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September 30, 2011
Coding Mania

*Note from Nightwraith*

Just got back from vacation in Ohio in time to post this DNs. What's in Ohio, you ask? Seasons.


Coding Mania

Hey there EpicDuelists! I hope you’ve been enjoying your week so far. This week is going to be more focused on code than content, so it might be a “boring” update for some of our players, but definitely not a boring week for Titan and Hudelf!


Training revamp

Hudelf is getting more adjusted to the lab, and more features are coming around the bend! While it’s unlikely to happen this week, the long-promised revamp to the level-up/retrain system could be implemented as early as next Friday! (We hope!)

Players will be able to level up with one click, and apply all points to the character. So, you could just open your stats page, click around a bit, and be able to save your configuration. Later on (as in “after we’ve implemented the first revamp), we’ll be adding further training revamps, including the ability to go down one level for small adjustments to one’s build. No longer will you have to completely retrain because of one stat point!

Also, this should make the retrain/level up process about 5-6 times faster.


Duelo Epico!

We’ve begun to regionalize EpicDuel, and the first step is to translate the entire game into Portuguese! Charfade is hard at work exporting all of the game text. This is only one step, but I think we’re going in the right direction in making ArtixEntertainment more accessible to our international player community!


Bug Squashing!

Titan’s working on further securing some recent exploits, preparing the new EpicDuel website, and going through the code to further reduce lag.


Achieving Balance

I don’t want to get into TOO many specifics, since we already know that the next balance updates won’t be ready for Friday. But, we’ve confirmed adjustments to how Field Medic and other skills will work, and how some skills will synergize with one another. Balance updates require extensive testing, so please be patient as we continue to build.


HALP I BEEN HACKED!

This is a reminder that if your account has been compromised or "hacked", please visit THIS SITE for more information. Like Artix said, 95% (actually closer to 99%) of all "hackings" are the result of account sharing either to let a friend play on an account or on the promise of free Varium or ACs.

I feel I should reiterate that contacting Developers or Mods directly will not resolve your issues any faster. Titan and Nightwraith are busy enough building EpicDuel, and unfortunately cannot spend time resolving issues for individual players.


Centipedes are not insects

Following my Silverfish design notes Insect Fact, one of my players showed me a photo of a centipede, claiming it was a silverfish, so this week’s Insect Facts is dedicated to a group of animals commonly thought to be insects but in fact are not. The centipede is one of these animals.

With a name that means “one hundred feet”, centipedes are known for having many legs, with numbers from 10 to over 300! They are related to insects in the sense that they are terrestrial arthropods, but they can be distinguished from insects by the large number of legs and body segments.



According to the National Wildlife Foundation’s Field Guide to Insects and Spiders of North America, there are no centipedes in North America that are deadly to humans, although their venom can be quite painful, their appearance quite frightening, and they do present a danger to people who are allergic to insect venom. They can be beneficial, however, as some species of centipede (eg. the house centipede) eat cockroaches.

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Nightwraith_EpD Nightwraith
For those asking, Pirate Weapons and Pirate cheevo will remain in for another week.

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I love how their hasn't been a balance update in a month, and also how TLM remains on top with no foreseeable changes coming. That class really needs one of its passives taken, or something changed. That should be a major priority, but instead we keep getting these balance updates that yes, are essential, but can wait. The longer you wait to nerf TLM (yup, it needs a nerf) the angrier your entire player base will get. All the people who are accustomed to tactical mercenary will be pissed off, and everyone else who had to deal with the fact that they had the perfect combination of skills compared to all of the other classes, will be mad they had to wait so long.


Now, on todays release, what exactly are we getting? Bug fixes? Can you elaborate a little like you never do?


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I have a build that works just fine on TLM's. In fact I havn't lost to one in a few weeks. Thats not the point. The point is that if a very good tech mage, and a very good tactical mercenary go up against one another, without luck, the tactical mercenary will almost always win. Why? Because compared to the other classes available, TLM has a much more versatile skill tree with a wide range of options and the two best passives in the game. I could care less about TLM's beating me, I have an original build, and it works great. I just don't like seeing one class have such an advantage over all of the others, and really, they do. Every game I have to fight an uphill match, where the odds are frequently against me. I usually only win because I know how to use my head, but its a close match, where it shouldn't be. TLM gives people who have never played this game, a very high chance of beating people who have played for years. What other game can you say that about?


Prophet

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Coding Mania

Hey there EpicDuelists! I hope you’ve been enjoying your week so far. This week is going to be more focused on code than content, so it might be a “boring” update for some of our players, but definitely not a boring week for Titan and Hudelf!

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Following my Silverfish design notes Insect Fact, one of my players showed me a photo of a centipede, claiming it was a silverfish, so this week’s Insect Facts is dedicated to a group of animals commonly thought to be insects but in fact are not. The centipede is one of these animals.

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the long-promised revamp to the level-up/retrain system could be implemented as early as next Friday! (We hope!)