Maintenance Schedule – July 31, 14:00 ~ 17:00 (UTC+9)

Patch Notes

Summary

• New Seasonal Story – Abandon Ship
• Ranked Battle – Up System suspension
• Arcade Mode – Gauntlet Simulator
• Last Stand – Front Bay
• New Employee – Sonya Bill
• New Employee – Tallie
• Returning Operators -Sigma, Jung Dain and Replacer Rook
• Raid – Britra
• Challenge Stage – Innovation Setup
• Substream Event – The Sun-Calling Tracks

New Seasonal Story – Abandon Ship

The new seasonal story, Abandon Ship, will be added to the game. 

[Abandon Ship] Available Schedule – July 31, After the maintenance ~ August 21, 2024, 14:00 (UTC+9)

New Employee – Sonya Bill

Sonya is a dysfunctional forward-deployment character without any direction to her kit design. Her main (supposed) value comes from her on-demand -100% Incoming Healing debuff… except it decays… and it only lasts 15 seconds. Sonya is far too expensive for how little she influences the game.

In PVP, there is no reason to use Sonya over more specialized disruption-oriented units. For any time you would consider adding her to your team, there would be a better unit for the situation. It’s unclear if this unit is strong enough to see any amount of play on UP.

Ratings

• PVE (Early) – D
• PVE (Late) – D
• PVP – D

New Employee – Tallie

Tallie is a damage-oriented sniper that deals no damage. Her one redeeming quality is her high hitcount.

Hitcount checks exist in CounterSide (primarily) as a PVE mechanic, but generally speaking they can be, and have been cleared without Tallie. Tallie is rarely a significant enough improvement over the existing strategies to the point where she would be worth taking. Worse still, Tallie’s poor survivability prevents her from being used in those few PVE stages where the hitcount is actually relevant (e.g. Tyrant Gigas).

Tallie sees next to no use in PVP. Of note, there is a novel interaction between Tallie and Shepherd and Lurcher (dino mech); Tallie, with her high hitcount, can shred the dino mech’s hitcount-based immortality almost instantly. Unfortunately, as dino mech comps typically bring many disruption tools, Tallie struggles to perform this consistently.

Ratings

• PVE (Early) – C
• PVE (Late) – D
• PVP – C

Changes and Improvements

1. A shortcut to [Management Guide] in the hamburger menu will be added.
   
2. Calculation for the [Combat Power] or [CP] will be adjusted.
   1. [Combat Power] will increase based on the individual employee’s level of Tactical Update.
   2. N grade employees will have their Combat Power decreased by a small amount.
      
3. [Profile Settings] will be improved.
   1. More items will be displayed when setting the main employee, frame, and title.
   2. A [Filter] function will be added to the main employee setting screen.
   3. The [Date] sorting criterion will be added to the main employee setting screen.
   4. Ascending/descending order buttons and sorting criteria buttons will be added to the frame setting screen.
   5. Ascending/descending order buttons, sorting criteria buttons, and a filter button will be added to the title setting screen.
      
4. A notification mail will be sent a few days before the subscription packages runs out.
     

Fixes

1. A fix where Kaci Bins’ Passive skill description would not display as intended in the rearmament UI.
   
2. A fix where the deployment effect display is not functioning correctly depending on the skill level of the following employees.
   1. – Elizabeth Pendragon (non-rearm version)
   2. – Oh Saerom
   3. – Ironside
      
3. A fix where [The Elemental and the Beast Shepherd & Lurcher]’s HP is below 0.1%, it’s Ultimate Skill gauge would not charge as intended.
   
4. A fix where during the Counter Case Tutorial, the focus would not be on point when it is supposed to.