EpicDuel PVP Game Design Notes

June 18, 2021

Inventory Upgrade

Earlier this week we made many limited quantity items sellable to lighten the burden on players with sparse inventory space. Now, we're giving all players a complementary inventory buff with 20 additional slots and raising the inventory cap to 720!

• Inventory Achievements adjusted +20
  • Epic Hoarder: 120
  • Extreme Hoarder: 220
  • Legendary Hoarder: 320
  • Grand Legendary Hoarder: 420
  • Ultra Legendary Hoarder: 520
  • Epic Legendary Hoarder: 620
  • Ultimate Legendary Hoarder (NEW): 720 slots
• All players awarded +20 free inventory slots
• Inventory cap raised to 720
• New players begin with 50 inventory slots

Buddy Slot Upgrade

Need more room for friends but don't have the budget? We have you covered! Expand your social circle with 20 additional free buddy slots!

• Buddy Achievements adjusted +20
  • Epic Buddy: 120
  • Extreme Buddy: 170
  • Legendary Buddy: 220
• All players awarded +20 free buddy slots
• Buddy slot cap raised to 220
• New players begin with 30 buddy slots

New Gifting Prizes Added:

At long last two additional unique gifting rewards have made their way onto Delta V! Thank you again for your patience during this process, and it was a pleasure realizing your EpicDuel visions.

• Lore Master's Alpha Demiurge - an angelic armor forged from a realm beyond time and space
• runeknight's Gamma Bot - a gilded Gamma Bot with weapons fit to battle a kaiju

Bug Fix:

Revitalization (Credit only): armor Defense and Resistance now being removed correctly

Last Infernal Call:

Next week the Infernal Slayer 3 missions will leave and become permanently rare (for real)! You have one week to complete the challenge and obtain these unique weapons!

Player Appreciation Varium:

With next week's update we will be giving all players who have logged in since January 1, 2020 a bonus 750 Varium to spend as they chose. This should be especially exciting for those who have never been able to afford any Varium and want to see what all the hype is about! You can even take a bite and see what it tastes like! I wouldn't recommend this, however, as Fortune City dental care can be lethal!

Tags: Nightwraith

June 14, 2021

We just rolled a small update make several limited quantity items sellable. This should be valuable to players without Varium who cannot expand their inventories as well as players with hundreds of items who want to do some Spring cleaning. Remember that the reason for this restriction was to prevent players from buying and selling the entire stock of items to troll other players. As the items are no longer in shops, the restrictions are no longer needed.

New Changes

The following items are now able to be sold at merchants, freeing up valuable inventory space.

• Blazing Celtic Hunter CC
• Mystic Celtic Hunter CC
• Blazing Celtic Destroyer CC
• Mystic Celtic Destroyer CC
• Blazing Celtic Pistol CC
• Mystic Celtic Pistol CC
• Blazing Celtic War Bow CC
• Mystic Celtic War Bow CC
• Legion Operative Pistol P
• Legion Operative Pistol E
• Legion Hero Slayer P
• Legion Hero Slayer E
• Legion Hero Dagger P
• Legion Hero Dagger E
• Bonefire Warlord P
• Bonefire Warlord E
• Darkside Slayer P
• Darkside Slayer E
• Darkside Shredder P
• Darkside Shredder E
• Legion Leviathan Cutlass P
• Legion Leviathan Cutlass E
• Legion Leviathan Breaker P
• Legion Leviathan Breaker E
• Legion Wrath Scythe P
• Legion Wrath Scythe E
• Legion Skewer P
• Legion Skewer E
• Legion Hero Destroyer P
• Legion Hero Destroyer E

Tags: Nightwraith

June 11, 2021

Arcade Tokens weighing you down? Visit Kraggor in the Infernal Mines to play the newest arcade game to win his new collection!

NEW ARCADE: Kraggor's Cache

Visit Kraggor in the Infernal Mines (or any ArcadeBot scattered throughout Delta V) to play the latest arcade game: Kraggor's Cache! Spend arcade tokens to win a new collection of Infernal weapons, home items, and credit jackpots!

With a new arcade comes a new leaderboard to climb and a new arcade achievement to earn with 13 levels of evolution!

Infernal Slayer 3 Leaving Soon!

If you haven't completed the Infernal Quest missions yet, you'd better hurry! They won't last much long and then those missions (and mission prizes) will go rare permanently!

Tags: Nightwraith

June 04, 2021

We just rolled a small update to boost rewards for 1v1 and 2v2 battles. This increase is in addition to the Power Hour/Power Weekend credits and experience boost. Note that this increase will impact losses as well as victories.

New Changes

• Increased reward multiplier for 1v1 battles from 2 to 2.4
• Increased reward multiplier for 2v2 battles from 3 to 5

Bugs

• Defeating the Legendary Delta Vault in the mission "Legendary Vault Core" with only award the mission drop but not the achievement. This is a known limitation with NPC drops; they can only award an achievement or a drop, but not both. This achievement will be awarded manually until the mission chains go rare.

Tags: Nightwraith

May 28, 2021

Infernal Quest

The sage of the forgotten mines beneath the Wasteland Minetower, Kraggor has plans for a new, improved Infernal Slayer, but he needs your help to complete it! 

Visit the mighty mecha himself to being the Infernal Quest Part 1 with the starting mission Infernal Malfunction! These 22 missions will require a keen eye and adept skills to complete, but at the end new weapons and a new achievement await!

Varium Bonus

For a limited time, the 10,000 AP Varium packages will include more Varium! The Sea King Set now includes 12,000 Varium and the Varium-only package includes 15,000 Varium! These deals won't last forever so log in and power up today!

Tags: Nightwraith

May 21, 2021

POWER UP...with Credits?!

For awhile several power cores have dominated PvP. Unfortunately for many, these cores were only available for Varium. We want those who spend money to support EpicDuel to get a good value for their generous contributions, but if the game becomes too tilted in favor of Varium players, it can become a boring, if not hostile, experience for players who love the EpicDuel but cannot buy Varium. Walking this fine line between empowering Varium users without alienating Credit-only players has been a challenge as old as EpicDuel itself.

To help restore a bit of power to Credit-only players, we've made cores that had previously been Varium-only available for Credits. Please note that some of these cores are slightly less powerful than their Varium counterparts so there will still be a distinction for those who choose to purchase Varium. If this feature is popular enough, we can do the same for more Varium-only cores.

Now available at the War Memorial in the Infernal Mines:

• Om Nom Bomb P x25: Summon a swarm to attack target and absorb 20% Physical damage to HP.
• Om Nom Bomb E x25: Summon a swarm to attack target and absorb 20% Energy damage to HP.
• Magma Grenade P x25: Physical grenade that lowers defenses by an increasing amount (0.8 per level) for 4 turns.
• Magma Grenade E x25: Energy grenade that lowers defenses by an increasing amount (0.8 per level) for 4 turns.
• Short Circuit Grenade P x25: A grenade that deals 75% Physical damage and puts a random skill into Cooldown.
• Short Circuit Grenade E x25: A grenade that deals 75% Energy damage and puts a random skill into Cooldown.
• Crystal Grenade x25: A grenade that reduces the target's energy by 25% of normal strike damage.
• Stalagrenade P x25: Hardened Physical grenade that ignores 15% Defense with 10% Crit chance.
• Stalagrenade E x25: Hardened Energy grenade that ignores 15% Defense with 10% Crit chance.
• Hammer Grenade P x25: 60% Physical damage that removes armor for 2 rounds.
• Hammer Grenade E x25: 60% Energy damage that removes armor for 2 rounds.

Now available at VendBots across Delta V:

• Health Reserve x25: Restore health based on your armor’s defense (2.7 points of HP for every point of Defense)
• Energy Reserve x25: Restore energy based on your armor’s resistance (2.7 points of Energy for every point of Resistance)
• Thrown Shot x25: Throw away your shot, destroying your sidearm for 300 HP

Now available from Kraggor:

• Revitalization: Sacrifice Armor's Defense / Resistance and an extra 25% for 6 turns for up to 800 HP.
• Focused Fury: Attack with fury, dealing primary damage plus 8% of your target's max Health (Max 350).
• TrueShot (Gun): Deal 75% Sidearm damage, increasing by 5% per round, (115% max).
• Mana Burst: Reduce enemy energy by 25% of normal auxiliary damage.

Now available from Titan:

• Infinity Power Strike x25: Same as Varium
• Infinity Mind Spears x25: Same as Varium
• Infinity Power Strike: Spend 95 HP for 105% strike damage. Blockable.
• Infinity Mind Spears: Summon a piercing barrage, ignoring 15% of a target's Defense.

Other Core Adjustment

Infernal Surge: 6 turn cooldown; reusable

New Achievement! 

View your achievement shops to grab the limited Heroic Memorial 2021 achievement! 

Bug Fix

Soul Siphon: no longer gives target rage.

Tags: Nightwraith