EpicDuel PVP Game Design Notes

July 29, 2022

Visit Cheff's Bar in Central Station to climb the leaderboard in the latest Arcade offering: Cheff's Challenge!

New Arcade: Cheff's Challenge

Visit any ArcadeBot, including Cheff's own custom bots in the Central Station bar area to play Cheff's Challenge and collect an assortment of stylish new sidearm and auxiliary weapon both futuristic and fearsome. Cheff was able to assemble quite an epic arsenal thanks to his old collections in the Legion and he's more than happy to share the wealth with you...for the price of an Arcade Token!

Gold Tier

• Skeletal Rail P (pre-equipped with Spreadfire)
• Skeletal Rail E (pre-equipped with Spreadfire)

Silver Tier

• Memet's Plasma Cannon P
• Memet's Plasma Cannon E
• Cheff Bobblehead
• Mega Soaker P
• Mega Soaker E

Bronze Tier

• Chrono Blaster P
• Chrono Blaster E
• Heroic Blaster P
• Heroic Blaster E
• Xeno Claw Blaster P
• Xeno Claw Blaster E
• Gilded Pan
• Platinum Pan
• Cheff's Pan P
• Cheff's Pan E

As with all new Arcade Games, this will include a new tiered achievement that can be leveled up by depositing Arcade Tokens and winning prizes!

Nulgath's Arsenal: Missions Added

Two new missions have been added to Dage's Nulgath Arsenal mission chain. Earn big Credit rewards and two new Nulgath weapons by completing them! 

• Nulgath's Arsenal 10
• Nulgath's Arsenal 11

• New Mission Weapons:
  • Fiend Dragonblade P
  • Fiend Dragonblade E

New Achievements

Since upcoming balance changes may make lengthy boss encounters easier, these achievements will be awarded manually to those who already defeated Legendary and Nightmare Acatriel. 

• Legendary Acatriel Slayer
• Nightmare Acatriel Slayer

Going forward we will have a policy of awarding special achievements for those who are able to defeat new bosses within a week (approximately from one release to another). 

Balance Changes

• Tech Mage:
  • Battery Backup: Cooldown reduced from 5 to 4
  • Nanotech: Damage reduction max increased from 10% to 15%

• Cyber Hunter:
  • Nanotech: Damage reduction max increased from 10% to 15%

• Tactical Mercenary:
  • Adrenaline: 15% to 20% reroute
  • Frenzy: Cooldown reduced from 5 to 4

• Mercenary:
  • Static Smash: Buffed base numbers to compensate for strength reduction skills
  • NEW Static Smash: 35 40 45 50 54 58 62 66 68 70
  • OLD Static Smash: 36 38 40 42 44 46 48 50 52 54

• Gun Cores:
  • Aim assist: Reduce chance for weapons to be deflected by 30%
  • Energy Shot: Reusable.
• Armor Cores:
  • Tranquility: Reusable; 4 turn cooldown.
  • Sea Kings Spirit: Regenerate mana based on your armor defense, 3 turn cool down instead of 4 and reusable.
  • Titans Shroud: 30% damage reduction/deflection, increase block and deflection chance.

• Aux Cores:
  • Aim Assist: Reduces for this weapons attack to be deflected by 30%
  • Stun Blast: Increase chance to stun to 6% from 3%
  • Concussive Shot: Reusable
  • Sea Kings corruption: Reduces the effects of all healing by 25% instead of 35% for 4 turns instead of 3

Coming Attractions

• New Promotional Package: Very soon we will be introducing a new promotional package, the Darkeater Collectoin, absolutely packed with new gear, including bots, bikes, cores, and new gear in all categories!

• New Tournament: Later next month we will be hosting a new tournament: Hellfire Havoc. This tournament will feature fiery infernal gear the likes you have not seen before. To allow more people to participate in and have a chance to win the top prizes, we're considering splitting the tournament into 2: a 1v1 tournament and a 2v2/Juggernaut tournament. Rather than a week, these would run over a weekend to help maximize participation and prevent battle fatigue.

• See Ya Seasonals: Earlier this month we brough back all the seasonal items. Soon, they will be leaving again until they are re-added in later this year.

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