Correction : Daily - 420 Quartz Weekly - 290 Quartz PVP - 50 + 80 Quartz Season - 20 + 25 Quartz Punch In - 80 Quartz I miscalculated in the video for the daily (60 x 7) = 420 Quartz
So basically with 5 shop refreshes + daily defense and anti air ticket you spend 135 quartz a day, thats 945 per week and about 4k per month. Exactly the amount you get from the game as quartz income per month xD So there is no room for building quartz for black tickets, unless you stop spending daily quartz on shop refreshes and tickets.
Saving is the harsh reality of games, but it’s rewarding when u get a good pity rotation on a good banner, or when u can flex ur fortune of rare currency
yeah refreshing the shop 5 times daily really helps in the account's progression. not only people can get blue contracts there but also ship parts and many of the workshop crafting materials as well. But unlike SEA, I have a feeling that Global players might have to reduce the amount of their daily shop refreshes due to the fast pace of content releases there
Good video, hope people understand how important the pack is. But I think with globals different schedule the problem will not be buying the pack weekly, it will be that buying the pack weekly wont be nearly enough to get even half the awakened chars. Id expect them to give more quartz here compared to SEA due to the schedule, but it doesnt seem like they added more ways to get classified recruitments. That could be an issue later on.
yeah, Maybe they'll keep the free pulls for future awakened banners to compensate, at least until we catch up to SEA. Otherwise the gap between whales and f2p is going to be so big that it'll hurt the game long term.
Since a defense loss doesn't lower your rank in Strategy Battles, I made my defense team with only low level or low rarity employees so others can climb ranks easier. To those who helped me climb to Plat3 by doing that same thing, you the real MVP.
LOL. yall are too nice. here im purposefully putting two level 1's at the end of the squad to lower my average battle rating... in the hopes that people with low battle ratings will pick my team and lose so i can get that sweet 30 quartz
If we’re going to get a new event every 2 weeks, should also include quartz we get from that too. Also, we get a free pull on awakened banner every day, but I’m not sure if this will continue after a.hilde banner.
Good vid by GR as usual. I do have to respectfully refute the claim that “you will run out of quartz” though. I’m a filthy casual f2pbtw sitting on 44k quartz after a year in SEA. And that’s getting my classified package every week. I recommend skipping shop refresh and gold binaries. By skipping these 2, you would save 39k quartz a year. And as GR has demonstrated, after 1 year, you will be overflowing w most of the resource you want from shop refresh. Gold binaries are too rng n I think most of the time, the 1k quartz would be down the drain. (Well, Maybe that’s why after 1 yr, I only have 1 x 72% CDR set). Just want to encourage f2p-ers that the game is generous for one to do sufficiently well if you budget yr expenditures (ie build or pull only useful ships or units)
Thanks for the calculations! But there are a few corrections: 1) As Aryan Sharma pointed out, 60 daily quartz = 420 quartz per week 2) Even if you reach Platinum, you can still fall to gold. (But you cannot fall below gold) 3) Do we get 600 quartz from the free Counter Pass every month? If so, I believe that it should be added to the regular f2p income.
as a F2P (or kinda, kekw) on SEA server, i never run out any quartz tho and trust me you can buy those black tickets everyweeks *IF* you doesn't use your quartz for pulling any single time yep, i always refresh the shop 5x per days and it's really worth to do, even i can spare my quartz to buy some skins idk, they're really generous to give player enough quartz almost every single week
Did people really not watch the full video? Even with GR miscalculation, the whole point of this video is GR telling F2P players to manage their Quartz resources wisely, since in the long run you are only getting 965 Quartz WEEKLY which is not even half of what the weekly classified recruitment costs. Meaning as a F2P eventually you won't have enough black tickets to pull every single OP future awakened unit unless you have god luck or you spend money. Sure you can add in the free Counter Pass that gives an extra 600 Quartz and the dive rewards gives some Quartz as well, but Counter Pass is a MONTHLY thing and the future dives reset will be 3 months long similar to other servers. Yes the game is generous if you know how to manage your resources wisely, but that's only because global just launched not long ago so the devs are giving tons of rewards for now like they stated in the server launch video. When Global with it's accelerated pacing catches up with other servers, the game will slow down a lot and you won't be getting the same amount of rewards you are getting on launch just like what SEA server is experiencing now. At the end of the day, CounterSide is a gacha game and the devs need to make money as well.
I skipped everything but the black ticket , the occasional skins, the occasional life time contract nowadays. This allow me to buy black tickets every 1-3 weeks or so depending on the events.
You actually get 965 quartz a week. 420 a week from dailies. With the math, that's 3,860 quartz a month. Enough to get a classified contract and set binary pack. You would have to not do shop refresh though.
With this system, f2p will find it hard to compete in pvp because paying players will quite easily get the awakened units and dominate the pvp, that's why if you f2p just try to focus in pve and ignore the pvp especially the ranked battle...
Dive reset is not monthly btw, it's 90 days. It's just that global want to make the reset happen at the same time as other servers so we only have 30 days after official release.
Your guides have been very helpful! I know you are planning on doing more so I'll just say I'm waiting for an operators one, I don't really understand if I should level them, and how the skills enhancement(?) work.
Me who used 7500 quartz to pull for Karin Wong *chuckles I'm in danger* and my last 3 days I didn't find a single blue ticket in the shop refreshing 5 times. Used 51 tickets I had trying to get sigma, I didn't, and I regret not saving them for Estel. I have made several mistakes and ended my honeymoon too early I think lol
Hello i know iam late here but i cant play story mode they ask 100 Quartz , i has like 1000 and they still ask to start the story now i have 0 🌝and the story not open and they ask also 100 Quatz , i need help with that >_< HELP😩💔
I wasnt planning to pull for Sigma, but when i played her event, i really wanted her, but this probabilities really suck, i pulled 93 times just to get her. I also got 4 or 5 ssrs that i didnt want (some of them i already had)
@@Zio_xm But i got some units that i wasnt planning on lvling up soon, like Maria Antonov ( i was already farming her unit datas), Hayami Sanae and Joo Shiyoung
I was F2P for half a year in SEA, even though quartz week is low but they keep putting event into the game. I never run out of quartz to buy black ticket. Day 1 player BTW.
Hey unrelated question but I started on Global but I kinda wanna start another account on SEA servers. Would you recommend it or should I stick to global?
Although you did made this video late, at least its mentioned. Though as someone who played gacha a lot, I did expect this. But its always better late then never right 😂 Its very frustrating to hear that I won't be able to purchase those weekly black tickets weekly anymore soon though TuT
3 days in a row without blue or black tickets in the shop after I refresh 5/5 my luck is pretty bad I'm starting to wonder if it's worth it if I continue to lose more than I gain now after the shop reset I still haven't tried to see if I'm lucky or the string of bad luck continues I have time to think for 20 hours
what a sad truth for f2p folks, can we affords to buy the weekly black ticket if we buy the counter pass?, as a f2p player im thingking of leaving the game rn, coz its kinda hurts me, the facts that f2p is being forced to pay only to buy a weekly black ticket package. edit : even with the guitar rock off math, we still won't be able to purchase the black ticket weekly
Guitarrock also didnt include the quartz income from dives / battle pass either while those are also steady income sources. And with the introduction of danger close and guild co-op you can get 2k gems per week even when thare are no events at all.
not forced to pay. but well in the sense that you want to pull awakened units then yes you are forced.. otherwise you will take like a year to get 3000 tickets from the daily and events and pull 1 awakened.. and if you buy counter pass then you are not f2p anymore XD
lots of one time quartz for 3star any mission events campaign side story etc but in theory no way to keep up with the must have spending in shop with no new events. Just dont overspend on cosmetics you got enough considering the missing content not yet in global. You just wont be able to pull for every awakened banner you need to choose which one you want.
i am on 3650 quarts right now i only bought 1 skin for xiao lin that free skin but also buying the classified recruits and refreshing shop sometimes and sometimes the eternium but there is a free ad for it so it will not be worth it just get the free one and also for the unit space (edit: i also got cucked on sigma banner by bbc) (another edit does the arena work rn? because for me it isn't)
Guitarrock. Im a little scared on this game later on will it really be that heavily reliant on awakened units and will players be punished hard for not having awakened units? The game is really fun so far and its worrysome to think that lateron pvp will devolve into paper scissors rock of who has the better awakened unit. From your experience can you tell what its like in sea server later on with pvp?
If you just want to get to platinum, you will do fine with even just one awakened unit. It has to be a broken one though (A. Seo Yoon, A. Lee Soo Yeon, etc.) The issue comes with trying to compete with whales on higher elo where they have full teams of well geared SSR and ASSR units. In PVE, you don't need every awakened unit at all. They make life easier though. Look at high tier non-awakened units, there's a lot of them.
Even as f2p you can earn enough to buy classified tickets, just don't use quartz on normal pulls. But Counter Pass will give you lots of resources, it's a right thing to spend as a light spender.
Unless u spend ur gems on pulls even doing refresh everyday you'll still have enough gems to buy weekly black ticket. Ive been playing for almost a year now and there wasn't a single week that I didn't have enough gems infact you'll have more than enough. Just don't use them on pulls. Why would this guy said you'll run out of gems? Shouldn't he the first u know that? Since he also play on SEA. Its a misinformation.
@@bhiha7537 yeah, i can understand that but its ok though since even if you empty your dias early on you can still go on even with only the base characters not to mention that theres still many upcoming events that gives more Dias.
@@softback132 i'm not a f2p so it wasn't an issue, but man it cost a lot (27k).. i did hear people saying buying them early will help you out in the long term.. :3
Alternate title: how GR make counterside player cried Anyways, im just gonna spend my money when awakened na yubin and awakened horizon came then i go back to the ways of f2p
Okay so a question for if you are a low spender: The monthly admin coin bundle gives you 70 admin coins per day which is 490 per week. There's a weekly 2x quartz petite package which you can buy 3 times, costs 150 admin coins and gives you 300 quartz (so 900 Quartz a week for 450 admin coins). If you don't spend your admin coins for anything else, that would be a good deal, right? And regarding that: What is actually worth it to spend admin coins on (except skins because that's cosmetic stuff. I mean in terms of value)?
The counter pass is probably the best, unless you're stacked in resources and don't need most of what it has to offer, then you're only really just buying it for the employee. Apart from that, honestly I don't know,
Yes you get A.Hilde in 3 single, but can you get it for other awaken unit? I doubt it. Game is f2p just for awaken you need to plan who you should actually pull for
@@smile02 absolutely, thats what it mean to be F2P. As it doesnt mean to compete like P2W at getting everything. If we can get anything without giving the dev team any merit,the game will be dead in the next month.this game really similar to game like Epic Seven at giving chance to everybody as long u manage resource well. Except u prefer diablo: Immortal predatory system👌
