EU/NA Update for December 11, 2009

[Max B]

Episode 3 - Chapter 8: A Brighter Day

Thanks to GRM capital, confinement systems have been activated on three planets. Now, the operation to activate the fourth is about to begin...
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New Mission Rank: The Egg Thieves S2

"My grandpa is sick. Please hurry and bring me the ingredients to make his medicine..."

A young girl needs help in this unique party-only mission, available from the GUARDIANS counter in Eastern Holtes City on Parum. Try out this new high-end rank of the mission for maximum mission points, and maximum challenge!
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Holiday Lobbies

The sound of sleigh bells ring out, and festive holly branches and fir trees adorn areas all across Gurhal! Winter Holidays are coming and lobbies on Parum, Moatoob, and the GUARDIANS Colony have been decorated for the occasion. Come revel in the festiveness for these limited-time lobbies!
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Item Update
For a limited time, special holiday items are available from the My Room shop on th GUARDIANS Colony . . . also, special rare rappies may drop an extra-festive room decoration!

Also, as part of regular item rotation, new items are now available for exchange in the Casino. Some existing Casino items will no longer be available, but will return in rotation.





Information from:
http://www.phantasystaruniverse.com/community_quests.php?item=20091211a

[unicorn]

Yay, Dagger of Serafi time ^^

[Max B]

Yay, Dagger of Serafi time ^^

Yes, I think I will hunt myself a few of these:D

[Shou]

I like it when the lobbies have holiday decorations a week or two before the actual holiday. Mush more like RL that way.

[Katy]

Nothing interesting here. I'll stick to the occasional tech leveling those 2 weeks if I log on at all.

[Midori Oku]

Nothing interesting here. I'll stick to the occasional tech leveling those 2 weeks if I log on at all.

really you dont like egg thieves :-o i want my 33% ground De ragan slayer :D

[pikachief]

Oh joy! CHRISTMAS TREES! :D

lol but seriously YAY! :D Last achievement right? D: Do we finally see the final boss? :P And my edel pieces! I need to do all the story missions on my FM cuz my gunner is lame and keeps missing the S rank by 2-5 seconds lol

And finally Egg thieves S2 :D My friend and I were playing it yesterday and he's like "WHAT!? S2 isnt out yet? lame!!" lol

[Sinue_v2]

Guess I'll have to resub to scoop up those last two story missions.

[PekingDuck13]

Oh joy! CHRISTMAS TREES! :D

lol but seriously YAY! :D Last achievement right? D: Do we finally see the final boss?

Can somebody please confirm this? I have been waiting to resubscribe for that last achievement.

[pikachief]

Can somebody please confirm this? I have been waiting to resubscribe for that last achievement.

http://www.psupedia.info/For_brighter_day_2

well according to PsuPedia it says that the 2nd part of this story mission will had Dark Falz(1st Form) and Dark Falz(2nd Form) as the boss :o

So i'll go ahead and say yea and i wouldnt be surprised if The Dark God S2 came out shortly after this update which will have The 2nd form FOR SURE :)

[LanCow13]

what its a second form of falz on psu not just the WORM?????????????????????

[syouz]

Can somebody please confirm this? I have been waiting to resubscribe for that last achievement.

it's just dulk fakis re-skined.... :-x

[Gunslinger-08]

Sweet. It'll arrive just when I leave for a home that has dialup internet.

(I'll still find a way to play. :))

[Ruru]

Yaystory.

Egg thieves S2 will be nice. S version hasn't been a challenge since it was first released.

[Tyreek]

The end of Episode 3 at last...

[Squirrel3D]

Finally, an update that actually means something. And I can get that last achievement too.

[str898mustang]

fail update is fail

[Tyreek]

Well, this update made some people quite happy lol. SOME.

[zandra117]

With this update and the story finished, SEGA has no reason to follow a storyline with their updates anymore. So now they should be able to pull out all the stops and give us content packed updates to catch us up to the JP servers content wise.

[Thor131]

With the release of Chapter 8: A Brighter Day shining down from above, life come back to Thor131 as he climbs up through the dirt and dust. Then beats of (with a Christmas Tree decoration in hand) the leprechaun thats been dancing on his grave and feeds the still dancing leprechaun to Dark Falz.

[Kinako78]

Well, I'd just cancelled my subscription (for now), but my next payment isn't due until the 17th, so I'll be able to go out with a bang thanks to chapter 8 being released. :)

Kinda sad to see the story coming to an end, though.

[Keilyn]

I love that Egg Thieves S2 is coming out...

My group TA and Played the Hell out of every level of that map...Its our group's hotspot and love the mission very much. ^_^ So we all love finally getting the S2 version of it.

[Anduril]

I think that you can only get to Falz 2 through one of the subplots, right? Was it one that was available when Chapter 8 first came out, or is it one that came at a later date?

[BioWarrior]

They're assholes if we can't fight falz2 without a subplot being done D: I've pretty much moved on to PS:P2 but dammit I want to finish the story.

[Chuck_Norris]

"YOU DISTRACT THEM"

I dub this; the new HEL YEH.

[Zelendria_Ru]

Hmm...interesting. Its been a long time since I hunted rappies, which is the best to get them? I used to to Unsafe Passage, but are the Ambition maps easier to get rare mobs??

[Neith]

Hmm...interesting. Its been a long time since I hunted rappies, which is the best to get them? I used to to Unsafe Passage, but are the Ambition maps easier to get rare mobs??

I tend to use Scarred Planet to find Rappies- I'm not sure if anyone else uses a different way. Obviously, the rare mission Forest of Illusion will have a very good chance of seeing them but you have to find the mission first.

[darthplagis]

the best rappy map i have found is lightning beast on parum, its a quick map with 4 or 5 rappies (its been a year since i hunted them)

im glad that PSU is moving forwrd for us again...... supplemental update on the horizon? ohhh how much do i want shags :)

[Squirrel3D]

I love that Egg Thieves S2 is coming out...

My group TA and Played the Hell out of every level of that map...Its our group's hotspot and love the mission very much. ^_^ So we all love finally getting the S2 version of it.


Mind if I join up with you and your pals during this weekend?


With this update, now we'll see if there is still life left in this game. MAG+ to follow as well as that supplimental update?

[Kylie]

See, Egg Thieves is probably one of my favorite missions, so this update looks fine.

[S-T-H]

Subplot enemy details:
[SPOILER-BOX]It's Howzer/Dark Falz 1 that're added in a subplot.[/SPOILER-BOX]

Regardless, Edward has made comments to the positive about the additional paths also being available this week:

http://forums.sega.com/showpost.php?p=5408351&postcount=63

[Xefi]

nice update! I hope this keeps up. I'm still going
to wait for MAG+ before resubscribing though. :hamster:

[PekingDuck13]

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=101237782

This video reminded me so much of Rappy Noels! (If it doesn't play, click the link at the top.)

[Danny_Dark]

I Think it's Worth to take a Look...

[Noblewine]

I'm looking forward to friday. I can't wait.

[PALRAPPYS]

Hard to believe I'm actually looking forward to an update.

[Cloud Strife]

ok, i find it the only way to get an S rank on brighter days 2 its to spam tornado dance on fighmaster 20, im a lvl 170 and it still seems impossible to get an S, plus the fact you cant use scape dolls and theres megid flying everywhere and you cant let karen die ONCE...IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!!!!:-x

[Thor131]

Any 1 else think all the subplots are just a bit much for this last story mission?

[PALRAPPYS]

Woot for no achievement for beating Dark Falz! Yayyyy!

[/sarcasm]

[DuRaL]

this is so disappointing..

the ending is really really lame.. (do you know the ending of Estpolis/Lufia 2? well, this is the opposite..)
and we don't event get gamerscore for it.. >_<
oh, and did i mention that fighting weak monsters with 5603465087825959629367 HP who shoot megid at random times is no fun? especially when you can't use scape dolls?
what was Sega thinking.. >_<

[str898mustang]

this is so disappointing..

the ending is really really lame.. (do you know the ending of Estpolis/Lufia 2? well, this is the opposite..)
and we don't event get gamerscore for it.. >_<
oh, and did i mention that fighting weak monsters with 5603465087825959629367 HP who shoot megid at random times is no fun? especially when you can't use scape dolls?
what was Sega thinking.. >_<

get 21 STa or Vijeri/Resist

[milranduil]

this is so disappointing..

the ending is really really lame.. (do you know the ending of Estpolis/Lufia 2? well, this is the opposite..)
and we don't event get gamerscore for it.. >_<
oh, and did i mention that fighting weak monsters with 5603465087825959629367 HP who shoot megid at random times is no fun? especially when you can't use scape dolls?
what was Sega thinking.. >_<

The only megid that can kill you in story mode is Howzer's megid...however that doesn't mean it still can't kill you from damage lol.

[DuRaL]

ah, ok, good to know ^^ (and it explains why i never died from the thousands of megid that hit me..)
but fighting monsters with 5603465087825959629367 HP is still no fun, and the lame ending remains..

but oh well.. at least Rykros didn't turn out to be Ragol.. so yeah, it could've been worse ~_^

[darthplagis]

why would rykros be ragol....... our MAG was data disks found on ragol :) probably from a relics dimensional rift LOL it may have even been rico's messages ooooohhhh conspiracies abound

im still bummed A rank is soooooo damn hard to keep karen alive..... ah well time to level up i suppose

[Totori]

xD I loved the ending of ep.3 I didn't expect more from sega of america's work.

[Svaltus]

Yay, Dagger of Serafi time ^^

Same here!

And level up techs for 50 and any masterclass too!

[Squirrel3D]

Bleh....The Egg Thieves. You'd have to have a really tough character to run that thing. Guess I'll do it with Streak or Chopper the next time I decide to run a no-scapes mission.

[DAMASCUS]

OMG you weren't kidding about that ending. Talk about RPG cliches! Does it get any cheesier? I think not...but isn't that what Japanese RPGs are all about? I love it anyway...haha just ridiculous!! :))