HIVE: Altenum Wars news & patch notes

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/30557838/15fcc45dc025b98aa408b80ef2e410fd9ed73073.png The last Update of HIVE: Altenum Wars is here and brings a lot of new content! Also, to celebrate that new patch, we have run a special discount, HIVE is now at 70% off, so hurry up, if you don't have HIVE yet, this is the perfect opportunity to get it! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/30557838/b8dc80702690ccffad1e4596649f262e204e5d81.gif The most important, the new hero Nature, has arrived! A goddess that can control the elements of nature around her. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/30557838/faa6161435c251b80f41be3588381d4057d6f93b.gif Olivia has new skins and a new ultimate ability! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/30557838/0056be914a5a29c1c3e794897e9bc25c98ee4b67.gif We have done some balancing to all the characters in order to fit the new gameplay that Nature can bring to the game. Discover all the changes of this patch in the Hexadium! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/30557838/9d883e8b4ef148c2683ed88a7ef1249097963d48.gif

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/30557838/05702f0be5d7c1052961767c86d5f999158250c1.jpg We have great news! The event of the year has arrived, that moment for which you have been preparing all this time while playing HIVE day and night. Are you ready? So pay attention, because there are important prizes! From July 28th to August 5th, the first HIVE: Altenum Wars Olympics will be disputed These Olympics will consist of a series of tournaments and competitions that will allow to add points with which HIVE users will compete to win a PlayStation 4 or a PS4VR pack among other prizes. Only the bravest Hexadiers will rise to glory! The competitions are the following:

• HIVE Assemble! Build your team, get your recruiter link and give it your friends. For each new player you bring to HIVE you will get 100 points each. Remember!, new players will have to enter to your link to verify that they have played HIVE.
• HIVE 4v4 Tournament: Participate in the Great HIVE tournament with your 4-player team. The members of the winning team will get 2,000 points each, 1,500 who remain second, 1,000 third and fourth. The 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th will get 500, the 9th to the 16th 250, and the rest 100 points.
• End of Season 0: At the end of the tournament, the LPs of the current HIVE: Altenum Wars league will be added as points for the Olympics for the registered players.
• The Altenum marathon: At the end of the tournament, the users who have played the most HIVE hours from July 28 to August 5 will also be counted, those with more hours played will get up to a maximum of 500 points.
• Olympic Star: Play HIVE and show us your outstanding play, or your funniest moments through twitter and mention (@CatnessGames). The user who gets the tweet about HIVE with more retweets and I like you will earn 500 points!

To participate in the Summer Olympics of HIVE you must register with your username. But beware! Depending on the platform in which you play, the registration process will be different:

• If you play from Steam use your Steam account and register at https://challonge.com/cr3keyx2
• If you play from PlayStation4 within the European Region or Australia, this is your linkhttps://challonge.com/z19ebqr2
• If you play from PS4 America, use this registration page  https://challonge.com/uhv79jig

Thus, three parallel tournaments will be held in the different platforms, but the ranking of the Olympics will be the same, it will be a ranking with Cross-Play!. Administrators of the tournament will schedulle the games and verify the results. Results of all private games are public here: http://hive.catnessgames.com/tournaments/ On Monday 26 we will count the points and will be announced the winner of the Olympics, the player who is at that time in the highest position of the Olympics ranking will receive a PlayStation 4 or PS4VR (user choice). There will also be a commemorative Skin for HIVE: Altenum Wars customized by the winner! But these are not the only prizes, the top 5 will receive a special HIVE: Altenum Wars mouse mat, the top 10 will get HIVE: Altenum Wars T-shirt, and the top 50 in the Ranking will be given more HIVE: Altenum Wars Keys, both Steam and PlayStation 4 (in its special version), so they can give them to their friends and play with them. For more information see the full competition rules: http://hive.catnessgames.com/hive-olympic-competition-rules

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/30557838/9956db599569cd1c6597183e257e3d208f1a33e7.png We have just added 9 Trading cards, 5 profile backgrounds, 6 emoticon and 6 badges to the game! You should recieve it in your account if you ever player HIVE some time. If you haven't any card yet, start playing today and get this awesome cards!

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/30557838/51da94666b1015217704985f10302bb177a2c3c2.png The latest patch is here with thousands new lines of code and tons of new assets! We tried to listen to the community feedback in order to deliver what you expected for this update.

New map and game mode: Guard

One of the most repeated request was to add more maps and more gamemodes. Well, we did both by creating a new map that includes a new game mode. This map is an old rusty space station in which you need to escort a payload in her way to the enemy base in order to explode it and win the game. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/30557838/091f60c36e2590f9e7aa85d47020a87ad7cf54cf.jpg

New Character: Olivia

A New Character has been added to the roster. Olivia, Tactical officer of the UFG, specialist in strategy and control of the situation. It is equipped with a technologically advanced armor. She studied at the UFG academy, one of the brightest minds. Characterized by professionalism, and seriousness, it is difficult to get her to show her feelings. Despite Olivia and Jacob are great companions, there is a great rivalry between them. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/30557838/4107bc1d0938c7849014107d587717fbb42b2b06.gif

New Weapons

With the new character, new weapons had to be done specially for Olivia. But not only that, we added new weapons to other character aswell we do some balance to the current ones. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/30557838/77f570c07791d3d2f9c57e5d2caa50a58227da05.jpg Olivia Weapons:

• Floating Mine (Throwable) – Small mine that floats and activates when touching with an enemy
• Gravity Singularity (Special ability) – Anti-gravitational area that leaves without gravity every enemy that enters it
• Sniper – Military weapon of instantaneous reach and great precision. It does x4 of damage if you do a headshot
• Healing Link – Establish a link that cure the linked ally
• Chaser Rocket Launcher – Fires rockets that can modify their trajectory in order to chase the objective
• Double Electro Shoot – Shoots two electrified balls that will stun the enemy that has been hit
• Old Weapons added to Olivia: Rifle, Bouncing Rifle and Machinegun

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/30557838/97241a3be5db49364ed3561c6e4c92bc261ec350.jpg Other Characters With new Weapons

• Archer: Blades – Sequence of three air cuts combining fast movements
• Jacob: Double Electro Shoot – Shoots two electrified balls that will stun the enemy that has been hit
• Sidi: Point Attractor (New throwable) – Ball of energy that can attract all enemies close to it
• Sidi: Healing Link – Establish a link that cure the linked ally
• Khloe: Dron (new special ability) – Deploy small intelligent robot that will chase and shoot enemies around

New epic skin: Cow Mulok

We are very thankful to the whole community during the first weeks of HIVE. We have been playing a lot with other hexadiers and looking all the funny moments that appear on our game, that’s why we want to make a special gift to our community with that skin. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/30557838/9284c060ae114e39e22f445b8f0ba5244e592d85.jpg

New Trophies

We noticed that a really small percentage of players were able to unlock our trophies, we have realized that our current trophy system was not fair and sometimes it requires a high amount of hours and skill to get some trophies, so we refactor most of these trophies and also make it more fun to achieve. The current trophies are not about how long you play HIVE, instead are about do rare things on uncommon situations. Like kill someone after your death, teleport 4 people at the same time, spend more time sprinting in a game than dashing, or do a 5 headshots killstreak with the sniper, among others.

Other changes

New notifications in game Added status on the top of the health bar Added killstreaks notifications Animations Updates for the lobby and in game Optimization updates Multiple Bugfixes

The 1.00 version of HIVE: Altenum Wars is here! After some months in Early Access, gathering information about players and listening to the comunity feedback, we are launching the final version of HIVE. But this is only the begining, because new updates are coming with new features! The new version of HIVE comes with all the characters revamped, and also the survival mode. New tutorial has been aded. New profile and user progression has been aded. Also the music and FX has been done from scratch again. And many other things and improves are comming with this update. Stay tunned, because we will reveal more important information soon... See you in the Hexadiums!