Hexarchy Alpha 0.458

New Abilities and Mechanics

Charge! Ability

• Makes a unit attack a neighboring hex after moving this turn

• Costs 3 hammers, 3 gold OR 1 horse

• Researched from Military Tactics

Maneuvers Ability

• Allows a unit to ignore zone of control for this turn

• Costs 3 hammers, 3 gold OR 1 horse

• Researched from Military Tactics

Flank Attacks

• Attacking the same hex from 2 directions causes attacks from the second direction to unleash massive double damage

UI Improvements

• Increased size and clarity of yield and resource icons

• Added an icon for each unit that shows up on the map

• Added mouse wheel zoom

• Terrain resources will now show on discovered but currently fogged hexes

• Improved the selected hex panel

• New graphics for the card frames

• New card backs

• Card cost icon size increased

• Gold collection and payment is no longer animated when playing events between turns

• Added a hex details popup that appears when you mouseover a hex

• Slightly increased the amount a card must be moved up before being played to reduce accidental plays

• Added a debug panel that can be toggled in the menu - shows game timers and more

Graphics Improvements

• Animals are smaller and there are multiple ones per hex

• New tree graphics

• Lighting improvements

• Units are smaller

• Most improvements are smaller

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an error related to the discard pile

• Fixes for the ability icons that appear on top of hexes

• Fixed unit sleeping Zs showing on top of UI panels

• Fixed yield and resource icons showing on top of UI panels

• Fixed an issue where random things would be highlighted when moving a worker

• Removed random partial text that was in the bottom left of the screen

• Loud duplicate sounds no longer play when giving attack and move orders to a unit stack

Misc

• Tips are now disabled by default when not doing the tutorial