PSO2 New Genesis Main Points
- Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis is an action online RPG.
- The game takes place 1000 years after PSO2.
- The graphic engine has been overhauled.
- It features expansive open fields and exhilarating battles
- You have a high degree of freedom in creating your character.
- The game will launch sometime in 2021!
New Genesis : Races
- There are four races in New Genesis: humans, newmans, casts, and deumans.
The Lobby
- Unlike previous games in the Phantasy Star series, New Genesis allows you to travel seamlessly across different sections.
- When you login, you'll start in the lobby where you can meet up with many players.
Adventure Area
- You can leave the lobby by just running out into the adventure area.
- You'll match with up to 8 players in a section.
- You could start off in a forest and then continue running into another section and seamlessly match up with different players.
Day and Night Cycle
- Time will flow between day and night.
- Weather will also occur.
Traveling
- Dash lets you move quickly across the field.
- Glide lets you descend from high to low areas.
Healing Items
- Items for healing will not be available at shops.
- Instead, healing items called "Resta Signs" will be scattered across the field.
- You can heal in the heat of battle without having to stop what you're doing like in PSO2.
New Genesis Classes
- PSO2 NGS revealed three classes so far: Hunter, Ranger, and Force.
- In New Genesis, up to 5 continuous normal attacks can be performed.
- The first four have normal stats, but the 5th strike would be as powerful as a PA.
- There are no perfect attacks (Just attacks) in New Genesis.
New Genesis : Hunters
- You can guard attacks with the Sword just like in PSO2.
- If you press the normal attack button after a successful guard, you'll perform the 5th strike right away.
New Genesis : Rangers
- The ranger class excels at long distant combat.
- Assault Rifle damage changes based on the distance you are from the enemy.
- You need to maintain the optimal distance to deal the most damage.
- Assault Rifles have access to the sliding shot weapon action.
- This allows you to change your distance while attacking the enemy.
New Genesis : Forces
- Forces attack in a bit of a floaty style.
- They specialize in long-range elemental attacks called Technics.
- Just like PSO2, there are charged and uncharged Technic attacks.
- Uncharged Foie shoots fireballs.
- Charged Foie causes a direct explosion.
- Rod normal attacks will shoot bolts at the enemy so you can attack at a distance.
- Rods can now guard against attacks which produces this hexagonal visual effect.
Adventure Areas
- The adventure area has multiple sections that are seamlessly spread out.
- There are two types of sections: exploration and battle.
- Exploration sections lets you gather materials and ingredients.
- Battle sections are where you mainly engage with enemies.
- In the exploration section, you can jump and pick fruit from the trees.
Adventure Area : Gathering
- You can also gather materials from tame animals.
- If you don't defeat them they could even run away
- You can use these materials for cooking which provide temporary boosts.
Adventure Area : Combat
- Within combat sections, there's yellow markers that indicate the enemy spawns.
- The Dolls are the main enemies in New Genesis, but there are other enemy types.
- Trials (known as Interrupt Events in PSO2) will occur randomly in the field.
- Trials will display as a T marker on the field.
Adventure Area : Combat
- There's also another enemy type called Alters.
- Alters appear to somewhat resemble the "native" enemy types from PSO2.
- The "Lizard" enemies can cause status effects.
Adventure Area : Combat
- There are different species of Dolls with various designs.
- The one showed here, Gororon, blocks your attacks from the front.
- Use ice technics on it to trigger a special "downed" state.
- When they go into this state, it'll trigger an elemental damage reaction.
- This will place ice shards over the enemy's body.
- Eventually you can destroy its shield to reveal a new weakpoint.
Adventure Area : Combat
- Another enemy called Dots can snipe at players far away.
- You have to get on their back to attack their weak point.
Adventure Area : Combat
- Elemental Damage reactions exist for each enemy.
- Some enemies can go into a rage state.