18 changes in this update
HEGEMON
Released
Conquer territories, expand your empire, and dominate the battlefield in this fast-paced 2D strategy game.
Changes
What's changed in HEGEMON with each update.
Added
8 changes-
- New main menu: a 3D Cold War command room with working CRT screens, a live war map and ambient sound.
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- Full sound design: troop orders, captures, research, diplomacy, nukes, menus and room ambience.
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- New soundtrack (7 tracks). Music now follows the match: calm, war, nuclear escalation.
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- Volume settings for sound effects, interface and room ambience (Options and pause menu).
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- New 3D wooden models for all buildings.
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- Bots now speak: war declarations, counter-attacks, coalition calls, betrayals.
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- Coalition: when one empire dominates the map, bots stop fighting each other and gang up on it.
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- Adaptive bots in solo: Offensive matches your best rating, Hegemony plays 250 above it.
Improved
5 changes-
- Bots are sharper: they upgrade cities, counter-attack, research earlier, build silos and front-line bunkers, use the sea and attack together with allies.
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- Population rework: a drained country no longer refills in seconds, and growth drops by 75% while under attack.
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- Attack panel now shows the enemy troops already at the front.
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- Balance: Mass levy growth bonus lowered from +20% to +10%, Conscription from +35% to +25%.
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- Performance: smoother frames, fewer stutters during large battles.
Fixed
3 changes-
- Short freezes when bots launched big attacks on neutral land.
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- Music volume setting had no effect.
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- Title font fell back to a system font.
Known Issues
2 changes-
- Hegemony may now be too hard for some players: feedback welcome, tuning continues.
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- The 3D menu is new: if it fails to load, the classic menu is used instead.
Added
7 changes-
Map type picker in the lobby: Random, Classic, Peninsulas, Archipelago, Pangaea, Highlands, Great Lakes
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SUDDEN DEATH lobby rule: capture an empire's capital and it surrenders all its land instantly
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New building: COASTAL BATTERY: sinks the nearest enemy ship, transports first
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New building: STATION: trains favor it and deliver double gold there
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Building upgrades: City, Port and Bunker up to level 3 (right-click your own building)
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Ally gifts: send gold or a troop convoy by sea (it can be intercepted!)
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Trains now draw their rail lines on the map
Improved
3 changes-
The DIPLOMACY panel groups per-ally actions: gold gift, convoy, break
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Buildings grow visually with their level
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All new content localized in 9 languages
Known Issues
2 changes-
Coastal Battery and Station icons are placeholders
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Balance of the new buildings and sudden death is still being tuned, feedback welcome
Added
3 changes-
News feed on the main menu, latest updates at a glance, with a link to the new website
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Rivers and lakes: real waterways that flow with the terrain, ships can sail them, and nobody can claim them
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Live online counter on the website (see who's playing before you launch)
Improved
4 changes-
World generation rebuilt from the ground up: coherent continents, real mountain ranges with valleys and passes, regional deserts, forests, cliffs and fjords, every seed is a place now, not noise
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Coastlines and shores are smoother than ever
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Buildings can no longer spawn on riverbeds or absurd slopes
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Multiplayer stability hardening under the hood
Fixed
3 changes-
Leaderboard profile is reloaded fresh after every game (no more stale ranking)
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Mission memo can be permanently dismissed
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Various map rendering artifacts (phantom lines, white coastal fringes)
Added
6 changes-
Pre-game options: number of AI, map size (Small / Medium / Large), and lobby countdown
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Promotion / demotion screen when your rank changes
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Pause in singleplayer
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Hover the Population and Gold counters to see what's driving them
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Research queue + a notification when a research finishes
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Building shortcuts (keys 3–8) and Shift+click to attack, even by sea, without opening a menu
Improved
5 changes-
Ranked rating reworked to be much stricter: climbing is earned, losing actually costs, and the very top is reserved for multiplayer
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Everyone now starts at 500 and climbs from there (existing ratings adjusted to match)
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Research cost is always shown now, even when you can't afford it yet
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The AI now builds factories
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Smoother map coastlines
Fixed
3 changes-
Building prices no longer explode into the billions on large empires
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Map coastlines no longer look pixelated
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Rank names are now translated in every language
Known Issues
1 change-
A multiplayer game needs a second player to start, for a bots-only game, use Solo
Added
2 changes-
New profile button to show your rank
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New icons for ranks
Improved
2 changes-
Refactor of the elo system
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Reset of all players ranks
Added
1 change-
Scoreboard and Elo system
Improved
1 change-
Connected to the database
Added
4 changes-
Enemy army size now shown in the leaderboard
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Tutorial step explaining the seasons
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Autumn fills your treasury, Winter slows growth and gold
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Price now appear in construction menu
Improved
2 changes-
Nukes rebalanced: cheaper, bigger blast radius, longer fallout, and far deadlier to enemy armies
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Directional Breakthroughs capped at 2 at once per player, holding a front matters again
Known Issues
1 change-
Imperium mode is not yet playable (coming soon)
Added
2 changes-
3 new soundtracks in game
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Clock system with climatic system
Improved
3 changes-
UI buttons animation
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Solo AI difficulty rebalanced
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Seasonal map tint
Fixed
2 changes-
Multiplayer lobby disconnect
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Game freeze during big battles / nukes
Added
2 changes-
New directional breakthroughs
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More long and detailed tutorial
Improved
2 changes-
One click on neutral land now claims a large area across your whole border
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Ships slowed down
Fixed
1 change-
Fix of multiplayer lobbies and host transfer
Known Issues
1 change-
Breakthroughs are land-only
Added
1 change-
Little tutorial for your first launch and game (you can do it in the main menu)
Improved
1 change-
Separated Multi and Solo games (in multiplayer you have a countdown of 1 min to players join)
Added
4 changes-
New music playlist (3 new music in game)
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New naval systems
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New nukes (MIRV system)
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You can now continue after the win
Improved
2 changes-
Game balancing gold and some construction
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Border expansion review
Fixed
2 changes-
Error models appear in client view
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General optimisation in final stage
Added
1 change-
Online fast strategic game. Inspired by openfront.io.