Friends Stats! (Demo update 10)
Today's update adds Friends Leaderboards to Hexahedra, ranking you alongside your Steam friends for efficiency in Steps, Commands, and Devices for each puzzle.
To get your stats into the system, you'll need to rerun your best solutions. They'll get submitted to the new backend stats server, which will verify the results (so don't worry, solutions need to be legitimate to show up!) and insert them into the leaderboards.
The global histograms are still to come, but I'd love to have lots of data to test them with, so encourage your friends to grab the demo and see who can come up with the best factories.
For now, stats are available for all levels - for tutorial levels, they won't be terribly interesting, so at some point I'll filter out those levels and just have stats for the non-tutorial ones.
Other new features:
- Your save files are now zipped. If you have lots of solutions saved, an individual profile can easily swell to many megabytes, but they compress extremely well, so you'll now get almost all of that space back.
Bugfixes:
This update doesn't contain any bugfixes, but I have launched a couple of very minor updates since the last set of patch notes which dealt with a couple of small graphical glitches introduced by the last big patch, Demo 6, which shipped lots of performance improvements.