The Hive News

Hello everyone, today we are releasing update 0.15 for The Hive

Our plan for this update was to increase performance and continue to integrate The Hive to new Unity 5 engine.

We also worked hard to fix bugs caused by change of engine, for example how new physics work.

We also wanted to talk about upcoming features we have planned for The Hive and community feedback.



Our plan has been to introduce Difficulty modes for those that have already completed The Hive and seek more challenge.

Survival Difficulty that let's you keep all the units you have from one level to next and in the same time making the game world more dangerous.

Each difficulty would have it's own save file that you choose from mainmenu

• Normal difficulty (the current one)
  
• Survival (Units, resources, dna, items and everything carry over to next mission, monsters are much harder and you resources are more scarce)
  
• Hard difficulty (Unlocked after completing campaign on normal, increases monster difficulty)
  
• Insanity difficulty (Unlocked after completing campaign on Hard, more monsters, more difficult, more boss abilities, damage greatly increased)
  

• 40 Unique Achievements total
  
• Some Achievements are tied to boss battles, avoid X ability etc
  
• Style is based on pixelart
  
• Simple, clean, easy to read the picture and what it represents
  
• We would like to design interesting achievements based on player feedback and suggestions
  

• Physics performance increased
  
• More light optimizing, increased ammount of light spots
  
• Game music and sound effects now always play on priority 1 (stops stuttering)
  
• Physics collision improved, units now only hit correct layers
  
• Shadow casters improved on all levels
  
• Shaders updated for several objects and creatures
  
• Boss ability timers and values tuned
  
• Item drag bug fixed
  
• Several colliders updated
  
• Debug spam greatly reduced (developer console)
  
• Unit "mass" updated for better collision
  
• map02 treasury jewel now glows red so it's easier to spot
  
• Smoke now uses right color
  
• Building chimneys now have right particle effect
  
• Wasp shader fixed
  
• "Shadow" unit shaders fixed
  
• "Bomb" guy now properly shows the target it's fixated on
  
• Ara'desh and ???? ability colliders now work again
  
• Map10 developer window is now hidden
  
• Lightray flickering fixed
  
  
  

Best of wishes

~Sauli

Hello everyone, today we are releasing update 0.14 for The Hive

Our plan for this update was to upgrade whole project from Unity 4 to Unity 5.3.4p2 version,
We also wanted to focus on fixing known bugs and improve certain boss fights.

Whole project upgraded to use Unity 5 engine
Shadows are now enabled on all levels on default
95% of all shaders now use new one
Lights on every level optimized and changed
Camera movement speed increased 1 -> 1.5
Units no longer get stuck underground
Better pathfinding
More abilities added to ????
More special monsters added
Queen attack now has a slightly larger range and quicker attack speed
Second mission ambush units are now stronger
Powerfield and Necromancer skills fixed
"Under attack" audio no longer plays during cutscene
Egg laying mechanism fixed
Music volume level is now same if another song starts
"Shadow" units have more hp
Hive and barracks both increase population cap
Worker den increases worker build cap by 2
Attackmove bug fixed
Right clicking on unit no longer deselects its target circle
You can no longer shift select multiple enemy units
Retreat button now has small cooldown to prevent spamming it
Shader issues related to transfer fixed



Best of wishes

~Sauli

Hello everyone, today we are releasing update 0.13 for The Hive called "Drowned God"

Our plan for this update was to more playable content, puzzles, music, npcs, balance the game and fix existing bugs (no pun intended)

• New mission - Drowned God
  
• New Enemy units - ????
  
• Two new music tracks added
  
• New boss abilities added
  
• New Portraits added
  
• New Puzzles added
  
• Player Buildings now regenerate HP
  
• Chests always drop atleast one item
  
• Item pickup only works with right click while unit is selected
  
• Worker Den Attack and defence upgrades cap at lvl3
  
• Dead turtles now show remaining food value
  
• Bosses now do fixed ammount of damage on player buildings
  
• Legionnaires now have out of combat passive regen
  
• Hunters now have passive armor pierce ability
  
• Turret attack speed increased, damage lowered
  
• Hunter attack speed increased, damage lowered
  
• Only Squad Leader gets upgrade buffs
  
• Bug fixed where enemy units would gain same damage and defence upgrades player researches
  
• Pathfinding no longer warps units
  
• Ancient attack damage in first mission 15 -> 10, armor reduced by one
  
• Retreat speed increased
  

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Best of wishes

~Sauli

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