The Phantasy Star Fan Thanks Festa is now live! As usual, the recap will be posted once the show is over, in the meantime our notes will be posted below.
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This post updates in real-time.
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Updated: June 9th: 2013
Phantasy Star Fan Thanks Festa 2013 Recap
- To commemorate surpassing over 500,000 players on the PSVita version, all players will receive a Triboost+100% if they logged in between June 12th through July 31st
- Musical instruments are coming to the FUN Shop
- Phantasy Star Online 2 Project Dream Arks Drama CD (Xeno, Echo, Afin) releases July 24th.
- PSO2 Drama CD: Initial release includes item code tickets for Afin, Xeno, and Echo battle voices.
- Phantasy Star Online 2 es Closed Beta Test: Begins this summer
- Phantasy Star Online 2 es: Android 2.3+
- PSO2 es CBT: Recruitment begins June 9th through July 16th
- PSO2 es CBT: Taking in around 50,000 players
- PSO2 es CBT: If you reach level 20 in any class you'll get Sato Cap, Triboost+50%, Fun 500 Ticket at a later time.
- PSO2 Episode 2 Dewmans new Race (New weapons look like Katana and Bow)
- The Dudu shirt sold out?
- Hair Project: Onion style hair
- They had a battle between Vol Dragon and Dark Ragne, and Vol Dragon lost
Secret Campaign
- 「なまたろう」 is this week's secret campaign.
- Type なまたろう in chat by June 12th and receive some Ningyo-yaki Earrings (Fried Dolls)
June 19th Update
- Kuna Live Stage Event
- Harder Dark Falz EQs
June 26th Update
- Upd: Burning Rangers themed quest "Arks Ship Burning Maelstrom"
- New Scratch PSPortable 2 and Arks Idol Kuna costumes.
- Tanabata Lobby
Episode 2
- Begins July 17th, 2013
- Supported through updates for the rest of the year.
- Continues where the story left off.
- All characters are given a "Mini Room"
- New Voice Actors include Ayana Taketatsu, Masaya Onosaka, Takahiro Sakurai….
- Subclass will gain a small amount of EXP
- My Room supports more furniture.
- Support Partners (like PSU Partner Machinery)
- Rare Drop Information
- Automatic Equipment Function
- A Team List
- Arks Road
Dewmans:
- Dewmans have heterochromia
- Attack-centric race with low defense.
- You can change their skin color from pale to a pale dark blue.
- Males have unicorn style horns, females have twin 'demon' style horns.
- New character slot for free!
Planet Vopar
- Planet is covered in water.
- New Field: Coast
- Neptunian Enemies
- Midboss: Olgebran
- Boss: Val Rodus/Bal Rodus
- The third darker type is birdlike. (Ryuda Sorcerer/Luda Sorcerer)
- Enemies behave differently based on the time of day.
- Vopar might be a reference to the goetic demon Vepar.
Support Partners
- Support partners are reminiscent to PSU's partner machines
- You can customize them in character creation.
- Support partners can perform activities even when you're offline. (In the video it appears they gather client order items?)
Braver Class
- New Weapon Category: Katana and Bullet Bow
- Katanas can perform a Just Guard counter.
- Bullet Bows have short and long-range PAs
Roadmap
- July: Support Partner and Arks Road
- July: Planet Vopar
- July: New Class (Braver) New Race (Dewman) New Categories (Katana and Bullet Bow)
- September: New Field
- October: Super Hard difficulty and Level 65
- November: New Field
- December: 12 person quest and a new system update for item customization.
PSO2 Premium Package Vol 2.
- On Sale July 17th
New Race: Dewman
PSO2 Episode 2 Box Art (Main Visual)
New Weapon Category: Katana and Bullet Bow
New Class: Braver
Planet Vopar (New Field)
Planet Vopar seamlessly transitions from day to night.
Bird-like Darkers (Ryuda Sorcerer/Luda Sorcerer)
Val Rodus / Val Rhodes (New Boss)
