HEX Update – Armies Hype

Hi HEXers! Armies of Myth is live! It’s been incredibly successful and so far, reactions to the new set, chest opening, and asynchronous Gauntlet events have been super positive. Please keep sharing your new favorite cards, equipment, screenshots, and extended art cards in our forums and across social media. As with any large update, there have been some bugs and we want to inform you of the two major ones. If you want to see the full list of known issues, you can see that in our forums. For the first major bug, there is an issue with the loader failing to update or players being stuck on terms of service. It’s described below:

You are stuck downloading the same files over and over

2. You are stuck downloading a specific file, but it never downloads.

3. You are stuck accepting ToS over and over.

You will need to set your User Account Control (UAC) settings to: Default – Notify me only when programs try to make changes to my computer. You will then need to restart your computer and run hexpatch.exe again.

We believe that the “Never Notify me” setting is causing Windows 7 to protect your files in some other way. As a result the patcher can’t do its thing. We are just as baffled as you are why increasing security settings seems to fix permission issues, but that’s what fixed it for us this morning (and it’s was pretty rough to track down). We have an engineer researching this further, but for now this is the work around.

We are currently still working on a permanent fix for this bug and will update players when we are able to implement a fix.

There’s also an auction house bug. Due to the introduction of chest opening and bulk listings, the auction house is seeing exponential more activity. Great! More people are buying and selling their cards. This also has affected the response time of the Auction House, and we have a plan to fix that bug!

Armies of Myth Update Patch – 7/27

There will be another update patch for Armies of Myth on Monday at 3AM Pacific (Worldclock). Estimated downtime will be 4 hours. Tournament registration lock will be at 11PM Pacific on Sunday, July 26 (Worldclock). We know that this is during Release Celebration, as such, we will be extending Release Celebration out for another 24 hours! Release Celebration will now end on July 28 at 10AM Pacific (Worldclock). Thank you for your patience and understanding, we’re glad to see that everyone is enjoying the new Armies of Myth expansion!

Release Celebration Weekend

As you read in the above section, it’s Release Celebration weekend!

You can earn the participation alternate art Brightmoon Brave and Duplicitious Duke through select events over the weekend. Check the rewards tab in tournaments to see what you can win and how.

VIP – Changing to Sealed Deck

There’s currently a bug where in Constructed swiss tournaments (Gauntlet not affected), cards lose their socketed gems between rounds. Due to this bug, we will be switching VIP tournaments to Sealed Deck for this month. Prizes will be granted just like Sealed Deck VIP. Release Celebration cards will also be awarded. Next month will be Constructed.

July VIP Sealed Deck

Players: 16 minimum – 256 maximum

Format: 4 rounds of Swiss

Entry fee: VIP ticket + 1400 plat (or 6 booster packs and 200 plat)

Prizes:

4 wins: 10 packs / 2 Alternate Art Carnasaurus / 2 Alternate Art Valiant Escort / Alternate Art Duplicitous Duke / Alternate Art Brightmoon Brave

3 wins: 8 packs / 1 Alternate Art Carnasaurus / 1 Alternate Art Valiant Escort / Alternate Art Duplicitous Duke / Alternate Art Brightmoon Brave

2 wins: 4 packs / 1 Alternate Art Carnasaurus / 1 Alternate Art Valiant Escort / Alternate Art Brightmoon Brave

1 win: 2 packs / Alternate Art Brightmoon Brave

0 wins: 1 pack / Alternate Art Brightmoon Brave

Also, remember that we’ve reworked VIP and it’s once again available to players. Read the FAQ for more information, and join in the tournaments this weekend!

Gen Con and Convocation Next Weekend

Remember, next weekend we’ll have events at Gen Con and we’ll also be running the convocation event from July 30th at 10 AM Pacific to August 6th at 10 AM Pacific. In game, you’ll have a chance to win 2013, 2014, and 2015 rewards, so get hype!

Xounts

At HEX, we are approached by many other Kickstarters for either advice or endorsement. They range from the mundane to bizarre, as Kickstarter is home to anything anyone can dream of. We do endorse other projects when we are friends the group promoting it and know that they can deliver the project. As far as people out there with a dream who are incredibly persistent in showing us what they have to offer, this team takes the cake with what they sent us.

It’s a speaker and lamp combo for your home. Just as music and home décor are an expression of personality, so is the speaker as you can skin it however you’d like. The creator sent us a gift of one, with images from our own Kickstarter. Though we cannot vouch for this Kickstarter as we do not personally know the project creator, out of respect for their tenacity and perseverance, we’re sharing this with you today. Best of luck, xounts!

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