Month: July 2014

PSO2 JP: Extended Maintenance and Patch (7/16/2014)

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July 16th Maintenance

July 16th Patch

Notice: The compensation for the temporary service interruption caused by the DDoS attacks will expire after July 16th’s maintenance if you haven’t picked it up from the Visiphone.

PSO2es

  • PSO2es is planned to resume on July 16th.
  • An update to the application will be required.

Characters made prior to June 19th:

※The items below are available for pickup by mail until July 30th's Maintenance.

  • 45 Rappy Medals for each character [Premium Sets active as of June 19th.]
  • 15 Rappy Medals for each character [Premium Sets inactive as of June 19th.]
  • 5 Singing Rappy Chips
  • 2000FUN

Users who played PSO2es and linked their accounts with PSO2 before June 19th:

※The items below are available for pickup in PSO2 after July 23rd's maintenance.

  • 4 Triboosters
  • 1 Free Salon Pass

 

New Crafting System

  • Timed Ability Installations (Craft Lv. 30 Cap)
  • Attach an item to a unit to add various effects for several days.
  • The Crafting level cap will rise in a future update.

New Enemy

Sorza Brahda small
ソルザ・ブラーダ
Sorza Brahda

New Emergency Quest

  • 採掘基地防衛戦：絶望 (Mining Base Defense: Despair)

New Client Orders

New Partner Card

  • Theodore

New Story Quest

  • わたしがうまれたそのりゆう (The Reason Why I Was Born)

New Feature

  • Event Chronicle: Rewatch events from each chapter.
  • Available in My Room.

Potential Abilities

  • Added new potentials
  • Added potentials to some pre-existing weapons.
  • Fragile Assault, Crushing Blow, Discerning Eye, and Perfect Calamity's Potential Ability effects have improved!

AC Scratch Gold

  • Several items will appear together in a set for AC Scratch Gold. (This doesn't apply to Shining Heroes G scratch.)

Shop Updates

  • Added items to the Crafting Shop, EXCube Shop, and FUN Shop.
  • Updated the content listing for the My Room Shop

Team

  • Added a team name changing function.
  • Team names can be changed once every 30 days.

 Stage Event Update

  • Players in the Arks Lobby, once the live event is over, will receive a [Rare Drop] [EXP] [Meseta] boost for 2 hours.
  • Players within the Beauty Salon are not covered by the boost.
  • This boost behaves differently from general boost items in that time is consumed even while the player has logged out.

Other Things

  • Added a setting in options to notify the player when logging in that the premium set is about to expire.
  • Io and Klotho's NPC partner equipment has changed to display the weapons from the General Election.
  • The Preannouncement messages and audio for Mining Base Defense has changed.
  • Toned down the explosion effects for the fighter aircraft / infected fighter aircraft.
  • Concerning Client Order Items and Craft Materials, the category's name has changed to say "Order Item / Craft Materials."
  • Hatsune Miku's hairstyle thumbnail is set to be the same color as hairstyles in other thumbnails.
  • When receiving a request to merge teams, the initial cursor position will default to "No"
  • Added an extra message to say that team client orders will be canceled once the team has been taken over.
  • Item trading passwords will be required to access the Team Storage Box.
  • The Victory Pose scene has changed to not display cut-in chats, symbol arts, and chat bubbles.

Changes for all Mining Base Defense Quest

  • Turrets will now have improved range. (Does not apply to turrets outside of these quests.)
  • Enemies defeated by turrets and photon particle guns will count towards your personal score.

 

PSO2es v1.4.0

  • Download (Uploaded by Synth)
  • Rappy Special Survey update: King Rappy!
  • Improved the number of items that drop per quest.
  • Added a drop animation when a Rare item drops.
  • Improved the amount of CP that recovers from wand and rod attacks.
  • Adjusted the animation as the player continues to fire a launcher.
  • Lowered the attack frequency and aggressiveness for some enemies.
  • Adjusted the CP and Cost for both Quna chips
  • Added a paste button to the secret password screen.
  • Inserted an Age Confirmation screen when purchasing AC/iAC.
  • Displayed the amount of exp required to level up at the class counter. *(Corrected Typo)
  • Removed class restrictions on the Fighter, Gunner, Techer license applications.

 

New Special Quest

Awaken Tranmizer

覚醒！トランマイザー Awaken! Tranmizer

  • A mano-a-mano fight against the Tranmizer
  • July 16th ~ July 23rd

Push Notifications

  • Emergency Quest push notifications 1 hour in advance for Premium Set users.

AC Age Confirmation
AC Purchasing Age Confirmation

When purchasing AC, you will be requested to enter your birth year and month. Certain ages are severly limited from purchasing large amounts of AC. After inputting the birth year and month, press the left blue button on the next screen to confirm.  

 

 

Emergency Quest Schedule

Boost Event 49

▲▲ Eastern Daylight Time ▲▲
Please [Refresh] the calendar after maintenance has ended!

▲▲ Japanese Standard Time ▲▲
Please [Refresh] the calendar after maintenance has ended!

 Eastern / Central / Mountain / Pacific / Hawaii

São Paulo / London / Berlin / Moscow

Bangkok / Philippines / Sydney / Japan

 

Please Note:

  • The Emergency Quest schedule will update automatically during maintenance. Please wait until after maintenance has ended to see the current schedule.
  • If you are using a mobile device or an external application, please [sync] the calendar after maintenance has ended.
  • Boost Events that occur for 24 hours will appear in this calendar with their start and completion times as separate entries.
  • Boost Events that occur for several hours will use the "period" suffix in their titles. Please check the Google Calendar itself to view the event duration.

Hatsune Miku and Megurine Luka are Holding a Live Concert in PSO2!

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Hatsune Miku Live Concert Event!

Hatsune Miku Live

To commemorate the 5th anniversary of the Project Diva series, Hatsune Miku and Megurine Luka will be holding concerts starting July 23rd, 2014! Together they will sing Phantasy Star Portable 2's main theme song, "Living Universe," live in the Arks Lobby!

Boost Effect

Those who attend the concert will be granted a [rare drop] [exp] [meseta] boost which will last two hours after the concert ends.

All content below will appear July 16th, 2014.

Timed Abilities

Data Drive PSO2

Timed Abilities could be thought of as potentials for your units; only that they last for a period of time. First, the player crafts a "Data Drive" which is then used to craft "Timed Ability Data Items." These items can be appended onto a unit for various effects.

 

Timed Data

When this update goes live, [Timed Ability Installations] will have a lv. 30 cap. As you increase your crafting levels, you can achieve additional bonuses. Some bonuses include increased chances of extending the effect's duration, decreased cooldown times, and more!

 

Timed Ability Features

Timed Abilities have several features:

  • Main Effect: HP Recovery, EXP Boosts, etc.
  • Sub Effects: HP/ATK/Parameter Boosts
  • Extra Effects: HP/ATK/Parameter Boosts
  • Effect Period: # of Days
  • Effect Conditions: Specific Fields/Quest Types
             ※The effect requires the above conditions to be satisfied.

Certainly, there will be new craft builders that can decrease cooldown times for this too.

 

Mining Base Defense: Despair

Darker Particle Gun

A new mining base defense mission will be arriving on Wednesday. This time, the stage takes place at a base that's starting to get infected. As infestation settles into the defense socket, the Darkers will have complete control releasing their Darker Particle Gun. Players should try purifying these sockets as quick as possible!

 

Darker Wall

The Darkers have a few more tricks up their sleeve. They can now divide the battlefield by placing a large wall made from a substance allowing only them to go through. In addition an infected airship—the menace from the skies—will rain down terror on the battlefield. The Arks should utilize long distance attacks to bring it down.

Sorza Brahda

Keep your eyes peeled for the Sorza Brahda. This enemy, who wields a staff in both hands, provides logistical support for the Darkers. Players should eradicate this threat immediately as not only can it strengthen the Darkers, it can also infect sockets nearby.

 

But not all hope is lost, once the ARKS unleash a powerful weapon….
But not all hope is lost, once the ARKS unleash a powerful weapon….

Arks Interception Silhouette

The Arks Interception Silhouette, nicknamed the A.I.S, is a robot here to assist us with eradicating the Darkers. It features high-mobility and powerful weapons. This robot is available at 200, 7,000, and 10,000 points, and can be activated 3 times during the quest.

New 11 stars that display a coat of arms are expected to appear. Weapon types will include a wand, bullet bow, twin machine gun, twin dagger, and wired lances.

 

Episode 2 Ch.6 and Event Chronicle

Ep2 Chapter 6

The year is AP 228. See the event that took place 10 years in the past. The birth of the second generation Clariskrays, and all the records before they vanished.

 

Event Chronicle

The Event Chronicle lets you recapture your moments in history for Phantasy Star Online 2. You can rewatch NPC conversations and scenes from the story in a neatly organized list.

 

Theodore's Partner Card

Theodore Card

In the newly released matterboard, watching a certain event in the shopping area will lead you to acquiring Theodore's partner card.

Other changes

  • The Team Name Changer is available to teams level 2+. After the initial change, they'll be locked out of editing the name again for 30 days.
  • A new setting in options will notify players if their Premium Sets are about to expire within 7 days.
  • Some AC Scratch Gold content will come with several items.
  • The turrets in all mining base defense quests will have improved range.
  • Enemies defeated by turrets and photon particle guns in all mining base defense quests will count towards the contribution score.

 

 Electronic Diva AC Scratch

Megurine Luka Repca
巡音ルカ ・レプカ Megurine Luka Repca

 

鏡音リン・レプカ Kagamine Rin Repca
鏡音リン・レプカ Kagamine Rin Repca

 

鏡音レン・レプカ Kagamine Len Repca
鏡音レン・レプカ Kagamine Len Repca

 

ユカタリュウスイ Yukata Ryūsui
ユカタリュウスイ Yukata Ryūsui

 

Gran Arts and Gran Darkers in Phantasy Star Nova

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Gran Phantasy Star Nova

In our previous article we learned about Gran, an energy source spewing from the surface of Planet Machia. Today we'll briefly touch upon its use in Phantasy Star Nova.

 

Gran Darkers

Players have faced countless numbers of Darkers in Phantasy Star Online 2. Phantasy Star Nova plans to bring them back in a slightly different way.  These ferociously evolved Darkers, adapting to the current environment on Planet Machia, will now be referred to as "Gran Darkers." Expect to see familiar faces like Dagans, Kuklonahdas, Micdas, and others.

 

Phantasy Star Nova battle 3
Resonance Cannon (Halo Weapon Category)

Instead of Photon Arts, our heroes will be utilizing Gran Arts; special attacks both new and old from Phantasy Star Online 2. And don't worry Forces, because Technics (a long tradition in the Phantasy Star Series) will be returning as well. Whether you're casting Zonde on enemies, or healing your allies with Resta, you can rely upon the various technics to change the course of battle.

The Gran Arts and Technics confirmed so far include:

  • Nova Strike (Swords)
  • Scissor Edge (Dbl. Sabers)
  • Burn Smash (Piles)
  • Resta (Technic)
  • Zonde (Technic)

In addition to this, the "Chaining" system (which was first introduced in Phantasy Star Portable 2) will make its return in Phantasy Star Nova. We don't have the details on how it works exactly in this iteration, but we do know that there's a UI element displaying the chain counter and damage multipliers at the top of the screen.

If you'd like to get a taste of what Phantasy Star Nova has to offer, there will be a demo released in August on the Japanese PlayStation Store. It will feature some cutscenes and a boss battle against the Gigantes. In addition, a playable demo for attendees of the Phantasy Star Thanks Festa will be available on July 26 at the Sapporo Convention Center, and August 3rd at Port Messe Nagoya Building 2.

 

New Field: The Steel Desert

Steel Desert

Now we can formally introduce a new field for Phantasy Star Nova. This location is known as the "Steel Desert" or the "Steel Wastelands." Here the earth is covered in a red soil comprised of iron.

Quest information and locations will be displayed on a world map, reminiscent to the one used in Phantasy Star Universe.