EpicDuel PVP Game Design Notes

January 21, 2022

Today the Secret and Silver Secret packages open to shower their owners with an avalanche of icy treasures!

Epic Storage!

Even with the stacking of mission items to clean up your inventories, the aftermath of gifting leaves everyone with piles of extra gear taking up space in your inventories and banks.

Bank max size increased to 2020!

If you already qualify for a new achievement tier, please allow some time to receive your achievement update.

• Extreme Legendary Banker Collect everything! Awarded for buying 1200 bank slots. Rating: 12,000
• Supreme Legendary Banker Collect everything! Awarded for buying 1400 bank slots. Rating: 13,500
• Ultimate Legendary Banker Collect everything! Awarded for buying 1600 bank slots. Rating: 15,000
• Cosmic Legendary Banker Collect everything! Awarded for buying 1800 bank slots. Rating: 16,500
• Divine Legendary Banker Collect everything! Awarded for buying 2000 bank slots. Rating: 18,000

Inventory max size increased to 1220!

• Extreme Legendary Hoarder Collect everything! Awarded for having 820+ inventory slots. Rating: 9,500
• Supreme Legendary Hoarder Collect everything! Awarded for having 920+ inventory slots. Rating: 10,500
• Ultimate Legendary Hoarder Collect everything! Awarded for having 1020+ inventory slots. Rating: 11,500
• Cosmic Legendary Hoarder Collect everything! Awarded for having 1120+ inventory slots. Rating: 12,500
• Divine Legendary Hoarder Collect everything! Awarded for having 1220 inventory slots. Rating: 13,500

New War Commander

To prepare for the next war event, x100 and permanent War Commander cores will be available at Vendbots across Delta V.

Silver Secret Package Opens

This update, Silver Secret Packages will open to reveal this year's latest batch of holiday gear! Awarding these is a manual process, so please allow some time to receive your prizes.

• Frost Warlord Repeater P
• Frost Warlord Repeater E
• Frost Warlord Scimitar P
• Frost Warlord Scimitar E
• Frost Warlord's Rage
• Frost Warlord's Wrath
• Frost Warlord Bike
• Frost Warlord Bike CC

Secret Package Opens

This update, Secret Packages will also open to reveal this year's latest batch of holiday gear! Awarding these is a manual process, so please allow some time to receive your prizes.

• Frost Warlord Cryo Pistol P
• Frost Warlord Cryo Pistol E
• Frost Warlord Cannon P
• Frost Warlord Cannon E
• Frost Warlord Slayer P 
• Frost Warlord Slayer E
• Frost Warlord
• Frost Warlord CC
• Frost Warlord Cavalier
• Frost Warlord Cavalier CC
• Frost Warlord Archangel
• Frost Warlord Archangel CC
• Morphing Archangel -- click the gem on the chest for a surprise!
• Morphing Archangel CC -- click the gem on the chest for a surprise!

For the morphing armors, the animation states do not broadcast to all players, but all players are able to click the armor to see the new forms.

New Package Cores

When these packages open, new cores will be attached to the various included weapons! Thanks to our improved core functionality, you can swap out these cores without fear of them being destroyed.

• Frozen Bonebreaker (Armor): Deal 105% Primary damage, increasing by 5% per round (140% max), 25% Crit chance.
• Shattering Star (Primary): Summon a frozen comet barrage, dealing 120% Primary weapon damage.
• Permafrost (Sidearm): Lock a target in ice, disabling melee attacks for 2 turns.
• Cold Ignition (Aux): Fire a blast of cold fire, reducing target's energy by 50 points each turn for 3 turns.

New Achievement

This update we're introducing a new achievement, Daily Gift Legend, for players who have won the top Daily Gifter achievement in 3 gifting seasons between 2018-2022. The previous Daily Gift Legend achievement (being a top Daily Gifter for 4 gifting seasons in a row) has been changed to the Daily Gift Epic Legend. These achievements are only for those who have the Daily Gifter achievements -- having the Secret Package prizes is not enough to qualify.

Item Finder Upgraded

Core search has now been added to the item finder. There are some outstanding issues with the item finder like the clear button not working and the alphabetical search alternative between ascending and descending, but these will be fixed in a subsequent update. There are also some items that may show up, but are either orphaned database entries, testing items, or items not intended for sale. To eliminate confusion, items are being hidden from the interface on a rolling basis.

Hidden Exile

If you've logged into EpicDuel in the last few days you've probably noticed Exile is missing from the server list. We haven't needed it in awhile (each server has a cap of over 1000) so Spider and I decided to use it as an additional environment to test new features. That should allow more thorough testing and prevent the need for late-night weekend hotfixes.

Bug Fix:

NPC battle limit: Server updated to new limit of 300. 

Tags: Nightwraith