Hello, Hexters is turning one year old in a few weeks and we're releasing our biggest update this far! We got a new level Corruption Caverns for you, including new character, mechanics and game dynamics for your delight. Hope you enjoy it! Here are some highlights of this release: Push deeper into the dark caverns
Mysterious monoliths...
Dabble in digital dark arts, by having Reapers to harvest the soul weed left from the enemies...
...And bring it back to the Crypt where it can be used to compile more Hexters!
Mausoleums allow Reaper quickly move to where the action is
Or perhaps you prefer the light arts, build Chapels and employ Chaplains!
It's time to now get get rid of that annoying Corruption!
If you think you can pass the digusting Corruption Cores
And of course, as usually a lot of internal improvements and fixes to improve the overall playability and performance of the game. ------

Patch notes V0.4.0 - Rubber Ducky:

NEW Level Corruption Caverns
NEW Level Corruption Caverns music added to soundtrack
NEW Building: Crypt
NEW Building: Chapel
NEW Building: Mausoleum
NEW Structure: Monolith
NEW Structure: Mysterious altar
NEW Structure: Corruption core
NEW Prop: Decorative torch
NEW Prop: Mysterious altar mechanism
NEW Log message: Building overload
NEW Log message: Hexter recompiled
NEW Log message: Corruption Core detected
NEW Log message: New torch revealed
NEW Log message: Vault door opened
NEW Introducing a powerful new mysterious character
NEW Ditty system when Hexter acquires a special role
NEW Reaper ditties
NEW Chaplain ditties
NEW Gameplay dynamics with actively spreading corruption and cleansing
NEW Leash fx when Hexters are hauling a data module (artifact, blueprint, mapdata etc)
NEW Info panel action buttons can now display alerts (used in Research Lab to denote misprogrammed recipe)
NEW Each building or construction site now displays all hauls coming in
NEW Finally added random idle animation to advisor character
NEW Soul weed functionality
NEW Spreading corruption with corruption core is present
NEW LMB on worker slot now selects the worker
NEW World boundaries are now rendered as never ending terrain instead of just being cut off
NEW Domicile "rest until full HP" functionality
NEW Unlit, revealed torches now have an icon in strategic map
NEW Added sfx to certain actions and events
NEW Death sfx for hexters
FIXED Resources would sometimes get out of world bounds and mess hauling AI
FIXED Last vault door in Caves of CMOS could not be opened and the required relic amount is decreased
FIXED Research overlay getting stuck when leaving build mode on research buildings
FIXED Save failed when stockpile was under construction
FIXED Relics in museum had status icons
FIXED Hexters are no longer afraid of dead enemies
FIXED Cyberscapeologist no longer targets hives
FIXED In some rare conditions enemies could pass closed vault doors
FIXED Perimeter did not take in account steep walls
FIXED Drones had some pathing problems in certain conditions
FIXED Enemy detected log message clicking was disabled
FIXED HUD was not properly always updated when buildings were completed
FIXED Game over restart button asked for confirmation
FIXED Vault doors could be selected from the bounding box instead of the actual mesh
FIXED HUD research facility button tooltip string was missing
FIXED Squad button was missing hotkey string
FIXED Extract task for bit pillars had wonky pathfinding issues in certain rare conditions
FIXED Enemy sometimes chose unreachable targets
FIXED Laser generated new damage FX every frame if game was paused
FIXED Flashlight shadows were unnecessarily way too accurate
FIXED Having multiple Bunkers made squad HUD button to work a bit wrong
FIXED Some corruption related data was not serialized properly
FIXED Cycles did not vanish if connection was severed
FIXED Overloading barrier controls caused the node connection to persist
UPDATED Tweaks to undesirable job handling
UPDATED Lots of jobs and tasks now properly show the decal lines
UPDATED Drastically toned down the repository character random idle animation
UPDATED Soul weed visual changes
UPDATED Removed deprecated designated hauler dialogue from Bios Beach level
UPDATED Smoothed W.I.S.P. movement
UPDATED Lamp intensity changes
UPDATED Node changes in world map
UPDATED Improved Research lab tool tips
UPDATED Improved research window
UPDATED Improved error messaging if load game fails
UPDATED Game will now trigger game over if all hexters are dead and there are no possibility to compile more
UPDATED Research complete sfx volume increased, was a bit too easy to miss it
UPDATED Enemy detected now triggers only after the first enemy is seen
UPDATED Doubled flee task duration, should help hexters to run away from enemies better
UPDATED Implemented max cap for level enemy spawning for more control in late game
UPDATED Added User Statue to main menu background scene

View developer notes at Draconus forums ------

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. However since our team is small, we cannot guarantee this. What we can promise is to do our best. Does the game work on OSX? Absolutely! And Linux? Oh yes! Consoles? Mobile? Nope. Maybe in the future consoles might be interesting but we need some serious sales figures before this is realistic. I found a bug or I got suggestions! We're sure you do, and we're asking you to let us know either here on steam forums or Draconus 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 :) ------ Thanks for your support!

[ 2018-12-03 16:09:32 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: 36

🎹🖱️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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