Board 8 > PSO2 english open beta started a few days ago

(+) Yeah! (+)

if you have an xbox 1, go play it

if you're pc, suffer alongside me

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I choose to suffer

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ahhh
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tips:
-Make your character female if you want better outfits, or male if you want dirt-cheap outfits (because noone plays male)
-Race don't matter at all, pursue aesthetics
-Make pure attack mags. You have 3 characters so you can throw one mag on each if you want to pure f2p, but the absolute maximum number of mags you will ever need is four; one for each attack type and one for dex
-Unit affixes is the main way to get rich in this game outside of dailies, so reading up on how it works can help you identify what is actually worth selling at a glance. In short, 3 aspects make unit affixes expensive or trash; 1) the total slot count, 2) combinations of affixes, and 3) rarer affixes
-Everything 10* and up can be turned into excubes at the recycle shop (which can be accessed from the campship)
-Expensive tekking shit is basically useless
-Light and fire are the best elements to make your weapon overall
-60 element on your weapon is the most important single attribute to pay attention to, because even when the enemy is not weak to it, it's a multiplier on your damage
-Flat attack on skill trees usually suck and are usually only taken with leftover points
-EQs are so much better than mindless grinding so try to catch as many as you can
-No class actually spends much time supporting, even Techers, because PSO2 is ultra offense oriented. Also, tanking doesn't exist lol
-Every class is viable
-That said, Fighter and Gunner are the tryhard classes, and Hero is the brainless class (are successor classes even in the game yet though). Ideally you want one techer and one ranger in every group supplying enhanced buffs and weak bullet, and someone keeping zanverse up (probably said techer), but it's fine if not. PSO2 is the casualest MMO out there
-If in doubt about a subclass, Hunter works pretty much everywhere
-You can turn off party member autowords if they annoy you which they do for me. Noone wants to see your face every time you die, BootyLuvr420
-PSO2 eng is apparently on the same or about the same build as JP with some content temporarily locked so pretty much all guides should be relevant. Just ignore any builds that sub phantom or whatever

Builds: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C0M7it7m2g2GXjynWaud9wNh9IRDMquwX_9UT34UFSQ/htmlview?sle=true#
Affix calculator: https://arks-layer.com/abilitysim/
Affix assistant: https://malulleybovo.github.io/PSO2AffixingAssistant/

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This is the first time xbox has had a game I want since saints row

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I will save those hot tipz until either PC or PS4 version

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwufxoHfjUk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98fSQ4-MkIc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTBCuuojyos

how is it so good
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pso2 music is ridiculously good, yeah

the base defense EQ themes are 20+ minute masterpieces where the music's flow matches up with enemy spawns perfectly, with extra drums if you have mechs deployed and a distorted pitch if you're near failure

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My usual query with F2P MMO-type things: Can you solo the story without spending a fortune, or do you have to team up and/or drop cash to see the whole plot?
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Everything is soloable and nothing story is money locked. The big boss fights (most of which are story-related and equivalent to raids from other games) are done in 12-man multiplayer time limited quests, but multiplayer in this game is just doing your own thing alongside 11 other people. You don't have to actually enter their party and you don't really have to interact with them, you just kinda fight the boss at the same time as them.

Impersonal cooperative multiplayer is my favorite part about the game, honestly. You get the fun parts of teaming up with zero of the possible stress involved. And if you're REALLY against teaming up at all, you can drop the difficulty one notch and solo it.

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That does sound pretty cool. The main thing that puts me off multiplayer generally is the people who take it super-seriously, minmax everything and expect everyone to play optimally or they're "doing it wrong". A game with a more "Oh hey, you're here too, let's do this" attitude sounds great.
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wait there's an actual game in this?
it's not just a character creator?

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BlackMageJawa posted...

That does sound pretty cool. The main thing that puts me off multiplayer generally is the people who take it super-seriously, minmax everything and expect everyone to play optimally or they're "doing it wrong". A game with a more "Oh hey, you're here too, let's do this" attitude sounds great.

seeing someone die over and over again is almost a plus because you get points for the free gacha every time you revive someone!

efficiency is only an issue in recent episode 6 missions where you are trying to squeeze in 4-5 runs instead of 3 to boost the drops rate of the boss fight at the end of the hour, but by that time, expert matching should be implemented. either way, you will almost never fail stuff, so people tend to not really care

Wanglicious posted...

wait there's an actual game in this?
it's not just a character creator?

you gotta play the game to f2p afford the outfits to look prettier!


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