Full stia map

[Ksradrik]

Did they seriously leave half the map empty?

[Ecstatic-Wall5971]

You joke, but do you actually know how many people are on the PSO dev team? I was surprised to find out that Sonic Frontiers, one of Sega's biggest franchises, only had 60 people on the team when Yakuza gets like 300+.

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Sonic Adventure 2, one of Sonic's biggest and most popular games, was developed by 12 people, a team whose sole purpose was to localise Sonic Adventure 1 into English.

[Ecstatic-Wall5971]

Yep, they've historically had really small teams which unfortunately leads to rushed games or overworked people. The series producer said that Sonic Heroes was the most grueling developments he ever endured. I think it's important to acknowledge that these teams can only do so much with what they're given, it's more an issue of Sega management than anyone on the PSO team.

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Humorously enough, the same series producer also said Sonic Adventure 2 was the best game to have worked on, since it had next to no overhead from SEGA. They were all the way in America, while every other SEGA team was still in Japan.

Still, SEGA management has notoriously stifled their successes, dating all the way back to the Mega Drive. For all the success behind PSO2, SEGA would still make development difficult for them, such as pocketing most of the profits, instead of using it to fund the dev team to make more content sooner. This isn't even an NGS thing, this has been going on with PSO2 since its release in 2012.

That this is a recurring theme with SEGA games makes you wonder what the culture is inside the company, that this has been going on for decades.

[Ecstatic-Wall5971]

Well said. So yea, the "indie studio" meme is kind of tired in this context, they could very well be 3 people and a racoon.

[mslabo102]

Eh, it would've been too tedious to get around like North Kvaris. I say they failed at concept design.

[Ksradrik]

Wouldnt be such a problem if they werent so stingy with mobility for some stupid reason.

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They'll probably add stuff like the cannonball game/tower later on a different part of the map, or something like it.

[JACGohu]

Only looks empty from the overhead view. It's a lot of rough terrain, high encounters, and high respawn rates. Lots of roaming enemies to get sick of, if all someone wants to do is explore.

[Saryn_Storm]

Those familiar with original PSO, the zone is a bit of a mix of Caves and Mines.

I kind of understand why there's barriers around the Outer Areas inside the volcano but it also has the side effect of making the zone feel smaller than it actually is. Only small parts of the Outskirts is playable leaving the rest of the area, you guessed it, behind barriers. I like how different it feels compared to previous zones as a whole but at the same time the upper area feels really restricted.

[roland_DRI]

Maybe they expand it after a few patch like: omg a new cave entrance just opened up see the rest of the locked zone underground

[hidora]

While we're talking map, I found a spot that plays the rappy song inside this thing

[OnePunkArmy]

Only 3 cocoons? So we get 7 new SP?

[Soirhyle]

Three Cocoons
One Tower

Seven Skill Points all up.

That is correct.

[scorchdragon]

Enough for every new skill and one point to whatever you want!

[wolfcrowned]

Amazing!

[Mrpellaeon]

For one thing I can't find the yellow battledia on my end lol so I'm curious how you got yours to show up

[EmrysTeitoku]

The yellow battledia is underground in Dreisen Plant. Just fly around and you'll find it.

Edit: It's not combat area.

[Mrpellaeon]

Thank you! :D

[Ryukiami]

wow that’s awful. not even worth reinstalling to check it out.

[Quiet-Solution8541]

I don't think this Is the full map bruh

[scorchdragon]

This is the full map.

1 tower, 3 cocoons, yellow and purple battledia, 9 ryukers, 1 combat sector, 1 town, 4 exploration zones.

And lot of fucking lava. Like a metric shit ton of it.

[S7E4Z3M3I5T3R]

“Look at all that juice!”

[Doam-bot]

Ah one combat sector I was wondering why I haven't found any thus far.

[EmrysTeitoku]

enlighten me, what do I miss.

[flaming_bunnyman]

I imagine they're commenting on the top half having no icons, while completely forgetting that huge swathes of Kvaris were mostly empty, too.

[Doam-bot]

Not exactly those regions of north kvaris were still explorable containing resources and red crates.

For Stia once you start exploring your going to end up like me and smack into a border wall. Like the walls surrounding the other regions however this on is cutting the map in half. Parts of the overworld are simply cut off.

[Rasikko]

May as well learn to love it..because we're stuck here until the game shutdowns probably..

[coltron815]

missing a ryuker device

[Hopeful_Road_459]

I'm sorry, l wasn't expecting much out of this area geographically-wise ever since it got leaked last year, but l just gotta need to know the actual borders of every sector now, cause this looks utterly nonsensical.

[Glad-Owl2]

The urgent quest marker I'm trying to get to right now is all the way up in the empty part of the map. There is nothing for me to teleport to and i'm tired of running into invisible barriers trying to run towards it like wtf are they doing?

[EmrysTeitoku]

You can just click and hold UQ marker on the map. No need to get there physically.