Longterm schedule
The purpose of this article is to give players an idea of what to expect in future updates to the Xbox 360 servers by seeing what the Japanese PC servers already have received. Please keep in mind that the order content is listed here is not necessarily the order in which it will be received. Furthermore, just because certain content is listed here does not guarantee that it will be released locally.
For further details on upcoming major updates, please see the following articles:
Due to the announcement that GUARDIANS Cash will not be released on the Xbox 360 servers, the future of certain missions and updates from the Japanese PC servers is unknown as far as them making it to the Xbox 360 version of the game. To help separate these updates from normal content and to give a better idea of what all is affected by this decision, all GUARDIANS Cash-related updates can be found in this section.
Contents
New missions
Mission name | Ranks | Start lobby | Start counter | End lobby |
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Passport to Subspace | C | Holtes City: East District | GUARDIANS Branch | Holtes City: East District |
Passport to Subspace | B-A | Holtes City: East District | GUARDIANS Branch | Holtes City: East District |
World of Illusion/R | -- | Clyez City: 3rd Floor | Resident Security Dept. | Clyez City: 3rd Floor |
Stamp Shop | -- | Clyez City: 3rd Floor | Resident Security Dept. | Clyez City: 3rd Floor |
The Black Nest | S3 | Dallgun Viewing Plaza | Clyez City Area | Rykros |
The Dark God | S3 | Rykros | Core Area | Falz Memoria |
True Darkness | S3 | Dallgun Viewing Plaza | HIVE No.3 Entrance | HIVE No.3 |
Distant Memory | C-S3 | Falz Memoria | Nanotrance Vortex | Dallgun Viewing Plaza |
Forest of Illusion | S2 | Random | Random | Various |
Phantom Fissure | S2 | Random | Random | Various |
Illusionary Shaft | S2 | Random | Random | Various |
Phantom Ruins | S2 | Random | Random | Various |
Bladed Legacy/R | -- | Clyez City: 3rd Floor | Resident Security Dept. | Clyez City: 3rd Floor |
RSD Reward Exchange | -- | Clyez City: 3rd Floor | Resident Security Dept. | Clyez City: 3rd Floor |
Cost of Research | S3 | Kugo Hot Springs | Kego Clearing Area | Kego Clearing |
Caves of Ice | S3 | N. Cont.: Vio Tonga | Granigs Mine Area | Granigs Mine |
Awoken Serpent | S3 | Granigs Mine | Voloyal Area | Casino Voloyal |
Deserted Mines | C-S3 | Casino Voloyal | Granigs Mine Area | N. Cont.: Vio Tonga |
Mad Creatures | S3 | Holtes City: East District | Flyer Base | Raffon Field Base |
Plains Overlord | S3 | Raffon Field Base | Lakeshore Park Area | Raffon Lakeshore |
Special Exchange 2nd | -- | Clyez City: 3rd Floor | Resident Security Dept. | Clyez City: 3rd Floor |
Military Subway | S2-S3 | AMF Metro Platform | Central Command Area | AMF Central Command |
Bruce's Dungeon | S3 | Dagora City | GUARDIANS Branch | Dagora City |
The Protectors ε' | C-S3 | Clyez City: 3rd Floor | Resident Security Dept. | Clyez City: 3rd Floor |
Chronicle Setup HQ | -- | Clyez City: 5th Floor | GUARDIANS HQ | Clyez City: 5th Floor |
Eco Protection | C-S3 | Kego Clearing | Agata Islands Area | Shikon Tanze route |
Misty Ruins | C-S3 | Old Hakura Temple | Kugo Hot Springs Area | Kugo Hot Springs |
Grove of Fanatics | S3 | Shikon Tanze route | Hakura Temple Area | Old Hakura Temple |
The Black Nest/R | -- | Clyez City: 3rd Floor | Resident Security Dept. | Clyez City: 3rd Floor |
The Mad Beasts | S3 | Raffon Lakeshore | Underwater Plant Area | Underwater Plant |
Evacuation Route | C-S3 | AMF Central Command | AMF Platform Area | Foran Waterfall |
Two-Headed Ruins | C-S3 | Foran Waterfall | Old Rozenom City Area | Old Rozenom City |
Lightning Beasts | S3 | Old Rozenom City | Paracabana Coast Area | Paracabana Coast |
SEED Express | S3 | Paracabana Coast | Central Command Area | AMF Central Command |
Dancing Birds | S3 | Habirao F.D.: Village | Saguraki C.D. Area | Saguraki C.D. |
MAG' | S3 | Clyez City: 5th Floor | GUARDIANS HQ | Clyez City: 5th Floor |
Program DF' | S3 | Clyez City: 5th Floor | Bonus Counter | Clyez City: 5th Floor |
Lightning Beasts/R | -- | Clyez City: 3rd Floor | Resident Security Dept. | Clyez City: 3rd Floor |
Special Exchange 3rd | -- | Clyez City: 3rd Floor | Resident Security Dept. | Clyez City: 3rd Floor |
Crimson Beast | S3 | Raffon Lakeshore | Field Base Area | Raffon Field Base |
The Doctor's Request | -- | Clyez City: 5th Floor | GUARDIANS HQ | Clyez City: 5th Floor |
Mechanical Ghosts | C-S3 | Dallgun Viewing Plaza | Clyez City Area | Clyez City: 4th Floor |
White Beast | S3 | Pavilion of Air: Top | Shitenkaku Area | Shitenkaku |
Chronicle Setup HQ 2nd | -- | Clyez City: 5th Floor | GUARDIANS HQ | Clyez City: 5th Floor |
Events
- GUARDIANS Limit Attack
- GUARDIANS Party Scoring
- The Great Arms Race
- G. Colony Drop Boost 2nd
- Maximum Attack X
- Moatoob Drop Boost 3rd
- Beginner Support Week
- GUARDIANS Chronicle
- Summer Break Special Week
- Neudaiz Drop Boost 4th
- 4th Anniversary Thanks Festa
- Autumn Special Week
- Parum Drop Boost 4th
- Winter Special Week
- Ragol Memorial Festa
- Winter's End Special Week
- G. Colony Drop Boost 3rd
- GUARDIANS Chronicle 2nd
- Spring Special Week
- Maximum Attack Infinity
New items
- Casino Voloyal's exchange counter will be updated over time with the following items:
- A third wave of items will be added to Special Trading Stn.:
- A fourth wave of items will be added to Special Trading Stn.:
- A fifth wave of style and type customization options will be added to GAS.
- A third wave of items will be added to RSD Drop-off's delivery point rewards:
- A sixth wave of style and type customization options will be added to GAS.
- A fifth wave of items will be added to Special Trading Stn.:
- A sixth wave of items will be added to Special Trading Stn.:
- A fifth wave of items will be added to RSD Trading Station:
- An eighth wave of style and type customization options will be added to GAS. This will also include cap increases for special abilities and attribute proficiencies.
- A seventh wave of items will be added to Special Trading Stn.:
- A ninth wave of style customization options will be added to GAS.
- A second wave of items will be added to Special Exchange 2nd:
- A third wave of items will be added to Special Exchange 2nd:
- A fourth wave will be added to RSD Drop-off's delivery point rewards:
- A fourth wave of items will be added to Special Exchange 2nd:
- A fourth wave of items will be added to Special Exchange 2nd:
- A fifth wave will be added to RSD Drop-off's delivery point rewards:
- A fifth wave of items will be added to Special Exchange 2nd:
- A sixth wave of items will be added to Special Exchange 2nd:
- A seventh wave of items will be added to Special Exchange 2nd:
- An eleventh wave of style customization options will be added to GAS. The AP cap will also be increased from 20 to 30.
- An eighth wave of items will be added to Special Exchange 2nd:
- A ninth wave of items will be added to Special Exchange 2nd:
- A second wave of items will be added to RSD Reward Exchange:
- A second wave of items will be added to Special Exchange 3rd:
- A sixth wave of items will be added to RSD Drop-off's delivery point rewards:
- A third wave of items will be added to Special Exchange 3rd:
- A fourth wave of items will be added to Special Exchange 3rd:
- A fifth wave of items will be added to Special Exchange 3rd:
- A sixth wave of items will be added to Special Exchange 3rd:
- A twelfth wave of type customization options will be added to GAS. This will also include a basic abilities cap increase for humans and newmans, and an attributes/resistances cap increase for all races.
Mission updates
Rare mission boost display
- The item drop rate and EXP boost values displayed on-screen in rare free missions will changed from 500% to 400%. This change will be visual in nature only; the original 500% boosts will remain in effect.
AOTI conversions
- The following missions will be updated to change them over from PSU missions to AOTI missions. In some cases, enemy levels will change along with certain drops.
- True Darkness
- Cost of Research (Also converted from a co-op mission to a free mission.)
- Mad Creatures
- Plains Overlord
- Bruce's Dungeon
- Grove of Fanatics (Also, the destination lobby will be changed from Shikon Tanze route to Old Hakura Temple.)
- The Mad Beasts
- Desert Goliath
- Crimson Beast (Also converted from a co-op mission to a free mission.)
- Dark Satellite
- SEED Awakened (Also, the BGM will be changed from "HIVE" to "Z.C. Enemy 2.")
Mission rewards
- Meseta, MP and random item rewards will be boosted for Passport to Subspace C.
- Meseta and MP rewards will be boosted for Caves of Ice C-S2.
Clear boxes
- Clear boxes will be added to the end of Caves of Ice.
Mission modifications
- The following missions will undergo various adjustments to parts such as enemy spawn patterns and box contents:
- Lightning Beasts C-S2
- Dancing Birds C-S2
- Dark Satellite S3
- SEED Awakened S3
- White Beast C-S2
- The following missions will be adjusted to increase their party size limit from 4 players to 6 players:
- The mission failure conditions of MAG' will be changed.
Delivery points
- The following items will be added to RSD Drop-off's exchange where they can be turned in for the listed DP total.
- Valentine Chocolate: 20 DP
- White Day Candy: 20 DP
- Colorful Egg: 20 DP
- Lunga Pudding: 50 DP
- Neudaiz Salad: 50 DP
- Vol Curry: 50 DP
- Hot Chili Dog: 20 DP
- Balloon Melon: 20 DP
- Pumpkin Pudding: 20 DP
- Christmas Ork: 20 DP
Daily stamps
- The following items will be removed from the Happy Gacha at Stamp Shop:
- The following items will be added to the Happy Gacha at Stamp Shop:
New lobbies
- Old Hakura Temple, a new mid-point lobby on Neudaiz will be added.
New fields
- The following new fields will be added:
Updated lobbies
- A new mission counter to Old Rozenom City will be added to Foran Waterfall.
- The NPC vendors will be relocated at Raffon Lakeshore and Casino Voloyal.
System updates
Item drop changes
- The following new items will be added to the clear boxes of The Dark God C-S:
- C: Seva Bonga
- B: Seva Borga
- A-S: Sevacuc
- Rappy Paska will receive two new AOTI special drops:
- The following new items will be added to the clear boxes of Awoken Serpent A-S2:
- A: Accordion Whip
- S-S2: Ophidian Medusa
- Bil De Vear will receive a LV175-199 drop change: Bil De Horn Axe.
- Jaggo Sonichi will receive two new AOTI special drops:
- Jaggo Acte will receive two new AOTI special drops:
- Komazli will receive a new special drop:
- Ubakrada will receive a new special drop:
- Rygutass will receive a new special drop:
- The following items will be added to the clear boxes of Desert Terror S3:
- Researching...
- The following items will be added to the clear boxes of Rogues' Shortcut S3:
- Researching...
- The following items will be added to the clear boxes of True Darkness S2-S3:
- S2: Researching...
- S3: Diabolic Gauntlet
- The following items will be added to the clear boxes of SEED Awakened S3:
- Researching...
- The following items will be added to the clear boxes of Electronic Brain S-S2:
- S: Researching...
- S2: Researching...
- The following items will be added to the clear boxes of SEED Express S2:
- Rappy Latan will receive two new AOTI special drops:
- The following items will replace the previous clear box contents of Lightning Beasts C-S2:
- Researching...
- The following items will be added to the clear boxes of SEED Express S-S2:
- S: Researching...
- S2: Turbulence Cannon, Grifone
- The following items will be added to the clear boxes of Electronic Brain A-S2:
- Researching...
- Grass Assassin will receive a new special drop:
- Delnadian will receive a new special drop:
- Rappy Noel will receive two new AOTI special drops:
- Dilla Griena will receive a new AOTI special drop:
- Rappy Amure will receive one new AOTI special drop:
- Dilnazen will receive one new AOTI special drop:
Photon art balances
- The power of the first part of Rising Crush will be increased.
- The power of the second and third parts of Assault Crush will be increased.
- The power of the second part of Splendor Crush will be increased.
- The power of the first part of Cross Hurricane will be increased.
- The overall power of Renkai Buyou-zan will be increased.
- The power of the first and second parts of Moubu Seiren-zan will be increased.
- The overall power of Hishou Jinren-zan will be increased.
- The power of the first and second parts of Renga Chujin-shou will be increased.
- The overall power of Bukuu Rensen-ga will be increased.
- The overall power of Renzan Seidan-ga will be increased.
- The overall power of Rensan Senshou-ga will be increased.
- The overall power of Chuei Jitotsushin will be increased.
- The power of all grenade bullets will be increased.
- The blast radius and target hit count of all elemental grenade bullets will be increased.
- The accuracy of all elemental crossbow bullets will be increased.
- The blast radius and target hit count of Boma Duranga will be increased.
- The power of the second and third parts of Spinning Break will be increased. The first part will hit one additional target.
- The overall power of Tornado Break will be increased. The first part will hit two additional targets and the second part will hit one additional target.
- The overall power of Bogga Zubba will be increased. It will also hit two additional targets.
- The overall power and accuracy of Bukuu Rensen-ga will be increased. The second part will hit one additional target.
- The first part of Shunbu Shouren-zan will hit one additional target and the second part will hit two additional targets.
- The overall accuracy of Senten Kanzan-ga will be increased.
- The power of Barta will be boosted.
- The power of Zonde will be boosted.
- The power of Megid will be boosted.
- The attribute rate and accuracy of all elemental longbow bullets will be increased.
- The attribute rate and accuracy of all elemental handgun bullets will be increased.
- The accuracy of all elemental card bullets will be increased.
- The first part of Gravity Dance will hit one additional target.
- The first part of Anga Dugrega will hit two additional targets and the second part will hit one additional target.
- The overall power of Splendor Crush will be increased. The first and third parts will hit one additional target each.
- The overall power of Assault Crush will be increased. All parts will hit one additional target each.
- The power of the third part of Rising Crush will be increased. The second part will hit two additional targets and the third part will hit one additional target.
- The overall power of Moubu Seiren-zan will be increased.
- The power of the first and second parts of Renga Chujin-shou will be increased. The attack range of the first and third parts will be increased, and a hit effect will be added.
- The power of the third part of Renkai Buyou-zan will be increased.
- The third part of Hishou Jinren-zan will hit one additional target.
Your room functions
- Player record and titles menus will be added to the vision phone.
- Vision phone and partner machine functions previously exclusive to AOTI room styles will be added to rooms decorated with ver.1 remodeling tickets. These functions include the player record, title record (and reward collection), bulletin board, jukebox and shop greeting options.
Interface functions
- A text input history will be added to the online status, party name, party comment and conditional search fields. As with the history available in the chat system, any previously typed text will be available only for the duration of one gaming session, and will reset when you log out.
- A small icon will be added to the lower-right corner of item stat/description windows to indicate that the item cannot be traded between players.
Title system
- A title system similar to that from the Phantasy Star Portable series will be added.
- A player record will be made available at your vision phone. This menu contains a wide variety of statistics such as total enemies defeated, largest amount of damage inflicted, number of hours played, etc., which will help give you a reference point for obtaining certain titles.
- A second wave of titles will be added.
- A third wave of titles will be added.
- A fourth wave of titles will be added.
- A fifth wave of titles will be added.
- A sixth wave of titles will be added.
- A seventh wave of titles will be added.
- An eighth wave of titles will be added.
- A ninth wave of titles will be added.
- A tenth wave of titles will be added.
- An eleventh wave of titles will be added.
- A twelfth wave of titles will be added.
- Seasonal titles will be added throughout the year to correspond with the release of seasonal enemies.
Daily stamps
- A new NPC will be added to the left-hand side of the Resident Security Department counter. You can visit her once per day to receive your allowed daily stamps (one stamp for free course players, five for premium course players).
- A new NPC will be added to the right-hand side of the Resident Security Department counter. Though initially he will have nothing to offer, a future update will add Stamp Shop where you can exchange stamps for various items.
Enemy adjustments
- Base stats (including EXP) for all LV175+ enemies will be increased. At LV175, base EXP will be increased from 554 to 579.
GAS adjustments
- The AP cap will be increased from 10 to 20.
- The AP cap will be increased from 20 to 30.
Bug fixes
- The following enemies will be adjusted to fix the erratic behavior caused when a player moves too close to the enemy:
Item name changes
- The following items will undergo the listed name changes:
Miscellaneous additions
- New hair and accessory options (Cheers Set hair for women and Koltovan Set helmet for both men and women) will be added to Lumilass.
- A hairstyle addition option will be added to Lumilass, though initially it will not have any available options. A future update will add Hairstyle Ticket which will randomly unlock one of the new hairstyles.
- A unified free mission counter will be added to GUARDIANS HQ and each GUARDIANS Branch, giving you access to the respective planet's mid-point lobby missions in one central location.
- A tutorial NPC will be added to Clyez City 1F in front of the room entrances.
- GUARDIANS Colony elevators will be updated to include direct access to 5F: GUARDIANS HQ.
- Direct shuttle service NPCs will be added to GUARDIANS HQ.
- GUARDIANS HQ will be added as an available destination at each direct shuttle NPC.
- Casino Voloyal's daily Vol Coin allowance will be increased to 1 50.
- A new type of grenade bullet will be introduced that certain grenades will use. Instead of the normal parabolic path, this one will shoot horizontally.
- New unlockable hairstyles will be added to Lumilass, increasing the totals available to everyone as follows:
- Male humans, newmans, beasts: 3 ⇒ 7
- Male CASTs: 4 ⇒ 9
- Female humans, newmans, beasts: 4 ⇒ 12
- Female CASTs: 4 ⇒ 14
- The tutorial NPC in Clyez City 1F will be relocated to in front of the elevators.
- Shuttle NPCs will be added to the following areas:
- Supervisor's Office
- kesla-vasla
- GRM Shop
- Yohmei Shop
- TENORA WORKS Shop
- New unlockable hairstyles will be added to Lumilass, increasing the totals available to everyone as follows:
- Male humans, newmans, beasts: 7 ⇒ 11
- Male CASTs: 9 ⇒ 14
- Female humans, newmans, beasts: 12 ⇒ 16
- Female CASTs: 14 ⇒ 19