Advance Quests are Coming to PSO2

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Advance Quests are challenging quests intended for the most skilled ARKS. Those under level 44 need not apply; only level 45+ have clearance to accept this quest. Three Advance Quests: Forest, Caves, and Desert will be released on February 13th, 2013. In this danger zone, you must fight high level enemies who may drop exclusive items.

Zeshureida PSO2 Advance Quest

 

Advance Capsules

Advance Capsule Cost

You'll need to pay Advance Capsules before you start an Advance Quest. You can decide whether the party leader pays for everyone, or if each individual member pays for themselves. You can acquire Advance Capsules by either purchasing them in a shop, or acquiring them within Advance Quests.

 

Advance Risk

Advance Risk PSO2

Advance Risk is a value that increases whenever you clear an Advance Quest. Your Advance Risk increases the enemy levels and boosted appearance rates. Your Advance Risk will reset in one week, so try to raise it as high as you can.

 

Pyroxene Shop

New Pyroxene Shop

This update will release with new Pyroxene stones that you can find within Advance Quests. The Pyroxene Shop will be updated with new 10 star weapons that require a certain number of the new Pyroxene stones along with a specific weapon. For example:  90 (Wind Pyroxene Vayu) +  1 (Iku-tachi) = Kagu-tachi, a new 10 star sword. You can find "Wind Pyroxene Vayu" and "Fire Pyroxene Agni" within Advance Quests.

 

Messages for Lillipans

Lillipa Message PSO2

A new interrupt event will be released on February 20th, 2013. The general concept is that you communicate messages between Lillipans in different locations by performing the same lobby action they show you.

 

Lillipa Wonder Caravan

A new scratch is coming on February 13th, 2013. This scratch features the Lillipa Suit and Shii's mines inspired outfit, OilBrink. Coming with it are belly dancer and native inspired outfits.

(*Oilbrink's name is actually オールブリンク, but it probably makes more sense to call it Oil instead of Allbrink)

Maintenance Change

This week's maintenance will occur at a different time.

  • February 6th, 2013 @ 09:00 ~ 17:00 JST [converted]

Maintenance Contents

  • To make various adjustments to the server.

 

PSO2 Broadcast 5: Recap

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Warning: The post will be updated throughout the weekend

Show Recap

  • During their playthrough of F.Continent, you could finally see the volcano area beneath the field. The volcano only showed up in the first area.
  • Kuna's song is titled "Our Fighting," during her music video you could see Claris attacking the player. There was something about a "Score Attack Tournament battle" near the start of the quest but it was kind of blurry.
  • The Chrome Dragon appears in the city dome as well as his own boss arena.
  • They were trying to get panty shots with Vita's Augmented Reality feature.
  • Red Double Saber +9 was 514 S-ATK
  • In the development team's Vita server, you can see white heart decorations in the Gate Area (Quest Lobby).
  • Advance Quests are single party quests. When you clear them they get more and more difficult. Your "Advance Risk" resets in a week. You will see the date and time of when it will reset from the Quest Counter.
  • Before you start an Advance Quest, you have to pay Advance Capsules. In the video, you needed 10 Advance Capsule c to do the Desert Advance Quest.
  • You can either purchase Advance Capsules or find them within Advance Quests.
  • There's a new Interrupt Event where you have to do a lobby action in front of the Lillipas, kind of like a game of telephone. (Late Feb)
  • You will need "90 wind Pyroxenes Vayu" and one Iku-tachi to get Kagu-tachi.
  • Kagu-tachi is a 10 star weapon, wind element with 528 S-ATK.
  • Instead of a battery icon, when your Mag's energy is low, it displays a gas tank empty style icon.
  • They'll be giving out Ichitaro, Atsuko Enomoto, and Haruko Momoi voices for free as item codes. The process in which you can obtain them will be discussed in an upcoming broadcast. The next broadcast is currently slated for 3/5.

 Vita Augmented

Sakai and gang using Vita's "Character Portrait" feature.

 

FC Volcano

You can see the Volcano area beneath the Floating Continent Field.

 

Red Double Sabers

Of course you're more interested in Red Double Sabers.

 

White day hearts

White Day hearts in the lobby.

 

Lillipa Wonder Caravan

Shii Valentine Costume

The next scratch is titled "Lillipa Wonder Caravan," here you can acquire desert themed costumes and parts including Shii's Valentine's outfit and the Lillipa Suit.

Male and Female Arks Civilian costumes are coming too!

 

 

Gameplay Improvements:

  • Make it easier to level up to 30.
  • Make some item names easier to understand.
  • Premium Space added. The number of available Premium Blocks will be reconsidered.
  • An Aesthetics ticket that lets you reuse the Aesthetics counter for a certain amount of time.  (Premium Set)
  • Search for several matters at the same time.
  • Hunter Balance Adjustments
  • Transfer over into another block and directly join their party at the quest counter.
  • A predictive text feature when searching through My Shop.

Coming after February 28th, 2013

  • New Boss "Chrome Dragon" (Vita First)
  • New Interrupt Event
  • Story Chapter 9: (Vita First)
  • Side Story (PC First)
  • AC Scratch: Universe Star Collection (Sakai didn't want to spill the beans about this particular scratch, but he mentioned "Something ___s" which pretty much alludes to Guardians uniform.)

Playstation Vita Version Adjustments

  • Take screenshots without the interface
  • Copy and Paste chat
  • Symbol Art shortcuts
  • You can switch locked-on targets
  • Faster Keyboard activation
  • 3G support
  • Customize any key
  • Adjusted the camera operation speed for the right analogue stick.
  • You can chat even while accessing objects.
  • Added a shortcut for the Character Information Screen
  • Made the breasts jiggle.
  • A mini chatlog was added
  • Disabled sleep for continuous gameplay.
  • Character skin color will be adjusted to look more natural.
  • Camera Position Settings added
  • Added support for auto-closing the chat window after a message was sent. Added a button to send continuous messages.

[thanks Keii and Manta]

 

PSO2 Vita's Augmented Reality Feature: "Character Portrait"

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PSO2 Character Portrait 3

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.

 

PSO2 Character Portrait

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.

 

PSO2 Character Portrait 2

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.