now use improved Pathfinding
Enemy units now have more patrol routes
A.I targeting improved
You can now see enemy stats
Old items have been rebalanced
Buildings now have construction bar on top of them
Buildings now have health bar on top of them
Research progress now shows on top of the building
Deselection bug fixed
Defence max cap set to 70% damage reduction
More Advisor information sounds added
Worker selection stays after structure is built
Worker dig up animation is now faster
Unit now plays whole attack animation when target dies
Unit volume now actually does something
You can now cancel unit and research production by clicking queue
Dodge and block stats have been added
Force attack on buildings now overrides aggro
New unit and ability icons added



Best of wishes

~Sauli

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Hello everyone,

As requested by the community, here are new items we are currently working on. One of the suggestions was that items that Insectoids can carry are more organic instead of normal gear like armor and swords.

We would also like to decrease the current stats of items and make the attributes more interesting. You could have passive and active item effects like cleave, lifesteal, hp regen or "cursed" items that have posivite and negative effects at the same time.



We are also developing new Insectoid unit upgrade from Legionnaire to "Rhino" This unit would act as a armored "tank" of the Insectoid army that has taunt.

Best of wishes
~Sauli

Hello everyone, today we are releasing update 0.11 for The Hive called "Lost City"

Our plan for this update was to make add more puzzle elements and add treasures to make exploration more rewarding.

We have also added new features for testing, for example options menu.

New mission - Lost City
New Enemy unit - Arkanoth
New Insectoid building - Turret
Options menu added
You can now skip cutscenes using space
Audiodatabase added to handle custom audio volumes
Treasure Chests added to all maps, can be opened using Worker
New boss abilities added
Drag selection box collision improved
Pathfinding improvments
Lizardman faction buffed
You can now shift select multiple items from inventory
Inventory has Dissolve trash items button
AI changes target if kited
Sunken City models have better collision
Tech reseach time increased
Item drop % reduced
Legendary item stats reduced
AI defend has range and reset radius
Workers now always gather meat from source
"Next update in" Timer no longer shows negative values
Medic heal range increased
Hive heal increased based on %
Hive heals less when in combat
Hive Queen can now attack Scorpion boss
Retreating units can be commanded
Some voice commands were too loud and have been reduced in volume



Best of wishes

~Sauli