After a year and a half of hard work, Counterpact has finally left its alpha phase! The core features of the game have been implemented, so the next couple of months will focus on adding enough content for launch. But don't worry, the game will continue to receive content updates after launch!
What else does this mean? Unfortunately, it means those neat little Alpha Charm mementos and Alpha emotes are no longer being given out. It also means our beloved Alpha Egg pet has left the Development Gashapon. But now... now the Beta Charm memento and Beta emote are being given out in its place! And the Beta Egg pet has joined the Development Gashapon! Get it while you can, because this announcement also brings a more concrete launch date set in August! When exactly in August? Not sure yet. Just wait.
Lastly, since there is a severe shortage of items with the development-exclusive Decorations, during the beta phase, the only Decorations you'll get on your Decorated items are the development-exclusive ones... except for when Summer Solstice comes.
All that aside, there are some other far less important things in this update. You can read those changes below.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed slot and character filters applying in item confirmation popups.
- This issue would typically cause these confirmations to fail, as they depend on the items being shown.
- Intermediary players no longer appear in the ignore list.
- Disconnection messages no longer appear for intermediary players.
Miscellaneous:
- Antiqueness can now be removed from items.
- When selecting the option, the "Yes" button will be locked for 3 seconds to avoid accidental removals.
- This cannot be undone.
- Items can now be deleted.
- When selecting the option, the "Yes" button will be locked for 5 seconds to avoid accidental deletions.
- This cannot be undone, and refunds will not be issued regardless of what items are deleted.
- All existing instances of Fresh Overwear (2023) and the 2023 emote have been made Antique, and the items' descriptions no longer state that they are exclusive to the Festive Season 2022 event.
- A damage-per-second and healing-per-second display has been added to the Experimentation Room.
- Settings to toggle heal fatigue and allow Puppets to regenerate health have been added to the Experimentation Room.
- The Flag Barrier entity has been added to the Map Editor. This entity acts as a solid wall to any player currently holding the flag, but is intangible otherwise.
- Longer item description lines will now have their width automatically reduced.
- This may impact readability, so less verbose item description lines are still recommended.
- An experimental, automatically generated Spanish translation has been added.
- This may be replaced by more refined community-made translations in the future.
- Players now have significantly reduced friction while using the Ice Cube chair.