JP PC/PS2 update for 10.25.07

[EspioKaos]

Official Japanese site (http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/news/wis/?mode=view&id=499)

Seasonal lobby
The Halloween lobbies will be up from 10.25.07 until 11.15.07.

New field
Habirao Forbidden District will be added.

New free missions
* Mushroom Hill
Due to the incredibly high concentrations of photon energy at Habirao, civilians are prohibited from entering the area due to the risk of photon poisoning. However, in order to investigate the photon energy in this area, it is up to you to clear a path through the enemies for a research team.

* Rare, Dancing Bird
Due to the high photon concentrations at Habirao coupled with SEED contamination, a large outbreak of a subspecies of the rare Rappy has occurred. It seems there is one large bird that commands the smaller ones. Take down the huge Rappy!

New mid-point lobby
Going with Habirao's addition, a new lobby, Habriao Village, will be added.

Partner machine adjustments
The following partner machines will see some efficiency tweaks and adjustments: GH-413, GH-423, GH-433, GH-443 and GH-453.

New photon arts
Some new skills will be added to the PA Fragment exchange mission. Two of these include Chuei Jitotsu-shin (twin claws) and Ick Hic (knuckles).

Weapons
New weapons and weapon boards will be introduced.

New clothes and CV parts
New clothing will be added for humans, newmans and beasts, while more color variant CAST parts will be introduced.

Furthermore, a section of the site mentions the addition of Mt. Ohtoku's "donation box" and then shows a grayed out shot of the Mikumiko clothing set for all female characters, including CASTs. Hmm...

New room goods
Numerous new room decorations will be added.

New casino prizes
Many new room goods and jukebox discs will be added to Casino Volyale's Vol Coin trade counter.

Sale of "Fireworks"
The item "Fireworks" will no longer be sold at NPC shops with this update.

Enemy drop changes
Certain enemies (including bosses) will see an adjustment in what items they drop.



<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: EspioKaos on 2007-10-19 04:23 ]</font>

[Rizen]

NOOOO!!!!!! I must go PA frag hunting soon so I can get Ick Hic! And dancing large bird? Interesting...and Mushroom Hill! Sweet!!!

Thanks for the update!

[Shiryuu]

Highly doubt it's only 2 PAs.

[Ash1ey]

Woot, I wanna see the fat rappy http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

[CelestialBlade]

Oh god, is it gonna be King Rappy from PS4?

[EspioKaos]

On 2007-10-19 04:20, Shiryuu wrote:
Highly doubt it's only 2 PAs.

You're right. I've updated my wording to reflect this.

[Rashiid]

PSSHHH W/E 1UP CUP SKRUW JP LOL LOL!!!

/nubmoment

man - just juicin yall up huh? ST lubs t3h japanese!

[lethe]

On 2007-10-19 04:23, Typheros wrote:
Oh god, is it gonna be King Rappy from PS4?



I remember seeing a pic of it on IGN

[Kamica]

Seasonal lobby
The Halloween lobbies will be up from 10.25.07 until 11.15.07.

Yes! I love the Halloween lobby. Be it the elaborate decorations or the catchy music, this is my favorite time of year in PSU.

New free missions

I really enjoyed Habirao in offline mode and am excited to see it online. My only concern is that Habirao really isn't difficult at all. Maybe the mid-point lobby mission will change that.

Partner machine adjustments
The following partner machines will see some efficiency tweaks and adjustments: GH-413, GH-423, GH-433, GH-443 and GH-453.

Ok good. But where are the Photon Arts adjustments?

New photon arts
Some new skills will be added to the PA Fragment exchange mission. Two of these include Chuei Jitotsu-shin (twin claws) and Ick Hic (knuckles).

Interesting that they would add the two joke Photon Arts first. I wonder if any importers are going to even bother learning these skills.

Weapons
New weapons and weapon boards will be introduced.

New stuff to hunt. Always good.

Furthermore, a section of the site mentions the addition of Mt. Ohtoku's "donation box" and then shows a grayed out shot of the Mikumiko clothing set for all female characters, including CASTs. Hmm...

There is the possibility of new donation box items being added? That's good. It needed more than just one item.

New room goods
Numerous new room decorations will be added.

I want me some new room reform tickets!

New casino prizes
Many new room goods and jukebox discs will be added to Casino Volyale's Vol Coin trade counter.

Gib "World With Me" disk

Enemy drop changes
Certain enemies (including bosses) will see an adjustment in what items they drop

I wonder for what enemies these will apply to.


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Kamica on 2007-10-19 04:59 ]</font>

[Golto]

I think the drop changes might be to some of the old v1 monsters that still drop 6* 50-100. Like ollukas might drop the new yohmei rifles at higher lvls.

[Dein]

On 2007-10-19 04:15, EspioKaos wrote:


New photon arts
Some new skills will be added to the PA Fragment exchange mission. Two of these include Chuei Jitotsu-shin (twin claws) and Ick Hic (knuckles).



I hope Absolute Dance and Cross Hurricane are added with this. Those were my two favorite PAs offline out of the new batch.

[beatrixkiddo]

They better not nerf my slicers >:(

Also: gib some moar 11*s and such, kthx, bye. Oh wait, I'm playing 1UP. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

Need to remake my PM as pure ranged before they take away the fireworks :/ But watch them replace them with another fireworks that works even better!

[Zorafim]

Wow, already? AoI is updating really quickly. Already it's been one clothing set per update. Pretty soon, AoI offline will be obsolete.

Um, don't they already have those cast parts, though?

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[EspioKaos]

On 2007-10-19 08:38, Zorafim wrote:
Um, don't they already have those cast parts, though?

Yeah, they're just releasing color variants of older parts.

[Zorafim]

Didn't they already do that?


Oi, this is confusing...

[EspioKaos]

On 2007-10-19 08:50, Zorafim wrote:
Didn't they already do that?


Oi, this is confusing...

Yeah. I think it was only for two sets, though. Kind of sucks, to be honest, even though I don't play as a CAST. If I did, I'd want new stuff, not inverted colors. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif

[Inazuma]

only new skill PAs will be released? im still waiting for my barrier techs...

[Soukosa]

On 2007-10-19 08:52, EspioKaos wrote:

On 2007-10-19 08:50, Zorafim wrote:
Didn't they already do that?

Oi, this is confusing...

Yeah. I think it was only for two sets, though. Kind of sucks, to be honest, even though I don't play as a CAST. If I did, I'd want new stuff, not inverted colors. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif

*pops into the parts shop* Let's see... 7 old sets, 2 new sets, 9 CV sets. They released all of the CVs that one update. I think what they're doing is adding all CV parts and new color schemes for the old clothes to the colony's shops, which are absent from there right now.


On 2007-10-19 06:33, beatrixkiddo wrote:
They better not nerf my slicers >:(

It's gonna happen sooner or later http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif


On 2007-10-19 05:01, Golto wrote:
I think the drop changes might be to some of the old v1 monsters that still drop 6* 50-100. Like ollukas might drop the new yohmei rifles at higher lvls.

What about the non-Illumnius players that will still see said enemies? Sure they're rarer than hen's teeth these days but is ST willing to drop the ball on them yet? But yes, it would be very nice if they did adjust things like that. Even with some of the new ones where it seems what they drop is temporary, like the mini bosses at the end of the 2nd ronozem mission drop the 7*, 8*, and 9* GRM grenade boards for B, A, and S rank respectively, despite the huge level gaps between the ranks.

[Arika]

AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? ....<,<

[omegapirate2k]

On 2007-10-19 22:30, Arika wrote:
AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? AoI of 1-UP ... ? ....<,<



Indeed.

[Arika]

and I think we will have problem on hunting Magical wand, not easy as in US, because of 1-UP CUP, make rappy so easy to appear.

[buzyb77]

"I found my thrill all on" mushroom hill......LOL

any way does the Rare, dancing bird mission mean were getting Rainbow Rappies and Blue(AL) Rappies... and Pink/red..rappies(I think I remember a red/pink Rappy and a Green one as well...oh wait therse were the Christam an Vday ones... but I'd still Love a Mission where one could see the out of Season... Cause it always Rappy season..never Duck Season unless Megid or Grans is involved the its always I wish I could Duck season...LOL)

[Kinako78]

On 2007-10-19 04:23, Typheros wrote:
Oh god, is it gonna be King Rappy from PS4?



*laughs* I thought of that, too.

[EspioKaos]

On 2007-10-20 12:12, buzyb77 wrote:
any way does the Rare, dancing bird mission mean were getting Rainbow Rappies and Blue(AL) Rappies... and Pink/red..rappies(I think I remember a red/pink Rappy and a Green one as well...oh wait therse were the Christam an Vday ones... but I'd still Love a Mission where one could see the out of Season... Cause it always Rappy season..never Duck Season unless Megid or Grans is involved the its always I wish I could Duck season...LOL)

Out-of-season Rappies? We won't be getting that, however Habirao will feature the common Rappy, known as Rappy Polleck. (That's the cream-colored one.) Then there's Rappy Gug, the big boss of the Pollecks, and the Gug's rare(?) variant, Rappy Igg.

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t265/EspioKaos/psu8589.jpg

(Yellow one is Gug, pink is Igg.)

[Kinako78]

Those are some BIG rappies! O_O

[Zorafim]

Which caseal parts came out? Is it the one with the plate armor chest?