WOH v5.0 Release Notes
Welcome to v5.0 and welcome back to World of Hex. Thanks for playing, especially those who have been playing since 2017.
This major update to the game brings support for VoiceOver and accessibility throughout the entire game. It's been a huge change to support this, and has taken an enormous amount of time and effort. If you are someone who uses VoiceOver please feel free to get in contact with any feedback at:
[email protected].
In addition to VoiceOver support, two additional colour palettes have been added for those people who experience some forms of colour blindness. The palettes can be chosen from the new Settings panel.
Another change is one of necessity. When World of Hex was released, there was no filter applied to the players nickname, and as a result, some offensive names have made it into the system. v5 adds a new profanity filter on player names, and as part of this update, any existing player names that trigger that filter will have been changed to something inoffensive. If you are one of the players affected by this change, I'm sorry but there will be no exceptions. You can, if you choose to, reach out and request that the new name be changed to something else (that doesn't trigger the filter) by emailing me at
[email protected]. Like any other system where people can join in and play, World of Hex aims to be welcoming, inclusive and friendly. There is no room for offensive language or behaviour.
As usual, some bugs have been fixed, notably:
1. On macOS, fixed a number of issues with the placement of tips and prompts if you resize the window or change to full screen mode.
2. Fixed the position of the game board, start and replay buttons on macOS and tvOS.
3. Changing orientation on iPhone now worked much more reliably.
And finally there have been some other improvements:
1. On iPhone, when panning or rotating a world, haptic feedback is now provided when world tiles pass the centre of the screen. This was added as part of the accessibility updates. You can disable this from the new settings panel.
2. In the world scores panel, your score is now highlighted.
3. On tvOS, a number of improvements when working with the Siri Remote for panning.
4. A new filter has been applied to player nicknames to help reduce the number of offensive nicknames in the system. If your nickname has been flagged as offensive, then you may find it has been changed to a randomly generated fantasy game name. If you want to change it, please contact
[email protected]
5. Improved, dramatically, the animation when moving between planets and moons.