Article: First Details on the Upcoming Addition to AOTI

[EspioKaos]

First details on the future expansion of PSU: Ambition of the Illuminus have been revealed! Thanks to Japanese fan site Shougai PSO and magazine Dengeki PlayStation, we are pleased to share the following bits of information on this developing story.

• It has not been confirmed yet if this "addition" will be considered a true expansion or not.
• The method of release has not been confirmed yet. Further details will be revealed in a future issue of Dengeki PlayStation.
• There will be some gameplay modifications made to help make the game more enjoyable. The battle system has been confirmed as one recipient of such changes.
• Many new weapons are planned for the addition, including some from Phantasy Star Portable.

We expect further details to be released in the coming months. In the meantime, join in our discussion of this news over at the message board!

[Dhylec]

I guess we'd have to wait to find out more.

[gratefulgriz]

here we go!! cant wait for more details!!

[jShazBot]

This can be interesting...

[Criss]

This needs to be to PSU what Blue Burst was to PSO. Of course we can't say much about it yet, but it just might turn out to be what I needed to regain interest in PSU. And I'm sure a lot of people think the same.

[BlackHowling]

The two things I hate most about PSU are the god awful crafting system and the fact that none of the levels (IMO at least) are as cool/interesting as the episode 2 or 4 areas from PSO. How does the level design from a series as fundamentally simple as this get worse? I was willing to do PSO runs over & over because the levels were cool, the levels in PSU just feel so generic to me for some reason... Hopefully those 2 problems will be addressed.

[Kumlekar]

This tells us...
absolutely nothing. At least we know sega isn't dead, just sleeping. I'd say they're pulling a blizzard, but they don't continuously produce quality games, so thats a poor comparision. (Blizzard does as long as their project isn't a mmo). As for the battle system, I hope they refine how the just counter works, the current setup is kinda useless based on evp stats on the characters that need it.

[Aumi]

I hope they do something to prevent PA spamming.
And I most certainly hope that they implement dodge moves. But for that, they'd probably need to change those bigass shock waves that the enemies trigger when stomping into the ground...

[AOI_Tifa_Lockhart]

I'd like to see S rank Beast Nanoblasts made available and maybe a new set of PA's to learn. I'm confused though, what's PA spamming? Surely that's just people levelling one sepcific PA? I admit when I get a new PA i link it to at least 3 weapons in my palette so I can level it up quickly, my record from 1-40 so far is 2 days worth of gbr
Tifa

[TecherRamen]

I hope there is a challenge mode in this 'expansion'...
How could they improve the battle system?
I guess they could allow players to put more than one pa on a strike weapon. personally I use a lot of spears and I use daggas and robado just as much as majarra, so it would be nice to not have to not have to switch between different weapons to use different PAs..