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Phantasy Star Online 2 (Xbox One Closed Beta) |OT| Beta tested in the future
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Been playing the PC JP version off and on and I can't wait to finally be able to play on Xbox with some friends. This game is so dam amazing and I'm so excited it's finally coming soon! Best part is- beta progress carries over! I don't remember the last time I got to play a Beta that carried progress to full game. Still dunno what I'm gonna pick for my Main class. I'll probly go Hunter in the beta just cuz they're the "easiest" and I wanna try to get thru as much stuff as possible and do those EQs :D. (Urgent Quest might slightly make more sense as a name, but I still prefer Emergency Quest. lol)
So I played with the settings and for me 4K with the large UI option is the way to go on larger screens. The default size was tiny.
the wording isn't great. Small and middle is just too small for a 22" 1080p screen as well
EDIT: Oh possibly the 4k options are for XB1X where it targets native 4k but downscales to your tv. Everyone that has vanilla or S/SAD models will only have Small or Middle font size options only.
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It still costs 700 yen to move to a different ship in the Japanese version (link).
I think they changed something regarding the storages which can be moved, because I remember moving only after I could take more than just the items I had in my inventory with me.
not really. You can get as far as the server select screen but thats it. Just view credits, change text size, and language options are available.
I put more time into PSO I&II on GCN than any other game in my life - all in, probably about 1,500 hours.
Look, there's ZERO chance I could ever do that again. I'll be lucky to put in 4-5 hours a week, tops. Work + wife + beautiful baby + house + bills + adulting = way, way less free time for a time sink of a game. And from everything I've seen, this is almost nothing like the GCN/DC/Xbox game other than aesthetic. So I'm gonna wager I'll play the beta and go "yeah, that's neat but it's no longer for me."
I hope I'm wrong. But I'm pretty confident I'm right, unfortunately.
Look, there's ZERO chance I could ever do that again. I'll be lucky to put in 4-5 hours a week, tops. Work + wife + beautiful baby + house + bills + adulting = way, way less free time for a time sink of a game. And from everything I've seen, this is almost nothing like the GCN/DC/Xbox game other than aesthetic. So I'm gonna wager I'll play the beta and go "yeah, that's neat but it's no longer for me."
I hope I'm wrong. But I'm pretty confident I'm right, unfortunately.
I'll probably play more, but I loved the slow-paced games. I watched some high level gameplay and it's just spamming the screen with attacks and buffs. PSO1 felt more tactical and you could learn enemy patterns. Using quick attacks vs heavy had consequences. PSO2 seems to fall in the same trap of Diablo 3 with so much spamming it becomes meaningless.
That's true for grinding basic encounters, but there are also extremely hard quests where you'll die very quickly if you just keep spamming. Need to keep just guarding/dodging, learning enemy patterns etc. There is definitely a part of the game which is very skill based, it's just that for regular difficulty quests, it's more of a relaxed spam.
It is definitely far from the slow pace of PSO1 though.
If you get "tired of the action" in this MMO and his 24 hour beta, just hit the delete button.
It's a one time use evolution device - you feed it to the MAG and it changes the form. If you change it to something else later, the MAG look will be lost.
At least that's how these work in PSO2 JP.
Here is a list of other evolution devices.
That really kind of sucks. I was hoping it worked more like Ghosts in Destiny. Something as cool/special as that shouldn't be a one-time consumable.
Coming from FF14 which I'm playing for 5 years already and I know absolute nothing about how PSO works. Anything I should definitely know about character creation, gameplay, mechanisms or can you easily jump in?
You can get a Mag Appearance Pass item that lets you change your mag back to any forms it had previously. I think this is also shared between mags, so if you changed one mag to the Dreamcast you could use an appearance pass on a second mag to change it into a Dreamcast too.
All classes are first and foremost DPS, there is no healer or tank roles. Even if you have some skills which heal or aggro enemies, you will always be expected to do damage. Look up a guide on how to raise a MAG. Race and Gender affects stats but only very slightly. Outside of that, using something like a male robot who casts magic is perfectly fine.
As an alternative there's an anime, PSO2: Episode Oracle, being simulcast right now via Funimation. It is a redo of Episodes 1-3, with a lot of padding and extra stuff in it. Anime's just finished with Episode 2 and has started 3 as of this week's episode.
Let's place bets for what happens when the servers go live. I bet that the servers hold for a few minutes or so... then they go down HARD.
Knuckles are in. Oh. Yes. BaYYYYBEEE. Lego.
Knuckles are in. Oh. Yes. BaYYYYBEEE. Lego.
Oh wow, that's cool. Had no idea. Looks like you can get it from the recycle shop too, so you theoretically don't have to spend real money for it.
Some interesting stuff according to a Reddit post. Steam version for PC, level 90 and Phantom but no Etoile found. A Battle pass?
edit: posting the manual linked in that thread :)
edit: posting the manual linked in that thread :)
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Would be cool if Game Pass Ultimate includes a premium sub to this game
Some of the manual pages are unfinished. I bet there are some folks who are currently busting their asses to get it done by Friday. Godspeed!
I don't know if they have enough margin in GPU to fund that...but it's an interesting idea. I could see devs doing a discounted additional amount with GPU covering some of the monthly cost.
Apologes for the double post - when I click on the manual the page loads but then auto-directs back to the main PSo page...are they trying to "hide" the manual til it's finished/released? (which is fair enough if its WIP and not meant to be public yet)
As someone who doesn't care about gaas, what is a battle pass and how might it be implemented in this game?
So how it typically works is that you have a certain amount of levels to gain in a certain timeframe.
For example in Apex Legends the battlepass is 100 levels and lasts roughly 3 months. As you rank up, you unlock rewards at each level, be it cosmetics or currency, or anything really.
Now normally there is a free version and a paid version, the paid version gives you exclusive rewards and benefits that the free version does not.
You typically level up a battlepass in a few ways, normally a combination of playing the game regularly and completing challanges like daily and weekly missions.
So in short, you play, you rank up, and you get rewarded by ranking the battlepass up. Paid battlepass owners get more.
Make sure you have 'dev' in the url. Try this link below:
I'm a little surprised they went for the awkward sounding Techter over the more natural sounding Techer. The JP テクター (tekutaa) was consistently translated as Techer in both PSU and, iirc, the SEA version of PSO2 (which, admittedly, had its own localisation issues...).
Kinda whatever though *shrug*
Kinda whatever though *shrug*
Clicking on your link now, gives me a 502 bad gateway error...with a text string about Azure.
Appreciate the heads up but maybe it was running off a geo location?