Greetings everyone! We continue to move full steam ahead here at the HEX offices. We've released several fixes over the past week and have some cool events on the horizon. Today we will cover Flashback Mashups, New Ladder Season Sleeves, our upcoming Platinum Plunder, and more!
We want to remind you that our Platinum Plunder tournament is this weekend! Starting December 17th, make sure to join us for a massive, free tournament with several hundred thousand platinum up for grabs! Additionally, the top 256 players will receive the Salty Sam mercenary (shown below).
Begin brewing your boarding party today!
Flashback Mashhack
We hope you have been enjoying our Flashback tournament event! The Shards of Fate and Shattered Destiny Evolving Gauntlet will be closing Monday 12/19 at 10am PT (Worldclock).
But the Flashback fun is far from finished! We have put together a unique play experience from a bunch of our old sets for you all to enjoy. In this mashup mode, players will get “Standard Gauntlet Packs,” which are made up of random cards from across all 5 sets. As in a normal Evolving Sealed Gauntlet, two of your packs from your initial pool will have rares and three will not. Players who reach 1 and 3 wins respectively will have another Standard Gauntlet Pack added to their pool, rare included. Players who reach 5 wins will receive 1 Shards of Fate booster pack.
In this mode, you will be able to play with all our champions, though gems will be restricted to those legal in the current standard format. We hope you enjoy this wacky sendoff to an epic year for HEX. See you on the battlefield!
Ladder Sleeve Poll Winners
This past week we ran some polls on the forums to let you all help decide what our upcoming ladder sleeves will be. These beautiful pieces of art were selected as the 2017 Season 2 and Season 3 sleeves respectively.
This is also the first official look at content from our upcoming set. I wonder what their abilities could be.... If you have a guess, make sure to share it in the forums. Enjoy!
Game Informer Best of 2016
HEX has been nominated for both the Best PC Exclusive and the Game of the Year categories in Game Informer's 2016 Games of the Year poll. Voting ends today, so if you think we've been doing a pretty good job make sure to let them know!
World Firsts
There is something special about being the first person to scale Mt. Everest. I think it scratches that itch we have as people and as gamers - that drive to experiment and explore. We wanted to take a minute and shout out those players who have boldly gone and conquered a few of the hidden fights we sprinkled throughout the Alachian Sea:
- Old Man of the Sea Encounter – Hercone defeated it on Dec 6th at 8:37pm CET
- Fungal Monstrosity Encounter – Revolution defeated it on Dec 6th at 10:30pm CET
- Ruins of Kukatan Tomb of Omens Encounter – ShibbyBliblin defeated it on Dec 9th at 6:34am CET
Congratulations and well done! You were the first players to ever find and defeat those encounters.
That's all for this week. See you in-game!