EpicDuel PVP Game Design Notes

January 23, 2026

It's been a week and few days since Gifting 2025 ended, and we're still hard at work on this year's Gifting prizes! Last week we were able to distribute as few prizes, and with this update, we're pleased to send even more prizes out, but we still have many more in-progress! Thank you for your patience as we craft these unique items that are sure to be among EpicDuel's most coveted and cherished rares! Thank you all for your patience as we continue our work.

However, just because we're working on Gifting items, doesn't mean we can't bring new content for everyone else! We still have much more planned for EpicDuel in the weeks and months ahead!

Coming Attractions

New week on Friday, we will open Secret and Silver Secret packages so the lucky EpicDuelists can enjoy their new rare rewards! In case there are still undistributed packages among the top 15 Gifters, we can still open the packages, but the top 15 Gifters with excess packages will retain them, just in case. 

Next Friday also marks the return of the War system! You should see the hours remaining on the War cooldown after this update goes Live.

Our next Battlepass is still in progress. The tentative release date is February 13th, but that can change depending on the Gifter prize progress. We don't want to overpromise, and there is still a ton of work to be done, but It would be REALLY REALLY cool to release this new BP on Friday the 13th!

Quality of Life

• Added button to core icons to allow instant removal.
• Removed Confirm screen when adding and removing cores.

This year we hope to add many more qualify of life features to EpicDuel to cut out annoyances while adding convenience.

Ruffle, Anyone?

We're not talking about potato chips (or crisps, if you prefer). Ruffle is a Flash emulator that is capable of playing old Flash games that are no longer supported by browsers. Recently, the desktop version of Ruffle updated to allow people to pay AQW and EpicDuel! It's not nearly as smooth as the AE Launcher, but it works! We haven't tested this yet, but this update could allow people to play EpicDuel on their phones.

I must iterate that the best way to play EpicDuel and other AE games is through our Launcher, as it is the only one we officially support. However, it's great news that there are other ways to experience our games for those who can't use our Launcher.

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