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Saagonsa
Dec 29, 2012

Hivac posted:

Orrrrr they could just go SO3 and everyone was in a tube this whole time


Yeah that's what I was worried about. Though watching it again it seems more like it was a game to the people on Earth while the events of EP1-3 are still "real"

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Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


klapman posted:

solving the japanese captcha is at least 50% of this game's difficulty

That's the only reason I haven't played the game yet. I can't figure it out and it's :effort: to keep trying.

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

Hivac posted:

Unless it was real :tinfoil:

Orrrrr they could just go SO3 and everyone was in a tube this whole time

On a scale of Star Ocean 3 to Zegapain..

klapman
Aug 27, 2012

this char is good

Len posted:

That's the only reason I haven't played the game yet. I can't figure it out and it's :effort: to keep trying.

I found myself referring to "the weird loop-de-loop one" for like seven different letters, and started getting frustrated

Saagonsa
Dec 29, 2012

This can be very useful when open side by side with the JP captchas if you don't know hiragana http://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/hiragana.htm

E: Apprentice can drop 13* eggs, apparently, and now I can't stop laughing at just how bad of a deal that is compared to an orbit.

Saagonsa fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Jan 28, 2016

NextTime000
Feb 3, 2011

bweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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im pretty sure the arks are "real" but there is some weird third party involved behind all this

it's like day one and only one chapter in, we still got a whole episode ahead of us to iron this out

Meowywitch
Jan 14, 2010

the final boss is the creator of pso2 or is that too meta

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
To win the game you must kill me, John Romero.

Surprise Noodle
Aug 25, 2011
What's Japanese for "Suck it down!"?

LiquidRain
May 21, 2007

Watch the madness!

Len posted:

That's the only reason I haven't played the game yet. I can't figure it out and it's :effort: to keep trying.
Come into #risa and we'll help. If I'm around (JP hours, so morning/night US) I can just type it out for you in a jiffy.

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
Oh cool, you can feed your :shittydog: chips from PSO2es.

Reco
Feb 26, 2011

enemy one body to the proximity Zan attack discard the power slap hit.
Hello I am composed entirely of garbage

I'm throwing out an interest check for possibly trying to get a thing going for a rare trigger group for the new boss, I just impulse purchased 5 triggers because I'm an idiot and I wanted to ask if anyone might want to suffer with me

MR. J
Nov 22, 2011

Chuck and Fuck
When?

Reco
Feb 26, 2011

enemy one body to the proximity Zan attack discard the power slap hit.
Saturday usually seems to be when people are available but I'm pretty much able to do it whenever if it's in the evening. I'm not really organizing anything yet, just checking to see if there's enough interest to warrant trying to organize something. We usually did Gunne trigger groups on the weekend, but dropping this on Thursday seems a bit early but what do I know. If anyone else is interested let me know when you would be available.

Reallycoolname
Feb 26, 2008

Take a look! It's in a book!
I am interested in fighting trains (it's the trains, right?)

Reco
Feb 26, 2011

enemy one body to the proximity Zan attack discard the power slap hit.
Yeah. Rare triggers are currently purchasable for 5000CC each in the casino right now

Meowywitch
Jan 14, 2010

I think Summoner is really fun, Tokyo is lame, and the new story is really interesting and cool looking

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

voltcatfish posted:

I think Summoner is really fun, Tokyo is lame, and the new story is really interesting and cool looking

Is it opposite day, Volt?

Meowywitch
Jan 14, 2010

kirbysuperstar posted:

Is it opposite day, Volt?

I have no nostalgia or game experience with any other pso titles, so I thought the Falz stuff was a bit boring :shrug:

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.
Ep 1-3's plot is real fuckin bad whenever Huey or Lisa isn't on screen but Ep 4 (so far) just screams out "Woah we need SAO dollars".

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012



Oh yes.

I'd say that's an improvement.

Tengames
Oct 29, 2008


Hivac posted:

Saturday usually seems to be when people are available but I'm pretty much able to do it whenever if it's in the evening. I'm not really organizing anything yet, just checking to see if there's enough interest to warrant trying to organize something. We usually did Gunne trigger groups on the weekend, but dropping this on Thursday seems a bit early but what do I know. If anyone else is interested let me know when you would be available.

Friend was looking for such a group yesterday, so i could join and bring them too for more people.

Reco
Feb 26, 2011

enemy one body to the proximity Zan attack discard the power slap hit.
Allright, noted.

One thing I'm wondering though is if the standard anti-farming mechanic is in place for Tokyo Explore which would sort of put a damper on how fast these could be run. On the other hand I have no idea if that kind of thing applies to Variants.

Saagonsa
Dec 29, 2012

If you mean the thing where you need to kill mobs to get max boss drops, rare trigger enemies always have max drops.

Reco
Feb 26, 2011

enemy one body to the proximity Zan attack discard the power slap hit.

Saagonsa posted:

If you mean the thing where you need to kill mobs to get max boss drops, rare trigger enemies always have max drops.

I meant more the anga thing that they added specifically to stop people from doing mulligan runs but I don't know if it still applies. If it doesn't, then that's great then

nerdz
Oct 12, 2004


Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
Grimey Drawer
And what does the new rare boss drop?

Reco
Feb 26, 2011

enemy one body to the proximity Zan attack discard the power slap hit.
I'm assuming it can drop the new stuff, but I'm not sure yet. I might hold off until I can get some kind of confirmation from the swiki because I wouldn't want to drag people into a wild goose chase if it ends up being another Guar Zigmorde (Tokyo gear is area drops again). I have quite a tendency to get ahead of myself like an idiot like this

Reco fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Jan 28, 2016

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012



Saagonsa
Dec 29, 2012

Hivac posted:

I'm assuming it can drop the new stuff, but I'm not sure yet. I might hold off until I can get some kind of confirmation from the swiki because I wouldn't want to drag people into a wild goose chase if it ends up being another Guar Zigmorde (Tokyo gear is area drops again). I have quite a tendency to get ahead of myself like an idiot like this

Everything in Tokyo (even things in the arks quests) can drop the new 13*s, i believe. However as far as I know the rare enemy drop bonus does also apply to area drops

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


Is this played better with a keyboard+mouse or a gamepad? And is soloing viable?

Tengames
Oct 29, 2008


Len posted:

Is this played better with a keyboard+mouse or a gamepad? And is soloing viable?

Gamepad is best unless you use third person aiming for gunslash or ranged weapons, then mouse helps for that.

You can solo almost every non emergency quest with npc partners just fine if youre decently equipped, just know if you die in a boss fight solo with no scapedolls at the end of a quest, youll fail it (you can die as much as you want before the boss fight though)

Emergency quests however are designed for 12 people so youll have to join pubs, but you can join as a one person party .

Saagonsa
Dec 29, 2012

Personally, I've always found a keyboard much better than a controller for this game since you can quick switch weapons/subpallets with the numpad, use an item on your subpallet with only 1 button instead of navigating through it, and attempting to do some dashing stuff on a controller is absolute hell but that probably doesn't matter much.

Also, leveling up might be a bit more difficult when you're solo since there's a 20/30/40% exp gain increase when you're in a party depending on how many people are in it.

NextTime000
Feb 3, 2011

bweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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Usually Rare Enemy Trigger parties are done when there is a significant Rare Drop Boost going on

Mr. Unlucky
Nov 1, 2006

by R. Guyovich
gently caress sega. PSO is the one good game these incompetent fucks ever had and this is what they do with it. loving shameful.

nerdz
Oct 12, 2004


Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
Grimey Drawer

Mr. Unlucky posted:

gently caress sega. PSO is the one good game these incompetent fucks ever had and this is what they do with it. loving shameful.

What are you talking about? Game Good. Better than PSU. Better than PSO in many ways too.

Reco
Feb 26, 2011

enemy one body to the proximity Zan attack discard the power slap hit.
PSO is far less good than you probably remember it being

Hitlersaurus Christ
Oct 14, 2005

Still updating for the foreseeable future, but I look forward to crying at what the story/setting becomes and getting lots of use out of my gently caress CARS symbol chat.

Surprise Noodle posted:

What's Japanese for "Suck it down!"?

something like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksz8zo8BJRI

OrangeSoda
Oct 8, 2007

OrangeSoda digivolved into Monzaemon!

OrangeSoda has unlocked BEAR POWERS!
Iv'e had to re-install the entire game just because gameguard is freaking out that badly :smith:

I haven't got to try Episode 4 yet, I am actually eager to see how absolutely loving ridiculous it's going to get. Iv'e been eager since TRAIN HYDRA.

Does anyone know how to fix Np 1015? People say it's the item patch but iv'e done everything I can with that. I get a strange popup window related to gameguard that also tries to open an internet explorer window before starting and then NP 1015 when I try to connect to a ship. I tried re-installing all the original japanese files, everything.

If I get it again after the re-install i'll screencap it.

klapman
Aug 27, 2012

this char is good
This game is really, really relaxing so far.

e: Now I can't move when I enter a quest area. The weapon HUD doesn't appear on the bottom, and the gamepad doesn't move me around either. It's not scroll lock this time, the stuff I've found online says to remove the story patch but that didn't do anything. I'm checking all the files, but that'll probably take forever so if someone has past experience with this heeeeeeelp

e2: reinstalling the patch hasn't done anything, along with troubleshooting. RIP

klapman fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Jan 28, 2016

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InfinityComplex
Feb 5, 2011

Nothing better than swinging around a little girl like a flail.
If you have the story patch installed, uninstall it immediately.

Control lock is typically a symptom of the story patch not being updated to what the current story is. This happens often so don't install the story unless you're desperately craving what horrible plot there is.

InfinityComplex fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Jan 28, 2016

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