Uh, the Mother EQ schedule for this week is terrible. I refuse to be up before 7AM to do it. Hopefully I can get the remaining 3 swords (1 of them requires only one run).
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Phantasy Star Online 2 Import |OT3| PS4 ways to play
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ChickenHunter
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Nah, theres no english option for the PS4 version. The PC version has a rather robust english patch.
If you post ニーア発売おめでとう in the chat before March 1st you can get this too.
It's a hairstyle and not an accessory for some reason.
Wow, I don't know if it has been announced already, but Sega updated their patch preview page with the new content and Battle Arena is a part of it.
The one part that matters - you get a random reward after the match, no matter if you win or lose. One of those rewards is an item which you can use to increase the grinding limit by 1. Which means you can use it instead of the same weapon to upgrade 13 star items.
Sounds great and depending on its rarity might make even older 13 stars viable for people who didn't get enough and want to unlock the level cap.
The one part that matters - you get a random reward after the match, no matter if you win or lose. One of those rewards is an item which you can use to increase the grinding limit by 1. Which means you can use it instead of the same weapon to upgrade 13 star items.
Sounds great and depending on its rarity might make even older 13 stars viable for people who didn't get enough and want to unlock the level cap.
There's no way to get it on an English iPhone without jailbreaking right? It'd be nice to be able to buy AC without having to use Bluestacks.
I think all you have to do is to make a Japanese iTunes account? Not sure.
The new EQ schedule is great. I should be able to get my +35 Sword today and +35 Knuckles next week.
StarCreator
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Shit, got really busy and missed out on doing a bunch of AC scratches I've been meaning to probably 
StarCreator
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Yes, they're redeemed in-game at the visiphone and are rewarded directly to your PSO2 account assuming the codes haven't expired.
Iva Demilcol
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I was reading this thread and it seems that as long as I can enter the SEA website then I can create an account and log in to play?
Is it really that easy?
I even know where to buy Webmoney to spend in the game if I feel like doing so.
I thought you couldn't play the game at all unless you were connected from a Japanese IP.
Is it really that easy?
I even know where to buy Webmoney to spend in the game if I feel like doing so.
I thought you couldn't play the game at all unless you were connected from a Japanese IP.
StarCreator
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You're in for a bad time if you play on SEA instead of JP, honestly. I wouldn't even entertain it as a possibility unless you actually reside in SEA (which are the only regions blocked by the JP servers).
Waffle Burger
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Huh, interesting. Also, I was wrong about the boost being 30% from the Esca Falz Mother EQ, it's actually a 20% boost to the already 10% base chance; I always forget about the base bonus. ._.
Some stuff doesn't expire I guess. Here's the page from the website on promotional material:
http://pso2.jp/players/hangame/catalog/special/
For JP PSO2 as long as you can load up the pso2.jp you should not have any issues connecting to the game.
According to Bumped, Sega have changed the punishment of their upcoming EQ quitting penalty and hopefully the Japanese players don't like it and make a fuss that leads Sega to change it because it's incredibly harsh.
Previously if you were the first person to quit a full 12/12 EQ they were going to punish you by not letting you join any other rooms of that EQ for the rest of that half hour. Now they are going to count how many times you quit and if you hit an unspecified amount in an unspecified time they are straight up going to ban your account. Because there's no way of knowing if someone has just reset their router to leave a party, any errors that cause you to disconnect will also add to this count.
Obviously how bad this is depends on the count and time period they are judging by (which Sega are unlikely to ever say because then people would just quit until they are 1 away from the limit), but if you're someone with shit internet like me that is normally fine but will sometimes just disconnect for a minute or two this is pretty frightening.
Previously if you were the first person to quit a full 12/12 EQ they were going to punish you by not letting you join any other rooms of that EQ for the rest of that half hour. Now they are going to count how many times you quit and if you hit an unspecified amount in an unspecified time they are straight up going to ban your account. Because there's no way of knowing if someone has just reset their router to leave a party, any errors that cause you to disconnect will also add to this count.
Obviously how bad this is depends on the count and time period they are judging by (which Sega are unlikely to ever say because then people would just quit until they are 1 away from the limit), but if you're someone with shit internet like me that is normally fine but will sometimes just disconnect for a minute or two this is pretty frightening.
ChickenHunter
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I'm glad the dev team is dedicated to fostering such a positive relationship with their community.
Seriously though, this is absurd. Who would ok this?
Has anyone tried the pvp yet? I assume it would be very laggy when played from overseas and the initial reports (comments on bumped) make it sound like that's indeed the case.
I was meaning to check it out for the past 2 days, but since there seem to be problems with it and I think we're getting another emergency maintenance today. Might try it in the evening before or after I finally get the last drop for my second +35 weapon. With these Knuckles I can now safely grind both Hu and Fi to 80 once the patch rolls around.
I was meaning to check it out for the past 2 days, but since there seem to be problems with it and I think we're getting another emergency maintenance today. Might try it in the evening before or after I finally get the last drop for my second +35 weapon. With these Knuckles I can now safely grind both Hu and Fi to 80 once the patch rolls around.
Played some pvp for about an hour today and found it surprisingly fun. I feel that the balance is all over the place, especially with how easy some attacks can OHKO you.
At least the lag doesn't seem bad, because I can totally see this mode being a mess with high ping.
I also grabbed the Pod mag device and the 9S blindfold from the market - items from today's NieR Automata collaboration gacha. Pretty sweet.
At least the lag doesn't seem bad, because I can totally see this mode being a mess with high ping.
I also grabbed the Pod mag device and the 9S blindfold from the market - items from today's NieR Automata collaboration gacha. Pretty sweet.
I streamed about an hour of pvp today, if someone's interested the archive is here.
Luckily I won more game than I lost, so it didn't go as bad as I expected!
Also after 20+ or so games, I haven't seen the upgrade +1 item in the scratch, but I guess it's supposed to be very rare.
Luckily I won more game than I lost, so it didn't go as bad as I expected!
There are quite a lot of things which can be a turnoff to "serious" players - completely random matching without ranked games for premade parties, really weird balance of weapons (seriously, swords are way too strong) and so so rewards.
Also after 20+ or so games, I haven't seen the upgrade +1 item in the scratch, but I guess it's supposed to be very rare.
Been doing it a bit each day and haven't seen any.
I guess they're worth 24m+ (current price) in player shops for a reason.
If they stay at this price, if I find one, I think I'll just try to sell it instead of keeping it. <-<;
24m isn't half bad if you're rich (I'm not...) - definitely much better than having to do 4-5 runs of an EQ for one weapon when you need 6(?) for 35...
To resurrect this thread a bit - anyone else excited for the level cap being raised to 80 today?
I know that it doesn't really matter and so far there's no content requiring the new level, but for some reason I'm happy to have a higher number next to my character name.
I'm glad that we're almost done with the current episode and really hope that the next one will bring us to space again. And by that I mean space-space, not traditional-Japan space.
Summary of the latest stream can be found here.
Battle Arena updates are another thing I'm looking forward to. I played a bit more (I think my higher rank wa B2, but I might be remembering it wrong) and am still enjoying it.
That said, I feel like adding more weapon, skills etc. to the mix will make the mode even more exciting - I just hope the balance gets better, not worse.
I'm still not fully satisfied with the current one and was a bit surprised that last week's maintenance didn't change anything. I guess they'd rather wait longer than make any rushed changes.
My biggest pvp related success has definitely been this - getting 3 out of 4 MVPs in one match:
Still haven't seen any upgrade +1 items in my scratches those. If it wasn't for the items being on the market, I wouldn't even believe they exist.
I know that it doesn't really matter and so far there's no content requiring the new level, but for some reason I'm happy to have a higher number next to my character name.
I'm glad that we're almost done with the current episode and really hope that the next one will bring us to space again. And by that I mean space-space, not traditional-Japan space.
Summary of the latest stream can be found here.
Battle Arena updates are another thing I'm looking forward to. I played a bit more (I think my higher rank wa B2, but I might be remembering it wrong) and am still enjoying it.
That said, I feel like adding more weapon, skills etc. to the mix will make the mode even more exciting - I just hope the balance gets better, not worse.
I'm still not fully satisfied with the current one and was a bit surprised that last week's maintenance didn't change anything. I guess they'd rather wait longer than make any rushed changes.
My biggest pvp related success has definitely been this - getting 3 out of 4 MVPs in one match:
Still haven't seen any upgrade +1 items in my scratches those. If it wasn't for the items being on the market, I wouldn't even believe they exist.
I need to get to level cap first.
I stopped playing sometime during Episode 4 and ground up my way to Braver 57 using bonus keys, EQs and the huge reserve of 100% Triboosts I had kept in my storage for a rainy day. I also had an unused 30 day premium pass in there from when I picked up the Ep4 deluxe pack in Japan last April.
Using es to buy some AC, getting one if the Nier hairdos and selling it for 19m also helped a lot to getting my first 12star weapon.
I stopped playing sometime during Episode 4 and ground up my way to Braver 57 using bonus keys, EQs and the huge reserve of 100% Triboosts I had kept in my storage for a rainy day. I also had an unused 30 day premium pass in there from when I picked up the Ep4 deluxe pack in Japan last April.
Using es to buy some AC, getting one if the Nier hairdos and selling it for 19m also helped a lot to getting my first 12star weapon.
Getting to the level cap is sadly the easiest part - leveling 24(?) more times at 75 to finish all skill point quests is a big timesink and getting a +35 13 star weapon is even worse...
Oh, I meant that those are the requirements for unlocking level 80, but yeah, for the time being, lv 75 should be more then enough. Especially since story quests scale with level anyway - I used to do them on my low level classes with high end-ish equipment, because some boss battles have been really hard on 75.
Here's the description of the pvp mode.
I streamed an hour of my attempts - you can check the archive here.
I'd be happy with it if it wasn't for the dumb class excube requirement.
I've already hit the level 80 requirements on my main and sub class for one of my characters but haven't for my other character because it's such a pain to do it for your sub class.
They should make it so that once you hit level 75 on your sub class it starts gaining exp again, so you can still make progress on getting the excubes without having to main it.
I wish it was a character wide unlock, like with all the previous level limits.
I guess they want people to go hard on Collect Files so that they use SG to refresh the weapons. Maybe even EQ triggers.
StarCreator
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Just do recommended quests every day and cash in on those gold keys.
According to swiki, 9.8m exp is needed from 79 to 80, a total of 43.35m exp from 75 to 80, that's slightly more than all the class cubes COs together...
http://pso2.swiki.jp/index.php?累積経験値
I don't mind it when it comes to leveling up a main class, but, ugh, leveling up subclasses is gonna be really annoying.
Probably gonna do that solely through bonus quests.
Granted I don't do the featured quests every day, but when I do I very rarely get a key and if I do it's pretty much always a silver Magatsu one.
Oh, so 75 to 76 also required much more experience points than one excube? It's funny, because I had over 150 leftover 15k exp tickets and I used them all + did the new VR EQ before looking at "experience left", so I totally missed it.
I don't mind the road to 80 being longer than expected, but you're right, it won't be great for subclasses.
The current level up quest doesn't seem great too, but maybe that's just because people were busy doing other stuff yesterday.
One thing I'm happy about are the new collection files. Those active until next year seem super easy to do, since they don't require EQ enemies. Should be easy to get a +35 13★ weapon for any class without having to schedule it.
They are also giving out star gems like candy, after doing a bunch of stuff yesterday I realized that I'm sitting on over 1200SG I don't really have much use for. Aside from resetting the collect file if I'm in a hurry for some reason.
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Vilix
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You guys don't know how lucky y'all are. I'd love to play this game on my PS4.
What's stopping you?
No English patch, I assume?
Still, the game doesn't have a region lock of any kind, so other than the language barrier, anyone can play and enjoy PSO2 on the PS4/Vita.
It's probably very old news, but I didn't know that Big Vardha can just pop randomly during quests.
It happened to me for the first time yesterday and I think it looks pretty awesome.
It happened to me for the first time yesterday and I think it looks pretty awesome.
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