Monday July 30, 2012 15:11
Sakai’s Fill in the Blank and Sega At Comiket 82
Sakai dropped a hint in his previous blog post about something new coming up in a future update. Can you fill in the blank?
○ブ○ラス
_ U B _ L A S S
Well that was easy. If you’ve been following the data mining reports, you’ve probably known about this already. As a matter of fact, in a really really old screenshot (before the alpha test), subclasses were mentioned in the skill tree menu.
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Wow look how different it looked back then! The yellow rectangle box should point you in the right direction.
Looks like Sega will be setting up a booth at this year’s Comiket82. If you happen to be there, you can get some Sega Goodies! They will be there from August 10th and 11th, from 10 ~ 17:00 JST and August 12th from 10 ~ 16:00 JST.
PSO2 Clear Foil (2 Set)
A4 Size Clear Foil sheets for 1000 Yen
PSO2 Silver Lacquer Stickers (3 kinds)
Around 3x4cm for 500 Yen
“Hastune Miku and Future Stars Project mirai” Zipper Charms
200 Yen
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- (16) Comments
Manta
Ricardo
Nami
RealAnonGamer
Anonymous
July 30th, 2012 at 11:45 am
What are subclasses? A secondary class that we can use while using a main class?
Ricardo
July 30th, 2012 at 11:54 am
I can't tell you the details on how Subclasses work currently, but the standard definition is these are classes you level up in addition to your main class. Notice how Hunters in PSO2 can't use techs, well a subclass could …. ?
Nilok
July 30th, 2012 at 12:19 pm
I wonder if this is the way they plan on letting you pick between hybrid and specialization. Like as a force maybe you can take force as your subclass to gain access to the other 3 elements in your skill tree where a hunter wouldn't see those at all. Just a thought.
Kuri
July 30th, 2012 at 5:38 pm
!!! and I have friends going to ket this year!!
nyaaa
July 30th, 2012 at 6:35 pm
future advance class eh? ..cool
Dnd
July 30th, 2012 at 7:19 pm
I’m praying that there is a subclass that allows Newman hunters to actually become a Hunewearl back from psogc – was the main reason I picked the class in the first place
Renvalt
July 30th, 2012 at 10:13 pm
@Dnd – I think that might be what they're aiming for. Most subclass stuff in other games assumes advancement.
But I'm thinking that PSO2 is gonna take a page from the book of FFXI – meaning that whilst a Hunter/Force can use Tech type weapons, his stats ultimately mean that he'll be weaker than a Force/Hunter. In that respect, whilst a Force can use Hunter weapons, their low S-ATK means they'll be using weapons that Hunter/Force types would've already discarded at that level.
This goes for every mainclass/subclass setup. And honestly, if PSO2's gonna take stuff from FFXI, then I'm not even gonna give this game a second thought – this was how I wanted FFXI to be, in terms of movement and combat mechanics (more DMC-like, not console-based WoW-like, which is what FFXI is).
Rayna372
July 30th, 2012 at 10:20 pm
Thank god…Subclasses are what this game really needs. the funnest part to me about being a HUmar in the original PSO was that you had access to techs in addition to physical strength…same as being a RAmar using range in addition to techs. I'm really excited to see what they do with it
KitsyLove
July 31st, 2012 at 12:35 am
I'd so love to have subclasses, making it possible to use techs as a hunter or ranger. I'm fairly bad with Forces, for some reason always been (while I'm frequently a caster character with MMO's), but love to combine Techs with melee weapons. If that's what subclasses going to mean, I'm happy!
Anonymous
July 31st, 2012 at 2:10 am
It really makes me curious if the classes that are coming are the subclass business this is about or if they totally unrelated.
pso2love
July 31st, 2012 at 5:59 am
Is this different from having my humar switching from hunter to force? Because I can already switch my class that way. How is a subclass different?
pso2love
July 31st, 2012 at 6:00 am
If anyone can get a hold of that PSO2 clear foil, I will gladly reimburse them.
Ricardo
July 31st, 2012 at 6:17 am
A subclass is like saying, you can use Hunter weapons but have technics in your subpallete. (Hunter:Techer) or You are a force who wants to use a wider variety of melee weapons instead of just the rod (Force:Fighter)
These are supposed to come in the fall around September.
Nilok
July 31st, 2012 at 9:02 am
I'm still hoping this is how they plan on setting up the advanced classes. I'm fine with hybrids and all, but there's gotta be a way to extend the skill set for a specialized class. Yeah it would be nice to be able to toss a weakness bullet out there and then go nuts as a force, but that's 9 points into ranger to do that and it's the only skill I'd want. Conversely, Hunter ranks would be nice to up the survival rate by being able to rank up HP and take rankings in defense stance, but FOs have 3 more elements that don't have skill trees yet, and seeing as there are new weapon classes coming out I imagine they'll want to have weapon gears and special bullets for those too.
It would be a nice way to limit the Hybrids. If taking a subclass only meant they got access to the tier 1 Skill tree, it would really make specializing stand out from the hybrids. I'm eager to see how they handle this.
Kane Fire Blade
July 31st, 2012 at 2:04 pm
From what I under stand from subclass system will work like FF11 were as you can use any other class as a subclass. To point out to get the use of the new weapon types coming out you will have use the new classes that go with them. The only weapon used by all class is the gunslash!
Nilok
July 31st, 2012 at 5:03 pm
I dont think you're understanding what I'm saying