Role of Hex

• 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