If this game was subscription based i would never play it, or even look into it of it's worth or not. Same for FFXIV, people might claim it's a very good game, but i don't care at al as long as it's subscription based.

It's for a very simple reason. I have my work to do, and that leaves me for only a few hours to play games per day. On top of that i like to switch up games in the lil time i have availble. Both meaning that if I pay for a sunscription based game I pay for the bigger part for time I don't spend on the game, which is the biggest waste that can be in my eyes.

The only thing subscription based gaming is good for is promoting a no good gamer addict lifestyle as players don't want to waste a single moment of the game time they payed for.

Plus the removal of racial identities doent help also. In both PSO and PSU the diffrent races had different perks, making some more suitable for certain stuff as others. In PSO they went even so far that CAST type characters couldn't even use techs at all. Even amongst jobs there were differences in which tech you could learn to begin with, or some type of tech your class would get a bonus with. In PSU some races had different type of usage for the PB mechanic CAST summon huge weaponry, beast had their transforms which gave a certain absurd stat boost for some time.

I missed these racial triats already in PSO 2 base, although that still had a race select. Now in NGS race is just a matter of fashion you have equipped. Hell they even refused to call the left over choice you have in char creation by it's own name, which is just gender and male/female instead op bodytype 1 and 2......

You don't need the holy traingle per se for teamplay, but for sure some differences aside for what type of dmg you deal would be nice for teamplay feeling. Just take a look at GW2, each class feels different enough,but they all can do their own stuff while lvling. But when a map event pops up and some random people gather to beat it, there still is no party needed to actually get the feeling you are fighting something together, instead of just a few people doing their own thing and who happeen to be beating the same mob.

When talking about the weakpoint they dont mean hitting especially damaging spots like the cores, but rather hitting the enemies elemental weakness. This is also how tech elemental downs work, if you cast zonde on a ice weakness doll you won't ever get an elemental down, only barta/gibarta count to it.

It's nice to see elements on weapons too, so you don't need to be a force or techter to exploit elemental downs. Downside being that lightning element is a very bad element to start with, as only the UQ bosses are weak to it atm (and maybe a gigantix or so, but who cares about those anyways.)

And for 1 time only there are meseta in the red boxes. 10k for a normal box, and 25k in the barricaded red box on the shoreline of the halpha lake area. It's on top of one of the girder like structures sticking out of the embankment, right next to the current map border.

Or use a gamepad. Even with the basic setup using a xbox controller (which are also just plug n play for pc) already plays way easier.

Earlier forms were highest stat based. The PB they obtained too btw. The special mag based on your class and colour region you char was assigned to was dependent on a certain stat balance (like str+dex=Def+mnd something like that).

Also a very big use of mags in PSO was hitting equip stat benchmarks. Their stat supplements accounted for you chars base stat for meeting the requirements. Loot a nice gun, but can't equip it yet? Equip a dex mag adding like 50 ATA to you char and maybe you can.

I know the weather forecast isn't always right, but I atleast expect a civilization as advanced as in NGS to have somekind of prewarning if the weather is about to turn sour. Especially when you are in survival mode and you know some real big baddies have a chance to show up under certain weather conditions (storm in this case.)

Or atleast a warning should be given like a UQ, meaning people to low can clear out, and people looking for it know where to go. But well, that would make it just a another UQ i guess:P

I wonder why they neglected the option to do so from the start anyways.

If they want pop up events to happen on the exploration fields, they should take a look at GW2 as an example on how to do it right.

I can launch the game just fine, just fetching server updates is a tad werid. MS store indeed has some weirdnesses at times, but atm it's not nearly as bad as the old PSO2 client, which could need a full install with a manual edit in command prompt to get some windows related registrations fixed...

Also it should come to mind that some people don't really have a choice of matter which version to use. Grabbing a another version from either BE or NL is a lot harder, if not impossible or not free to play anymore.

Also the MS store version tries to do weird things when the server gets a new update. Apparently the NGS game laucher isn't a patcher that picks up a new version for you like the pre NGS PSO2 one did, at least not when running the MS version.

When a new version is out I have to go to the MS store page first, and yes, the play will change to downloading/installing like it is on twitter reported, but that only means it's busy getting the new server version ready for you (this is not a full download so it doesn't take that long). If I don't do this first and launch from the start menu like the twitter suggest, I get a a version mismatch message after selecting ship (so clearly it doesn't update like that).