CounterAttack
Small bugfix patch
Changed default Game Mode from Arcade to Casual
Fixed Game Mode resetting to Arcade
Fixed several localization issues
Make Tri-Beamer's beam sound a less overpowering
Fix Missile rotation bug
Fixed cosmetic thruster flames appearing in the wrong spot on vertical survival levels
Add friends related high scores to game over screen
Small bugfix patch
Add multiple tracks to Flood Survival
Fix issue where previous high score wouldn't always load on game over screen
Fix duplicate powerup scavenger bug
Fix 'Speed' upgrade notification not showing
Fix Cargo on Wave Survival damaging player ships
There was another small patch I posted no notes for, it fixed a problem with Bob Oboc's ultimate lagging out games
Small Bugfix Update
Fixed some localization issues with text wrapping and formatting
Fixed some auto-select language issues
Fixed advanced settings resetting between playthroughs
Fixed Load Autosave sometimes not being clickable on the game over screen
Update 1.1.5 is Here!
I'm happy to announce update 1.1.5 is now live! This update brings fixes and new content, and improvement with online matchmaking. A new global lobby will help pilots find each other.
Added global, cross-platform lobby.
Previously Steam had a global Steam lobby, and other platforms used regional lobbies. This meant that console players and steam players could only see each other if they were in the same region.
The new system allows players from any platform to view and join games from any region. Hopefully this will help find games. The ‘Find Game’ option in the ‘Play Online’ menu will prioritise games from your own region first, and if it can't find any there it will search elsewhere.
Added Dreadnaught capital ship to Gate
Doubled Dreadnaught firerrate
Dreadnaught now has 4 PDLs
Added 63 new Attachments, and new attachment Category “Dangerous”
Some old attachments that have been recategorised as Dangerous such as CTRL+ALT+DEL and Drone Sacrifice
Dangerous attachments can give large benefits but can do bad things like blow up your ship
Add ability to load saved games in online multiplayer
-Only works for new saves
-Saves can have an equal or fewer number of players when loading
-Cant change pilot order (coming soon™)
-Online game saves are compatible with offline multiplayer and vice versa
Improved Action Abilities
Not only are there several new powerful action abilities, but a new advanced player option is available called 'Alternate Actions'
This can be set in the advanced player options in the Options menu from the Main Menu, or from the Pause Menu
By default LB / Q is 'Action 1' - all action attachments are triggered using this button and the cooldowns are added together. With 'Alternate Actions' enabled you can have up to 4 action buttons with independent timers and cooldown bars. I'm hoping to improve it with a small patch after getting more feedback, but in testing we were able to come up with some crazy fun combinations.
Other changes
New score mechanic: Successive 100% clears
Doubled Bubble Shield & Shield Wall’s HP
Increased Shield Wall Lifetime 20->40 seconds
Shield wall lifetime is now affected by projectile lifetime mod
Increased HP per point of power for Bubble Shield + Wall from 20->100
Automaton Collisions now do half damage to player shields
Automaton Boomerang projectiles are now destroyed on ground or station structure collisions
Improved how the Solar overheat and detection display to players
Debris no longer break killstreaks or count as missed
Improved sync in online games
When Nano Fighters without Durable Drones now destroy the projectiles that hit them
Increase Nano Fighter collision damage 4->5
Fixed issue where Nano Fighters wouldn't target enemies on the top and bottom edge
Add Action tag to Strange Module/Tesseract/Trans Tesseract
Player options now in pause menu
Attachment Changes
Missile Drones is renamed Rocket Drones
Rocket Drones now interacts with Swarmfire and Space Bombs
Ultimate Defiance now has a 12.5s cooldown
CTRL-ALT-DEL is now 'Dangerous'
'Drone Sacrifice' is now 'Dangerous'
Fixes
Fixed some camera issues on some special levels
Fixed some audio clipping issues (I’m sure there’s more)
Fixed unkillable off-screen enemies on Arch Evasion
Fixed unkillable off-screen enemies on Cloud 666
Fixed issue where side score damage wasn’t counted properly
Fixed “Beam Wall” enemies on Outpost Ginga and Battle for Earth breaking killstreaks
Fixed issue on Solar breaking killstreaks
Fixed enemies missed by the basic fighters on Bulwark preventing 100% runs
Fixed offscreen enemies on Cloud666 Preventing 100% runs
Fixed an off-screen asteroid breaking killstreaks on the Asteroid level
Fixed corrosive side not applying to Scythe Laser
Fixed Support Fighters colliding into trees (tree collisions are non lethal)
Ion beams now slow support fighters
Fixed Bubble Shield losing HP on respawn
Fixed penetration weapons getting bonus penetration
Fixed issue where support fighters would destroy Quantium
Fixed Buildup Plasma Mines dropping in place
Fixed OnCollision abilities not triggering when evading or invulnerable
Fixed many typos
Fixed freeze effect getting stuck enabled
Fixed some issues with projectiles being sized wrong when fired
Since there have been several scoring changes the new update has a new high score board. You can still play the old version and find your old scores by selecting the '1.1.4' branch.
I'll be playing online over the next week. Hope to see you out there! o7
-never.
CounterAttack: Uprising Demo Now Available!
A demo for CounterAttack: Uprising is now available on Steam!
The Demo Features
- 2 of the 8 Player Ships
- 6 of the 32 Campaign Levels
- 1 of 3 Endless Survival Modes
- Hundreds of Attachments to Unlock
- 1-4 Player Local Co-Op
- 1-8 Player Online Co-Op
See you out there Pilots o7
Update 1.1.5 News
New Attachments!
As usual, there are a bunch of new attachments. With new abilities and weapons the combination possibilities multiply again!
Microjump Slight strikes nearby enemies then returns to your position. Your ship is invulnerable when striking enemies, and Attachment's with on collision effects trigger.
Shockwave Missiles and Space Bombs spread themselves out.
Tether is a Beam replacement that latches onto and buffs nearby friendly ships. It works with other players as well as support ships, both summoned and others such as the Lone Ship. Tether grants +Power, +FireRate, and +Evasion and scales off of Beam level. When combined with other Beam attachments it can attach to multiple friendly's, grant stun, damage over time, or even armor piercing to the Tethered Target.
Check it out!
Improved Attachments
Several Attachments and their combination effects have been improved.
Top Gun existed previously, however was lacking in a few areas. The Top Gun now has a Level Up animation and carries its level between stages. That means as you keep upgrading Top Gun it gets more and more powerful.
Dangerous Attachments
Ever thought attachments were too helpful? Well no more! Dangerous attachments have powerful modifications with a major downside. Some existing attachments have been reclassified as Dangerous, such as CTRL+ALT+DEL.
An example of the new Dangerous Attachments are 'Fanatical Reloader' which increases reload speed by 200%, however you now explode when you overheat. Or Beam Fanatic which gives +3 Beam, however with a 30% chance to explode when upgrading Spread, Side, Missile, or Plasma. There is also now a search box when selecting attachments. Hopefully it saves everybody some scrolling!
Scoring changes
There was always a bonus for getting 100% cleared on a stage, but it has now been expanded. Getting multiple 100% clears in a row gives a large consecutive bonus.
To help with this, icons of Missed Enemies are now shown on the score screen after levels.
Improved DeadGun
The Dead Gun, the turret players become when they lose their ship but have other human allies still alive, has been buffed again. It now has 3 weapons, the same laser blasters as before, a more powerful free shockwave ultimate, and a new Action that fires several homing missiles. This allows Dead Gun players to contribute more on levels like Asteroid Field where the blaster and shockwave aren't as useful.
Global Cross-Platform Lobby
It will be easier to find online games! One of the problems with CounterAttack: Uprising is finding people online. Currently CA:U on Steam can use global Steam lobbies to find games in other regions, however other platforms use regional lobbies when hosting and searching. So to find a room hosted by a player on a non-steam platform you have to be in the same region. No more! We have created a new backend system allow all platforms to share rooms form anywhere to anywhere.
Online Saves
This has been one of the most requested features that I hadn't got around to, until now! Online saves allow saving and loading of online games. Online games can be brought offline, and offline games can be brought online. You can still load old saves offline, but only new saves can be used online.
Other improvements such as improved online sync, many levels tweaked and adjusted, typos and spelling corrections, and more!
We're still testing and polishing these changes. But if you can't wait, you can try them on Beta today! You can find instructions on accessing the Beta in this post here.
There will also be an updated demo coming, release date TBD.
See you Pilots out there,
-never.
February 10th Patch
Fixes
Fixed fishboss getting stuck in the corner
Improved camera on Tank Level
Reenable HDR
Fix ship color not saving or setting correctly in some situations
Fixed tint color not applying to some weapon effects
Minor improvement to online synchronization
Linux
Changed default graphics API from OpenGLCore to Vulcan
-If CounterAttack starts with a black screen try adding -force-opengl
by right clicking CounterAttack in Steam -> Properties -> https://i.imgur.com/RIXwKi7.png
Small Update in Beta
The next patch is in Beta! It addresses several issues, including a graphics API selection issue on Linux that was resulting in a blank screen on some devices. If you're on Linux and still getting issues after the patch it may be Vulcan failing to init. You can add '-force-opengl' to the launch parameters by right clicking on CounterAttack in Steam, and going to properties. The launch params are at the bottom of the 'General' section as seen here.
This patch also improves the Camera on the tank level for local multiplayer games as well as in online multiplayer when a player has died and becomes a deadgun. It also fixes a bug preventing multiple PDLs of the same subtype from being equipped, for example when using the attachments 'Quantium Guide' with 'Ship Defence Module'.
You can try out these changes today by following these instructions on accessing the beta branch.
There is also another small content/feature update in the works. I'll go into more detail in a future post.
Having trouble finding other pilots in online games? Come join the CounterAttack discord! Lots of pilots looking for others in the never ending battle against the Automatons!
-never.
Jan 24th Patch
Fix input select issue on the Game Setup screen
Update 1.1.4 is out!
Fixes
Regen Defiance Shield
-Added missing adj on English localization
-Fixed it not working at all
Fixed some offscreen text on the level editor
Fixed Nova Cannon not spawning death projectiles
Fixed issue with Missile Destroyer’s missiles tweaking out
Fixed some background effects not showing up on lower quality settings
Capital Ships now correctly save with game saves
-Only new saves will have capital ships, old saves were never saving them
Fixed Missile Destroyer from Destroyers not carrying over between levels
Fixed some UI buttons displaying incorrectly
Added some missing localization to the keybinding editor
Fixed Space Breaks not working on the Tank level
Fixed some graphical bugs on the Solar level
PDLs will no longer target the same projectiles
Fixed some missing background visuals on Low quality
Fixed Friendly Ships dying when colliding with cargo containers
Fixed Friendly Ships sometimes trying to avoid their own projectiles
Friendly Ships now deprioritized cargo’s when finding targets
Attachment Changes
Quantium Thruster no longer gives +5% evasion
Quantium Thruster now gives +4 speed
Increased ‘Shield Wall’ health by 50% (350->425)
Increases ‘Shield Wall’ regen by 100% (1.5 -> 3)
Increases ‘Shield Wall’ lifetime by 5 (20s -> 25s)
Increase ‘Shield Wall’ height by a tiny bit (15 -> 15.5)
Increased the time between Cargo Drop spawns by 0.5-1s
Other Changes
Improved default Plasma projectile visibility by adding a slight dark halo
Increased Missile Destroyer main missile/torpedo damage from 10 -> 22
A few enemy spawn tweaks to the first few easy path levels
Changed enter capital ship cooldown (time you must wait after leaving a cap ship and before entering another one) from 2.8s -> 2s
New Health Bar effect that indicates damage was done
New friendly ‘Bunker’ on Altercation which fires at enemies
Increased bonus points from bosses on Hard/Very Hard difficulties
Increased size of Unit Count box on Custom Level Editor
Fixed some enemies that would go through the ground on Mining Outpost
Ayumi
+1% critical strike
Thanks to all the Pilots who report bugs! Especially with screenshots or videos, it's super helpful! o7