PSO2 NGS Headline Recap #20

Dark Falz Aegis

• Emergency Quest: Battle of Halphiria Lake
• This quest will feature the Mobile Cannon Mk.II.
• All the friends you met along the way are sending their support.
• Here you can get the ★8 Neos Astraean series weapons.
• Three Field Races will be held in the ARKS Records Feb 1 to Feb 8th.

Virtual Tuber Group Collab

• Collaboration with the popular VTuber group, NIJISANJI and NIJISANJI EN.
• Life size cutouts will appear in central city.
• Region Mags will also be decorated for the collab.
• You can get stickers from Login Bonuses.

AC Scratch: Virtual Liver Style

• Dress up as NIJISANJI characters with outfits, hairstyles, accessories, and voice tickets.
• The lineup will also include non-collab items from previous AC Scratches.

Limited Quest: Plateau Clean-Up OP

• A new 24 player quest where you defend a broken down transport truck.
• Some enemies will appear in Megalotix form.
• You can acquire the new ★8 Neos Justitean.
• Quest is available only for a week.

Two New ★8 Neos Weapon Series

Neos Astraean Series

• Not Tradeable in Player Shops
• Drops in the Emergency Quest: The Battle of Halphiria Lake
  • Higher drop rate than other 8 star weapons.
• Can be exchanged for the Material Item Aegis Integra (x1)
  • Trade in 5x Aegis Integra for a Neos Astrean of any category.
  • Aegis Integra will be available in other future content.

Neos Justitean Series

• Can create Multi-weapons with the Neos Astraean series
• Available through Limited-time Quests and events
  (Tradeable in Player Shops)
• Weaker than Neos Astraean in terms of basic performance, but possesses the Light element.

AC Scratch: Sweet Wonderland

• Patisserie and Valentines Day outfits.
• Lobby Actions: Animal Ride, Meal
• Motions: Idle – Floating Tea Time, Landing – Flower Petals, Glide – Magic Carpet, Dash – Magic Carpet
• Scratch Bonus: Dash – Magic Carpet EX

AC Scratch Ticket: Item Select 6

• Addi-type Abilities that boost 2 attack stats and give a damage variance (potency floor) increase
• Same lineup as AC Support: Item Select 5

Rewind Collection 9

• NGS Spec revivals released last February.
• Motion Dash – I'm flying

Limited Time Quest: Old Capital Clean-Up Op

• This is a 24 Player Quest set in Lost Central in Kvaris.
• You must defend a broken down transport truck from a swarm of enemies.
• You can attack enemies using Crystalline Ice and enormous icicles.
• This quest is available for one week.
• Neos Justitean series will also drop.
• Special Ability Capsules that drop will be Ret Domina and Kvar Domina.

Trigger Quest: Battle of Halphiria Lake

• Fight Dark Falz Aegis.
• You can obtain the Trigger by trading in Team Badges and other items.

ARKS Record: Trania

• Helical Line Trania

SG Scratch: Volcanic Heart

• Wear outfits, accessories, Parts, and more from Guren, Kanui, Noroshi, and other characters.
• Scratch Bonus: Lobby Action – Preparing for Battle.

Mission Pass: Season 17

• Luxe Soir will be remade as an accessory.
• Mag Form/Snow Bell

Limited-Time Event: Giant Mutants

• Enormous enemies called Giant Mutants will appear.
• If you follow the task marker to defeat a Dread Enemy, these Giant Mutants may spawn.
• Waulon Geo will show up in South Aelio and West Kvaris.
  • It's bigger and stronger and attacks differently than a normal Waulon.
• Garongo Geo will appear in North Retem and Stia Outskirts.
  • Its attacks are more powerful, and will drop the Holy Ray reconfigured as a NGS-Spec Camo.
• Shared drops include Neos Justitean Series. Plus, accessories themed to match each enemy.

AC Scratch: Modish Winter

• Winter-style outfits, modish punk outfits, and blade /gun themed parts.
• Lobby Action: Throne, Weapon Maintenance 2
• Motions: Swim – Shark Raid, Glide – Aero Dance, Idle – Sleepy, Dash – Sliding
• Scratch Bonus: Motion Dash – Sliding EX

More Creative Space Information

• Parts can be rotated, enlarged, and shrunk
• You can build tiny and even gigantic houses.
• You can change the colors of objects.
• You can combine shaped objects to create complex structures.
• Furniture can be expanded, shrunk, rotated, and positioned freely.
• You can register your building as a Blueprint to share to other players.
• With Blueprints, it's easy to make copies of buildings.
• You can make clones of yourself for the buildings you create.

An original artwork was created to commemorate the collaboration of NIJISANJI and NGS.

VTubers Will Stream NGS on 2/2/2023

• Kaida Haru
• Hakase Fuyuki
• Hoshikawa Sara

VTuber Will Stream NGS on 2/5/2023

• Shu Yamino

NIJISANJI Campaigns

Get Stickers from the Login Bonus

• Get in-game stickers based on how many days you log into NGS during the campaign period.

Start Dash Boost

• Gain a +20% EXP Boost during the campaign period.

Ultra PSO2 Day! Triple Burst (02/02/2023 @ 0:00 PM JST)

• Triple boost of +50% EXP, +50% Rare Drop, and +150% Preset Skill Drop Rate boost!
• Premium PSO2 Day! Triple Burst will be held on Feb 22 JST

Pre-Scheduled Emergency Quest (2/15~)

• Pre-Scheduled Emergency Quests for Dark Falz, plus rare drop rate and Preset Skill Drop Rate will also be boosted during the period.

Screenshot Submission Campaign Special Edition (2/22~)

• 40 lucky winners who post a screenshot wearing either the Waulon Mask or Head-mount Gara Garongo accessory will win Star Gems and N-Color Change passes.
• You can receive the Waulon Mask or Head-Mount Gara Garongo from the Giant Mutants.

ARKS Shop Online Store

• Sympathy 2023 merch are now being sold at the ARKS☆Shop!

There are many types of weather in Stia and it is difficult to know what the current weather is. Could you improve it for clarity?

As you pointed out we recognize that two of the 5 types of weather in Stia, scorching and inferno, are particularly difficulty to distinguish from one another. So we are planning to improve the ingame display to show an icon representing the current weather conditions. This will not be limited to just the Stia region, but it will only be for weather conditions that are important to know.This improvement will allow players to know what the weather is like outside even when they are in the City or at Camp. We hope you will take advantage of this information as a guide for Gigantix Suppression.

Would it be possible to have a chat command
to turn the character's face towards the camera?

In response to your request; we are planning to implement a chat command in the future that will allow the characters face to look at the camera while performing Emotes or Idle Motions.

It bothers me to see other player characters appear in lower fidelity graphics compared to my own. Could this be improved?

The current specifications are designed as a measure to reduce the processing load in the game. However, in response to the many requests we received on this issue we are planning to implement the feature that will allow users to choose to display the graphics of other player characters in the same fidelity as their own on the option screen. This will be available only on the PC version, however please note that the game may run slower when using this feature, depending your PC specs and the content being displayed.

It looks like the prizes of the regular are updated less frequently. Could you please increase how often they are updated a bit?

First let us explain the specifications of Special Scratch Tickets; several months after a given Limited Time Scratch Ticket release period has finished, we redistribute some of the prizes as regular Special Scratch Ticket prizes. We plan to increase the release frequency of Limited Time Scratch Ticket in a future release schedule and so we expect the update frequency of the regular Special Scratch Tickets to increase as well.

Regarding the Creative Space, It seems that other players will be able to make edits. Will it be possible for me to put some kind of restriction in place if I don't want edits to be made?

We plan to implement a function to allow players to grant editing permissions to other players in the Creative Space. Authorized players will be free to edit the Space as they wish, players without editing permission ma visit the Space but won't be able to place or remove objects. In addition, the objects that authorized players may place will be limited to what's in possession of the owner of that particular Space.

Next NGS Headline!
February 28th