Dec 10, 2016

HEX: Shards of Fate - Darkfall

Greetings everyone! Many of you have been furiously playing our Chapter II update already, so we won't keep you for long. After all, those ships won't sink themselves! Today we'd like to cover our Alachian Sea patch, the Platinum Plunder, and our New Website.

We are incredibly pleased to announce that our Chronicles of Entrath: Chapter II patch went live Tuesday without a hitch. This has been one of our largest content releases to date, and we have added a ton of new content for you to explore! Brave the high seas, explore interactive dungeons, overcome crazy encounters and more! Not to mention, we have added over 200 new equips, 90 PvE cards, introduced the mercenary system and a whole new class for you to play with. Set sail, scallywags - adventure awaits!

Trailer

And if that's not enough to make you yearn for open waters, make sure to check out our new trailer above. Our teams have worked really hard to bring you this epic introduction to our second chapter. If you have even a touch of a pirate in you, that video should have you singing sea shanties straight away.

Speaking of shipwrecks and pirates, our Platinum Plunder tournament is coming up soon! Starting December 17th, make sure to join us for a massive, free tournament with several hundred thousand in platinum up for grabs! Additionally, the top 256 players will receive the Salty Sam mercenary (shown below).

Save the date and begin brewing today!

Website Improvements

You may have noticed that we are transitioning to a brand-new website. This is a big change, but it comes with some pretty sweet improvements.

First, we have a brand-new slider for our top news stories. If something important is going down in the world of Entrath, we want you to know about it. With major articles pinned right at the top of the page, it is now easier than ever to stay informed!

Second, we know that you don't all read our news feed every day. Sometimes you miss an article or a deck write-up by one of your favorite community authors. With our previous website, once something fell off the front page it could be difficult to find it again. Not any more! We now have both a search function and a tagging system to make navigating our archives an easy and pleasant experience.

Third, we have added a new "What is HEX?" video which can be found under 'the game' menu on our website. If you have some friends who are thinking of getting into HEX, we now have a short, accessible introduction they can watch to see what kinds of things our game has to offer.

What is HEX Video?

Please note that this is just the beginning! We are still adding features to our new website and tweaking its look. While we are in our transitional period, some older articles may be down until we can get them into our archive properly. Thank you for your understanding!

Finally, we posted full details regarding our Season 3 Cosmic Crown Showdown. In this tournament, the top 64 from each ladder will compete for their share of a $5,000 prize pool. There is less than a month left before the end of Season 3, so start climbing today!

Dec 10, 2016

Friday News Update - Tip of the Spear

HEX: Shards of Fate - Darkfall

Save the date and begin brewing today!

Website Improvements

You may have noticed that we are transitioning to a brand-new website. This is a big change, but it comes with some pretty sweet improvements.

Dec 10, 2016

12/10/2016 Patch Notes

Winged Sakura: Demon Civil War - Hong

Traps in Corriders

A new menu option is available in the 'Options' Menu

Traps by default is now set to 'Warning.'

Trap options:

Enable: Traps in corridors are enabled and no warning message prompt is displayed upon activating the traps. Warning! You may accidentally kill your entirely party if you activated the 'Burn' trap and continue to move really fast across the corridor.
Warning: Traps in corridors are enabled, when traps are activated, a message prompt is displayed.
Disable: Traps in corridors are disabled.

Chance of triggering a trap is about 20%, approximately 1 in 5 corridors, 3 times a floor.

I decided to re-enable traps, but allow players to choose whether to turn them off or not.

With traps enabled, please be careful that you will need to rely on 'Cure' and Herbs that remove status ailment.

Tower of Incarnation Traps

Floor 1 - 3 Traps

Chance of debuffing your party with a random negative status effect
Chance of teleporting to a random unvisited room
Chance of a barrage of poison arrows, dealing 20% of your max HP + low chance of applying level 1 Poison

Floor 4 - 6 Traps

Chance of debuffing your party with a random negative status effect
Chance of teleporting to a random unvisited room
Chance of a barrage of poison arrows, dealing 20% of your max HP + low chance of applying level 2 Poison
Chance of a barrage of fire arrows, dealing 20% of your max HP + low chance of applying level 2 Burn

Floor 7 - 10 Traps

Chance of debuffing your party with a random negative status effect
Chance of teleporting to a random unvisited room
Chance of a barrage of poison arrows, dealing 20% of your max HP + low chance of applying level 3 Poison
Chance of a barrage of fire arrows, dealing 20% of your max HP + low chance of applying level 3 Burn
Chance of a barrage of ice arrows, dealing 20% of your max HP + low chance of applying level 3 Freeze
Chance of a activating a spell, applying level 3 Poison to all your party members
Chance of a activating a spell, applying level 3 Burn to all your party members
Chance of a activating a spell, applying level 3 Freeze to all your party members
Chance of a activating a spell, applying level 3 Paralyze to all your party members

Floor 11-15 Traps

Chance of debuffing your party with a random negative status effect
Chance of teleporting to a random unvisited room
Chance of a barrage of poison arrows, dealing 20% of your max HP + low chance of applying level 5 Poison
Chance of a barrage of fire arrows, dealing 20% of your max HP + low chance of applying level 5 Burn
Chance of a barrage of ice arrows, dealing 20% of your max HP + low chance of applying level 5 Freeze
Chance of a barrage of cursed arrows, dealing 20% of your max HP + low chance of applying level 5 Stop
Chance of a activating a spell, applying level 5 Poison to all your party members
Chance of a activating a spell, applying level 5 Burn to all your party members
Chance of a activating a spell, applying level 5 Freeze to all your party members
Chance of a activating a spell, applying level 5 Paralyze to all your party members

Pandemonium Traps

Floor 1 = same trap as Floor 7 - 10 Traps in Tower of Incarnation
The other floors = same trap as Floor 11-15, but all level 4 instead of 5.

Please provide feedback at http://steamcommunity.com/app/470300/discussions/0/152391285467573041/

Thank you!

Dec 10, 2016

12/10/2016 Patch Notes

Winged Sakura: Demon Civil War - Hong

Traps in Corriders

A new menu option is available in the 'Options' Menu

Traps by default is now set to 'Warning.'

Trap options:

Enable: Traps in corridors are enabled and no warning message prompt is displayed upon activating the traps. Warning! You may accidentally kill your entirely party if you activated the 'Burn' trap and continue to move really fast across the corridor.
Warning: Traps in corridors are enabled, when traps are activated, a message prompt is displayed.
Disable: Traps in corridors are disabled.

Chance of debuffing your party with a random negative status effect
Chance of teleporting to a random unvisited room
Chance of a barrage of poison arrows, dealing 20% of your max HP + low chance of applying level 1 Poison

Floor 4 - 6 Traps

Chance of debuffing your party with a random negative status effect
Chance of teleporting to a random unvisited room
Chance of a barrage of poison arrows, dealing 20% of your max HP + low chance of applying level 2 Poison
Chance of a barrage of fire arrows, dealing 20% of your max HP + low chance of applying level 2 Burn

Floor 7 - 10 Traps

Chance of debuffing your party with a random negative status effect
Chance of teleporting to a random unvisited room
Chance of a barrage of poison arrows, dealing 20% of your max HP + low chance of applying level 3 Poison
Chance of a barrage of fire arrows, dealing 20% of your max HP + low chance of applying level 3 Burn
Chance of a barrage of ice arrows, dealing 20% of your max HP + low chance of applying level 3 Freeze
Chance of a activating a spell, applying level 3 Poison to all your party members
Chance of a activating a spell, applying level 3 Burn to all your party members
Chance of a activating a spell, applying level 3 Freeze to all your party members
Chance of a activating a spell, applying level 3 Paralyze to all your party members

Floor 11-15 Traps

Chance of debuffing your party with a random negative status effect
Chance of teleporting to a random unvisited room
Chance of a barrage of poison arrows, dealing 20% of your max HP + low chance of applying level 5 Poison
Chance of a barrage of fire arrows, dealing 20% of your max HP + low chance of applying level 5 Burn
Chance of a barrage of ice arrows, dealing 20% of your max HP + low chance of applying level 5 Freeze
Chance of a barrage of cursed arrows, dealing 20% of your max HP + low chance of applying level 5 Stop
Chance of a activating a spell, applying level 5 Poison to all your party members
Chance of a activating a spell, applying level 5 Burn to all your party members
Chance of a activating a spell, applying level 5 Freeze to all your party members
Chance of a activating a spell, applying level 5 Paralyze to all your party members