HEX Update – Happy New Year

It’s 2014 and this is your first update of the year! After a wonderful holiday spent with their families, the HEX team is back in the office and at work, progressing on sets and improving the alpha client.

Over the holiday, our team released a patch and you can read the notes here. Lots of new cards for you alpha players. The R&D team is spending today interviewing the last group of Cryptozoic Apprentice candidates and testing the Emberspire Witch dungeon. Set 2 is nearly complete, and they’ve begun preliminary work on Set 3 while also working on the PVE experience.

The art engineers and artists are putting the polish on the location panoramas. Over the holiday break, we were able to bring on some more fantasy artists to work on HEX Set 2, so art should be even better! Check out this sketch that came in today by Lius Lasahido.

The engineers are working on the next patch. We’ve developed some new bug-squashing internal tools to help diagnose problems and kill em dead. That includes the current tournament bugs, which we’ve made our top priority. Enemy number one, if you will.

We’re spending time looking at new ways to interact with our community. If you have a great idea for a weekly feature or content, please post in the forum thread linked at the end of this post.

Our community has been busy as well, organizing a new tournament that includes both streamers and non-streamers. If you’re an active alpha player, you can take a look and join if you’d like. In addition to bragging rights, the winner will play against Community Manager Shaggy on the HEX Twitch channel! Speaking of Twitch, Shaggy will be playing the winner of the second community-organized Tournament of Streamers 2, Havok, on January 21st at 5 PM Pacific. Make sure to Follow our channel so you don’t miss a single stream from us.

And for those of you new to streaming or thinking about giving it a shot, here’s an overlay so you can have a nice border for your video stream. Just right-mouse-click this link and then click “Save As.” Enjoy, see you next week, and please remember to Like us on Facebook, Follow us on Twitch, register on our forums, and Follow our Twitter accounts: HEXTCG, Dusty, William, and Cory.

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