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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I got everything set up all nice. And then I lagged so bad I couldn't walk properly.

    I'd really like to actually play some PSO at some point.

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  • KaimakaKaimaka Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Jandaru wrote: »
    I managed to lock everyone out of the checkroom by dropping some monomates right outside it, then picking them up again. Somehow they stayed there on everyone else's machine and couldn't be picked up.

    Then Kaimaka and I thought we were bad enough dudes to go on to episode 2. A giant invisible robot showed us we were in fact not very bad dudes at all...

    I am a bad enough dude now Jandaru. I leveled up most of today with cool Penny-Arcade fold. Killed shrimp, dragons and watched the machine get taken down.

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  • Dee KaeDee Kae Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Kaimaka wrote: »
    Jandaru wrote: »
    I managed to lock everyone out of the checkroom by dropping some monomates right outside it, then picking them up again. Somehow they stayed there on everyone else's machine and couldn't be picked up.

    Then Kaimaka and I thought we were bad enough dudes to go on to episode 2. A giant invisible robot showed us we were in fact not very bad dudes at all...

    I am a bad enough dude now Jandaru. I leveled up most of today with cool Penny-Arcade fold. Killed shrimp, dragons and watched the machine get taken down.

    Just rename that character to "One Shot".

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  • KaimakaKaimaka Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    IceBurner wrote: »
    Surprised RAmarl isn't more popular. It's often considered the most versatile Ranger class. While her ATP isn't as high as RAmar, her Lv20 cap for shifta, deband, jellen, and zalure more than make up the difference, especially for group play. Her higher MST also means technique attacks are a respectable option and her Resta is not anemic.

    ^This^ I totally agree, Female Human Rangers are the closest to Numan Rangers as you can get in Blue Burst. Good Mental Strength, Attack Accuracy. Have some one lead into a room to draw away enemies or take hits and you're set as a support character

    if you every see a PA Alyx game on Skyline come join me. Password: wang as usual

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I had a RAmarl as my highest character. With their highest stat being Evade, I had lots of fun running into groups of guys in Ultimate Forest and never getting hit. Anything higher, though, and my chances of blocking dropped considerably (but was still more noticeable than anyone else).

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  • KaimakaKaimaka Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    kriegs wrote: »
    Yea, if I'm not mistaken, you can feed your mag every 5 minutes(?)

    I used to sit in the forest and take a shit-ton of items to feed him. I'd feed him, set a stopwatch for 5 min and turn the tv input to watch cable till the 5 minutes were up and feed him again.

    Rinse and repeat.

    Wikipedia Swatch internet time
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
    one beat is
    # Instead of hours and minutes, the mean solar day is divided up into 1000 parts called "beats".
    # Each beat lasts 1 minute and 26.4 seconds.

    So your 5 minute and my 'few' beats are both right.
    Why was Swatch internet time abandoned?

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  • KaimakaKaimaka Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Skyline
    Block 2
    PA Alyx
    wang
    Episode 2

    All free to join

    On right now

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    DualEdge wrote: »
    Oh man. I threw a moon at Vance during the dragon fight a second before it decided to breath fire.

    Guess who's corpse was in front of the dragon?

    I'm still ticked at that dragon. Fucking twatberry asslicker dragonfucker.

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  • EvilBadmanEvilBadman DO NOT TRUST THIS MAN Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Kaimaka wrote: »
    kriegs wrote: »
    Yea, if I'm not mistaken, you can feed your mag every 5 minutes(?)

    I used to sit in the forest and take a shit-ton of items to feed him. I'd feed him, set a stopwatch for 5 min and turn the tv input to watch cable till the 5 minutes were up and feed him again.

    Rinse and repeat.

    Wikipedia Swatch internet time
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
    one beat is
    # Instead of hours and minutes, the mean solar day is divided up into 1000 parts called "beats".
    # Each beat lasts 1 minute and 26.4 seconds.

    So your 5 minute and my 'few' beats are both right.
    Why was Swatch internet time abandoned?

    Metric system can't catch on completely in America and you're talking about some beats. Gimme hours and minutes, son.

    I played far too much PSO on the Cube, and dammit if I can't avoid the pull of this. I hate you all.

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  • METAzraeLMETAzraeL Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    have there been any orchestral recordings of the pso soundtrack? It would be most excellent if there have.

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    So I solo-ground a bit last night, and then right before going to take another stab at De Roi Le, I get the wonderfully Engrish error message of prease to be checking your connexion and ensure cable plugged in - and bam, dropped from server. I hit reconnect and it comes right back. D:

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  • IceBurnerIceBurner It's cold and there are penguins.Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    If you can't kill things alone at leve 2, make sure you're playing Solo mode. This sets PSOBB to the equivalent of the offline difficulties and opens up all the old side-quests. Try to reach about Lv 8 before heading "online".

    There's a few orchestral tracks of PSO's main theme and such as bonus track on the official OSTs. They're versions of the opening and ending themes Whole New World and Can Still See the Light. Aside from that, there aren't really orchestral arrangements. The non-orchestrated PSO Premium Arrange album is awesome in and of itself, especially the Jungle remix.

    Some of the actual game tracks are orchestrated, such as Mother Earth of Dishonesty (forest), From Seeing the Rough Wave (De Rol Le), You Have Nowhere to Go (Vol opt 2nd form), Cry for Idola the Holy (Dark Falz 3). Definitely highlight tunes. I personally love just about all the BGM except Cave's The Kink in the Wind and the Way.

    If you're a Sega/Dreamcast fan, play the Gallon's Shop quest and get some of the music discs. Most of them allow you to change the BGM to something from another Sega game (among them, Burning Rangers, and Dreams, Dreams). One of the Rappy quests also has a catchy song from Samba De Amigo ver. 2000. Lastly, Gallon's Ambition actually gives the party leader a quiest item music box with which you can change the BGM to various stuff such as the Normal gameplay tune from ChuChu Rocket.

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Is anyone playing PSU? How does it compare to PSO?

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  • RubycatRubycat Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Running all of the Episode 1 offline side-story missions (with some repeats) I managed to get to lv 32
    (The missions that involve npc hunter fights suck, they are hard as heck to hit)
    (Vol opt is also pretty tough solo mode -paralyze most of the first half-)

    =My Char=
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    Ramar -White Section ID-
    Lv 32

    I do crappy dmg though, like 60-80s with my Lockgun +3

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  • darunia106darunia106 J-bob in games Death MountainRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Oh man oh man oh man. I played this so much on my Gamecube but didn't have the gumption to get an adapter or pay for a subscription.

    Downloading when I get home so hard.

    EDIT: Is there a PA guild or clan of some sort or do I have to add everyone ever in my friends list?

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  • LorkLork Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    wwtMask wrote: »
    Is anyone playing PSU? How does it compare to PSO?
    I played it for a month. On one hand, the controls and the way the combat works in general are way better, and when things really get going it's almost like a dumbed down team based Devil May Cry. That's a very good thing, if you couldn't tell.

    On the other hand, they completely eliminated the concept of rares and replaced it with a retarded crafting system. Instead of collecting swords and guns, you pick up rare pieces of wood and minerals, which, when used up, might give you a chance to create new weapons, none of which have any special attacks or unique effects to make them stand out. They also drained out all the atmosphere and style of PSO and made it look and feel like a generic anime. And the interface is the most convoluted and confusing shit I've ever seen. So much of the game is just completely inscrutable unless you spend like 4 hours asking people about it. Just try to figure out the crafting system on your own, I dare you.

    Despite all that I still kind of enjoyed it and I'd play it again if enough people here signed on for it. I think they call this kind of thing "Stockholm Syndrome".

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  • maximumzeromaximumzero I...wait, what? New Orleans, LARegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Lork wrote: »
    wwtMask wrote: »
    Is anyone playing PSU? How does it compare to PSO?
    I played it for a month. On one hand, the controls and the way the combat works in general are way better, and when things really get going it's almost like a dumbed down team based Devil May Cry. That's a very good thing, if you couldn't tell.

    On the other hand, they completely eliminated the concept of rares and replaced it with a retarded crafting system. Instead of collecting swords and guns, you pick up rare pieces of wood and minerals, which, when used up, might give you a chance to create new weapons, none of which have any special attacks or unique effects to make them stand out. They also drained out all the atmosphere and style of PSO and made it look and feel like a generic anime. And the interface is the most convoluted and confusing shit I've ever seen. So much of the game is just completely inscrutable unless you spend like 4 hours asking people about it. Just try to figure out the crafting system on your own, I dare you.

    Despite all that I still kind of enjoyed it and I'd play it again if enough people here signed on for it. I think they call this kind of thing "Stockholm Syndrome".

    I tried to play the demo and I couldn't even find my way around the damn ship.

    I gave up before I even got to the planet surface.

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  • LorkLork Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Lork wrote: »
    wwtMask wrote: »
    Is anyone playing PSU? How does it compare to PSO?
    I played it for a month. On one hand, the controls and the way the combat works in general are way better, and when things really get going it's almost like a dumbed down team based Devil May Cry. That's a very good thing, if you couldn't tell.

    On the other hand, they completely eliminated the concept of rares and replaced it with a retarded crafting system. Instead of collecting swords and guns, you pick up rare pieces of wood and minerals, which, when used up, might give you a chance to create new weapons, none of which have any special attacks or unique effects to make them stand out. They also drained out all the atmosphere and style of PSO and made it look and feel like a generic anime. And the interface is the most convoluted and confusing shit I've ever seen. So much of the game is just completely inscrutable unless you spend like 4 hours asking people about it. Just try to figure out the crafting system on your own, I dare you.

    Despite all that I still kind of enjoyed it and I'd play it again if enough people here signed on for it. I think they call this kind of thing "Stockholm Syndrome".

    I tried to play the demo and I couldn't even find my way around the damn ship.

    I gave up before I even got to the planet surface.
    That's the kind of shit I'm talking about. The tutorial is like half an hour long and tells you absolutely nothing useful. The kicker is that you're not even supposed to go down to the planet yet. There's actually an entire set of levels on the ship that you're supposed to do first. I didn't figure this out until like 6 hours into the game.

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  • KaimakaKaimaka Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Lifted out of my PSO BB logs

    19:13:58 22673377 Kallen Hunters guild

    19:14:16 22673257 Alyx Alyx and Kallen at guild

    19:14:24 22673377 Kallen Camui here?

    19:14:48 22673257 Alyx Stepped away I guess

    19:14:58 22673377 Kallen For the momeeeeeent.

    19:15:06 22673257 Alyx Talking away

    19:15:16 22672831 Sally I don't know..what to say

    19:15:16 22673257 Alyx don't know what to say

    19:15:24 22672831 Sally I'll say it anyway

    19:15:26 22673377 Kallen That was creepy

    19:15:29 22672831 Sally haha

    19:15:30 22673257 Alyx I''ll be gone in a day or two

    19:15:49 22673257 Alyx who saw that editied strip with those lyrics?

    19:15:52 22672831 Sally that's like my favorite song

    19:16:00 22672831 Sally I didn't...

    19:16:05 22673257 Alyx Mine too, I have the mp3 and video

    19:16:21 22672831 Sally There's a remix on beatmania

    19:16:30 22672831 Sally a little more eurobeat

    19:16:35 22673257 Alyx Ohh, PM Kaimaka please

    I have the image on my laptop, will upload and link later maybe

    Edit: here is comic I mentioned:
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  • DualEdgeDualEdge Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Fucking De Rol. We walked up to it three times and it's mines killed us in an instant. When we did get past the first barrage, we never dealt enough damage to even shatter the mask.

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  • Dr SnofeldDr Snofeld Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    We've determined that screwing with the emoticons is infinitely more enjoyable than De Rol Le. I don't remember him opening with an insta-kill attack on the GCN...

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  • Ultros64Ultros64 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    He's a sonnofabitch. I was shocking his ass as much as I could, but he just didn't give a crap.

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  • RoriProfessorRoriProfessor Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Does anyone have any idea about how you can play as NPC characters? I've seen other people play as Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles.

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  • augustaugust where you come from is gone Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    IceBurner wrote: »
    If you can't kill things alone at leve 2, make sure you're playing Solo mode. This sets PSOBB to the equivalent of the offline difficulties and opens up all the old side-quests. Try to reach about Lv 8 before heading "online".

    How do you know if you're in Solo mode? Is it the same as making a 1 person party?

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  • IceBurnerIceBurner It's cold and there are penguins.Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Nope, you actually set it at the lobby counter. When you're launching a game, you can choose a game type/mode. There's Normal (standard multiplayer), Battle (vs), Challenge (Puzzle/Survial), and Solo (replacement for the offline game).

    PSOBB can't play offline at all, but there was a lot of offline-only content from previous versions of the game. This "solo" mode ensures that wasn't lost to PSOBB players. It also gives them a way to level up and item hunt that is balanced for just one person as opposed to a party facing enemies with twice the HP and higher stats.

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  • augustaugust where you come from is gone Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Ah, thanks.

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  • DualEdgeDualEdge Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Does anyone have any idea about how you can play as NPC characters? I've seen other people play as Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles.

    Those are the mods if I remember correctly.

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    So I managed to off De Rol Le in soloplay.

    And of course, in the next area I find the Brand with +Texas% to A.Beast :x

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    So is anyone still up for a game tonight?

    Skyline, Block 2, Lobby 15 - [PA]Grind On

    Usual password

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  • ValkunValkun Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    So I found an Amplifier of Barta. How exactly does that work?

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  • JesuitsJesuits Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Valkun wrote: »
    So I found an Amplifier of Barta. How exactly does that work?

    Stick it on a special shield of some sort, I forget exactly what it's called, to get a Barta Merge that equips on the shield slot and increases Barta damage. Note that unless you really really fucking love Barta (as opposed to Gi and Rabarta), it is probably better to save the special shield for a blue amplifier, which will increase all ice techs (though less).

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  • LorkLork Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
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  • DualEdgeDualEdge Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    How do you set shit to the number keys? I must know this.

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  • zanmattozanmatto Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I don't get it :(

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  • PeregrineFalconPeregrineFalcon Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Why are you people not playing? :|

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  • TreTre Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Lork wrote: »
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    Best gauntlet quest evar. Two lightning dragons D:.

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  • LorkLork Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    DualEdge wrote: »
    How do you set shit to the number keys? I must know this.
    Go into the customize menu, highlight something and press a number. And make sure keyboard controls are on; it won't work otherwise.

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  • Dee KaeDee Kae Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Anyone have a low level game up n' runnin?

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  • LackadaisicalLackadaisical Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm in the process of downloading the installer. It was either this or *shudder* reactivate WoW. I much prefer PSO.

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  • Dee KaeDee Kae Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I'm in the process of downloading the installer. It was either this or *shudder* reactivate WoW. I much prefer PSO.

    Tell me once you're set, and I'll start a new Ranger with yah.

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