Epics Rush!

Hello Collectors!

Monday is another big day at Epics. Since we dreamt up the concept for this app, we’ve wanted to create a fun way for you to use your cards in a game. We wanted a game that would leverage your love for collecting and combine it with your knowledge of esports. Today, we’re taking the first step in that journey together.

Introducing: RUSH — an immersive simulation game that allows you to build your dream team and battle it against the very best the CSGO esports world has to offer. Here’s a quick overview of the game

Rosters

In order to play the game you’ll need to build at least one roster using the cards in your collection. Each roster will have to stay under a salary cap of $45,000 with players costing more or less depending on their overall stats rating (OVR). This means you’ll need to make tradeoff decisions to maximize your team’s rating, stats and bonuses, so pick wisely.

Chemistry

You can increase your team’s stats via chemistry bonuses. Your players will have chemistry if they play on the same team together or they’re from the same country. Try to build your team to take advantage of bonuses so you can increase your odds of winning against your opponents!

Maps

Each player has maps that he’s either strong or weak on based on his real world performance. Make sure you pay attention to this as you build out your team — having lots of bad maps can cost you big bonus penalties if you end up playing the match on a map your team is not good on. Make sure you ban your players worst maps before battling!

Circuits

Circuits are a key part of PvE mode. They contain stages and each stage has a set of teams. The core season circuit has 16 ranking tiers — each tier has 10–11 teams within it. You have to beat all the teams 3 times to clear the tier and receive your rewards.

We’ll also have circuits that correspond to real events within the CSGO season, like ESL One Cologne. You’ll be able to play along with the event and compete for unique items and prizes! Our goal is to always keep things fresh throughout the season and have lots of fun events for you to enlist your team into.

Team of the Week

Play against the custom curated Team of the Week (TOTW) to rank up and earn rewards. This is a team created by the Epics staff based on themes like recent performance at events, countries, etc.

Leaderboards

What fun is a game without a leaderboard to dominate? You will earn or lose points for each match you play. Gain the max points by beating teams with similar overall ratings to your roster (Pro Tip: try to maximize your bonuses to tilt the odds in your favor). You can play an OP roster against lower ranked opponents, but you won’t gain many (if any) points for winning and can receive larger penalties for losing.

Each circuit has its own leaderboard and there’s also a global leaderboard which encompasses all games played in the app

Card Levels

You may have noticed that some of your cards have changed recently. This is because each card now has a scaled OVR rating and stats based on its tier. Commons have the lowest stats and Tier 3’s have the highest. You’ll need to collect better cards throughout the season in order to rank up. Don’t worry — you’ll be able to earn a lot of currency to get cards from packs or the market if you play regularly.

Another feature that you may have noticed is a small color notch on the top left side of your cards. That’s tied to a new feature that will be launched shortly after release: Card Leveling. Each card will have 5 levels that you can rank up using currency. Each level will increase the stats and OVR on the card to a set cap. This will allow you to increase your stats and odds of winning matches without having to collect higher tier cards.

Verdict

There is a lot more things that we are working on, but first we want to get the game live and get feedback from everyone. Feedback including balancing stats, bonuses, card ratings and more are all items that we’ll need lots of data to do right. Your input is going to be critical in making this a fun game to play season after season, so please reach out with your thoughts and suggestions. This is going to be a long and fun process building a game together!!!

-The Epics Team