Nexus Control

The first time you open HEX you choose a faction. You can leave later, but a player who changes side during a cycle loses that cycle's rewards, and nobody can walk out while they still own a hex.

Every hex holds a few peripheral nodes and one Nexus node. Click a hex to see them. To hit them you need their IPs: a Hex Map Package reveals a hex you do not know and files its hosts in a new folder of your target list.

1. Hack every peripheral node of the hex, successfully, yourself, in this cycle.
2. The game tells you the Nexus is unlocked. Until then, hacking it does nothing.
3. Hack the Nexus. The hex turns to your faction and you become its owner.

• Nexus Keys: hacking the Nexus of a hex your faction holds (or the one you just took) can drop that hex's key.
• Links: connect to the Nexus of one of your hexes, crack it, open the Nexus tab and spend the key of another hex your faction holds. The key is used up.
• A link cannot cross another link. Place yours to block theirs.
• Control Fields: three links that close a triangle make a field. The bigger the triangle, the more it scores.

• At every checkpoint each faction scores points for the hexes it holds and for the area of its fields.
• When the cycle ends, the faction with more points wins. Everyone who took part gets a reward, the top players of each side get more. Claim them from Rewards before the next cycle ends.
• Then the map resets: every hex goes neutral, links, fields and keys disappear, Hex folders are wiped and the Nexus hosts change IP.
• History replays past cycles; the Game Log, the cycle leaderboard and the timers sit at the bottom of the map.