Month: February 2012

Even though Alpha Test 2 is over, there's still some features left to discuss. Phantasy Star Online 2 inherited a feature from Phantasy Star Portable 2 called Autowords. These Autowords allow you to say phrases whenever certain things happen during missions.

 

In the main menu, go to Community, and select the last option, "オートワード設定" and then choose オートワード

 

The cool thing about PSO2's version of autowords is that you can say up to 3 phrases in one event, breaking up the monotony of constantly saying the same thing over and over.

 

Autoword list

There are three tabs, Event, Member, and Action. Corresponding Autowords are underneath these tabs.

Event:

• クエスト開始時 At the start of the quest.
• クエストクリア時 At the end of the quest.
• Ｅトライアル発生 Start of the Emergency Trial
• Ｅトライアル成功 Emergency Trial Completed
• Ｅトライアル失敗 Emergency Trial Failure
• ＰＳＥ発生 PSE Occurs
• ＰＳＥレベルアップ PSE Level Up
• ＰＳＥバースト PSE Burst
• クエストを受注した Received a Quest
• キーを拾った Pick up a key
• ロックを解除した: Unlocked (a gate/door)
• 罠に引っかかった: Caught in a trap
• 罠から救助された: Rescued from the trap
• 罠から仲間を救助: Rescued party member from the trap.

Member

• 自分がレベルアップ I leveled up
• 仲間がレベルアップ Party Member Leveled up
• 回復してもらった Healed
• 補助してもらった Buffed

Action

• 戦闘不能になった Incapacitated
• 復活 Revive
• 瀕死になった Near Death
• 残りＨＰが３０％未満 HP less than 30%
• 残りＨＰが１０％未満 HP less than 10%
• 回復アイテム使用: Used Healing Item
• レアアイテム取得: Got a Rare
• 小ダメージ: Received Light Damage
• 中ダメージ Medium Damage
• 大ダメージ: Heavy Damage
• アタック: Attack
• フォトンアーツ発動 When doing Photon Arts
• ジャストガード成功 Just Guard
• 緊急回避時: Dodge Rolling
• スキル発動: Doing a Skill

 

 

 

We're coming down to our last Alpha Test 2 date. I had a major HD failure while playing the game, maybe I pushed it too hard with Shader settings? Anyway today's update from Sakai is a simple one.

 

Sakai came out to play for a while and participated in the "water fountain." A term meaning a clump of people  jumping together in the lobby which resembles a water fountain spouting up in the air.

 

On the first day the gamepad controls weren't implemented properly, so they had to play with the keyboard and mouse. On the 2nd and 3rd day, they fixed this issue through a patch. But for all 3 days, the servers were really congested which caused considerable lag. When there are lots of people playing at the same time, the damage numbers gets delayed, and it takes a long time to pick up items. They will have to take some counter measures in improving these server problems when the closed beta test occurs.

The good news is that 70% of those accepted participated in this test, which is about the same percentage of the previous test. Sakai was expecting 50% of the winners to play.

 

Today's porori images are about the prologue movie and story.

 

People said they didn't understand the story after watching the opening movie, which is absolutely right.  There is actually another movie coming up known as the  "prologue movie" which should let you know about this whole "world" we are playing in. It would explain the Oracle fleet, as well as introduce the three races.

 

This movie is going to have some narration as well, post-production work is starting next week. In addition, since characters from previous series do not appear in this game, all the voice actors have changed places.

 

The script is about 3 volumes.

Even though Alpha Test 1 and 2 doesn't have much of a story,  you can expect by the time PSO2 comes out, a story where your character is the main character.  Story development, you could say, is sort of like PSO, where major developments come into view through a fragmented story.

See you next time!

[via psblog]