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January 14th, 2021

The End of Gifting
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The 2021 Gifting season ended late last week, and we're proud to celebrate the top-15 winners of this monumental event! I never expected ALL of the winners to score at or above one million gifts, but, as usual, EpicDuel's hardcore players blew away those conservative expectations in spite of a year that produced many hardships for people all over the world. We're glad that Delta V could be a post-apocalyptic refuge for people to escape the real disasters big and small occurring on a daily basis, and we hope to continue to serve you all for years to come.

BEHOLD! EpicDuel's 2021 Gifting Season Winners!

1. Enchant
2. I Am Mr. Nice Guy
3. JoshTheCW
4. Taiso
5. Lycan
6. Caddeus
7. .SwatFighter.
8. D Fense
9. UrMenace
10. Romulus
11. CactusChan
12. Gwuapo
13. Xx.Dark Azrael.xX
14. Machaon
15. Santa

Thus far I have corresponded with every winner on this list and have started several of the requests. I understand everyone is equally excited to receive their prizes, but these are all unique customizations of varying difficulty, and they will go out as quickly as they can. I thank you all in advance for your patience.

This year's Silver and Secret Packages will open next week, revealing new weapons, vehicles, and armors created by Acatriel!

Inventory Improvements

This week we built on top of previous improvements to inventory management by making sure the search bar clears when going between interfaces (vendor, bank, inventory, etc...). To further clean your messy post-gifting inventory, Mission items and Arcade Tokens will now stack for easier scrolling. Stacking for additional items is being investigated, but there are some greater challenges with items that can be upgraded and equipped.

***Please be advised that if you sell stacked items, the whole stack will be sold at once! A proper warning message is in the works to prevent accidental sales!***

Alpha Boost
Early last year one of EpicDuel's goals was to reward long-time players with weapons to complement their legacy gear. True, there aren't many Alpha supporters still logging in for daily duels, but we're still offering a small boost in the form of a more complete set of rares:

Alpha players will receive the following new weapons to complement the existing set.

Alpha Blade E

Alpha Blaster P

The class-specific Alpha weapons have been consolidated into a mutating weapon, complete with a corresponding damage type.

Alpha Annihilator P

Alpha Annihilator E

It was tempting to update and remaster the artwork, but since the style of the time represents a great deal of nostalgia for veteran players, the artwork is mostly unchanged.

Super Stylin'
The color picker in EpicDuel's style change interface just got a major upgrade with an Advanced Color Picker. Everyone will now have access to a broader color spectrum to achieve the color palette of your dreams.

Another improvement to the style change interface is the addition of Gender Change for 15,000 Credits or 250 Varium. Using this feature once will award the Gender Changer Achievement

Seasonal Savings
To accommodate players who may have had limited access to a reliable internet connection over the last few months, we're leaving the seasonal rares and Epic Supporter package in until the end of the month and will be removed from the game in an update on January 31st!

Additional Changes
The following changes don't fit into any other category but have been itemized here for quick viewing.

The Spreadfire cores for sidearm and auxiliary weapons are now unlocked and available for swapping to other items.

NPC Battle Cap increased to 300 from 100.

Permanent Health Reserve core added to Vendbots.

AFK timer increased to an hour.

New screen added to Titan's Peak to show off the latest Gifting winners.

Skeptical Study removed since mission items no longer take up inventory space.

2022 Thoughts
This is definitely not the only blog on the whole wide web to point this out, but the past two years have been hard for many people for a variety of reasons, and we're proud that EpicDuel could be a place for old and new players to chill out, duel, and forget about the outside world, if only for brief respite. Despite these challenges, we've emerged from another hectic year in a strong position: The additional of Spider and Acatriel to the team have been game-changers in terms of broadening the scope of possibilities for the future direction of the game. Features that were deemed impossible by Titan himself have been implemented in a matter of days, and there are still pages of suggestions that are suitable candidates for implementation. Despite the crushing responsibility of Gifter prize obligations that January brings, I'm more optimistic in EpicDuel's future than I have been in years. Is 2022 the year EpicDuel finally gets new classes? I'm not one to overpromise, but if it were to happen any year, this would be it!

Let's all raise a canister of Health Booster to an incredible year of duels! Duel on!



Tags: Nightwraith


Edit: Hotfix has been applied 16th January.

EpicDuel 1.8.49 Hotfix
EpicDuel has been updated with a hotfix addressing some bugs introduced into the latest update.


Fixes and Changes

Fixed character creation causing an error due to the new color pickers

Fixed "redeem code" for arcade tokens not stacking when claimed

Fixed picking up map items not stacking

Fixed PvP drop items not stacking

Some missions not being able to be complete despite having the required mission items

2nd Hotfix:

EpicDuel 1.8.50 Hotfix
EpicDuel has been updated with a hotfix addressing some bugs introduced into the latest update.


Fixes and Changes

Fixed PvP battles stalling after victory because of a drop error

Fixed banked items reverted to inventory after login