Article: Supplemental Update Hitting Japan Soon!

[EspioKaos]

The long-awaited supplemental update announced for the Japanese PC/PS2 version of Phantasy Star Universe will be hitting the Japanese servers this week! Full details of March 26's JP server update were announced early this morning. Here's a bit of what to expect from this update.

• Many new weapons, clothes, SUV weapons and materials will be added.
• The first three "conditional missions" will be added to a new area on the third floor of Clyez City.
• The new conditional missions will play in a similar manner to PSO's C-mode, whereby various restrictions will be put in place on the entire party.
• Certain photon arts and SUV weapons will receive adjustments to their power and abilities.
• A variety of stat adjustments will be made to all types. Also, Guntechers and Wartechers will be able to equip double sabers up to grade A.
• Longbows will receive an increase to their rate of fire and attack power. Grenades will a reduction in PP consumption.
• GUARDIANS advanced style will be introduced. This will allow players to customize their character's abilities.

There is much, much more to this update than what's listed above. For full details, check out this translation of the Japanese announcement. Then feel free to jump into the ongoing discussion of what's to come!

Update: Only a few short hours after the supplemental update went live on the Japanese servers, it had to be removed due to a few major issues arising. As it stands, this update has been postponed until further notice. We'll update this news story as new information comes in.

Update #2: A follow-up report was posted on the Japanese site stating that work to correct the problems with this update is progressing and that the update may be ready to go live as early as Monday, March 30. Keep in mind, however, that this date is not set in stone, and the update could occur at any point after then. Furthermore, as an apology to all players, a two week reward period will be implemented at a future date. Please see this post for full details.

Update #3: Maintenance occurred this morning on the Japanese PC/PS2 servers to implement the update, and so far everything seems to be going very well!

[W0LB0T]

Those lucky Japanese and their "make AOI suck less update". I guess those on the USofA servers will get this one 1 week before the offical server shutdown.

[Danny_Dark]

!! Wartechers can Use Doublesabers, not Bad at all.

[Dhylec]

Let's hope we get this soon.

[M-I-K-E-Y]

Official sever shutdown??????????

[M-I-K-E-Y]

WOW lucky Japanese its prolly gonna be years til we over here in the u.s. get this update

[Zabrio]

now A rank double sabers have even more uses.
Also liking the guardians advanced style as well.
this looks like a great update to bad we won't get it for a long time

[Kaioken]

That's just great. Why do we even have this game in the USA? Its obvious that Sega is not very concerned about what we get for content. So anyone wanna take a guess on, if I cancel my gaurdians license now and renew it when this update comes to the USA, how much money will I have saved?

[Falke]

You'll have saved about £100.00. If you play in the UK. If you're in the USA, you'll save about $160.
Just a guess.

[daddyball]

meseta buying noobs and lucky Japanese have killed the game we all play the same game