Updates/February 2008

The following updates occurred during February of 2008.

Update 041

Date: February 29, 2008

New free mission

One new free mission was added along with a new field and lobby.

Mission name	Ranks	Start lobby	Start counter	End lobby
The Black Nest	C-S	Dallgun Viewing Plaza	Clyez City Area	Rykros

New story mission

The third chapter of Episode 3 has been released.

Mission name	Ranks	Start lobby	Start counter	End lobby
Will of Light 1	C-A	Clyez City	GUARDIANS HQ	C.O.G. Lab Entrance
Will of Light 2	C-A	C.O.G. Lab Entrance	Research Area	Clyez City

New items

Yokus Melton's item exchange mission has received an update, adding numerous new items to her lineup including Transfer: Moatoob, PM Fighgroll, BR Disc 1 and much more!

Mission name	Ranks	Start lobby	Start counter	End lobby
The Collector	--	Holtes City	Melton's Shop	Holtes City

Update 040

Date: February 15, 2008
Updates between the Xbox 360 and PC/PS2 servers finally are getting synchronized again. With this maintenance period, most everything from the previous two PC/PS2 updates has made its way to the 360 servers.

GUARDIANS Boost Road

Even though GUARDIANS Boost Road was released to the 360 servers last week, there were some issues with the event's points system. This has been addressed, however it did call for all points accumulated to be reset. This reset applies only to the 360 servers.

New missions

Two Ambition of the Illuminus missions have received S2 difficulties. This applies to the Xbox 360 servers.

Mission name	Ranks	Start lobby	Start counter	End lobby
Caves of Ice	S2	Vio Tonga	Granigs Mine Area	Granigs Mine
Awoken Serpent	S2	Granigs Mine	Voloyal Area	Casino Voloyal

Though reported by SonicTeam that it would be delayed until February 22nd, the first rare free mission was released for the Xbox 360.

Mission name	Ranks	Start lobby	Start counter	End lobby
Forest of Illusion	C-S	Random	Random	Various

New partner machine upgrade devices

Numerous new EX Devices have been added allowing various upgrades to partner machines, including EX Device GH470 and EX Device GH480 which allow partner machines to evolve into young boy and butler forms.

The Nanotranser X has been released. This item allows you to increase the storage capacity of your partner machine by 50 items. Multiple Nanotranser Xs can be used to increase a PM's storage capacity to a maximum of 500 items.

New items

Casino Voloyal's exchange counter has been updated with many new room decorations, music discs and clothes. (Part of this update was received by the 360 last week, but now everything should be even.) Variety Shop in Clyez City has also been stocked with a new remodeling ticket, Blue Court to go along with some of Voloyal's new decorations such as the Barbell and Sandbag. Finally Shitenkaku's offering box has received some new items.

Update 039

Date: February 08, 2008
Following some issues with getting the necessary Xbox 360 title update certified by Microsoft, SonicTeam have delivered the content detailed in update 038 to the 360 servers. Unfortunately, this update is once again broken apart between servers. Details follow on which servers received what with this maintenance.

Seasonal lobby

Valentine's Day has returned to Gurhal. Be on the lookout for the rare Rappy Amure! All servers have received this update.

GUARDIANS Boost Road

The GUARDIANS Boost Road has begun on Moatoob! The following missions are part of this limited time event:

• System Defense
• Desert Terror
• Tunnel Recapture
• Caves of Ice
• Awoken Serpent

The more ranks you earn on these missions, the better the drop rates for them become, with a maximum boost of 50%. Remember that your bonus is based on the mission you've run the least, so work with all five missions to get the most of the bonus.

New missions

Two Ambition of the Illuminus missions have received S2 difficulties. This only applies to the PC/PS2 servers.

Mission name	Ranks	Start lobby	Start counter	End lobby
Caves of Ice	S2	Vio Tonga	Granigs Mine Area	Granigs Mine
Awoken Serpent	S2	Granigs Mine	Voloyal Area	Casino Voloyal

Though reported by SonicTeam that it would be delayed due to a critical bug, the first rare free mission was released. However, it has been released only on the PC/PS2 servers.

Mission name	Ranks	Start lobby	Start counter	End lobby
Forest of Illusion	C-S	Random	Random	Various

New items

Casino Voloyal costumes for women have been added to the exchange counter at Casino Voloyal along with some other new items. Clyez City's Variety Shop has also been updated with some new decorations. These updates apply only to the Xbox 360 servers.

Update 038

Date: February 01, 2008
This update was delayed for the Xbox 360 servers due to a necessary title update not being certified by Microsoft on time.

Winter Event

The Winter Event has come to an end for the PC/PS2 servers, taking the seasonal winter lobbies and superholy Photon Fortune for all races with it. However, due to the title update certification delay mentioned above, the Winter Event continues on the Xbox 360 servers.

New story mission

Chapter 2 of Episode 3 has been released.

Mission name	Ranks	Start lobby	Start counter	End lobby
Restorations 1	C-A	Clyez City	GUARDIANS HQ	Galenigare Ravine
Restorations 2	C-A	Galenigare Ravine	N. Cont.: Old Mine	Clyez City

New item exchange mission

A brand new item exchange mission has been added to Holtes City. You can exchange various items for new room decorations, music discs and more!

Mission name	Ranks	Start lobby	Start counter	End lobby
The Collector	--	Holtes City	Melton's Shop	Holtes City

New items

• Five new color variations have been added to the Waiwad and Hanaura sets along with CV variants of the Musagante and Valatines sets for CASTs.
• Shitenkaku's offering box has also been updated with new items.

System updates

• Meseta drop rules have been changed so that only party members in the mission field will receive dropped Meseta. Players who are in a lobby will not receive any money.
• Item drop rates for enemies in the original Phantasy Star Universe have been adjusted to match those of Ambition of the Illuminus.
• Certain enemies in Ambition of the Illuminus have had their drops changed.
• Rare material drop rates from normal containers have been increased in missions with enemies over LV125.