Episode 5 killed the game

[TehCubey]

Pictured: dead game.

Spoiler!

[Mattykins]

Iunno, what do the jappus think? Is this the general assumption on both sides of the ocean?

[Sizustar]

Iunno, what do the jappus think? Is this the general assumption on both sides of the ocean?

Ingame, on twitter, or on 2ch, or the average gamer?
They all have different opinion, but generally, Hr is fun to play, but too overpowered compared to old job class(So the buff to them sound good, how it is will wait and see) And there should have been at least one more Advanced class, for more variety.

BQ is fun, but the stamina system is not liked, and feel pointless, forcing player to do two type of same quest, locking BQ to story mode is stupid,

KMR is still not liked, etc.

[Shoterxx]

Starting up BQ now? Good luck, since on ship 2, no one is playing either Main or Free matches. This means that story is quite literally locked out, unless you make a party of your own.

[Altiea]

You can start a BQ with four people. If you just get three Hero friends, everyone can spam BNS to win.

[DavidAG]

I've been doing BQs today non-stop to level up one of my alt's hero class from 20 to 50. I havent been in a single BQ where i had to wait more than 3 mins for it to fill and start.

Don't know what's happening to you guys, but I haven't had any trouble at all playing either free or grade 2 and 3 BQs.
I was using expert matchmaking, might mean something.

[Masu]

I've been doing BQs today non-stop to level up one of my alt's hero class from 20 to 50. I havent been in a single BQ where i had to wait more than 3 mins for it to fill and start.

Don't know what's happening to you guys, but I haven't had any trouble at all playing either free or grade 2 and 3 BQs.
I was using expert matchmaking, might mean something.

Ship2? Expert setting checked for block matching?

[Zysets]

BQ is fun, but the stamina system is not liked, and feel pointless, forcing player to do two type of same quest, locking BQ to story mode is stupid

The stamina system is genius

Free Match is actually other people's Main Match Grades 1-2, by having people who have already achieved Grade 3 playing 1-2, it keeps those from being completely dead. If they didn't have that eventually the majority would be Grade 3 and those still in Grade 1 and 2, people who are new, returning players, or just people starting a new alternate character, won't be able to play BQ as often or efficiently until it just straight up dies completely.

Also I have no issues finding Grade 3 Expert matchmaking groups on Ship 2, I usually have to wait 7 minutes tops.
Just make sure you're not trying just before, during, or after an EQ, and try to play during JP hours, easier to find groups during JP times.

On a side note, I really enjoy where the story is headed, it's like it's straight out of the design and style of the original Phantasy Star, I hope it progresses how I imagine. Though to be honest, even Ep4 met my expectations, story is the main reason I've stuck with this game since testing phases, and the series in general for over 15 years.



And just for the general thread topic, putting in a box to avoid being obnoxious

Spoiler!

The reason Hero is stronger is because Sega wants people to move to advance classes, the intention is to bring a new series of classes without subs so they can balance these classes more efficiently and properly.
They've already started talking about future advance classes and mentioned another may come soon. Subclasses, though offer a lot of fun and variety, also make people fall into the trap of having horrible builds and combinations with no synergy, on top of being ridiculously difficult to balance (not that sega is good at it anyways, but really if it was so horrible why play at all).

I mean I'm sad older classes are a behind now, generally speaking (Fighter and Gunner can still compete wonderfully, there are even Bouncer mains who outpreform heroes), I think those classes are way more fun to play, but overtime all those old weapon types will be recycled into Advance classes and your favorite weapons will get back in the game.
Episode 5 is only a month or so in and everyone is already crying about it like they did in all previous episodes. Honestly I don't even know what to say anymore.

I used to be really active here, and even in other areas of the PSO2 community, even prior to PSO2, but a lot of the doom and gloom people have frustrates me and has been making my enjoyment of the community dwindle. If the game is not to your tastes, it's fine to quit, Sega does make bad decisions and Kimura is kind of an idiot but the constant "This game sucks now" every time there's an major update gets boring fast, we all know they make questionable decisions, but honestly sometimes people overact, say they'll never play again or the game is broken and dead, but never stop playing anyways just to say the same thing in a few months.

aaaaand forgive me for being "Wall of Text" of the day, I don't usually do this, I know it's annoying, but dang I really wanted to say something about it. Feel free to ignore me.

*cough* I know I'm not the first person with a Karen Erra icon to do this

[Tunga]

I usually have to wait 7 minutes tops.

That's what you call an issue.

[Kondibon]

That's what you call an issue.

That's not any different from waiting in a queue in any other online multi player game with multiple modes...