What New Genesis actually is, however, is a little confusing.It's fundamentally a standalone game—an entirely separate free-to-play MMO to PSO2—that's set a thousand years in the future. December 15, 2020 December 15, 2020 Lostbob117 Phantasy Star Online 2, PSO2 New Genesis, PSO2 NGS JP SEGA has officially announced the closed beta testing of PSO2: New Genesis. Registration is currently open for the first test, scheduled to begin late January. New Genesis celebrates the 20th anniversary of the series and is an overhaul of PSO2 - with improved game design, gameplay, and a graphics engine that's been completely reworked.

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Yesterday, Sega announced Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis, with drastically overhauled graphics and gameplay, leading to some confusion as to whether this is a new game or not. However, Sega has released a follow-up video that is much more clear about the connection between PSO2 and PSO2: New Genesis, and what is carried over.

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Essentially, PSO2: New Genesis acts as something of a clean break from PSO2, set 1,000 years after the events in the original game. Sega is calling it the “rebirth” of the game, and the game features a wide-open playing field alongside its graphics and gameplay upgrades. Character growth will be reset, such as EXP, skills, Photon Arts, and Techniques. Game economy currency like Meseta, FUN, and more will not carry over either, although paid currency like Arcs Cash will be shared across both titles. That said, weapons, units, and Mags will carry over and be usable, albeit with temporarily different appearances and abilities. Most importantly, your character is carried through both games, and you can play both with the same account and character (though you can change your character looks as well). Emotes and other data will be carried over from the original game.

Meanwhile, Sega was quick to assure fans that this doesn’t mean that PSO2 is getting abandoned and shut down, thanks to New Genesis. The original title is getting a graphical upgrade to match the new game, and both titles will share the same free-to-play gameplay model with paid microtransactions. So for those players still getting through in-game content (especially for the North American version), it’s safe to continue playing with your current character.

Check out the full follow-up trailer below:

PSO2: New Genesis will launch for the Xbox Series X, Xbox One, and PC in 2021 outside Japan. In Japan, it will appear on the PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch via Cloud, and PC in both normal and Cloud versions.

If you’re an old Sega head you probably played Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast, or one of the later ports that showed up on the Gamecube and Xbox. For years, nearly a decade, Phantasy Star Online 2 was our white whale. Then Phil Spencer went and did his thing and suddenly PSO 2 was on the big screen at E3 2019. It was an E3 miracle, a lost game from 2012 that would never see localization was just… here. And now it’s getting a massive facelift as Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis. But it isn’t just a facelift.

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For years since it launched in 2012, PSO 2 has seen new updates as “episodes,” bringing new content, story, microtransaction events, the usual. The team at Sega in charge of the localization have a fast-track roadmap, planning to get English-speaking players up to speed by 2021. Turns out, New Genesis is a big motivator for that rush. But it wasn’t clear during the July 23 Xbox Games Showcase what exactly PSO 2 New Genesis is. Is it an update? A remake? Something totally different? The answer is all of the above, sorta.

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First and foremost, New Genesis will be a separate client from the original PSO 2. The game will be changed dramatically beyond the visuals, turning the game open world, changing the gameplay systems, story, and character creation suite. The visual upgrade will be coming in some form to the original game as well, increasing its system requirements. But players will be able to take their character and login to either version of the game. Both will exist parallel, and both will remain playable.

Character creation data will be supported between either version, hence the update to the original PSO 2 as well. However since the gameplay is changing, there are items that won’t be functional if you hop over to New Genesis. That includes Skill Rings, furniture, and consumable items. Some currency, namely AC and SG, can be used in both games. But other currencies like FUN and Meseta will not carry over, and neither will character growth. That’s again down to the system changes, so while you can bring your character over, you’ll be starting back at level 1 in New Genesis.

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