EpicDuel PVP Game Design Notes

Behind the scenes information about EpicDuel's development and releases, a real-time PVP MMO that you can play online in your web browser.

June 28, 2013

Patch Notes - 1.5.20

NEW CHANGES/FEATURES:

Battle Tokens have been converted to Credits and removed from the game
- All players received 10 Credits per remaining Token they had
- Battles now give extra Credits (5 for 1v1 win, 10 for 2v2 win)
- All remaining Token Boosts have been converted to Credit Boost
- Achievement awarded for token contributions to the old Faction Flags
- Missions that previously gave Token rewards now give Credits
War Objective changes:
- Added 6 new War Objectives across Delta V
- Objective Reinforcements - The longer one side holds an Objective, the more control the other side will receive per win. Reinforcements will decay over time once the Objective has been re-taken.
- The Dread Plains Control Array and new unique regional Objectives are now worth 5 War Points, down from 10.
- Other Dread Plains Objectives are now worth 2 War Points, down from 5.
- All remaining Objectives are now worth 2 points, down from 3.
- Cooldown increased on all regular Objectives to 20 minutes, up from 15.
- Maximum Control on all Objectives has been increased.
- Once an Objective has been taken, Control is set to 40% of the maximum, up from 20%
Updated several interfaces, including NPCs, to use the standard top-right X Button to close
New achievement for obtaining 200 Influence in each geographical region. These achievements will evolve in the future based on the amount of Influence you gain in each region.
Arbor and Bunny themed seasonal rares removed from shops.
Improved clarity of war mechanics on the world map

BUGS FIXED:

Certain War Objective information was being cached, occasionally causing the wrong numbers / flag to be displayed.