Article: Phantasy Star Online 2 (JP) December 5th Update is Live, Christmas Content & More

[Tomeeboy]

The December 5th content update for Phantasy Star Online 2 is now live and available for players to download. Weighing in at a whopping 4.6GB (2.2GB if you pre-patched), the update brings new seasonal content for Christmas and a large number of other updates to the game.

Many of the contents of this update were already covered in our 11/30 news post, but here is a summarized recap:

Christmas Content
[*]Christmas Themed Lobby with giant tree & gift-filled stockings[*]Saint Rappies w/ chance of special drop[*]NPC with limited time Client Orders[*]Limited time Christmas emergency quest "Merry Christmas on Ice"[*]Christmas-themed Cake Shop (appears in above quest)[*]Campaign w/ rewards for clearing "Merry Christmas on Ice" (ends 12/12 @ 11am JST)[*]New Christmas AC & FUN scratch, including santa costumes & accessories

Other Game Content[*]Parallel Areas (accessed via special teleport device, which will appear randomly)[*]New client orders & team orders[*]New partner cards for Clotho ???, Joseph ?????, Ravelle ?????, and Barbara ????[*]New weapons, including (but not limited to):

[*]Freeze Tuna (Sword) - ???????[*]Guwanadaburu (Double Saber) - ???????[*]Miser Barrett (Twin Machineguns) - ????????[*]White Rappy Fan (Talis) - ???????????

[*]New "Potential Release System" (also being called "Latent Abilities") allowing hidden abilities to be unlocked on certain weapons[*]New items added to the Recycle Shop[*]Recycle Shop now allows any ?10 items to be exchanged for other items[*]Excubes added to Net Cafe Counter[*]Premium Set improved (40 client orders, more FUN, increased drink effectiveness)[*]Time Attack Quests now can be soloed.[*]Additionial player-requested changes

In addition, SEGA has already acknowledged that there are some unintended side effects of this update, some of which are causing problems for players in-game. We're seeing some reports of these in the forums as well. SEGA is aware of the issues and will be working to correct them as soon as possible.

We'll continue to update this post as more information becomes available. Above, you can find a few threads relating to this week's update, straight from the PSOW forums. Don't forget, next week's update brings Dark Falz and the new Pyroxene Shop (details here).

[Fontes]

Oh, how I always loved tuna fish... And how I've always loved swords. For Sega to mix the two... *tunagasm*