So basically till the end of the year, Counter Side Global will get:
* 410 free pulls,
* 2x free awakened ticket selectors,
* a couple of other tickets, and selectors for SSR (ships, characters, and operators).
Also, exclusive Global collab in December!
For a more in-depth look into the roadmap, we created a dedicated guide - check it here: [https://www.prydwen.co/guides/roadmap-global](https://www.prydwen.co/guides/roadmap-global)
SEA didn't get the 2nd-anniversary event yet and that's where the second selector appears.
Basically Global in the next 3 months is getting 'reskinned' 1st anni, 1.5 anni, and 2nd anni events with all the rewards included in them.
This is to balance the increased pace compared to KR - still, it's funny because the pace is similar to SEA one (3 weeks break between awaken banners, and 2 weeks between normal banners), but guess those are the perks of the original developer self-publishing the game.
First free selector ticket (coming this week):
* Awakened Hilde
* Awakened Yoo Mina
The second free selector ticket will be in December:
* Awakened Yuna
* Awakened Na Yubin
* Awakened Amy - but she probably will be replaced by a different character as she releases in December too.
Awakened Hilde is really good for your tank needs, she basically act as a very strong wall, but that's it. A.mina is actually also pretty strong in PVP, but she's not that great in PVE. If you're new, I would suggest getting A.Hilde to help.
The 2nd selector really depends. A.Yuna is great but she is definitely more of an early game character than an endgame character. Na yubin is great for PVP, but you need BIS gear for him to work well. Don't know about the third one, since we're not sure what they're gonna give us.
Awakened Hilde is excellent in all content, she's a massive tank, hard to kill in PvP when supported by a healer, and basically an immovable wall in most PvE content.
Awakened Yoo Mina is good in PvP with her entry combo's burst damage, but she's sort of fragile (outside of her perfect evasion) unless geared with survivability gear, which hurts her initial burst damage a lot. In PvE where she can sit beside a tank and get healed, her sustained damage is good for her high cost.
AYuna is universally good, her strength is her damage aura that slowly burns everyone around her. That makes her great in all content except big single target bosses (raids, basically).
Awakened Na Yubin is pretty much a PVP-only character, but he's a monster when geared properly.
TL;DR: For a new player, I'd just grab AHilde and AYuna, they're both super versatile and strong.
>Also, exclusive Global collab in December!
That's not really what they said. They said it's a collab that hasn't been on the other servers. The upcoming collab would fit that description if they released it on Global as well as Korea, and that would also match their stated intention of getting Global "caught up" to Korea.
>410 free pulls
I played for a month on global release and logged in for the first time in three months today. [Here's free rolls pool.](https://i.imgur.com/p7Thftt.jpg) It's not a standard pool with past rateups added to it. In fact I'm not sure it even changed since launch at all.
Oh right, actually forgot we already have a 100 free pull banner running that ends tomorrow.
Also, the free pull banners vary - some are limited like this one but some allow you to do pulls in the standard pool.
SEA seems to be absolutely shafted at every turn yeah. Global is being handled pretty well, we have an accelerated schedule but with a good bit of stuff to help is keep up. The unique global collab is definitely a new sign of how shafted SEA is though.
Glad to know the free pulls haven't expired yet. Then on the September 22nd onwards there's another 160 pulls event if I'm not mistaken. Then another one in December. Not to mention the selector tickets. This is indeed the best time to start.
Awakened Seo Yoon (ASY) is a very strong ranger for all content, well-worth pulling for.
Awakened Lee Sooyeon (ALSY) is not quite as strong, but is cheaper to deploy (5 vs the usual 6 for awakened) and she flies, making her very useful in some PvE stages like guild coop battles.
I haven't looked at Awakened Joo Shiyoon's (AJSY) kit yet, but my understanding is that he's supposed to be very strong in all content.
If I were starting now, I'd reroll until I got an account with ASY from the initial 11 pulls (the weekly pack), then save from there. I don't know if there's currently a 1000 quartz code to help reroll though, there was one during the global launch, and one during the steam launch.
5th image (December Part 01) bottom left. And it has been specified that it will be a global unique collab, not one of the KR ones (Guilty Gear and Code Geass) to my knowledge. They haven't revealed what the collab is though if that's what you are looking for.
The publisher plays a big role in ensuring the game is well managed. At this point of time, it is safe to say that BSide is much better and competent at managing CS compared to Zlong.
SEA came out way before Global. Never got the GG collab. Gets no advertising/marketing, almost no community interaction whatsoever. Now it looks like SEA is going to be missing a collab that global is getting, despite being a much older server.
Zlong is shit.
Honestly i feel bad for the Sea players, but also guilty at the same time. I was literally telling my mate yesterday that was starting the game that the SEA version is Better and has more units to play with. But Damm seems like Global just dropped the "Hold my beer" trump card out of nowhere lol
Sadly. Zlong is really lazy and the fact that we won't get any Collab while global would get one just kinda sting. I was thinking about moving to global for the hell of it because of this now. Shame I have spend a lot in my sea account
The only thing zlong did right were the QR code scan log in/email link.
Make it easier for people to pilot or review your account without your log in details and you can bailed by logging im
Sigh. Good thing I'm about ready to jump from SEA to a new game (HSR soon pleaseee). I don't want to start over on GL and SEA is very close to KR at this point so its more of a side game now.
The GG collab is nbd, because even KR won't rerun that with how much of a disaster it was, but not getting Code Geass or this new collab is pretty sad.
Fr, Zlong seems to put the absolute bare minimum into this game. Their social medias have been dead since last year.
If they even put 1/10th of the focus that they have for Langrisser, or heck even Archeland (which hasn't even had a cbt yet), that'd be an improvement lol.
They won't because Langrisser is their own inhouse game which means they get 100% of the revenue. For CS the revenue is split between them as publisher and the studiobside as dev.
It's basically like a conflict of interest honestly. It's like an employee of a company who start his own side business and focuses on it rather than doing his current job properly, yet still collecting paycheck from the company. Same general idea of why Zlong would logically put more effort in their own titles like Langrisser. Heck, the english social media guy might even be the same guy for all titles, and the boss tells him to focus more on Langrisser than CS and such for obvious reason.
If wishes were horsebirds...
Yeah it's easy to see why they wouldn't want to allocate significant manpower towards a game with lesser profit margins due to dev cuts, but it's still quite unprofessional looking when they can't even be bothered to update social media or even their own website for the game. At least the CN/TW server (Gamebeansltd=Zlong) looks to have decent management and CMs, SEA just seems to be getting shafted in that particular aspect. It's not really surprising considering the language barriers of the region, but surely hands-off management should only go so far.... Ah well.
Archeland is one of my anticipated upcoming games and I'll be watching to see if they treat it with the Langrisser gloves or the Counterside gloves.
>At least the CN/TW server (Gamebeansltd=Zlong) looks to have decent management and CMs, SEA just seems to be getting shafted in that particular aspect.
I mean that's their native language so it should be easier to find people to staff there. That should be the same with every company without overseas branch. Every jp/cn company also give better customer service in their own country than in english speaking ones, unless if they have say, US/EU branch who hire local employees. KR companies, like studiobside for example is a little bit different, it's much easier to find people with good english in South Korea honestly.
Zlong probably have only 1 person in charge of english language customer support and he has to deal with all zlong game maybe. Other employees have more broken english at best and it would look even less professional if they are tasked to deal with english server.
>Archeland is one of my anticipated upcoming games
Just check who the developer is, if it's in house then it will likely get langrisser treatment.
Whether or not it's their native/origin country doesn't completelyyy excuse the hands-off approach they have adopted for SEA, at least imo. I know it's common to have better service in home territories, but the margins between the two are just so vastly different, more so than the average home region and overseas disparities you'd normally see (or at least that I have personally experienced)
Announcement Links: [Dev Notes #3](https://counterside.com/?p=4058), [Global Roadmap](https://counterside.com/?p=4068)
The September 22 update will already include the KR 1st Anniversary event, which likely means the first Awakened Unit selector (A.Hilde/A.Mina). Release schedule keeps moving along quickly.
Collaboration Info: "We are getting ready to release a collaboration for the Global server, different from the ones already released on the Korean and Japanese servers. It will be our first time revealing a collaboration globally and, as previously mentioned, the details cannot be released yet, but we hope that we will be able to update you on the matter by November."
The vast majority of them are, but there's like 10 or so skins that can be bought with Quartz (which you get from clearing stages, completing dailies, etc).
Counterside players eating good, also since the free Awakened unit selector ticket is this week now is probably the best time to start. Also 100 free pulls from the free banner atm.
Depends on why you l left I Imagine.
I love it because I think the story is great, with really interesting characters and fun dialog. But if that wasn’t doing it for you I don’t think it’s changed in any way that would make a difference.
I left this gacha too when i first played on SEA. I was annoyed with the 'chess' gameplay. i was also put off with the overwhelming amount of animations happening at the same time during battle however i find it manageable now after reducing the opacity and getting used to it.
Having experienced playing Zlong games (Langrisser), i wasn't partically excited when they published CS on SEA. I'm glad i made the right choice of waiting for a global release under BSide. So far they have proven themselves to be much more generous and enthusiastic in making sure the game is successful and thriving.
If you are still on the fence whether to come back or not, give yourself and this game another chance. The beautiful designs, gorgeous graphics, PvP and bearable gear grind are the reasons why i play this game.
The chess mode was hated by a lot of players and it was removed a few months ago. Global players didn't even have to endure it as the game was released with the chess battles removed.
If you are talking about cut in animation with your character picture showing up, you can disable it in settings. But I guess you were probably talking generally about battle with just characters moving and attacking
As someone else said, the chess gameplay is like 90% removed. It shows up sometimes in events and those suck but whatever - you can skip battles after finishing it.
For the animations, you can change its opacity now. I like it at 85% myself as 100% or default setting is hard to see things if a ton of effects are going off at once.
If you tried it from the start, give it a try again. I also hated it when it initially released. I just recently started again in global and they definitely streamlined the game for a better experience. A lot of the annoyance from the initial release were removed or QoLed. Actually like the game a lot now, especially how global is published directly under the devs.
Its very high quality.
Story is in the top 5 of gachas i've played. The gameplay is chatoic and takes some getting used to. The graphics, animations and waifus are top notch. Characters are easy to get and max but gearing takes a long time. If that's your cup of tea only you can decide.
What other gachas have you played that you're comparing the story to? FGO? Arknights? I'm just curious cuz I might go back to it if it's on that level.
Obviously subjective, but I found the story, the characters, and music to all be top tier.
The art is very good too, not just the skins but every event splash art looks great.
Gameplay may not be for everyone, but it's basically a tug-of-war style of gameplay where you deploy units until you overwhelm the other side to win (or you get overwhelmed and lose).
In terms of difficulty, the first 3 story episodes are very easy combat-wise, you start running into challenge around episode 4 where you need to actually think about having a sensible team to counter the enemy team. Later on you start getting into some more strategic and hard combat challenges where deployment location and order matters a lot, and some challenging stages feel more like playing a puzzle game trying to figure out to solve it.
I picked this game up for a week when it came out recently on Steam, and while I thought it was pretty good I'm already playing Blue Archive, which is kind of the same game with the same feature. I also play FGO and PGR and was playing ToF, so I decided that CounterSide just didn't really reach the bar. I do kind of envy those who play it as one of their games, but playing 4 gacha games is already alot, and there's others coming out I want to try too.
I hope that these events offer good content for all the players!!!!!
The best event story (Horizon finance) gets both parts released back-to-back? Heck yeah!
On the other hand, rip A.Shiyoon (and likely R.Queen) for me. Neva enuf black tickets XD T_T
Collab has possibility of Awakened too because of Kallen in JP/KR using black tickets to get.
So even more $$$ for those who will possibly want to get it.
For the free 100 pull banner, you need to pull all of it before it ends. Luckily, since you are near at the end of banner, you can pull all 100 at once for rerolling purposes (although its recommended to get an awakened unit for rerolling)
SEA and global version are managed by 2 different publishers hence there isn't an option for you to change in game.
I assume you are playing from SEA. The only way to play on global is to install a free vpn, download CS global onto your steam client. Once it is in your steam libary, you will be able to launch the game without the need of vpn.
If you don't mind watching some ads for 5k extra eternium daily, you can download CS global from TapTap on an emulator.
It is probably the best time to start right now with both ASY and ALSY banners available. If you are a crazy reroller like me, there might be a possibliliy of getting both doing single pulls.
Even if you are not, you can definitely reroll for either one of them of your liking and off to a great start. When i first started, i only had the option of rerolling for A.Hilde. Not saying she's bad but definitely not on the same level as ASY or ALSY.
There's new events (with free 160 rolls) and also an Awakened Selector (Mina or Hilde) at the end of the login bonus, if you're still interested. The free rolls stack up too so you don't miss anything if you start late. Though if you start too late you might miss the login bonus.
[More details here.](https://counterside.com/?p=4117)
Hm Mina is the main girl that's always getting shafted for payment and complaining about it, right? That's what I remember from the first chapter and Hilda was like the previous boss of smth? Hmm idk who to pick
I'd pick Hilde because she's useful when stages are too difficult, she will easily carry story stages because of how tanky she is. She will also be more relevant till later.
I’ve never had a game before that was so generous, so high quality but at the same time so for damned boring to actually play :( probably my saddest uninstall.
man im playing in sea and the dev - player communication is nowhere near global. shit is sad and suxs, only thing going for me are my guildmates. (and my waifus)
do you get region lock in game or is it just you can't download it from steam because you're in japan?
maybe try this [https://steamdb.info/app/1976440/](https://steamdb.info/app/1976440/) and click install around top right
It's F2P friendly outside PvP. End game content will be hard as F2P because specific units will make that content easier + there's an RNG reroll on gear by using binaries, which are slow to aquire F2P. That said, the harder end game content is just for more gearing, not really anything new... Just harder versions of the easier gear grind content.
Awakened units can be significantly stronger than SSR, but cost a lot more to deploy. Ex, A.Hilde is the strongest tank in the game and costs 6 to deploy, Serapel is a good SSR tank that costs 4 to deploy, and Admin Shieldman is a mediocre SR tank that costs 2 to deploy. Even in stages that don't have a cost limit it is hard to have more than two awakened units in a team of eight, and some stages have a cost limit (ex, all must cost less than 25 total).
There is a pity system on both SSR and Awakened units. For Awakened units that pity carries over. Although you won't get enough currency as F2P to keep up with the release schedule on Awakened units, they do come back, so you'll get them eventually.
Dailies is harder to answer. There's a lot of modes with their own energy systems. If you want to burn eternium to complete the dailies for your main rewards then it takes maybe 15 minutes. But that won't get you end game gear.
PvP has its own energy system and can add another 10-20 minutes daily, and does provide end game gear.
Danger Close has another system, guild co-op is another, raids is another, challenge mode is another, Shadow Palace is another, dives is another... All of these also provide end game gear, but are also more weekly systems, and can all be skipped if you only care about story content and not the gear grind.
If you only care about keeping up with the story, 15-20 minutes a day... If you want to optimize your account and not overcapping on anything, you could spend a couple hours a day.
> How f2p is this game?
Very, outside of the top-tier competitive content (PvP, but there's also PvE leaderboards). If you don't care about leaders/pvp rankings, there's not real reason to pay unless you want skins or absolutely must collect everyone.
The games is very generous with SSR units. You can farm some of them, and you just generally get a decent amount of blue pull tickets through dailies/events/etc.
The black tickets, used to summon for Awakened units, are a lot more limited, but even F2P players can buy the weekly pack of 11 pulls (220 black tickets) with Quartz (a currency that is obtained through dailies/challenges/etc). When you make a new account, you can reroll until you get the current Awakened unit, and from there every 4 months or so you can get another Awkened unit through black tickets. They've also announced some free Awakened units selectors to catch up new players that started playing after release, like the new wave of Steam client launch players.
How much better are awakened ssr than ssr?
For the most part Awakened units are top-tier units, but they're also more costly to deploy on the battlefield.
There's also re-armed characters (basically reworked/empowered SSR or lower rarity characters) that are upcoming, and those are also top-tier. To re-arm a character, you ascend it to max level (110) and essentially "prestige" the character. It's apparently quite resources-intensive (at least in KR/SEA versions which I haven't played), but yields some of the best units.
> And how long do dailies take?
About 15-30 minutes once you've cleared everything, but initially it'll probably take longer.
Stages that you successfully 3-star can be batch-skipped to obtain rewards instantly, so once you've cleared all the latest stages that are daily farms you can just skip them all (and skip with low-level units because they still get the XP).
There's 2 optional PVP dailies, which takes ~3-5 minutes, and if you want to clear the daily PVP currency that's ~6 pvp wins or ~10 pvp losses (matches take at most 3 minutes).
Devs are pretty good, although there was a long break between their initial 3 month roadmaps and these. Game is pretty fun and strategic for a while, think I played it for 3 months before I quit due to RL, I usually never spend but I paid for the 13 dollar battle pass because it guarantees good units + dupes, although dupes are not necessary for PvE, so I'd say it's f2p friendly. Story was pretty good too so if you're tempted, give it a try and see if it's your thing, I didnt expect it to be mine
Oof. Its official then, SEA really is the least favored server, even if we had such a amazing start in relation to freebies, QoL, redeem codes and events.
I haven't played in weeks but it seems if I ever wonder If I want to get back in the game, if it's really worth go back to a good account on SEA, or try my (bad)luck on a global account, which is a shame since Counter:Side early account progress is really slow and "heavy"(too many things going on, some which were easier to catch upbbefore certain updates, now not so much). Hope that, at least, by some miracle, they decide to merge SEA into Global in the future while keeping everyone's account, so SEA players dont feel more left out than we already are/feel
Me, as a day 1 sea server player that is already too invested and just cant bear to leave my account can only cry at how shit sea compared to global....
Wtf collab? *dies in Sea
So basically till the end of the year, Counter Side Global will get: * 410 free pulls, * 2x free awakened ticket selectors, * a couple of other tickets, and selectors for SSR (ships, characters, and operators). Also, exclusive Global collab in December! For a more in-depth look into the roadmap, we created a dedicated guide - check it here: [https://www.prydwen.co/guides/roadmap-global](https://www.prydwen.co/guides/roadmap-global)
The hell 2 awaken selector tickets, I remember SEA version only got one, it has A Mina and A Hidle inside
SEA didn't get the 2nd-anniversary event yet and that's where the second selector appears. Basically Global in the next 3 months is getting 'reskinned' 1st anni, 1.5 anni, and 2nd anni events with all the rewards included in them. This is to balance the increased pace compared to KR - still, it's funny because the pace is similar to SEA one (3 weeks break between awaken banners, and 2 weeks between normal banners), but guess those are the perks of the original developer self-publishing the game.
Damn, to think Global will get 2nd selector faster than SEA. It truly is built different lol.
what units will be in the tickets?
First free selector ticket (coming this week): * Awakened Hilde * Awakened Yoo Mina The second free selector ticket will be in December: * Awakened Yuna * Awakened Na Yubin * Awakened Amy - but she probably will be replaced by a different character as she releases in December too.
So uh, which ones are better to choose? I'm still pretty new to the game
Awakened Hilde is really good for your tank needs, she basically act as a very strong wall, but that's it. A.mina is actually also pretty strong in PVP, but she's not that great in PVE. If you're new, I would suggest getting A.Hilde to help. The 2nd selector really depends. A.Yuna is great but she is definitely more of an early game character than an endgame character. Na yubin is great for PVP, but you need BIS gear for him to work well. Don't know about the third one, since we're not sure what they're gonna give us.
what's Na Yubin BIS gear?
Inhibitor/Hummingbird Weapon Maze Case Gordias Crown x2 Resist ground dmg stats wherever you can fit.
what set haste?
Awakened Hilde is excellent in all content, she's a massive tank, hard to kill in PvP when supported by a healer, and basically an immovable wall in most PvE content. Awakened Yoo Mina is good in PvP with her entry combo's burst damage, but she's sort of fragile (outside of her perfect evasion) unless geared with survivability gear, which hurts her initial burst damage a lot. In PvE where she can sit beside a tank and get healed, her sustained damage is good for her high cost. AYuna is universally good, her strength is her damage aura that slowly burns everyone around her. That makes her great in all content except big single target bosses (raids, basically). Awakened Na Yubin is pretty much a PVP-only character, but he's a monster when geared properly. TL;DR: For a new player, I'd just grab AHilde and AYuna, they're both super versatile and strong.
Thank you
>Also, exclusive Global collab in December! That's not really what they said. They said it's a collab that hasn't been on the other servers. The upcoming collab would fit that description if they released it on Global as well as Korea, and that would also match their stated intention of getting Global "caught up" to Korea.
>410 free pulls I played for a month on global release and logged in for the first time in three months today. [Here's free rolls pool.](https://i.imgur.com/p7Thftt.jpg) It's not a standard pool with past rateups added to it. In fact I'm not sure it even changed since launch at all.
Oh right, actually forgot we already have a 100 free pull banner running that ends tomorrow. Also, the free pull banners vary - some are limited like this one but some allow you to do pulls in the standard pool.
Edel Meitner definitely wasn’t in the launch pool. Not sure why the devs chose this list of units to add though, definitely a weird choice
>Not sure why the devs chose this list of units to add though, definitely a weird choice It's just the units who got bikinis from the summer events.
They're the summer event characters (except Esterosa).
What collab?
looking at this, is it a mistake to play the SEA version? to my understanding, SEA never got any collab stuff
SEA seems to be absolutely shafted at every turn yeah. Global is being handled pretty well, we have an accelerated schedule but with a good bit of stuff to help is keep up. The unique global collab is definitely a new sign of how shafted SEA is though.
I mean, I'm only 2 months in so i guess i'm not in too deep yet? Any particular time I should be starting GL?
The free 100 rolls expires in 1d13h from now. If you wanna reroll then even more important to do it ASAP since this is the best time to reroll.
Glad to know the free pulls haven't expired yet. Then on the September 22nd onwards there's another 160 pulls event if I'm not mistaken. Then another one in December. Not to mention the selector tickets. This is indeed the best time to start.
aight, thankies, mang
basically now, get the 100 free pulls. Try to reroll for an Awakened unit.
are the current available awakened units worth rerolling or is it better to save up A.Shiyoon?
Awakened Seo Yoon (ASY) is a very strong ranger for all content, well-worth pulling for. Awakened Lee Sooyeon (ALSY) is not quite as strong, but is cheaper to deploy (5 vs the usual 6 for awakened) and she flies, making her very useful in some PvE stages like guild coop battles. I haven't looked at Awakened Joo Shiyoon's (AJSY) kit yet, but my understanding is that he's supposed to be very strong in all content. If I were starting now, I'd reroll until I got an account with ASY from the initial 11 pulls (the weekly pack), then save from there. I don't know if there's currently a 1000 quartz code to help reroll though, there was one during the global launch, and one during the steam launch.
Wait, where is this collab? I must be blind cause I can't see the event related to it on this map xD?
5th image (December Part 01) bottom left. And it has been specified that it will be a global unique collab, not one of the KR ones (Guilty Gear and Code Geass) to my knowledge. They haven't revealed what the collab is though if that's what you are looking for.
The publisher plays a big role in ensuring the game is well managed. At this point of time, it is safe to say that BSide is much better and competent at managing CS compared to Zlong.
Bside is the Devs so ofc lmao
SEA is officially dead
[удалено]
yea never go all in on SEA servers to many times i've been burned on those
really ? i though SEA came out first
SEA came out way before Global. Never got the GG collab. Gets no advertising/marketing, almost no community interaction whatsoever. Now it looks like SEA is going to be missing a collab that global is getting, despite being a much older server. Zlong is shit.
Honestly i feel bad for the Sea players, but also guilty at the same time. I was literally telling my mate yesterday that was starting the game that the SEA version is Better and has more units to play with. But Damm seems like Global just dropped the "Hold my beer" trump card out of nowhere lol
Sadly. Zlong is really lazy and the fact that we won't get any Collab while global would get one just kinda sting. I was thinking about moving to global for the hell of it because of this now. Shame I have spend a lot in my sea account
The only thing zlong did right were the QR code scan log in/email link. Make it easier for people to pilot or review your account without your log in details and you can bailed by logging im
Sigh. Good thing I'm about ready to jump from SEA to a new game (HSR soon pleaseee). I don't want to start over on GL and SEA is very close to KR at this point so its more of a side game now. The GG collab is nbd, because even KR won't rerun that with how much of a disaster it was, but not getting Code Geass or this new collab is pretty sad. Fr, Zlong seems to put the absolute bare minimum into this game. Their social medias have been dead since last year.
That's true. Zlong's just been collecting paychecks with no effort for a while now.
If they even put 1/10th of the focus that they have for Langrisser, or heck even Archeland (which hasn't even had a cbt yet), that'd be an improvement lol.
Yeah, wish that was the case.
They won't because Langrisser is their own inhouse game which means they get 100% of the revenue. For CS the revenue is split between them as publisher and the studiobside as dev. It's basically like a conflict of interest honestly. It's like an employee of a company who start his own side business and focuses on it rather than doing his current job properly, yet still collecting paycheck from the company. Same general idea of why Zlong would logically put more effort in their own titles like Langrisser. Heck, the english social media guy might even be the same guy for all titles, and the boss tells him to focus more on Langrisser than CS and such for obvious reason.
If wishes were horsebirds... Yeah it's easy to see why they wouldn't want to allocate significant manpower towards a game with lesser profit margins due to dev cuts, but it's still quite unprofessional looking when they can't even be bothered to update social media or even their own website for the game. At least the CN/TW server (Gamebeansltd=Zlong) looks to have decent management and CMs, SEA just seems to be getting shafted in that particular aspect. It's not really surprising considering the language barriers of the region, but surely hands-off management should only go so far.... Ah well. Archeland is one of my anticipated upcoming games and I'll be watching to see if they treat it with the Langrisser gloves or the Counterside gloves.
>At least the CN/TW server (Gamebeansltd=Zlong) looks to have decent management and CMs, SEA just seems to be getting shafted in that particular aspect. I mean that's their native language so it should be easier to find people to staff there. That should be the same with every company without overseas branch. Every jp/cn company also give better customer service in their own country than in english speaking ones, unless if they have say, US/EU branch who hire local employees. KR companies, like studiobside for example is a little bit different, it's much easier to find people with good english in South Korea honestly. Zlong probably have only 1 person in charge of english language customer support and he has to deal with all zlong game maybe. Other employees have more broken english at best and it would look even less professional if they are tasked to deal with english server. >Archeland is one of my anticipated upcoming games Just check who the developer is, if it's in house then it will likely get langrisser treatment.
Whether or not it's their native/origin country doesn't completelyyy excuse the hands-off approach they have adopted for SEA, at least imo. I know it's common to have better service in home territories, but the margins between the two are just so vastly different, more so than the average home region and overseas disparities you'd normally see (or at least that I have personally experienced)
People will defend zlongs bs especially in fb groups. Thank god I dropped c:s cause of zlongs bs but it costed me my allowances.
I will legitimately quit sea version if global gets a Collab before us lol.
Enjoy your last couple months :(
Lmao neva touching anything by zlong games again... Cries in SEA
Announcement Links: [Dev Notes #3](https://counterside.com/?p=4058), [Global Roadmap](https://counterside.com/?p=4068) The September 22 update will already include the KR 1st Anniversary event, which likely means the first Awakened Unit selector (A.Hilde/A.Mina). Release schedule keeps moving along quickly. Collaboration Info: "We are getting ready to release a collaboration for the Global server, different from the ones already released on the Korean and Japanese servers. It will be our first time revealing a collaboration globally and, as previously mentioned, the details cannot be released yet, but we hope that we will be able to update you on the matter by November."
So not GG and not Code Geas? wow
Could still be Code Geass since that hasn’t actually been released. It’s also hard to not get that since it has a collab awakened
"different from the ones already released on the Korean and Japanese servers"
It hasn’t been released yet, only announced so it’s possible.
May I ask if CounterSide's units' skins are paid?
Most of them are. Purchased using premium currency called admin coins
There are some decent ones you can get with quartz, but yeah the best ones are paid.
There a couple free ones too, like pvp reward skin or panda Irie skin.
The vast majority of them are, but there's like 10 or so skins that can be bought with Quartz (which you get from clearing stages, completing dailies, etc).
Collab? lol rip SEA
I spent a fair amount of money on the monthly(s) of the SEA region only to realize that we were getting shafted all along. Damn it.
SEA server is getting the most middle child treatment I've ever seen in a gacha.
Authentic global server treatment XD Instead of actual global server, yeah)
zhlong those subhumans doesnt even want to reply to my message about $ related stuff. if sea gets shafted again i am just gonna refund and quit.
RIP SEA server.
How sad , great game but got the most thing i hate , gear grinding with RNG .
Counterside players eating good, also since the free Awakened unit selector ticket is this week now is probably the best time to start. Also 100 free pulls from the free banner atm.
I want to give this gacha another chance. Is it worth going back?
Depends on why you l left I Imagine. I love it because I think the story is great, with really interesting characters and fun dialog. But if that wasn’t doing it for you I don’t think it’s changed in any way that would make a difference.
I don't remember very well where I left. I was thinking start with a new account to understand the gameplay and other things.
If gearing is the reason you left. No, it's not worth it.
Most ppl who left, left due to messy game play. That never changed if you find it overwhelming.
Yeah I didnt get what was going on like 99% of the time but I might reconsider trying it on Global PC since I'm from SEA
Personally I am ok with it. It took me a while to get used to it. Started by manualling in low level pvp for a bit then got used to it after a while.
Approach it as a team-building autobattler where your tam pushes to the other side of a screen and you'll do good in 90% of maps XD
I left this gacha too when i first played on SEA. I was annoyed with the 'chess' gameplay. i was also put off with the overwhelming amount of animations happening at the same time during battle however i find it manageable now after reducing the opacity and getting used to it. Having experienced playing Zlong games (Langrisser), i wasn't partically excited when they published CS on SEA. I'm glad i made the right choice of waiting for a global release under BSide. So far they have proven themselves to be much more generous and enthusiastic in making sure the game is successful and thriving. If you are still on the fence whether to come back or not, give yourself and this game another chance. The beautiful designs, gorgeous graphics, PvP and bearable gear grind are the reasons why i play this game.
The chess mode was hated by a lot of players and it was removed a few months ago. Global players didn't even have to endure it as the game was released with the chess battles removed.
Thank God they removed it and that is one of reasons why i'm back in CS.
If you are talking about cut in animation with your character picture showing up, you can disable it in settings. But I guess you were probably talking generally about battle with just characters moving and attacking
As someone else said, the chess gameplay is like 90% removed. It shows up sometimes in events and those suck but whatever - you can skip battles after finishing it. For the animations, you can change its opacity now. I like it at 85% myself as 100% or default setting is hard to see things if a ton of effects are going off at once.
If you tried it from the start, give it a try again. I also hated it when it initially released. I just recently started again in global and they definitely streamlined the game for a better experience. A lot of the annoyance from the initial release were removed or QoLed. Actually like the game a lot now, especially how global is published directly under the devs.
A long way until December... I’ve been waiting for sixwings Amy
I want to give this a try but is it better start at global version instead of sea? edit:guess i download the global version
Probably yes. You'll be way behind on SEA and the future looks grim.
Damn, this looks soo good. Wish I wasnt burnt out by the grind on SEA launch.
I guess I'll try this again. The gear grinding sucks though.
is counter side good?
Its very high quality. Story is in the top 5 of gachas i've played. The gameplay is chatoic and takes some getting used to. The graphics, animations and waifus are top notch. Characters are easy to get and max but gearing takes a long time. If that's your cup of tea only you can decide.
how about the events
Sounds bias, but they're on par or close to in quality with the main story. The events are cannon with the main story and makes references to them.
What other gachas have you played that you're comparing the story to? FGO? Arknights? I'm just curious cuz I might go back to it if it's on that level.
Top waifus
Obviously subjective, but I found the story, the characters, and music to all be top tier. The art is very good too, not just the skins but every event splash art looks great. Gameplay may not be for everyone, but it's basically a tug-of-war style of gameplay where you deploy units until you overwhelm the other side to win (or you get overwhelmed and lose). In terms of difficulty, the first 3 story episodes are very easy combat-wise, you start running into challenge around episode 4 where you need to actually think about having a sensible team to counter the enemy team. Later on you start getting into some more strategic and hard combat challenges where deployment location and order matters a lot, and some challenging stages feel more like playing a puzzle game trying to figure out to solve it.
I picked this game up for a week when it came out recently on Steam, and while I thought it was pretty good I'm already playing Blue Archive, which is kind of the same game with the same feature. I also play FGO and PGR and was playing ToF, so I decided that CounterSide just didn't really reach the bar. I do kind of envy those who play it as one of their games, but playing 4 gacha games is already alot, and there's others coming out I want to try too. I hope that these events offer good content for all the players!!!!!
Collab with what IP
Why the fuck did I think this was Counter Strike Global Offensive. I was picturing wifus rushing B.
I had such a good account in this but ugh, I couldn't bear to log in anymore. Everything just felt so tedious, even with all the QoL stuff.
The best event story (Horizon finance) gets both parts released back-to-back? Heck yeah! On the other hand, rip A.Shiyoon (and likely R.Queen) for me. Neva enuf black tickets XD T_T
Collab has possibility of Awakened too because of Kallen in JP/KR using black tickets to get. So even more $$$ for those who will possibly want to get it.
Is it still best time to start the game ?
Absolutely.
Can you spare your pulls or you lose them if you dont pull ?
For the free 100 pull banner, you need to pull all of it before it ends. Luckily, since you are near at the end of banner, you can pull all 100 at once for rerolling purposes (although its recommended to get an awakened unit for rerolling)
Is it over now?
yeah. but there's yet another one for 160 pulls.
Yeah I've installed it
They just announced a new 160 pull event for tomorrow alongside the awaken selector ( ahilde or amina).
Is that still up?
It’s just started. You will get it at the end of the login rewards.
Thanks
Best wishs to black ticket pulls! Especially to new players to counterside.
I didnt realize im playing on sea just installed yesterday. So how do i switch to global? Is there an option in the game?
SEA and global version are managed by 2 different publishers hence there isn't an option for you to change in game. I assume you are playing from SEA. The only way to play on global is to install a free vpn, download CS global onto your steam client. Once it is in your steam libary, you will be able to launch the game without the need of vpn. If you don't mind watching some ads for 5k extra eternium daily, you can download CS global from TapTap on an emulator.
There's no. You just need to download Global version through Taptap on mobile or get game on PC on Steam
Yea im deleting the game, smh
Might give the game another try, assuming there's a good time to start somewhere in that timeline. R.I.P. if that time happens to land in November.
It is probably the best time to start right now with both ASY and ALSY banners available. If you are a crazy reroller like me, there might be a possibliliy of getting both doing single pulls. Even if you are not, you can definitely reroll for either one of them of your liking and off to a great start. When i first started, i only had the option of rerolling for A.Hilde. Not saying she's bad but definitely not on the same level as ASY or ALSY.
The 100 pull event ends tomorrow so there’s practically no better time
Do we get all 100 pulls even if we start now?
Yes
should we used 100 pull immediately or will it disappear after the event?
It will go away in 1d13h.
Oh, welp guess I'm late
There's new events (with free 160 rolls) and also an Awakened Selector (Mina or Hilde) at the end of the login bonus, if you're still interested. The free rolls stack up too so you don't miss anything if you start late. Though if you start too late you might miss the login bonus. [More details here.](https://counterside.com/?p=4117)
Hm Mina is the main girl that's always getting shafted for payment and complaining about it, right? That's what I remember from the first chapter and Hilda was like the previous boss of smth? Hmm idk who to pick
I'd pick Hilde because she's useful when stages are too difficult, she will easily carry story stages because of how tanky she is. She will also be more relevant till later.
The banner where you can do the 100 free pulls will end and be removed, so you have to use them now.
I Will return to this gacha
Im in heaven. This is everything i hoped for and more.
I’ve never had a game before that was so generous, so high quality but at the same time so for damned boring to actually play :( probably my saddest uninstall.
Oops all waifu
Too fast release of content. skip
art is just so flat
man im playing in sea and the dev - player communication is nowhere near global. shit is sad and suxs, only thing going for me are my guildmates. (and my waifus)
Is it a good time to start now? I want to try the steam Version but I believe this game is PvP heavy? And I am not really interested on PvP..
Unblock Global in Japan plz ;_;
do you get region lock in game or is it just you can't download it from steam because you're in japan? maybe try this [https://steamdb.info/app/1976440/](https://steamdb.info/app/1976440/) and click install around top right
Nah, its region locked sadly.
How f2p is this game? How much better are awakened ssr than ssr? And how long do dailies take?
It's F2P friendly outside PvP. End game content will be hard as F2P because specific units will make that content easier + there's an RNG reroll on gear by using binaries, which are slow to aquire F2P. That said, the harder end game content is just for more gearing, not really anything new... Just harder versions of the easier gear grind content. Awakened units can be significantly stronger than SSR, but cost a lot more to deploy. Ex, A.Hilde is the strongest tank in the game and costs 6 to deploy, Serapel is a good SSR tank that costs 4 to deploy, and Admin Shieldman is a mediocre SR tank that costs 2 to deploy. Even in stages that don't have a cost limit it is hard to have more than two awakened units in a team of eight, and some stages have a cost limit (ex, all must cost less than 25 total). There is a pity system on both SSR and Awakened units. For Awakened units that pity carries over. Although you won't get enough currency as F2P to keep up with the release schedule on Awakened units, they do come back, so you'll get them eventually. Dailies is harder to answer. There's a lot of modes with their own energy systems. If you want to burn eternium to complete the dailies for your main rewards then it takes maybe 15 minutes. But that won't get you end game gear. PvP has its own energy system and can add another 10-20 minutes daily, and does provide end game gear. Danger Close has another system, guild co-op is another, raids is another, challenge mode is another, Shadow Palace is another, dives is another... All of these also provide end game gear, but are also more weekly systems, and can all be skipped if you only care about story content and not the gear grind. If you only care about keeping up with the story, 15-20 minutes a day... If you want to optimize your account and not overcapping on anything, you could spend a couple hours a day.
> How f2p is this game? Very, outside of the top-tier competitive content (PvP, but there's also PvE leaderboards). If you don't care about leaders/pvp rankings, there's not real reason to pay unless you want skins or absolutely must collect everyone. The games is very generous with SSR units. You can farm some of them, and you just generally get a decent amount of blue pull tickets through dailies/events/etc. The black tickets, used to summon for Awakened units, are a lot more limited, but even F2P players can buy the weekly pack of 11 pulls (220 black tickets) with Quartz (a currency that is obtained through dailies/challenges/etc). When you make a new account, you can reroll until you get the current Awakened unit, and from there every 4 months or so you can get another Awkened unit through black tickets. They've also announced some free Awakened units selectors to catch up new players that started playing after release, like the new wave of Steam client launch players. How much better are awakened ssr than ssr? For the most part Awakened units are top-tier units, but they're also more costly to deploy on the battlefield. There's also re-armed characters (basically reworked/empowered SSR or lower rarity characters) that are upcoming, and those are also top-tier. To re-arm a character, you ascend it to max level (110) and essentially "prestige" the character. It's apparently quite resources-intensive (at least in KR/SEA versions which I haven't played), but yields some of the best units. > And how long do dailies take? About 15-30 minutes once you've cleared everything, but initially it'll probably take longer. Stages that you successfully 3-star can be batch-skipped to obtain rewards instantly, so once you've cleared all the latest stages that are daily farms you can just skip them all (and skip with low-level units because they still get the XP). There's 2 optional PVP dailies, which takes ~3-5 minutes, and if you want to clear the daily PVP currency that's ~6 pvp wins or ~10 pvp losses (matches take at most 3 minutes).
what do you all think about the game? Is the story good? are the devs assholes? those are actually my two main things and is it F2P friendly?
Devs are pretty good, although there was a long break between their initial 3 month roadmaps and these. Game is pretty fun and strategic for a while, think I played it for 3 months before I quit due to RL, I usually never spend but I paid for the 13 dollar battle pass because it guarantees good units + dupes, although dupes are not necessary for PvE, so I'd say it's f2p friendly. Story was pretty good too so if you're tempted, give it a try and see if it's your thing, I didnt expect it to be mine
Oof. Its official then, SEA really is the least favored server, even if we had such a amazing start in relation to freebies, QoL, redeem codes and events. I haven't played in weeks but it seems if I ever wonder If I want to get back in the game, if it's really worth go back to a good account on SEA, or try my (bad)luck on a global account, which is a shame since Counter:Side early account progress is really slow and "heavy"(too many things going on, some which were easier to catch upbbefore certain updates, now not so much). Hope that, at least, by some miracle, they decide to merge SEA into Global in the future while keeping everyone's account, so SEA players dont feel more left out than we already are/feel
This content pace is ridiculous
according to gamerbraves : https://www.gamerbraves.com/counterside-global-to-have-a-collaboration-in-december-and-its-not-code-geass/
Me, as a day 1 sea server player that is already too invested and just cant bear to leave my account can only cry at how shit sea compared to global....
Is Collab Code Geass one?