SUV Weapons

From Phantasy Star Universe Clementine

Description

SUV Weapons are weapons historically exclusive to CAST use. During battle, party members can use satellites to summon large, powerful weapons that they cannot otherwise store on their person. These weapons can deal a significant amount of damage and have the ability of inflicting status effects. Recent technological developments have allowed Humans and Newmans to also equip modified versions of certain SUV weapons, though CASTs remain the most efficient users of SUV technology. Beasts cannot use SUVs.

Obtaining SUV Weapons

SUV Weapons are only available to characters of Character Level 20 or higher. The majority of these can be purchased from the G.R.M. Shop on Parum, though some are available from other locations such as Casino Voloyal.

Human and Newman SUVs can be purchased from the Armor shop on the second floor of Clyez City.

Players can only use SUV Weapons if they are equipped with a line shield that has an Extra slot. In addition the line shield must match the letter grade of the SUV or exceed it - a B-grade Extra Unit cannot be equipped to a C-grade armor, for instance.

Using SUV Weapons

Once an SUV Weapon is equipped, a blast gauge at the bottom of your character's status bar will fill up as you take and deal damage, similar to the Photon Blast system in Phantasy Star Online. When full, the gauge will glow brightly. Once the character is standing still, a button combination (your primary and secondary attack buttons) will appear next to the Weapon information bar. Pressing this combination will activate the SUV Weapon.

After a short summoning sequence, the SUV Weapon will appear and begin attacking. Once the attack has begun, the player cannot assume control over their character until the attack sequence is completed. There is only a small window of time during the summoning sequence that the player can fine-tune the direction that their character is facing. The final outcome of the attack depends wholly on the SUV Weapon used, so players must be careful when activating it.

During the summoning and attack sequences, the player is completely invincible to enemy attacks (though the character may be pushed around a little).

SUV Weapons

A list of SUV weapons is found here. Applicable units are marked "SUV Weapon" in the "Special Effect" column, along with the race(s) which can equip them.