EpicDuel PVP Game Design Notes

December 24, 2013

NEW CHANGES / FEATURES 

• Maximum level has been increased to 40
• Experience curve has been smoothed out and total experience required to reach maximum level has been reduced
• New Legendary Mode
  • You may now gain experience beyond the level cap, granting Legendary ranks.
  • In a future release, Legendary ranks will grant you points to spend in new areas to further customize and strengthen your character
• New 10k Varium Pack Blood Hawk Battlegear Bundle
  • 2 Blood Hawk Slayer swords
  • 2 Blood Hawk Battlegear mutating weapons
  • 2 Blood Hawk bots
• Davarril, Elite Yeti and Black Abyss Spider have a chance to drop gems (Flawed, Normal, Imperfect) upon defeat
• Daily mission chain battle requirements reduced -- easier to earn an Arcade Token
• New icon-only display option for Achievements panel
• Numerous interface changes to the stats panel to improve clarity and readability
• Stats panel now shows the current player’s equipped gear
• 6 new Artix-themed Arcade games with new items from various AE games
• 30 Asgardian styles

BALANCE

• All Health, Energy, Damage, Defense, and Resistance values have been multiplied by 10 
  • This gives us much greater flexibility in future balance updates
  • Every stat point will now give noticeable improvements to your character
• Removed damage ranges from all skills that used them (examples: Bunker Buster, Supercharge)
• Static Grenade
  • Steals 30% of the energy drained, down from 50%
  • Energy drain now scales off Support instead of Technology
• Plasma Bolt
  • Energy cost increased to 150 from 130
  • Stat scaling lowered to 2.5 damage every 1 Tech, down from 2.85
• Berserker
  • Energy cost lowered to 240 from 270
• Adrenaline
  • Rage gain increased by 10% at all levels

BUGFIXES

• Fixed
  • 1. Click on your buddy list and select any buddy (does not have to be online)
  • 2. Click the home icon to view the buddy's homes. You must view the homes through the buddy list, and not by the home icon on the bottom of the screen
  • 3. Fortune City Efficiency is being sold to the left of your buddy's homes. Click the "Claim Home Free" button and a confirmation will show up saying "Are you sure you want to claim the Fortune City Efficiency for FREE?"
  • 4. Click "Claim Home" when this confirmation shows up and an error message appears: "unable to purchase home, please try again later!"
• Fixed Botanical Borg Attack skill name was missing
• Deposit button is visible while not banking
  • 1. Enter house
  • 2. Click on bank bot
  • 3. Click on "View Items"
  • 4. Exit bank bot but stay in house
  • 5. Click on inventory icon (bagpack)
  • 6. Instead of equipped items you see "Deposit Item" button
• Arcade and Ultra-Rare Achievements were sometimes not displaying properly
• Epic Stylist achievement could sometimes show the incorrect tier and progress
• Typos
• Wasteland War Points total showing incorrectly

Tags: Nightwraith