#WHAT THE FUCK ??/ it UPDATED ???? resurgence I guess lol

[yozh1]

spoilers -- spiraling thoughts

We are in the 2nd year(?) of NGS and we're finally at Chapter 5. Honestly, I did not have any high hopes for this chapter. Perhaps I've been used to SEGA's complacency with the game or used to being disappointed with each content update. --I kind of enjoyed this one though.

This chapter introduces a lot of concepts that were foreshadowed within the environment of NGS. (the artificial-ty of everything) With everything actually being a 300~ year simulation to fight off the starless. My thoughts before this revelation? I thought Garoa would return because his death was sudden but I guess this story has an addiction to sudden deaths because we got another one with Zephetto.

The simulation part being a real simulation makes the story way tragic. A lot of deaths happened just for this to take place and.. it worked. Makes you wonder.. just how strong are the Starless for him to actually take it this far? Or rather how weak were the past ARKS for them to be easily defeated? Also, was that the Oracle fleet being destroyed? Are there more Resurgent ARKS out there??

I've seen a lot of discussion in the subreddit and thought the multiple planets thing was interesting with the H-Alpha thing. Will there be a Hbeta, lol. Can we make this planet into a new ship please?

Anyway, Zephetto. The skull color reminds me of Xiao. That's all.

But to be real, I wanted more of that character. SEGA really likes killing off new characters for some reason, haha. (or will he come back?) I think I really wanted to know if there were more in the Resurgent ARKS chain of command. (thirsty for more talkative villains like the Photoners) So, I'm pretty disappointed in that front since we only got two and they really aren't the true villains! Welp, back to eldritch disasters coming possibly soon.

My theory, IF everyone in the oracle ship is dead, is that we get "reincarnations" of base PSO2 characters in NGS through cloning. I'd like to see if any of them survived the Starless attack and are in hiding somewhere in space too. The story after Chapter 5 has a lot more questions to what's happening out there. Here's to hoping we get to answer some of them in the Ultra Evo update.

I really wish we could explore Leciel as an open world environment though. (Photo Mode place!!)

Slayer

Along with Chapter 5 is Slayer, the class that fucking buffs a lot of the other classes with the crit buff and PP per crit thing. And also being a good damage dealer and insanely mobile..

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Charged Stage 1 > Normal is a really good gap closer if you have no PP for your bread and butter gap closer.

I ain't good with this class but I do enjoy playing it with how infrequent the animation locks seem to be. I think they happen during the end of the 2nd half of Flowing Sirius. I really did not like most of the classes in NGS because I usually go into a PA but have to immediately block/counter then die to an animation lock. (skill issue) It's a really fun class though and it really invigorated my will to play the game again, lol.

Headcanon with this class is that they found records of Luster in the database and tried to emulate the style but got Slayer instead which is why there is only 1 style.

With Duel Quests coming up in a few days, I wish we got more static group content other than geolab and purples!!! Then again a lot of base PSO2 was solo quests. 🥲

SEGA update the other classes too!

BTW I think my mouse is breaking with this class. 😭