CounterSide Oct 2025 Dev Note & Balance Patch

CounterSide October 2025 Dev Note, Balance Patch and Preview

A preview for October 2025 is here.

Check out what new update is planned below!

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New Counter Pass Employee – Treasure★Hunter Mi Rinae

The next Counter Pass employee will be Treasure★Hunter Mi Rinae, returning in a brand-new form.

Treasure★Hunter Mi Rinae is a 3-cost Ranger employee. Unlike her previous role, where she wielded powerful elemental weapons from the frontline, she is now designed to support certain allies by assisting with Skill Haste.

In addition, her structure allows her to grow stronger the more she uses her Special Skill, meaning the longer the battle lasts, the more directly she can contribute to combat.

◆ Treasure★Hunter Mi Rinae

New Recruitment Employee – Paradox]

In October, a new recruitable employee will also be introduced.

This new employee is Paradox, who has shown a deadly charm through earlier story episodes.

Paradox is being prepared as a 3-cost Supporter who assists Fury-type allies. She grants allies an ASPD buff and helps recharge the Fury Count of Fury-type employees.

With Paradox’s release, Fury-type employees are expected to show an even more powerful presence on the battlefield.

◆ Paradox

Café Strega 3rd Anniversary Event

At the end of October, coinciding with Halloween, the Café Strega 3rd Anniversary Event will take place.

To celebrate Café Strega’s 3rd Anniversary, a new skin for Laura, the manager of Café Strega, will be released.

In addition, two new Café Strega furnitures will be added, allowing CEOs to create an even more complete Café Strega look within the game.

Furthermore, all existing Strega skins, including previously released ones, will receive exclusive effects.

The new skin and furniture will be revealed in detail through the upcoming Patch Notes, so please look forward to it.

Dive Re-entry

Many CEOs have sent in feedback requesting the ability to retry Dives that they have already cleared.

In particular, content creators who wish to make guides featuring the latest employees or provide strategies for new CEOs faced difficulties due to the inability to re-enter cleared Dives.

To address this, the development team is preparing improvements that will allow re-entry into Dives.

Additionally, after clearing the stage for the first time, CEOs will no longer need to spend entry resources.

Dive re-entry is scheduled to be updated at the end of October, so please take note.

New Danger Close Boss – Knights of Redemption

A new Danger Close boss, Knights of Redemption, will arrive with the October 29 update.

In this battle, numerous Knights of Redemption members will appear as monsters, and you must defeat them all before facing Nehemoth.

As time passes, Nehemoth grows stronger, so CEOs will need to quickly clear the monsters and suppress Nehemoth before it becomes overwhelming.

To help CEOs better prepare for Danger Close bosses, we are also preparing several improvements.

First, additional information will be added to the tags of existing Danger Close bosses.

Second, changes that occur when selecting High-Intensity Plans will now be displayed, making it easier to strategize and challenge Danger Close bosses.

New Limited Gauntlet Skin

With the start of the 2025 Sincere Season on September 29, we had planned to showcase the new skin illustration. However, due to delays in the in-game skin production schedule, we will be unable to release the new skin at the start of the season.

We understand that many CEOs have been eagerly waiting for it after the silhouette reveal during the 2.5th Anniversary Livestream, and we sincerely apologize for the delay. Our goal is to deliver a more polished and high-quality Limited Gauntlet skin.

◆ Apology Compensation

20,000 Eternium
500 Quartz

※ Available if you log in by October 3 (Fri) 09:59 EST.
※ Rewards will expire 7 days after being received via in-game mail.

The Limited Gauntlet skin belongs to Cold Case Horizon and is scheduled for release on October 29, and we hope you look forward to it.

◆ Under Arrest, Human – Cold Case Horizon

Ban Rule Change

In the upcoming 2025 Sincere Season, ban rules will also be updated.

Previously, rotation bans were determined using data split by rank threshold, separate sets of data above and below a certain ranking level.

Starting from the Sincere Season, rotation bans will instead be calculated using integrated data from all CEOs.

Additionally, units that are already banned will be excluded from the rotation ban pool, and the final ban stage applied to a unit will now always decrease week by week.

Furthermore, even with only one ban applied, the Ban Penalty will be strengthened to make banned employees harder to utilize, and the number of Rotation Bans will be increased from 16 to 20.

The strengthened Ban Penalty will take effect starting October 1, while the increase in Rotation Ban slots will be applied beginning October 6, when the new ban targets are selected after the patch.

Employee Balance

On October 1, the unit balance adjustments we previously announced will take place.

Originally, we had prepared these adjustments in the form of Alternium Reactors, but as the number of reactors increased, so too did the entry barriers to content. We recognized this would place an unnecessary burden on CEOs due to resource acquisition, and thus decided to carry out these adjustments as balance patches instead.

The original goal of the Alternium Reactor system was to revitalize older employees whose balance had fallen behind newer employees, offering motivation to play by bringing them up to a similar level.

However, contrary to this intent, it was perceived as both a content barrier and a paid balance patch, leading us to consider it unsuccessful.

As a result, we are temporarily suspending the release of Alternium Reactors and considering their complete removal. If removed, their effects will instead be integrated directly into the skills of the relevant employees.

Going forward, we plan to apply balance patches at the start of each new Ranked Battle season, focusing on employees who saw low usage in the previous season.

From this balance patch, 10 employees have been selected: Six Wings Lee Jisoo, Evolve One, Maestra Nequitia, Kostroma Mavka, Karin Wong, Dracasia, Nicole Primer, Mors, Ella, and Gambler.

Please note that Harab requires additional code work and QA, so its balance adjustments will be patched separately at the end of October. Additionally, Six Wings Lee Jisoo will receive both balance adjustments and exclusive gear buffs.

The specific balance adjustments for each employee are listed below. Please keep in mind that these details are still under testing and may change before the actual update.