Is anyone else as excited for this game as I am???!!! Definitely going Cast Hunter for this game, looks too awesome to pass up :D
Best of all, it's free-to-play!!!
PSO2 Coming to NA in January, EU in February
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PSO2 was fun for a little bit but I lost interest later in the game.
I liked PSU more.
PSO2 is free to play so they sell all the good stuff in the cash shop.
Also after the Japanese beta they made it so you have to pay money to get a room and also to sell stuff.
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One of my characters I messed around with.
fixed my problems, i needed to fix some permission stuff, now the game's working :D
my mini preview:
the english translation patch does barely enough to make it playable. 99% of the game is still in japanese, but that 1% really helps. being a PSO veteran and having such an icon-focused UI helps too.
as for the game itself, it's the good ol' space grind. but i like the changes to the combat system. some weapons let you block, while gunblades, for example, have a fire mode and a slash mode, that you toggle with shift (which you also use to block, and presumably use other secondary features). PAs are mapped to right mouse button, and you can customize a chain of up to 3 PAs related to the same weapon, if you have enough mana for a full chain, that is.
sadly, the game didn't explain to me (or rather i don't know japanese to know what was told me) why i should go with the traditional timed button presses to chain my standard attacks, when holding the attack button does the same (although without shiny silver sparkles and fwooshing noises coming out of you). there doesn't seem to be much of a difference in damage, maybe i'm just too low level?
last but not least, the dodging mechanic is back, and you use it by double tapping the direction you want to dodge. i was surprised at how effective this was on an early mission, where i had to kill some boulder-throwing apes.
sound is typical phantasy star. epic space music, familiar chimes, etc. visually... it's a japanese MMO for the PC, and it's not by square enix.
OH YEAH, forgot to say, you can equip 3 weapons at a time, then switch between them on the fly. my human hunter started with a sword and gunblade, and then dropped some dagger things that kinda work like kratos' swords. NOTE: i do not know, and actually doubt, that this weapon replaces traditional daggers.
and pics because the screenshot thread disappeared:
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