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