Role of Hex

Released: Feb 20, 2023
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15 Mar 2025Developer post
Role of Hex update 1.4.1
Version 1.4.1 - 15/03/2024 Verde's Notes Hey people, it has been a while! I have been playing this game for a while now and I've saw some issues, so I got to fixing them. For this update specifically, I've set a rule for myself: "No new content, thats for 1.5!". Well, I've bent t
Version 1.4.1 - 15/03/2024
Verde's Notes
Hey people, it has been a while! I have been playing this game for a while now and I've saw some issues, so I got to fixing them. For this update specifically, I've set a rule for myself: "No new content, thats for 1.5!". Well, I've bent that rule as much as I could to introduce some things that I really thought the game was needing. Have fun!
Big Changes

Experience System reworked

Level is no longer capped at ~1600 due to floating point arithmetic
Experience multipliers now apply to everything, including now passive experience and experience from supply drop.
Several upgrades related to experience were modified, see more in balance changes.
Lair Sealing

It is now possible to seal boss lairs, so that they won't spawn bosses anymore.
When sealing the lair, several buildings will be built around the lair, if they're destroyed the seal will be broken.
It takes 15 seconds to seal the lair for the first time, a time which increases with every breach
You can always break the seal with a Nuke or Armageddon strike.
Additions

Added a small surprise for those who value drift a lot
Added an equipment that lets you ban upgrades
Reworks

Machine Learning

Now applies to all sources of damage, including active abilities
Now a yellow upgrade
Scaling increased from 0.25% to 1%
Death Mark

Now has a base damage and a percentage from current HP damage
No longer has diminishing damage, instead, has a fixed duration
No longer stacks
Now affects bosses
Death Spark

Greatly simplified
Now when a kill happens, it recharges barreirs in radius
Pandora's Box

All existing attack patterns rewritten
Now has 11 attack patterns
Starts with 3 attack patterns unlocked, unlocks more powerful ones after getting more of the upgrade
Balance Changes

Deep analysis scaling heavily reduced
Supply drop experience is always a certain percentage of your current level
Productivity Modules now slightly increases how much EXP is needed to level up
Heavily increased how many enemies are needed for extermination missions
Money acquired by forfeiting upgrades is no longer tied directly to the exp needed to level up
Number of rerolls granted by reroll equipment reduced. Reroll charges slowly replenish based on your level.
Greatly reduced how many lava balls are needed to drain lava oceans
Greatly reduced wyvern's HP and damage
Increased overall enemy level, their HP and damage was downscalled to remain the same
Added caps to the following upgrades, since they were known for creating issues at higher numbers:

Extended territory
Bullet Buffer
Overclock
Armageddon
Special Upgrade "Slow but Steady" now only applies attack speed multiplier as damage to buildings, level based damage multiplier is still aplied to every source

Reduced how much bigger explosived and primed shot increases your AoEs
QoL Changes

In-world upgrade notifications now have a cooldown
In-world upgrade notifications now don't show up if they aren't within view
Value Drift and Nuke animations are no longer tied to game time, this should make it still while the game is paused and/or menus are open
Value Drift animations are shorter, to compensate for the fact that the speed menu doesn't work on them anymore
Value Drift animations get 20% shorter with every value drift
Hex shards now still render in the map view
Hex shards grow with zoom out so that they are easier to spot
Boss lair will no longer attempt to spawn a boss if a boss is alive or a hex shard is on the map
It is no longer possible to build within a boss lair
Boss lair fissures are now always visible through the ocean, regardless of view mode
Special upgrade selections such as ability replacement and clone factories will now have a slightly different background
When attempting to build, there is now a message on failure containing details of why it failed
Fixes

Fixed Earthquake tower's attack being invisible
Fixed Earthquake tower's visual being weird when the player has bullet buffer
Fixed Frenzy's damage increase being 10 times stronger than the tooltip suggested
Fixed hex shard on top of nuclear crater not being clickable
Fixed selected active ability going on cooldown when another active ability gets autocasted
Fixed some active abilities being autocast on mouse position when there are no enemies around
Fixed multitile buildings not properly updating buildings around them
Fixed multitile buildings destroying themselves on update
Fixed multitile buildings not updating their visuals fluidly
Fixed failing to build halting all your building capabilities for 2 seconds
Fixed prodmod and charged trigger being always available despite them having clear unlock conditions
Fix bug where regions of yunuus would not render properly
Optimizations

HEAVILY improved unusual lubricant for active abilities with big radius.
Changed the code for checking AoE, should speed up drastically every AoE bigger than 1 tile
Reduced the drawing time of map objects in regular view
Added several visual-only objects to the particle cap
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08 Mar 2024Developer post
Role of Hex - Lightning Round Update
Version 1.4.0 - 08/03/2024 - Lightning Round Additions Time Controls Allows speeding up the game by 2x, 3x or 4x. Disabled when too many structures are damaged or when a lag report is generated Challenges 7 Challenges under the new Simulations Mission tab. Each challenge unlocks
Version 1.4.0 - 08/03/2024 - Lightning Round
Additions

Time Controls

Allows speeding up the game by 2x, 3x or 4x.
Disabled when too many structures are damaged or when a lag report is generated
Challenges

7 Challenges under the new Simulations Mission tab.
Each challenge unlocks an upgrade with their theme once they are completed.
Build Saving

You can now save your auto upgrade priorities with ctrl+number, then load it by pressing that number
Upgrades
Purple Upgrades:
Static: Projectiles create lightning on impact. 7 Challenge-related upgrades
Specializations
2 new specs, one for minefield deployer and one for tesla tower
Equipment

Tesla Tower: Allows you to build tesla towers and gives access to their specialization
Random Blueprint: Transforms itself into a random tower blueprint when a mission starts
New Enemies

Ice Ball

Has a ranged attack
Slows
Attacks multiple buildings at once
Wyvern

Attacks by sweeping over your buildings
Resource Blobs

Experience and Resources now spawn as small blobs that are absorbed by buildings
Run Rebooting

The game will now try to reboot your run at your last value drift if something crashes it.
Buff and Debuff system for buildings

Includes new buffs and debuffs such as "Slowness", "Shielding" and "Multishot"
Balance Changes

New Tower unlocks now happen every 15 difficulty instead of 20
Building near lava now aggro it after 2-4 seconds
Ocean is no longer a suitable biome for spawning
Tower Changes

Behemoth

Damage decreased from 20 to 15
Attack speed reduced from 0.16 to 0.1
Accuracy reduced from 1 to 0.33
Machine Gun

Damage increased from 0.5 to 1
Base attack speed increased from 1.5 to 2
Attack speed bonus from firing increased from up to 3x to 5x
Now properly lose their attack speed bonus from firing when idle
Earthquake Generator

Shooting cooldown reduced from 10 seconds to 5 seconds
Range increased from 0.5 to 0.75
Sniper

Range increased from 1.6 to 2
High-Density Spheres

Doubled knockback chance
Upgrade Changes

Machine Learning

Scaling reduced from 1% to 0.25%
Scales based on kills from every building of the same type
Keeps values on value drifts
Combined towers count as "Structure" building type
Frenzy

Duration increased from 2s to 5s
Smite

Damage increased from 1% to 5%
Radius heavily reduced
Now bounces 10 times per second instead of instantly and can bounce outside the initial radius, this applies to every source of lightning damage within the game
Frenzy Surge

Cooldown increased from 30s to 60s
Is now global
Now has an animation
Scan

Now has an animation
Cryogenic Technology

Longer chance based
Can now apply multiple stacks per hit and even applies non-integer number of stacks
Now affects bosses, although it doesn't slow them.
Frostbite

Now scales in hits per second instead of dps only
Can hit on uneven tick intervals and even multiple times per tick
Can still trigger every on-hit effect
Growth

Can happen on uneven tick intervals and even multiple times per tick
Specs
Many of these now scale with player-level
Primed Shot

Chance is now fixed at 25%
Damage and radius increase changed from 100% to level*4
Ignite

Damage changed from 40% to level%
Slow But Steady

Damage increase changed from 100% to level
Barrage

Attack speed increase changed from 100% to level
WeakSpot Detector

Damage increase changed from 400% to level*20%
Synthetic Aperture

You now keep the benefits of telescopes when you value drift
Unusual Lubricant

Can no longer target enemies in the fog of war
Enemy Changes

Shark

No longer swims through land
Ice Shards

No longer spawn within a radius of 6 blocks of the spawning position
No longer show up on the map view
Shoots shards on destruction that slow towers for 15 seconds
Fire Bat

Fire now ticks twice per second instead of just once, total damage is unchanged
Sulfuric Geyser

Can now be killed
Snowballs

Drastically reduced growth cap
When hitting the growth cap, it will break into 2 smaller snowballs, with growth reset

General Changes

Changed the behavior of replacing your active skill to something more intuitive
Made it so that seeing the enemy is enough to unlock its database entry
Colonies now show their checking area when hovered with alt
The relationship between hotkeys and equipment slots is now consistent
Mission selection drop list now also shows upgrades available conditionally
Made some changes to the lag compensation so that the game feels more responsive at lower tps
Visual Changes

Made earth fissures emerging from the boss lair denser and with more branches
Menu should be more widescreen friendly with virtual black bars
Added icons for all Kokatune biomes
When starting a mission or on value drift, the name of the planet is now shown
Rewritten lag reports so that they are more readable
Action icons when selecting a building are now a bit smaller than one tile, so that you can select the adjacent tile without clicking on it
Added indicators to when upgrades trigger, both in the map and on the left side of the UI
Fixes

Fixed "Invalid key to next" error screen
Fixed gathering missions not showing on Kokatune
Fixed a crash with some flamethrower merges
Potential drops are now correctly positioned on the mission screen
Fixed nuke auto-casting at mouse position when there are no enemies
Notification camera movement should be a lot more reliable now
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05 Jan 2024Developer post
Role of Hex update 1.3.1
Hey people, now that the winter sale has cooled down a bit and I got I break to work on late-game stuff again, here is a balance patch specifically focused on the late game (>50% equipment completion) There is a big focus here on allowing the player to make multiple value drif
Hey people, now that the winter sale has cooled down a bit and I got I break to work on late-game stuff again, here is a balance patch specifically focused on the late game (>50% equipment completion)
There is a big focus here on allowing the player to make multiple value drifts, as well as making it possible to transition to a more defensive-oriented strategy as enemies become stronger in later drifts
The next big update will probably be focused on general content like new upgrades, new equipment, and more enemies. With few changes to the gameplay loop itself other than allowing several different builds to flourish. Keep an eye on our discord for more information about these, since I will probably be posting several details about the development process there
Anyway, here are the patch notes:
Removals

Temporarily removed static purple upgrade, will be reworked and reintroduced, it was a significant cause of lag in its current iteration
Balance Changes

Increased range gains from telescopes
Greatly reduced value drift increase on difficulty
Increased drop chances for yellow and purple equipment
Reduced minimum boss lair dormant time to 2.5 minutes
Reduced average distance of boss lair to starting position, this distance now reduces for every value drift
Reduced how much projectile speed affected things that aren't regular projectiles, such as missiles and earthquakes
Boss Lairs can no longer spawn on the other side of a regular ocean
The game now spawns a hex shard if it can't place a boss lair in any suitable location
Sulfuric bursts from both yellow balls and sulfuric geysers now deal massively reduced damage to shielded buildings
You can now toggle auto-cast on specific active skills rather than only turning off auto-cast as a whole
Hex shard now reveals a small area around it when it spawns
Visual Changes

Bosses now are shown normally on the map view
Earth fissures caused by King Lurker and earthquake towers had their z-index fixed
Camera movement speed when notification is clicked significantly increased
If you move your camera while the camera is being dragged by a notification, the drag ends
Framework Changes

Updated Love2d from 11.3 to 11.5
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19 Dec 2023Developer post
Hotfix 1.3.0e
Hello everyone, Verde here. First of all, I would like to thank you for the massive wave of feedback I'm getting from the last update. I'm here to make myself a little bit more transparent about what issues I'm working on right now, what is being fixed, and what has been fixed. M
Hello everyone, Verde here.
First of all, I would like to thank you for the massive wave of feedback I'm getting from the last update.
I'm here to make myself a little bit more transparent about what issues I'm working on right now, what is being fixed, and what has been fixed.
My current focus for the next hotfixes is the following:

Fixing the overwhelming strength(not number) of enemies that come around 5-minute marks: 5:00; 10:00; and 15:00.. there currently is a cascading effect when you cannot kill the first ones as soon as possible, making the next ones even stronger.
Making time spent on a run also count towards drops. Currently, drops are calculated only around mission progress, meaning that if you make 0 progress in a 30-minute run, you get no rewards, and that needs to be changed.
Make sure that the game communicates how you are expected to do certain things, like farming a great number of drops or killing certain enemies that have no obvious spawning conditions
Also, I've introduced a loading screen in the hotfix 1.3.0e so that some computers, especially higher-end ones, wouldn't get race conditions when trying to launch the game, resulting in a white screen. I don't have data on whether that fixed the issue for everyone, if anyone is having any issue with opening the game please tell me ASAP so I can fix it for you and for everyone else who is also experiencing the same issue as you.
Also, don't be afraid of commenting on some issue that you are having in either the Steam community or our discord server, be it balance, visuals, or crashes. I am a single human being and I can't find all issues around the game so your support is of immense value both for me and for the game.
Anyway, back to work, see you later with 1.3.0f
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16 Dec 2023Developer post
Role of Hex - Value Drift Update
Role of Hex Version 1.3 Additions Tech Tree A new tech tree replaces the equipment screen. Now every equipment is active at all times, except for blueprints, for which you can still only select 3 Equipment now drops during a mission instead of at the end of it, so that if you los
Role of Hex Version 1.3
Additions

Tech Tree
A new tech tree replaces the equipment screen. Now every equipment is active at all times, except for blueprints, for which you can still only select 3 Equipment now drops during a mission instead of at the end of it, so that if you lose or close the game during a mission, you still get some drops Most equipment are now more limited in terms of where you can find them Increased max levels of every equipment from 5/10/15 to 6/12/18
Boss System Overhaul
Bosses no longer spawn naturally Instead, they now live in their lair, it is your task to find them They now also drop Hex Shards, which can be used to obtain unmeasurable power
Tower Merging
Once certain conditions are met, you can merge 7 of your offensive towers into a big one, inheriting the properties of the two that most repeat within the group. There are 36 combinations and they are all unique!
New Equipment
Build speed, turn speed, AoE increase, cooldown reduction, projectile speed and building price reduction
3 New Upgrades
Cheaper Structures
Reduces prices
Deeper Analysis
Increases experience gains
Production line
Gives resources every second
New Towers
Minefield deployer
Places mines around that explode on contact Deployment speed scales with build speed
In game patch notes
You can find this list on the game itself too!
Balance Changes

Frenzy Surge no longer has its duration added to its cooldown
Tombstone now creates deactivated buildings instead of fully active ones
Reduced some values on some economic equipment
Changed enemy spawn cycles to be a tad bit more aggressive
Bosses will no longer spawn naturally, requiring interaction with the new "Boss Lair" structure that spawns on the map
Reduced base stats for cannons and economy due to new equipment system
Reduced the amount of salvageable ruins in a 30-hex radius around the spawning area
Sulfuric Geysers should no longer spawn within a 15-hex radius of the spawning area
Enemies now despawn if they are too far away from your base
Upgrades and equipment that increase upgrade options now only affect maximum options
Heavily increased supply drop's resource gain
General Changes

Notifications now move your camera smoothly when clicked instead of teleporting you there
Fixes

Fixed bullet buffer generating ghost shots
Fixed data centers not working under certain conditions
Fixed several holes in King Lurker's hug attack hitbox
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14 Oct 2023Developer post
Cluck-a-thon
We're excited to announce the release of our new game, Cluck-a-thon, a merging game where you build a coop to unlock dozens of different chickens, you can check it out . We hope you enjoy Cluck-a-thon! As for Role of Hex updates, something big is coming in a few months' time, kee
06 Jun 2023Developer post
Hotfix 1.2.2b
Shaders should no longer crash the game if they aren't able to load.
03 Jun 2023Developer post
Hotfix 1.2.2a
Fixed game crashing when hovering the knockback upgrade
03 Jun 2023Developer post
Update 1.2.2
This one is rather small but hopefully should help with paving the road towards bigger ones with some QoL and code refactoring Changes with ⬡ icon were suggested by the community Additions Added a title to the main menu screen ⬡ Added a version number to the main menu screen ⬡ Wh
This one is rather small but hopefully should help with paving the road towards bigger ones with some QoL and code refactoring
Changes with ⬡ icon were suggested by the community
Additions

Added a title to the main menu screen
⬡ Added a version number to the main menu screen
⬡ When acquiring upgrades, the tooltip now tells you what will change in the values affected by the upgrade.
Added text shadows to the menu.
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08 May 2023Developer post
Updata 1.2.1
This month will be slightly different in update schedules: Instead of 2 small and 1 big, we will have 1 small and 2 medium updates, on the 1st, 3rd, and 4th weeks. Changes Colonise Objective Colony tiles can now override empty tiles it they are protected You now lose the game if
This month will be slightly different in update schedules: Instead of 2 small and 1 big, we will have 1 small and 2 medium updates, on the 1st, 3rd, and 4th weeks.
Changes

Colonise Objective

Colony tiles can now override empty tiles it they are protected
You now lose the game if every colony tile is destroyed
Colony detection range increased to 25, this means that you can make big pens now
Multitile buildings changes

They now have only 1 health and shield pool
Health multiplied by the number of tiles they occupy
Balance Changes

Increased minimum distance between sulfuric geysers
Bosses no longer have their movement speed reduced by slow
Fixes

You can no longer sell colonies
Flamethrowers are no longer affected by project speed
Fixed a bug where multi-tile buildings are permanently stuck in the game
Fixed money and exp growth on early missions, this should make them easier
Optimizations

There can only be 50 forked lightning instances at the same time
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29 Apr 2023Developer post
Role of Hex 1.2
This time I tried to focus a bit more on balance and content rather than optimizations. Of course, I've optimized the two greater issues that I've found within the game during that time, but most of my time these last two weeks was spent on new stuff. Changes with ⬡ icon were sug
This time I tried to focus a bit more on balance and content rather than optimizations. Of course, I've optimized the two greater issues that I've found within the game during that time, but most of my time these last two weeks was spent on new stuff.
Changes with ⬡ icon were suggested by the community.
Additions

New Planet: Kokatune
A fiery planet with nasty foes Difficulty level from 65-128
New Biome: Ash Basin
Full of dunes, the most peaceful biome of Kokatune
New Biome: Basalt Delta
Has several magma lakes which can come to life to hurt your base.
New Biome: Sulfuric Wasteland
Hosts several sulfuric geysers which often erupt, damaging nearby structures
New Biome: Lava Ocean
A regular ocean, but made out of a different liquid
New Enemy: King Lurker
The first boss of the game has multiple attack patterns and can be found everywhere. Bosses will now spawn every 20 minutes on every mission. Regular enemy spawns halt while there is a boss alive
New Enemies
Every biome from Kokatune features at least one new enemy for you to play with.
New Objectives
Added 3 new objectives: Defend, Colonize, and Eliminate. Some missions on some planets can only be of certain types.
New player towers
2 blueprints for new towers added They can be found on missions with difficulty ranging from 101 to 128
New Specializations
Added 2 new specializations for the two new player-buildable towers
Balance Changes

Clone Factory
Reduced Rarity factor from 5 to 1 This means that the rarity of the upgrade selected is similar to level 1 rather than level 5
Frenzy
Stacks no longer increase duration, duration is now fixed at 2 seconds Stacks now increase the attack speed multiplier, which starts at 1.2 and grows by 0.2 for every stack
Frenzy Surge
Now only drops if the player has at least one stack of Frenzy
Frostbite
Rarity increased from Yellow to Purple Base damage increased from 5 to [cannon damage]/2 Its damage instances can now proc on-damage effects, such as Cryotech
King of the hill
Now actually stacks Values reduced from 25% to 10%
Airborne Static
Rarity increased from Yellow to Purple Radius increased from (2.0 + 0.2*stack) to (2.0 + 0.5*stack) The barrier to damage multiplier increased from (0.3+0.2*stack) to (0.5*stack)
Overclock
Rarity increased from Yellow to Purple Cooldown reduction increased from 25% to 33%
Bigger Explosives
Rarity increased from Yellow to Purple Now scales linearly Damage scaling increased from 30% to 100%
Quality of Life changes

Changed Lag Reports
Now contains the current version Now contains the current building counts Now contains the current upgrades counts
Pause changes
⬡ You can now press spacebar to toggle pause Pause can now be toggled within the upgrade selection menu
Building Recycling Rework
When you press "F" to recycle a building, it is now scheduled for recycling. You can undo the scheduling by pressing "ctrl+F". It will recycle in the first tick where it is able to. You can schedule for recycling unclaimed buildings. You can schedule for recycling non-default targets, like trees. When a Tree or a Termite Nest is scheduled for recycling, it will become a target for your turrets and will display a proper icon for that.
Building Changes
Building pathfinding algorithm now considers ruins as a buildable tile, instead of building around it
Auto-level and auto-upgrade
When changing auto-upgrade priorities, auto-upgrade turns on. Auto-upgrade and Auto-level can now be toggled within the upgrade selection menu. Auto-upgrade priorities can be changed within the upgrade selection menu. Auto-level is no longer a configurable value, instead, it defaults to on when the game begins.
Level up bar
⬡ Risks on the level-up bar now reflect the rarities of held upgrades
Specializations
Turret-related specializations now always use the icon of the corresponding turret.
Technical Changes

New Noise algorithm
It should be not only faster but also have fewer weird straight lines This should affect coastlines and biome borders, as well as several other small things like sand dune direction
Fixes

Timeout victories no longer extend the objective target
Towers should now start working within 0.5s of an enemy entering their range
Frenzy no longer lasts longer than it should when the tower had no targets
Bullet Buffer should no longer take 10x as much to charge up
King of the Hill effect now properly stacks
Undergeared Achievement is now acquirable
Optimizations

Heavily optimized Seismic Weapons
Optimized some core functions that were called way too often
Smoke particles no longer spawn outside your vision range
Pathfinding algorithm for building heavily optimized
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16 Apr 2023Developer post
Hotfix 1.1.2c
If things keep going this way, we will reach 1.1.2t by the time 1.2 is here Optimizations Optimized Growth Optimized Autoshields Fixes Solo leveling no longer triggers if you had more than 1 building The tooltip on the end screen should show up correctly
If things keep going this way, we will reach 1.1.2t by the time 1.2 is here
Optimizations

Optimized Growth
Optimized Autoshields
Fixes

Solo leveling no longer triggers if you had more than 1 building
The tooltip on the end screen should show up correctly
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16 Apr 2023Developer post
Hotfix 1.1.2b
Changes Lag reports are now shorter, only showing worst and average frames from the last 10 seconds Lag reports now contain tags to encapsulate them in both discord and steam community posts Fixes Fixed timeout victories happening when the game is paused
Changes

Lag reports are now shorter, only showing worst and average frames from the last 10 seconds
Lag reports now contain tags to encapsulate them in both discord and steam community posts
Fixes

Fixed timeout victories happening when the game is paused
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14 Apr 2023Developer post
Hotfix 1.1.2a
It didn't take long, did it? Fixes Fixed being able to survive after selling your first building Fixed a crash that happened when alt-tabbing sometimes Fixed time menu frame being bigger than the menu itself
It didn't take long, did it?
Fixes

Fixed being able to survive after selling your first building
Fixed a crash that happened when alt-tabbing sometimes
Fixed time menu frame being bigger than the menu itself
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14 Apr 2023Developer post
Role of Hex 1.1.2
With this one, I believe I've killed most lag causes of the game. There are a few of them lurking around but I'll catch them as I go. As per usual, next week is the third week of the month, so there will be no updates so I can prepare for the content update, which is coming on th
With this one, I believe I've killed most lag causes of the game. There are a few of them lurking around but I'll catch them as I go.
As per usual, next week is the third week of the month, so there will be no updates so I can prepare for the content update, which is coming on the 29th.
Changes with ⬡ icon were suggested by the community.
Additions

Top Left UI
Features a pause button and toggles for auto-upgrade and auto-level
Auto Upgrade
Enabling this will allow you to obtain upgrades automatically. To select which upgrades you want to obtain, right-click them on the list below. To remove upgrades from the auto-upgrade list, ctrl+right-click them. Multiple clicks increase or decrease the priority
New Steam Achievements
12 new additions, with 1 of them being hidden They are harder than the previous ones, but nothing impossible
Balance Changes

Buffed Supply Drop
Now has a lower bound of 1% of your level per stack of the upgrade
Nerfed Level based experience gains
They are now reduced by 1% per level, with a resulting reduction of 63% for every 100 levels These are also not affected by experience increase equipment anymore Affects passive experience upgrade and the reworked Supply Drop active upgrade
Nerfed AoE growth for active upgrades
They no longer scale linearly in radius, instead, they scale linearly in area
Building Regen sources are now max HP based
This affects the Barrier Regen upgrade and the Regeneration equipment
New Enemy Target Acquisition Algorithm
They no longer focus on one target, instead, they spread their attack to optimize DPS This algorithm is also way faster than the one before it
Reduced cost increase by extra buildings in half
Clone Factory no longer replaces active skills
Quality of Life Changes

Profiler Changes
Profiler is always on by default, it does not use the console anymore When the game TPS goes below 15(75% real-time speed), it generates a lag report You can click the notification to copy it to the clipboard
Timeout Victory
When the game TPS goes below 5(25% real-time speed), it offers you a victory by timeout. You can refuse it by extending it normally, and it will be offered again every 60 seconds(real-time) if the conditions are met.
Radar Equipment no longer leaves blank spots behind
Upgrade numbers are now right-aligned
Ruins Buildings are colored slightly gray
Optimizations

Map Generation Optimized
It now generates in chunks rather than tile by tile This has the side effect that data centers can generate and thus ping the player from farther away
Minor Optimizations

Death Mark stops if it isn't dealing damage anymore
Several internal functions that were called often were rewritten and now include caches
There is now a hard cap on smoke particles (3k)
Fixes

Objects no longer show on the edge of the fog war rendering
Clone factory no longer clones "recycle" upgrades when forfeiting upgrades
Data Centers no longer notify the player if their spawn fails
Fixes machine gun stretching (for the second time, these guys really like to stretch)
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08 Apr 2023Developer post
Role of Hex 1.1.1
This week's update was quite small due to some internal changes in how ticking works. Next week's update will probably be focused on balance and laying the ground for this month's content update: Kokatune Planet. Additions New Mission selection screen Now there are 8 missions per
This week's update was quite small due to some internal changes in how ticking works.
Next week's update will probably be focused on balance and laying the ground for this month's content update: Kokatune Planet.
Additions

New Mission selection screen
Now there are 8 missions per planet, rather than 8 missions total This change is here to allow both more planets and more mission types in the future Changed Deconus difficulty from 1-50 to 1-64 Changed Yunuus difficulty from 51-100 to 33-96
Changes

Clone factory now has a selection screen, where you can forfeit the upgrade if it doesn't benefit your build
Electronic Cooling can now apply up to 1 stack of slow per stack of the upgrade
Pandora's Box no longer increases in radius, it now increases linearly in damage
Enemy AI was slightly tweaked to make enemies less likely to cluster up
Enemies no longer get stuck for about 1 second when their target is destroyed
Fixes

Fixed arrows on the database screen having a different hitbox than expected
Optimizations

Buildings are now internally deactivated when they are not doing anything.
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03 Apr 2023Developer post
Hotfix 1.1.0c
Fixes Fixed some crashes when the player would attempt to sell a building Fixed costs of special buildings being 0 in some situations Fixed a NaN-caused crash
Fixes

Fixed some crashes when the player would attempt to sell a building
Fixed costs of special buildings being 0 in some situations
Fixed a NaN-caused crash
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03 Apr 2023Developer post
Hotfix 1.1.0b
Fixes Fixed building costs sometimes getting stuck at 0.00 and not allowing to build anything Fixed resources being spent and buildings not being placed Fixed several inconsistencies with the bottom right part of the UI
Fixes

Fixed building costs sometimes getting stuck at 0.00 and not allowing to build anything
Fixed resources being spent and buildings not being placed
Fixed several inconsistencies with the bottom right part of the UI
Original post
31 Mar 2023Developer post
Role of Hex 1.1
This update was rather focused on performance rather than content since it is currently the biggest known issue of the game. However, it is still a content update, so I included a few things from the feature pool and a few suggestions from the community. Changes with ⬡ icon were
This update was rather focused on performance rather than content since it is currently the biggest known issue of the game. However, it is still a content update, so I included a few things from the feature pool and a few suggestions from the community.
Changes with ⬡ icon were suggested by the community.
Additions

Reworked Ruins
⬡ Ruins now contain parts of deactivated bases, ready to be reclaimed Some deactivated bases contain buildings never seen before, keep an eye on those! They host the once forgotten Data Centers, which contain special equipment that you can obtain if you finish a mission after reclaiming them
Database
This a place where you can find a ton of information about enemies, biomes, and planets
Notifications
⬡ The game now notifies you when a large wave spawns or when you find a data center
Map Mode
If you zoom away far enough, the game will enter the map mode, so that you can see the shape of your enormous bases
New Equipment
New equipment is found if you win a game with a Data Center alive, these include:

⬡ More Slots
⬡ Rerolls
⬡ Upgrade Rarity
Double Specialization
New Upgrades

Tombstone

Purple upgrade
When an enemy is killed, there is a 10% chance of a building being put there
Toggleable
Jack of all Trades

Purple upgrade
Every 15 seconds, generate a random white upgrade
Pandora's Box

Yellow active upgrade
Unleashes a random calamity into the selected area.
15 seconds cooldown
Airborne static

When hit, enemies have a chance of electrifying other enemies around
Eletronic Cooling

Yellow upgrade
When an enemy hits your building, it has a chance of being slowed.
Frostbite

Slowed enemies take damage every second
⬡ Accelerated Projectiles

White upgrade
Increases projectile speed by 40%
New Music
2 new tracks were added and will play randomly as the game progresses
Balance Changes

Equipment Changes

Buffed passive experience and resources equipment to scale with your level
Upgrade Changes

⬡ Upgrade rarities now match the level-up bar color
Smite now deals 1% of the sum of all barriers per stack as damage
Smite cooldown reduced from 30s to 15s
⬡ King of the Hill now affects damage, attack speed, projectile speed, and turn rate
⬡ King of the Hill now only dispels the buff from buildings that have an identical neighbor
Scan now can always be launched if the central tile is revealed
Nuke now can always be launched if the central tile is revealed
Stronger Gears now also affects building reclaim speed
Death mark no longer affects rocks and ice spikes
Enemy Changes

Spawn waves now try multiple times before failing
Reduced enemy health growth from 20% to 15% per level
When the enemy count is near the mobcap, enemies can spawn enlarged or hasted to make up for the missing enemies
Reduced enemy resource gain
The enemy level is now always shown on the UI, along with the current time
Building Changes

Ghost buildings are no longer enough to prevent you from losing
Ghost buildings now show the icon of the building they are supposed to be
⬡ Selected Buildings always show their tooltip
⬡ Increased behemoth maximum range from 1 to 1.25
QOL/Aesthetic changes

Smite upgrade now uses a forked lightning instead of several bolts of lightning coming from the same point
⬡ End screen is now instant
Changed telescope description to always tell about the extra range
Lag reports should now be nicer to look at. To generate these, it is still ctrl+p
Optimizations

Added a limit to smoke particles
Capped auto-cast internal radius to 15
Reduced auto-cast attempt frequency from 1/frame to 1/tick
Reduced draw times for when the camera is zoomed too far back
Big explosions no longer use a heatmap to determine hits
Optimized large-scale rendering
Optimized turret and missile target acquisition
Ice spikes now form in clusters of 7 tiles instead of one by one
Heavily optimized damage numbers
Removed tile entities from enemies which did not need that(looking at you, ice spikes and rocks)
Barrier drawing further optimized
Bug Fixes

Fixed unusual lubricant not updating smite cooldown
Fixed unusual lubricant sometimes nuking your own buildings
Fixed nuke acting unpredictably if you hit your own buildings with Out With A Bang
Rocks and trees can no longer spawn on top of buildings
Fixed a bug where the level 1 upgrade would not account for your equipment
Fixed turrets stretching back with high enough attack speed
Fixed placeholder text on the sell building icon
Original post
23 Mar 2023Developer post
Hotfix 1.0.4c
Optimizations Optimized barrier tile grid drawing by a lot
Optimizations

Optimized barrier tile grid drawing by a lot
Original post

Updates & announcements

Version 1.4.1 - 15/03/2024

Verde's Notes

Big Changes

Experience System reworked

Lair Sealing

Additions

Reworks

Balance Changes

QoL Changes

Fixes

Optimizations

Version 1.4.0 - 08/03/2024 - Lightning Round

Additions

Time Controls

Challenges

Build Saving

Upgrades

Specializations

Equipment

New Enemies

Ice Ball

Wyvern

Resource Blobs

Run Rebooting

Buff and Debuff system for buildings

Balance Changes

Tower Changes

Behemoth

Machine Gun

Earthquake Generator

Sniper

High-Density Spheres

Upgrade Changes

Machine Learning

Frenzy

Smite

Frenzy Surge

Scan

Cryogenic Technology

Frostbite

Growth

Specs

Primed Shot

Ignite

Slow But Steady

Barrage

WeakSpot Detector

Synthetic Aperture

Unusual Lubricant

Enemy Changes

Shark

Ice Shards

Fire Bat

Sulfuric Geyser

Snowballs

General Changes

Visual Changes

Fixes

Removals

Balance Changes

Visual Changes

Framework Changes

Role of Hex Version 1.3

Additions

Tech Tree

Boss System Overhaul

Tower Merging

New Equipment

3 New Upgrades

New Towers

In game patch notes

Balance Changes

General Changes

Fixes

Additions

Changes

Colonise Objective

Multitile buildings changes

Balance Changes