Counterpact

April 3, 2024 Patch

New Gilded Gashapon Content:

"Fhuuu" the Angel's Dollification
Shazia the Dream's Dollification

Bug Fixes:

Fixed keychains being misplaced on Loie the Inker's Dollification.

Miscellaneous:

A button leading to the Counterpact wiki has been added to the main menu.

March 19, 2024 Patch

New Content:

"Voyager" the Loadout's Dollification
Loie the Inker's Dollification

Bug Fixes:

Dolly the Puppet can no longer be selected through the number keys if she is not enabled.
Fixed an issue where standing on the Security Cell as it times out would sometimes result in picking it up instead of it being properly reset.
Fixed an issue where hovering above the matchmaking popup with vertical margins would cause the popup to constantly move.
Character filters no longer apply when equipping items.

Miscellaneous:

Bestowal's description now properly states that it is from the Lunar New Year 2024 event.
Work In Progress' spinning sawblades now have a separate event feed icon.

This will not retroactively apply to demos from before this patch.

The Grub Tourney Medal memento has been rewarded to winners of Counterpact Competitive League Grub Tourneys.

February 18, 2024 Patch

Balancing Adjustments:

Lunar New Year Firecrackers now detonate at a slightly faster speed.
The warning radius of Lunar New Year Firecrackers now grows at a much slower speed.

Bug Fixes:

Snail Pulse now properly drops a heal pickup upon being destroyed again.
Decorative fireworks are no longer affected by demo playback speed.

Happy (Belated) Lunar New Year!

It may be a little late, but it's finally here. The Lunar New Year event is now live, and will end on March 6! During the event, you can obtain a variety of items from the Lunar New Year Gashapon and "scare" your enemies away with firecrackers!

New Gilded Gashapon Content:

SYS.TR the Bulwark's Dollification

New Lunar New Year Gashapon Content:

Bestowal (Common Holiday Recourse Weapon Skin)
Hot Temper (Common Holiday Outfit)
Auspicious Invitation (Uncommon Holiday Loadout Outfit)
Sycee (Common Holiday Chair)
Yellow Apricot Blossom (Common Holiday Pet)
Four Blessings (Common Holiday Emote)

New Donator Items:

Lucky Lantern Keychain
Mandarine Keychain
Koban KOunter

Balancing Adjustments:

Only one instance of Snail Pulse will spawn per floor.
Graverobber's healing treasure now has a higher initial healing rate and minimum healing rate, but a quicker healing rate decay.
Heartbeats now inflicts double heal fatigue when healing allies with its attack.
Work In Progress spinning sawblade now deals more damage per hit.
Work In Progress oil now reveals hidden players.

Bug Fixes:

Fixed misplaced keychains on Shiniko the Reaper's Dollification.
Work In Progress spinning sawblades are no longer instantly destroyed in demo playback.
Players should no longer appear to be stuck in respawning due to packet loss.
Autobalancing is no longer executed on servers with custom team limits.

Miscellaneous:

The sound of Work In Progress spinning sawblades has had its volume decreased.

January 2024 Update

Thank you for playing Counterpact! Hopefully, you continue to enjoy the game. This update brings quite a few bug fixes and quality of life features, as well as a new weapon for Loie the Inker!

New Content:

New Loie the Inker weapon: Work In Progress

This Defense weapon may not pack as much of a punch as some of her other weapons, but it can still cut through the competition (quite literally)! The sawblades it shoots penetrate enemies when initially shot, and can deny a small area upon hitting the environment. You can shoot oil at your enemies to make them slip into the sawblades, causing them to be ignited when they get hit!

New Gilded Gauntlet: Origins

Here's a not-so-friendly reminder that this is, indeed, a bullet hell. It's just you against Gale... and Gale? And also Gale? Let's hope your dodging skills are sharp!

New Gilded Gauntlet Item: Shiniko the Reaper's Dollification

Balancing Adjustments:

The lower difficulties of the Gilded Spire no longer increase enemy attack delay, but instead decrease enemy health.

The intention of this change is to emphasize the bullet hell focus of the Gilded Spire, as there seems to be common misunderstandings about what the Gilded Spire actually is, which in turn seems to lead to inefficient playstyles.

Bug Fixes:

Players who have not completely connected no longer appear on the scoreboard or in disconnect messages.
Melee attacks no longer hit intangible enemies.
Supernova missile detonation is now properly affected by delta time.
Fixed an issue where the first unfavorited inventory emote and chair (the latter always being the Kitchen Chair) were being used as the default items in their respective menus.

Miscellaneous:

The AutoCam now prioritizes following the Security Cell in the Keepaway mode, so long as the Security Cell is not at "home".
The "PlayerBypass" setting can now be added to the "Server" section of the INI to allow server hosts to set a player limit larger than 16.

This setting is "secret" as large player numbers may have adverse effects; server hosts are responsible for any issues that are caused by using this setting.
For security purposes, the internal limit is still capped at 50 players.

KO streaks are now displayed on the scoreboard.
Certain important buttons on the main menu and in-game menu now appear with different colors.
Attempting to view the Gilded Gashapon's contents without having the Gilded Gauntlet unlocked will now display information about how to unlock the Gilded Gauntlet.
An option has been added to adjust how long chat messages remain before fading out.
An option has been added to automatically kick players who remain as spectators without chatting for extended periods of time.

This is primarily to combat an issue where players would queue into matchmaking, then proceed to never join a team or participate in the game in any way, resulting in heavily lopsided games and generally wasting time for all those involved.

January 2, 2024 Patch

Bug Fixes:

"NPC" no longer appears after Wardens are suddenly removed.
Fixed an issue where some localization tags were not properly being sent by the account server.
The Shop and Gashapon popups for new players no longer appear when the player is in the Gilded Spire, but has not yet selected a character.
Custom settings will now properly set the collision masks for custom assets.

Miscellaneous:

Unarchiving all items now displays a confirmation popup.

Counterpact's Official Launch is Here!

After a little over two years of development and a considerable widening of the game's initial scope, Counterpact has finally launched! One last thank you to everyone who was here before launch; it was because of your collective efforts that the game was able to grow as much as it did. Of course, the game will continue to grow!

For those of you who may have just found the game for the first time: Welcome! Hopefully you enjoy the game, and maybe even stick around for a while! There's a lot to check out with even more content to come over time, including six holiday events a year!

Since Counterpact is no longer in its development phase, the Development Gashapon is finally gone. It had a nice, long run (a year and a half!), but it's finally time to put it to rest. New Development Gashapon items are no longer obtainable; the only way to get them is by trading with other players.

Lastly, this is technically an update, so there are some patch notes to share with you all...

New Variety Gashapon Cosmetics:

Class Clown (Uncommon Reaper Outfit)
Malevolence (Uncommon Angel Outfit)
Delicate Silk (Uncommon Inker Outfit)
Clown (Common Emote)

Balancing Adjustments:

Graverobber can now dig up treasures on platforms.
Graverobber treasures now land on platforms.

Bug Fixes:

Fixed an issue with Antique Lifeguard shields and enemy outlines.
Items with unique recycling returns no longer cause the large font to be used for the price in the Shop.
Fixed an issue where the last used emote and last used chair were being improperly set after an inventory adjustment if the last used emote or chair was not favorited.
Damage areas no longer discredit players for KOs.
Searching for multiple terms no longer causes no items to appear after recycling an item.
Fixed an issue where attacks and abilities would sometimes be disabled upon spawning.

Previously, this was most easily circumvented by clicking outside of the game window, then clicking back in.

Shazia the Dream's attack animation should now work properly with delta time.
Shazia the Dream's grapple speed now works properly with delta time.
Large downloads directly from the server should no longer timeout after a certain amount of data has been received.

Miscellaneous:

The shop button now indicates when new items are in stock, and the new items themselves are indicated within the shop.
When obtaining enough Eclipsium, new players will be pointed to the shop and gashapon with brief explanations.

This will also appear for older players as well; however, it should only appear once.

Chairs are now affected by delta time.
External custom assets (sprites and sounds) can now be loaded from a .ZIP file via custom settings.

Due to certain complications regarding this addition, demos will not be recorded while playing with external custom assets until further notice.

Loser weapons can now be disabled via custom settings.
Shazia the Dream's Gilded weapons now have unique binding sprites.

This also applies to the Development Hypnotic Chain skin.

The Goliath Doll, Gale Doll, Gamble Doll, and Luster Mite Doll now appear as their Dusk counterparts while the player is on Team Dusk.
Specific variables within weapons, players, and projectiles can now be made exclusive to Dawn or Dusk.

This is particularly useful for "adding" characters that are accessible by both teams, but need to be visually distinct as a result.

Tips will now be provided in the in-game chat after being KO'd.

This is obviously intended for newer players, and can be disabled in the Options menu.

December 17, 2023 Beta Patch

Note: Unless there are any glaring issues that suddenly come up, this will be the final update before Counterpact's official launch on December 31! To those of you who have stuck around all this time, thank you for your support. However, this does mean that the Development Gashapon will be leaving soon, and the items within will no longer be obtainable. Hopefully you are satisfied with what you have.

Bug Fixes:

Performing actions within your inventory properly returns you to your previous page again.
Delta time no longer negatively affects jump height.
Certain visuals no longer cause underwater bubbles to fade out "randomly".
Clients should no longer timeout while downloading larger maps directly from the server.

Balancing Adjustments:

Unfathomable Fury's attack damage has been reduced.

Miscellaneous:

Lifeguard's shield is now affected by item attribute filters, such as the Antique filter.
Unique item icons have been added for Eclipsium bundles.
Eclipsium bundles (and other items with "abnormal" recycling returns) now display how much is gained when recycling them on their item icons.
Delta time has been implemented for important aspects of the game.
The "Search" button has been removed from the inventory; text searching will now be performed automatically.
Players can now search for multiple terms in their inventory by separating each search term with commas.
Spacing has been added to Shortcake's background, better displaying the details on the sides of the background.
The space between the edges of the water fountains and the ground on Treecave Greenhouse have been made solid.

This is to prevent smaller players from going under the edge of the fountain and getting "stuck".

Official map checksums are now run at the time of loading the map, instead of storing the checksum when the game is booted.

Happy Festive Season 2023!

The end of another year is closing in, and that means a lot of things... but to those of us who have been split into identical counterparts, it means the Festive Season is upon us again, running until January 2! Of course last year's items and the Holiday Rush metagame will be returning, but there are a few new items this event brings too! And just like with the Halloween event, this year the items will be in their own gashapon. There is also a set of festive weapon skins to collect for a cheaper price, so be sure to check those out too! Don't forget the stocking stuffers; every player who logs in during the event will get a free Frozen KOunter!

There's something special about this particular event though; this will be the last holiday event of Counterpact's development phase! That's right, the game will be launching very soon (by the end of the month, most likely)! It has been a long journey, but for those of you who stuck around after all this time, thank you very much. However, this also means the Development Gashapon will finally be leaving us soon, so be sure to complete your collection while you still have the chance because those items will not be returning!

Without further ado, the patch notes...

New Content:

A new Power Struggle map, Shortcake, has been added.
New Donator Rewards Shop items:

Frozen KOunter
Silver Bell Keychain
Dreidel Keychain
Snowflake Keychain

New Festive Season Gashapon items:

Prison Rule Precedent (Common Holiday Back Alley Invitation Weapon Skin)
Holiday Tradition (Common Holiday Outfit)
Fresh Overwear (2024) (Common Holiday Outfit)

This item is only available for this event.

2024 (Common Holiday Emote)

This item is only available for this event.

2024 Keychain

This item is only available for this event.

New Frosty Collection Gashapon items:

Gifted Soul Crusher (Common Holiday Soul Crusher Weapon Skin)
Frozen Lifeguard (Common Holiday Lifeguard Weapon Skin)
Gifted Supernova (Common Holiday Supernova Weapon Skin)
Frozen Liftoff (Common Holiday Liftoff Weapon Skin)
Gifted Laser Cannon (Common Holiday Laser Cannon Weapon Skin)
Frozen Firewall (Common Holiday Firewall Weapon Skin)
Gifted Growing Pain (Common Holiday Growing Pain Weapon Skin)
Frozen Eye Blaster (Common Holiday Eye Blaster Weapon Skin)
Gifted Recourse (Common Holiday Recourse Weapon Skin)
Frozen Unfathomable Fury (Common Holiday Unfathomable Fury Weapon Skin)
Gifted Heartbeats (Common Holiday Heartbeats Weapon Skin)
Frozen E-Laminator (Common Holiday E-Laminator Weapon Skin)
Gifted Bounty Hunter (Common Holiday Bounty Hunter Weapon Skin)
Frozen Back Alley Invitation (Common Holiday Back Alley Invitation Weapon Skin)

Bug Fixes:

Fixed the map boundaries on Treecave Greenhouse.
Internet issues should no longer result in menu options being duplicated in trading menus.
Natural Logarithm's unique Rerouted Power effect no longer appears when weapon skins are disabled.

Miscellaneous:

A button to toggle overlays during demo playback has been added.
A button to toggle the AutoCam during demo playback has been added.

This button was added to the demo control dock itself, with the intent of being more convenient than opening the menu.

Settings that are toggled on during demo playback now show a thicker border around their respective buttons.
The gilded coin damage effect no longer occurs if Decorations are disabled.
The page buttons in the inventory popup have been replaced with a slider.
Custom images within maps can now be given custom internal names; these names allow custom images to be used by custom server settings.
The Scythe's sprite has been updated.

This includes all of its retextures as well.

November 29, 2023 Beta Patch

Balancing Adjustments:

Tower of Hell (Gilded Gauntlet): Napalm can now be triggered in place of the speed upgrade if the conditions are met.
Closing In (Gilded Gauntlet): Floor 4 no longer adds another set of Wall Cutters.

Bug Fixes:

Holiday event decorations are now properly synchronized in demos.

This fix should retroactively apply to demos.

New Variety Gashapon Items:

Industrial Agriculture (Common Bulwark Outfit)
Pest Control (Common Watcher Outfit)
Cold Hearted (Common Dream Outfit)

Miscellaneous:

Treecave Greenhouse, made by StarlessElaine, has been adopted as an official map.
Dollification: Eye Blaster is now compatible with decorations and keychains.