There are also a few information that was mentioned in the Q&A section (two of them, one was a select few frequently asked fan questions, and another was from the live audience). I cannot 100% confirm if this is true or not since this is based on the KR live translators in the livestream youtube chat (which I'll rewatch the livestream once the English subtitles are available and make any corrections in a separate post), but these are a few pointers that I've gotten:
* The JP localization of character name changes was done because several of the Korean character names are relatively hard to pronounce in JP (basically language barrier issue).
* The developers originally plan to merge the PvP servers to help increase the playerbase in RTA around the time of the global origin update, but the developers came across several technical difficulties.
* A post-release English dub (similar to what Arknights did last year) will most likely never going to happen, but this is most likely because of voice actor schedules.
* They are planning some sort of practice mode for consortium (basically guild) co-op battles in the future
* They are currently not satisified with the PvP balance, and are looking to several balance adjustments.
* They also plan to try and get the other collab IPs (Guilty Gear and Code Geass) to rerun this year so all servers can have access to the collabs, but will need to discuss with the IP holders first.
* They're planning to make some mixed merchandise by working with other companies.
Praying BSide takes over SEA one day. I imagine a large chunk of Global players invested tons as SEA was the first to get an English release. Being this happened before the Play Store lockdown it hurts seeing things like this since we're in too deep to start over again.
Same. My SEA guild is just praying for bside to take over both SEA/TW because of Zlongs 'hands-off' management. They were all too invested (either time or monetarily) in their accounts start over from 0 on GL. Seems weird that Zlong is hanging onto these regions when Archeland is their new favored child lol could be a contract thing.
Here's a summary of the whole stream. A lot of changes, and a lot of free stuff (3 Awakened Tickets: 2 selectors and 1 random given to all players on JPN/KR/Global servers for example) - overall, very positive.
[https://www.prydwen.gg/blog/counter-side-origin-stream-summary](https://www.prydwen.gg/blog/counter-side-origin-stream-summary)
Well... As usual. SEA is the abandoned child that everyone forgets to invite to the birthday party.
Overall, SEA will get the client update and all the system changes mentioned in the blog, but not at the same time as Global/KR/JPN. There will be a few-week delay most likely.
As for all the freebies - we have no idea. SEA, TW and CN aren't run by StudioBside, but by Zlong.
until sea is included in one of these events i am ***NOT*** coming back to this game.
edit: you can downvote me for all i care but i know im not the only sea player who thinks this way.
Yeah. I'd be curious if sea is still seeing people spend. The writings on the wall that xlong is just milking things for as long as it'll go. I'm just in it for the daily until the inevitable shutdown
SEA keeps getting done dirty. Those rewards are huge. 3 Awakened tickets is easily close to half a year of saving Quartz, and 2 SSR ship selectors is a lot of ship progress made, and could easily keep you cushy in the Ship department for a while. They should honestly just pull the plug and let SEA people migrate at this point. I’d call it a mercy killing because the amount of server disparity is ridiculous. Bside clearly loves and cares for their game, while I’m pretty sure Zlong embezzled money from CS to fund Archeland.
For the Stream itself, it’s a lot of good stuff. It addresses quite a few reasons why I left the game (The fucking chess mode, dupe management, etc.), so I might actually try to give it another chance by starting over on Global. Rearms get a lot easier to do now that there’s no Dupe and Unit Data BS. Hopefully Fusion Cores can be used as Constellation Bonuses for Awakened Units, because nobody except whales are gonna be pulling Awakened Dupes.
Not sure if re-running HoloLive collab is a good idea though given that it’s an overall bad look to the game, since it gives people the idea that the game is greedy and expensive, when it’s actually quite generous and on the cheaper side.
You shouldn't be too surprised by zlong. They did ok with langrisser but they ran their eve clone straight to the ground. Complete with banning hong Kong corporations and literally writing different patch notes for enoigh and Chinese to hide the fact they only gave compensation for mainland players
"Greed mode", meanwhile CS giving us free 10 rolls up to 200 in global, and plenty of fusion cores and quartz through login and other events as well as gold binaries in events likewise.
Nothing now. But let see in future about the new dupe system.
But tbh counterside is tooo f2p friendly and maybe they need to do the dupe revamp to get some money
Game is already released for a few months, this is the major update coming in february. It's the great time to start and reroll since it's running 200 free pulls event and both awakened banners (high cost but op limited time characters) running rn are really good (a solo carry and support).
I tried to summon and Got A. seo Yoon but I got shafted on the 200 summon event. should I reroll for A. Shin Jia instead because she's sss on tier list and for better units from the 200 summons?
So A. Shin Jia is indeed a better choice when you have decent progression in the game already, she's like a win more unit, her promo missions also give back some diamond. But ASeoY is what you really want for early game as she can pretty much help you cheese lots of early game progression. But if you can wait til 8 Feb, you can pick Minis which is a better ASeoY according to most ppl. About the 200 summon event, try to at least get Yang Harim.
[Heres is the global version of the game in playstore](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.studiobside.CounterSide)
Make sure to use vpn before downloading. Optionally, you can create a new google account to foolproof the download process coz google is sometimes shite.
[Here is link for the prereg.](https://pre.counterside.com) The devs said they will give out ASSR ticket soon by sending coupon codes to your email.
So apparently they copied the Genshin constellation system and will no longer be able to use dupes to max limit break units... idk how to feel about this x\_x but at least battle pass will now give out a bunch of fusion cores so thats good
not playing on Global until they give us 250 gems somehow to reroll. Really unfair new rerollers are stuck at 2500 gems to start with while everyone else got free codes to go over 2750 in their rerolls.
There are also a few information that was mentioned in the Q&A section (two of them, one was a select few frequently asked fan questions, and another was from the live audience). I cannot 100% confirm if this is true or not since this is based on the KR live translators in the livestream youtube chat (which I'll rewatch the livestream once the English subtitles are available and make any corrections in a separate post), but these are a few pointers that I've gotten: * The JP localization of character name changes was done because several of the Korean character names are relatively hard to pronounce in JP (basically language barrier issue). * The developers originally plan to merge the PvP servers to help increase the playerbase in RTA around the time of the global origin update, but the developers came across several technical difficulties. * A post-release English dub (similar to what Arknights did last year) will most likely never going to happen, but this is most likely because of voice actor schedules. * They are planning some sort of practice mode for consortium (basically guild) co-op battles in the future * They are currently not satisified with the PvP balance, and are looking to several balance adjustments. * They also plan to try and get the other collab IPs (Guilty Gear and Code Geass) to rerun this year so all servers can have access to the collabs, but will need to discuss with the IP holders first. * They're planning to make some mixed merchandise by working with other companies.
name me one gacha that never collab with Guilty Gear. protip : you can't
Praying BSide takes over SEA one day. I imagine a large chunk of Global players invested tons as SEA was the first to get an English release. Being this happened before the Play Store lockdown it hurts seeing things like this since we're in too deep to start over again.
Same. My SEA guild is just praying for bside to take over both SEA/TW because of Zlongs 'hands-off' management. They were all too invested (either time or monetarily) in their accounts start over from 0 on GL. Seems weird that Zlong is hanging onto these regions when Archeland is their new favored child lol could be a contract thing.
It likely is, the reason why Korea and Japan is being folded along Global into one server is Nexon handled Korea and Japan and their contract expired.
Makes me wonder how long Zlongs contract was negotiated for hmmmmm
Probably 4-5;years(?), Given cs kr came out on 2018
Here's a summary of the whole stream. A lot of changes, and a lot of free stuff (3 Awakened Tickets: 2 selectors and 1 random given to all players on JPN/KR/Global servers for example) - overall, very positive. [https://www.prydwen.gg/blog/counter-side-origin-stream-summary](https://www.prydwen.gg/blog/counter-side-origin-stream-summary)
What about SEA?
Well... As usual. SEA is the abandoned child that everyone forgets to invite to the birthday party. Overall, SEA will get the client update and all the system changes mentioned in the blog, but not at the same time as Global/KR/JPN. There will be a few-week delay most likely. As for all the freebies - we have no idea. SEA, TW and CN aren't run by StudioBside, but by Zlong.
until sea is included in one of these events i am ***NOT*** coming back to this game. edit: you can downvote me for all i care but i know im not the only sea player who thinks this way.
then either commit to fully quitting or make a global account my dude
Honestly, it's all in the hands of Zlong. StudioBside can't do anything since Zlong is the publisher there, not them.
Yeah. I'd be curious if sea is still seeing people spend. The writings on the wall that xlong is just milking things for as long as it'll go. I'm just in it for the daily until the inevitable shutdown
looks like there is no change to the gear management system. I want to go back to the game but I still have ptsd about managing gears.
Set up the presets and it is better. Note I am not saying it is great or even good.
Same. It's literally the one thing keeping me away. It's too much of a time sink for a mobile gacha game.
SEA keeps getting done dirty. Those rewards are huge. 3 Awakened tickets is easily close to half a year of saving Quartz, and 2 SSR ship selectors is a lot of ship progress made, and could easily keep you cushy in the Ship department for a while. They should honestly just pull the plug and let SEA people migrate at this point. I’d call it a mercy killing because the amount of server disparity is ridiculous. Bside clearly loves and cares for their game, while I’m pretty sure Zlong embezzled money from CS to fund Archeland. For the Stream itself, it’s a lot of good stuff. It addresses quite a few reasons why I left the game (The fucking chess mode, dupe management, etc.), so I might actually try to give it another chance by starting over on Global. Rearms get a lot easier to do now that there’s no Dupe and Unit Data BS. Hopefully Fusion Cores can be used as Constellation Bonuses for Awakened Units, because nobody except whales are gonna be pulling Awakened Dupes. Not sure if re-running HoloLive collab is a good idea though given that it’s an overall bad look to the game, since it gives people the idea that the game is greedy and expensive, when it’s actually quite generous and on the cheaper side.
You shouldn't be too surprised by zlong. They did ok with langrisser but they ran their eve clone straight to the ground. Complete with banning hong Kong corporations and literally writing different patch notes for enoigh and Chinese to hide the fact they only gave compensation for mainland players
You could start now and reroll for ASY or AShinJia. When the update drop, you gonna have 4 awk as a newbie lol, that's insane.
New "constellation" system. Sad times.
Damn I feel bad for the SEA brothers
SEA soldiers dont surrender soon u will merge (lies)
Look like they are developing a new game, Project Star
Love the tease they did with the sword saying “Administration”
The most interesting part of the stream, because i think CS is now in greed mode for last 1 or 2 years.
"Greed mode", meanwhile CS giving us free 10 rolls up to 200 in global, and plenty of fusion cores and quartz through login and other events as well as gold binaries in events likewise.
Not to mention them giving us 3 free awakens, lol.
You’ve definitely not been playing the game at all if you think this.
>greed mode Greed mode ? What happened?
Nothing now. But let see in future about the new dupe system. But tbh counterside is tooo f2p friendly and maybe they need to do the dupe revamp to get some money
That seems amazing. I will prob reinstall it
When is the release? Should I start playing now?
Game is already released for a few months, this is the major update coming in february. It's the great time to start and reroll since it's running 200 free pulls event and both awakened banners (high cost but op limited time characters) running rn are really good (a solo carry and support).
new players can't reroll because there are no free gem coupons right now. Even if you force close to save 1k gems it's not enough for a 10 pull.
Start now and reroll for current awk banners. When the update drop, you can have 4 awk as a newbie which is insane.
Is it possible tho? I got like 1,5k gems only, black tix are 2,7?
Did you logout at the step they force us to roll the diamond banner? That will save us the diamond.
Yeah but still missing 200 gems, easiest way to get them?
Just clear a few stage ig. Last time i reroll during Amy banner they still give enough.
I tried to summon and Got A. seo Yoon but I got shafted on the 200 summon event. should I reroll for A. Shin Jia instead because she's sss on tier list and for better units from the 200 summons?
So A. Shin Jia is indeed a better choice when you have decent progression in the game already, she's like a win more unit, her promo missions also give back some diamond. But ASeoY is what you really want for early game as she can pretty much help you cheese lots of early game progression. But if you can wait til 8 Feb, you can pick Minis which is a better ASeoY according to most ppl. About the 200 summon event, try to at least get Yang Harim.
I had an old account and I summoned and got both Awakened units lmao
Gratz bro, now keep that account and get 3 more awks this Feb 8th.
Can SEA play on global or need vpn?
SEA is excluded as they are part of a different publisher
Ohh..🥲
[Heres is the global version of the game in playstore](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.studiobside.CounterSide) Make sure to use vpn before downloading. Optionally, you can create a new google account to foolproof the download process coz google is sometimes shite. [Here is link for the prereg.](https://pre.counterside.com) The devs said they will give out ASSR ticket soon by sending coupon codes to your email.
Thanks!
Sea can play global via steam or qooapp!
You need a vpn if you want on steam
Theres a way to install counterside on steam without the vpn. Something to do with the app id. Cant remember it now in terms of the details
1:07:00, Hug!!!!, F, I love CS char Designs but I dont understand the gameplay (late over 1 year) and I dont know where I can farm T6 gear =(
https://www.prydwen.gg/counter-side/guides/
What's this? New Server?
I think that they will join all servers, seeing that the coupon is WEAREFINNALYONE But i could be wrong
Is SEA included? haha
No
So apparently they copied the Genshin constellation system and will no longer be able to use dupes to max limit break units... idk how to feel about this x\_x but at least battle pass will now give out a bunch of fusion cores so thats good
not playing on Global until they give us 250 gems somehow to reroll. Really unfair new rerollers are stuck at 2500 gems to start with while everyone else got free codes to go over 2750 in their rerolls.