PSO2 Beta information

PSO2 Beta information -Enkou has shitty internet edition

We play on Ship 4, Block 44. 4 as a backup because it crashed on the first day. Probably from us.
We have a team as well. Norn, Momoyo and Enkou can invite you into it. Ask around to get an invite.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/PSO2stream Is our biggest group.

Dunno if the server's down or if its just you? Check Sega's twitter for downtime announcements.
https://twitter.com/#!/sega_pso2

Translation files by Agrajag » Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:04 am
Double post (sinful, yes). Very minor update about 15 minutes ago, edited a few enemy/map object names for consistency.
http://psumods.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=111&start=80 is where he posts about it
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9259868/pso2_closed_beta/translation/pso2_closedbeta_text.rar

Torrent of pre-launch installer. Will need to update.
http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=torrentinfo&tid=305206

When you first login after installing the game you'll get a popup with some yellow text. This is asking for your PlayerID. Character names are not unique, PlayerIDs are.

Japanese wiki
http://wikiwiki.asia/pso2/

Useful translated images
Character click options
http://i.imgur.com/AvMui.png
Mag info
http://imgur.com/0hTQG
Premium shop choices. top is room+trading
http://i.imgur.com/BmW6N.png
Xeno and Leda locations
http://i.imgur.com/qA3Ar.jpg
Character personality. This is for when other people summon you as an NPC.
http://i.imgur.com/ewG7a.jpg
Autoword image
http://i.imgur.com/Tswl9.jpg

Want to invite someone? You get 3 invites. Anyone you invite also gets 3 invites.
Log in with your Sega ID:
http://pso2.jp/cbtinvite/form/
A guide made by an anon
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/75093545/PSO2_setup_walkthrough.rar
If you need to put in kana captcha go here
http://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/katakana.htm

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Want to run the game in a borderless window?

Go into documents/SEGA/PHANTASYSTARONLINE2 and open user_beta.pso2 in notepad
    Windows = {
        FullScreen = false,
        Height3d = 480,
        Height = 1080,
        Width3d = 640,
        Width = 1920,

Add VirtualFullScreen = true, so it looks like

    Windows = {
        FullScreen = false,
        Height3d = 480,
        Height = 1080,
        VirtualFullScreen = true,
        Width3d = 640,
        Width = 1920,

Your numbers don't have to be mine. Mine might even be fucked up I dunno.
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First field is your name
Second field is the e-mail you want to send the invite to.
Third field is a message you want to say to them (under 200 characters, no links)

When choosing a mission two drops are highlighted on the right side. We don't know if this means their drop chances are boosted but the items shown are cycled hourly.
*New* - According to Espybuns the kanji mean something along the lines of "items which appear, or common items" So the shown items most likely do have a boosted drop rate.

In order to get a Mag you must reach level 10 and take a quest from Koffie to get two Rock-bear horns. She is located behind the right side quest counter. Free Field Forest has Rockbear as the boss. you can face 1-3. otherwise they are random interrupt events in the forest on other maps.

If you get a red unknown item you must take it to the Tekker. They are located in the second floor of the shopping area, above the armor and item shops. When tekking you can choose an element and bonus skill for the weapon. Bonus skills are +meseta/exp/drop rate.
Next to the tekker is the equip enhancer. You can upgrade equipment for Meseta, combine equipment for additional effects and combine them for elemental damage. I'll add a section to the bottom soon on this.

PSE are minor field events which give you bonuses like elemental attack or drop rates. If you get them high enough you can achieve a PSE Burst which has rapid enemy spawning and drop rates for at least one minute. PSE Bursts can be extended, can chain into each other and can go a second time. We aren't sure of the exact mechanics but the more people on a field and the faster you kill the better. Making 3 parties and joining each others multiparty map is the best way to go about it. This is an excellent way to hunt rares or just stock things to sell or gain exp.

 See the new section at the bottom on in depth PSE details.

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Matter board information - Quests in brackets are random and may take several attempts.

To advance the story you need to complete various matters. Each matter in its description will have a Letter and Number combination. For example, in this screenshot B-2 is listed.
B-1 Find a gunslayer drop from an Oodan (Any Forest Mission)
[B-2] Play the mission “ザウーダン討伐” and find a tablet item to see a cutscene.
B-3 Go to the Shop Lobby and find Zeno, down the stairs near the furniture shop, he will assign a client order you must complete. Afterwards go to the quest counter and complete the mission “フォンガルフ討伐”. When you are done go back to Zeno and select the client order again and report the information to him. You should see a client order clear appear on the screen once you are finished.
B-4 Find a “タグバルブ Tag Valve drop from the enemy “Nab Rappy” (Any Forest Mission)
A-3 Find a ワイヤードオーバー WiredOver drop from the enemy “Oodan” (Any Forest Mission)
A-4 Go talk to ウルク Uruk, you can find her downstairs in the shopping lobby opposite of Zeno.
A-5 Find a “クレイモア” Claymore drop from the enemy Fongalf (Any Forest Mission)
C-3: Find a “スプレイン” Sprine drop from the Zaudan enemy. (Any Forest mission)
C-4 Go talk to ジャン Jean, you can find him in the shopping lobby downstairs.
C-5 Find a  グレイヴ Grave drop from the Agnis enemy. (Agnis are birds in the last forest mission)
D-1 Find a “リア／ティルトウィンα” drop from the Gorongo. (Forest Missions) Gorongo’s roll up into balls.
[D-2] Play the quest "Rag Nappy Capture"("ナヴ・ラッピー捕獲任務") and look for an event trigger in Area 2. NPC's name is Huey
D-4 Find a “レッグ／デステレンα” from the Dagan enemy. (Any Mission.)
[D-5] Play the quest “ダガン殲滅任務：森林” [Dagan extermination] and look for an event tablet in Area 1 called “スキルマジすげえって”. (It is the third mission in the quest list.)
[E-1] Play the quest "Dagan Extermination: Forest"(ダガン殲滅任務：森林) and look for an event tablet in Area 1. NPCs are Patty and Tea. Yes the translation patch says the Za oodan mission. Yes that is an error.
E-2 Find a “ビーム” Beam from the RockBear Enemy. (Rock Bears are Bosses and random Interrupt Events in Forest Missions, they will appear in Free Field Quests as the boss)
E-3 Talk to “レダ” Leda, he’s on the second floor of the shopping area. Above the weapon shop side at the far end, past the fashion shop.
E-4 Find a “アーム／ティタスティンα” unit from the Galf enemy (Any Forest mission)
E-5 Find a “ストライカー” drop from the Vriada. (Breeada/Breeder dark spawn) (Later Forest Missions, city and caves. Wait til caves for an easier time)

For those of you wondering how to do Echo's third quest:
1) Begin Capture Nab Rappy as a passworded party
2) Call in Echo from the wall communicator
3) Do the quest and get an S-Rank
It's alright if she dies - you just need to get an S-Rank.


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Arks Cash Price List-

Premium Set 30 Day プレミアムセット30日  (10AC)
Premium Set 60 Day プレミアムセット60日(15 AC)
Premium Set 90 Day プレミアムセット90日 (20 AC)
My Room 30 Day マイルーム利用30日 (10 AC)
My Shop 30 Day マイショップ出店30日 (10 AC)
Expanded Storage 30 day 拡張倉庫1利用30日 (10 AC)
Expanded Storage 90 day 拡張倉庫1利用90日 (20 AC)
Expanded Storage 30 day 拡張倉庫2利用30日 (10 AC)
Expanded Storage 90 day 拡張倉庫2利用90日 (20 AC)
Expanded Storage 30 day 拡張倉庫3利用90日 (10 AC)
Expanded Storage 90 day 拡張倉庫3利用90日 (20 AC)
Item Pack Expansion アイテムパック拡張 (10 AC)
Item Pack Expansion x5 アイテムパック拡張  (40 AC)
Additional Skill Tree スキルツリー追加券 (10 AC)
Skill Tree Reset スキルツリーリセット券 (10 AC)
Mag Ticket (lets you have an additional mag) マグ獲得チケット (10 AC)
Mag Reset Device マグリセットデバイス (10 AC)
Esthetic (Makeup) Counter Pass エステ利用パス (10 AC)
Scape Doll スケープドール (10 AC)
Scape Doll x3 スケープドール (20 AC)
Scape Doll x5 スケープドール (30 AC)
Cosmo Atomizer x3 コスモアトマイザー (20 AC)
Cosmo Atomizer x5 コスモアトマイザー (30 AC)
Creating a new character (11AC)

• Premium Set, 30 days (Allows you to trade, open a shop, and own a room)
• Premium Set, 60 days
• Premium Set, 90 days
• My Room Ticket, 30 days
• My Shop Ticket, 30 days
• Storage 1 Ticket, 30 days (Allows you to use Storage Box 1)
• Storage 1 Ticket, 90 days
• Storage 2 Ticket, 30 days (Allows you to use Storage Box 2)
• Storage 2 Ticket, 90 days
• Storage 3 Ticket, 30 days (Allows you to use Storage Box 3)
• Storage 3 Ticket, 90 days
• Inventory Expander 10 (Increases your maximum inventory by 10 up to a total of 100)
• Inventory Expander 10 x5
• Addition Skill Tree Ticket (Adds an extra skill tree)
• Skill Tree Reset Ticket
• Mag Ticket (Gives you an extra mag, up to 10 max)
• Mag Reset Device
• Scape Doll
• Scape Doll x3
• Scape Doll x5
• Cosmo Atomizer x3
• Cosmo Atomizer x5
• 100% Exp Boost Ticket x3
• 100% Exp Boost Ticket x5
• Beauty Shop Ticket
• AC Scratch Ticket x11

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Mag Feeding Guide:
S = Slash, R = Range = T = Force
Monomate - Low S-ATK Raise, Very Low S-DEF Raise
Dimate - Medium R-ATK Raise, Low R-DEF Defense Raise
Trimate - High T-ATK Raise, Medium T-DEF Raise
All mates - Low Ability/technique Decrease

Sol Atomizer - High Ability Raise
Moon Atomizer - 1/2 level All DEF Stats

Hunter Weapons - High S-ATK Raise, Medium S-DEF Decrease
Ranger Weapons - High R-ATK Raise, Medium R-DEF Decrease
Force Weapons - High T-ATK Raise, Medium T-DEF Decrease

Hunter Armor - High S-DEF Raise, Medium S-ATK Decrease
Ranger Armor - High R-DEF Raise, Medium R-ATK Decrease
Force Armor - High T-DEF Raise, Medium T-ATK Decrease

All Weapons and Armor - Medium Ability Increase

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*Autoword Guide*
Event:
-Quest Start
-Quest Clear
-Emergency Trial Outbreak
-Emergency Trial Complete
-Emergency Trial Failed
-PSE Outbreak
-PSE Level UP
-PSE BURST
-Accept a Quest
-Join Mid-quest

Member:
-Level Up
-Ally Level Up
-Recieve a heal
-Receive Buff

Action:
戦闘不能になった -Incapacitated
復活した -Revived
残りHPが３０％未満 -Remaining HP less than 30%
残りHPが１０％未満 -Remaining HP less than 10%
回復アイテム使用 -Used healing item
レアアイテム取得 -Rare item dropped
小ダメージ -Take light damage
中ダメージ -Take medium damage
-Take heavy damage
-Attacking
-Activate Photon Arts
-Just Guarded
-Evasion
-Using a skill

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Skill board translations.

HUNTER

HPアップ HP Up Increase HP
打撃アップ1 Striking Up Increase Striking Power
フューリースタンス Fury Stance: A Stance skill that raises your Striking and Range Power, but reduces your Defense
JAボーナス1: JA Bonus: Other than Technics, you get a damage bonus for Just Attacks
アタックPPリストレイト Attack PP Restoration: When a normal attack hits an enemy, the PP restored is higher.
フューリークリティカル Fury Critical: When you are in Fury Stance, it increases the critical hit rate.
打撃アップ2 Striking Up 2
打撃防御アップ1 Striking Defense Up 1
ウォークライ War Cry: Attract Enemy’s attention
アイアンウィル Iron Will Occasionally your HP will stay at 1 when you receive damage that would have incapacitated you.
ガードスタンス Guard Stance: Reduce Striking and Range Power but increases Defense
HPアップ2 HP Up 2
フラッシュガード1 Flash Guard 1 Striking, and Ranged Damage is reduced
ガードスタンスポイズン Guard Stance Poison: Poison is restored when you do the Guard Stance
ガードスタンスバーン Guard Stance Burn: Burn is restored when you do the Guard Stance
フラッシュテックガード FlashTechGuard: Tech Damage is reduced
ガードスタンスアップ1 Guard Stance Up1  Guard Stance’s defense power is increased
オートメイトハーフイン Automate Halfline, use -mates automatically when your HP is 50%
オートメイトデッドライン Automate Deadline use -mates automatically when your HP is 25%
ガード Guard  Hold weapon in front of you and guard
射撃防御アップ1 Range Defense Up:
ジャストガード Just Guard Greatly reduces damage when you guard at the right moment.
ジャストカウンター  Just Counter After you Just Guard successfully, the next attack you perform becomes a Just Attack
ステップ : Step: Nimbly rush short distances
ステップアドバンス Step advance: While stepping, your invincibility time increases.
ステップアタック Step Attack: Attack during Step
ジャストリバーサル Just Reversal: When you fall down from an attack, use jump to get up quickly.


RANGER

技量アップ1 : Ability Up: increases ability stat.
ウィークヒットアドバンス1 Weak Hit Advance: Your damage given to the weak spots on enemies increases.
ウィークバレット Weak Bullet, exclusively for Assault rifles, loads a weakening bullet.
技量アップ2: Ability Up 2: increases ability stat.
射撃防御アップ1 Range Defense Up
ウィークヒットアドバンス2: Weak Hit Advance 2: Your damage given to the weak spots on enemies increases a lot.
ツールマスタリー Tool Mastery: Tool type skills increases
ポイズントラップ Poison Trap: Set a Poison trap
アッパートラップ: Upper Trap: Set a trap to launch enemies in the air.
スタングレネード: Stun Grenade: Throw a grenade that stuns the enemy.
アッパーTカスタム Upper T Custom: Increase the power of Upper Traps
ポイズンTカスタム: Poison T Custom: Increases the chance of poison in poison traps.
射撃アップ Range Up: Range stat power goes up.
射撃アップ2: Range Up 2
スタンディングスナイプ1: Standing Snipe: Ranged damage increases when you stand still.
バインドバレット: Bind Bullet: Exclusively for Assault Rifles, loads a Binding bullet
ダイブロール: Dive Roll, Dive a short distance.
ダイブロールアドバンス: Dive Roll Advance: Extended Invincibility time through dive rolling.
ジャストリバーサル: Just Reversal When you fall down from an attack, you can use Jump to get up quickly.


FORCE

法撃アップ1: Tech up 1, tech power rises.
テックチャージアドバンス1 Technic Charge Advance1: Charged Technic Damage increases
テックチャージアドバンス2: Technic Charge Advance2  Charged Technic Damage increase
チャージPPリバイバル Charge PP Reversal. While charging PP restores.
フォトンフレア Photon Flare: Temporarily Increases Tech Power but decreases max hp
フレイムマスタリー1: Flame Mastery I: Fire Technic power rises
フレイムテックSチャージ: Flame Tech S Charge: Fire Technic charging time decreases
フレイムマスタリー2: Flame Mastery 2: Fire Technic power increases.
アイスマスタリー1 Ice Mastery 1: Ice Technic Power increases
フリーズブースト: Freeze Boost: Increases the rate of freezing.
アイスマスタリー2: Ice Mastery 2: Ice Technic Power increases
フリーズイグニッション:  Freeze Ignition Gives heavy damage through an explosive blast to frozen enemies.
ボルトマスタリー1: Bolt Mastery Lightning Tech power rises.
ボルトテックPPセイブ: Bolt Tech PP Save: Lightning Tech PP usage decreases.
ショックブースト: Shock Boost, increases rate of shock.
ボルトマスタリー2: Bolt Mastery, Lightning Tech Power increases
ノーマルテックアドバンス: Normal Tech Advance. Uncharged Tech damage increases
PPアップ1: PP Up 1
PPアップ2: PP Up 2
テックJAアドバンス Tech JA Advance: Tech Just Attacks get a damage bonus.
ジャストリバーサル: Just Reversal When you fall down from an attack, use Jump to get up quickly.

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Character personality raw data

キャラクター性 : Character-type:

勇者気質 : brave-spirited
目立ちたがり : show-off
突っ込み思案 : tsukkomi
リーダーシップ : leadership
ドジッコ : clumsy
病弱 : sickly
命知らず : reckless
天真爛漫 : innocent
天然 : spontaneous, airhead
理知的 : intellectual

特性 : Special Trait:

朝型 : morning person
夜型 : nocturnal
晴れ好き : likes clear weather
曇り好き : likes overcast weather
大型狙い : attacks large targets
少型狙い : attacks small targets
逆境好き : likes adversity
スロースターター : slow starter
さびしがり屋 : lone wolf
だーがー狙い : goes for dargars(sp?)
原生狙い : attacks anything
メカ狙い : attacks mechs
龍種狙い : attacks dragons
ツンデレ : tsundere

特殊補正 : Special Bonus

起死回生 : revival
臨戦態勢 : battle-readiness
徹底防御 : thorough defense
激昂 : berzerker
復活支援 : healing support
ヒューマン好き : likes humans
キャスト好き : likes casts
ニューマン好き : likes newmen
オトコ好き : likes men
オンナ好き : likes women
コンディションマスター : condition master

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Weapon Customization.

There's 3 kinds of weapon customization. The first is just to grind the weapon. The second is to change or build elements. The third is to add and upgrade abilities.

Weapon Grinding - A weapon can be anywhere from +0 to +10. +1 is a 4% boost with +10 being a 50-75% See below. +1-3 have no risk. 4 and 5 have a minor risk of failure and a lower risk of deleveling. 5+ all have a growing risk of failure and a chance at deleveling. At most I've had two levels drop from one failure personally.
You need an item called グラインダー or simply a Grinder to upgrade. It takes one per attempt. Rappies drop them frequently, I'm unsure if you can buy them. There are also AC items you can have to increase success rate, prevent failure or prevent de-levels on failure from scratch cards.
1 star and 2 star grind at 150% rate
4 star grinds at 160% rate
7 star grinds at 175% rate

Elementals - First if you want to do anything with these the base weapon must already have an element. Along with that you can only use other weapons with the same name to build or change elements. So a アルバパルチザン cannot be used with a バシレイオン at all.
Normally you can only add elements. I've got to do some testing on if it's better to use like elements or not, but you don't have to. The gains are small but constant. If you wish to change the element entirely you need AC items, I believe they are Synthesizers シンセサイザー but I could be wrong. They're the ones that look kind of like a fat cup with a funnel on top. Different colors represent different elements and their inventory icons make that obvious.

Abililies - For these you do not need to use the same weapon, infact they don't even need to be the same type. The only restriction I've notices is that a weapon with X abilities can only be combined with another weapon with X abilities. So a weapon with 3 abilities or 1 ability won't show up when using a 2 ability as the base.
You seem to be able to pass every ability besides the 3 rare box bonus abilities and mutation. Souls DO NOT require the item to be any specific grind, just that two weapons with the soul are used.
If you repeat abilities they can upgrade. For example two Power I's will give you the option of Power II when selecting abilities. Two Power II's provide Power III. I'm unsure if this goes as far as IV or V or beyond.
Trying to inherit an ability the weapon did not already have has a lower rate of inheritance. For example Power III is 60% if the weapon has it, but only 30% if not. The exception to this is souls as they seem to always be 50%.
If you try and add an ability past the amount of slots the weapon has all chosen abilities have a lower inheritance rate of about 20%. For example Power III's 30% turns into 24%.
Each ability chosen has it's own success pass so you can try and put 3 abilities at a time but any one of them could pass or fail. You can only force one additional slot from the ones that already exist so a 2 slot weapon can only try and gain 3 abilities, not 4 or more.
There are cash items that look like cylinders with (HP) and (PP) in the name. They give Spiritua and some other ability i forgot as options to inherit no matter what the chosen ingrediants have. I believe they're also at a default 100% rate but can still lower if an extra ability is forced.
The item has been found. 能力追加成功率+5%. Gives 5% bonus success rate. There may be better versions, this one comes from FUN scratch.

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Photon Sensitive Effects (PSE) and PSE Bursts

Probably one of the coolest, yet most confusing additions to PSO are PSEs. Photon Sensitive Effects are buffs that are earned while killing enemies in a multi-party instance. They are signified by a ray of light emitted from the enemy, then a light aura that surrounds the player. The type of PSE can be told by the light ray.

Yellow: Usually PSE Meseta Drop UP. This'll boost the Meseta you get from drops. Looks like XX+Y
Blue: Looks to be a PP UP, could also be Defense UP not sure
Red: Most Attack UPs.

These buffs last for about a minute, unless you earn the PSE again, which'll level up the buff and reset the counter.

The probability of triggering a PSE is an unknown fixed amount. It seems to be often enough.

PSE Bursts occur when a Photon Sensitive Effect levels to MAX. At that point it triggers an event where you have a minute with extremely raised enemy spawns and drop rates. A few things can occur here to increase the time of the PSE Burst.

Cross Burst - This gives you the most time, but can only be triggered in the beginning. Cross Bursts happen when you max out a few PSEs in succession. Each Cross Burst seems to give you a minute and change.
ONE MORE - an event that can occur at the end of the PSE Burst. It is unknown how to trigger this but it seems like it relates to killing enemies. This'll give you an extra minute to kill which after that ends will either end the Burst or give you another minute
Time Bonuses - These occur during the entire boost, either granting +10 or +20 seconds. These seem to be triggered by earning PSEs in the Burst, unsure about this though.

PSE Bursts generate a lot of items, it's really good for earning Meseta or possibly dropping that rare drop you're looking for.
Another factor that is uncertain at the moment is that after A long PSE/Cross Burst, it is significantly harder to trigger PSEs.

PSE Burst Farming aka Burst Parties

When you reach the max level of CBT, there isn't much to do. So try out Burst Parties. These are highly coordinated Multiparties to try and farm PSE Bursts/figure out the mechanics to trigger them. So far this is how Burst Parties are being ran.

Running in 4-4-4. Right now we're running with the theory that NPCs negate PSEs. We ran a 4-4-4-4-4-4 group, every party with 2 NPCs, and it seemed hard to earn PSEs, whereas the Party after that, 4-4-4, a PSE Burst was triggered in the first 2 minutes.

Sticking together. All 3 parties mob rush through the area instead of splitting. This is an idea being worked on, but mobbing seems to be effective.

One Element Only. This one is way in the testing phases, but we're trying out if it's easier to trigger Burst if everyones on the Same Element. Weapon or Spell. The theory is that when we kill, it'll take in account the element that you kiled the enemy with and either give a PSE for that or one of the Meseta Drop/etc. PSEs. Focus on one, trigger more Bursts faster? We'll find out.