PSO2 NGS Headline Recap #11

Three Special AC Scratches

• Starting May 1st is the Reminiscence collection
• This contains revivals of popular lobby actions, motion changes, hairstyles and accessories.
• Type 1 Voice Memories and Type 2 Voice Memories are a collection of voice tickets with Japanese audio.

NGS 1st Anniversary Event

• Central and Retem City will be decorated to celebrate the 1st Anniversary.
• Each region will also have graphical changes along with Region Mags.
• Anni Rappies will also spawn.

NGS 1st Anniversary Event

• Anniversartichoke and Randomite will spawn for a limited time.
• Randomite will drop a large amount of minerals.
• New enemy Captan will spawn as a Trial in all Sectors.
  • Seems it will drop Special Ability Capsules like the Mastery series.
  • Captan will continue to spawn after the event.

NGS 1st Anniversary

• Xitre will be back with tasks and an Exchange Shop.
  • Rock, Paper, Scissor Stamps.
  • Companion Aina plushy accessory.
  • Mag Form / Felicit Minimo.
  • Stamp Illustration Contest winners.
• Collect NGS 1st Anniversary Exchange Tickets to receive:
  • Schwarz Armor with a grind level of +50 and 5 special ability slots.
    • Requires Level 31+

New Limited-Time Quest

• Drill: Dazzling Chaos Suppression Op
  • This quest does not require any triggers.
  • Enemies from Retem and Aelio will spawn.

New Limited-Time Quest

• Pick up the new 5-star Dark elemental Obscura series. Requires Level 15+ to equip.
• These can be effective against the seasonal enemies' elemental weakness.
• The seasonal point exchange shop will have weapons already grinded to +40.
• You can get weapon camo variant from Seasonal Point Titles.

AC Scratch: Playful Grappler

• Martial arts outfits and dresses with a Sci-Fi twist.
• Lobby Action: Dance 68. Motion: Idle – Boxing Footwork.
• Scratch Bonus: Motion – Glide Cloud Riding.

SG Scratch: Refined Form 3

• Phantom-themed Outfits in NGS specs.
• Scratch Bonus: Motion: Glide Chopper

Mission Pass: NGS Season 8

• Anni Rappy Mag Form
• 3-Day My Shop Use Ticket

NGS 1st Anniversary Event Part 2

• Xitre will have new tasks!
• You will take on Bosses, Enhanced, and Megalotix enemies to obtain Seasonal Points.
• Updated Daily Tasks and Brand New Weekly Tasks.

Emergency Quest: Mining Rig Defense: Retem

• Fight hordes of enemies in the mountainous terrain.
• Equalizing enemies will be joining the fight and buffing the surrounding enemies.
• Kukuhroziat may also drop.

Original Creations A

• Winning entries from the Item Design contest will be available!
• Lobby Action: Sneaky. Motion: Jump – Cutesy
• Scratch Bonus: Motion: Dash – Lightweight

World Trial Stellar Grace Recovery

• Brightly colored Stellar Grace will appear on the field.
• Collect as many as you can while searching for Randomite to maximize your loot.

Two Revival Scratches

• Rewind Collection is a revival scratch of items released in June of last year.
  • Scratch Bonus: Motion Dash – Hover and Motion Glide – Dive.
• PSO2 Spec Bridal Memories Scratch

Kvaris Region

• The Kvaris Region is a Tundra region covered with snow and ice.

Kvaris Region

• New Boss Enemy: Crocodylis
  • It carries an enormous turret.
• New enemies: Proctys Ael and Proctys Retem
  • Proctys Ael attacks with a Petas Sword style arm protruding from its face.
• Alters: Malachroid are enemies that look like birds and specialize in attacks that utilize the wind.

Kvaris Region

• The Kvaris Region had a capital pre-dating central city.
• This capital collapsed and was abandoned after the war with the DOLLS.
• Chapter 3 Story
  • Players will head to the Kvaris region at the request of Crawford.
  • Crawford has been working with a researcher named Ilma to improve the Central Cannon.
  • However, Ilma has recently gone missing, and we will go on a rescue mission to find him.
• Kvaris Camp: the base of operations in the Kvaris Region.

Kvaris Kvaracters

• Meri (VA: Konomi Kohara / Corina Boettger)
  • An energetic girl who balances household chores and hunting in order to survive.
  • She tends to think of things in absolutes and is weary of the protagonists.
• Kukka (VA: Miyu Irino / David Cui Cui)
  • Kukka is chill, but strong, an excellent observer who always remain calm.
  • Kukka tries to help out the protagonists and is less suspicious of them compared to Meri.
• Meri and Kukka live in a solitary lodge out in the snowfields.
• Aina will also wear a winter outfit in the Kvaris region.

Kvaris Region

• Two New Actions will be available:
  • Destroying the Crystaline Ice will allow its shattered pieces to be thrown for massive damage.
  • Floating Boards will allow you to explore certain sectors on a snowboard.

Kvaris Region

• Now there's ★6 rarity weapons! The Sextyl [Sechetyl] series and the Evoleclis [Evoleclipse] series!
• There will be some changes made to what is sellable in Player Shops for ★6 or higher equipment.
  • You will still be able to sell equipment obtained through drops in the player shop. This will also apply to weapons that are obtained both through drops and seasonal event exchanges.
  • However, in the future, they are planning to release equipment that can only be obtained by exchanging special material items.
  • For these items, you will not be able to sell them through your player shop. This is because these are designed as a gameplay goal requiring slow and careful preparation to get them.

Kvaris Expedition Prep Campaign

• Kvaris Expedition Prep Tickets can be obtained by completing Limited-time Tasks.
• These tickets can be traded in to acquire the ★6 Evoleclis [Evoleclipse] series.
• Therefore, the Evoleclis [Evoleclipse] series can not be put up for sale in player shops.
• Additional Limited-time Tasks will be released in May for more prep tickets.

Can we have a feature that allows us to change the in-game font size?

We'll be adding a feature for you to zoom in on in-game text and display within the June update. We believe it will help players with things like, item details where the text is small. You won't be able to move around while zoomed in, which is why we suggest you use this in safe places like Central City.

They also mentioned that introducing an optional setting that enlarges all text within the game would be highly difficult with technical restrictions such as screen resolution and UI design. Therefore, this function would serve as a magnifying glass to zoom in on one part of the screen.

Can you make it possible for us to use SG tickets in bulk?

We're planning a feature that will allow you to use multiple SG tickets at once. However, it will take a while to implement and we appreciate your patience.

I accidentally sold my Spring '22 SP Scratch ticket while receiving rewards for an Urgent Quest. Could you please implement something that will help us avoid these kinds of mistakes?

The Spring '22 SP Scratch Ticket was originally a ★1 rarity item, as with the regular Special Scratch Tickets. To help mitigate this problem we will make them ★4 rarity when included in Urgent Quest Rewards.

The team is currently discussing changing the rarity of existing Special Scratch Tickets.

I find it a bit strange that photon Scales, which were originally very difficult-to-find materials, are now available as Urgent Quest rewards.

Photon Scales were only available as a gathering item at launch. Later on as, Cinquem-series Weapons were introduced, we increased the supply of Photon Scales rewarded via Urgent Quests and other combat based missions to help with weapon enhancement. This resulted in a decreased focus in gathering these items.

Given this issue and the resulting feedback, we'll be careful to make sure that the supply meets the demand for rare gathering items, while ensuring that they're not too easy to get through other means.

Survey Period

• January 27th ~ February 9th

Player Survey Results for Combat Sectors in Retem Region

• They received positive feedback in the graphics for both Japanese and Global versions.
• However, many players (especially the Japanese side) were dissatisfied with combat difficulty.

The height differences in the field are too steep which makes it hard to gather materials and fight.

Future Action:

• The dev team will focus on improving map topography, gathering item placement and overall accessibility when developing new regions so that they can deliver a better gameplay experience.

Dread Enemies don't respawn frequently enough due to so many players waiting at the spawning point.

Already Responded:

• This was already addressed in the April 6th update so that they spawn even when players are around the spawning point.

Please do something about AFK characters on the field.

Future Action:

• They plan to take action to prevent AFK players from receiving EXP and drops. In the meantime, they are temporarily or permanently suspending accounts based on the severity of their disruptive behavior.

Enemies in Lower Maqead have more HP compared to Retem Alnothe which makes grinding difficult.

Future Action:

• The dev team designed this area so that it is more difficult than Retem Alnothe. They will try to adjust the difficulty level of each sector through the placement of enemies, as well as, traps and trials that make it easier to defeat them when we develop regions in the future. This will prevent some Sectors from being inefficient for grinding.

The PSE levels decrease and it sometimes takes a lot of time to trigger a PSE Burst.

Future Action:

They are planning adjustments to make PSE Bursts easier to achieve in future updates and would like to ask for your patience for the time being.

Player Survey Results for EQ: Snidael Vera Subjugation [Dustyl Vera Suppression Op.]

• The majority of the participants said the difficulty was just right. On the other hand, players were dissatisfied with the rewards.

Many players do not know how to utilize Megapunishers.

Future Actions:

• The dev team is going to make improvements by adding tutorials in Story Quests and Trania or including explanations in the Operator's dialoge when new gameplay elements.

Emergency Quest rewards are not very enticing.

Future Actions:

• They plan to release Emergency Quests with more valuable rewards. One example of this was adding Spring '22 SP Scratch tickets to the Seasonal EQ from March.

Player Survey Results for Renus Vera Suppression Op

• Most players were satisfied with the difficulty, however, they felt dissatisfied with the rewards.

Players can't attack Renus Vera when it goes underground for long periods of time.

Future Actions:

• The Dev team will put more thought into keeping things balanced when developing future enemies to avoid leaving players unable to attack enemies for an unnecessarily long time.

Sometimes its tail and body were hidden and players were unable to attack.

Already Responded

This was a bug with Renus Vera and Renus Retem which was fixed on April 6th's update.

Don Quijote Collaboration #4 [Japan Only]

• Don Quijote will be selling NGS themed apparel from May 28th.
• Purchasing the apparel will give you an Item Code of one of two sets.
• Set 1 Item Code:
  • Donki × NGS Shirt T1 [Ou]
  • Donki × NGS Shirt T2 [Ou]
  • St: Donki × NGS
• Set 2 Item Code:
  • Donki × NGS Sandals
  • 820 "PR Pose 7"
  • St: Donki × NGS
• The Item Code Set you get is random.

Yui Hasegawa (PSO2 10th Anniversary Ambassador)

• Hiro Arai will be taking a break for personal reasons and Yui Hasegawa will be in his place for the PSO2 10th Anniversary Event.

PSO2 10th Anniversary Project: Web Radio [Japan Only]

• Yui Hasegawa and V-Tuber Popona will be hosting a Web Radio show sponsored by Lenovo Japan.
• More details will be announced in the next Headline, but in the meantime, you can send messages to the personalities and your memories of PSO2 on Twitter.

PSO2 10th Anniversary Project: Mosaic Project

• Both Global and Japan are accepting submissions for screenshots for their Mosaic Project.
• You can submit screenshots from PSO2 or NGS.
• The Mosaic will be revealed at the ARKS EXPO 2022 in the Tokyo Big Sight Convention Center.
• More details will be announced in the next Headline.