Counter side is a side-scroller tower defense hero collector. What a mouthful. The purpose of the game is to deploy your heroes and destroy the enemy base, whilst avoiding the destruction of yours. I will not be explaining basic game play mechanics as you'll very quickly pick them up when you're playing the game. However keep in mind the combat diagram advantages for easier stage clears if you're ever struggling.


Is this game Free to Play friendly?

Yes, but only as long as you don't want to compete in the Ranked Arena. Thankfully, the rewards difference between the bottom and top ranks is really small and Ranked PVP in this game is all about bragging rights. Furthermore, the game also has a Strategy PVP mode where you just pick one of three opponents and the game plays on auto - you get the same currency to use in the shop from both modes.

Basically at any given moment there's an event or a calendar running that gives tons of free stuff and the developers are quite generous.

Can I use emulator to play the game?

Yes, but the game has a PC client (in SEA - Global won't have it on release and there the game will be released on Steam shortly after launch) and it works so much better, so if you like playing on PC, just use the official client.

How do the rates look like?

On a normal banner it's 3.5% to pull the highest rarity in the game - SSR. 1% is for the featured employee and 2.5% to get an SSR employee from the general pool.

Also, reaching pity is quite easy and you only need 150 pulls to get the featured unit - there's only one featured SRR per banner, so there's no horrors here with pitying someone you don't want.

On a awakened banner, where you can get Awakened Employees (basically UR rarity from other games) the chance is the same as for normal banner - 3.5% overall and 1% to get the awakened employee. But compared to normal banners, the pity is saved and isn't lost when the current awakened banner ends. This means that if you're unlucky and have to pity every time, you can get an awakened employee roughly every 2-3 months. Currently there's 14 awakened employees in the game.

Check our Awakened Employee[www.prydwen.co] guide if you want to know more about them.

Does the game have auto-battle or skip tickets?

Both, but compared to other gacha games, auto-battle here is quite smart and if you setup your team correctly, you can clear majority of the game's content just on auto battle.

After you clear a stage on 3 stars, you will unlock Skip option that will allow you to instantly clear a stage, giving you max rewards. Still, there are some modes that can't be skipped, but they're in minority - you can do all dailies / farming stages with skip.

Is this a main or a side game?

The game is going to be a main game until you unlock and catch up with all your characters and resources, and then it becomes a solid side game with plenty of events and added content over time. The main focus would also be the fun live PVP that the game has, if you enjoy something more competitive.

How long does it take to do all the dailies?

Around 15 minutes after the skip option was added.

Eternium is what stamina is called in this game. When you start playing, you will level up like crazy and every time you do, you will receive a couple thousands of Eternium. That's why after you settle on an account you should never use the Get All button in Mail. Never. Whenever you run low on Eternium, just open a single mail and keep playing.

During events, you should prioritise farming event stages instead, because not only they give more exp/gold per Eternium spend, but also the event shop is full of goodies!

Quartz is the premium currency in the game and even if the game showers you with it, you should never pull on normal banners using Quartz (costs 1.5k to do a 10-pull). Why? Because the game gives you enough Blue Contracts (basically summon tickets) and you should summon using them instead. Also because Quartz are better exchanged for Black Tickets. You can buy 220 Black Tickets every week for 2.7k Quartz which equals to 11 pulls on an awakened banner.

However you should also be refreshing the daily shop 5 times a day - each refresh costing 15 quartz for 75 total quartz, to try to get blue summoning tickets (which you can use to summon characters with), as well as other materials that you'll need like limit breaking cubes, skill books and ship upgrade materials. Be aware that the items in the shop cost quite a lot of credits, so you might want to wait a week or so before you start refreshing it daily.

You will also need Quartz to expand your employee and gear inventories, but only do that when you really need it.

Check the other guide to get all the information you will need to reroll[www.prydwen.co] a great starter account.