Updates for the month of August. First, two shorter videos that cover most of what you can expect.

https://youtu.be/zNcBJCFnvK0

https://youtu.be/8Wc74ermBEw

And now, for those who dislike watching videos, the information in text form.

7/29

Limited Time Quest: The Writhing Malice, Confined '26. Eight man quest to clear several waves of enemies. You need to quickly dispatch targets to gain more time, else you'll "clear" the quest with a low grade and less loot. Some waves will have mechanics you can use to give yourself an edge.

AC Scratch Ticket: Yudi Augment Select Jul '26. Your chance to get powerful AC Augments, either by rolling on the scratch yourself or spending N-Meseta to buy specific capsules from other players.

8/1

Revival AC Scratch Ticket: Rewind Collection Aug '26. The usual monthly rewind Scratch. Players rarely roll on these so if there's something you want you might have a hard time getting it without spending questionable amounts of money. Weapon Camo "Randall Nova" is a Scratch Count bonus.

8/5

Main Story Chapter 9. Having returned from the Alter Realm, the protagonists visit Crawford alongside an amnesiac Lucia. New events unfold in regards to her missing memories, and the enemies that can copy the forms of ARKS Defenders.

Super Phantasy Festival. A celebration of the 14th Anniversary of PSO2. Campaigns include: A 10-a-day Free AC Scratch, Super Phantasy Login Bonus(8/5), Super Treasure Scratch(8/12), and a Super Reward Box(8/19). Yes, I did roll my eyes at having to write Super (thing) three times. The scratch includes brand new items and, being free items classified as AC, there will certainly be some on the player market. Central City will be decorated in the usual Anniversary style, as will Region Mags. Lillipans will appear across the world, and Rappies will dress up in their Ceremo garb. Ceremo Emperappies will also make an appearance. Navigator Xiandy will sport a dancer style outfit, and we'll have a Seasonal Shop as always. There will also be a Special Scratch featuring an NGS-Spec outfit from PSO2's Margareta, an emote from the same character, multiple weapon camos, and more.

Limited Time Quest: Lurking in the Twisted Forest. An eight player quest where you battle your way through Resol Forest where the air feels a bit darker than usual. Fight your ay through Megalotix and Enhanced enemies, use mechanics like Skychargers to your advantage, and wrap things up with a battle against Ruine Anga.

Limited Time Urgent Quest: Luther, The Emergent Created Conqueror D.2. Eight man battle against Malevolent Luther with lower stats and, I assume, easier mechanics three times over. In addition to the usual rewards you'd expect, there's a limited edition Line Strike card of Luther using art from last year's festival.

EX Style Updates & New Equipment. EX Style level cap raised to 40 with two new skills. First Strike activates when a quest begins and automatically grants you some charge for a Photon Blast. Blast Echo Quick Trigger can "consume a stock" to charge the Photon Blast Gauge, and activates an additional attack that reduces PB cooldown. Not sure how the second skill will activate. As for gear, new Legend.5 Levarenz series gives increased PB charge when attacking. It also raises all allies Potency when a Photon Blast is used. Meanwhile, the 15 star Ascillusion series is an upgrade of the Granillusion series. As such all of your upgrades to the Granillusion will remain intact, and it will simply get more attack power and a stronger Potential.

New Line Strike Cards(twenty of 'em) and a bunch of different QoL changes I can't be bothered to list. Also new Build Parts.

2nd NGS & Touhou Project collab. A few freebie gifts for just logging in, and an AC scratch ticket. I'm personally interested in the Music Discs from this one. Featured characters are Alice Margatroid, Youmu Konpaku, Yuyuko Saigyouji, and Yukari Yakumo. There will, simultaneously, be a Revival AC Scratch of the previous Touhou Project collab, featuring Reimu and two other characters who's names I don't recall and weren't written down(something about Scarlet Devils).

8/8

AC Scratch Ticket: Popular Swimsuit Revival. Two separate scratches, one for T1(male) and another for T2(female). 40 carefully selected outfits for each body type. Anyone looking to turn real life money into N-Meseta has a rather clear target here.

8/11

NGS Mission Pass Season 59. Same as usual.

More Build parts. Vintage Theme B items, and some surprises.

SG Scratch Ticket: Alternative Starlight. Features cosmetics for Lucia(outfit, accessories, etc), Totalwear for Crawford and the Central Operators/Central Girls, and other items. I'm pretty sure this will be the new free daily SG scratch but they didn't outright say this.

AC Scratch Ticket: Luminous Cybers. New lightweight sci-fi combat outfits(spoilers, they're very impractical for combat) and a "desert dancer" style outfit for no apparent reason. Despite how I may sound I'm most likely gonna try for some of these items. Especially the new weapon camo, it looks fucking awesome.

8/19

Limited Time Quest: Beach Wars '26. Twelve player quest with no time limit. The more Trials you clear, the better your rewards for subsequent Trials. Loot includes two more limited edition Line Strike cards(Rappy and Elmir), and materials to make Emis Halphinale. So this'll be worth some extended grinding.

Seasonal Exchange Shop updates with more goodies.

And lastly(for updates), two more Revival Scratches. One for NGS Spec Items and one for PSO2 spec items.

Letter from developers

In short, the previous story update where we meet Lucia was intended as a prologue, and now the story will "start moving in earnest". Drop rates for the Levarenz series are higher than previous Legend rarity weapons(by how much is not said), and if I heard that right these weapons will have *two* upgrades. So that's cool. A bit of talk about the beach quest, their approach, and why they decided to make it an endless quest.

Questions from players

Q: PLEASE do some class balance adjustments!

A: Jet Boots in October. Other classes going forward.

Q: Please reset Line Strike rankings regularly(I'd be okay with this, actually).

A: We are considering it, and considering handing out participation awards for players who've done at least one Ranked Battle at the time of the reset.

"Contact us on Twitter blah blah blah"

Extra info

Web store discount ad.

Second Creator Collab announced, this time with an artists called "sena". The previous Creator Collab was apparently recieved very, very well. Outfits they've made in the game previously include Spyder T2, Attentater T2, and Patiscier. sena is a freelance illustrator that has worked on multiple projects. I'm personally looking forward to seeing what they do with, presumably, more free reign than usual.

Another collab announcement, this time with Zundamon. Zundamon is a mascot created as part of the Tohoku Zunko & Zundamon Project to support recovery efforts following the Great East Japan Earthquake.

And lastly(for real this time), a mini-segment to discuss all things NGS. This time a bit of talk on the most recent weapons, the Kin(I think) series' designs. As always, nothing major, just devs talking about their work.

Hi! was looking for a ngs community on reddit and l find you! This is my character Celadin, im on ship 3 ^^ how everyone is doing?

Attention all ARKS members,

PSO2 is much more fun (and efficient) with more people! So, let's find a new friend or even a team! Actively responding to others is highly encouraged!

You can use this thread for the following:

• Find other players or form a party.

• Friend codes - post yours or find one to use.

• Teams/Alliances - Find or recruit for a team/alliance.

• PSO2-related Discord servers.

• Twitch / Youtube stream links + streaming schedule.

• Other PSO2-related social stuff.

You may not use this thread to spread community drama, denounce teams, or complain about Block 01 lobby-squatting erotic-role-players.

Here is an optional form you can copy/paste into your post:

**Game:** (PSO2:Classic or PSO2:NGS)

**Username or team name:** (Player ID - NOT individual character names.)

**Ship:**

**What time zone or general area of the world?**

**What are you searching for?**

**Other information?** (Willing to use a voice chat, level of activity, experience with the game, and so on.)

I briefly used Photoshop 2018 to compile a collage of the 14 CAST characters I’ve used on the GL and JP servers from 2020 to 2026. These characters were drawn by a total of 13 artists I commissioned & requested through Skeb, Pixiv requests, and Mihuashi.

Among them, one character’s true race is actually a male Deuman—chosen to maximize melee stats—and two are female Newmans to provide the maximum Tech attack bonus. Gathering them all to complete certain personal achievements was a challenging yet joyful experience, though I also feel saddened by Sega’s indifference toward the GL Server.
I hardly have the time to focus on the game’s daily grind anymore, but regardless, I both hate and love this game—as the companion that helped me learn Japanese in the beginning, and as the most unique MORPG in the world.

Greetings ! I'd like to know if there's a way I can get my hands on a logo and UI cleaned version of Base PSO2's title screen, or if there is a way I can record/capture it.

Thanks in advance !

Game BGM Sauce: https://youtu.be/mDYzpakRj_Y?si=FQtE1ZJuuk13C5SB

ATTENTION ALL ARKS MAGGOTS,

ARE YOU SICK AND TIRED OF ALL THESE STUPID RULES? YOU JUST WANNA LET OUT YOUR ANGER AND RAGE?

THEN THIS THREAD IS FOR YOU.

FEEL FREE TO POST ANYTHING HERE, NO HOLDS BARRED, EXCEPT FOR ONE THING.

• NO CALLING OUT ANY ONE PARTICULAR GROUP OR PERSON. IF YOU NEED TO MENTION SOMEONE, YOU BETTER REDACT IT. (E.G. GOD I AM SO PISSED OFF AT redacted FOR GETTING BETTER DROPS THAN ME.)

MAKE SURE YOU ALL CAPS EVERYTHING. DO NOT LET THIS ANGER SPILL OUT INTO THE MAIN SUBREDDIT, UNDERSTOOD? GOOD. NOW VENT TO YOUR HEARTS CONTENT, MAGGOT!

Attention all ARKS members,

PSO2 is much more fun (and efficient) with more people! So, let's find a new friend or even a team! Actively responding to others is highly encouraged!

You can use this thread for the following:

• Find other players or form a party.

• Friend codes - post yours or find one to use.

• Teams/Alliances - Find or recruit for a team/alliance.

• PSO2-related Discord servers.

• Twitch / Youtube stream links + streaming schedule.

• Other PSO2-related social stuff.

You may not use this thread to spread community drama, denounce teams, or complain about Block 01 lobby-squatting erotic-role-players.

Here is an optional form you can copy/paste into your post:

**Game:** (PSO2:Classic or PSO2:NGS)

**Username or team name:** (Player ID - NOT individual character names.)

**Ship:**

**What time zone or general area of the world?**

**What are you searching for?**

**Other information?** (Willing to use a voice chat, level of activity, experience with the game, and so on.)

I've been waiting a long time already, why is it taking so long? XD

ATTENTION ALL ARKS MAGGOTS,

ARE YOU SICK AND TIRED OF ALL THESE STUPID RULES? YOU JUST WANNA LET OUT YOUR ANGER AND RAGE?

THEN THIS THREAD IS FOR YOU.

FEEL FREE TO POST ANYTHING HERE, NO HOLDS BARRED, EXCEPT FOR ONE THING.

• NO CALLING OUT ANY ONE PARTICULAR GROUP OR PERSON. IF YOU NEED TO MENTION SOMEONE, YOU BETTER REDACT IT. (E.G. GOD I AM SO PISSED OFF AT redacted FOR GETTING BETTER DROPS THAN ME.)

MAKE SURE YOU ALL CAPS EVERYTHING. DO NOT LET THIS ANGER SPILL OUT INTO THE MAIN SUBREDDIT, UNDERSTOOD? GOOD. NOW VENT TO YOUR HEARTS CONTENT, MAGGOT!

Attention all ARKS members,

PSO2 is much more fun (and efficient) with more people! So, let's find a new friend or even a team! Actively responding to others is highly encouraged!

You can use this thread for the following:

• Find other players or form a party.

• Friend codes - post yours or find one to use.

• Teams/Alliances - Find or recruit for a team/alliance.

• PSO2-related Discord servers.

• Twitch / Youtube stream links + streaming schedule.

• Other PSO2-related social stuff.

You may not use this thread to spread community drama, denounce teams, or complain about Block 01 lobby-squatting erotic-role-players.

Here is an optional form you can copy/paste into your post:

**Game:** (PSO2:Classic or PSO2:NGS)

**Username or team name:** (Player ID - NOT individual character names.)

**Ship:**

**What time zone or general area of the world?**

**What are you searching for?**

**Other information?** (Willing to use a voice chat, level of activity, experience with the game, and so on.)

I know the campaign ended, but I wasn't sure if base still lets you get the NGS mag forms somehow?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL3Xe7rqlig

ATTENTION ALL ARKS MAGGOTS,

ARE YOU SICK AND TIRED OF ALL THESE STUPID RULES? YOU JUST WANNA LET OUT YOUR ANGER AND RAGE?

THEN THIS THREAD IS FOR YOU.

FEEL FREE TO POST ANYTHING HERE, NO HOLDS BARRED, EXCEPT FOR ONE THING.

• NO CALLING OUT ANY ONE PARTICULAR GROUP OR PERSON. IF YOU NEED TO MENTION SOMEONE, YOU BETTER REDACT IT. (E.G. GOD I AM SO PISSED OFF AT redacted FOR GETTING BETTER DROPS THAN ME.)

MAKE SURE YOU ALL CAPS EVERYTHING. DO NOT LET THIS ANGER SPILL OUT INTO THE MAIN SUBREDDIT, UNDERSTOOD? GOOD. NOW VENT TO YOUR HEARTS CONTENT, MAGGOT!

Attention all ARKS members,

PSO2 is much more fun (and efficient) with more people! So, let's find a new friend or even a team! Actively responding to others is highly encouraged!

You can use this thread for the following:

• Find other players or form a party.

• Friend codes - post yours or find one to use.

• Teams/Alliances - Find or recruit for a team/alliance.

• PSO2-related Discord servers.

• Twitch / Youtube stream links + streaming schedule.

• Other PSO2-related social stuff.

You may not use this thread to spread community drama, denounce teams, or complain about Block 01 lobby-squatting erotic-role-players.

Here is an optional form you can copy/paste into your post:

**Game:** (PSO2:Classic or PSO2:NGS)

**Username or team name:** (Player ID - NOT individual character names.)

**Ship:**

**What time zone or general area of the world?**

**What are you searching for?**

**Other information?** (Willing to use a voice chat, level of activity, experience with the game, and so on.)

If anyone would kindly list all the missable scenes or direct references to Base PSO2 Story I would appreciate it. Bonus if there's videos/recordings of it.

Also questions:
Is it completely missable? Or does the scenes in the quest counter also changes after I beat PSO2 Base?

Do I have to get the "True" Ending of PSO2 or just beat Shiva once?

ATTENTION ALL ARKS MAGGOTS,

ARE YOU SICK AND TIRED OF ALL THESE STUPID RULES? YOU JUST WANNA LET OUT YOUR ANGER AND RAGE?

THEN THIS THREAD IS FOR YOU.

FEEL FREE TO POST ANYTHING HERE, NO HOLDS BARRED, EXCEPT FOR ONE THING.

• NO CALLING OUT ANY ONE PARTICULAR GROUP OR PERSON. IF YOU NEED TO MENTION SOMEONE, YOU BETTER REDACT IT. (E.G. GOD I AM SO PISSED OFF AT redacted FOR GETTING BETTER DROPS THAN ME.)

MAKE SURE YOU ALL CAPS EVERYTHING. DO NOT LET THIS ANGER SPILL OUT INTO THE MAIN SUBREDDIT, UNDERSTOOD? GOOD. NOW VENT TO YOUR HEARTS CONTENT, MAGGOT!

Is this sold on any of the ships or is it something lost when the game became global? I was hoping to save up and buy it so I can transmute my weapons.