Today at the Sympathy Concert, SEGA announced a new "expansion" to the PSO2 series titled "Phantasy Star Online 2: Code Episode 2."  Dengeki and GameWatch had the pleasure to relay some information found in the trailer; here's what we know so far:

PSO2 Code Episode 2 (Keywords)

• Oracle's Collapse
• Arks Road/Lord?
• Photoners
• "Who is the real enemy?"
• The Third Darkers
• The Beginning and End of the Arks
• New Race, New Planet, New Classes.
• New Weapon Categories.
• Coming this Summer!

Phantasy Star Online 2 is having their first offline nation-wide event. The Phantasy Star Thanks Festa 2013 plans to commemorate the 1 year anniversary of PSO2 by holding events across Japan in five different cities.  SEGA will also be holding the Arks Grand Prix time attack tournament, more details to come in April.

The event schedule is as follows; June 9th in Tokyo, June 15th in Nagoya, June 29th in Fukuoka, July 14th in Osaka, and July 28th in Sapporo. It will conclude with the Arks Grand Prix finals in Tokyo on August 3rd, 2013.  We'll add more details to this post once more information becomes available.

 

JukeBox Feature

Shougai (a Japanese PSO fansite) got a chance to speak with Hideaki Kobayashi at the Sympathy Concert. There they learned of a new feature in the Jukebox that allows you to choose different variations of music. This can be noted in the Jukebox menu where the fourth option 曲譜を変える "change music" is currently disabled.

In the example Shougai provided; you can select from the Non-Battle, Battle, PSE Burst, and Rare Enemy variations of a stage's theme. This would also apply to the Vol Dragon's theme where you could choose between its magma and non-magma variations.

 

Sympathy Concert Track List

01.Fanfare
02.Phantasy Star Medley for Sympathy 2013
03.Phantasy Star Online OPENING THEME ～The whole new world～
04.Can still see the light ～Phantasy Star Online ENDING THEME～
05."IDOLA" have the immortal feather & the divine blade Medley
06.World with me ～Phantasy Star Online EPISODE2 ENDING THEME～
07."LET THE WINDS BLOW" – Theme of Phantasy Star Online EpisodeⅢ-
08.Underworld -equilibrium-
09.Phantasy Star Zero
10.たいせつなもの
11.Save This World – Orchestra Version –

12.Save This World – νMIX -　　
13.Living Universe
14.Go Infinity
15.Burning Hearts ～炎のANGEL～
16.Ignite Infinity

17.Title – PSO2 –
18.Stage Medley – PSO2 –
19.Dark Ragne
20.Big Varder & Quartz Dragon Medley
21.Falz Arm & Dark Falz Elder Medley
22.For Brighter Day – Orchestra Version –

Dragon Sanctuary

The Dragon Sanctuary is a new stage on Planet Amduscia arriving April 10th, 2013. This site is considered a holy ground for the dragonkin; said to be a gathering place for the departed souls of dragons who were once of this world. 

 

The Goronzoran, a dragon who sits perched on a throne, has the ability to summon Vol Dragon, creating for a deadly combination.

 

The Goronzoran is protected by a shield that encases his entire body. You can eliminate this shield by destroying the crystals.

 

Dragon EX is a huge dragon whose wings are specially equipped for battle. By using its wings as a sword and shield, he can perform devastating charge and slash attacks.

 

Easter Lobby

From April 10th through May 15th, 2013, the Arks Lobby will transform into the Easter Lobby. During this time, the Egg Rappy will roam the field dropping the exclusive "Egg Blaster."

 

The Egg Blaster is a twin machine gun created by an evil scientist bent on world domination.

 

Class level 60 + New Skills

On April 10th, your character can now achieve level 60 without needing to clear a specific client order. Along with this comes new skills for each class, let's take a look at some of them below.

Fury Combo Up (HU)

• During Fury Stance, by performing a series of Just Attacks, you'll do bonus damage!

 

Killing Bonus (RA)

• PP Restores when enemies die close to the player.

 

Photon Flare Afterburst (FO)

• T-ATK increases for a certain amount of time after the end of the Photon Flare skill.

 

PP Slayer (FI)

• When PP is less than 50%, S-ATK and R-ATK increases.

 

Perfect Keeper (GU)

• When HP is 100%,  your damage towards enemies increase.

 

Rare Mastery Techer (TE)

• T-ATK increases when equipping 10 star or higher weapons.

*These are only a portion of the new skills coming in this update.

 

Melody On Stage Scratch

初音ミク・レプカ Hatsune Miku Repca

Hatsune Miku's costume is coming April 10th, 2013. In addition, costumes from Phantasy Star Portable 2 including Judgement Coat, Valgris, N Schwanz, and Divarius Frame will make their PSO2 debut.

 

ヴァルギリス Valgiris

 

ディヴァリースＦ Divarius Frame

 

ジャッジメントコート Judgement Coat

 

Nシュヴァンツ N Schwanz

 

ロニアレディ Ronia Lady

 

 

Other Changes

List of PC Changes

• The ability to grind locked equipment
• Relax the difficulty for skill point acquiring Client Order from Marlu, Ouza, and Lisa.
• Fury Stance and Guard Stance changing to percentage increases. Warcry priority change.
• Ease the acquired skill points for Tool Mastery and Gear Type Skills. (An item that will reset skill points on all skill trees will be distributed.)
• EXP correction changes when enemy and player levels are far apart.
• For some item collecting Emergency Trials, they will ease the range in which the items appear on the field, as well as, reduce the number of items you must collect when there's too many people within the trial.
• A confirmation window when selling 7 star or higher items.