EpicDuel PVP Game Design Notes

August 28, 2026

Infernal Odyssey Preview

Next week, you will be able to become king of the underworld with epic new Infernal Odyssey gear, themed after Hades, Lord of the Underworld. This package is planned to go LIVE next Wednesday September 2nd. and will come with a rare achievement and 6 new active cores with incredible, unique abilities:

• Lotus Petal (Armor Active): Sacrifice a random skill for 40% less EP cost, +10 stats for each attack for 4 turns.
• Charon's Obol (Armor Active): Spare your life with 1 HP after a fatal attack. Prevents debuffs. Active up to 5 turns. Buff expires early when your life is spared.
• Shade Snare (Primary Active): Strike for 25% Energy drain, draining 25% Energy for each melee attack for 2 turns.
• Infernal Binding (Primary Active): 100% dmg. AOE attack that prevents Rage attacks for 3 turns.
• Legendary Shot (Sidearm Active): 110% dmg. Each use deals increasing dmg. by 10%, maxing out at 130%.
• Legendary Blast (Auxiliary Active): 100% dmg., disables passive HP/EP regeneration for 3 turns.

These skill descriptions are tentative and may change before the package goes online.

Gamma Pirate Leaving Soon!

When the Infernal Odyssey promotional package goes LIVE next week, the Gamma Pirate promotion will leave the shop for good! The robots and cores will return, but the gear itself and the included achievement will be rare!

Faction Coup Countermeasures

To help protect Factions from the risk of a compromised founder account, we've implemented the following changes:

• A founder cannot delete their own Faction without first removing all members.
• Kicking 3 members in one day now trips a circuit breaker that blocks additional kicks for 5 days. This is meant to limit damage if a malicious party gains access to the founder's account. This cooldown also offers founders a small period of reflection to reconsider a drastic permanent action like Faction deletion.
• Members leaving the Faction of their own volition with not increment the daily removal count.

However, for all the countermeasures we add to protect Factions from malicious activity, we cannot protect accounts from poor security practices like weak passwords or account sharing. If you haven't updated your password in awhile, now would be a great time to update to a complex password. Account sharing, in addition to being against the Terms of Service, is a huge security vulnerability regardless of how much you trust the other party.

If you think you will be taking an extended break from the game, an existing option is founder step-down in which the current founder passes the title to another *trusted* member of the Faction. We emphasize the "trust" here because if you hand the Faction over to someone who then passes the founder title to another random person you don't trust or know at all, what happens next is totally out of your control.

Balance

Skills:

• Tactical Grenade : +20 Energy gain/drain to all augments
• Blood Shield: Increase HP sacrifice from 40 → 60
• Blood Instinct: Increase HP sacrifice from 40 → 60
• EA1 Concentration: +55HP → +70HP.

Cores:

• Consecrated Fire: Buff removal: 100% → 80%
• Techstalker Tremor P/E,Telekinesis: Duration increased to 4 turns from 2.

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August 19, 2026

The Technomancer Showcase Battlepass is NOW LIVE! Login now to earn the latest collection of weapons, armors, morphs, bots, and more based on stylish cyberpunk gear that Delta V has been lacking lately.

We broke one of the standardization rules we set awhile back for Battlepasses by offering cores in as rewards, but the concepts fit so well with the theme of the showcase, we couldn't resist. So you all know what you're getting into with the new bots and cores available in this season, the skill descriptions are listed below:

Overclock: Decrease target's cooldowns by 1.
Underclock: Attack for 85% dmg. and increase target's cooldowns by 1.
Malware: 85% dmg., gain any Energy your target spends on skills and cores for 3 turns.

Technomancer Hexabot P

• Hexabot Cannon P: 100% Physical damage from Hexabot's cannon, gain 25% dmg. reduction for 1 turn.
• Hexabot Gas Grenade P: 100% Physical dmg., boosts effectiveness of HP poisons by 25% for 3 turns.

Technomancer Hexabot E

• Hexabot Cannon E: 100% Energy damage from Hexabot's cannon, gain 25% dmg. reduction for 1 turn.
• Hexabot Gas Grenade E: 100% Energy dmg., boosts effectiveness of HP poisons by 25% for 3 turns.

These epic new skills are sure to shake up the game's current balance!

Infernal Odyssey Preview

It's been a long, long time since we rolled out a new promotional package and this next one is spicy indeed! Become the king (or queen) of the Underworld with this new Infernal Odyssey set coming soon! This new package will come with new cores, gear, and an achievement!

In the meantime, get the Gamma Pirate gear while you can before it vanishes into the irradiated abyss!

Balance Changes

• Robots
  • Anubis Incantation P/E: 1 turn warm-up
  •  Infernal Overload: Damage: 125% → 120%
  • Heart Attack (all variants): Damage: 110% → 100%, removes 100% of buffs → removes 65% of buffs, multi-use
• Cores
  • Laser Sights: +80% damage when attack is deflected → +70% damage when attack is deflected
  • Azrael's Torment (all variants): Damage: 85% → 100%, removes 100% of buffs → removes 80% of buffs
  • Color Blast/Egg Rain type attacks that are triggered by a strike can now be triggered by Azrael's Will.
• Bounty Hunter
  • Blood Lust (UA 1): 15% Damage to HP/EP → 13% Damage to HP/EP
• Cyber Hunter
  • Plasma Grenade: 105 Energy → 125 Energy
• Tech Mage
  • Technician (UA): Scaling: 4.80 → 9.50
• Mercenary
  • Blood Commander (UA): Base Value: 21 → 18, Scaling: 5.40 → 9.25

Bug Fixes / Changes

• Faction Founders/Officers can view each member's daily all total Influence for the current war region.
• Hexabot Gas Grenade P/E no longer mini-Rages on use.

EpicDuel Down Time

The BattleOn Portal, EpicDuel, and the forums will undergo scheduled maintenance on Tuesday 8/25. The downtime will begin anytime between 12:00 PM and 4:00 PM EST. Once the servers go offline, maintenance is expected to last for approximately 2 hours before everything is back up and running. Hopefully sooner, but you know how this sometimes goes!

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August 07, 2026

Achievement Expansion

By request we've added more tiers to some popular achievements. 

Fame Achievements

• Legendary Superstar: Awarded for earning 50,000 Fame.
• Epic Legendary Superstar: Awarded for earning 75,000 Fame.
• Mythic Superstar: Awarded for earning 100,000 Fame.
• Eternal Superstar: Awarded for earning 125,000 Fame.
• Cosmic Superstar: Awarded for earning 150,000 Fame.
• Infinite Superstar: Awarded for earning 175,000 Fame.
• King of all Superstars: Awarded for earning 200,000 Fame.

Housing Tiers

• Landlord Tier 1: Awarded for owning at least 1 home.
• Landlord Tier 2: Awarded for owning at least 5 homes (current 5 home achievement).
• Landlord Tier 3: Awarded for owning at least 10 homes.
• Landlord Tier 4: Awarded for owning at least 15 homes.

Daily Missions

• Added tiers 12 - 20 for completing 200 to 1000 daily missions.

War Update

Wars that have ended since the 1v1/2v2/Juggernaut split will now show the total results from the 1v1/2v2/Juggernaut instead of leaving those sections blank. 

Mission Changes

• Search functionality for mission/mission group name or mission-giving NPC name
• When accessing a mission from the "Available Missions" section of an NPC's option, closing or clicking the X button will take you back to the NPC's "Available Missions" section. This seems more in line with expected behavior.
• If you do not meet mission completion prerequisites for a mission, the interface will display which mission group you need to complete.
• Jump to NPC in missions immediately opens the Mission interface to the mission you were trying to accept.

Quality of Life

• Admin messages will show up in the chat text box in yellow.

Bug Fix

• White Knight P/E should now be purchasable with the prices of 5,000 Varium or 5 Balance Tokens.
  
  

Battlepass Status

The Technomancer Battlepass is still in development. We hoped to have it ready by next week, but there is still uncertainty with all that's left to do. To be safe, the start time has been set to August 19th, which should give us a decent buffer to wrap up any outstanding issues. Ideally, it would release next week as planned, but we want to be sure it is 100% ready.

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