Monday September 5, 2011 14:30

More PSO2 Alpha Test Screenshots

Posted by Ricardo

GameWatch Japan wrote an incredibly long article. Lets just look at some of the more interesting things.

 

visual lobby town area 300x168

In the Visual Lobby’s town area, there are shops on the first and second floor. Only the Weapon and Item shops seem to be open at this point.

 

visual lobby terminal area 300x168

This Terminal Area has the quest counter and skill counter.

 

Camp Ship PSO2 300x168

After you accept the quest, you enter this Camp Ship area where you make preparations before you enter the field. Unlike the lobby, you can perform battle actions here.

 

Field 300x168

Then you enter the field. On planet Naberius (Naverius) you play in the Forest area. On planet Amduscia, you play in the Volcano area.

 

PSO2 Costume Color 300x168

Color choices for costumes! Use accessories like the Medical Cap.

 

Upper Trap Purchase 300x168

Purchase screen, the bottom lower left item says “Upper Trap”

 

Arks quest 300x168

There are two types of quests, Arks Quests which has a specific goal, and Free Field where a goal is not determined. When you meet specific conditions quests will appear. Sometimes quests will appear by simply finishing one, sometimes special quests may appear if you encounter and defeat a specific enemy.

 

storage box pso2 300x168

 At anytime you can send items to the storage box and access them easily in the lobbies and camp ship area.

 

technics on palette pso2 300x168

You can place items, skills, technics, in the palette. GameWatch specifically points out that Forces can set technics in the subaction palette using the 1 through 0 keys or the L2 and Cursor key button on the gamepad.

 

costume armor slot 3 pso2 300x168

Your armor mainly consists of your costume,  and you can add up to three units to it. Rear visual units could have feathers or a sash attached to your back, while arm and leg visual units could have parts floating around those areas. But so far, sub units had no visual change to the character.

 

Planet Naberius Area 2 300x168

A Photon Sensitive Effect may occur which can give you effects like increasing your Striking, Ranged, and Tech Power, and the amount of meseta you can receive. After PSE is triggered and you attack enemies, the effects’ level rises. When you exceed the 8th phase of  PSE, you can achieve a PSE Burst, which greatly enhances the effects. Like for example, if you were doing Foie and it did something like 100 points of damage, it can increase to around 400. GameWatch mentioned that PSE has some sort of omen/sign (予兆), but they weren’t able to understand what that meant at the time.

As GameWatch’s party entered further into the quest, they reached up to an entrance indicating that a multiparty area was coming up. Here they met up to 12 players all in the same area at the same time.  But in these areas, often-times strong enemies await here, like boss class enemies. But we have to say “often-times”  because there’s still a random element going on here as well, and based on the quest, these enemies may not show up.

 

bieze pso2 300x168

Planet Naberius (Naverius) has a few boss enemies. These include, the Rockbear, a huge beast made out of rock, Priada, a huge insect, and Beize, a large sphere that absorbs energy from nearby enemies and grows until it explodes.

 

beize 300x168

The Beize can grow very large and explode giving you great damage.

 

Vol Dragon boss 300x168

In the Planet Amduscia, the Vol Dragon may randomly appear. This planet is a stark contrast from the forest, and features lava that can even spout up and damage you. When it’s weakened and falls to the ground you can jump on it’s back and attack. In the quest GameWatch played, the dragon’s appearance is random. After GameWatch defeated this dragon, a new quest appeared where the goal of the quest was to defeat the dragon. So to reiterate, some quests won’t open until after you’ve defeated a specific enemy.

4 Responses to More PSO2 Alpha Test Screenshots

Damon Katumaru

September 5th, 2011 at 6:24 pm

Woa, woa, woa! Back up! did JC denton approve of those eye wears for the casts?

Yuki-chan

September 5th, 2011 at 8:41 pm

TECHS. IN THE SHORTCUT (1-0 buttons). SEGA. SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY.

landman

September 5th, 2011 at 11:37 pm

Two Areas : Two Planets

So one is a planet full of forests, the other one is a Planet full of lava… Seems like our planet is really unique in this universe, having all that different climates and terrains in one single rock…

Hopeful for US release

September 6th, 2011 at 2:30 am

Yes, shut up and take my money indeed :)

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DioScyfo
(05/11/2012 @ 8:18 pm)
hahaha after looking at the comments and the shoutbox….ppl rly dont like the fat woman
名無し
(05/11/2012 @ 3:50 pm)
And the higher chance you can get, when only one item is missing, is 1/34 ; which it stays very low, imo. 1/34 chance to win per every 100 or 200円 put into the gachan… Erk…
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名無し
(05/11/2012 @ 3:47 pm)
But, of course, the more you play past the 10 first attempts, the more you increase your chances to win dramatically.
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名無し
(05/11/2012 @ 3:45 pm)
@ johnny five : hahaha, no.
On 10 attempts :
– possible combinations : 34^10 = 2,06×10^15
– winning combinations : 10! = 3628800
– chance to win : (34^10)/10! = 1 chance on 568.887.168
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Fredy Zelig
(05/11/2012 @ 2:09 pm)
WHERE AM I?
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johnny five
(05/11/2012 @ 2:07 pm)
Umm that means that they had a 34000000000/1 chance.
名無し
(05/11/2012 @ 1:45 pm)
And I don’t think the probability to win a rare item directly from a gachan can be as worse as the lower chance to complete the list (if we keep PSO2 as exemple and suppose the equiprobability, it was : (34^10)/10! )
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