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 EpicDuel Omega: Coming January 2013
A new game phase begins next month and tons of previews have already gone out. The purpose of this topic is to compile all those sneak peeks and for you to see what you can expect when the phase is released. Previews are generally posted here on the forums, or in the Design Notes and social media websites. We'll do our best to update this thread regularly and at a speedy manner as previews are made available to the public. Feel free to discuss, speculate and share your thoughts!
If you're interested in reviewing Design Notes pertaining to Omega Content, previews start in the November 8th Design Notes and later (not including Patch Notes).
Video Previews
Art
Promotional
Class Redesigns (these are NOT new classes)
Frysteland
Others
Balance
The Future of Weapons: Upgrading, Equippable Item Abilities and Requirements + Stats and Damage Model
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Another major change coming to items in Omega is the ability to upgrade any item. As you level up, you will gain the ability to put more stats, damage, and defense/resistance onto your items, up to their maximum potential for your level. This effectively means that any item can be used at any level and will not be stronger or weaker than any other item at that level.
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Items becoming just art and removing strategy
Strategy in the game is not tied to which weapon you use, it relates to the stats you decide to end up with. Strategy will not be removed in any way by this change, and now that items are more customizable than before, it should increase the number of strategies available. In the current system, you have to cater your strategy to the gear because of the built-in nature of stats and stat requirements -- instead of just getting whatever weapon you want, and then catering it to they way you want to play.
In addition, we will continue to have items with unique abilities on them, the breadth of which will be greatly expanded in Omega. These will present completely unique items that are different from all the others. More details on this in the future.
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@Titan_EpicDuel
I'm working closely with RabbleFroth to implement a new Stat / Damage model for dramatically improved balance! Details soon!
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Enhancements were a system to add stats ON TOP of what the item already gave you.
In the new system, the stats an item has are dependent on your level, and you can distribute them as you want.
Then as you level, the number of stats your gear can have increases, so you can upgrade them instead of having to throw them away and buy new gear.
Example with made up numbers:
* At level 10 I might be allowed to put 10 stats on a new gun I buy. I put 4 in Strength, 4 in Dex, 2 in Support.
* I keep fighting and end up at level 13. I now am allowed to put 12 stats on my gun.
* I can either buy a new gun and put 12 stats on it, or I can upgrade my old gun and put the extra 2 stats wherever I want.
* I can also redistribute the stats on my gun at any time, just like when I retrain my character's stats.
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@Titan_EpicDuel
Like the look of an item, but wish it could have better stats or more damage? In Omega ANY item can be improved to level cap! Had a few questions about Armors. Don't like the current Defense / Resistance of an Armor you own? Why not change it? In Omega you can! Yes this will be a great change for our loyal Founders and supporters from past phases! I'm very excited about this! CAN YOU TELL!!111one.
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@Titan_EpicDuel
I might bring the Spoon up to Level Cap.. but that's just me. Oh and did I mention that Omega introduces new equippable item abilities?
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In Omega, requirements are going away entirely. You can buy and equip any item at any level, and there will be no stat requirements to prevent you from equipping anything. The only requirements that will remain are gender and class for class-specific items.
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Weapons will not come preset with stats any more, so the stats on Caden's Wrath can be set up however you'd like.
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..will I be able to ditch all Support and Tech and put into Str and Dex OR will there be minimum which must always be met, so with this example minimum could be +5 Tech, +3 Dex and +2 Support
We have no plans to have any limitations such as this. The idea is that you can use any weapon for any build that you want.
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Do we have to purchase the stats we already have on weapons again?
No all of your weapons' stats will be set to roughly what they are now, but mapped to the correct amount of stats based on the new system.
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Would it be possible to also change the type of weapon it is? For example, changing my physical primary and making it an energy weapon.
Since the look of an item currently "tells" you what type it is (energy weapons tend to have energy-looking blades to them) this will be pre-determined on the item and cannot be changed. We want you to be able to know the type of damage just from looking at the weapon in most cases.
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Im not sure if some1 asked this but, does this mean, you buy weapons in omega without any stats and damage?? you gotta purchase them, depending on ur lvl? or you get with stats and u can either change them or upgrade more on it?
When you buy a weapon you will have the choice to buy it without any stats for a cheaper cost and upgrade them later, but most of the time you will just buy the gear with all the stats available for your level.
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Will the amount of total item stats remain the same for a certain type of items? Let's say 2 different Lv35 swords,one is varium and the other is credits,will they have the same total stats to distribute?
The plan is that Varium and credit weapons will have the same total stats in the new system.
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Is that system is applying on Armors defense/resistance?I understand that you guys said "ANY ITEM",but you focused on weapons.
Armors will have distributable stats, as well as choosing where to set the Def/Res.
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The upgrade system : Will the damage become a constant per level or an additive to the current damage of an item..Let's say an item like Caterpillar Bugzooka..It has 39 damage while it is a level34 item,If upgraded will it get to 40 damage?while the damage cap of Lv35 Auxillaries is 39.
The current damage system goes away completely. The max damage a weapon can have is now tied to YOUR level, since gear will no longer have a specific "level" to it any more. Hard to wrap your mind around at first, but this just means that every Auxiliary will have the same maximum damage for a level X player. Doesn't matter what level it is right now on live.
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So you're saying that from eggzooka to the strongest aux will have a base damage of +35. That's a bit sad to hear. Auxiliaries are meant to be slightly stronger.
Ooh, no sorry, I worded that poorly.
Primaries, Guns, and Auxiliaries will have different maximum damage at each level. Auxes are still planned to have higher damage than other gear types.
Hopefully I'm understanding what you mean. :P
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Are our items going to lose their value in omega? For example, if I have credit item that is worth 14k credits and can be sold for 7k credits, will it be worth less in omega?
Assuming there aren't any technical limitations I'm overlooking they should be worth the same as what you would expect them to be right now.
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@Titan_EpicDuel
Hint: Grab Rares before they're gone (even if you don't love the level or stats right now), when Omega hits you can customize them!
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Like BOT for example. you should make bots now carry stat mods for your character if equipped. but not alot and maybe bike too when equipped
There are already borderline too many stats flying around on items as it is.
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Bots serve to give you a more tactical choice in what you bring to battle with their special ability.
Bikes deliberately don't do anything for you in battle.
We don't really want to push either of these into giving you more power than someone without them. :)
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We will say now that the new system will allow for much greater customization than before, and will involve equipping passive effects and active abilities to your weapons.
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As for the equippable skills -- some skills and weapons will be permanently linked. This will allow certain rares and ultra rares to maintain their identities.
Enhancements
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@Titan_EpicDuel
The current Enhancement system was a compromise and a good start! Omega will deliver the goods!
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Enhancements
We will be announcing our plans for enhancements soon (probably next week), but be assured that we are absolutely keeping in mind those that have used the system. From Titan:
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@Titan_EpicDuel
NOTE: We're going to take good care of those players that have upgraded their current weapons as we migrate into Omega.
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My main concern about enhancements is that I cannot understand how you will defferenciate a player that have bought only 1 enhance with varium from a player (like me) who have bough about 400$ worth of it. How will you be able to know how many enhances I have ? How will you know which weapon/gear have been fully enhance WITH varium ?
We have full knowledge of how many enhancements you have on your weapons, and how you acquired them.
The Varium and Non-Varium Gap
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Power from Varium
One goal of Omega *is* to diminish the power gap between F2P and Varium players. We want to shift the gains given by Varium from granting overt power to giving new options and convenience. It can also grant things like cosmetic options, etc that we haven't explored as much in the past. We also don't want Varium players to feel a constant obligation to upgrade just to keep up. Instead, we want you to be excited about the loads of new options that you can play around with.
What this means is that Varium should get you what you want faster, and should grant additional awesome options, strategies, and builds that otherwise might not be available, while still providing awesome stuff to F2P players that you might have to work a little for. In the end, everyone should be better off with these changes.
NPCs
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Changes to NPCs
Today we wanted to go over some changes to how NPC fights will work in Omega. We want NPCs to fill the purposes of:
1) training or testing builds
2) gaining credits
3) furthering missions and the storyline They currently fill some other purposes that we want to move away from, including padding battle records, faction farming, and leveling.
Some of the changes are as follows:- NPC fights no longer count towards your battle record. We want the Leaderboards and your battle record to clearly reflect your PvP accomplishments instead of forcing players to farm NPCs to pad their win rates.
- You can now fight NPCs an unlimited number of times.
- NPCs will not give experience after level 5. This will allow new players to be eased into the battle system, but afterwards we want the focus to be on PvP. This also allows leveling players to get credits without continuing to level if they feel like they are falling behind.
- NPCs will no longer give Battle Tokens or Influence. Since you can fight them without limit, we don’t want factions or players to farm them for Tokens or Influence. Again, we want the focus here to be on PvP.
- NPCs will not give rewards if you lose. We don’t want people to purposely lose to NPCs over and over, so you will need to win to get Credits or other rewards.
- Brainwashing is removed since it is no longer necessary.
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On NPCs and experience, we'll be watching to see what happens, but we also wanted a way for players that are falling behind in PvP fights to be able to get the credits they need without having to continue leveling.
Right now, if you mess up and fall behind on Credits, you can never catch back up until you hit the level cap.
YETIS!!!
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@Titan_EpicDuel
Evolving Yetis??
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Yes, Save your yeti from last year! ( the white one ) you wont have to buy a new one to advance it!
However if you want a dark yeti, you will have to buy the dark yeti base variant. Which will come with the T-shirt.
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@Nightwraith_ED
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Classic/Dark Baby > Classic/Dark Adult > Omega Yeti Correct? :P
Classic / Dark Armored instead of Classic / Dark Adult
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The classic and "dark" baby yetis will be available in game and with the shirt. We are still finalizing the evolution system so I don't want to give too many specifics, but there will be more than one way to evolve them.
Others
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Balancing 6 classes is no simple task, and we would rather tighten that balance than add 3 new classes. Plus, we feel it would be much more interesting to increase the diversity of play styles for all the existing classes so a Tech Mage plays completely differently from a Bounty Hunter and so forth. One way we hope to achieve this is by eliminating or modifying overlapping skills. We hope to make several changes in the Omega update that will make this diversification easier to implement and balance which we will elaborate upon as more details are finalized.
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Will Agility be lvl scaled?
We're playing with some ideas on Agility now. Can't say anything because we haven't decided anything, but if we end up making changes we'll let you all know.
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@Nightwraith_ED
Yes, but we have special plans for it [Omega Armor] and it won't be available this week.
Storyline
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Last year, Frystland fell to the Legion and Alydriah has commanded the occupying forces to do...something. We don't know, and that's terrifying. We have a feeling that she'll unveil her schemes soon, though.
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Titan stands watch from his mountain lair in Frysteland. Many displaced Krampus have taken shelter at the foot of this mountain fortress, seeking some respite from constant harassment from Legion troops. Alydriah is smart enough to steer clear of this mysterious refuge, but not so fearful that she wouldn't taunt the gods of Delta V through more indirect means. What new cybernetic terrors has Alydriah created in during the Legion's occupation of this region? Would Alydriah burn Frysteland to the ground just to annoy Titan? How many cheeseburgers do you think Titan has hidden up there?
Anything and Everything In Between
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@Nightwraith_ED
Why did we choose Omega instead of something like Epsilon or Omicron? Omega was cooler.
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RabbleFroth
* We picked Omega because we liked how it sounded more than Epsilon :D
* We did not pick it to indicate that it is the final phase of EpicDuel
* The game is not, and has not, been in a "testing" phase for a long time. Though it's obviously always under development, like any good online game :)
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@Titan_EpicDuel
I'd like to reach 10,000 followers to kick off Omega! Help me get there! Back to coding for now...
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As soon as Omega launches, the Delta Knight armor, Platinum's Pride armor, the Dragonoid Saga gear, and all the Harvest gear will be leaving the in-game shops and Varium store. Delta Knight we go ultra rare, never to return again, while the Dragon Buster II and Platinum's Pride will be going perma-rare.
Show your Omega spirit with some signatures courtesy of Mecha Mario!
- Omega Tech Mage
- Omega Hazard
- Omega Mercenary
- Omega Bounty Hunter
- Omega Legion Yeti
- Omega Titan
- Omega Alydriah
- Omega Legion Yeti (2)
- Omega Krampus Yeti
- Omega Krampus King
- Omega Edgar Booth
- Omega Baby Yeti
- Omega Arctic Guard
- Omega Tech Mage (2)
- Omega Trainer 1
- Omega Trainer 2
- Omega Trainer 3
- Omega Dark Yeti
- Omega Omega Yeti
- Omega Omega Dark Yeti
- Omega Return to Frysteland
Tagged! ~Practel
< Message edited by Mecha Mario -- 12/18/2013 19:30:40 >
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