HEX Update – The Exalted

Hi HEXers! If you’ve been following along online, you’ve seen that both Cory Jones and Ben Stoll are at Gamescom with one of our amazing publishers, Gameforge!

We also caught back up with our friends RocketBeansTV who have done a few Let’s Plays of HEX (in German, of course). So, if you’re at Gamescom this weekend, come visit HEX at Stand A073 in Hall 10.1.

Exalted

It’s been a busy month with Armies of Myth release, Convocation weekend, Gen Con, and now Gamescom. We’d like to take a quick break from talking about all the events and focus in on the community. That’s why we’re here after all. Last weekend, we added another face to the Exalted. Cirouss, aka Andre, is the second recipient of the honor. You can see Andre in the pic below (right) with the first Exalted, Colin.

It’s hard to summarize Andre’s contributions to the game in just a few short paragraphs. You may recognize his work in HEX: The Passion, the video he filmed in our HEX Raid earlier in the year. You can read his forum post here. He feels honored for this recognition, but in fact it’s actually us who are honored to have such an enthusiastic and positive force in our game. Thank you, Andre!

Thank You!

Another special thank you goes out to Gen Con’s staff. They were wonderful this year in helping us organize our events, providing space for our players, and overall giving us a great show. If you attended Gen Con or just love HEX, please let the Gen Con twitter account know.

The same goes for Alienware. They were so generous as usual to help us provide computers for our LAN. Please send out your thanks to Alienware’s twitter and let them know how much it means to you that we’re able to host these live events.

FiveShards Diamond Cup sponsored by the Collective, August 8th-9th.

The third tournament in the Shard Cup tournament series (Season 2) starts Saturday morning, August 8th-9th. You can participate in this Set 3 Only constructed tournament by signing up here. Full rules, regulations, deck submission form, and prizes can be found on the fiveshards.com website. The Diamond cup is awarding 250 Armies of Myth boosters with a few random door prize primal packs, so do not delay in starting your Armies of Myth collection by taking home a cup in the largest community tournament in Hex!

For those of you competing, you will want to check the known issues tracker as there are some bugs happening with socketed cards and tournaments, as well as known card bugs. Good luck!

Convocation Packs and Frost Ring Arena

If you played Frost Ring Arena during the Convocation event, you may have noticed that your chance to obtain an extra loot item was not working as normal. Due to that, we are going to retroactively add the Convocation packs to players accounts. You can read more on that and how it’ll work in our forum post. We will deposit those owed packs into players’ accounts by the end of next week.

Colin’s Stormcoat Blood Drive

From community member Colin’s forum post:

I was inspired by peoples’ stories of how much blood, sweat, and tears have gone into acquiring a Stormcoat. I have one to give away. All it’s going to cost you is your blood, literally! A pint of blood to be precise!

The rules are pretty simple – email me proof (to giveaway AT ratedhex.com) that you’ve donated a pint of blood (or whatever the measure is in your country) between now and Sunday. I’ll have Ne0 draw a winner on his HEXTCG Twitch.tv stream on Monday (August 10th). One entry per person.

Grand Prize: 1 Stormcoat

Everyone who participates (verified blood donation): 5 AoM packs

Do a good deed. Get rewarded!

NOTE: Please, please, please block out any particularly sensitive personal information in any proof you send me. I’ll also take photos of you with a needle sticking out of your arm and a filled bag of blood! And I’ll good image search just to make sure there are no stock photos… 😛

That’s all for this week. Please leave any questions or comments in the forums, and don’t forget to Follow us on Twitter, Like us on Facebook, Follow us on Twitch, and register on our forums.

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