New Quest Impressions Options

[Mute]

I haven't had a chance to try it out yet, but a friend of mine posted his initial thoughts on the quest elsewhere, so I figured I'd share them with you. ^_^ I'll post my thoughts as soon as I give the quest a run through.

QUOTE (Sashi @ Apr 30 2003, 03:53 AM)

Uhg.... this is a tough quest... I really dont want to spoil it. So, I wont say much. As many of us know, from screenshots, you have Elly with you. You go through Beta temple, then to Beta Spaceship, fight gol dragon, CCA (main hub, not Jungle, Seaside, Mountain) and the Control tower. There is more to it than hack and slash. There is plenty of storyline, and I wont spoil any of that for you. I do recomend playing at a lower difficulty than you usually play at. I had Elly die 3 times on me, and called it quits for the night (3:45am...). Oh, and this was on hard mode with a level 84 FOnewearl. You can save your progress half way through the quest. If you die or Elly dies, or quit, you can continue from that point. If you die, its insta quit (like fami cup) but if you have a scape doll, you can get right back up and fight. I would bring you nice, hot, car smell scented screenshots, but you cant take in game screens during online quests (boo). I belive this is a permenant quest, and will be up, like the rest are. Its under "VR" I didnt get to see any new enimies. Didnt get that far...   So, those are the most basic details. Like I said, it is has lots of dialog, and is full of depth. Dont expect to beat it the first time through. There are also a few new graphic effects used. Oh, one last thing. Alot of the pop up messages that the quest likes to use as dialogs make the same sound as the "New Mail!!!!" beep. Its annoying at first, cause I always thought I had new mail... but you get over it. Anyway, Im done. Ill try the quest more later. I dont have any info on your quest reward, as of yet. I really hope its some new toy, and not cash, for as long as this queest is.

[Crushinator]

I can vouch for this quests difficulty. I've only played it on Ultimate so far, but it is definetly a test for your PSO skill and item management. Elly is ALMOST totally useless. She is level 170, but only uses a Varista, Barta, and Gibarta to attack. If you fall into critical health near her, she will cast resta on you (refilled about 500 hp on me), but her resta range is really small, so if you aren't close enough when you get hit she wont' cast it. If you are poisoned or confused, she will cast Anti on you, but she won't do it for shock/slowmo/freeze. Speaking of freeze, the "wiggle trick" is disabled for this quest, so having a Cure/Freeze is probably a good idea.

PSOW's tips for the quest are wrong as far as the computers in the control tower go. They say you have to attack them, and fight the enemies released, but if you just walk up to them and then press A when you are near the correct computer, Elly will activate it and open the door without spawning the monsters. Mericalol spawns often in the Control Tower, and his insta-death shot will kill Elly just like it does any other players, so if that guy shows up, you can pretty much bet you are gonna fail the quest if you're playing on Ultimate.

There are a lot of cool effects used in this quest, and I think that if they would just incorporate some of this stuff into multiplayer online modes (Ep2 challenge?) PSO would be like 10 times cooler than it already is.

If this quest was multiplayer, I would probably play it a whole lot in the future, but since its solo only, I probably won't be touching it beyond this week. Sucks that the Control Tower area is only available in the quest too...why the hell did they add 3 new enemies when you can't even team up against em?