A.I.S. (ARKS Interception Silhouette) (PSO2)

A.I.S., Arks Interception Silhouette, are ARKS powerful mecha to fight difficult bosses or turn the tide of the battle in Mining Base Defense. AIS are white by default but will chanage colour depending on player's costume colour.

General Action

• Directional key - Moves AIS.
• Jump - AIS will ascend.
• Evade or dash - Consumes PP while dashing or evading.
• Auto-run - Performs short dash, consumes PP.

Attack Action

AIS weapons are not customisable and these weapons equipped on AIS by default:

• Assault Rifle: Left click - Regenerates PP on success hit.
• AIS Sword: Right click - Consume 15 PP for each normal slash.
• AIS Launcher: Shift + Left click - Fires 3 missiles that homes onto selected target, consumes 55 PP.
• AIS Forward Stab: Shift + Right click - Dash forward with sword, follows up with a slash, consumes 65 PP.

Subpalette Action

Available in all quest:

• Photon Blaster - Charges and fires photon beam. AIS remain stationary whilst charging and firing the beam but can turn unless equipped with a skill ring. Cooldown is 120 seconds.
• Overboost - Does boosted jump up the air instantly. Cooldown - ?

The subpalette changes loadout changes depending on the quest the AIS is used or summoned.

• Boosted move - Unleashed Prestige: Boost AIS unit forward for short duration
• Freeze grenade - Mining Base Defense and Unleash Prestige, cooldown - 30s.
• Weak Bullet - Bonus quest and Magatsu Phase 2 Emergency Quest, cooldown - 30s.

Quests Appearance

AIS are available in the following missions:

Using AIS has time limit of 120 seconds in these quest:

• Mining Base Defense: Despair
• Mining Base Defense: Demise
• Magatsu Bonus Silver
• Magatsu Bonus Gold

No time limit on AIS usage:

• Unleashed Prestige Phase 2
• Annihilator's Apparition Phase 2

Enemies variant

There is infected version of AIS, AIS Exodas, appearing in Mining Base Demise and Necky's Challenge. AIS Exodas upon appearing will prepare to charge Photon Blaster, targeting the towers and can be stopped by destroying the gun however this causes it to move around shortly and attacking players or AIS. AIS Exodas can be downed on fours by breaking the legs and exposing it back without moving for short duration, if not able to kill the AIS Exodas in time, it will get up and proceed attacking players or AIS.

Notes

• A.I.S. makes an appearance in PSO2: The Animation Episode 12 flying in and clearing out Darkers with ease from the air, combining Photon Blaster into one powerful beam. Unfortunately the AISes are destroyed instantly by Dark Falz Apprentice shortly after landing.
• AIS can only fire Photon Blast from the air in Unleashed Prestige.