Article: Phantasy Star Online 2 (JP) - Call of Mortality Part 2 & Halloween Update is Live!

[Tomeeboy]

If you feel like PSO2 might be getting an awful lot of massive content updates recently, well, you'd be right. Revealed last week, this latest update brings Call of Mortality: Part 2, as well as Halloween themed content, to Phantasy Star Online 2. Here's a recap of what was added (as seen on the official site):

[*]Halloween Lobby (through 11/21)
[*]"Trick or Treat" Emergency Quest, featuring the Cake Sisters (through 11/21).[*]Lantern Rappies with rare Pumpkin Rod drop (through 11/21).
[*]New "Shii" NPC with limited-time client orders (through 11/21).
[*]New Photon Arts for Partizan, Twin Daggers, Double Saber & Gunslash
[*]New Ice & Light Technics
[*]Very Hard Quests for Frozen Tundra, Mines & Flying Content
[*]Many new rare enemy variations
[*]New weapons
[*]Interrupt ranking for specific enemy kills updated
[*]Many new items added to FUN scratch, AC scratch, and AC Scratch Gold

The new costumes are in both AC Scratch (200AC) and AC Scratch Gold (500AC), though Gold is costumes ONLY. Here's a gallery of the new costumes and variations:

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Don't forget, the one-millionth player ID events are still going on and Wednesday marks the start of the in-game rewards event. Just log in between now and November 7th for a free pack of boosters, as well as DAILY bonus FUN (as outlined, here).

For more information and discussion on this latest update, head on over to the PSO2 forums!

[C-Shan]

Wait a sec. Some of those images are the costumes that were "similar" to the PSO models.
I thought the PSO similar models were the default ones.
Did I miss something somewhere down the news line?