So which class/race/gender are you guys rolling and why?

>>3119864
cast master race

Join us over here, friend:
>>>/vg/2884301

>>3120685
That thread past the bump limit now. Too many waifu.

>>3125919
I only played offline with friends because we were poorfags

>not making a genderbent version of yourself in the character creator

>>3119864
Well from the looks of the character creator thread everyone will be a hipster cowboy robot or their ideal space waifu.

>>3126035
You can play with us now, there's lots of private servers for the PC edition (Blue Burst) you can play for free.

Still trying to get this character creator to work. Keeps crashing at character select, and lowering the settings doesn't help.

Also wondering who the person that mentioned PSOGC was, if they played online

>>3126130
The most well known and populous one being Schthack, forgot to say.

Don't really want to play Schthack again with PSO2 around the corner.

I need to grind for gear anyway and just don't feel up to it.

>>3126086
They're just keeping their male streetwalker husbandos private for now.
I know I am.

Is there a way to overwrite a saved character?

>Feeding your MAG on your phone
>Playing PSO2 on keyboard and mouse while inferior Vita console peasants use thumb sticks
>Get all your items hacked and deleted

BEST GAME EVER

>>3126328
Yes

\Documents\SEGA\PHANTASYSTARONLINE2

and delete the character file there

>>3126420
>Playing PSO2 on keyboard and mouse while inferior Vita console peasants use thumb sticks
If this was a FPS/RTS game I would agree with you, but considering the genre, PC users won't have THAT much of an advantage

>>3126449
thanks man found it.

>>3126130
>>3126180

>you can play with us

Are you guys active on BB? It never looks like the group on steam is active

>>3126525

Personally, then it comes to games like PSO, I've always found it far easier to use controllers than a keyboard and mouse. Granted, controllers don't have a thousand hotkeys, but I always find movement far easier with a stick.

>>3126525
It's a TPS.

Mission Specialist A GO!

>>3126893
If you're a gunner, I can see the advantages to using a Keyboard/Mouse, sure
Otherwise, there's no obvious advantage

>>3126951
the default controls in the alpha test for controllers were pretty horrid for gunners if I recall, what with "fire" and "aim" both requiring your right thumb

Hopefully that's fixed somehow

>>3126525
>use controller
>no 1-0 shortcuts

Do you even FO

>>3126951
Force HIGHLY benefits from TPS as well. Having 100% control of the explosion of your Foie and placing cards with pin-point accuracy is a pretty big deal.

Even Hunter with keyboard and mouse allows for some advanced camera techniques not possible on gamepad.

I remember seeing a thread a while ago on here where some guy was running a /vg/ private server, is that dead? I didn't bookmark the site he had set up or anything, though I should have.

>>3127198
You will be able to change your attack buttons to shoulder buttons.

>>3127207
On a PC? You should still have a keyboard in front of you.
On a Vita? I'm somewhat confident the shortcuts will be touch-enabled.

>>3127302
Charging techs is part of Force's core gameplay this time. You can imagine how much of a headache it is to charge techs with the 1-0 hotkey bar while trying to move and aim at the same time.

>>3127285
http://puttputt.no-ip.org/

>>3127240
I can kinda see that with cards, but, otherwise... I think you're going to want to be locked on anyway.

>>3127414
That's going to be a headache regardless of what control scheme you use, though.

>>3127438
Thanks

>>3127438
Whoa

Does it have special rates or anything? Or should I just stick to schthack with my 100+ shits

am I kawaii

>>3127449
And not aim for weakspots? And not taking advantage of AoEs? And not getting a good look at those RAnewearl underboobs?

>>3127632
needs more glasses

>>3127512
Not if your mouse has more than 4 buttons.

Yet another reason why PC master race.

boobs

Either way, prepare 4 a Long, LONG Journey when the Sequel hits.

>>3127789
your desktop needs some work

This is the first time in my life I have a PC good enough to play new games
Damn it feels good

>>3127714
And again, if it's a technique on the shortcut bar rather than linked to a casting weapon, you won't be able to just attack or combo it regardless what your control bindings are.

I have Family Members that use this CPU, sue me.

>>3127653
Most of the "weakspots" I recall encountering involved actually maneuvering your character to an enemy's exposed back as opposed to requiring precision aiming. I suppose there are boss weakpoints, but you could lock on to those anyway too.

Enemies also had this tendency to cluster anyway, so if you tagged one with an AoE you'd usually get everything around it.

>Spent so much time making sure every part of my muscled dark-skinned waifu is perfect, clicking on every options to see what they change
>Last button is random
Fuck you Sega

>>3128320
For the fiftieth fucking time there's an undo button in the corner

>>3126086
Personally I'm going to be recreating my fabulous FOnewm.

So how do I into beta?

I want to play this game later this month.

>>3127438
What are the rates there?

reporting for duty

>>3128815
http://pso2blog.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/closed-beta-signups-are-open/

Have to warn you, though, if you don't know any Japanese at all it may be a bit tough for you to enjoy the beta.

>implying /vg/ can handle a real waifu

>>3129448
The life of a newman forced to eat syrup 20 hours a day

ha

FOnewearl master race. Get on my level.

No, literally, get on my level because I'm fucking 144 cm tall.

>>3129679
Captcha ate my picture

>>3129486
May I ask what your graphic settings are?

>>3129853
Lowest possible on everything. I think.

so once you finish creating your masterpiece, is there something you can do with it? someone mentioned you can use your custom character for the benchmark last thread, how?

>>3129951
Try going to character edit, saving the character you want to see as a number (no english letters) then backing out and going to becnhmark without closing the program.

>>3128320
that feel
i know it

also
>know the character so well as to always recreate her everytime even in the worst loss of data

>>3130016
It has nothing to do with that the name has in it. If it doesn't let you finish it, that means the name already exists, and you'll have to delete/rename the existing file with that name in your character directory
>>3129951
Finish the character in the character creation menu by clicking the confirm button and once it goes back to the main menu select the first option to start the benchmark with your character.

>>3129448
Kinda similar to minel...

I wanted to make a chubby hunewm

>>3129469
HA! Mine only eats syurup 16 hours a day!

>>3130016
Goddamn, this was like the only good front-on shot I could get of my character.

>>3130464
I could never save my character in that way, it would give me some error message no matter what I typed in. Numbers work though.

>>3130496
Fuck this keyboard

One more shot. I love this creator!

My only problem is going to be having to choose 5 of my creations to actually play as when the game is out.

So where the dewmen at?

I think I'm starting to get used to these moonrune patterns. Maybe playing this game in zero english won't be so bad.

>>3130464
>>3130016
thanks guys i leave you with a pic of my waifu

RACAST

This is the first time I've ever encountered this franchise(?) but anyway here's my waifu.

>Undo In the Right Corner General

>>3131712
Pfffthahaha. This should be the op image from now on.

>>3131578 simple yet elegant.jpg

Less is more, nice. Reminds me of SS Zelda.

Guys, help, I want to make a waifu/god tier manly space dude.

But the program lags a fucking enormous amount, even at the SEGA logo. I'm pretty sure this shouldn't happen, my computer might be pretty bad, but it's not THAT bad.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to improve the performance?

Updated the translation sheet. Fixed a few errors. Added what (all but one of) the buttons at the bottom do.

>>3131848
Tried reducing the shader level in the options? Are you running anything in the background?

>>3131848

Start with your drivers and DirectX. When you installed the PSO2 CC, did DirectX install anything? Check both of those, and check in Task Manager to see what programs are eating up your resources.

>>3131901
I haven't. I have no idea how to navigate the options menu, unfortunately, though I did click one of the buttons at the launcher that took me to what looked like a graphical options menu, with a slider going from 1 - 5, and I lowered it to 1, with no difference.

>>3131901
#5 at the bottom is for voices. It just isn't implemented, yet.

>>3131921
No, no Direct X, that's probably it, thanks!

Though, I'll update my drivers, too.

>>3131936
http://bumped.org/psublog/pso2-the-character-creator-demo-is-up-plus-mini-guide/

>>3128982

>>3131972
>>3131921

It's me again, does anyone know what it installs for Direct X? The only redistributable I can find is from April, 2011, and that seems a bit... far back.

>>3119864
RAcast, gotta be hueg

>>3132918

Usually when DirectX is included with a game, it's because it has some required custom files that their installer will add to your DirectX. Go ahead and stick them in and see what happens.

>>3119864
RAmarl. I remade my PSO character.

The newest footage of PSO2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwkyyoNa-3g

I could spend hours creating delicious brown girls in this thing.

Only thing that could make this better is a button that rubs oil all over your character.

>>3135448
>He doesn't know how to oil up his characters
You poor, poor bastard.

>>3135403
>that screenshot
Ooh, placeholder icons
>that video
haha is that guy using a control- oh hey room customiz- HOLY SHIT SYMBOL CHAT PICTURES

Thanks op, downloading the cc right now. Going to make my dream chocolate elf waifu based of her with glasses and stockings if possible.

welp

Is there an ingame screen shot option?

>>3137764
printscreen

>>3136207
But your waifu is from a hentai, she's already been ravaged by innumerable ogre dicks, that means you couldn't possibly satisfy her!

Unless you are an ogre?

>>3137764
>in-game screenshot
>playing on computer

Oh man.

>>3137764
No, you have to use a camera to take a picture of your monitor.

>>3138472
>imply she wouldn't want any dick anyway

Is there a way to load an existing character into the benchmark?

Also, the lighting kinda sucks.

Even if I never play the game, at least the character creator is fun.
Is it just me or is the product of clicking Randomise always absolutely disgusting? I think it defaults to that achondroplasic dwarf body form, the one with the massive nigress-style hips, every time.

>>3139180
There are a lot of costume parts that don't necessarily mix with others.

Also you'll end up with funky proportions most of the time...

This game needs to be on 360 and PS3. From the looks of the datamining, it is though.

If it's on Wii U it's gonna be severely crippled like PSU was because of the PS2.

>>3139761
Wrong way around. Being on any of the current-gen consoles will cripple it for sure - with the Wii U, though, it'll be able to take advantage of full processing power.

How do I increase the graphics quality?
Something's not right here.

>>3140768
Seen this?
>>3131984

>>3130671
Jewman reporting in

>>3140867
Apparently I already had maxed the settings...
Well, whatever.

Casts only have three head and body types. Disappointing.

>>3132918
It uses a web installer thingy and basically bugs Microsoft for all the packages it needs

>>3140536
They can always just turn down the graphics settings for whatever (e.g. the Vita version).

The main issue is whether or not a hard drive or some other form of high capacity storage is present. The other two have that, the question is whether the Wii U will or not.

Is the test-your-PC thing fucked up?
It gives me bad ratings but still runs fine.

Great. I go through a lot of shit to customize then I must have hit the randomize and fucked everything.

>>3141398
Does it actually give you below 2000 or is it just bad compared to the machines here?

>>3141447
Again
Bottom right
Undo

delicious bbw

Cowgirl slut moe~

ROBOTITS!

For some reason trying to fullscreen it makes it error and crash.

Runs perfectly fine in a window though

Maybe its because I have AMD

Blue blue

>>3150215
Blue blue

>>3150215
>>3150250
GOTTA GO FAST

>>3130928

Learning katakana alone will greatly help with the item names should PSO2 never come to the west. Before anyone says "fuck that shit I don't want to learn 50 million characters," it's honestly not that daunting. It's only 71 characters, and 25 of them are the exact same as other characters but with softening/hardening marks (ex: カ = ka;　ガ = ga). So really, you only have to learn 46 characters along with that simple rule. Furthermore, on that note, you don't need to learn a million different rules like you do with the alphabet. Each syllable will basically always be pronounced exactly as you see it.

The syllabary is organized in groups of (at most) five. For example: a i u e o, ka ki ku ke ko, sa shi su se so, etc. If you just learn one group a day, you'll actually be able to read most of the item names by the time PSO2 comes out. You don't even have to bother learning to write that shit.

I just took a look at the native item names from Phantasy Star Portable 2, and literally all of the common consumables are in katakana. Practically all of the weapons, armors, techniques and monster names seem to have been in katakana, as well. You can get by without it, sure, but damn it'll help. Also, you can use this as an excuse to learn it, as I did with Monster Hunter Portable 3rd.

>>3153807
All sega needs to do is include an English UI and let foreign credit cards work for their system. There's no reason not to make the game international

>>3131901
Also, the Face/Body modifiers are still out of date, Its no longer Adult/Child, I believe its Long/Short now, with like Chubby/Sharp, etc.

server loads. and lag.

>>3154196 was meant for >>3154026

>>3154026

There really isn't, and I'll be absolutely amazed if they keep in Japan only, especially considering that there is a relatively large following for the series in the west. But, I figured I would post that anyway to ease some of the intimidation brought on by moonrunes should that possibility ever arise. Once again, I seriously doubt it will, but you never know.

>>3154026
>There's no reason not to make the game international
You mean aside from the fact that cash shop games do very poorly in the west in general? Or the fact that Phantasy Star Universe failed in the US (granted, a lot of this was Sega of America's fault, but still...) even though it's still going strong in Japan? Or how about the fact that the western Phantasy Star fanbase is smaller than the amount of Phantasy Star fans in any given subway car in Tokyo?
Even though I wouldn't touch a US version with a ten foot pole, I'd love for it to get localized because hopefully the servers will be global, and that means more players, but let's not kid ourselves and say there's no warning signs. Be as hopeful as you want for a US release. I'm right behind you there, but don't say there's no reason Sega wouldn't do it because there are tons.

>>3154196
Buy a server in America
Buy a server in Europe
Buy a server in Brazil

Name the ships appropriately.

>>3155308
shit, son. thats fucking GENIUS. but still, nigs like f2p. how will you deal with that?

>>3155414
It is F2P

Advertise it where maplestory kids are so they spend all their parents money on the cash shop daily. Since PSO is instances we wouldn't have to worry about them being shitheads around us, just stay away from the lobbies they infest.

step the fuck back, Biff's got this.

battle robot better than slut waifu designed to look hot anyday

>>3154903
>cash shop games do very poorly in the west in general
Except for multiple NA/EU games that've gone cash shop to start making more money than they did with a full sub model. LotRO and CO come to mind.

And PSU failing was almost entirely on the shoulders of Sega of America. I've never seen a company give less of a shit about their game.

>>3155554
>Since PSO is instances we wouldn't have to worry about them being shitheads around us, just stay away from the lobbies they infest.
laughingnewmangirls.gif
You've never played DC Universe Online, have you? Unless you have an active league (DCUO's version of a guild/clan), you're pretty much forced to dive headfirst into a sea of human shit. BRs, people who don't play their roles (imagine a cast hunter who only spams resta and you have an idea of the DCUO crowd), people who rush into massive groups of enemies while being completely undergeared and then blaming the healer when he dies in two seconds.... If the game comes to the US, you'll be dealing with all of that.
As for me, I'll stick with the JP client. Given my experiences in Japanese free to play games compared to DCUO, it would seem that the language barrier is an impenetrable, anti-retard field as well. Sure, you get your Japanese idiots, but they account for a small part of the game's population whereas DCUO is populated nearly entirely by mouth breathers.

>>3156590
You've never played PSO have you?

There's a lobby
You make a room
up to 3 other people can join you
You can password and lock it


DCUO is nothing like PSO. And Yes I've played DCUO and pissed off higher level villains that weren't good at PVP. Then they gang up on me with 10 people

>>3156880
As a matter of fact, I have played PSO...and PSP2 and Infinity online.
Simple fact is that you have to know people before you can make a room and password lock it. Otherwise, you're just going to be sitting in a password locked room until you get bored and log off. To prevent that, you can either play with your real life friends or people you've met online that aren't retards, and to meet the people who you don't know in real life and aren't retards, you have to suck it up and join random groups.
Also, if you're still talking about levels in DCUO, you obviously barely played it and most certainly never saw the worst the game community has to offer.

>>3157341
>Simple fact is that you have to know people before you can make a room and password lock it


Room name /v/ or /vg/
Password: rage

Welcome to PSO with /v/

>>3157341
>Also, if you're still talking about levels in DCUO, you obviously barely played it

About a week til I got bored of it.

But I don't think a level 15 should mop the floor with level 25s until they start ganging up on it

>>3157476
That explains it. The worst of humanity seems to have gathered at DCUO's T1 content (the stuff you do right after hitting level 30). Now, I'm not one of those "GET ON MY LEVEL" power gamer elitists, but some of the things I experienced in my T1 days were simply horrifying. It's not one of those esoteric intricacies of a game that you wouldn't know unless you read a wiki or something. I'm talking about complete ignorance of the basic mechanics of the game, and people like that make up the vast majority of DCUO. You were wise to get out when you did.
Oh, well. I've learned my lesson never to set foot in western MMOs, and on a positive note, I won't have to deal with that kind of bullshit again once PSO2 comes out.

>>3158223

It's actually the tier 2 stuff that has the worst people. It's awfully clear that people there don't understand how things work.

I play controller and all mission I just mash my power give button with an occasional debuff. Then I get kicked for "being useless."
Or the damage people yell at me for not giving enough energy when they spend all their power the moment they get into a fight.

>>3119864
I went HUcaseal in PSO, so I guess i'm gonna do that again.

My delicious waifu.

>>3154903
The decision to go F2P makes it so absolutely obvious that Sega is taking another stab at the international market. If Sega only cared about their domestic market and had no plans to go international, F2P would be the last thing on their minds. They milk the Japanese fanbase just well without it.

>>3158621
I played a healer in DCUO. I got to T1 and just couldn't take it. People would run in wildly different directions, tag something and run off, never help me if I inevitably had things attacking me, etc.

im having some lag problems like the other guy in this thread but i cant find the directx that everyone is mentioning. all i downloaded was a .exe and it just did a regular setup and finished
my computer is high end running crysis without lag ect ect.
this is the first time ive ever seen a game do this on my computer so im kinda surprised a lot of people arnt having this problem

teh rei

Are there double blades in this game? and or a list of weapons online somewhere?

>>3160046
looks more like that girl from dancougar nova

>>3160264
yeah didnt work out so well.

>>3159997
I didn't have any problems.

The game feels really basic too when playing in the secondary closed alpha.

I'll never be an athletic black military lesbian, but I can always pretend

my wifu

>>3160426
the face ruins it but everything else is pretty nice

>>3161464
Yeah, I should remake the face, I'll do it later. Is there any way to remove the blush?

>>3140536

>Actually believing the Wii U will be better than the 360.

Fucking seriously? Nintenyearolds believe anything.

>>3161559
I don't think it's so much the face as it is the head being too small for the body

Here's mine.

Satisfied with the results, only thing left to decide is whether to roll HU or FO. Whichever ends up being more fun.

I honestly hope to god that unarmed combat is possible for Hunters.

Because this BAAAAAAAD MOTHA FUCKA is gonna lay down the LAW.

>mfw 90% of the waifus being made are muscle girls or at least have six packs
Mah niggas.

>>3161707
You're worse than the people who watch Fox News if you actually believe the rumors going around. Maybe you should do some research on the Wii-U's specs before being a dolt?

>>3163878

I can't even count the number of dark edges.

>>3164398
Girls with abs are just so sexy
It makes you want to punch their belly with your lips

>>3154903
>failed in the US
Well... on PC, anyway.

Not that it did *particularly* well on anything, but well, this graph is actually rather telling. Of course, Microsoft is an even bigger dick when it comes to this sort of thing. I believe the word "excruciating" has actually been thrown around in regards to Xbox Live policies.

>>3166667
Between Gameguard doing jack and shit to prevent duping, and Sega refusing to either try to fix issues or refusing to ban people who were causing them, PC people really began to hate dealing with Sega pretty fast.

>>3160240
Double-ended sabers like Stag Cutlery or Demolition Comet and the like? Yeah, there are. (Those are just examples, I don't know if those exact weapons are coming back)

As in one in each hand a la Musashi or Two-Headed Ragnus? Having doubts

Take the default #10 human hunter, give him a beard and change his hair color to black.

>>3166813
They were dealt with, but they were too slow to act. I'm not really sure but to me it seemed like they just didn't have the tools or staff to properly manage the game as a local "proxy"--ST on the other hand are free to be more hands on with the Japanese side.

Regardless, a fuck up's still a fuck up. They didn't learn shit after it all happened on Blue Burst before.

>>3162834
Hunter is by far the most fun class to play. However, this does not mean that Force and Ranger aren't fun to play.

As RA and FO, you're basically playing a TPS by blowing shit up from a distance all day. Hunter, on the other hand, lets you experience the combat hands-on, ass, face, and mouth.

>>3167758
Sega of America is indeed mind bogglingly incompetent, but Sega of Japan seems to have its shit together in general. Every other week on the online notice board for PSP2 and Infinity, there would be a notice of mass bans of hackers. Too bad Sega of America thinks customer service is a foreign swear word.

>>3169620

I figured as much. Whichever class has the most depth to it will be the one I play. Force seems like it has a little more to it in PSO2 besides the typical nuke spam, heal spam, and def/att buffs.

>>3169620
Can hunters/rangers still use force techs? It's been a while since I played one of these.

>>3170340
You should definitely play Hunter then. It requires mental, physical, and map awareness as well as high execution(compared to RA and FO). You also get to make your own combos.

>>3170210
Not at the moment, but there is a sub-class system coming in the future which will probably allow that to happen.

>>3172282
>You should definitely play Hunter then. It requires mental, physical, and map awareness as well as high execution(compared to RA and FO). You also get to make your own combos.

It's interesting you should say that because in PSO1 Force by far required the most resource management and spatial awareness, whereas hunter was just run-up, combo, dodge, repeat.

Force never became "tech spam" until like level 130 and even then you had to be playing Newman.

But I will agree that Ranger has always been easy mode.

>>3172282

Welp, looked into some gameplay vids and I'm gonna have to roll HU. Completely forgot about those awesome wire dagger weapons.

Had only seen boring sword gameplay up until today.

>>3170091
Naw, you don't get it. The problem was that despite the server hardware being situated in the US everything had to go through Sonic Team anyway--most of the actions they took couldn't be dealt with immediately because they weren't awake to see the panic emails. It's total globalization fail.

Can anyone help me out here? I can't run the .EXE.

>>3174763
Hmm, are you running Service Pack 3?

>>3174835
Ah, no. I only have Service Pack 2. All right, time for an update.

Thanks!

So this game is confirmed not coming to the west?

Q: IS PSO2 going to be released in every country?
A: We would like to release the game all over the world but we have not decided on a schedule
Q: Are you not making an English page?
A: There are no plans right now for making an English page.
Q: Why doesn’t the PSO2 Facebook page post English updates often?
A: We would like to do it but the Staff is sometimes not good enough to fully understand English. We will try our best to post a status update in English.

TEN FUCKING TIMES IN EVERY GODDAMN THREAD

Come children. Sit upon my huge lap and let me tell you a story about the emperor, who was also huge.

>>3175330
Ah, Windows XP x64 doesn't have SP3. I just can't figure out what to do.

>>3179869

Oh god, I thought the visor was a mouth and the two yellow bits above it eyes for a second.

>>3180336
>x64
I'm not even sure the game supports that version of XP. How old is this hardware? Is 7 not an option here?

>that heart dropping feeling you got when you checked your email and saw you had a PSO2 mail but it was just regarding the Character Creator and not the beta

>>3183539
Pretty sure everybody here knows that feel.

If it ever gets localized for the vita, I will try to recreate that chubby Force girl from a Phantasy Star Online mission (The Lost Bride) where she tries to lose weight.

>>3184783
>Instant weight loss program: RUN TO A WATERFALL.

>>3173224
It's true that Hunter used to be the easiest class to play. Now it is the hardest compared to the other two.

What happened to the real Phantasy Star games?

>>3185625
Dead Wren.
just like everyone you care about

>>3185625
You're looking right at it. Welcome to the future.

>>3156569
>Bugs in game, sit on hands until Japan does something about it
>Removes CD Keys so people like me pirated the CD and then paid for a subscription
>Actually said that Joy2Key was a trainer

Yeah they were pretty terrible

>>3185625

the 4th Phantasy Star was the last of the series... even says it on the box of the game.

>>3185749
>fists
>There's Momoyo hair

It's on

>that box art
Holy fuck, it's almost as bad as the American Breath of Fire box art.

>>3185625
At least you can recreate Wren's creepy human-on-robot look to a certain degree.

>>3185935
>>3185749
>>3185681
How sad.

>>3185625
There's a handheld game planned that goes by the codename "Phantasy Star Viyctory".

V...ictory

PSV

>>3186067

what is it with US covers having characters look way older than in the actual game.

Mai amazonian, olive-skinned waifu.

>>3187258

this will be my main
her name is
pearl harbor-kun

>>3187258

>>3187548

Would've expected that for the muscles, not the face.

>>3187658
that is what it was intended to be
but i got lazy and didn't feel like fixing it

>>3186010

>>3187446

>Pearl Harbor-Kun

oh man that one got me

>>3185008
>Monomates make you fat

Oh Casts, why u so sexy.

>>3185861
>Bugs in game, sit on hands until Japan does something about it
>Not the developer

>Removes CD Keys so people like me pirated the CD and then paid for a subscription
>DRM PLEASE

what

>>3185625
The online titles are both more numerous and have been more successful than the original quadrilogy ever was. Phantasy Star Online was even featured once in a historical video game exhibit during TGS.

Really hate to break it to you but... while they were good games they're not exactly...

>>3140768

i got 7200 with a core 2 duo, 5770, and 3gigs of ram

so something must be wrong

>>3185681
>>3186145
He's still got Demi!

Graphics Level: 5
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
FPS Average: 150 - 200

You jelly?

Why are there so many brown musclegirl waifus? I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE.

>>3193187
Phantasy Star has brought many a fit girl lover together over the past two days.

loved this demo, but i hear there is no US release date atm. would there be modded verisons after JP release or do we just hope they fit a US verison in?

I just played PSO for the first time in a long time it was great. Can't wait for this game, man.

Help?

>>3194741
Stop trying to drag the window

>>3195131

It does this at launch

>>3194665
Are you me? I've been so hyped for PSO2 that I've been playing the fuck out of BB.

>>3195402
I kind of want to play BB but at the same time I don't. Schthack is very grindy and I don't know anything about that /vg/ one. i asked but nobody replied

How close is combat to Blue Burst?

I fucking loved Blue Burst, between BB and GC v3 i easily dumped out 2k hours.

Biggest complaint? leveling at 120+ was a BITCH.

are they going to be balancing out the classes a bit? i played all 3 back in PSO, went something like this....

>Hunter: strong all game
>Ranger: strong after getting geared
>Force: Horrid early game, useless until you get high level techs, once you get lvl 30 techs OP as balls

I found Hunter to be the funnest, got to level 100 on a HUcast in ~3 days. Shit was so easy, then i found a Chainsawd and hacked my way up the food chain.

I had 2 RAmar's, one on GC v3 and one on BB. GC one was meh, BB was godly. I had all the best weapons on BB, and did a shit load more damage due to shit like V101 (expensive? yes. worth it? very), stacking attack speed made you fucking spit out bullets nonstop and with the right guns made you into a fuckin monster.

I had 2 FO's as well, playing on GC was pretty much retard mode, too few buttons. Playing on BB was idort mode, you just rolled your fingers on 1-9 and called it good, then you buff your team and move on. Effective, but not terribly fun. Unless you were doing PvP, "LOL FROZEN LOL FROZEN LOL FROZEN LOL DED"

>>3195849
>schthack
>grindy

nigga, the whole game is fuckin grindy. schthack is just the server, not the client itself. last i played SCHT was the best as it had tranlsated a shit load of the jap content that sega never let out to us (FUCK YOU SEGA).

my biggest complaint about BB is that a shit load of content had to be taken from the JP client and translated. whats even worse is that they never finished the JP client, they just stopped. really really gay.

>>3195849
I've been playing on Ultima, and have no complaints about it. It's less grindy than Schthack because levels 1-160 are x3 EXP and 160-200 are x2 EXP.

It's not so fast that it completely ruins the appeal/fun of leveling a character (especially at later levels), while being just fast enough to not be the vidya equivalent of grinding your dick against coarse sandpaper.

>>3196013
Yeah Schthack is vanilla and crono/lee lazy shits

I'd rather not spend a month trying to be awesome. Its like when you get an RO urge, you don't jump on a 5/5/3 server. You jump on a 50/50/25 server

>>3196081
Is that the one run by someone here or another one?

>>3195849
SCHT is fine, however the marketplace was when i played absolutely 100% fucked. You cant stop dupers, no matter what server you were on, but SCHT had it worst as the population was the largest. i had a shit load of items that i got from a guy on my friend list, he got perma'd for duping, all in all he gave me a shit load of MAG stuff, a few PS's, and probably somewhere around 300 PD's. When i quit i was filthy stinking rich, and feeling bad that most of it was duped i gave it away to people on the forum i used to regularly visit.

theres no "right" server to play on, just pick what one you think is best for you. Once you get through your first run, the game becomes pretty grindy. As soon as you get to Ultimate difficulty, things get hairy. expect to see a LOT of Forest. The difficulty jump between Forest and Cave is retarded, and the jump from Caves to Mines is even more retarded.

If you have the right gear you should be fine, but you will want a party on ult, going solo is a bitch and a half when you first get to ultimate.

>>3196081
>3x exp
>2x exp

thats...dumb. that makes lvl 200 less of an achievement by far, and less rewarding personally. its like re-attaching training wheels to a bike. its not like Black Paper doesnt just hand out free exp and loot, getting to 200 isnt hard really.

>>3196256
>getting to 200 isnt hard really.

someone might not want to do the same mission 25,000 times

>>3196256
>talking about achievements and rewards in a game kept alive purely for nostalgic fun

>>3196256
I've already gotten level 200 once legitimately. I'm not gonna fucking do it again.

>>3196256
Hard? No.

Tedious? Yes. VERY yes.

>>3196256
Are you saying there's a visceral sense of achievement for grinding to 200? Because that is really fucking stupid. If I wanted that then I'd play fucking Ragnarok.

3x isn't even that much, especially at later levels.

How do I load a saved character, which I THINK I saved?

>>3196785
It's one of the lower-most items in the interface

>>3196785
Click the load button. It's under the save button.

>>3196691
>>3196683
>>3196256

There's nothing special about grinding to level 200, likewise, there's nothing special about getting there through multipliers either. What makes getting to level 200 special is getting there naturally, just by playing the game for fun. It shows you've been around a long time, not that you know how to spam EXP the best ways.

I've got a level 173 HUney back on PSOGC, I never tried spamming my way to level 200 despite my fairly high level. It took me a long-ass time to get there. A friend of mine got to 183 after just a week or two of spamming a King's Needle in PSOGC. The sheer fact that you can do that to hit level 200 that way, or that people grind endlessly to get there, just cheapens the whole thing. That's the reason I never pushed to get there.

>>3196845
I don't know where the save button is... how do I navigate to it?

I know where the benchmark and CC are.

>>3196859
>the joy is in the inefficient grinding
Class A autist detected.

>>3196925
see >>3196840

I hope they don't tack on another single-player campaign. The whole thing felt very shoehorned and was terrible beyond words.

>>3196859
>play a Hunew
>have to grind to 180 anyway to do shit

>>3196859
I'm pretty sure a good amount of us have gotten 200 naturally, or somewhere close to it.

I play on Ultima because I HAVE gotten 200 naturally, and only want to replay PSO for nostalgic purposes before PSO2 launches, but don't want to suffer through the tedious process of leveling naturally.

>>3196840

See >>3131901 for an update version. Probably update it to include the variations for male/female morph menus, although those aren't as important as everything else.

>>3197078
Thanks. I somehow scrolled right past it when reading the thread.

>>3189227
>Not the developer
You missed the point entirely if that's your argument. There would be bugs in the game, right? Well, the one way they would be fixed is if SoJ fixed it first and then sent to the PC/PS2 versions later on. This is what I was referring to. I'm guessing you only played the 360 version, which I believe is international.

>DRM
Question, if thats your argument. Is there a CD Key generator for World of Warcraft? If thats not possible, then if PSO2 had such a system, would that deter people from pirating the disc for the game, since it would have to be joined to their account?

In case we ever need a new thread...

>>3197260
>Implying people will actually read the OP picture.

We'd be better off just including it in the OP as copypasta

>>3197351
And posting it every thirty posts.

>>3197260
>undo button general.

I love it.

>>3197027
>Ultima

State you name and guild soldier!

>>3132292
How do you get your character into the benchmark?

>>3196963

I made the mistake of using only Power mats, so my HUney was maxed out on attack power right off the bat. I ended up playing her like a HUcast; High attack power mechguns with Berserk or Charge, DoB, Black King Bar with high percents, I think a high hit Holy Ray, things like that. The Shifta and Deband helped quite a bit, too.

As I recall, by the time I stopped playing PSOGC due to a broken gamecube, I had... 75 hit Vises, 60 hit Charge Vulcans, 80 hit Diska of Braveman, 80 hit Vjaya, 2 Black King Bars, one 45 hit, the other 30 hit, both covering 2 percents (One Abeast and Dark, one Native and Machine)... And a fuckload of sranks. I know I had a Demon's Needle, a Berserk Needle, Demon's Vulcans, a Zalure J-Cutter, things like that. I got really heavy into C-Mode before by GC started freezing a bit too much for me to want to risk playing.

>>3197351
>implying anyone reads the OP copypasta

You're all wasting your time. If they won't even bother to google then they won't read the OP.

>Run benchmark with default HUmar
>Score 1500.

>Make character
>Load character into benchmark
>Score 2250.

Huh.

>>3197505
I haven't been much of a person for guilds in PSO (I'm too autistic for anything other than Solo Play), but my char's name is LilNino. I also only started like 2 days ago, so I'm only level 35.

>>3197601
Huh, didn't know you could do that. Neat.

>>3197601
see
>>3197506

>>3197530

The fuck is Google?

>>3197823

>Make character
>Save character (as in hitting the Next button, not saving it as a template)
>Run benchmark
>Watch your character run around.

>>3197876
Weird, he didn't show up for me.

>>3197506
>>3197823
Hit the very bottom save option, the one next to the cancel button that goes back (not the one in the menu above random). There seems to be a problem with english characters so name your character a number, then back out and go to the benchmark without closing the program, it should load with the character you just saved.

>>3197891
The problem is not in the English characters. It happens if you hit Next after having already saved a template of your character, and you try to save the character with the same name as the template.

You can get around this by making a backup temp save with a diff name, delete the data of the save using the name you want in Documents > SEGA > PHANTASYSTARONLINE2, and then load the backup template, and save it normally.

There really isn't any benefit to doing so, but if you're autistic like me, that's the way around it.

>>3197891
Ah okay, there we go.

>>3197774
>I'm too autistic for anything other than Solo Play

Nonsense, just haven't found the right bros is all, take your time and get accustomed. I'm sure you'll find the right group and even should you choose not to join a guild it's always good to mingle with the locals. I wasn't planning on joining a guild either but I ran into this one person and we hit it off pretty fast. She introduced me to some of her friends and we hit it off pretty well. Before I knew it I had joined their guild and we were ravaging battlefields together. It's all about putting yourself out there. I'll keep an eye out for ya should you ever look like you could use some help.

>>3198341
Like I said in my earlier post, I've already played the original game to level 200, so PSO isn't by any means new to me. My typical play-style for PSO has always been something along the lines of:

>Log on
>Make Solo Play server
>Play a few missions until bored
>Log out until I get another PSO itch

While I will agree playing with bros is a lot more fun (playing through Ultimate with some guildies of mine from WoW was probably some of the most fun I've had in PSO in a long time), I'm just the kind of person who prefers solo play in dungeon crawlers.

>>3197212
Sega of America can't do anything about a bug. They have no development staff. Bugfixes for all versions of the game are the sole responsibility of Sonic Team. If an exploit something in Japan first but is left open in the west, the blame lies solely with Sonic Team for not sending over the fix to be applied here.

And anything that makes it easier for people to subscribe can't be construed as a bad thing for you or I. A CD key is admittedly a relatively mild form of DRM these days, but it's DRM all the same.

Playing PSO in 2001.
>Log in
>Pick HUmar
>Get EXP, find red boxes, have fun.
>Life is great.

Playing PSO in 2012
>Choose one of the three private servers to log in on, have friends on each.
>Have 4 characters on each server.
>oh my god I have to level them all.
>spend an hour swapping items and mags via common bank.
>Life is hell.

At some point, I took my enjoyment too far. I pray that PSO2 just has international servers, it would be great to be narrowed down to just ONE server again

>>3198673
No prob, I can respect that. Just enjoy yourself as you see fit fellow ultima bro.

>>3198892
I wouldn't get your hopes up. I remember reading that servers will be working much like they do in other MMOs, in that once you pick a server and make a character on it, it's stuck there for good.

>>3198892
Red boxes didn't debut until Episode I & II.

>>3199361
but that's wrong you fucking retard

Every time someone says Ultima in here my mind defaults to Ultima Online the game

>>3199458
I think Final Fantasy.

Brb, rope.

>>3199434
Dust off the Dreamcast and load up the game yourself.

Because I did.

pso2.com redirects to the english page for Sega, just saying

>>3199772
i feel your pain.

>>3200294
oh wait, i forgot i didn't have it on the lowest setting

still, it looks really shitty for it to run at a consistent 60fps

I'm totally building my new rig so I can max this game out.

So we all gonna meet up and party in the closed beta?

>>3201731
Hopefully. I honestly didn't like PSOBB's controls, were they the same way in the original game for the DC?

>>3201769
Are we automatically in the beta if we registered for that the newsletter and such?

>>3201829
No? I dunno.

>>3201731
Hell yes.

>>3201769
I'm not sure what you mean. There really weren't any drastic control scheme changes throughout the various versions of the game. The most significant would have been Blue Burst's shortcut bar which just didn't exist beforehadn.

>>3202085
I mean the aiming mechanic was kinda iffy to me.

I made a shota elf.

>>3204156
>not showing us the whole slutty package

>>3204156

And a mahou mechashota version.

They're doing terrible, sexual things to each other in my head.

>>3204207
seek psychological help.

>>3204239
But that's the only thing shotas are good for.

>>3204239

No. Never.

Does the right one's figure look a bit off to you guys? The torso still bugs me.

>>3204404
Seems fine to me. The body silhouettes in this game are kind of weird to begin with, but that at least appears to match the shoulders and hips.

Oh god. The possibilities. All the horrible chubby armpit flabby possibilities.

is this a decent color palette

level 5 detail with simple shader

vs level 5 detail with normal shader

i really really like the latter but with that framerate i probably won't use it

>>3204534
Its ok i guess, i could use a bit more vibrant colors though.

Welp, not gonna be able to play this game without the shader on. Time to get to work on a new one I guess. When do you think this'll hit the west? If it ever hits the west that is.

I installed it...how do I get to the character creation?

>>3204981

New computer I meant to say.

And fuck. I keep making shotas. Fuck Tera, I never liked those fat hip uguu face elins anyway. Robots and shotas, that's the way to go.

How do I know if I've made it into the CBT? I applied on the 31st of March, how likely am I to get in? Care to tell me when people first started applying?

All so jelly eh?

I've made a bunch of characters, but it seems that the demo only loads your most-recently created character into the benchmark.

Is there a way to get an existing character into the benchmark without re-saving it?

set out to make the trappiest of traps. I am pleased with the result.

>>3207204
>>3207884
it begins

>>3207884
although I am still unsure if the man-dress is better or not.

>>3160426
I've got something for you.

>>3208418
Wrong picture.

>>3196952
Wouldn't an autist be obsessive over the most efficient ways to grind?
If you're going to use shitty forced /v/ buzzwords then at least don't be a fucking idiot about it.

>>3206053
I do 27k with a phenom 2 x4 965 @ 3.9 and 570GTX (non oc)... weird. I doubt the game uses more than 4 cores, if at all.

Computer can't run it as it is now; but as soon as I can drop in some new pieces of hardware and get it up to speed--I'll be playing this bright eyesore.

Classy FO waifu and brotier HU
Thinking about what to do for a RA, probably a newearl this time

Perfect.

>>3209835
>Dat hair

Reminds me of that shy girl with the baseball bat from Bleach.

I always had a thing for purple robot assassins

>>3210893
she grew her hair out to cover her face because she's embarassed about her weird freckles

>2012
>not giving your sci-fi waifu a backstory

bump

>>3205882
>>3205882
Anyone?

please respond

we xbox now

>>3217761
Sign up was open a bit before that. There's something like 100,000 slots for the closed beta, but everyone who signed up for Alpha test 2 got in. I'd say our chances are good.

Gurifisu!

spent way too much time on this guy

>>3225210

>>3225210
>>3225286
If only there was a selectable neckbear...

More info on the beta!
http://bumped.org/psublog/pso2-closed-beta-features-part-3/

>>3225041

My shota newman force main and his busty, athletic space wife (fuck that costume for hiding her abs). He's actually a little shorter than her until he gets into his combat uniform, at which point he gets two or three centimeters on her because of the boots.

turned out so cute

>Get creator.
>Spend a couple hours making silly characters to post around the internet.
>Hahaha this is fun, now time to make my usual male human that I will actually play the game with.

>2 days later
>WHY CAN'T I GET THIS RIGHT OH MY GOD

I am going to die.

>The creator displays your character's height in the upper right corner.

Oh my fucking god this is my favorite part. I don't know about you guys but in the first PSO I would have to remake my characters over and over because I didn't know how tall they were in comparison to everyone else until starting the game.

>>3227893
I thought I was the only one. Every character creator should have this or at least a bar that indicates average height.

>>3227893
Took me a few minutes to realize the height number adjusted when your character has shoes on. Couldnt figure out why my newman was gaining 10 cm

>>3228514
>HUnewearl's slutty pants don't cover the lingerie you can wear under your costume.

Oh my god Newmen have hit a new low.

>>3228614
>Implying spess elves weren't always Phantasy Star's sluts

>Implying this is going to come to the states

>Implying rare weapons from quests still won't be a pain in the ass to get

Forever without rares until I fight the ultimate dragon for 15 hours for that red box drop.

How do I change or remove the part on top of the head?

Fuck, all I want to to is make a downtrodden looking guy but something always looks off.

>>3230286
Open the accessories and pick none for whichever has that on

>>3230286
The mecha ears are an accessory. Find the area that has buttons that end in 1, 2 and 3.

>>3230286
Look for a group of options that says 1 2 3 at the end of them

>Play PSO
>Everyone used to whine about how hard it was being a hunter
>Make one
>Not bad.

Fuck flesh and bone. Cast 4 life. No poison, no paralyze. FUCK YEAR.

But no seriously fuck swords unless this game has some seriously anti-boring combo system, because after the long haul of PSO I did, I'd rather 3 step shoot then 3 step combo.

>Find a shot
>THE WORLD IS MINE

>>3230356
>>3230359
>>3230417
Thanks. I was looking in face/hair options, not thinking it could be an accessory.

>>3227725
I think most of us know that feel. I spent something like 4 hours alone on the face for mine, and am still not happy with it.

>>3230650
In PSO2 you can chain the 3-hit combo into itself over and over until you get hit or need to dodge.

But I don't know who you've been talking to, Hunter was never a hard class to play in PSO1.

>>3230650
>Everyone used to whine about how hard it was being a hunter

That's a funny way to spell Force

>>3231064

>Force
>Hard

>Souped up frame and mag at level 1

The only way to go.

>>3230650
In the early levels, hunter is the easiest and most versitile class, ranger comes next, when you have some decent equips, then lastly force because they're as durable as paper.
But at later levels, force completely dominates everyone else. Especially melee build ones. Complete fucking beasts!

>>3230834
Hunters were never really that hard. They simply weren't as efficient as Rangers at higher levels.

>>3231380
Oh god. Give them a max Mind Mag and some spells and you could power level them to 80+ in a day by abusing ep4.

>>3175498

Cancelled in the west due to "Unfamiliar product expectations."

They recently fired a whole lot of people and are only attempting games they know will sell a bit more.

Anarchy Reigns is the last "non-expectant" sega title to be on the list for the us. It might get cancelled before long though.

>>3231776

>Max Mind Mag
>3 slot God|Mind
>No brakes on this jester caster rape train.

>>3231998
>Cancelled in the west due to "Unfamiliar product expectations."

Stop that.

>>3232226

Stop what.

I'm being serious.

>>3233038
uh huh

That feeling when you get the urge to play BB, fire up shithack, and your login doesn't work.

I thought they didn't prune for inactivity anymore? Been well over 3 months since i last played.

>>3233198
I'm pretty sure they never did that. I have an account on there for years that I mess with on and off and I've gone for half a year or longer not touching it and it's always still been there.

>>3233198
perfect excuse to sign up with the 4chan server at http://puttputt.no-ip.org/ EXP rates are 10 times higher and rare monster rates are up by a lot too.

>>3233703
I thought the same thing, and figured I'd just forgotten what the password was.

Then I tried logging into my forum account, which I know for sure what the password for is, and that's gone too.

>>3233896
Are drop rates also 10x higher, or just exp and rare spawns?

I'd like to actually get a Gene Flow to dick around with at some point in my life

>>3235087

Exp is 10x, rare mobs have a 5% of spawn rate. About drop rates I don´t know, but Red Boxes are common.

>http://segabits.com/blog/2012/04/04/editorial-gaming-sites-who-failed-at-reporting-last-fridays-
news/

For those with problems in reading comprehension.

Since a lot of you are playing BB in anticipation, do you want to play together or something?

>>3231998
>trying to sell a free to play game

nice try

>>3243223
Thinking about it, but not today.

>>3233896

>Killed 30 red lily rare monster spawns on normal

>27 General Mind
>3 Angel Mind
>0 Red Boxes

Drop rates on putt putt are total trash like the normal game. Rares spawn though.. it's like finding a metal slime in terms of practicality. LODSOEXP, but that's it. Drops? PFFT

>>3244456
I haven't played there, but to be fair normal has dicks drop rates anyway

>>3244456
>On normal

Have you ever even played PSO before?

>>3244638

>Difficulties
>Normal
>Hard
>Very Hard
>Ultimate

HAVE YOU?

>>3245024
He's referring to the drop rates. Normal's drop rates are complete shit.

Datamining has shown "wand" and "machine gun" weapons.

>>3245024
http://www.pso-world.com/item_findings.php?by=location&lid=2&version=v3

There you go darling. It's impossible to get a rare from a Nar Lily on Normal mode regardless of section I.D.

>>3245084
Unless wand allows you to charge up spells incredibly quickly, I don't see it being much use compared to the way rods work, especially with the new niche the talis made for itself. The idea of tossing a card into a group of enemies so I can use techs from half a mile away or using cards to do ultra long range restas on the front liners is going to be hard for the wand to compete with unless it has its own new special functions.

>>3246393
Wand usually gives you the highest MST boost of all the other weapons.

Welp.

I'm sold.

TOPHAT UP IN THIS MOTHERFUCKER