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Hey everyone, Here's the first big content update amongst a lot of other fixes, changes and improvements. Apologies for the delay in release. We hope you enjoy the next level in the adventure! We're now in the new major, uh, minor version 0.2 called ants in the pants. If you got suggestions for the next version name, let us know. If it's silly, it might end up to be used :-) Here are some highlights of this release:
New level! Time to develop a burning hatred for sand in Data Desert!
In this level, we will be introducing the Research System.
Burn your enemies to crisp with a Laser Tower!
And talking of enemies, hope you like fast-moving, self-replicating enemies who love to wreak havoc to your base.
Also complete rework of logistics limit UI to give explicit feedback of what the gargo drones are going to do. ------

FAQ

How often do you intend to update the Early Access version? Depends a bit of what kind of update we're cooking up, but we're hoping big updates such as new levels and features would be around 4 to 6 weeks. Does the game work on OSX? Absolutely! And Linux? Oh yes! Consoles? Mobile? Nope. Maybe in the future consoles might be interesting. I found a bug or I got suggestions! We're sure you do, and we're asking you to let us know in our über-elite bug tracker and forum thing at forums What about multiplayer? We'd love to do a co-op multiplayer, but it's not really viable right now. Help us out by getting some wind under our wings and it becomes more realistic :) ------

Patch notes V0.2.0 - Ants in the pants:

NEW Level Data Desert
NEW Research System with technology tree
NEW Level Data Desert music added to soundtrack
NEW Introducing a new science related character
NEW Building: Laser Tower
NEW Building: Solar Collector + panels
NEW Building: ICE Module
NEW Location markers that must be explored with drone even if not in FoW
NEW Extractor now has limited work radius with visuals
NEW Other types of data modules introduced, blueprints and map data
NEW Sunlight damage to Scourge now raycasts, so no damage in shadows (uh oh)
NEW Ingame pause menu now shows elapsed level time
NEW Stockpile limits per resource can now be configured manually to prevent production deadlocks
NEW Release notes splash screen with some fancy info (you're looking at it)
NEW Level Mountains of Memory Beacon building objective now shows visual range
UPDATED Cycle spreading logic change, Hub now allows cycles to pass-through
UPDATED Improved wire connection detection related to blocking buildings
UPDATED Tweaked Survey Station and Heuristics Module add-on distances
UPDATED HUD now shows "RMB to move" tooltip constantly when waypointable entity is selected
UPDATED Building decomission tooltip now lists resource yield
UPDATED Waypoint line now turns red if no path is found
UPDATED Survey Drone shows no path status icon if path-find failed
UPDATED Path-finding related improvements
UPDATED Hub now only stores bits
UPDATED Barrier Controls has a new mesh
UPDATED Adjusted LR Node description to point out the longer range only works between 2 LR Nodes
UPDATED New warning log icon
UPDATED All buildings with visible inventory should now also show the limits (Refinery, Hub etc)
UPDATED Domicile now shows resident count in an infotile
UPDATED Survey Station now decomissionable, and only buildable near Hub
FIXED Bit pillar is now destroyed after being harvested completely
FIXED Quarry stockpile now has status marker when full
FIXED Garage distance problems
FIXED Level Mountains of Memory had bizarre visual garble in one dialogue
FIXED Geothermal Generator particles are no more when visible in FoW or when derelict
FIXED Level Mountains of Memory had some missing Finnish language strings
FIXED Cycles are not visible in FoW anymore
FIXED Breach and Investigate button now properly takes in account if Hexter has the required skill
FIXED Buildings in FoW won't affect Hive aggro and won't be targetted by Scourge
FIXED Clicking a log item with multiple entries now properly cycles through them
FIXED Entity tooltip should no longer get stuck on the screen
FIXED Survey Drone and Squad HUD buttons sometimes were not in sync to what happened in game
FIXED Survey Drone reveal pulse now follows the drone instead of spawned position
FIXED Extractor and Refineries had no visible HP info tile
FIXED Hexters will not try to haul inaccessible resources anymore
FIXED Rare Extractor deadlock
FIXED Blueprint stockpile not correctly getting updated when enqueued or cancelled
FIXED Dropped attachments (hats, armour) not selectable by player anymore
FIXED World map tutorial arrow was going wonky when target behind camera
FIXED Defense towers reload infotile had missing translation
FIXED Survey Drone is now automatically set to "recall" when spawned
FIXED Optional text in objectives now properly localized

View full update ------ Thanks for your support!

[ 2018-03-25 21:25:37 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hexters

Draconus Entertainment Ltd Developer

Draconus Entertainment Ltd Publisher

2017-12-15 Release

Indie Strategy Adventure Simulation Singleplayer EA Tags

Game News Posts: 34

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Positive (22 reviews)

http://hexters.draconus.com

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The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

Hexters Content Linux [219.06 M]

Explore Cyberscape

"Welcome to Cyberscape, User!"

You've already spent a lot of time on your computer. It's time for you to learn what really goes on inside!

In this bizarre, yet somehow familiar environment live small digital life-forms called Hexters. It is your role to assist these little guys and learn about bits, bytes, polygons and hexadecimals (it's all nonsense by the way).

Meet some helpful programs

Interesting and quirky programs will help you to unlock the secrets of the Cyberscape.

Build and expand

Start from a meager Hub - the center of your operations - and plan your expansion. Everything must be connected to your node network for power to flow.

Power is life

Nothing works in this world without power, and there are only so many computational cycles available. Make sure you always have enough of them to power up your buildings, otherwise bear the consequences of inefficiency.

Extract, collect, refine and improve

Find all the resources available to you and build refineries, extractors, polysmiths and other buildings to improve them.

Day & Night cycle

Even inside a computer it can get scary when it's dark. Hexters prefer to stay inside the base perimeter during the night, and move slowly outside with their flashlights while figuratively pooping their pants (which incidentally has no visual nor mechanical representation whatsoever). Hope you generate enough power as you need to recharge your illumination probe for night to end.

Oh, by the way: During the night... There be dragons.

Fight back

There's all kinds of problems inside a computer, like viruses and glitches. And those things wants you GONE, permanently. You will need to come up with some creative ways to stand your ground and survive.

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Any reasonable new Linux distro (Ubuntu 16.04)
Processor: Intel Core i3-4340 / AMD FX-6300Memory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: nVidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB / AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB
Storage: 1 GB available space

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