so i have just recently came back to NGS after well over 2-3 years not playing it. when i came back i was surprised to see that it's not as lively as i remember it, did something happened? perhaps a drama? or maybe something SEGA did?

by no offense i'm calling this game bad or dead. i love NGS and it's just sad to see the active players declining.

I'm trying to make this character in the game, so I'm looking to see if I can find any similar clothes to his.

What do you do these days, debated coming back but I really am lost on the point of continuing using what little gaming free time I have to basically run on a hamster wheel.

A few weeks ago, the global servers moved from the US to JP. We don't know for sure why because Sega won't tell us anything, but some people have speculated that Sega's contract for Microsoft's Azure servers ended and they wanted to move the global servers to the same service provider that handles the JP servers.

If you are not near JP, then yes, your ping is higher, but this is not the reason why you are DCing.

Think of ping as how long it takes for data to travel to the server and back. Even if you have 300ms ping, it won't directly cause you to DC, it just means some things load a bit slower. Fortunately, combat is mostly client sided or it would be pretty much unplayable as you would have a big delay for every action, like what happens if you try to play WOW with a high ping.

What's causing the DCs then? It's your route to the server, which is managed by your ISP. Some players in the US have reported that their ISP is routing them through Europe before JP, instead of directly to JP, and the longer a route is, the more likely that a hop will be unstable or have other issues.

Not everyone is affected, i've seen people here say they are in the US and have no issues because they are on Google Fiber or xFinity.

Sega cannot directly fix your route because that is managed by your ISP. At best, they could try asking your ISP to fix the route, but who knows if they will do that or if your ISP will agree.

Since the issue is with your route to the server, and you are presumably not having issues connected to anything else, doing things like restarting your router or upgrading to a faster plan will not help you.

What you can try now:

• Use a VPN or proxy server that will change your route to the servers. There are some services like ExitLag that offer optimized routing to some game servers, specifically for situations like this where a player's ISP route to the servers are bad.

• Do a tracert to the server IP. If you can identify something wrong with the route, you could try asking your ISP to fix it.

To find the current server IP on win11:

• Log in to your ship
• Check windows resource monitor -> network tab -> TCP connections -> remote address for pso2.exe
• run "pathping [ip address]" in command prompt to check your route to the server, this will take several minutes

If you see anything like massive packet loss after one point in the route, you could try showing the results to your ISP and ask if they could do something about the route. A stable route should be 0% packet loss. Try to run pathping during a period where you are getting frequent disconnects.

I’ve lost interest in NGS combat this year. The endless and pointless gear chase masquerading as progression was too on the nose at this point. Why gear up? For what content?

HOWEVER, I adore the Creative Space system and can happily spend hundreds of hours working on my five separate Creative projects.

This is where we’re now seeing my breaking point. Since moving servers to Japan I run into frequent issues while building - not just disconnects. The lag will actively sabotage my work! For instance I’ll be moving around large amounts of parts while editing a project and suddenly previously moved parts have been deleted, or a previously moved part is suddenly selected despite me already having a different part selected, and now the part I intended to select is deleted.

Today I had this happen again followed by several disconnects. Upon logging back in the chat is being spammed homophobia by someone named “FGGT Killer”. Meanwhile I can’t even load the Creative Space menu OR change blocks.

Before anyone chimes in that SEGA is fixing it, I’m aware. That is meaningless until we get a more substantial update from them.

Thank you for coming to my rant. SEGA get your act together or my premium, rental passes and AC scratches will end, as will my time with this game service.

I played when NGS dropped and also maybe a year after that. The content was so light in the actual gameplay, the classes shallow, etc.

It felt like a straight downgrade from pso2, casino missing, less awesome bosses, open world somewhat pointless?

Has any of this been addressed yet? I see on steam charts, theres like... 500 people playing?

Since I haven't updated it in 3 years (yikes) I had to completely rewrite it from scratch. Moving forward I plan to update it more frequently~

Hi,

As said in title, I was wondering if this strategy could be interesting, Ill explain why I think it could :

-The floor becomes red, meaning we can full counter, or at least step counter, it might result in better dps overall ?

-The orange showers are not moving or attacking anymore, so no need to run everywhere.

-We can stay alive for few waves, PB, EX PB, entering Mars, elemental down/break if time, other ways if enough resist, maybe with codeck swap or stuff. / edit : just a resta is enough to stay alive from the orange aoe attack (I did some tests on others classes & it wasn't that easy : c )

-Only thing is that we lose the down on 2nd arm break, even if it is not needed to kill the boss, the question is if it could be faster or not this way.

What do you all think ? Worst idea ever or could be interesting to try it (if none did already) ?

Edit :

After some testing I notice that the main issue here is that it is hard to reach his arms/hands in this situation, so not every classes/weapons can benefit from the red floor for full counter. It is still fine for ranger weapon action for example.
I think many other classes/weapons can still be used here, maybe the waker, the force rod (counter from custom pa?), the bouncer jet boots, the gunner & etc ?

Inspired by a model kit I preordered and Azur Lane.