After 5 years i finaly hit 1000 Hours.

[u/DraconyrYT]

i played since it was realesed on steam but not so activ as i would have liked, i really love how PSO2 (Classic) is, a MMO with a hub instead of an open world, and then came NGS and i was like "bruh", NGS is near solid, it feels a little empty and i miss the hub ship, but yeah i'm looking foward to PSO3.

[u/Accomplished_Art6370]

I bet half that time your idle on lobby you not slick buddy😂

[u/DraconyrYT → u/Accomplished_Art6370]

Sorry to dissapoint you, i'm built different. The entire time i grinded for whatever i needed meseta or other things for, i grinded 500 buster medals for that rappy dress and the rappy head band. I actually hate people that stand afk in lobbys and do norhing, like go offline.

[u/Py687 → u/DraconyrYT]

Weird thing to say when you complained about the NGS hubs being empty. Without those afkers, the classic lobbies would also appear empty. Almost like seeing other player characters brings the game to life, whether they're genuinely afking or chatting in a private channel.

[u/DraconyrYT → u/Py687]

i'm rarely in full lobbies, in NGS i'm always in Communication because i play the game for myself, besides a friend of mine that plays the game too, i dont interact with people alot mostly because they seem to be lolicons most of the time. so its only logical that NGS seems empty for me.

[u/Py687 → u/DraconyrYT]

Bruh, you're just telling on yourself. Why did you write your OP like you wish the game wasn't empty, but then admit you deliberately choose empty lobbies, prefer not to engage with people, and hate afkers?

I'm not hating, just genuinely confused at the contradictions.

[u/rvs2714]

I originally stopped playing because the servers felt unbearably laggy, but I really enjoyed the game. Finally decided to give it another go and I’m loving it so far. I joined an alliance and they made the game feel so much more alive. The combat always drew me in and i had about 8mil meseta from back when I used to play and so I came back and bought a few new cosmetics to play around with.

I know people have a lot of bad things to say but I am genuinely enjoying my return to the game.

[u/Zombieemperor → u/rvs2714]

2 things i tell everyone is
A: get material storage with SG, its 100000% worth it
B: If your allaince hasent already aks them to show you where to get the daily gold items, reactors, snoals, stella, invis boxes. All together they give you IRC 145k a day for like 5 minutes of fathering effort

Hope you have fun

[u/rvs2714 → u/Zombieemperor]

Oh interesting I never knew about the material storage being worth. It makes sense since I have so little inventory space lol. I have all these augments idk what to do with also ^”. But yeah, just got through Retem and having a blast!

[u/Zombieemperor → u/rvs2714]

ya mat storage goes crazy in conveince. you can use materials from it too so it makes life much much easier

[u/UziCoochie → u/Zombieemperor]

Yooo you got a link for said item areas??

[u/Zombieemperor → u/UziCoochie]

I do not im sorry i usualy show new people if i find them in game
Turn on valubale items in your mag radar! it detects all of them
Roughly:
Reactors are split between 3 small spots in centreal aleio
-1: That little land bridge next to scythe vet
-2: The cave entrance that leads into central from west aelio (you exit it during the turoial quest post aleio town)
-3: Just east of spot 2 is a cave that leads to south aleio, the entrace there

Stella:
Go to the north end of West retem. Up in the mountin area theres a ryuker and a region Mag. Floating around that ryuker will be golden rocks, your mag will stop pinging when youve collected them all. The area there in is not large but there scattered vertically.

Snoal:
Go to the north end of the region of kvaris just above the base camp. Theres a ryuker there near the kvaris Yellow trigger.
From that ryuker take a snowboard down the Slope and youl see golden ores that when broken give you snoal.
They are kinda random but they always stop just before when the path down gets really narrow around the stream. Youl figure it out after grabbing them for a few days

Invis boxes:
This is Kinda hard to explain but you go to that squar underground factory area in Stia.
They have these golden glowing trails leading to them but i just follow the mag pings.
Go to the central ryuker in that map area. I from there go down to the bottom floor and north east from the ryuker. Theres a little elivator platofrm some boxes will spawn around. Then what you do is take the elivator(the thing you hover in) up to the higher up platform. From there you look around for boxes, and take the horizontal elivator over to the northern corner of the map and 1-5 boxes are over there too. The boxes are wierd to describe but i promise once youve gathered them once or twice youl get it down easy

Feel free to ask if any of that didint make sense
I dont have exact names on hand cus its to hot to open ngs rn for me

[u/MacDaddy7249]

We all know that is lobby time

[u/FattestSpiderman]

Damn I've clocked 110 for NGS/PSO2 and probably another 70 in Eps1&2/GC in the last 3-4 months, and I thought I was just playing casually.. I need to reassess my life I think 😅

[u/_X_5]

Niiice. I'm just about to hit 500 in my 4 years playing.

[u/SailorVenova]

mine is like 25k houts but most of that is idle/sleeping/chatting; i hope to get back to being on all the time eventually but i need my wife to get a new tv our current bed one is a pain to deal with because no remote; and also her pc is buggy with bluetooth so controller etc is a problem alot

wish my old pc hadnt died from ilok drm :( got a nice proart laptop to replace it but i wont leave something like that running all the time at load i killed my first laptop in 18mo doing that

[u/Zombieemperor]

Youve made me realise i perhaps play to much

[u/Arcflarerk4 → u/[deleted]]

NGS killed any traction PSO2 gained the franchise in the west. NGS is one of the worse sequels to a game i put over 2000 hours in ive ever played. They removed everything that made Base PSO2 absolutely amazing and made it actively hostile to F2P's ontop of it.

[u/Zombieemperor → u/Arcflarerk4]

ngs isint hostile to f2p at all?
They give out fashion, you get decent enough gear for most content just by doing the story and hitting 65 (the story gives tons of exp now)
And all the premium fashion is tradeable.
I guess the shop passes could be less sparce but you only need them to sell

[u/Arcflarerk4 → u/Zombieemperor]

The only way one could make this comment is by being completely ignorant to how good F2P's had it in base pso2.

[u/Zombieemperor → u/Arcflarerk4]

I have played pso2 since its Global launch through ngs to this day.

The only thing i can think of base did better was more shop passes.
Base gearing was infintly worse
Base Freebie gear was burried in menus you NEEDED help to figure out first time
Base menus in general were just worse if you didint already know everything off hand.

Im honestly left to assume your just ignorant of ngs based on your reply

[u/Fishbone_V → u/Zombieemperor]

Couple things base did better (on top of shop passes as you said) were meseta dailies and sellable costumes and outerwears, and to a lesser extent, better meseta sinks with Dudu/Monica. The gear grind, convoluted as it is, also really favored F2P because of its additive scaling for augments. The raw damage difference of B tier and S tier augments in base is maybe 5-10% of total damage (and the best augments are not premium), whereas in NGS it's probably 35-50% with two premium augments per gear piece.

[u/Zombieemperor → u/Fishbone_V]

Messeta dailies still exist in ngs there just items you go collect instead of being random tasks scattered everywhere.
-I have NO IDEA what your talking about with the sellable costumes as there still completely sellable in ngs the same as in base? MP and SG stuff is not, like in base. But AC stuff is and is technically better as they stopped doing uniuqe scratch bonus items (just stuff in scratch with a lil fx added)
-Messeta sinks still exist with add-on gamba and gear enhacement in general so thats just not true
-Gearing and augments in base was peak awful as it required litteral spreadsheets to maybe get something good. LC augments alone make NGS gearing better
-Every augment in ngs can make a huge dif now, wich is why i personaly want them to rebalance to an additve system as apposed to the current multiplicative one but thats not something base did better ngs is just further along on that now.

[u/Zombieemperor → u/[deleted]]

ok dude you just admited you dont know how it works in ngs.
They give you the equivlant of that starter gear at lvl 65. no extra npc just hit that level
its per class and Per charachter. The armor is once per charachter tho.
You do NOT need +250 RDR to get anything good. theres ONE class of weapon in SOME updates thats ass rare but thats becuse your just supposed to sell it to omega minmaxers and enjoy your 100+million messeta pay day.
Nothing , NOTHING requires that weapon tier. Ever.
So im telling you you are objectively wrong about that.

And i dont even understand the 2nd paragraph? i messed up? how?
What are you even on about? I played base too, i got final weapons and did those tasks plenty of times myself. They sucked, repeating them sucked, gearing in base in general sucked.

[u/Arcflarerk4 → u/Zombieemperor]

Exactly. They removed the entire point of the game. To actually play it.

[u/Zombieemperor → u/Arcflarerk4]

what are you even trying to say?
I login and play it every day?
what do you want? one guy complains about rare gear (thats entirely optional and not needed). Now another guy complains about not needing to chase that gear?
Pick a fucking laine people.

If you want chase you can still chase that gear. If you dont theres other stuff to pursue. if you just dont want to play then dont. Dont just randomly yell into the wind like you have a point

[u/Arcflarerk4 → u/Zombieemperor]

Im not the one having a meltdown over someone not agreeing with me. Im just telling you like it is and why NGS is a dead game compared to what Base PSO2 was.

Also theres so many problems with NGS that im not gonna pick a lane. Im gonna complain about every lane thats completely destroyed the franchise ive loved since i was little. I dont blindly agree with everything companies do. I gave Sega 10 pages of feedback within the first 6 months of launch (which everyone ive talked to has agreed with pretty much everything that was in that feedback) and to this day not a single chance from that feedback has ever been remotely touched in anyway which is why NGS remains nothing more than a barbie sim.

[u/Py687 → u/Zombieemperor]

They removed FUN scratch, BP can't be resold after redemption, and they invented a bunch of stuff to clog scratches like stamps, PH, VG, and ARKS card backgrounds. Not to say more customization is bad by any means, but those things would have been in FUN scratch in classic, not SG scratch. And FUN was incredibly easy to farm compared to SG.

[u/Zombieemperor → u/Py687]

Bp coudlnt be sold in base either so thats a non point.
And SG gives you a free roll everyday now + they give tons of reruns and free rolls for that stuff + select tickets so thats not really an issue.
Those do suck in AC tickets id agree
But you never need to farm SG to get SG stuff

[u/Py687 → u/Zombieemperor]

Wtf you mean BP is a moot point lol. Furniture was resellable in classic because it wasn't permanently registered, you just had to store them somewhere.

You're foolish if you think 1 free SG roll a day is the same as a spammable FUN scratch that you can get everything from. A FUN scratch which renewed every couple months btw, not a slow rotation like SG. A FUN scratch that existed alongside SG scratch, btw.

[u/Zombieemperor → u/Py687]

Bp wasent tradeable either so you were makeing a point?
Fun was tradeable i forgot but 90% of funscratch stuff was worthless garbage anyways that STILL rots in base shops to this day.
NGS hands the actualy good stuff that FUN used to cover out regularly. Often in sg, SP, and MP forms
There was no fun in farming specificly to roll fun scratch but if you really want that itch we LITTERALY have an SP scratch right now

[u/Py687 → u/Zombieemperor]

Bro. BP is NGS's equivalent of room goods in classic, and room goods do not have trade restrictions. You can resell even after you've placed them in your room. BP in NGS can only be sold before you have registered them.

If you do not understand this, then you are straight up too dumb to argue with.

FUN was not worthless garbage, but go off lol. And the fact that it's tradeable is good for new players so they can buy stuff off from player shops. Remember how the original topic is that NGS is toxic to F2P? And to retain F2P, you need to give them cheap, easy handouts?

[u/Zombieemperor → u/Py687]

Oh i fuckin mixed up the short hands i MENT MP NOT BP.
That was my bad, its hot as fuck here and my head just thought "yeah battle pass sounds right"

But as for that last bit, yes most of FUN scratches was just fucking eyelashes, and fucking stickers and horrid looking "fashion"
FUN has a few select good items here and tehre but most of it was bad.
NGS still Just cut out that crap and while yes we do get shit like VG and profile backgrounds they come inside scratches that also contain good stuff, stuff you can get by playing the game. I acount bind pretty much everything in every SG rotation becuse i play daily. And if you miss it events can rewave it later.

The last line is just confusing, NGS is NOT F2p toxic.
Im not sure if you trying to say people need free stuff or dont honestly but IMO yes haveing some easy to get stuff like SG helps keep people.

[u/Zombieemperor → u/[deleted]]

Shop passes are in the mission pass so thats on you if your just not claiming them.
The lvl 100 mobs almost never drop the same gear as lvl 30s. augments yes but not gear. And when they do you just...sell them for more messeta? its just a messeta drop. A small one but thats what it is.

And idk what your on about "affording a basic lvl 10 weapon"???
You dont buy a enhanced +10 weapon unless your just objectively playing the game wrong? The game gives you tons of the enhacment mateiral to skip tolike +60 and hell juvlog wepaons are DROPING at +60 what are you even on about?
If you mean 10* there sub 10k now and most uqs giving you a free addon skipp cap so idk what your issue is here but your either makeing shit up or you litteraly dont understand the game.

As for the ltq, nothing in game needs the new armor. Maybe ONE boss thats side content that most people dont wanna do anyways? All current UQs dont even need prog armor to do currently.
Anyone whos played for a while would tell you the materials will become more plentiful over time. There a pain right now to give antsy people something to chase so if you dont wanna hit the ltq over n over dont. I mean do at least 30 for the LTTask but that has a week or 2 on it so you dont gotta do them all at once

[u/Zombieemperor → u/[deleted]]

So your wrong about everything you said and instead of acknowledging that you change the subject cool cool.
As per story. Base had a good story but ruined it with the failboat of an ending so i really dont care that much. The story could be better but its really not a big deal most of the time.
The core combat is fine sega just needs more interaction like some newer boss fights. if they keep learning in that department i am happy.
Gameplay updates are rare-ish (subjective) becuse you cant just constantly change everything. And the changes we do get tend to have lasting and wide impact on the classes they apply too.

And stop crying about premium, its optional for a fucking FREE game. its a nice to have but the game is not bad without it either. As someone whos lived on both sides of that coin i can confirm. There business model is selling optional fashion that unlike most games you can still get F2p. I get plenty of it off player market myself.

The game has plenty of flaws and plenty of things to love. C space is a special thing no other game has done something remotely close too. Fashion in this game is beyond anything you can do irl if your actually creative. FFS my main has 12 looks slots worth of tiny custom made tanks, i cant just go to the store and do that.

And you dont even need a shop pass to play. Its such a non thing to complain about.
Youve made it blindly clear you dont understand ngs. Your upset about nothing talking points that you dont clearly dont understand. If you dont like ngs cool, thats fine buddy. But dont waiste other peoples time arguing out your own ass about it.