First of all, mags. Notice the new lobby, too.

Photon blasts return.

>>1903823

In the form of large mythical creatures(again). Once summoned, they fight along side you, FFXI style.

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>>1903736
The game is looking seriously sexy, I think I'm actually going to buy it and I haven't bought a game or paid for an MMO in a long time.
Here's hoping it won't be too problematic with my shitty internet connection.

The lobby/block has been totally renovated. Here's the shop area.

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>>1903997

Here's the gate area where you can grab missions.

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>>1904143

So is it confirmed for US yet?
>captcha: enurakey $100

>>1904164

>>1904202

Yes, it's coming out to the entire world.

Pic shows Partisan.

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>>1904280

Ranger's Launcher weapon returns.

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>>1904394

Forces get cards.

You throw them and spells come out of them.

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>>1904259
... am I totally missing where this was announced?
I have looked, and have not found.

Big PSO1 fan reporting in.

>>1904259
It is?!

>>1904482

Here you can see RAzonde coming out of one.

>>1904484
It's been a while since it was announced, I'm surprised you didn't know yet.

>>1904523
honestly that seems a bit lame

but the game will be tons of fun with friends so i really don't give a fuck

Is it going to have a monthly fee? I'm gonna be all over this if it's B2P

By the end of the month, they will talk about closed beta and billing fees. They also stress how they are doing their best to get the game out as soon as possible.

In regards to beta, they are aiming for 100,000 entrants. For comparison, the second alpha test had roughly 50,000 spots(everyone who signed up got in). What that means is a lot of spots!

>>1904546
I have been following the game's development for about half a year, but haven't seen official word on it being Westernized. If it is going to be, Im already sold.

>>1904803
Oh you meant it being westernized, sorry.
I don't actually know but from what I understood it's been confirmed since day one. Hopefully some other anon will bring some sauce on this.

Someone brought up a good point from the past, saying that the only PSonline game in the series to be JAPAN ONRY is PSP2i for the PSP.

If this game has a sub fee in the US I'll be so sad. It's not an MMO, and even Crapcom decided against subs for MH Tri here

Online ONLY. Monthly fee's. Vita release will ensure there are no real updates to the game, only content already in the game that will be slowly unlocked. Probably won't be seen outside of japan, and if it is you can bet we'll be months behind on content and no bug fixes whatsoever. Don't you people ever learn?

>No single player modes general
Fuck PSO2.
Still waiting on Infinity.

Oh man those Photon Blast Pokemons look cool as fuck

>>1906960
>Online ONLY.
This the first MMO you're tracking pre-release?

>Monthly fee's.
See above. Also, "fees's?" What do the monthly fees have?

>Vita release will ensure there are no real updates to the game, only content already in the game that will be slowly unlocked.
Except for the fact that PSP2 got post release patches and a shitton of free DLC, and no, none of it was on the game disc.

>Probably won't be seen outside of japan, and if it is you can bet we'll be months behind on content and no bug fixes whatsoever.
Your only valid complaint is also one that doesn't apply to me since I'm fluent in moon. If you want to play the real game and not a butchered western version with 1/4 of the content, man up and deal with playing on the JP version.

>>1910904
Winner.

>>1906960
Are you actually retarded?

PSO2 is a functionally finished game. The Vita version barely runs right now and will be released over a full year after the PC version. And if you wanted to fall back on some precedent, you did know they updated the -PSP- versions, right?

>>1916117
The character customization looks amazing.
God damn I can't wait...

>>1904854
>it's been confirmed since day one

What drugs are you on? I've heard NOTHING about a western release yet.

>>1916656
I said I didn't have any source, I just remember hearing something like this a while back.

>>1916861
Hope youre right

>>1916656
What was said was specifically this: "we want to release the game worldwide".

What was also said was "we currently have no plans for an English release" (presumably meaning that CURRENTLY they are busy working on the JP version, and there will not be an English version until after the JP version is done / hits stores / ??s).

There is apparently an officially released PSO2 trailer with full English text.

>>1916562
It has about the best character customization I have seen in most any game. Even single player games. The only thing is you can't do really is make hideously deformed faces on par with TES games, but the enormous amount of accessories, color options, leg/arm/head/hair types, etc more than make up for any lack of facial malleability (and you still can use sliders on about every facial feature, just not to extremes).

I spent almost four hours in the character creator before forcing myself to finish and actually play, since the alpha time period was so limited.

There's also a ton of silly hair styles and silly hats.

>>1918474
Sega planning for the US release.jpg

>>1918474
well, there is no real point into calibrating face muscles by inputting float variables anyway. Thats why pso sliders are so good to use.

the breast adjusting still needs some work though.

>>1918474
I think I spent so much time just changing the outfits on my character in the PSP game.
This is going to be bad for my health...

This game looks amazing. I loved PSO, so I'm excited to start that customization. To bad I'll have no friends with Vitas though.

>>1921337
You could just play on PC...

Goddamn it.

WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT KIND OF PAYMENT SYSTEM THE GAME WILL HAVE.

WE HAVE NO IDEA HOW MANY COUNTRIES IT WILL BE OUT IN AND IF THEY WILL SHARE SERVERS.

How do you idiots manage to spread misinformation in every single thread?

Yes, I know PSO1 was subscription for most of it's life, but Blue Burst is 7 years old now and times have changed, even Phantasy Star Universe is freemium in Japan. We have no idea how it will play out.

>>1922325
It's more assumptions than misinformation.

>>1922325
>mfw the thought of private servers on the Vita version
I know PSN integration will make it pretty much impossible, but a guy can dream.

Gameplay videos

Hunter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJkD8oAJ6Z8
Ranger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGnYu3pkplM
Force: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZwY_Riaf4M

>>1922325
>WE HAVE NO IDEA HOW MANY COUNTRIES IT WILL BE OUT IN AND IF THEY WILL SHARE SERVERS.

We do have an idea of how many countries it will come out for. At LEAST nine to be exact, because that's how many different languages were found in the game.

>>1925678
Vita version will use the same servers as PC so you can play your PC character on the Vita and vice versa.

Those mags sure love to eat.

>>1930548
The devs want to release it globally, that says nothing about if the publishing side of Sega thinks they want to risk it.

>>1910904
>PSO
>MMO

no

So I made a Sega ID and signed up to the newsletter shit on the PSO2 website. How will I know if I got into the closed beta?

am i the only one that likes the art style because it reminds me of a more space like .hack?

>>1934403
The creator of the .hack// project was actually inspired by PSO.

I actually remember back when .hack//SIGN was airing on Adult Swim or whatever, I'd get all pumped up and log on to PSO GC right after and play until 3AM.

I like PSO2 news and all but...

When are they gonna release this figure already?

>>1916117
Regardless of the distance between releases, they've said vita and PC players will be able to play together.

That means the PC version has been built from the start with this in mind.

So they've built a PC game effectively created for the PSVita.

>>1939049
>So they've built a PC game effectively created for the PSVita.
All that says to me is that the devs aren't allowed to make the game a hotkey spammer WoW clone because they have to make the game playable for people who play it on the Vita.

I'm guessing they are dumping PSU's loli mags, and never referencing it? I actually liked having that little robotic girl running around shooting stuff while I just picked up junk.

And about Arkz, are they retconning Episode III and making Arkz just evil altogether when before they were just misunderstood (and right) rebels?

>>1939653
It means they have to take memory limitations, map sizes, draw distances, targeting mechanics, and a whole bunch of other shit into account and optimize them for the vita, otherwise it will be unplayable on it.

If it was an entirely separate version then the people saying "the PC version is being made first!" would have a point.

>>1939049
PSO has always been moderately or heavily consolized. Beyond that, Vita has two touchpads to bring it even more in-line with the capabilities of a PC.

The graphics certainly didn't suffer. It's not on the highest end of PC graphics, but it's still quite good. And any question of the customization suffering due to Vita memory requirements or any other bullshit will be shot down the instant you look at the character creator. This isn't some shitty KR MMO with 6 gender-locked classes to save on memory. The game does have placeholder pop-in though, as shown. I'd guess you'll be seeing a lot of this on the Vita, given that I didn't see two people who looked the same out of hundreds.

In terms of user-interface, it's 3 weapons equipped, each weapon has its own left/right mouse use skills assigned, shift toggles to a second set of skills. Hotkeys can hold the rest.

The only thing that stood out as feeling weak was that you can't mouse target an enemy. This was unfortunate as a FO since the spells tend to hit giant clumps of enemies, even though they're single target, so the ideal case is targeting something in the rear middle, but that is hard to do. You can manually aim it but it's a crapshoot with 3rd person camera and no crosshair, especially with flying enemies / short / tall / multiple lockons on per enemy (think monster hunter enemy hitboxes).

>>1942049
Just as you say. It's always been heavily consolized and the PC versions have always suffered as a result, especially in targeting and controls.

That's why I was hoping for an actual PC version for a change instead of just another port. But it's going to more or less that way again this time by the looks.

All I'm saying through this is that you may as well be playing this game on the Vita rather than your PC.

And character creation means very little - that's one of the things you could make significantly different between the platforms without any real penalty because it has no real impact on game play or game mechanics in general.

>>1941478
There was draw distance blurring in the game as of the 2nd alpha, it's a bit bothersome at first glance. Quite possible it was something that could be turned off in options.

Felt like it was just a shitty filter that I've seen in a zillion games before. Kind of like the bullshit they throw into Battlefield or Skyrim with some settings turned on. Kills the "crisp" image you would expect from a PC game with PRETTY GRAPHICS filters.

Map size didn't seem to be a problem. One of the forest maps I entered was so goddamn big to run back across that I took a break from running. The maps are cut into sections though, regardless of the highly variable single map size. There were only two map types in the alpha, forest and lavaland.

Lavaland had the most impressive random trash enemy I've seen in video game in recent memory. You can jump on its back and you -don't slide off- when it walks and turns and tries to figure out who the asshole standing on its butt is. It's fucking magic.

This nerd has like 10 different lock-on points.

You can even freeze his feet the ground. Then be out of TP with his minions on you and accomplish nothing.

Then he jumps into the air and oneshots you with his super cool homing fireball that you can blink away from but probably can't survive if you have your gunblade out with its shitty dodge.

Oh right, the FO+staff blink evade is totally OP. This shit is on par with Vindictus Evie blink, but with enormous invuln frames, and uses no TP at all.

>>1936047
even when in figure form, seeing those red boxes still gets me excited.
i think somethings wrong with me, my heart skipped a beat when i saw it in the picture.

I just logged onto Schthack for the first time in months because of this thread. Holy 2 frames per second, Batman! It was like the game took place underwater. No wonder I stopped playing that shit so long ago.

Where my episode 3 boys at?

>>1945229
It's fine for me, your computer must be shitty.

>>1940548
As far as we know right now the game takes place in an entirely different star system from both PSO and PSU.

The Arks are just a name in reference, they have nothing to do with the Arkz from episode 3 unless this is hundreds of years in the future or something. Also the Arks are the protagonists and the Darkers are the evil force, so if anything the Episode 3 Arkz have been vindicated by history.