PSO2 JP: Update 12/12/2012

Today's update.

Falz Arms Pic

ファルス・アーム Falz Arms

 

Dark Falz Elder pic

ダークファルス・エルダー Dark Falz Elder

New Enemies

  • Falz Arm
  • Dark Falz Elder

New Emergency Quests

迫る漆黒の腕 Approaching Dark Arms

  • Arks Ship Wreckage
  • N: 1 H: 20 VH: 40

深遠なる闇の眷属【巨躯】 Profound Darkness' Kin / Followers of Profound Darkness [Colossus]

  • Arks Ship Wreckage
  • N: 1 H:20 VH: 40

In order to take part in the Profound Darkness quest, the Dark Arms quest must be cleared at least once.

Advance Notice:

Approaching Dark Arms will appear on all ships on the following date and time.

Lets join forces to defeat Dark Falz!

New Weapons

Fal Claw

ファルクロー Fal Claw (Wired Lance)

 

Cane of Adaman

アダマンの杖 Cane of Adaman

 

  Flame Visit

フレイムビジット Flame Visit (Launcher)

 

Elysion

エリュシオン Elysion (Wand)

These are only a sample of the new weapons.

New Shop

  • Pyroxene Shop

At the Pyroxene Shop, you can trade Pyroxenes to receive 10 star weapons.

Balance Changes

  • Increased the chances of seeing a Parallel Area in All ARKS Quests and All Emergency quests other than Merry Christmas on Ice
  • Parallel Areas only occur in Single Party Areas
  • Merry Christmas On Ice has already received this boost since last week's maintenance

Bug Fixes

  • Corrected a bug where the game continuously loads.
  • The display window at the block changer was too narrow for it to display the gauge properly, this has now been corrected.
  • Corrected a bug where the uncharged Gi Megid technic would be abnormally strong.
  • Corrected a bug where the icons and play time did not display correctly when you're at the quest counter viewing the list of parties in other blocks.
  • Corrected a bug where nothing showed up in the tutorial window after accepting Koffee's Client Order to unlock Tundra.
  • For Light's Client Orders, when you either accepted them or cleared them, all of Light's dialogue would appears as "no_text"
  • Corrected a mistake in the description for Matter Board 3 C-3
  • Corrected a bug where Kressida's お手並み拝見しちゃおうかしら CO didn't show up even if you met the conditions for it to appear.
  • Corrected a bug where under certain conditions, Tranmizer and Transzexia would stop functioning.
  • Corrected a bug  where the tab in the client order list wouldn't work with the "tab changing button" assigned to the Gamepad or Keyboard.
  • Corrected a bug where the auto-word that were registered for Revived and Healed did not appear.
  • Performed measures to correct the bug with the NPC skin tones and character graphics breaking apart, however, these bugs may reappear after maintenance. The first thing you should do is update your graphics driver and check to see if the bug still exists. Afterwards, send a bug report which should include your graphical settings and a detailed description of your symptoms.
  • Before the 11/28 maintenance, those who used a mag device to overwrite the auto-action and trigger action only to have it return back to normal once the mag leveled up will receive EXCubes for compensation in your storage box.

Other Stuff:

  • Guardians Cash has now converted over to Arks Cash.
  • There's a bug with the accessory Chignon Decoration where the graphics may appear abnormally bright.

PSO2 JP: Patch (12/12/2012)

An update is required to continue playing Phantasy Star Online 2. The game will update automatically when the launcher starts, or you may optionally force the update by pressing the File Check button.

Launcher Is Currently

  • Version 01.05.01

Patch Update:

  • ver. 1.0201.2
  • Dark-Sun's Windows Administrator Permissions Fix.

Patch Size

  • 33MB

 

 

PSO2 JP: 12/7/12 Bugs Bugs Bugs

On 12/5 we had our first Where Darkness Gathers update, however this update introduced problems where on certain computers, the graphics pretty much broke apart, and the game would get stuck on the loading screen. By optimizing the game to provide support for the PlayStation Vita with an upgrade to the physics engine made for an update that had some serious issues on the entire game itself and its graphics. During testing they did confirm some bugs but they didn't occur frequently enough on all computer environments. They tried to minimize its effects by performing an emergency maintenance. However, graphical problems may still arise, so they ask you to send your reports in as soon as possible.

This maintenance corrected the following bugs:

  • Corrected the bug where the screen would abnormally shake when using some photon arts and technics
  • Corrected a bug where under certain circumstances, technics were less powerful.
  • Corrected a bug where a technic wouldn't hit its target if there was an obstacle in the way.
  • Corrected a bug where character's skin color would appear red tinged.
  • Placed measures so that the game doesn't get stuck at the loading screen.
  • Corrected a bug where based on certain PC environments, the character 's overall graphics broke apart.

Balance Changes

  • Parallel Areas will now have a higher chance of showing up in the Merry Christmas on Ice but only in the Single Party Area.
  • In other quests, they plan to make adjustments to the occurrence rate of Parallel Areas in the future.

They plan to fix the other bugs in the next scheduled maintenance. Bugs and issues that are sent in will show up in the support measures list once they confirm it. In the future, they plan to improve the update schedule and debugging system so as to not repeat such rudimentary mistakes.  For next week's maintenance they'll make an effort to produce a more stable environment while the king of darkness "Dark Falz" makes his debut. We'll look forward to having all ships cooperate against defeating Dark Falz.

As for PlayStation Vita testing, it appears there was a bug that allowed you to sign up for the Closed Beta Test on your PlayStation 3. This has now been corrected and you may register ONLY on your PlayStation Vita.

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Anyway, this week, 4Gamer posted an interview regarding the last part of Where Darkness Gathers update. We learned that there will be a cloning system that will take "strong" players and make clones of them.

  • The Clones appear in an Emergency Trial (Emergency Trials can show up wherever they want, internally it is known as "Code: Clone" for now but not made official yet.)
  • Your character data is recorded when you complete the "Escape Quest" (The Escape Quest is when you are forcibly transported to the Darker's Nest area.)
  • You will more likely than not see a clone of your character.
  • The criteria on what they consider "excellent" or "elite" or "powerful" was not made clear yet. (It could be as simple as S ranking the Escape Quest.)