HEX Update – Welcome to 2015

A brief overview of the features coming up in the next big patch

Hi HEXers! We hope you had a wonderful holiday with your family and friends. We’re all back in the office working hard on HEX Shard of Fate. Overall, we ended the year with a bang. We successfully launched the second PVP set, Shattered Destiny, and ran a release celebration weekend. We also had VIP weekend run well, and a holiday celebration. The game was stable over the break, and we’ve identified the handful of card bugs introduced by Shattered Destiny so we can fix them.

To give you an idea of where we’re headed in early 2015, let’s first talk about PVE and Arena. We have some additional exciting features coming at the same time, like chest opening, but nothing that quite changes the game in the way that Arena does. It’s the first step towards creating the PVE experience we’ve all dreamed of for HEX.

We’ve been developing this feature for some time, and we’ve also been testing it as parts of Arena are introduced into our internal versions of HEX. During this run, we’re also testing decks against the AI, upgrading the AI where necessary, implementing equipment into the game, and everything that comes with our first PVE experience. So, there’s a lot of moving parts that come together in creating this part of HEX.

Anticipation is high for arena, and once it’s complete and tested, we can’t wait to show it to you and release it into the world. Once we’re further through on it, we’ll be able to give you more specifics about its date, features, preview streams, and more. It’s on its way!

Other features that the community has asked for that we’re concentrating on are a system upgrade to chat and two-way log-in authentication. The authenticator is a large priority and a good amount of work has been done to implement it. Hopefully we’ll be able to show you more in the near future. Chat is coming along very well! Over the course of the next couple weeks, we’ll show off a few screenshots of the new chat system.

Auction House Data

For those of you interested in the economy of HEX, we’ve posted a CSV of the auction house data, both from the beginning of time to the fifth of January, and a smaller one that encompasses the time from the previous update until the fifth of January. You can find those downloads in the forums.

VIP

Remember, new VIP cards start this month. You’ll have a chance to win Goremaster AA and Succulent Cluckodon AA alternate art cards this January 23rd, 24th, and 25th. This month’s format is Constructed.

Child’s Play

For players who were active during the Child’s Play stream last summer, we’ve added the special Charity 2014 “Storm Cloud” sleeves to your account. Thanks to the winner of that prize, Entropy, for picking such a perfect sleeve!

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