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Nightwraith

February 28, 2020

Merry Dage-mas!

Merry Dage-mas!

This week we welcome the return of Dage's awesome arsenal of weapons and mutations while we introduce a first for EpicDuel: Color Customizable Weapons!

 

Balance Changes

  • Tactical Reload (aux and gun): 3 turn warm up
  • Intimidate (Blood Mage): improves every 4 support.
  • Fire Rain: just a bit buff, improves every 0.40 support.
  • Blood Commander: Lifesteal reduced to 55% of Stregth from 65%
  • Static Grenade: Sender absorbs 70% of the drained energy. Base values increased +15 Energy Points per level
    Lvl 1 = 90
    Lvl 2 = 105
    Lvl 3 = 120
    Lvl 4 = 135
    Lvl 5 = 150
    Lvl 6 = 165
    Lvl 7 = 180
    Lvl 8 = 195
    Lvl 9 = 210
    Lvl 10 = 225
  • Memory Leak: Cooldown increased to 4 from 3

 

Merry Dage-mas!

Dage the Evil's EpicDuel seasonal rares have returned a bit early this year! Since there was no prior warning, this will be your last opportunity to collect them before most of them go permanently rare. This change will occur next Friday upon the new update!

Nightmare Dage is also returning with 3 new potential drops:

  • Dage's Capeless Nightmare
  • Nightmare Dage's Desolation P
  • Nightmare Dage's Desolation E

Dage will also offer some revamped rare weapons representing a new feature to EpicDuel: Color Customizable Weapons!

  • Dage's CC Desolation P
  • Dage's CC Desolation E

These two weapons are limited to 150 quantity each and will go permanently rare once they're gone! Expect more CC weapons in the future!

 

Celtic Weapon Preview

Charfade is still hard at work vectorizing her latest masterpiece! This set is shaping up to be one the prettiest yet to ever grace Delta V!

Celtic Stag Sword

Celtic Stag Blades

Celtic Stag Hammer

Celtic Stag Staff

Celtic Stag Guns

Achievements

Since we're nearly at the 11 year anniversary of EpicDuel's first Alpha release, everyone is able to collect the Eleven Year Alpha achievement in the achievement shop. 

For collectors who have been sleeping on the shop and need some more rating points to hit that next star tier, three achievements are disappearing next Friday with the next update: 

  • Big Game LIV
  • Australia Day 2020
  • Black Mamba Forever

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Titan

February 22, 2020

Coming Soon: EpicDuel Tournaments!

Tournaments Coming Soon

Today's update with introduce some awesome new legendary items and legendary variants, but the real meat is the announcement of the first exciting new feature of 2020: Tournaments!

 

Tournaments? Tournaments!

Titan and I have teamed up once again to develop a new feature for EpicDuel: Tournaments! Tournaments, as a feature, aren't completely new to EpicDuel. Some of you who have been with EpicDuel since...around 2012-2013 may remember the Golden Yeti Tournament, in which players who preordered the Omega Packages got a ticket to participate in a tournament. Over a period of 2 weeks, ticket owners accumulated points for 1v1, 2v2, and Juggernaut victories, and the competitors with the most points would earn achievements and prizes based on placement. In this case, the top 100 players would earn an achievement to indicate their placement and the coveted Golden Yeti bot, one of the rarest items in game.

Golden Yeti Standings

This system was cool and exciting, but unfortunately, it wasn't built in a way that would allow expansion or re purposing for future events and was removed entirely from the engine some time after the event concluded. The new tournament system is being built fresh, with some inspiration from the original event.  

With the new system, tournaments can be scheduled in advance with a set time. Each placement tier (Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze) can receive different prizes. Tournament tickets can be included with promotional packages acquired in-game or both. When the time period to enlist in the tournament draws closer, it will be announced to offer a chance to participate to as many people as possible. The feature is still under construction, but it's coming together very quickly. Hopefully, we'll see some old characters from the old phases dusted off to attempt to climb to the top of the boards once again!

 

New Legendary Items

Some beautiful new Legendary weapons have been added to the shops on Titan's Peak in Frysteland! They'll definitely make amazing additions to any collection!

  • Legendary Arsenal
    • Fleshreaver P
    • Fleshreaver E
  • Exquisite Legendary Arsenal
    • Angelic Radiance P
    • Angelic Radiance E
    • Angelic Oblivion P
    • Angelic Oblivion E
  • Epic Legendary Arsenal
    • Dage's Capeless Paragon
    • Dage's Capeless Paragon CC
    • Dage's Capeless Gld Paragon
    • Dage's Capeless Plat Paragon
    • Platinum Angelic Radiance P
    • Platinum Angelic Radiance E
    • Platinum Angelic Oblivion P
    • Platinum Angelic Oblivion E
    • Diamond Dage's Desolation P
    • Diamond Dage's Desolation E

 

War Balance

  • The total war score is still overcompensating and setting a longer war duration that would be exciting. This total score was dropped on both sides by 600,000 to put the war in a more reasonable range.
  • Slightly increase War Drop base rate to 39% from 35%.
  • Slightly reduced Juggernaut War Drop multiplier to incentivize other battle types.

Tags: Titan


Nightwraith

February 14, 2020

Regal Heart Gear

Regal Heart Gear

For this Valentine's Day update, EpicDuel is bursting at the seams with new weapons, armors, home items, and hairstyles for your enjoyment!

 

New Items!

Visit the Legendary Arsenal and the Alydroid for new weapons and armors crafted with care by Bido and Deuce!

New Weapons now available at the Legendary Arsenal!

  • Radiant Battle Blades P
  • Radiant Battle Blades E
  • Radiant Battle Axe P
  • Radiant Battle Axe E
  • Radiant Battle Staff P
  • Radiant Battle Staff E
  • Radiant Battle Blaster P
  • Radiant Battle Blaster E
  • Radiant Battle Bow P
  • Radiant Battle Bow E

New Weapons and Armors now available at Alydroid!

  • Regal Heart Claymore P
  • Regal Heart Claymore E
  • Regal Heart Great Blade P
  • Regal Heart Great Blade E
  • Regal Heart Short Sword P
  • Regal Heart Short Sword E
  • Regal Heart Splicers P
  • Regal Heart Splicers E
  • Regal Heart Mallet P
  • Regal Heart Mallet E
  • Regal Heart Staff P
  • Regal Heart Staff E
  • Regal Heart Hand Cannon P
  • Regal Heart Hand Cannon E
  • Regal Heart Cannon P
  • Regal Heart Cannon E
  • Regal Heart Armor
  • Regal Heart Armor CC

 

Home Items

Enjoy new home items dedicated to the film debut of a video game legend!

  • Giant Emerald
  • Gem Pile
  • Spinning Ring
  • Gray Wall Gem
  • Red Wall Gem
  • Blue Wall Gem
  • Purple Wall Gem
  • Yellow Wall Gem
  • Cyan Wall Gem
  • Ring


Hair Styles

Will you get the references of these stylish new hairs and helms?

  • Egg Scientist
  • Hyper Hair
  • Flashy Hyper Hair
  • Eggbot
  • RiotBot

 

Balance

  • Mercenary
    • Intimidate: 3 turns
  • Blood Mage
    • Intimidate: 4 turns
  • Omega Override: Remove warmup

Tags: Nightwraith


Nightwraith

February 07, 2020

Radiant Brutalizer

Radiant Brutalizer

This week, we're delivering some much needed inventory to the Legendary shops in Titan's Peak. These are just a taste of the new Legendary and seasonal rare items being prepared for delivery next week!

Radiant Restock!

Check out these merchants in Frysteland to collect new seasonal rares designed by Junny Osan and new radiant, Legendary rares designed by Bido!

Krampus Trader

  • Ice Bear Blaster P
  • Ice Bear Blaster E
  • Ice Bear Bazooka P
  • Ice Bear Bazooka E
  • Ice Bear Blades P
  • Ice Bear Blades E
  • Ice Bear Maul P
  • Ice Bear Maul E
  • Ice Bear Staff P
  • Ice Bear Staff E

Legendary Arsenal

  • Radiant Brutalizer P
  • Radiant Brutalizer E

Exquisite Legendary Arsenal

  • Radiant Golem
  • Radiant Golem CC

New Hairstyles

  • Radiant Golem
  • Radiant Golem CC

 

Secret Package Update

Due to popular demand, the Secret Package recipients will receive a CC version of the Wolf Warrior Armor (Omega Wolf Warrior CC). The Omega Wolf Warrior Armor from last year will be known as the Caped Omega Wolf Warrior CC

Tags: Nightwraith


Nightwraith

February 03, 2020

Patch Notes

Surprise Monday fixes! This small patch is meant to correct some minor graphical and animation errors from Friday's update while also adding a new surprise for the Secret Package winners! There is still a planned update for Friday.

 

Fixes and Additions

  • Heart Attack: Does 100% damage
  • Omega Dominator P: Fixed animation freeze after firing
  • Omega Frostbike: Removed CC component and fixed animation masking on tubes
  • Omega Frostbike CC: Added for Secret Package winners
  • Fixed animation synchronization error in Top Gifter bot

Tags: Nightwraith

 

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