Hello, players! We've just rolled out a new version, introducing the Ten Thousand Beast Manor Event and the Pet Gear feature, alongside fixing some issues that might have affected your gameplay. If you encounter any problems, please don't hesitate to join our official Discord and share your feedback. We'll be quick to address and appreciate your patience.
Version V1.0.1227b55 Patch Notes
[New Additions]
Introduced the Ten Thousand Beast Manor Event: Upon completing the abandoned courtyard event in the southwest region, you will receive a message from Ten Thousand Beast Manor (Note: You won’t be able to join the manor).
Added key characters: Tang Taijun, Tang Wan'er, and Lu Jiannan, along with their respective initial states. Lu Jiannan is recruitable, while Tang Wan'er can be both recruited and bonded.
New maps in the southwest region: Ten Thousand Beast Manor, Cloud Camp, Plant House, Bailing Mountain, Bamboo Forest, and Sea of Flowers.
Added adoptable pets: White Tiger, Snow Leopard, and Panda.
Introduced the Pet Gear System, initial states for pets, and adjusted pet skills. Pet Gear can be obtained by completing events.
Added special moves: Beast Unity (Tang Taijun), Courtesy Before Battle (Lu Jiannan), and Hairpin Phoenix (Tang Wan'er).
Introduced Inner Martial Art: Beast Mastery, and King of Beasts Techniques, with added effects for certain sword and fist techniques.
Added achievements related to Jiuli Tribe, Melody House, Ten Thousand Beast Manor, Jiujiang Water Camp, and Tang Wan'er's bonds.
[Adjustments and Optimizations]
Ability-related adjustments:
Increased experience gain for certain abilities.
Gifts of preferred items now grant eloquence experience.
Higher levels of eloquence ability provide allied human characters with attack, defense, and energy-gathering speed bonuses after entering combat.
Higher levels of exploration ability provide additional Jianghu experience upon entering scenes for the first time.
Modified descriptions in the ability interface.
Homestead-related adjustments:
Added main room facilities for sleeping and dressing.
The homestead editing interface now displays information on teammate aptitude, bonds, and reputation.
Unlocked recipes can be inherited when achieving the true ending.
Main character and teammate's five main aptitudes now display experience progress when hovering over the aptitude values.
Arm strength, intelligence, agility, and fortune experience gain from main character's gathering, praying, map traversal, and item identification now distributed to the entire team, with increased agility experience from map traversal and a higher daily maximum limit.
Added relationship display for personal factions in the faction interface.
Adjusted Romance Martial Arts limitations: Removed the requirement for the main character to spend combat intent to assist.
Adjusted poison, internal injury, and blindness effects:
Poison: Reduces basic attack power (excluding equipment bonuses), with every 1 point of poison reducing basic attack power by 0.5%.
Internal Injury: Reduces basic defense (excluding equipment bonuses), with every 1 point of internal injury reducing basic defense by 0.5%.
Blindness: Each point of blindness temporarily decreases hit rate by 1%.
Adjusted charging and defense effects:
Charging: Guarantees a critical hit on the next use of an external martial arts attack.
Defense: Guarantees a block on the next time being attacked, with the effect lifting after the character takes action.
Adjusted the "Control of the Heart Sutra" inner skill: Now available to all, it affects all allied human characters except the main character, providing a 15% increase in final damage, a 15% reduction in damage taken, a +5% critical hit rate, and a +5% block rate.
Adjusted the appearance of the main character after becoming a guerrilla general for the Ye family.
Adjusted the Poison Dragon event to produce Poison Dragon eggs after the Poison Dragon mutates.
Refined the Miao Caidie Poison Test event, allowing the main character to choose to use corresponding insects to increase or decrease specific attributes.
Optimized the event where Lu Wenhuan offers poisoned wine, with added subsequent related plot developments.
Console optimization: Added a batch of shortcut functions (Ctrl+F11 to activate) after loading any MOD.
[Bug Fixes]
Fixed the issue in the daily quest for Langya Sword Pavilion where bandits would still appear after leaving the faction via horse carriage.
Fixed the configuration error in the first combat experience and reputation experience for Miaomu Li.
Fixed an issue where, after bonding with Man Tuoluo but not selecting the affinity skill, the quick item bar wouldn't display in combat.
Fixed the problem where selecting poisoned potions during auctions would lead to a freeze.
Fixed the issue where using a gold token arrow to subdue Cai Youzhi after he was captured at the Foutu Temple would cause Cai Youzhi's position to be outside the top-level map.
Fixed the problem in the Yi Zhihua event where using a credit card resulted in negative coins and a freeze.
Dear CEOs, This is Kim Hyun Soo, the Head PD of CounterSide.
As we approach the end of 2023, many significant developments in CounterSide have occurred throughout the year.
The in-house service of CounterSide started from the 6.0 update, and various content improvements and revisions were made possible, thanks to the sincere feedback and encouragement from our dedicated CEOs.
We express our heartfelt gratitude to all the CEOs who have consistently shown interest and support for CounterSide. With 2023 coming to a close, we hope you can reap the rewards of your efforts.
In this developer's note, we would like to provide a brief overview of the updates scheduled for January 2024.
[ Seasonal and Supplement Episodes ]
Seasonal and supplement episodes will now follow the new rule before they are added to the Seasonal Record.
Seasonal episodes with an event shop will be rerun twice before they are added to the Seasonal Record, and they will no longer have the shop when they are added to the Seasonal Record.
Supplement-type seasonal episodes without an event shop will be added to the Seasonal Record after one more rerun.
All the clear records will be kept when the episodes are added to the Seasonal Records.
[ Gauntlet Survey Results and the Results ]
As previously mentioned in the November developer's note, we conducted a large-scale adjustment announcement for a more enjoyable and thrilling Gauntlet environment.
We express our sincere gratitude to the many CEOs who actively participated in the Gauntlet survey.
We will now guide the future adjustments to the Gauntlet environment based on the results of the survey.
The key inquiries related to the Gauntlet environment from this survey are as follows, and we will share the results and the development team's opinions on each item.
Experiencing matches that last for 3 minutes
Unsatisfactory balances
Inconveniences when checking information
Employee and ship ban experiences
I. Experiencing matches that last for 3 minutes
The category that the development team judged to be affecting the most to the match time is healing. However, the aggregated results from statistics and surveys indicate that battles lasting for 3 minutes are less frequent than the development team's expectations. The recent Gauntlet healing reduction patch is considered the cause.
Therefore, we plan to conduct a more detailed review of the healing amount in the Gauntlet environment. Initially, we will remove the self-healing ability of the employees who can heal themselves and the ally to consistently reduce the average playtime in the Gauntlet.
II. Unsatisfactory Balances
Among the unsatisfactory balance responses, the four issues that occupied the highest average ratio are as follows:
1) When facing an employee without weaknesses (an employee without a clear counter) 2) When facing an employee with exceptional durability relative to its cost 3) When, despite addressing weaknesses, dealing with them is not clear-cut. 4) When facing an employee with exceptional abilities relative to its cost
Based on the survey results, the development team is currently analyzing the characteristics of around 200 employees corresponding to the four issues with the highest ratios. First, the team is in the process of defining criteria for employees with no weaknesses and unclear countermeasures.
After completing the analysis of employee characteristics related to these major complaints, the team plans to proceed with balance adjustments for each analyzed characteristic.
Detailed information on this matter will be provided separately.
III. Inconveniences when checking information
Many CEOs expressed difficulty in accessing information about the employees' specifications.
To address this concern, the development team is planning the following improvements for standardized descriptions and providing missing information
Distance Display Improvement: Standardizing the notation and providing a method for measuring distances.
Movement Speed: Including movement speed information in the employee details.
Line of Sight: Displaying the field of vision information in the employee details.
Range: Indicating the effective range in the skill descriptions.
The number of attacks: Specify the number of attacks in the skill descriptions.
Implementing these improvements requires unavoidable system development, and it is expected to take some time. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by not being able to provide these pieces of information promptly. Once the system development is complete, we will systematically organize and provide more detailed information about employee specifications in the game.
IV. Employee and ship ban experiences a. Frequency of using banned employees
b. Frequency of using banned ships
Based on the survey results, we observed that CEOs tend to use ban ships more frequently than banned employees in the Gauntlet mode. Therefore, considering that the Gauntlet ban penalty for ships does not significantly impact the actual performance of the ships, the development team is discussing the enhancement of the Gauntlet ban penalty for ships. One thing we are discussing is adjusting ships that summon units to the field.
As a preliminary step towards these Gauntlet environment adjustments to reduce the match time, there are plans to adjust the employees who can both heal themselves and their allies simultaneously.
Therefore, during the January balance patch, Full Moon Nanahara Chinatsu and Carmen will no longer be able to self-heal in the gauntlet environment. Beyond these two employees, adjustments will be sequentially made to employees who can both heal themselves and their allies simultaneously in the Gauntlet environment as well.
The development team is also preparing for various other adjustments to the Gauntlet environment, and these changes will be implemented sequentially.
[ NEW ORIGIN 1st Anniversary Broadcast ]
To commemorate the upcoming 1st anniversary of CounterSide’s NEW ORIGIN in February 2024, a special broadcast is being prepared to reflect on 2023, providing insights into the direction of 2024, and sharing various events and content for a meaningful celebration. The development team is diligently preparing a range of events and content to meet the expectations of the CEOs and make the anniversary memorable.
During the anniversary broadcast, the Head PD will make an appearance to deliver exciting news and updates to our CEOs.
We sincerely hope for your continued interest and support for the 1st-anniversary broadcast and the upcoming year.
This concludes the upcoming update news scheduled for January 2024.
CounterSide has been able to progress continuously, and it's all thanks to our dear CEOs. In the upcoming year of 2024, the CounterSide team, including myself, will listen carefully to the opinions and criticisms of our CEOs and strive to make CounterSide even better.
We extend sincere gratitude to all the CEOs who have been with CounterSide throughout this year, and I look forward to your continued support in the coming year. Wishing you all a happy and prosperous New Year in 2024.
Trial 21 of Savage Gauntlet will arrive soon! This Trial features a boss battle with limited respawns. You will fail the Trial if your remaining respawns reaches zero. Five players join together and battle through insurmountable odds in this extremely challenging game mode. Complete the mission within the time limit and prove yourself as an elite exofighter. The mission objectives are fixed for the duration of each Savage Gauntlet event, so play repeatedly and look for ways to optimize your strategy and complete the mission as fast as possible. Players around the world will be competing for the fastest completion times, with special awards available for the most elite exofighters.
Trial 21 Playable Period
29/12 2023 03:00 UTC ～ 09/01 2024 02:59 UTC 12/28 2023 19:00 PST ～ 01/08 2024 18:59 PST * This week, the Campaign Period will be extended one week from its regular schedule.
Map
Spacetime Rift
Rewards
Rank Awards
Acquisition Requirement Complete Savage Gauntlet at least once.
Rank
Condition
Obtainable Award
Master
Completion time ranking in the top 20%
Gauntlet Master
Fighter
Completion time ranking in the top 50%
Gauntlet Fighter
Survivor
Complete Savage Gauntlet at least once
Gauntlet Survivor
Note: Players with high-ranking clear times can also receive the awards from lower ranks. Results will be displayed on the Main Menu after rankings are calculated. Completion time rankings vary from platform to platform. Award levels can be increased by earning multiple rank awards.
Participation Requirements
Complete the main story. Players who have fulfilled the participation requirements will be able to join via the "Savage Gauntlet" item in the main menu.
We expect all exofighters to put their best foot forward for the Savage Gauntlet.
Regular game too bright? Too colourful??? It's okay, I understand. Now available: pick your world theme AND the intensity to help make your playtime comfier. Note: This can be changed on the title screen and carries across all saves.
💌 NPC Friendship & Heart Events
A bug has been made aware to us over Christmas where friendship events and such were not triggering properly. We will be slowly fixing them over the course of the next week, so you may notice some cutscenes playing now as you walk around the world. We'll call it out when all friendship and heart events are fixed, but they will be slowly added into the game until then. Thank you for your patience!
✨ Obelisk Item Labels
Uhh....what is that? Spinach? Grass? Shame? Obelisk offering conditions now will show you the item name on hover!
📑 Wiki Coming Soon!
We're working on a wiki! Hopefully, we can have it go live soon! We understand the game is a little bulky with some things that are hard to find.
