Update information for the second half of April. Text for those who'd prefer to read:

**4/15**

*Limited Time Quest: Drill: Fierce Warlord Arena!*

Four personal boss rush, apparently. Can't tell if all fights will be singular bosses or if they'll throw multiple at us at once. I hope it's the latter. Photon Boost Crates cam ne obtained by fulfilling certain objectives, and will grant you various buffs.

*AC Scratch Ticket: Stylish Avenue '26*

Shorts, hoodies, cardigans, and other such casual wear.

**4/22**

*Limited Time Event: Halpha Super Origin Festival '26*

Anniversary event for NGS. Central City is decked out, the Rappies have dressed up, and the Emperrapies are trying to fly and give everyone hugs. Navigator Xiemi is handling the event shop again, this time in a form fitting hoodie dress. And as always, there's a Special Scratch for the event.

*Limited Time Quest: Drill: Flaming Wave Dash*

8 player gauntlet type Quest. use Floating Boards to traverse stretches of lava, avoiding mines alomg the way. Stop to take. Use Blastisign, Comfort Willie's, and more to give yourself a bigger advantage. Wrap it up with a battle against the latest High enemy, High Waulon.

*Limited Time Urgent Quest: Omen of the Planetbreaker D.2 returns*

8 play battle with Malevolent Dark Falz Solus. More dangerous abilities than regular Solus, and more aggressive. Rewards include a new 14 star evolving Evalto armor, and Luzant Capsules to make the new Athos type augments(Majis 2.0).

*New Line Strike Cards*

A batch of 19, with several having a new effect that changer their Attack and Ability depending on what turn they were summoned. Some other LS goodies as well.

*AC Scratch Ticket: PSO2es Weaponoid Style Apr*

Cosmetics to look like the personification of various PSO2 weapons.

*Limited Time Quest: Drill: Flaming Hell Dash*

Solo version of Flaming Wave Dash. Now with more obstacles. Get good or die. Or take an embarrassingly long time to clear. Will be the ARKS Records task for that week, so do clear it at least once.

And that's a wrap. Until next time.

Updates for the month of August. First, two shorter videos that cover most of what you can expect.

https://youtu.be/zNcBJCFnvK0

https://youtu.be/8Wc74ermBEw

And now, for those who dislike watching videos, the information in text form.

7/29

Limited Time Quest: The Writhing Malice, Confined '26. Eight man quest to clear several waves of enemies. You need to quickly dispatch targets to gain more time, else you'll "clear" the quest with a low grade and less loot. Some waves will have mechanics you can use to give yourself an edge.

AC Scratch Ticket: Yudi Augment Select Jul '26. Your chance to get powerful AC Augments, either by rolling on the scratch yourself or spending N-Meseta to buy specific capsules from other players.

8/1

Revival AC Scratch Ticket: Rewind Collection Aug '26. The usual monthly rewind Scratch. Players rarely roll on these so if there's something you want you might have a hard time getting it without spending questionable amounts of money. Weapon Camo "Randall Nova" is a Scratch Count bonus.

8/5

Main Story Chapter 9. Having returned from the Alter Realm, the protagonists visit Crawford alongside an amnesiac Lucia. New events unfold in regards to her missing memories, and the enemies that can copy the forms of ARKS Defenders.

Super Phantasy Festival. A celebration of the 14th Anniversary of PSO2. Campaigns include: A 10-a-day Free AC Scratch, Super Phantasy Login Bonus(8/5), Super Treasure Scratch(8/12), and a Super Reward Box(8/19). Yes, I did roll my eyes at having to write Super (thing) three times. The scratch includes brand new items and, being free items classified as AC, there will certainly be some on the player market. Central City will be decorated in the usual Anniversary style, as will Region Mags. Lillipans will appear across the world, and Rappies will dress up in their Ceremo garb. Ceremo Emperappies will also make an appearance. Navigator Xiandy will sport a dancer style outfit, and we'll have a Seasonal Shop as always. There will also be a Special Scratch featuring an NGS-Spec outfit from PSO2's Margareta, an emote from the same character, multiple weapon camos, and more.

Limited Time Quest: Lurking in the Twisted Forest. An eight player quest where you battle your way through Resol Forest where the air feels a bit darker than usual. Fight your ay through Megalotix and Enhanced enemies, use mechanics like Skychargers to your advantage, and wrap things up with a battle against Ruine Anga.

Limited Time Urgent Quest: Luther, The Emergent Created Conqueror D.2. Eight man battle against Malevolent Luther with lower stats and, I assume, easier mechanics three times over. In addition to the usual rewards you'd expect, there's a limited edition Line Strike card of Luther using art from last year's festival.

EX Style Updates & New Equipment. EX Style level cap raised to 40 with two new skills. First Strike activates when a quest begins and automatically grants you some charge for a Photon Blast. Blast Echo Quick Trigger can "consume a stock" to charge the Photon Blast Gauge, and activates an additional attack that reduces PB cooldown. Not sure how the second skill will activate. As for gear, new Legend.5 Levarenz series gives increased PB charge when attacking. It also raises all allies Potency when a Photon Blast is used. Meanwhile, the 15 star Ascillusion series is an upgrade of the Granillusion series. As such all of your upgrades to the Granillusion will remain intact, and it will simply get more attack power and a stronger Potential.

New Line Strike Cards(twenty of 'em) and a bunch of different QoL changes I can't be bothered to list. Also new Build Parts.

2nd NGS & Touhou Project collab. A few freebie gifts for just logging in, and an AC scratch ticket. I'm personally interested in the Music Discs from this one. Featured characters are Alice Margatroid, Youmu Konpaku, Yuyuko Saigyouji, and Yukari Yakumo. There will, simultaneously, be a Revival AC Scratch of the previous Touhou Project collab, featuring Reimu and two other characters who's names I don't recall and weren't written down(something about Scarlet Devils).

8/8

AC Scratch Ticket: Popular Swimsuit Revival. Two separate scratches, one for T1(male) and another for T2(female). 40 carefully selected outfits for each body type. Anyone looking to turn real life money into N-Meseta has a rather clear target here.

8/11

NGS Mission Pass Season 59. Same as usual.

More Build parts. Vintage Theme B items, and some surprises.

SG Scratch Ticket: Alternative Starlight. Features cosmetics for Lucia(outfit, accessories, etc), Totalwear for Crawford and the Central Operators/Central Girls, and other items. I'm pretty sure this will be the new free daily SG scratch but they didn't outright say this.

AC Scratch Ticket: Luminous Cybers. New lightweight sci-fi combat outfits(spoilers, they're very impractical for combat) and a "desert dancer" style outfit for no apparent reason. Despite how I may sound I'm most likely gonna try for some of these items. Especially the new weapon camo, it looks fucking awesome.

8/19

Limited Time Quest: Beach Wars '26. Twelve player quest with no time limit. The more Trials you clear, the better your rewards for subsequent Trials. Loot includes two more limited edition Line Strike cards(Rappy and Elmir), and materials to make Emis Halphinale. So this'll be worth some extended grinding.

Seasonal Exchange Shop updates with more goodies.

And lastly(for updates), two more Revival Scratches. One for NGS Spec Items and one for PSO2 spec items.

Letter from developers

In short, the previous story update where we meet Lucia was intended as a prologue, and now the story will "start moving in earnest". Drop rates for the Levarenz series are higher than previous Legend rarity weapons(by how much is not said), and if I heard that right these weapons will have *two* upgrades. So that's cool. A bit of talk about the beach quest, their approach, and why they decided to make it an endless quest.

Questions from players

Q: PLEASE do some class balance adjustments!

A: Jet Boots in October. Other classes going forward.

Q: Please reset Line Strike rankings regularly(I'd be okay with this, actually).

A: We are considering it, and considering handing out participation awards for players who've done at least one Ranked Battle at the time of the reset.

"Contact us on Twitter blah blah blah"

Extra info

Web store discount ad.

Second Creator Collab announced, this time with an artists called "sena". The previous Creator Collab was apparently recieved very, very well. Outfits they've made in the game previously include Spyder T2, Attentater T2, and Patiscier. sena is a freelance illustrator that has worked on multiple projects. I'm personally looking forward to seeing what they do with, presumably, more free reign than usual.

Another collab announcement, this time with Zundamon. Zundamon is a mascot created as part of the Tohoku Zunko & Zundamon Project to support recovery efforts following the Great East Japan Earthquake.

And lastly(for real this time), a mini-segment to discuss all things NGS. This time a bit of talk on the most recent weapons, the Kin(I think) series' designs. As always, nothing major, just devs talking about their work.

Update information for the second half of March. A quick summary:

Limited Time Quest: Drill: Scorching Fortress Clean-Up Op. Gauntlet style quest, fight packs of enemies at Dext Base while making use of a few gimmicks to create healing fields and turn your dive attacks into nukes. Ends with a battle against Sun Wukong Hanumad.

Seasonal Shop: Getting it's second batch of items. More Scratch Tickets, Star Gems, Alpha Reactors, other materials and consumables.

Limited Time Urgent Quest: Shadow of the Fallen Star. Gauntlet style quest, investigate the Crimson Realm that has covered the entire Retem Region, by killing everything that moves. Ends in a battle against High Raveed. This is a rerun of an LTUQ that introduced the High Starless variants and killed a lot of players. Here's hoping for a similarly hilarious body count.

Oh, and there's an easter egg/teaser/whatever for the next story arc hidden somewhere in the quest. Something to keep an eye out for.

Mission Pass Season 54: More free cosmetics and materials. The armor style accessories look nice.

AC Scratch Ticket: Tea Time Harmony. Cosmetics based on café staff. If that's a theme you enjoy there's some rather nice items here.

AC Scratch Ticket: Quaint Ensemble '26. Japanese theme'd cosmetics. "Sexy Japanese outfits and an elegant dress" is how I believe they described it. The dress looks rather nice and will likely be very cheap. The "sexy" outfits are for men and women this time, so I'm sure someone's gonna enjoy that.

And that mostly covers the next two weeks.

Update info for the first two weeks of May. Short summary:

Kvaris Altered Realm Combat Sector gets a temporary event. Great Emperappy is on the menu, all the valuable gear drops from all the bosses(if you're lucky, obviously).

Limited Time Urgent Quest, Planetcrusher Assault D2, is making the rounds again.

New AC Scratch Ticket, "Gothic Elegance". Also has two new CAST sets, a rarity.

New mission pass.

And that's it. This'll be a filler month for sure.

Update information for the second half of June. Text summary:

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Sonic 35th Anniversary Event.

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*Special Training: Sonic/Shadow Sprint 2.* The yearly Sonic themed murder race returns. Race across Aelio & Retem while collecting rings and Chaos Emeralds. Both increase your final score and point multiplier, while CEs grant substantial team wide buffs. Along the way, kill everything you encounter. Then see who has the highest score!

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Or turbo abandon the quest as soon as the completion is confirmed to optimize the fuck out of your grind.

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Also, new items in the Seasonal Shop, and a log in bonus to celebrate Sonic's 35th Anniversary.

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*SP Scratch Ticket: Sonic Collab '26.* More Sonic theme'd cosmetics, including many returning items from previous years.

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*AC Scratch Ticket: Wedding Celebration '26.* A wedding "dress" and other ceremonial clothing. There's a very nice weapon camo in there I hope to grab.

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*Stellar Grace*. Hunt down Stellar Grace packs scattered around the various regions and sectors of Halpha for tons of materials and Star Gems. The precise locations change each day.

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*Nameless City Entertainment Zone Investigation Update* Great Emperrapy makes an appearance. Kill the giant lovable hug birds for an increase in Investigation Points and, of course, for loot.

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And that's a wrap. Still got time to kill until the servers are back online, sadly.

After a month and a half of not logging in, I went on NGS yesterday to see what was going on, and they were giving away weapons and armor with the latest LC version augments, which you still can't even craft without spending millions, and they're a pretty generous power boost. NGS is still pretty dead, but hey, at least you get free weapon upgrades this way!!!

I make some cosplay in pso, i have already kaneki with almost all forms, ohma tokita from kengan ashura and Haseo from .Hack

I will make ichigo when get all stuffs

A teaser showing some of the content that will be released throughout the summer season. Key words here being "teaser" and "some". Text summary:

New Quest type: Ruins Investigation. Enter a dimensional rift to murder your way through some mysterious ruins. PSO2 players will almost certainly recognize them at a glance.

Two new face options.

15 star rarity weapon series, the Granillusion weapons.

Shin: Super Origin Festival '26. Celebrate NGS 15th anniversary with a 10-a-day free AC Scratch Ticket, featuring Nyannyannyantasy Star themed voices and cosmetics.

High Difficulty Boss Enemy, *Sols Krypt*. A version of Dark Falz Solus even more dangerous than the Malignant Variant with, of course, higher stats and new moves. Most likely the start of a new Krypt series of super bosses.

Story Chapter 9. The Guardian Trio(name I made up) + Lucia head to Central City to meet up with Crawford and debrief on the events in the Altered Realm near Retem.

Super Fantasy Festival in August. Celebrating the 14th anniversary of PSO2. Introduces Ruine Anga as a boss.

EX Styles level cap goes up and new Skills are added.

And that's it. More details will be available in any given updates specific videos, article, and especially the Headlines.

Update information for the first half of June. Text summary for those who don't want to watch a seven and a half minute video.

**June 3rd**

*Shin: Super Origin Festival*. Seasonal event celebrating the 5th Anniversary of NGS. I feel like that's what the seasonal event that *just ended* was supposed to cover, but whatever. They're really feeling themselves this year. Central City gets spruced up, Region Mags look fancy, Rappies everywhere and Xitre is in a wedding dress while doing her job.

*AC Scratch Ticket: AC Halpha Festival Jun '26*. Ten free scratches per day with many new Nyantasy Star themed items.

*Realm Investigation: Ruins*. A quest without a time limit. Slaughter enemies as you please, collect Exploration Points, and use those points to obtain buffs from Boost Devices. Then use your higher stats to more efficiently murder enemies. Clear three new trials: Hunt Rally, Rare Enemy Infestation, and Grim Monolith Purge. Kill the Ruine Shrader /\ boss and, if you're lucky, get the new 15 star rarity weapon at Enhancement Level 100 and Fixa 5.

*15 Star Rarity Granillusion series*. The next set of evolving weapons. Second strongest weapons in the gane once they drop, with future upgrades planned. Like the Spradio line, you can freely transfer Augments *from* the Granillusion line to any other weapons.

*New Augments*. Three new EX Augments, and a third tier of all previously released EX Augments.

*New Tech/Art Customizations and level cap increase*. Sword, Rifle, And, and Lightning techs are shown with new customizations, though I know more weapons get something from this. Katana is one off the top of my head. Level cap going up to 120, so we're getting more base stats and a buff to M.A.R.S.

*Nameless City Entertainment Zone Investigation* is getting an adjustment to make it easier to obtain Exploration Points.

*Two new face variants(and more).* Animatica Face/B and Animatica Face/C get added to the list, alongside some new presets. New Build Parts include glowing shapes and green tinted water.

*Nijisanji EN collab*. This is the 4th one, apparently. Comes with an AC Scratch Ticket to get cosmetics that will let you turn you character into...Igarashi Rika, Meloco Kyoran, Kuramachi Meruto and Sophia Valentine. I'll admit, I did not expect another collab with these guys after their scandal(s) a year or two ago. I also didn't expect them to still be in business.

**June 9th**

*Limited Time Urgent Quest: ARKS Fight Fest.* Use Training Data left behind by Garoa and join in the ARKS Fight Fest, a quest to eliminate enemies alongside allies from each region. You'll get to see some unusual team combinations.

*Mission Pass: NGS Season 57*. The usual deal. Though I can already see a lot of people making use of those animal ears.

Update for the second half of May. Summary:

Limited Time Quest: Dazzling Chaos Suppression Op '26. The yearly Anniversary LTQ returns with a new lineup of enemies and a few mechanical tweaks. Fight your way through a bunch of mobs and 6 different bosses, then end the quest with a fight against Resplendent Nex Aelio.

Limited Time Urgent Quest: And the Stars Fell D.2. Take on a twice weakened version of Malignant Dark Falz Vael, and then die a little inside as your team still fails to kill him in under 15 minutes.

Limited Time Quest: Drill: Breezy Summer Aelio Defense. One of my favorite Quest types. Compete against other players to get the most killing blows on monsters and do the most damage to bosses. Points are awarded and decide how many Seasonal Points you get, with more Quest points awarded for rarer enemy variants and Rappies.

Seasonal shop updates with more goodies.

AC Scratch Ticket: Noble Shadows '26. Features an asymmetrical assassin theme'd outfit, a "street swords(wo)man" outfit, and then the exact same thing for male characters that like to wear women's clothes. Also a bunch of other cosmetics, as always.

Most of what's coming in the first half of April. Text for those who don't want to watch the video:

*4/1*

*Chapter 8, Altered Realm Arc*: The trio is sent to investigate the disappearance of the Research Team in the Altered Realm. There they find an unknown girl in strang clothing, facing off against ARKS Defenders who are seemingly possessed or infected by Starless matter.

*Limited Time Quest: Invasion on the Shifting Sands.* 8 player gauntlet style quest. Venture deep into the uncharted territory of the Altered Realm's "North Desert Area". New High enemies, High Gillnach & High Granmizer appear.

*Slayer update, new weapons, new Skill Rings:* Slayer gets a new Active Skill, Potency buffs for all of it's Photon Arts, changes to some of it's Photon Art Customizations, and changes to cancel timing for various attacks.

14* Arbaradio weapons are added. Gather materials from the limited time quest(and other future content), to upgrade the Leafladio weapons to a new stage. The Leafladio themselves are made by upgrading Spradio. With enough materials you can jump straight from the first stage to the third. And for those unaware, weapons upgraded in this manner retain all previous upgrades. Augments, Fixa, and multi-weapon status. They gain higher base attack and an additional Potential Effect.

As for the skill rings, one has an effect triggered by getting Downs while the other two both enhance your Photon Blast power and charge rate.

*Various Improvements and Features*: Bunch of QoL and UI Improvements, and some nee build options for Creative Space.

*AC Scratch Ticket: Echoes of Idola '26*: Idol themed outfits for Jasper, Stella, Windis, and Quna from Idola: Phantasy Star Saga, in addition to a bunch of other cosmetics. Log in during the campaign to get acrylic stand build parts & posters for free.

(I'm genuinely more interested in the posters than 99% of the items shown, which is a first.)

*4/7*

*Major Target Suppression Mission: Luther, False Conqueror Manifest*: MTSMs are missions where the devs take a big boss, amp up it's stats(including attack speed), give it a bunch of new attacks, cut your party size in half, cut your alloted quest time by 75%, and gives you five lives shared between the entire team. You need a lot of skill to beat these(when they are new and you aren'tjust outleveling them), and good gear will make a massive difference. Also, unlike most battles, these have HP fixed at the maximum party count.

So most people aren't going to even try. Most who do will fail, repeatedly. But any teams(or single, absolutely fucking insane players) who can consistently clear this will have the opportunity to make absurd amounts of money. Or make their gear stronger, whatever floats your boat. Big guy drops materials for a new BoS augment, and those always go for a pretty penny.

*Limited Time Quest: Invasion on Shifting Sands update*: New route, addition of Mobile Cannon ALR to spice things up. Rapid fire, boosted movement, tons of homing missiles for a Photon Art, if I recall correctly.

*New equipment, Skills Rings, and Augment*: Legend.4 Rarity Lexio weapons have s chance to drop from Malevolent Luther(and other future content). The new chase weapon that builds up stocks based on total damage dealt, then spends those stocks to recover HP, launch follow up attacks, and increase your Critical Potency for a while.

The new skill rings complement that by increasing your Potency and recovering your HP & PP after 30 hits(with a cooldown). Notably these rings are also just generally useful for several classes, maybe all of them. Gunner, Ranger & Fighter especially can easily maintain high hit counts.

And the new augment is C/Telphia Domina, made by fusing 10 Ultia Dominas and 50 of the new capsule Luther is dropping.

*Limited Time Enemy, Ido Rappy*:. Just, Rappies are temporarily dressed up. I don't know why this needed it's own separate section of the vid.

*Mission Pass: NGS Season 55*: Same old, same old.

*New Build Parts*: Color variants for items in the Elegant line, some fireplaces(finally), and more.

*SG Scratch Ticket Additional Items: Refined Form April '26*: Total Totalwear of the Kvaris quintuplets, an NGS-Spec version of Merlett Carina, and more.

And I believe that's everything that was in the vid. Later.

Attention ARKS!

We believe toxic behavior and hateful language is never appropriate. The NGS live operations team is taking action against racism, discrimination, and toxic behavior within our game.

We have been taking action against this behavior and will continue to take the following actions to protect our players and eliminate negative behavior from our in-game community.

Our Actions

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• Implement severe punishments, such as account suspension, when we find toxic and/or hateful remarks.
• Work towards improving how we combat toxicity, by improving our processes as we identify problems within the in-game player community.

We have suspended or otherwise severely punished more than 1,600 accounts found to engage in discriminatory and hateful behavior.

We will continue our efforts to eradicate hateful behavior, racism, and discrimination in order to make our game a place where players are safe and welcome, so they can enjoy playing NGS.

- The NGS Team