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 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