EpicDuel PVP Game Design Notes

March 22, 2013

NEW CHANGES/FEATURES:

• Increased the maximum credits possible per battle from 210 to 300. This should prevent issues where you could get fewer base credits than expected while boosting during Power Hour.

BALANCE CHANGES:

• Infernal Android
  • This bot could unleash huge, repeatable damage with no downside. This change should make using the bot the more tactical "Can I afford to wait for its full damage" decision we originally intended.
  • Is now usable once per battle
  • Damage dealt changed from 80-140% to 85-130%. Still gains 5% damage per round.
  • Added a 3 turn warmup on the special to prevent accidental use before it deals full damage.
  • Special now goes into a 3 turn cooldown instead of 4 when the normal attack is used.
• Assimilation
  • This skill is intended to provide an on-demand energy boost; this change keeps the focus where it is intended.
  • Lowered damage on hit from 100% to 85%.

BUGS FIXED:

• Reduced the visual size of the Lagomorph auxiliaries.
• Reversed the position of the Sickle weapons to appear more natural.
• Krampus Blaster, Krampus Cannon, Legion Blaster, and Legion Cannon were incorrectly removed in the last update. They have been moved to the Krampus Trader.
• Resale price of Basic items was not visually upgrading in certain cases.
• Inserting/replacing cores would not visually update the resale price of the item in some cases
• Resatting items could sometimes cause the resale price to visually increase.
• Fixed several animation flickers at the start of turns.
• Botanical Battlegear was incorrectly labeled as Rare instead of Seasonal Rare.
• Venom Strike initial damage was incorrectly scaling per round.
• Price of Bio Trooper armor changed to correctly match the Bio Mage and Bio Hunter armors.
• Certain prize items incorrectly had no resale value. This applies retroactively to existing prize items, including the Bounty Pistol and Banx0rz Blade.

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