Category: PSO2 Vita

The latest Famitsu revealed some details about Kuna, a mysterious new character, and the Chrome Dragon. Unfortunately, most of the scans were either blurry, or cropped out the majority of the article. We'll have more details once they become available.

Along with Kuna, there's another new character with blue hair being referred to as the "mysterious girl." She appears to be chasing after the Chrome Dragon. Yet if you compare both her and Kuna side by side, you may notice something familiar with their hairstyle.

Her hair fades in the opposite direction of Kuna.
Are these two characters one and the same?

As for the Chrome Dragon, he gets stronger as he preys on other enemies. He'll grow new parts on his body, increasing his attack power and speed. You could say he's the king of the food chain.

Sakai wrote a pretty long blog post about the changes and updates coming during the month of February. Here's a recap.

Advance quests are intended for those level 45+ with enemy levels higher than other quests. When it comes out, it will release with three quests; Forest, Caves, and Desert. Unlike other quests, it requires a currency called "Advance Capsules."  It looks like they didn't explain this aspect very well, which seems to be causing a misunderstanding. So here goes…

There will be a client order to help cover the cost of your first advance quest. In addition, there are three types of Advance Capsules; a, b, and c. The capsules needed for Caves can appear in the Forest, and the capsules needed for Desert can appear in Caves. These are very likely to drop within the quest themselves, but if you don't have enough for the next quest, you can purchase the remaining capsule balance with meseta.

Before the quest starts, the party can decide whether the leader pays for everyone or everyone pays for themselves. Within the quest, expect to see high level enemies and exclusive drops. As you clear the quest, your "Advance Risk" rises which increases the enemy levels and boosted enemy appearance rates.

Furthermore, there are new pyroxene stones that can appear within this quest. You can use them with a specific weapon to trade for a new 10 star weapon at the Pyroxene Shop.

On February 20th, a new interrupt event will have you passing along messages for the Lillipans through Lobby Actions. A Lillipan will perform a gesture,  you must deliver that message to another Lillipan in a different location. There will also be enemies nearby that will frighten the Lillipans, so defeat them as quickly as possible. Sakai suggests that you try doing this event with the Lillipa Suit on.

 

Gameplay Adjustments

Adjustments to make it easier to reach level 30.

• Some client orders will be adjusted so that they will give you higher rewards; some accepting conditions will be relaxed as well.

Input Assistance (Predictive Text) feature for My Shop Searches
Some item names will be easier to understand.

"Premium Space" added; revising the number Premium Blocks.

• They are going to reduce the number of Premium Blocks, and add "Premium Space" to normal blocks.
• Premium Set users will be allowed to enter into full blocks as long as there's "Premium Space" available.

Aesthetics Counter Ticket will enable Premium Users to reuse it for a certain amount of time.

• Previously, if you used the Aesthetics Ticket, it only gave you one chance to finalize the changes for your character. If you are a premium set user, the Aesthetics Ticket will now allow you to make any number of changes over the course of an hour.

Hunter Balance changes

• We touched upon this before, but more details about this will be coming along next week. But that's not all, other classes may see some balance adjustments as well, but this will be discussed some time in the future.

Three Block Types

• There will now be three types of blocks.
• PC Exclusive Blocks
• PC/Vita shared Blocks.
• Vita Exclusive Blocks

While playing on PC/Vita and Vita Exclusive blocks, the following changes will occur:

• Some areas will be smaller
• Longer PSE Bursts
• Two Emergency Trials at the same time.
• Decreased the max amount of enemies appearing at the same time

Sakai wasn't originally planning to do Vita exclusive blocks but he wants to accommodate as many Vita users as he can for the release date.

Chrome Dragon

• After the Vita version launches, Vita players will first get a chance to fight the new Chrome Dragon who will appear in Emergency Trials. In fact, the Chrome Dragon is a special dragon that can appear wherever it wants. But you shouldn't come to the conclusion that this Dragon would only appear on Vita blocks. After a Vita player encounters the Chrome Dragon, that person may lead to PC players encountering him as well. Maybe eventually, the Chrome Dragon could appear on the PC exclusive blocks.

New Story Quests

• The Vita version will first receive the story quest for chapter 9 titled, "The First Farewell." If you've already completed chapter 8 in the PC version, you should have no problem accepting this quest.
• Even if you are playing the game from the beginning, you can expect to see Kuna appear in some event tablets.
• As for PC players, they'll first get to play the new "Arks Battle Tourney" side story quest where you'll see NPCs who don't normally appear in the story.

 

Vita Version Adjustments

The following changes will be applied as an update when the Vita version launches. Please keep in mind that the offline character creator in the special package version does not have the skin color adjustments applied yet.

3G Support

• 3G connections are supported but you will need Wi-Fi to perform any updates.

Sleep Deactivated

• In the closed beta test, it would go into sleep mode after 10 minutes, but this will be deactivated.

Mini Chat log / Faster Keyboard Pop-Up / Chat while accessing Objects

• It appears that some players didn't understand that you were supposed to hold down the chat icon to launch the keyboard. So now the keyboard will activate by double clicking on it.

Added a Character Information Screen shortcut

Corrected the character skin color / Made the breasts Jiggle

• They applied these changes because they received lots of feedback over the character skin color and breast physics.

Camera position settings added

Vita Version Future Adjustments

These adjustments will be applied sometime in the future.

Customize any key / Switch Locked-On Targets / Right Stick Camera Operation Speed adjusmtents

• In options, the point was to have the "Type 1" control layout to be familiar with Phantasy Star Portable players while "Type 2" was intended for PC players. However it seems these settings did not accommodate the wide variety of needs of the player-base. Give them some time and they will address this issue in the future.

Copy and Paste Chat / Symbol Shortcuts / No UI in Screenshots

• It will take some time to address these changes.

 

You look familiar?

Hmm is that?

 

 

PSO2 Vita is coming with a new feature called "Character Portrait" that allows you to take pictures alongside your character. Using the camera on your PlayStation Vita, you can set up a scene for your character to perform various animations and poses in real life. At the Visiphone in the Arks lobby, there will be a menu that allows you to save your character onto your memory card. Your character's hairstyles, accessories, clothes, etc, are all included in the save file. You can use your own character, your NPC partner characters, or the 6 default characters from PSO2.

 

When you're taking pictures, you can set the facial expression, animations, and phrases your character will say. Animations include walking, running, holding their weapon, and other basic lobby actions.

 

You can take pretty nifty pictures by changing the camera angle.

By the way, you can use Character Creation and Character Portrait offline. In fact, character portrait will be featured in an upcoming TV commercial for PSO2 Vita.

 

Gameplay Changes

Another set of bugs released along with this week's update. Sakai plans to deliver some form of an apology for those recent bugs that seem to accompany the maintenance patches. For now, here's a list of gameplay changes that are up for consideration.

I want the costume names easier to read.

• We'll change some item names so that they are easier to read. (This will make more sense in Japanese than in English but here are some examples.)
• Selenia Coat Ink > Selenia Coat Cherry Blossom
• Rear/Circuende α > Rear/Circuende a
• Gwanahda Pincers > Gwanahda Obasami (Pincers)
• This change should be addressed in February.

I want Premium Users to be able to go into a full block.

• We're going to add a feature where a certain amount of Premium users will be able to enter full blocks.
• This change should be addressed in February.

The Aesthetic Counter Pass should allow for multiple uses over a period of time.

• When premium set players use the Aesthetic Counter pass, it will be valid for a set amount of time which will enable them to edit their characters for as many times as they want.
• This change should be addressed in February..

I want to be able to do multiple matter board objectives at the same time.

• We're going to add a feature that will allow you to select multiple matter board objectives at the same time.
• This change should be addressed in February.

What about Hunter Balance Adjustments?

• We're going to increase the amount of PP recovered with normal attacks for Swords, Partisans, and Wired Lances.
• We're going to slightly speed up the Just Attack timing for Swords and Wired Lances
• We'll increase the amount the gear gauge fills up when a normal attack hits an enemy for Swords and Wired Lances.
• This change should be addressed in February.

CO items that continue to drop after a client order has expired.

• Client orders that are available for a limited time will no longer drop their exclusive items once the order has expired.
• This change should be addressed in February.

It takes a while for the My Shop search results to load.

• Though we do address these issues from time to time, we are considering if we should automatically remove the items from the market and send them to your storage box after an extended period of time has passed. This would be based on the time from when you last logged in or when your My shop pass has expired.
• (They did not state the length of time it would take for your item to be automatically removed from the market. )
• They want to proceed cautiously about this subject so they ask for you to wait a bit more during the month of February.

The Music doesn't change during battle.

• Yes it's a bug, we're going to fix this in the future.

Please change the block names!

• Though we changed the block names in the last maintenance, we received all kinds of feedback from players. We're going to address this in the future.