Hexarchy Beta 0.621 and Next Playtest

New Game Mode - Weekly Campaign

Progress through a campaign consisting of 3-5 levels that changes each week. Each level will have 1-3 objectives similar to a daily challenge with generally each level being progressively longer. In between levels you can spend the victory points you've earned to buy powerful one-time use Campaign Cards.

Compete for position on the leaderboard like with the Daily Challenge.

Campaign Cards

• Population Boom - Add 3 population to a city

• **Fuel Forage **- Gather 4 firewood from a forest hex in your territory or near it

• Mass Conscription - Draw 3 unit cards from your deck or discard pile that cost half price

• Inferno - Raze an enemy city that you can see

• Pioneering Spirit - Found a city on any available hex you can see

• Marketing Sweep - Get all resources on the market

• Pathfinder - Grant permanent map vision for a large area around a hex

• Mass Mobilization - Mobilize all of your units

• Onslaught - Give all of your units charge for this turn

• Assassinate - Kill an enemy unit

• Glorious Project - Make a Wonder in your hand cost 1 gold

New Wonders

• Statue of Zeus - All military units start mobilized

• Parthenon - Can view the top 3 cards in your deck

• Djenne Mosque - +2 Victory Points for each Holy Site you control

• Hagia Sophia - Immediately claims all unclaimed territory within 3 hexes

• Himeji Castle - Your first card drawn is always a military unit

• Great Library - Grants you any technology that has been researched by over a third of the civilizations in the game

New Buildings

• **University **- Grants 3 science per turn

• **Market **- +5 gold and +3 gold for every citizen working the city hex

• **Monastery **- Produces culture and significantly reduces cost of stealing nearby hexes

New Abilities

• **Annex **- Buy a neighboring hex with gold

• Forced March - Damages unit for increased movement this turn and Charge

• Scorched Earth - Makes a unit immediately pillage an enemy hex after moving onto it. Lasts 2 turns

• **Volley **- Gives a ranged unit +1 range for 2 turns

• **Invest **- Spend 6 gold to immediately get 3 hammers and 6 additional hammers next turn. Usable once per turn

• Mass Produce - This card and the next card played go to the top of your deck

• **Craftsmanship **- Produce 1 culture for every improvement or building within 2 hexes

New Promotions

• Holy Warrior - Unit automatically captures a hex it's on and produces 2 culture for the nearest city

• General - Adds 33% strength to all units on this hex and neighboring hexes

New Technologies

• Education

• Currency

• Advanced Tactics

• Theology

New Civics

• Industrialism (Economic)

• Secularism (Religion)

• State Religion (Religion)

Balance Changes

• Wonder points changed to 4 and 6 instead of 5 and 7

• Pyramids - Automatically collects special resources from its hex and neighboring hexes

• Temple of Diana - Reduces culture required for border growth

• Chichen Itza - Removes gold maintenance cost for all cities within 3 hexes

• Shield Wall Ability - Moved to Advanced Tactics tech

• Courthouse Building - Moved to Theology. Now completely removes gold maintenance cost

• Combat Medicine Ability - Replaces Healing Ritual and moved to Secularism civic

• Units with the Garrison promotion now exert zone of control

Experimental Bot Emotes (work in progress)

• AI players will now comment on events that occur in the game

• Currently single-player only

• Can be disabled in menu

UI and other Changes

• Title screen menus reworked

• Tech tree panel reworked

• Card manipulation hotkeys - Z draws a card, X destroys the card you're holding, C saves the card you're holding

• Can navigate to old challenge leaderboards (currently only works for 1 previous leaderboard)

• Capture and pillage events now immediately play for all players in multiplayer

New Music Tracks

• 4 new tracks by Landon Walter

Bug Fixes

• Fixed most of the bugs created by the new content (but surely not all!)

The next Hexarchy public Playtest will start on Thursday, June 15. Thank you, testers - we couldn't do this without you and your feedback!