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[Zyrusticae]

Speaking of which, is there a soundtrack available yet? I'm filling in the holes in my PSO (the first) collection from iTunes right now. Man I love this music.

No official one yet, and there probably won't be one for a very long while yet.

Plenty of tracks recorded from the game on Youtube, though. I'll share some of my personal favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HlOFJ0OdpI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frjnnnZNfIk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UKwUwM3z7k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg6XhwxwS2k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgc8ID3M2mo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Y5W_WEHys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeMdjIeJaPs

Oh, who am I kidding? ALL the boss themes are good!

I have now hijacked this thread. With the power of MUSIC.

 

[Hasemo]

Today's patch notes on bumped.

Also, the Dark Falz emergency is starting in 15 minutes on all ships (8PM JST).

Edit:
Well, that was fun. One thing to note is that you can only do the Elder quest once per emergency. There's also a story tablet after that which connects some loose strings and makes the fight a beginning of a new story arc.
The fights itself were really easy. Master hands deal quite a lot of damage but are easily beatable in 2-3 minutes iirc. Elder has a big hp pool, but his attacks are no real threat most of the time.
Oh, about those magic stones (pyrosomething) that you can exchange for weapons - they drop from the Elder. I've got 4.

I've uploaded 16 screenshots from the fights to my minus folder:

Edit:
Blicen from PSO-W recorded both fights:
Part 1: http://www.twitch.tv/blicen/b/347374414?t=185m38s

Part 2: http://www.twitch.tv/blicen/b/347374414?t=207m00s

 

[Zyrusticae]

More music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCjXGqhXvfI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRvUUkJc-0s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C8cy3oyakA

 

[spyhunterzero]

Today's patch notes on bumped.

Also, the Dark Falz emergency is starting in 15 minutes on all ships (8PM JST).

Edit:
Well, that was fun. One thing to note is that you can only do the Elder quest once per emergency. There's also a story tablet after that which connects some loose strings and makes the fight a beginning of a new story arc.
The fights itself were really easy. Master hands deal quite a lot of damage but are easily beatable in 2-3 minutes iirc. Elder has a big hp pool, but his attacks are no real threat most of the time.
Oh, about those magic stones (pyrosomething) that you can exchange for weapons - they drop from the Elder. I've got 4.

I've uploaded 16 screenshots from the fights to my minus folder:

Edit:
Blicen from PSO-W recorded both fights:
Part 1: http://www.twitch.tv/blicen/b/347374414?t=185m38s

Part 2: http://www.twitch.tv/blicen/b/347374414?t=207m00s

So is he the Final Boss? If he is, I'm coming back with avengeance. Hell, can't wait to fight this guy again.

 

[Hitlersaurus Christ]

So is he the Final Boss? If he is, I'm coming back with avengeance. Hell, can't wait to fight this guy again.

He's pretty much the final boss of this episode/section of the story.
So no. Feels like a final boss, though. There's one more boss left for this episode though:

Spoiler

Chrome Dragon, which seems to be the thing on the cover of the Vita version. I believe it's a sort of bonus boss though.

Judging from the cutscene afterwards, there will probably be 3 more kinds of Dark Falz over the course of the game's life:

Spoiler

Dark Falz Apprentice, Dark Falz Double, and Dark Falz Persona. This Dark Falz was Dark Falz Elder.

Also, the Profound Darkness will probably be last.

 

[Hasemo]

So is he the Final Boss? If he is, I'm coming back with avengeance. Hell, can't wait to fight this guy again.

"Last" as in "big an epic", since even the cutscene after the fight shows some new enemies.
Still, I think Sakai or someone called this the "final boss" in one in the interviews.

 

[Killthee]

"Last" as in "big an epic", since even the cutscene after the fight shows some new enemies.
Still, I think Sakai or someone called this the "final boss" in one in the interviews.

Yeah I think they called him the final boss for Episode 1. I'm sure they'll add a new big bad in the next chapter, just like original PSO had Olga Flow as the end boss for Ep 2.

 

[pants]

Is there someway, somewhere I can dowload the update files manually and apply it later? The in client update keeps timing out for me.

 

[Hasemo]

Is there someway, somewhere I can dowload the update files manually and apply it later? The in client update keeps timing out for me.

There were a few links to the patched clients, but they all seem to be outdated.

Edit:
Whoa, I've just sold Long Muffler for 951k meseta. And it's only a stupid fun scratch item. :x

 

[BudokaiMR2]

- You get 20% (?) of the stat points of the subclass
- You can use the photon arts only if you're using an all-class weapons
- You can freely use techs without the weapon if you put it on your subpalette
- You get all the passive skills
- The sub class doesn't get any XP

That's all, I think.

Awesome, thanks for the summary. Could not find any of that info on the wiki I usually use. Very happy to know its possible to have techs carry over. I always used them as backup on the original games. Ra zonde was the only way my Ranger picked up exp before he got a spread needle I traded for which was probably a dupe.

 

[VariantX]

Has anyone data-mined the latest update for any hints toward future content?? Really hoping slicers come back and they have a short/long range mode like gun slashes do.

 

[Killthee]

Has anyone data-mined the latest update for any hints toward future content?? Really hoping slicers come back and they have a short/long range mode like gun slashes do.

Not much new and no sign of new weapon types yet.

Alright, a new part of the update went on the pre-downloader, so a few more details!

New partner cards: Klotho, Jozsef, and Barbara want you to S-rank certain quests on any difficulty (unknown which, that's in a file I don't have yet). Revelle's CO says nothing about what it wants.

Advance Quests: Three exist, one each for forest, caves, desert. Each requires 10 Advance Data A/B/C (respectively) to run. I don't know where you get these yet.

New emergency quests:

• Inbound Abysmal Servants (淵へと迫りしも&#12398: Battle Falz Hunar in the urban sector.
• Approaching Dark Arms (迫る漆黒の&#33109: Falz Arm quest.
• Profound Darkness' Kin: [Colossus] (深遠なる闇の眷属【巨躯&#12305: Dark Falz Elder quest. I checked, that is how the "Profound Darkness" in the original series was written.
• Desert Guerillas (砂漠遊撃&#25126: Like the cave emergency, but in desert.
• Merry Christmas on Ice (氷上のメリークリスマ&#12473: Like Trick or Treat, but in tundra.

Mystery Quest: Name "？？？？？？？？", description "？？？？？？？？". There is a quest referred to as "escape_quest", this may be it!

Side Story Quests: Two of them! 最初の決別 / The First Farewell, 最後のさよなら / The Final Goodbye. Both appear to be about Hadred.

Item affixes: Chrome Soul is in fact from Chrome Dragon (presumably this is what Hadred is). Photon Collect claims to improve the rate of synthesis for affixes that inflict status.

Room decorations: Photon Gacha is fully functional. Ceiling decorations exist.

Client orders: Ruins team orders have been filled in. Several old orders have been modified (including renaming the Dagan Nero order--someone finally noticed that it is in fact not black, but actually red), and new ones have been added for advance quests.

They also started adding Red weapons (FWIW, Red weapons dropped in Ultimate difficulty in the original PSO).

PSO-World is also claiming that in the new JP PSO2 master guide Sakai says new high level content and boss (probably Hadred, the dragon in the datamined files/PSO2 Vita promo art) will be added in March. They also plan on posting a new road map for the first half of 2013 before the end of this year.

 

[VariantX]

Reading the front-page article on PSO-World gives me confidence that this game will probably have at least 3-4 years of updates before they decide to move on. It'll probably be a vastly different game by this time 2013 if they plan on adding more systems.

 

[pants]

Is there any language patch for weapon and item names?

 

[StarCreator]

Is there any language patch for weapon and item names?

Those are server side and can't be patched.

 

[Killthee]

Is there any language patch for weapon and item names?

Unfortunately the data for item names and weapons is stored server side which means there's no way to edit them.

 

[Zyrusticae]

Some PSO2 fan art (I have the most absurdly huge pile of this stuff on my Skydrive):

Credit to the respective artists on pixiv.

You can see my entire collection here (note: not all of it is PSO2 stuff and some of it is quite fanservice-y).

 

[spyhunterzero]

That's a...surprisingly friendly Lisa. I love it <3

Sweet!!! My first blind Christmas E. Quest was a success...and I got cake as well. Tis a good day today

 

[Zyrusticae]

LOOK WHAT I HAAAS

(no it's not a ruin charm D

I AM NOW A KILLING MACHINE. This pleases me.

Edit: Ruin Gloam is now mine!

It's pretty weak tho, so still looking for a charm.

 

[Hasemo]

3 Christmas/New Years campaigns.

 

[Kokonoe]

19 days till the most likely lackluster US release.

 

[Wonko_C]

19 days till the most likely lackluster US release.

Wait, did they announce a date already? I thought it was TBA/Early 2013.

 

[Kokonoe]

Wait, did they announce a date already? I thought it was TBA/Early 2013.

Oh, it got delayed. Well, that sucks.

 

[ezodagrom]

Oh, it got delayed. Well, that sucks.

Delayed? It never had a release date to begin with, SEGA only said early 2013, nothing more.

 

[Kokonoe]

Delayed? It never had a release date to begin with, SEGA only said early 2013, nothing more.

Oh, well Wikipedia for the longest time had it to January 7th for NA. Guess I should stop trusting Wikipedia.

 

[SuperAngelo64]

I AM NOW A KILLING MACHINE. This pleases me.

That is some crazy S-ATK, I can't even fathom that on my character. I was finally happy just to break 1000.

I did finally get my first ability unlocked on a weapon. It was hell, don't even want to imagine *10.

 

[Zyrusticae]

That is some crazy S-ATK, I can't even fathom that on my character. I was finally happy just to break 1000.

I did finally get my first ability unlocked on a weapon. It was hell, don't even want to imagine *10.

Grats! I don't even want to think of attempting to unlock an ability (grinding is hell enough for me as it is).

And you have like 700 more S-Def and 500 more HP than me, so it evens out.

Edit: Someone posted an alternate version of the Dark Falz Arms fight theme. It's pretty friggin' sweet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_vkq0R5vNU

Also, new costume & parts preview!
http://bumped.org/psublog/pso2-jp-updates-december-26th-with-new-years-costumes/

 

[Hasemo]

This will be mine.

 

[SuperAngelo64]

Finally! Android-esque HUcast parts!

Also, more Matoi is always great <3

 

[Spehornoob]

So I started playing this after some time in the beta earlier this year (nowhere near enough) and I really love it so far. I think it seems like a very good evolution of PSO. The combat is awesome. Anyone else here play with a controller?

Is GAF still mostly on ship 2?

 

[Hasemo]

So I started playing this after some time in the beta earlier this year (nowhere near enough) and I really love it so far. I think it seems like a very good evolution of PSO. The combat is awesome. Anyone else here play with a controller?

Is GAF still mostly on ship 2?

Yeah, most Gaffers are on ship 2 and I think most of them use controllers. I can invite you to the team later if you want.

 

[ezodagrom]

So I started playing this after some time in the beta earlier this year (nowhere near enough) and I really love it so far. I think it seems like a very good evolution of PSO. The combat is awesome. Anyone else here play with a controller?

Is GAF still mostly on ship 2?

The game plays well with both keyboard/mouse and with controller, so you can use whichever you feel more confortable with (I play with keyboard/mouse, my brother plays with controller).

 

[Killthee]

Saw this image of Sakai on the PSO2 twitter account and thought it was funny:

 

[rykomatsu]

How active are western players on ship 2? I'm currently on Haggal (#9) but I don't particularly feel comfortable interacting with Japanese MMO players (though I'm native myself) since they can be somewhat "harsh" at times for lack of a better description...and it probably doesn't help that I played WoW for a number of years...

I'm thinking of transferring...only lvl 15 Force so might not be worth it...

 

[StarCreator]

How active are western players on ship 2? I'm currently on Haggal (#9) but I don't particularly feel comfortable interacting with Japanese MMO players (though I'm native myself) since they can be somewhat "harsh" at times for lack of a better description...and it probably doesn't help that I played WoW for a number of years...

I'm thinking of transferring...only lvl 15 Force so might not be worth it...

It's probably not worth transferring vs. just deleting and recreating at that point unless you really have things you want to bring with you.

 

[br0ken_shad0w]

Speaking of ship 2, is block 20 still full of random english players or has everyone decided to stay with their core of friends or spread out in different blocks?

 

[Hasemo]

Speaking of ship 2, is block 20 still full of random english players or has everyone decided to stay with their core of friends or spread out in different blocks?

There's still a hefty number of English players there, but people often go to blocks for the fields they plan to quest in.

 

[Hasemo]

Finally, the opening of the Vita version in HD (well, 720p).

Edit:
And a new trailer.

 

[GundamBanshee]

Okay soo...I recently started playing this game with a friend (Ship 8, PN: wat3rki, char name: Banshee, if anyone wants to add me) but after awhile the game crashes. It's happened to multiple people I've talked to. I've read about the issues with GameGuard but that seems to freeze up the entire computer, which isn't my case. Just the game. Anyone know a solution to this?

 

[SephirothRK]

fight vs ruin boss = takes 30 mins and I die.

watch youtube video of someone beating it = takes 1-4 mins.

 

[Kokonoe]

Thought I'd post this here just in case anyone thought this might be interesting.

I got Schthack private server to work on Dolphin thanks to 3.5.

Video of it working. Check it out!

Welcome to the first ever widescreen PSO.

 

[rykomatsu]

Okay soo...I recently started playing this game with a friend (Ship 8, PN: wat3rki, char name: Banshee, if anyone wants to add me) but after awhile the game crashes. It's happened to multiple people I've talked to. I've read about the issues with GameGuard but that seems to freeze up the entire computer, which isn't my case. Just the game. Anyone know a solution to this?

Is it the "cannot read memory from address 0xyyyyyyy" problem? Switching to simple shader and virtual full screen mode tends to help for me when it happens, until I reboot.

 

[ezodagrom]

Thought I'd post this here just in case anyone thought this might be interesting.

Actually, that's not the first widescreen PSO, earlier this year Blue Burst was patched with a widescreen option in those servers. While the interface doesn't look completely right, the game itself is in widescreen.

 

[Kokonoe]

Hmm, I see. Well, this version still has a dancing Chao that gives you a Tails Chao for Sonic Adventure 2Battle so BB can't top that!

Spoiler

Glad that did come out for BB, though, I was playing it earlier this year without it.

 

[rykomatsu]

Finally, the opening of the Vita version in HD (well, 720p).

Edit:
And a new trailer.

SSX meets Phantasy Star?

 

[Hasemo]

Second survey is here!
Be sure to do it if you know Japanese - you'll get 500 FUN points as a reward.

 

[Kokonoe]

Now that I think about, it is the first widescreen PSO as Dolphin was able to play PSO for GC for many years. =p

 

[Zyrusticae]

Got me some new outfits!

Matoi's outfit feels like it was designed by a dirty old man. :/ (...But I ain't complaining)

 

[Blood Diamonds]

Any chance of this running on Intel(R) 82945G Express Chipset Family?

 

[Lumpy Onion]

Forgot all about this game as I rarely come into community side. Registered ID and downloading now. PSO was my first online game. Judging from the screenshots this looks like that on steroids.