First Details on the Upcoming Addition to AOTI

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

This can be interesting...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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

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..

I wish that they would bring a new level out because all the other levels i have done and it is becoming xtreamly boring. Thats one reason why i quit for four months. Also, I wish that you could link more than one pa to a single weapon. I am looking forward to the new clothes because fashion is one thing I care about.

PVP - Soccer - Team/Clan Chat - Olga Flow Boss

I'd like to see an Arena Battle Mode with customizeable rules, Challenge Mode, a Clan System with ranked Battle and Challenge leaderboards, and impossible to glitch mechguns. For the fighting system upgrade I would also like to see rebalanced PAs, more difficult enemies with weaknesses to specific PAs for emphasis on strategy.

I hope it isn't a expansion. I just got the game and I don't feel like buying more MP pts.

I agree with Tifa, as my main chacter is a beast I would love to see some new nano blast. S rank would be cool but even a rank will work, was kinda pissed when I found out that cast were getting new suv's but us beast were getting nothing for the(current) expansion. So lets hope they come out with some new ones like invincibility that last a bit longer or w/e.

PSP weapons are a good idea. There's a ton in that version that I'd like to see in ours, including RCSM's made by other companies. I could give or take the fact that this probably means more of the old (PSP version) PSO weapons, although there are a few Blue Burst weapons that I never got my hands on (Vivienne!).
Battle system changes, eh? Hopefully some more changes to benefit Rangers and Forces (or, alternatively, nerfing Hunters and JA/JC somewhat).

Hell Yeah!!!! And why not bring back 'Towards the Future'...!? I don't mean a PSU version of Ttf (that would be cool), but the PSO Ttf with improved visuals, etc... I wouldn't mind seeing some PSO Ep.4 BB stuff in there too. I was going to join but never did, so I never got a chance to play it. I didn't feel like starting over on PSO (I played online on the Gamecube version). It would be cool if Sega did bring back some more old PSO stuff, PSP stuff, and of course new areas/items. I've only been playing for 5 months on PSU, but by the time an expansion/addition comes out I know I'm gonna want some new stuff.
Also, I think Sega should release a version that has PSU, PSU:AotI, and whatever this new thing is altogether (not the story stuff from PSU or AotI), so that way someone buying it will be able to go to all the areas, without having to have the old discs because lets face it... this game is hard to find. Nice thing with the PC version is that with 1 disc I can install it on as many computers as possible, too. I have mine installed on my cpu, my bro's cpu, and my girlfriend's cpu. So you just have to have your own account. So whatever this is I hope Sega doesn't make it that you have to have the disc in. But I'm not worred about that, cuz they didn't do it with PSU or AotI. Well, I've said too much...

I guess this is exciting news even though we really don't know anything about this update to PSU/AOI.
I wonder if itill be similar to what AOI was, a full expansion to the PSU universe ( and a continuation of the storyline ) that comes on a brand new disc or will it simply be a server is patch like the regular ( yeah right ) content updates.
I wonder what changes will be made to the combat since I am happy with the combat in PSU for the most part. I am also excited about the prospect of more wepaons in PSU. I also wouldn't mind if sega got rid of item synthesis since I think that has been an epic failure, at least to me. I also agree with BlackHowling about the levels.

"us beasts"? How about the newmans and humans getting something? Last time I checked beasts could still use beast mode..

i just cant wait until we have the new expansion i think it will be good to have weapons from the psp version it will give us all an incentive ti play psu more since the slowness of updates recently appart from the big huge content we got

I think they need to add a special ability to a human and newman classes. I get sick of watching nanoblast and SUVs all day without having an attack that would help out a team, or make it easier to solo missions.

I completely agree, and I have always thought this too. After playing PSO for years and being able to use photon blasts with any character it was kinda dissappointing playing PSU and realizing that my human char won't be able to have anything like that. It was nice knowing that you were building up for some awesome special attack. Why do beasts and casts get to have special abilities and our human and newman chars don't? Maybe they should bring back photon blasts...