JP PC/PS2 content update for April 23

[EspioKaos]

http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/news/wis/?mode=view&id=885

Seasonal lobbies
* Spring lobby will be in place from now through May 7.

New advanced mission
* Unsafe Passage/R will be added. The mission will have the following restrictions in place.
- Must be GAM second stage
- All players capped at LV20
- No Monomates
- No Dimates
- No Trimates
- No Antimates
- No Sol Atomizers
- No Star Atomizers
- No extra units

Exchange mission
* Security Dept.: Exchange will be updated to add new items to exchange your AMP for.

New items
* A new SUV weapon, TECHNIC and weapon will be added.
* Casino rotation.

[Neith]

Wow, harsh restrictions on Unsafe Passage /R, Forces might feel useful :lol:

[Arika]

- No Monomates
- No Dimates
- No Trimates
- No Antimates
- No Sol Atomizers
- No Star Atomizers


>> why don't they just say "no restore item" <,<;


New items
* A new SUV weapon, TECHNIC and weapon will be added.

>> it is time!, I already prepare around 900 AMP, will get to 1000 fast.

[Dhylec]

A new SUV weapon, TECHNIC and weapon will be added.
Hm, what might they be?

[EspioKaos]

Hm, what might they be?

Should be Grom Burst, Dizas and Elec Distortion, at least according to the longterm schedule ST posted recently.

[landman]

We should thank we can use Photon Rechargers lol and the heal bots will come back!!!

[Genoa]

Wait wait, no Extra Unit in armor?
Wow... so not only are CASTs going to be gimped, but Beasts will be quite useful along with Forces for support :o
And since your job has to be 20, there won't be nearly as many Maser classes running around for that.
This will be very interesting indeed.

[Kimil Adrayne]

Wait, did I read that correctly? Dizas?... Dizas is being released?!

Things really are looking up for Wartecher =)

[EspioKaos]

Wow... so not only are CASTs going to be gimped, but Beasts will be quite useful along with Forces for support :o
And as a beast Fortetecher, I become extra-useful! :wacko:
Doubt I'll be nanoblasting, though, since I can hit for a lot more with TECHNICs compared to my punches.


And since your job has to be 20, there won't be nearly as many Maser classes running around for that.
Your job (type) can be any level; your character, however must be at least LV20 to enter. If they are over LV20, they'll be reduced to that point.


Wait, did I read that correctly? Dizas?... Dizas is being released?!
Yes. (Finally.)

[Kimil Adrayne]

I wonder how they'll do lvl 31+ Dizas? The animation for the shields only fit 3. Maybe they'll make it cost less pp at high levels.

[EspioKaos]

I wonder how they'll do lvl 31+ Dizas? The animation for the shields only fit 3. Maybe they'll make it cost less pp at high levels.
They could always add some extra visual effects to the rings at LV31 and above; sparkles or a glowing aura, I guess. As far as effectiveness, I imagine it would be able to absorb more damage before the rings begin to disappear.

[Dragwind]

This is awesome. For those who complained about classes not having a role in a party, or who have wanted something similar to a C-mode in PSU, this sounds like fun.

No mates allowed? No extra units?

:wacko:

[zandra117]

Does anyone know what the advanced style Common Mastery actually does for weapon stats yet?

Because I really want to know how much damage a 10/10 grinded Sniper will do with a De Colte Line and Common Mastery.

[Cathbar]

Whoo! New tech! ....if it ever comes state side.....

[Kimil Adrayne]

Whoo! New tech! ....if it ever comes state side.....

Has anything not made it to the world severs eventually?
Why do people always have this attitude.

Other than the light Sonichi R-Mag, what else?

[hewitt]

Innocent Girl.

[ShonagarACE]

Has anything not made it to the world severs eventually?
Why do people always have this attitude.

Other than the light Sonichi R-Mag, what else?

Shush, don't try to be rational! The complainers don't want to hear that.

[pikachief]

Has anything not made it to the world severs eventually?
Why do people always have this attitude.

Other than the light Sonichi R-Mag, what else?

Innocent girl
Whittle Wings
Vivvine Fluge
Twin Real Handguns
Twin Real Handgun/G
Dengeki Wand
Famistu Wand

im sure im forgetting a thing or 2 :P

(but everything big will come to our servers one way or another of course)

[WhiteKnight01]

Innocent girl
Whittle Wings
Vivvine Fluge
Twin Real Handguns
Twin Real Handgun/G
Dengeki Wand
Famistu Wand

im sure im forgetting a thing or 2 :P

(but everything big will come to our servers one way or another of course)

pumpkin trick?

[landman]

And this "expansion" is yet to be announced outside of Japan...

[TecherRamen]

Im sure we will get it.
For those of us who don't know (like myself >.<; ) what is the 'advanced common mastery'?
WOOOOOOOOOO C-MOOOOOOODDEEEEE<challenge mode ftw>

[Zyrusticae]

"Advanced Common Mastery" is an ATP boost for C-rank weaponry. I think.

It might boost other aspects of C-ranks as well. All I know is, it boosts C-ranks.

[FOnewearl-Lina]

Dizas and Rentis now affect other party members when cast :p

They also added Elecdistortion, Electroheart, both laser SUVs, and a way to upgrade(?) your Shagg using a Photon Booster (A rank fixed at 33% light ONRY)... All R mission trades, whoopie...

[Chuck_Norris]

Can we get pictures of what 31 and 41 Dizas and Rentis look like?

[Namine]

I think they might need some time to level them up first...

[milranduil]

I think they might need some time to level them up first...

Nah they're that l33t lol

[Shou]

Aww I actually wished that Dizas and Ratnis would have been caster-only so that techers would have a little somthing extra to make them stand out.

[Arika]

Ouch!... so many AMP need! I feel bad for people who want to collect them all, it is not too hard, but they gonna spam it for a long while until they can get all


Blize burst 650 AMP
chrome burst 800 AMP
dizas 1000 AMP

new exchange item :
Shagu Goagu = 9* tenora shadog?
from 7* tenora shadog + photon booster

the guitar (saber)
from Electro drive, Electro hard, and photon booster.

[FOnewearl-Lina]

Nah they're that l33t lol
You haven't heard?! The moment a JP player touches a PA it immediately becomes lvl 50! Don't have to lvl it at all!

[Arika]

So in order to play with level 2nd group, I need to have 1500 AMP before trading dizas... still need like 200 more AMP. hmm 19 runs.

[Overlord Zenon]

those people and their crazy updates :p

[Inazuma]

I think they might need some time to level them up first...

Apparently not much time :P
http://www.psuxxx.info/uploader/src/up1443.jpg
http://www.psuxxx.info/uploader/src/up1444.jpg
According to the player, this is Dizas lv 41. It's too bad they had to go crazy with censoring their char. Does it sorta look like there are 4 pieces to it?

[panzer_unit]

new exchange item :
Shagu Goagu = 9* tenora shadog?
from 7* tenora shadog + photon booster


In Portable the 8* Tenora RCSM is Shag Goagg ... 9* is called Shag Hejiz.
Is it still a 5-way shotgun mag in the online game?

[FOnewearl-Lina]

Room server went down for a few mins earlier and items I removed from the storage box prior to the crash were duplicated (they were still there even though I had them on my character)... Expect a rollback?

[EspioKaos]

Maintenance notes!

http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/news/wis/?mode=view&id=887

* Updated to ver. 2.0010.11.
* The shield style Solid Body has received a boost.
* Dizas (and Rentis, whenever it's released) have been modified to affect all party members within range. Also, now they only decrease the amount of damage taken instead of completely nullifying it. (I thought that change was made a while back.)
* PS2 players will have simplified graphics for Dizas and Rentis to help ease potential lag. PC players will see them normally.

[FOnewearl-Lina]

Maintenance notes!

http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/news/wis/?mode=view&id=887

* Updated to ver. 2.0010.11.
* The shield style Solid Body has received a boost.
* Dizas (and Rentis, whenever it's released) have been modified to affect all party members within range. Also, now they only decrease the amount of damage taken instead of completely nullifying it. (I thought that change was made a while back.)
* PS2 players will have simplified graphics for Dizas and Rentis to help ease potential lag. PC players will see them normally.

So Dizas and Rentis are basically higher-tier defdial and retial buffs now? w
Also some new chat functions for the PM so that it scolds you for saying bad worse such as ones beginning with A.

[Deragonite]

LOL i want that PM update more than anything else now :D :D :D

[Alinorth]

I'm convinced this an evil ploy to start shutting down 360 servers

[Kimil Adrayne]

What?... So... Dizas and Rentis... sound not as apealling anymore.

Would have liked them better the way they were before :(

[stukasa]

* Dizas (and Rentis, whenever it's released) have been modified to affect all party members within range. Also, now they only decrease the amount of damage taken instead of completely nullifying it. (I thought that change was made a while back.)
That sounds pretty lame. ^^; I wonder if it still only lasts 3 hits. Wasn't there some concern a while back that support techers would become buff slaves, having to recast it every couple hits? But then ST said it would only affect the caster so it didn't matter. Now that they're making it affect the entire party again, what effect will that have on techers?

[Magus_84]

Maybe kind of like a "Jellen field", centered on your character. Any attacks that get through EVP would be reduced by...whatever percentage.

Only thing I can think of that'd make it worth casting, and it'll probably end up either being too situational to be useful, or so good it completely outclasses Deband. Which, frankly, isn't that hard.

[FOnewearl-Lina]

Update on last nights room problems before we were so rudely interrupted by A:

http://phantasystaruniverse.jp/news/wis/?mode=view&id=890

Sonic Team have taken down the room server down because of defects and now they're investigating the source of the problems...

People are sitting around the Universe cube waiting for the room server to go back up.
Shared Box can still be accessed even though that in itself will probably cause more problems/dupes.

I just hope there won't be a rollback, but who knows? Maybe people lost items doing the reverse of what I did (putting items into the shared box before it reset and losing the deposited items) Well, if they do roll back they better give us yet another 2 weeks full luck and PA exp up!

Oh and Dizas and Rentis? Congrats techers, you just got an additional 2 buffs you have to keep on the party, good luck juggling all Ag, Def, Zo, Re , Giresta, and Dizas (7 when Rentis comes out) on your team-mates and expecting them to wait for you while you buff ;)

[Magus_84]

What exactly do Dizas and Rentis do?

I know they "reduce damage by a percentage", but how much are we talking? With the lol way MST and DFP affect TP and ATP-based damage, raising them doesn't seem to do much.

If Dizas and Rentis simply cut incoming damage, they can replace Deband and sometimes Retier. If not, they're not worth casting. >_>

Hell, Deband is barely worth casting as-is.

[stukasa]

Well, if they do roll back they better give us yet another 2 weeks full luck and PA exp up!
They give you PA EXP boosts for compensation over there?? :eek: I wish we got that! ST has certainly screwed up enough times over the years that we deserve it. :lol:

[FOnewearl-Lina]

If Dizas and Rentis simply cut incoming damage, they can replace Deband and sometimes Retier. If not, they're not worth casting. >_>

Nuh uh, you gotta cast all 7 buffs or you're not doing your job!

[Magus_84]

Nuh uh, you gotta cast all 7 buffs or you're not doing your job!

I care, so much. ;_;

*NPCs a leveled Deband disc* <_<

Yay, money!

[unicorn]

Rentis and Dizas should only affect the caster. Idk how ST is going to make these techs useful and NOT broken without outclassing something else.

[FOnewearl-Lina]

They give you PA EXP boosts for compensation over there?? :eek: I wish we got that! ST has certainly screwed up enough times over the years that we deserve it. :lol:
They've only started doing that recently, and only once as compensation (the two other times was for event rewards)...

Servers going down for 3 hour emergency maintenance. Doubt they'll rollback since if they were gonna do that they wouldn't have kept the servers up for an additional 12 hours and taken them down immediately. They'll probably still give us compensation :)

[beatrixkiddo]

They've only started doing that recently, and only once as compensation (the two other times was for event rewards)...

Servers going down for 3 hour emergency maintenance. Doubt they'll rollback since if they were gonna do that they wouldn't have kept the servers up for an additional 12 hours and taken them down immediately. They'll probably still give us compensation :)

Surrender your duped items to SEGA immediately!

And boo, maint. Now both servers are down :/

[FOnewearl-Lina]

Surrender your duped items to SEGA immediately!

And boo, maint. Now both servers are down :/
And boo, beatrixkiddo has nothing left to live for :(

UPDATE: Servers back up just now, ST have confirmed a defect with the /hitblow chat command and have disabled it. They've also confirmed items disappearing from the shared storage in the short amount of time the room server hiccuped and will compensate on a per user basis as opposed to a rollback. They're also planning compensation for this mess with the room server (last compensation was like 2 weeks ago, ST are on a roll).

[Inazuma]

And boo, beatrixkiddo has nothing left to live for :(

UPDATE: Servers back up just now, ST have confirmed a defect with the /hitblow chat command and have disabled it. They've also confirmed items disappearing from the shared storage in the short amount of time the room server hiccuped and will compensate on a per user basis as opposed to a rollback. They're also planning compensation for this mess with the room server (last compensation was like 2 weeks ago, ST are on a roll).
Sadly, I lost a gaozoran rod+10 to this BS but hopefully sonichi will get it back for me.

[Arika]

very sad indeed, how much does it worth?

[FOnewearl-Lina]

[spoiler-box]http://www.psuxxx.info/uploader/src/up1449.jpg
3 Edel weapons, not too bad since they can't be transferred to anyone else but,

http://www.psuxxx.info/uploader/src/up1455.jpg
This is kinda bad...[/spoiler-box]

If they had taken the servers down and rolled back when they first found out about this, people would only have lost 12 hours worth of gameplay, now they have to weed through logs to find out what went missing, and what was duped.

[panzer_unit]

What exactly do Dizas and Rentis do?

I know they "reduce damage by a percentage", but how much are we talking? With the lol way MST and DFP affect TP and ATP-based damage, raising them doesn't seem to do much.

If Dizas and Rentis simply cut incoming damage, they can replace Deband and sometimes Retier. If not, they're not worth casting. >_>

Hell, Deband is barely worth casting as-is.

Dizas and Rentis create a number of shields (up to 3 in Portable) and each is good for soaking damage from one attack, up to some limit. Any damage over that point still goes through.

Jellen and Deband are useful in combination with Dizas...
Dizas is no good if you're constantly being pegged by low damage hit-spam attacks, buffs and debuffs might be able to negate that damage and save shields for serious hits that would interrupt PA's etc.
Dizas is also no good if monsters are hitting harder than what the shields can soak, since you're back to being tossed around and interrupted. Buffs and debuffs can bring that damage down into the range Dizas can handle, letting your fighter throw complete combos at enemies that would normally interrupt them mid-way.

[ShonagarACE]

[spoiler-box]http://www.psuxxx.info/uploader/src/up1449.jpg
3 Edel weapons, not too bad since they can't be transferred to anyone else but,

http://www.psuxxx.info/uploader/src/up1455.jpg
This is kinda bad...[/spoiler-box]

If they had taken the servers down and rolled back when they first found out about this, people would only have lost 12 hours worth of gameplay, now they have to weed through logs to find out what went missing, and what was duped.

Extra lol at 1337 PP of duped rifle.

[Inazuma]

very sad indeed, how much does it worth?

About 50 million