Japanese PC/PS2 longterm schedule (mid-2008)

[EspioKaos]

http://www.g-heaven.net/pso/topics/080516a.html
http://www.4gamer.net/games/021/G002148/20080516012/
http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/news/wis/?mode=view&id=670

Courtesy of 4Gamer.net, Shougai PSO and the offcial Japanese PSU site, we have a brief synopsis of what will be hitting the Japanese PC/PS2 servers over the next few months.

May 22, 2008
Details here (http://www.pso-world.com/viewtopic.php?topic=175870&forum=20&17)

June 2008
* A story-driven online event called "Shred the Darkness" will begin. (This will link up with what's happening in Episode 3.)
* Lightning Duel (http://psupedia.info/Lightning_Duel) and Lightning Speed (http://psupedia.info/Lightning_Speed) from Dengeki Mission Carnival will be re-released under the "Past events" category that was recently added to the mission counter at GUARDIANS HQ. These two missions will have various adjustments made to them.
* A new item exchange mission will be released which will give players an opportunity to bring together certain weapons which were obtained through events like MAG and Dengeki Mission Carnival. (Shougai PSO speculates the combination of Sange and Yasha into the twin saber Sange & Yasha as one possibility.)
* Many new weapons will be added which will improve upon the parameters of existing A- and S-grade weapons.
* The wedding and Sonic lobbies will be held during this month.

July - September 2008
* A special mission commemorating the sale of Phantasy Star Portable will be released in AOTI. It will be a single player mission where you team up with Vivienne.
* A new event will begin celebrating the second anniversary of PSU.
* Various new free missions will be released.
* Chapters 7 and 8 of Episode 3 will be released.
* The next GBR will begin.
* Level cap will be increased to LV160.
* The Holy Light Festival and fireworks lobbies will be held during this timespan.

EDIT: Added official site link and clarifications.

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EDIT: Even more clarification.

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[Dhylec]

Heh, recycle missions. Heck, why not?

[xRedd206x]

Holy Jebus O_o

[Sasamichan]

When the episode 3 chapters release, can you put a spoiler box to the descriptions? The previous chapters were ruined cause of that.

[EspioKaos]

Yes, of course.

[Sekani]

"Past events"? Might this be a new trend then of making event missions available permanently in some form?

[landman]

With an story event based again we will be spoiled anyway lol

[Alecc]

OMG!! So much great stuff coming!!! It gets better and better!! http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif

[Arika]

This is what I look forward to, more than just single update





July - September 2008
* A special mission commemorating the sale of Phantasy Star Portable will be released in AOTI. It will be a single player mission where you team up with Vivienne.
hmm, only 1 person and 1 NPC mission? sound like a PSO offline-quest lol
so heh, Vivienne is on PC server too.



* A new event will begin celebrating the second anniversary of PSU.
simply AOI-thank festa I bet.


On 2008-05-16 09:02, Sekani wrote:
"Past events"? Might this be a new trend then of making event missions available permanently in some form?



actually not. those 2 mission is simply a semi-PVP mission. (folder race, and sphere race) They just rip them perminantly for the game to have more variety type of free missions.
at least it is good that they didn't rip the main mission of the event anyway.



But, so This time, they only leak this small info? D:
Last time, I rmr that it say things for 6 months ahead.


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[Kylie]

Let's hope this festival (anniversary event) is better than the last.

[SonicTMP]

geeze 2 year aniversary? 2 years and the game is still not fully unlocked. progressing slowly but surely

[amtalx]

For some reason, this one does not excite me at all. =/

[Ryudo]

I'm really excited for the story driven event. Here's hoping it's as good or better than FireBreak or 1up and not another Festa or MAG

[Mysterious-G]

On 2008-05-16 12:47, amtalx wrote:
For some reason, this one does not excite me at all. =/



Yeah.. Exactly my thoughts.. >_>

[Rayokarna]

On 2008-05-16 08:43, EspioKaos wrote:
June 2008
* A story-driven online event will begin. (This will link up with what's happening in Episode 3.)

http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif Ice Break!

[Kylie]

On 2008-05-16 12:47, amtalx wrote:
For some reason, this one does not excite me at all. =/


Same, but the new free missions interest me. Also, the new events slightly interest me.

[Zekester]

Lolok. So like, when will get get this?

"Oh idk liek in abut a yaer."

[Kanore]

On 2008-05-16 13:56, Zekester wrote:
Lolok. So like, when will get get this?

"Oh idk liek in abut a yaer."



Some time after our version of Dengeki.

Which is... idk liek in abut a yaer.

[ryvius]

Kinda underwhelming compared to their last schedule.. losing steam here :/

[Jainsea]

Hmmm, this sounds like a long way off for us http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif Im so tired on how ST slowly
leaks us "new" content. This event better be good as in terms of Firebreak and
1Up Cup.

[Kamica]

On 2008-05-16 08:48, Sasamichan wrote:
When the episode 3 chapters release, can you put a spoiler box to the descriptions? The previous chapters were ruined cause of that.



You are STILL crying about spoilers? XD

[Sasamichan]

On 2008-05-16 15:18, Kamica wrote:

On 2008-05-16 08:48, Sasamichan wrote:
When the episode 3 chapters release, can you put a spoiler box to the descriptions? The previous chapters were ruined cause of that.



You are STILL crying about spoilers? XD



Nope, was just asking him.

[GuardianElite]

On 2008-05-16 13:33, Rayokarna wrote:

On 2008-05-16 08:43, EspioKaos wrote:
June 2008
* A story-driven online event will begin. (This will link up with what's happening in Episode 3.)

http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif Thunder Break!


fixed

[Rayokarna]

On 2008-05-16 16:59, GuardianElite wrote:

On 2008-05-16 13:33, Rayokarna wrote:

On 2008-05-16 08:43, EspioKaos wrote:
June 2008
* A story-driven online event will begin. (This will link up with what's happening in Episode 3.)

http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif Thunder Break!


fixed



lol epic.

[Raven5_1]

so.... Vivienne is actually in AOTI?

[EspioKaos]

She will be, yes.

[Raven5_1]

interesting....

[EspioKaos]

As far as we know, however, she will only appear in the single player mission that will be released to commemorate the release of PSP.

[Ryudo]

any chance of said mission giving us her partner card? :3

[Golto]

Some of you might remember some of the AOTI offline hacking pics of people being Vivienne and one other female plot character.

[Dirkster111]

Would be cool to get a list of future updates for the US servers.

[pikachief]

On 2008-05-16 15:18, Kamica wrote:

On 2008-05-16 08:48, Sasamichan wrote:
When the episode 3 chapters release, can you put a spoiler box to the descriptions? The previous chapters were ruined cause of that.



You are STILL crying about spoilers? XD



they can say that eathan will eat a cookie and sasami will still complain about putting spoilers on it >.>

[Rayokarna]

On 2008-05-16 19:46, Golto wrote:
Some of you might remember some of the AOTI offline hacking pics of people being Vivienne and Helga.



Fixed lol

[EspioKaos]

Just updated the initial post with a few new details.

http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/news/wis/?mode=view&id=670

The story-driven event coming in June will be called "Shred the Darkness." (Well, for short. The full name would be something like "The Absolute Battle to Shred the Darkness." And just because I know it's coming: "inb4DarkBreak.") Going by one of the two screenshots shown, notice we have a Neudaiz RELICS mission and... Firebreak at Raffon? o:

The next item exchange mission has been detailed as one where players will be able to combine weapons from previous events such as MAG and DMC. The staff of Shougai PSO speculate that this might be how the sabers Sange and Yasha could be combined into the twin saber Sange & Yasha.

Many new weapons will be released in June which will improve upon the parameters of A-grade weapons in all 27 categories as well as S-grade weapons in some of the categories.

EDIT: Clarification.

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[Xaeris]

Many new weapons will be released in June, and along with that will be some parameter improvements to A-grade weapons in all 27 categories and S-grade weapons in some of the categories.

Now this sounds interesting. I wonder what they have in mind.

[Egg99]

Regarding the parameter improvements... I realize ST is trying to make the game more accessible and everything but shouldn't they slow down a bit? I was never against the system updates that we got in preparation for AoI, as the game is alot more in line with PSO now in terms of player damage ability (albeit with much larger numbers), but does it really need to be made any easier?

I'm really not fond of the idea of all A rank weapons being on the level of a Chao Staff. It's bad enough that thing outclasses S-grade rods, do we really need the rest of the weapons doing that too?

[Mysterious-G]

Many new weapons will be released

Don't they say that every update? http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_confused.gif

[EspioKaos]

I've made a slight adjustment to the translation. It's worded kind of funny in the original text, but I think I've got it sorted out now. It's not that existing weapons will receive stat adjustments, but new weapons will be added to the lineup which will improve upon existing weapons in all categories of A-grade and some categories of S-grade. I was wondering why something that would've been a system adjustment was listed as an "added item," and I guess that would be why.

Anyway, sorry for the confusion.

[Nirvash7]

Wow. Almost two years have gone by and no sign of Killer Elite. I think I'm probably going to cancel my account and go into hibernation mode after I get my spread needle.

[XenithFlare]

On 2008-05-19 12:11, Nirvash7 wrote:
Wow. Almost two years have gone by and no sign of Killer Elite.



Only weapon worth looking forward to.

[Ffuzzy-Logik]

On 2008-05-19 06:33, EspioKaos wrote:
(Well, for short. The full name would be something like "The Absolute Battle to Shred the Darkness." And just because I know it's coming: "inb4DarkBreak.")
That wouldn't be too unwarranted, I reckon, since Firebreak was something like "The Absolute Defensive Game of Flame" or something.

At any rate, the thing with the items sounds interesting. It almost sounds like they are saying that there will be "new" weapons that will just be improved versions of old weapons (i.e. don't expect to see many new weapon models).

EDIT: Sorry, Espio, but I'm going to have to go with the Google translation: "The story of the black tear-linked online event, held absolute Vernichtungsgedanke." Is that some German? lolwtf

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[Katrina]

Ty for the info Espio

[Mysterious-G]

On 2008-05-19 12:21, Ffuzzy-Logik wrote:
absoluter Vernichtungsgedanke.



Lol...........
(They can't even write correct German. xD)
"Absolute annihilation sentiment/concept"
is what I would translate it into. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

DO YOU RLY HATE US GERMANS THAT MUCH?!?! http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif




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[EspioKaos]

On 2008-05-19 12:21, Ffuzzy-Logik wrote:
EDIT: Sorry, Espio, but I'm going to have to go with the Google translation: "The story of the black tear-linked online event, held absolute Vernichtungsgedanke." Is that some German? lolwtf

Oh, wow. lolwtf, indeed! http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif

[Astarin]

You know what the news about these new weapons says to me? New models of A ranks. Things like A-rank GRM Longbows and Rods, which currently only go up to B rank.

[Ffuzzy-Logik]

On 2008-05-19 16:20, Astarin wrote:
You know what the news about these new weapons says to me? New models of A ranks. Things like A-rank GRM Longbows and Rods, which currently only go up to B rank.

I find that considerably unlikely, as hackers would likely have found the offline data for those weapon models by now.

[Sharon]

Thanks for the update Espio ~ Always appreciated.

[Zorafim]

This is... Fairly underwhelming, actually. Story missions and a new event, I guess it's not too bad... Hopefully, the items that are released will be worthwhile.
Speaking of hackers, I haven't noticed much of their efforts being flaunted. I've hardly seen any hacked weapons, besides Elsydeon and Sange/Yasha.