8/4 Server maintenance announcement

Server maintenance planned date and time From 8/4/2026 (Tue) 4:00 PM (PDT) to 8/5/2026 (Wed) 1:00 AM (PDT) *Players will be unable to log in during maintenance, and thus events like campaigns and Scratch Tickets will also be unavailable. Please partake in these prior to maintenance.

[August Update Info]

System updates

Enemies

• Adjusted the visibility of successful hit effects and lock-on markers for the following enemies:

  • Research Team Member (Partisan)

  • Research Team Member (Rod)

  • Research Team Member (Sword)

• Changed some of Boss Enemy: Ruine Angel's attacks to be Guardable.

Quests and Fields

• Replaced "Limited-Time Quests" with "Recommended Quests" at the Quest Counter.

• Changed Quest Counter to show recommended Elements for some applicable Quests.

• For Quests that Rank up or Level up, changed the Quest Results to show the Rank or Level following the Quest Name.

• Changed some Quests tracked by ARKS Records so the results can be skipped with a button press.

• Updated the Realm Investigation: Ruins Quest to allow the use of Auto-Join Party feature.

• Changed the Main Story Chapter 8 Quests: The Missing Research Team and Chasing Memories so players auto-revive on incapacitation.

• Changed items obtainable from Stellar Packs to ingredients in the Trial: Collect Stellar Packs.

Interface

• Featured Item Drops and Quest Reward Details have been adjusted as follows.

  • Expanded view for items has been adjusted.

  • Adjusted methods for adding and removing items on the Wanted Item List.

• Adjusted the Use Item window shown after pulling a Scratch Ticket to also show the following items:

  • Music Discs

  • Mag Form Devices

  • Build Parts

• Added a feature to automatically select ingredients, Recommended Recipe, to Quick Food.

Character Creation

• Added the ability to copy Expression Settings from one Expression to another when Customizing Expressions.

Items

• Added the following items to the product list in the Exchange Shop: ARKS Record Badge Exchange:

  • * Einden Almati CV

  • * Aeoni Dekelion Almati

  • * Liuxtra Almati

• Changed the following items in the ARKS Record Badge Exchange Shop to Limited-time Items:

  • Aegis Integra

  • 10★ Rarity Reyaar Mk. I Weapon Series

  • 7★ Rarity Kaizaar Mk. I Weapon Series

• Added new items to the Product List of the Exchange Shop under Purchase Build Parts.

• Some items from the Super Origin Festival '26 SP Scratch lineup have been added to the Special Scratch.

• Added the Exchange Shop: Granillusion Weapon Enhancement (Augment Transfer) to Item Trader.

• Removed the following Exchange Shops from the Item Trader:

  • Fortscha Armor Enhancement (Augment Transfer)

  • Spradio Weapon Enhancement (Augment Transfer)

  • Enhance to Legend 3 Weapons (Augment Transfer)

• Changed Item Recycle so that the following items are now available for exchange as Target Count Bonus Items:

  • MTN: Glide - Feather Fan EX

  • MTN: Idle - Feather Fan EX

  • MTN: Glide - Villain EX

  • MTN: Idle - Villain EX

  • MTN: Dash - Sweet Devil EX

  • MTN: Idle - Sweet Devil EX

  • MTN: Idle - Rawr EX

  • MTN: Idle - Wild 3 EX

  • MTN: Dash - Wild 3 EX

• Changed Item Recycle so that the following items are now available for exchange as Recycle Reward Box items:

  • 1161: [Loser] Pose +

  • 1174: Lutherisms +

  • Nychteridas V2 [Ba]

  • Pianeta V2 [Ba]

  • Companion Kanui

  • Companion Nadereh

  • Mini Sunny Head-Mount

• The brightness of attack effects for the following weapons has been adjusted:

  • Ares Rifle

  • Ares Rifle-NT

Other specification changes

• The following changes have been made to the Main Task: A Future Without Me:

  • The "Complete Leciel Exploration" objective has been changed to "Join Leciel Exploration."

  • Changed the required number of enemies from 30 to 10 for the "Defeat Enemies in Nameless

• All movie concerts have been changed to grant Concert Effects.

• AdjustedThe Summary Text in the Basic Information for the Title TasksConcert-Goer, Ultimate Concert Fan I, Ultimate Concert Fan II, and Ultimate Concert Fan III has been adjusted.

• Added a Task Marker for the Aelio Region Invincible Region Mag when Task Markers are enabled but no Region Mags have been found.

• Reduced the higher frequency range of Ryuker Device sound effects.

• Changed the specifications for the Item Details display to show the icons for the weapon categories set on a Multi-weapon in front of the weapon name.

• Added new items to the Card Scratch Ticket lineup.

• Added cards originally released on 4/22/2026 to the NPC Victoria's Line Strike Card Recycle.

• Added a starter deck with 15 Line Strike cards to the AC Shop. However, cards included in the starter deck may also be available from Card Scratch Tickets. *Please note that the cards included in the starter deck are not automatically registered to your deck, so you will need to register them by using the cards obtained after purchasing the set.

Confirmed issues

• Confirmed an issue with the EX Style Skill: First Strike where, after being incapacitated in a Duel Quest and selecting Retry from the Incapacitation Menu, First Strike's effects may not activate

• Confirmed an issue with the EX Style Skill: First Strike that sometimes stops the skill's effects from activating during certain Main Story chapters

• The Rank and Level are not displayed on the Results for some Quests

We are working to fix the above issue in a future update. We apologize for the inconvenience and ask for your patience as we work to correct this bug.

Bug fixes

Bugs to be fixed in NGS

• Fixed an issue with the Boss Enemy: Malignant Ruine Luther where the distance at which lock-on was broken would become shorter when a player was incapacitated

• Fixed an issue with the Boss Enemy: High Agni that could cause spikes in processing load during certain attacks

• Fixed an issue with the Potential: Triumphant Light where, while equipped with a weapon with the potential unlocked, retrying certain quests, such as Duel Quests, could cause the Potential's effects to stop working

• Fixed an issue in the Main Story: Chapter 7 Follow-Up Chapter: And the Stars Fell, and the Main Story: Chapter 8: Chasing Memories where the quest failure conditions were listed as "Retire from Quest"

• Fixed an issue where when pressing Cancel while viewing Item Details on the Reward Details screen would not return players to the correct screen

• Fixed an issue in Line Strike where, if your opponent activated a card effect to summon a card onto your field immediately before you activated a skill whose effect values change based on the number of allies or the number of cards of a certain attribute, the match was forcibly terminated due to the value becoming inconsistent *Please note that as a result of this fix, replays from before maintenance on 8/5/2026 will no longer be viewable

• Fixed an issue where the following Player Actions would include Grim Monoliths as attack targets:

  • Technique: Zonde

  • Technique: Gizonde

  • Class Skill: Floating Pillbox Multirock

  • Class Skill: Familiar Support

  • Class Skill: Marmelo Support

• Fixed an issue with the Potential: Triumphant Light where, under certain conditions, the effects would not reset correctly

• Fixed an issue with the following EX Augments that kept their effects from activating under certain conditions:

  • EX Tri-Shield

  • EX Tri-Shield II

  • EX Tri-Shield III

• Fixed an issue with the following EX Augments where, under certain conditions, their cooldowns would be reset when changing areas

  • EX Tri-Shield

  • EX Tri-Shield II

  • EX Tri-Shield III

• Fixed a graphical issue with the Emote: 1228: Big Voks Doll

• Fixed an issue with the thumbnail for PH: Anniva Symbol (Ob) not appearing correctly

• Fixed a graphical issue with MTN: Idle - Propeller Engine that could occur under certain conditions

• Fixed an issue on the Select Character screen that caused an unintended message to be shown when attempting to log in to PSO2 with a character who had not yet completed the Prologue

• Fixed an issue with filtering visible Logs in the Log Window where, if the Log Window became inactive, it would appear to become set to Display All

• Fixed an issue with sorting items where, when sorting multiple times, the function would behave unexpectedly

• Fixed an issue where some Looks saved under certain conditions could not be deleted

• Fixed an issue with some items that caused an unintended marker to appear

• Fixed an issue that kept the markers for interactable terminals and NPCs from disappearing under certain conditions

• Fixed an issue with ARKS Decoys that kept the weapon display settings from being applied correctly under certain conditions

• Fixed an issue that would cause the Item Lab window to display incorrectly under certain conditions

• Fixed an issue that would cause text to appear incorrectly in some windows under certain conditions

• Fixed an issue with the Item Customization window in the Item Lab where the cursor would move to the incorrect position when using “Move Active Item”

• Fixed an issue where characters could disappear under certain conditions

• Fixed an issue where the CA: Light 5 - Crawford and CA: Light 5R - Crawford items could not be recycled at the Card Recycle Shop and could be put up for sale in Personal Shops *Any instances of these items already up for sale in Personal Shops will become unpurchasable as a result of this fix We apologize for any inconvenience, but ask that players please remove these items from their Personal Shops *If you have already purchased these items from a Personal Shop, you can use them without issue

• AdjustedFixed an issue with the Talis Photon ArtSpread Shot's Tech Arts Customization Type 2 where, if a Dark-element Technique was used while Talises were deployed in Stage 2, the Stage 3 attack range would not be increased

Bugs to be fixed in NGS and PSO2

• Fixed an issue where, after completing some Boss Enemy Suppressions, Titles and Character Names would not appear correctly in the Victory Performance under certain circumstances

• Fixed graphical issues that could occur in certain circumstances with the following Basewear and Outerwear:

  • Foxxiontech [Ba]

  • Foxxiontech/B [Ba]

  • Foxxiontech V2 [Ba]

  • Foxxiontech V2/B [Ba]

  • Lurking Ogre T2 [Ou]

• Fixed graphical issues that could occur in certain circumstances with the following Basewear:

  • Anemos Albera T1 [Ba] and its color variations

  • Anemos Albera T2 [Ba] and its color variations

• Fixed an issue with the Wedding Earrings accessory that could cause some graphical issues when changing the size

• Fixed an issue with Change Motions in the Salon where, under certain circumstances, the Motion would not play

• Fixed a mistake in the English text for the Weapon Camo: * Aluminum Pawn

• Fixed a mistake in the name of the Scratch Ticket Slip: Yudi Augment S Ticket

Things to be addressed during maintenance

• Due to this maintenance, the expiration of Premium Sets, Extended Storage 1-7, Material Storage, Personal Shop usage, Mission Pass Storage, PSO2 Personal Quarters usage, Max Orders Received Limit Expansion, and Bonus Keys will be extended by the duration of this maintenance hours. *The expiration for the above items expiring during this maintenance will be extended by the duration of this maintenance hours from the original expiration.

Server maintenance schedule

8/4/2026 (Tue) 4:00 PM (PDT) to 8/5/2026 (Wed) 1:00 AM (PDT) 8/18/2026 (Tue) 7:00 PM (PDT) to 8/19/2026 (Wed) 1:00 AM (PDT) 9/1/2026 (Tue) 8:00 AM (PDT) to 9/2/2026 (Wed) 1:00 AM (PDT)

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