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MrKnightCap

Urgent Quests in closed beta

I know we need to complete 4 to get all the rewards, but how do these work? Are they designed for certain levels? Will I have to rush as fast as possible to level up to partake in them? I don’t want to miss out but I can’t play until Saturday, not on Friday night.

Any help is appreciated!

Edit: also what do the rewards that are less obvious actually do? Like the Evolution device? It’s not super easy finding information on this game right now it appears, googling isn’t getting me answers.

Posted Feb 6, 2020, 5:54 AM UTC · edited

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_Sleepwalker•

Here is a video that was posted here the other day that gives some insight on one of the urgent quests: https://youtu.be/f_RFslzhenc

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MrKnightCapOP•

Great video! He did mention difficulties, so I’m guessing there are varying difficulty levels for players of different levels, do we know what the lowest level is? Can a brand new player jump into a urgent quest?

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TheAssyrianGamer•

This is going to be relatively lame information but here I go:

When I played PSO2 on the JP servers, I was about level 10 or 12ish. I was able to go into one of these quests and do it. I assume they are for anyone :)

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MrKnightCapOP•

Awesome

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MrKnightCapOP•

Relatively useful information! I’m sure it’ll be exactly the same, so that’s exactly what I’m looking to know. Just want to make sure I don’t miss it! I’ll probably hop on at 7am EST Saturday and I should be able to catch up, shame I’ll miss the concert but at least it’s nothing permanent just a few buffs!

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TheAssyrianGamer•

I hope you have a lot of fun! No Xbox on my end, but I am glad it's finally coming west <3

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Eonwulf•

The rewards are all purely cosmetics, though since they may be in limited supply, you can potentially sell them for a lot on the player shop if you have access to the player shop.

To specify what I mean by access to the player shop, free players don't have access to the player shop to sell their stuff but they can still buy from other players. If you want to be able to sell stuff, you have to have premium time on your account which you spend real money for in the JP version, could be different in the NA version.

There are also passes that you can acquire on occasion, without spending real money, that give you limited access to selling on a player shop, for example I think a 3 day pass is the most common one you can get, so you can sell items on a shop for 3 days before needing another of these passes.

This is all JP information though, and while it is unlikely the NA version will be too different, it is still a possibility.

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MrKnightCapOP•

Great information, I still definitely want to grab the items. Is there a specific level you must be to play in the lowest difficulty urgent quest? I just want to make the most out of my time Saturday and I don’t really know anything about this game, I’m trying to gather some info so I know what I need to accomplish.

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Eonwulf•

There is no minimum level for the emergency quests they will be doing in the closed beta, I believe. Some emergency quests do have a minimum difficulty of like super hard, which requires you to be a higher level. If I remember right though, I'm pretty sure none of the closed beta ones are those, so you should be able to do them all even at level 1 as long as the other people there carry. A full multiparty of levels 1s probably won't be able to complete an emergency quest though. Just don't think they are strong enough to actually beat it. Also you can be over leveled when playing an emergency quest. There is no max level per difficulty, just a minimum level, with normal difficulty being min level 1.

To make the most of your time though, you are going to need to create your character as fast as possible. I personally spend hours just in character creation. Hopefully you can do better. Something you can do is you can download a character creator for the JP version and mess around in there to get an idea of what you want to do. It won't be up to date with the in game character creator options but it will be close enough to let you do it faster. The latest stand alone creator can be downloaded here: http://pso2.jp/benchmark/download/

Then while playing, just look for marks over npcs heads to pick up client orders and go to the counter and do the quests that the orders relate too. There is a bit of stuff to know and it's hard to convey through words alone, but don't worry about doing story stuff. You can always do that later, so just focus on npc orders and completing different ARKs Quests and Free Field Quests when talking to the ladies that let you leave the ship. Those are the ones you need to complete to advance as a character unlocking harder difficulties and level caps. Here is a quest list you can refer to, not all of them will be available at the start, but look for what I mean when I say do ARKs Quest and Free Field Quests. https://pso2.arks-visiphone.com/wiki/Quests#ARKS_Quests

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MrKnightCapOP•

Another great response full of information, you guys are great!

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mslabo102a.k.a. Masataka Touji: Japanese, Ship3•

All items are purely cosmetic:

  • Accessories: duh
  • Weapon Camo: for weapon (Coated Edge is for Sword category)
  • Evo Device: for your little Mag thingy floating aside you
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MrKnightCapOP•

Ohhhh sweet, yeah the first two are obvious lol.

Can a level 1 partake in the urgent quest? Or do I need to hit a milestone beforehand?

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mslabo102a.k.a. Masataka Touji: Japanese, Ship3•

You can but there must be enough time to grind inbetween. UQs at lowest difficulty has enemy level of 20.

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MrKnightCapOP•

This is exactly what I needed to know, so I need to get on BEFORE 11am EST (I think I got that time conversion right) on Saturday to get at least to level 20 before cradle of darkness pops. I can definitely get on in the morning.

I see the first event Friday is 3 hours after the beta launches, so that must be enough time to hit the appropriate level.

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mslabo102a.k.a. Masataka Touji: Japanese, Ship3•

btw I said level 20 enemies, but remember Urgents are 12-man raid so you shouldn't be worried too much.

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Rennea•

My main question to this (if anyone sees this, and sorry to hijack btw) is do we have to do all the unique quests to get the items or are the repeated ones an option, too? If I can’t make it to one do I miss out on rewards?

Sorry if this was already answered somewhere. I tried looking, myself.

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MrKnightCapOP•

I don’t think anybody knows the answer honestly. They are guessing we can do 4 repeats (it’s in the video somebody linked) but he’s just some guy guessing. There’s 5 events Saturday though, so as long as you have time to play between Friday and Saturday it shouldn’t be too hard.

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Rennea•

The main reason why I ask is my husband and I only have one Xbox so we can’t be on at the same time and we wanted to maximize our rewards ><; We may just end up buying a second, since we planned on doing that sometime anyway.

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BoundByHeresy•

You need to complete 4 events in different time slots. Completing one even 4 times in its single time slot will not count as the 4 clears needed.

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mrlooneymanNA(NZ)•

Repeating the urgent quest only counts once towards the rewards. So it only counts the first completion of each individual quest name then you a free to complete it again but it wont add to the urgent quest count.

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ChaosTechNet•

Ok, so they have the Cradle of Darkness Urgent Quest taking place 3 times at different time slots. If I do those 3 then does that count towards the 4 total that I need to clear for the rewards? Not talking about repeating the same one. They have this one on 3 different time slots. Or do I have to do 4 completely different names quests for the rewards?

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Exare•

I'm curious to know this as well.

The PS02 team has done an amazing job with this release. The only complaint I have is the lack of clarity when it comes to the Urgent Quests and the Closed Beta rewards earned for taking part in them.

From what I understand:

-Repeating the same quest in a single time slot does NOT count toward your 4 total Urgent Quest participations to receive the bonus item. Only 1.

-Participating in 4 Urgent Quest events in different time slots counts towards your required total

-Repeating Urgent Quests you may have completed prior yet doing so in a different time slot counts towards your 4 quest total. For example: if you take part in Cradle of Darkness at 00:00, 7:00, 12:00, and 17:00 that would be considered 4 different Urgent Quests.

Please take this with a grain of salt. I have not received any official confirmation. This simply seems to be the consensus among folks here in the Reddit and on YouTube.

My reasoning: They don't care about the variety of quests you complete, just that you were present during these limited time slots to give them as much data as possible.

It would be nice if there were some type of in-game quest tracker you could use for this, a tally of sorts. Or if there were a notification upon completion thanking us for taking part in the Urgent Quest stress test verifying we've met the requirements for the reward.

EDIT https://pso2.com/news/announcements/cbtrewards

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