Phantasy Star Online 2 Thread[Now with an English patch]

• Episkey wrote on 2013-06-04 03:06
  I got to level 10, Force. I did one of those quests, went from level 2 -> 6 O_O
  
  So yeah, I've been having fun. Finding disks, for Technics.
  
  
  Dark photons, so good. The homing, is so nice. [S]And poison. [/S]
• Mentosftw wrote on 2013-06-04 03:13

  Quote from Pallie;1100561:

  Woah woah. You can't make that assumption until the game is released out here and gets a publisher. Its ran by sega in jp. Not the best community and the content updates is not great compared to other phantasy star online games.
  
  Once again SEGA.

  
  
  Deep rooted English community that is already familiar with the meta game, English patch is out, full translation of the story, great servers that allows the western world to connect with near lagless gameplay, interesting mingling with JP community as well. Different game and franchise crossovers without messy licensing issues, the JP team makes their own decisions.
  
  Regardless of the company being Sega, any localization effort will always be halfhearted in some way. The localization team will be small and probably won't be able to afford the same quality servers as the JP version. Support will obviously be bad due to poor work conditions of most if not all localization operations and not to mention that they have no say in anything related to the game and can't take any action without lengthy and drawn out midnight meetings with the JP team.
• Invertex wrote on 2013-06-04 03:26
  As a note, there was a 50% EXP event going on all of today, still going on for another 12 hours.
  
  
  As for the whole controller thing, my team (3 people + me) - all of them aside from me use controller. We just generally agreed that melee is much more comfortable on a controller and ranged classes are better with a keyboard.
  
  For melee, try doing the sword dash loop (Step, Step Attack, Guard, Jump) on default keyboard controls. I can guarantee that doing X, Left Click, Shift, Space while holding W will kill your wrist. You can remap controls and make macros, but doing it manually is a pain.
  
  Meanwhile you can get better TPS control with a mouse, which is important as not all weak points can be locked onto so you'll need to manually aim to apply your WBs or line up your Foies.
  
  Either way works, just use whatever you're comfortable with. I can play HU/FI with keyboard, my teammates can play RA/HU with controller.
  
  
  And Mentos, I think you're giving some parts of the english community more credit than it deserves. B20 is notorious for awful Falz runs and just generally poor play (Over End spam and Elder Rebellion spam are the most common). It's pretty much just a standard community, with a lot of people being unaware of how to do things and a lot of people being able to do things.
  
  That and people still 630 all the time. Client has been laggier as of late (PBs used to be fine, now they lag me), and is pretty prone to crashing. The Japanese version still has it's fair share of problems.
  
  
  Also relevant picture.
  

  [Image: http://bumped.org/psublog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/No-Luck.jpg]
• Mentosftw wrote on 2013-06-04 03:55
  I still want to get that wet towel.
• Cyrene wrote on 2013-06-14 04:06
  Season 2 is coming in July Dewmans are returning, I cant wait!
  
  heres a link and some pics from the site.
  
  http://bumped.org/psublog/phantasy-star-online-2-episode-2-launches-july-17th-2013/
  
  
  
  
  

  [Image: http://bumped.org/psublog/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Female-Dewman-PSO2-450x253.jpg]

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  [Image: http://bumped.org/psublog/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/BUllet-Bows-PSO2-450x274.jpg]
• Mentosftw wrote on 2013-06-14 04:10
  In other news.
  
  [video=youtube;DnD0B2vsero]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnD0B2vsero[/video]
  
  Playing 24/7 for the this entire event..
• Cyrene wrote on 2013-06-22 15:56
  Killing a vol dragon on hard is a lot harder than i expected it to be.
• Herro wrote on 2013-06-22 22:05

  Quote from Pallie;1110618:

  Killing a vol dragon on hard is a lot harder than i expected it to be.

  
  
  if ya need help just send me a whisper, ill help you with battles~
• Invertex wrote on 2013-07-02 21:12
  [video=youtube;QN5kAlh7nUg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN5kAlh7nUg[/video]
  
  Flamethrower rocket launchers. That is all.
• Noel Vermillion wrote on 2013-07-02 21:17
  Yay for swords getting a movement skill that seems better than ride slasher. Hopefully it sees use.
  A lot of these look pretty good, though the knuckles PA is kinda...eh.
• Invertex wrote on 2013-07-02 21:45
  The knuckle PA looks pretty bad, one of the still images shows it knocks back enemies really far, like Dead Approach, which pretty much invalidates all usage of it unless it does amazing damage against bosses (like better than DA damage), which probably isn't happening.
  
  Half of them don't look notable at all though, in terms of practical usage. Anything with a long animation tends to be bad, which is like half of these.
  
  
  Also I just realized. Fire hydrant launcher, that launcher PA.
• Noel Vermillion wrote on 2013-07-02 21:56

  Quote from Invertex;1115938:

  The knuckle PA looks pretty bad, one of the still images shows it knocks back enemies really far, like Dead Approach, which pretty much invalidates all usage of it unless it does amazing damage against bosses (like better than DA damage), which probably isn't happening.
  
  Half of them don't look notable at all though, in terms of practical usage. Anything with a long animation tends to be bad, which is like half of these.
  
  
  Also I just realized. Fire hydrant launcher, that launcher PA.

  
  
  Well Over End has a long animation, and it's the most used sword PA. I guess if these do some great damage they could be useful.
  And oh no, a fire extinguisher blowing flames, think of the lulz.
• Invertex wrote on 2013-07-02 22:05
  Over End is extremely overrated, as are Swords in general.
  
  Over End is at best a situational use skill for slow moving bosses and stunned bosses. It is at worst outclassed by Deadly Archer spam with the all class double sabres for single target DPS and outclassed by Assault Buster or Additional Bullet for clearing normal enemies.
  
  Though it's worth noting that there are a few major issue with most of the long animations in the game.
  1. All the damage is loaded at the end of the animation (most of Over End's damage is at the last hit)
  2. They have extremely long periods in which they cannot be cancelled and therefore are not safe
  3. You can't gain PP while using a PA, so you kind of lose more PP than it seems.
  4. The current go to PAs are all stupidly broken and you need something as stupidly broken as them to be usable.
  
  
  Point 4 is the main thing. There's just too many fast, high damage PAs to make it worth using most other ones.
• Noel Vermillion wrote on 2013-07-02 22:12

  Quote from Invertex;1115951:

  Over End is extremely overrated, as are Swords in general.
  
  Over End is at best a situational use skill for slow moving bosses and stunned bosses. It is at worst outclassed by Deadly Archer spam with the all class double sabres for single target DPS and outclassed by Assault Buster or Additional Bullet for clearing normal enemies.
  
  Though it's worth noting that there are a few major issue with most of the long animations in the game.
  1. All the damage is loaded at the end of the animation (most of Over End's damage is at the last hit)
  2. They have extremely long periods in which they cannot be cancelled and therefore are not safe
  3. You can't gain PP while using a PA, so you kind of lose more PP than it seems.
  4. The current go to PAs are all stupidly broken and you need something as stupidly broken as them to be usable.
  
  
  Point 4 is the main thing. There's just too many fast, high damage PAs to make it worth using most other ones.

  
  
  PAs all together need a big rebalance.
  Over End does put me danger quite a bit, but I do like it because of it's wide attack range. Btw is Assault Buster really that good? o.o
• Invertex wrote on 2013-07-02 22:23
  Charged Assault Buster does about 9k damage for me, I know someone who has a 50% Regal Lancer and Lv. 15 Assault Buster who does slightly more than 10k with it. All you have to do is step attack, JA, charge for a second, and release it with as many mobs as you can lined up and you should be able to one shot just about anything with it.
  
  That's without weak point or WB by the way. You can easily get over 20k with a weak point.
  
  It mostly shines in AQs, where mobs tend to spawn in relatively neat rows that you can line up and one shot unless there's a boosted enemy of one of the stronger normal enemies (Gorongos, Predicahdas, El Ahda, etc)
  
  Actually this video should show it decently.
  [video=youtube;wNeu4HULFB4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNeu4HULFB4[/video]
  
  Around 7:00 there's a good sequence of busters.