PSO2 JP: Extended Maintenance and Patch (6/11/2014)

June 11th Maintenance

June 11th Patch

  • Launcher: Version 02.02.00
  • Client: Version 02.02.00
  • Patch Size: 1.4GB PC / 818MB Vita

PSO2es Maintenance

  • APK by Synth (V1.3.1)
  • 6/11/2014 @ 6:55 ~ 17:30 JST
  • 6/10/2014 @ 5:55 PM ~ 4:30 AM EDT

PSO2 Live Broadcast #21: Festa 2014 Special in Tokyo

PSO2 Live Broadcast #21 Topics

  • Arks Grand Prix (PC/Vita) Tournament
  • Viewers can submit questions to music composer Hideaki Kobayashi, series producer Satoshi Sakai, and art director Mizuno at the broadcast's website. This submission form will be available until June 13th @ 18:00 JST.
  • Information regarding June's update and beyond.
  • Phantasy Star sales products and swag information.
  • Information about the Collaboration.
  • Phantasy Star Cosplay Show
  • Phantasy Star Nova information.

Crafting Update

  • Craft Level 50
  • New Recipes and Achievements

Lobby

  • Sonic Lobby (Until June 25th)

Choatic silence

New Limited Quest

  • 静寂に生まれし混沌 (Chaos born in Silence) or (Chaotic Silence)
  • Ends July 23rd's Maintenance.
  • Za Oodan Suppression Arks Quest must be cleared before accessing this Limited Quest.

New Limited-time COs and Bingo Card

  • Xie (2nd Anniversary) until July 23rd.
  • 2nd Anniversary Bingo until July 23rd.

New Enemies

  • Doubluné and Doublunda
  • Lanz Valeda

New Client Orders

New Latent Abilities

  • New Latent Abilities
  • Added Latent Abilities to some  pre-existing weapons.

Limited-time FUN Shop

  • Xie's 2nd Anniversary FUN Shop until August 20th.

Craft Shop

  • Added more items to the Crafting Shop lineup.

My Room Shop

  • My Room Shop Lineup updated.

Team Merger

  • Merge two teams into one.

AC Auto Charging

  • Automatically purchase AC when it falls below a certain amount.
  • Available for One-Time Password account holders.

Mags

  • Mag Energy is consumed even while you're logged out
  • This does not apply to mags at the level cap.

Other Changes

  • Added victory pose to Dark Falz Elder
  • Modified the visual effects for Cosmo Breaker and Il Foie at point blank range when other characters use them.
  • In addition to this, they adjusted the volume of the sound effect for Il Foie's explosion, so that it's not too loud when you're standing within it.
  • Changed the icon design for Il Barta.
  • Partner characters can now attack live capture traps.
  • During the Falz Angel battle, Deue Solda and Gul Solda suicide attack will change as follows: Adjusted the amount of damage given by the attack. When they blow up afflicted with the Panic status effect, Falz Angel will not receive damage.
  • Set a cap to the amount of times Kindid can be spawned for Big Varder.
  • Changed the display order of the AC Shop listing.
  • Changed the entry position for "I am no longer there," within the Story Summary menu.
  • Mail will be sent when a commissioned item has finished crafting.
  • When selecting a weapon camo, it will be shown in the the My Shop Search preview window even outside of the main weapon category.
  • Added a feature to let you verify the contents of a skill even when you cannot learn them.
  • The Client Order screen will now display the current number of client orders.
  • Mail will be sent when there's a change in the Team Master position.
  • Other players will not be able to see the effect of your character drinking from the terminal.
  • Other players will be able to change the melody of a song when using the Maimai unit.
  • Storage Expansion #4 and #5 can no longer be sold off to NPC shops.
  • Changed the shape of Judgement Hearts to match its previous PSP2i design.

Photon Art Adjustments

  • Gekka Zakura: Increased power and reduced PP consumption.
  • Asagiri Rendan: Increased power.
  • Sacrifice Bite: Increased power at level 16.
  • Sacrifice Bite: The effect is extended to 40 seconds when used on Bosses that can’t be held.
  • Sacrifice Bite: Expanded attack hitboxes when activated.
  • Shunka Shunran: Decreased power.

Daily Order Achievement Conditions Relaxed

  • The quest must be completed once for [Quest Completion Daily Orders]
  • Bosses must be defeated once for [Enemy Defeat Daily Orders]
  • Daily Order rewards are not affected by the above changes.
  • The above changes only pertain to Daily Orders that require a set number of tasks to complete.
  • The other style of Daily Orders (where the completion rate increases the rewards) are not affected by these changes.

[Mining Base Intrusion] Balance Adjustments

  • Increased the number of times you may use the Burst Barrier / Base Recovery functions.
  • Relaxed the number of points needed to activate those functions.

Dark Falz Luther's Annihilation Rate Adjustments

  • Adjusted the annihilation rate in proportion to the difficulty of the quest.

EXP Penalty

  • The EXP Penalty will now kick in when there's 16+ levels away instead of 11+ levels away.

Watch this space after maintenance for more information.

 

Latest Version (June 11th)

 Watch this space after maintenance for more information.

Emergency Quest Schedule

Boost Event 49

▲▲ Eastern Daylight Time ▲▲
Please [Refresh] the calendar after maintenance has ended!

▲▲ Japanese Standard Time ▲▲
Please [Refresh] the calendar after maintenance has ended!

 Eastern / Central / Mountain / Pacific / Hawaii

São Paulo / London / Berlin / Moscow

Bangkok / Philippines / Sydney / Japan

 

Please Note:

  • The Emergency Quest schedule will update automatically during maintenance. Please wait until after maintenance has ended to see the current schedule.
  • If you are using a mobile device or an external application, please [sync] the calendar after maintenance has ended.
  • Boost Events that occur for 24 hours will be posted in this calendar with the duration of 1 minute. This change was made to make the calendar easier to read when viewing the events as a list.
  • Boost Events that occur for several hours will now use the "Period" suffix in their titles. You still need to check the Google Calendar itself to see how long it will last as this will not be displayed in the sidebar.

 

 

Welcome Back Go! Go! Campaign #2

Welcome Back Campaign 2

Players with accounts that have not logged in since May 7th's maintenance are eligible to receive a grand total of 255 items if they sign on during the campaign period!

Campaign Period

  • June 11th ~ July 9th's maintenance.

Campaign Qualifications

Your character must reach level 10 during or prior to the campaign period to qualify for the prizes.

The qualifying period occurs between maintenances.

Login PeriodPrize Distribution Date
1st Round6.11 ~ 6.18Late June
2nd Round6.18 ~ 6.25Early July
3rd Round6.25 ~ 7.2Early July
4th Round7.2 ~ 7.9Mid-July

This campaign only pertains to PSO2, not PSO2es.

Prize List

  • Extreme Pass (x5)
  • Advance Capsule d (x55)
  • Advance Capsule e (x55)
  • Advance Capsule f (x55)
  • +50% Tribooster (x5)
  • +50% Rare Drop Booster (x5)
  • +50% EXP Booster (x5)
  • Grinder (x55)
  • Grind Risk Reducer +2 (x5)
  • Photon Sphere (x5)
  • Liliparium (Small) (x5)

Client Order Campaign #56

Client Order Campaign 56

Xie and Lubert are celebrating the 2nd Anniversary with a client order campaign! Complete their qualifying client orders for some prizes.

Campaign Period

  • June 11th until June 25th's maintenance.

Qualifying Client Orders

(1) Clear Xie's client order 「混乱誘うダーカーたち!」 Disorder Derived from Darkers! to receive:

  • +50% EXP Booster (x2)
  • Grinder (x20)

(2) Clear Lubert's client order 「デ・マルモスの部位破壊を!」 Destroy the De Malmoth Parts! to receive

  • Grind Risk Reducer +1 (x2)
  • Grinder (x30)

Prize Distribution Date

  • July 2nd at the Visiphone after maintenance.

New Phantasy Star Nova Trailer

SEGA released a new video showing the prologue to Phantasy Star Nova. You can get up to speed on the latest news by reading our Phantasy Star Nova articles! Some of them have been updated with new information. We're even adding more information as we speak.

Planet Machia
Planet Machia (Makia)

 

Screens from Phantasy Star Nova
Screens from Phantasy Star Nova

Phantasy Star Nova: New Screens from Famitsu

Some minor details on Phantasy Star Nova was posted at Famitsu this morning. Let's take a look at it below!

The Story So Far

PSNOVA PIcture

The ORACLE fleet assembled the [ARKS Special Planetary Search Unit] in order to investigate and safely navigate a region of stars they could not warp directly to. Within the search unit was a group known as "Alter," and their ship, the "Delta Valiant." They were forced to make an emergency landing after mysteriously coming under attack from a newly discovered planet known as "Machia." This strange planet has the peculiar quality of negating the use of "photons." In this game, our heroes are tasked with repairing the ship and discovering a means to escape from the planet.

 

 

Lutina pic

Lutina (Human x Force)
(CV: Maaya Uchida)

 

Sail

Seil (Human x Hunter)
(CV: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka)

 

magnus cut

Magnus (Human x Hunter)
(CV: Banjō Ginga)

Captain of the Delta Valiant. Came up with the idea of the [Planetary Search Unit] to travel through treacherous areas.

 

Fieldia pic cutFieldia (Human x Hunter)
(CV: Miyuki Sawashiro)

Long-time veteran, Fieldia, is the commanding officer of Delta Valiant's military unit. But for some reason…she'll serve as temporary captain of the ship.

 

izuna psnovaIzuna (Newman x Ranger)
(CV: Ai Kayano)

A person of exceptional talent, graduating at the top of the class. She was Sail's partner during her training years. 

 

Delta Variant

There are around 1000 people aboard the Delta Valiant in cryogenic stasis. Only some of the characters are active around the time of the emergency landing. As you collect resources, and restore power to the ship, more people will come to support you in the search.

In PSO2 you have many facilities available to you from the start, you can freely use them as you please. However, in PSNova, you start out with barely any facilities. As you progress through the game, you'll gradually gain access to more facilities and see even more characters. (Keep in mind that some of the people on the ship are non-combatant civilians.) The player gets to decide the order of which facilities they wish to see function. So the revival of the Delta Valiant may be quite different depending on the player.

 

During their search, the main characters will have to face the Gigantes! A colossal bio-weapon adorned in heavy artillery and armor. The Gigantes has a drill mounted on its forehead, with what appears to be seating space for a cockpit. Though it seems to work unmanned, Famitsu wonders, if by entering the cockpit, you're able to control the Gigantes?

PSNova Scaffolds

Considering that the Gigantes is huge, you can't do any decent damage by only attacking the feet. However, you can use these platform-like thingswhich acts as a scaffoldto reach a high enough level to attack its upper body with ease!

 

PSNOVA Character Creation

With the character creator you can set their height and build, and change the color of the costume. You can change the bust size for female characters too!

More details on Phantasy Star Nova will appear in this week's issue of Famitsu Weekly! See you later!