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 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