/v/ - Video Games

I personally prefer PSOBB myself, still play it from time to time. Would be fun to hang around Ephinea's servers with some anons.

>>13794073

D-discuss it anyway!

>>13794468

Ever since AIDA got some actually somewhat competent people on his team, issues like that are pretty rare. It's worth a shot if you want to try it again I think.

>>13794069

I've never played the game before, is it worth jumping into?

F2P? Any paywall caps? No pay to win shenanigans? Can everything be eventually obtained without having to pay a dime?

This is important! Pic unrelated

>>13794069

>w-why does nobody care about my gook p2w mmoshit?

Doubles

>masterpiece

Keep dreaming.

Not as good as PSO. Fun character creator and combat system though, but it's too bad you can't go full gundam with female casts.

Gee PSO2, where's YOUR western server with a game that's fully translated? :^)

>>13794674

>f2p friendly

>inventory issues unless you buy more storage

>All those poor anons who never experienced the true best MMO

I'll like to get back on it one day but I'm too busy for now.

>>13794703

>but only having 50 slots half of which are probably taken up by your equipment and consumables is pretty annoying

>Storage space is basically a non-issue nowadays

>>13794711

True, but that and the gatcha style unlocks are pretty jewish to me. Either just sell the damn costumes or make them reasonably acquirable in the game. This lockbox shit is getting ridiculous and fuck you for giving this their lockboxes a chance for some arbitrary reason.

>>13794632

>Playing on toaster settings

Also do not play with /v/.

>>13794725

Pretty much this. There are client orders in game that shit out money so it's never an issue and a lot of them are repeatable like clotho's Time attack orders and The dude in Franka's Cafe that gives 100k for shit you get from harvesting.

>>13794725

>>13794731

>gatcha style systems are fine if you can eat the whale's leftovers

Then I guess we agree to disagree. I find that practice disgusting. Rng in any sort of lock box that you buy is jewery incarnate.

>>13794740

>Leftovers

Frankly I've never boughtanything that required money and the only time I've used the scratches in PSO2 is to believe it or not get junk items like grinders. the F2P scratches, known as FUN scratcheds are good ways of getting shit like grinders you can turn around and sell and FUN is it's own currency, that again is handed to you left right and center.

The problem isn't gashapon systems. The problem is how they are used. Games that are purely JP and have them tend to be based around "work hard get shit". Western games with the system are heavily rigged typically to get you to buy shit in the cash shop to begin with. Another issue is if the system is where players get their gear from. This isn't the case with PSO2, it's all cosmetics shit and even then the market ends up flooded with the costumes and whatnot. Of course the highly desired shit ends up at ridiculously high prices but a lot of times it's for female characters.

>>13794757

>no thought

>saying that while defending a gatcha system that uses actual shekels within the same post

>>13794763

>The problem is how they are used. Games that are purely JP and have them tend to be based around "work hard get shit"

That can work either as "beat this very hard encounter by working with other people" or "grind this map until you hate this game". That said, I can see why this game's gatcha is nowhere as bad as their western equivalents. My problem lies in the fact that if they have to resort to this f2p kike tier tactic then why not just make it p2p? Why try to trick their own fanbase?

>>13794767

>don't hate the concept of rng in a game where it costs shekels to take a spin of the slots

>>13794772

Give me a garbage response, get a garbage response back. :^)

>>13794795

>but at the same time they made player housing a Mostly premium feature. Outside like 5 slots to set down furniture in you're stuck with a barebones room. I've heard there are ways but the only thing I run into typically is the "open your room to the public for 3 days" tickets

They kneecapped f2p housing unless you spend sheklels?! Holy fuck, that offends me on a personal level!

Forget the gatcha shit, that is just the biggest slap in the face to any f2p player. Why didn't they just lock housing behind a paywall instead of cockteasing players like that? Jesus, that makes me fucking livid.

>>13794763

>it's all cosmetics shit

These don't look like cosmetics to me. I mean, shit, I like the game, too. But don't go spreading bullshit like this when you know that's clearly not the case.

Hi, /monster/

>>13794795

Please stop talking if you don't know shit. You can trade room passes for excubes at a rate that gets you a month of 150 slots room per EQ. I've been mantaining my room for years now and never had to spend a cent on it. I also have thousands of excubes that I can't even spend.

The 3 day shop pass can also be gotten for free from the FUN scratch, which uses FUN, which in turn is purchasable by using excubes. It's tiresome, but entirely doable to scratch when you need a pass to do some selling, because it's only the selling that's locked, not the buying.

>>13794821

>being this simple minded

I'll break it down like i'm talking to a child. Your loot pool in game is exactly like the various rewards you can win from playing a slot machine. They use the same concept except one is a physical machine and another is a digital item used for the game we are talking about. Do you have any questions?

>>13794802

>>13794795

I started playing two months ago, fuck Sega for not letting me have housing unless I pay real money!!!!

>>13794838

>>13794839

That's good to hear but unless the passes are dirt cheap in the auction house then I can see new users be tricked into just buying them early on if they really want to play house. That's the part that rubs me the wrong way. We can educate new users all we want but at the end of the day it's the devs that decide how honest or dishonest they want to be when it comes to cash shops like these. Turns out most devs can't be trusted.

>>13794866

>This is PSO2, a game where you can get into raids 10min after character creation.

>implying a new user knows how to get into a raid in 10 minutes

holy shit, does sega know how much you are doing it for free?

>>13794891

The point is that a new user would more than likely not know about the fact that you can buy a 3 day pass in the space auction house and are you telling me that a low level player can not only do an emergency quest but contribute enough to get substantial rewards? You are making a huge assumption that a new player knows the game's ins and outs.

>>13794912

>contributions doesn't matter squat

So you are telling me that AFK newbs are a thing in EQs?

>one could almost believe you haven't played it

>all of my questions have been about the game's systems

Amazing deduction skills, let me try. Your post history in this thread makes me assume that you have spent a substantial time on this game and has a kneejerk reaction to defend this game when someone mentions that rng in a f2p game isn't a good idea.

>>13794924

>he comes into threads making assumptions about games he doesn't play

You've been BTFO for the last few posts man, just stop and take your lumps.

>>13794975

That's not bad at all. How rare are the cosmetics? Any bullshit 1/100 yugioh secret rare holy shit a fucking charizard tier cosmetics?

>>13794982

Not very rare. Again fun scratches get you some things. but they do put the meat and potatoes in the cash money scratches. The character customization itself is really robust and improved over time. Some events, like the dengeki hobby event running right now and will be till december. Has not only some ok costumes and outfits but the collection files for it can net you some strong weapons. Collection files are basically "kill X thing at Y level range or higher" to fill a bar. Of course they have to be the minimum level listed. So unless you're up there don't expect anything. The trade off is you'll have good weapons.

As for the last bit I dunno.

>>13794991

You should probably elaborate that he's not going to be able to get the better paying client orders till into the 30s or 40s,. TA missions unlock close to 50 doesn't it?

>>13794991

>>13795010

Thanks for the info, I was already going to try it out but seeing the gatcha in the game was a huge turn off. At most this thread allowed me to see how kikeish it could be. It's not as bad as I was expecting but I realistically didn't expect to get the fun shit for free until level 30 or so like most MMOs now a days.

>>13794982

Some color combinations are more rare than others.

http://pso2.jp/players/catalog/scratch/ac/20171108/

The actual pull rates for the items in the current real-money scratch draw (picture 1) are listed here. As there is no money involved for the FUN scratch (picture 2), there is no actual pull rate data. Generally, though, the green pointer hand icon signifies that the item is a "HOT ITEM!!!!!!!!!!!11111" and is probably an uncommon draw.

>>13794069

Might have to do with accessability to those games, you get ads and can see them anywhere. Also, I expect "PSO2? Probably some gook p2w trash and I need to register on japanese site, and apply an english patch to play it, too hard, I'd rather frog-jump as a spess kid in a bug-ridden gigagrindan not like it's bad game" line of thinking.

>>13794937

And you've been feeding a troll for the whole thread.

Speaking about gatcha shit though I'd say that it's a very good thing in PSO2. While in general gatcha is cancer, people who scratch get a bunch of cheap items and a few very very expensive, so they in-game currency income is more or less stable, they use all that shit which they might not want to sell to other players to buy shit that they do want, which allows f2p players to get p2p stuff. So in the end you still get item you want while keeping the market alive and game f2p as in FREE to play.

For the latest scratch they added ability to pick item you want after N scratches, up to 3 with increasing intervals, so super popular/expensive shit will have its price normalized.

>>13794982

You can check official site for item chances, generally it's from 0.(6)% to 1.(6)% so there isn't any super-rare shit. This too often has little to do with prices as some 1.(6)% pink panties might cost like 300k while same but black panties can go for 10m though usually panties doesn't cost that much

>>13794069

>Weebframe Online 2

>masterpiece

>all this shit flinging over pay2fashion

>while Warframe is full on p2w where you can buy guns and frames directly

>while FF14 still has cash shop despite being pay to play

>while Path of Exile is built from ground up around trading and sells you storage for trading

Wew.

Let's address real problems with PSO2 instead.

<no builds

There are no builds. Well there might be different elemental builds for casters, but I'm pretty sure all hardcore tech users settle on some sort of rainbow build where you can effectively use most if not all elements.

All other classes have essentially one build each.

<fucked up difficulty

It's very easy game, in both early game and end game. It's a result of massive power creep and devs not touching old content.

The only way it may have challenge is where brand new player enters 40-55 level range, but then it ends very quickly.

And a bunch of missions made to be challenging specifically can easily be cheesed in 12 different ways not counting hero class.

<story and presentation are a mess

It tries to be both dark and edgy like PSO1 while being bright and weeb otaku friendly like PSU.

Remember when you last seen blood in PS franchise before? And one minute later you encounter rappy rave party in the lobby or some space ship twirling around stripper pole.

<feature bloat

It has like 1000 different types of gems, ores, collectibles, currencies and other shit that you don't fucking need at any point ever. And they keep adding them. I dunno why.

Nobody needs fucking bio weapons anymore.

<dated in more ways than one

Which I consider a good thing, but with how western full priced single player game have microtransactions and gacha shit in them as a norm, I consider it even a better thing. It's funny when shit of mordor 2 is more p2w than some japanese non-mmo.

But you still have shit like primitive cloth physics, non moving hands and terrible textures.

Still it's one of the better games out there in general and the single best free to play game period, people not playing it because of some retarded reasons like japanese captcha or purchasable inventory slots are missing out big time.

>>13794069

>MMO's a-are only o-ok if they're w-waifu b-bait!

>>13794716

>Daria OC

It's like 1999 all over again. Did you prepare for Y2K anon?

>>13794616

/thread

>pedos from the old Tera threads shit up FFXIV threads earlier this year and got BTFO by Mark

>they moved to Warframe threads recently and tried shitting them up too, got BTFO by anons

>now there's a PSO2 thread specifically calling the other two games trash made by an OP that isn't actually contributing to the discussion

>>13794691

I miss CoH/CoV all the time, and no mmo has been good enough to fill that void. I don't expect City of Titans or whatever to do it, either, since it seems like sjw trash.

Pic related, it's NCSoft.

>>13794643

Where have all the newmen gone, and where's the esca god?

Where's the streetwise Gettemhart to stab the moe blobs?

Isn't there a summoner upon a fiery viola?

Late at night I get online, and I see posts from EOPs.

Waiting for hero! They're holding out for a hero never to be localized!

They've got to be dumb, and they've got to be fat, and they've got to be straight out of cuck chan.

>>13798323

The reason there's no builds is because there's enough SP for every class to take every skill worth having at this point. If I don't pad out the excess with flat stat boosts, all my trees except force and techer have a good 20-28 points left over after taking all the useful skills. Force and techer recently got cost cuts to its mastery skills that make it so that rainbow builds are still decent even if they aren't optimal. As for the difficulty thing, the devs claim that they want to implement more difficult content in the future, but they probably won't because of fear of alienating the casual whales they invited to the game in Episode 4.

7/10 game, content only lasts for as long as powercreep deems it relevant and devs are too scared to make something the average joe can't clear.

It's the sort of game where you're rarely prompted to get stronger gear unless you want to grind more efficiently. Most of the content is insultingly irrelevant because of powercreep. Very rarely are there quests that have a reasonable, healthy 4 player limit instead of the 12 you normally have.

it's basically in the same spot as modern Monster Hunter- you don't play it because it's difficult to win, you play it because it's satisfying to improve and perform better. Any numbskull can clear a pub Mother EQ since there is practically zero fail-state, but that doesn't make it any less entertaining to use your tools as well as you can. It doesn't excuse the terrible balance; I just enjoy what i can in spite of it. The combat is actually really fun if you're not playing a braindead class, and everybody loves to shit on Hero because it's overpowered, but it's super satisfying to play optimally; lots of tools and a big focus on counterattacks.

They temporarily inflate the stats and drop rates of older content to match the current meta, but instead of making a new difficulty setting for it, it's just an ephemeral event.

A few months ago, for the game's anniversary, there were 4-man quests with static enemy placement that featured most of the content from each episode, including an unlockable 5th quest that threw a bit of everything at you. It was already fairly difficult for the average pub to clear due to the time limit, but there was a periodic enemy buff based on how much the event quests were played across the whole populace, letting the skilled players and whales flex their ego. Said quests are gone with the event despite being some of the most fun I've had with the game in a long time.

>>13799072

be that as it may, surely tweaking the xp values in said quests wouldn't be too hard

they were fun because they cut out everything that slows down the game everywhere else, e.g. cutscenes, mindless mobbing, etc., just boss after boss with small breaks between- the polytan EQ going on right now is a shadow of that with triple the headcount (and RNG mobbing, but that's less damning) even though it has the same great diversity of enemies.

>>13798808

this is true

>>13794069

aah maintenance day

Soo.. we shit post

How do you become a glorious winged faggot?

>>13799403

Hero is basically this gameplay-wise with its swapping PA's and a use for every mode except it uses a combination of sword/TMG/talis so gunslash is still a piece of shit. Hero is the most fun class in the game imo, but it is far from polished.

sword is the best dps option and the other two weapons are more useful for utility because sword already has two really strong ranged attacks, the weapon action and a Parallel Slider remake plus the widest range AoE

you need to have hit 75 in a few classes to unlock it and it starts at level 1 like everything else

>>13794069

Can someone spoon feed me on how to install/patch to play this game?

>>13798833

>>13799520

>a hacked checksum (so you can remove intrusive UI and all that fun stuff)

What intrusive UI?

You can disble UI altogether in tweaker, but what parts of it are considered intrusive?

I'm asking because I'd remove a thing or two tbh.

>>13799728

the

>EMAGENCY

>CODE

>DUEL

splashes, for example. can also remove damage numbers and such if that's your fancy

No furry bait

/thread

>>13794069

>masterpiece that is PSO2 is being ignored

>Explain.

Its a game made in Japan' fundamentally filled with Japanese cultured items, areas and references. Where many people may not understand if they were to try the game first hand so it tends to be pushed to the side or whitewashed. With previous issues Sega had with localisations on other games it becomes a gamble especially since many things in this game don't meet the criteria for a 16 year old western teenager but it does for a 12 year old Japanese child. The final nail in the coffin was that many of the costumes in game are from collaboration items from "animes, games, clothing stores, insurance companies, mobile games, a restaurant.. etc." Where sega may have to contract that and cost them money in the long run for a game that lost its original base following of players.

>masterpiece

I got to tell you anon, it stopped being a masterpiece almost 2 years ago.

I will give you a bit of insight so you understand.

With each year some of the main staff in Sega are moved to other game projects. For 3 years everything was fine or great. The issue came in episode 4 but was visible in episode 2. when staff changed on year episode 2 one of the developer/directors had the idea to alter the balance for all classes as he was to create the new class named braver.If you asked some about it they will tell you that in ep 2 it was dreadfully overpowered using a single move to obliterate hordes of monsters with ease as people still struggled to kill a single monster. Also in the time there was a part of the content "eq" listings as TD a fairly challenging quest for its time.

FAST FORWARD

Episode 2 ends and episode 3 comes and goes with little issue. Episode 4 comes and the first issue was there was no content to run for a full 3 weeks except the class of summoner for a duration where it went from weak to OP since the guy who made the braver was at the steering wheel again. The first thing that shows up is a new addition to the lobby and the mechanic of rings, mining/fishing, and SG. The SG and bonus AC scratches. This was a huge issue for many because Sg was a new currency used to buy limited costumes, pay not to wait and tickets that cannot be traded or bought for the time.(This game already has 9+ different currencies.)

Everything in the bonus scratch that can ONLY be obtained by purchasing AC and scratching them yourselves X amount of times unlike the other where you could have bought it from a visiphone.

As for the story it no longer took place on strange alien worlds but in tokyo japan where you must defeat the (7) apostles. For a large amount of ep 4's story you will be doing literally nothing but watching cutscenes; not killing monsters, not running through maps, nothing. The points of the story you do interact with things last less than 2 minutes where as you just finished a 5 minute cutscene. I finished the entire story in less than 1 hour and 10 minutes skipping cutscenes mind you that it too a little over a year to make this content.

As for emergency quests' it faired no better. the goal was to fight a Japanese battleship that morphs but the rewards for the time were terrible for insane amounts of effort when in ep 4 already gave weapons that were stupid strong weeks before that event and fit everyones prime choice. so a lot of people quit then the devs altered it to be an easy grind but that didn't help it much.Map clear req being changed from kill a boss to gather X points making shit take much longer since spawns in the new maps were limited to area. Ignoring riding quest rant.

Tl;dr Aesthetic came before gameplay which was a huge mistake.

>>13799946

You how forgot to mention how good ep4 was - shitty generic anime story with generic animu girl with "rich innter world" read: stupid cunt cant stop talking about herself protagonist your character is a background character now btw, that anime story could compete with pso2 anime for shit of the year award. Also the quality of already retarded maps full of invisible walls, no collision textures, Su being the only class that was catered to as well as fuckton of Su-only trash from bosses that cluttered the drop list and mobage-tier gathering with timers to shit up inventory even more that had PSE-burst-like that was guaranteed only if you used non-farmable items or SG.

Oh, and all of that was during the PS4 release and it's the first chapter players see now, good job sega, that if you were aiming to drive people away from the game with a filler called ep4.

Actually good stuff should be mentioned too though - 300 per character storage that's a lot with extra free character slot, graphics update, PS4 release, more character body customization ass sliders, less reliance on RNG, tons of other QoL updates and, by the end of the episode, both retarded gathering sped up and eased to player-friendly levels as well as actually good class balance where almost all no one cares about jet boots classesXweapons weren't leech tier anymore. And atm other classes are balanced to Heeeero levels too, too bad Hero is just too convenient to play and is really fun.

>>13801235

>hating on EP4 story

Goddamn philistine.

>>13801320

I liked the latter half of ep 4, but you have to admit it started incredibly, painfully slow with a boring schoolkid setting and nothing but hamhanded exposition. then we finally got some action and characters like Aratron.

What frustrates me about ep4 is that the new enemies themselves are actually relatively well made excluding ufos, fuck em and the whole thing suffered because they were pushing summoner too hard. Ult Amduscia is great, revamped Yamato is great, Deus is shit to the core, generally a pretty okay period from a strictly playable content perspective

>>13802241

>>13799520

>>13802416

It's almost like this thread started off as shitposting bait or something.

>>13800012

>at least make it like a musou.

I would love this actually.

Episode 5 and 4 and 2 should feel familiar in many ways. since its the same guy who worked on all 3.

>Braver is OP then gets nerfed heavily as soon as its episode is over.

>Summoner is introduced but normal at the start then gets a huge buff making OP enough to replace a 12 man mpa of players then its nerfed 110% after the episode is over.

>Hero in episode 5 is OP not just because of power but because of movement speed and because more than half the other classes were nerfed severely before its release date for "balance" purposes.

BQ is just TD reskinned

12 story updates

0 free fields to run

Most of the content is revivals of old content with new weapons added. Making the content they already planned/made for ep 5's later dates already useless.

>>13801235

I genuinely didn't pay attention to the story

>space game in outer space now takes place on earth MODERN day japan where you must assist a middle school student with photons and the "other thing".

>7 apostles instead of 12(13)

>Ardem and Ives (Adam and Eve)

>Ancient tapestry story

>Xiera is crammed in every part of ep 4 and 5 so if you hate the character you're going to have a really bad fucking time. It's the same shit they did with Claris Claes. She becomes one of the more ignored npcs but someone on the team keeps shilling her as good to the point of rewriting the character entirely with multiple new designs and personalities.

>Actually good stuff should be mentioned too though - 300 per character storage.

I will admit that many of these things were very useful and have merits to them and can be agreed on to have a positive role to the player.

I remembered that they in that same period added 26+ different types of stones and 26+ types of fish to be farmed and crafted into rings and meals with more to come later in the year. I would have preferred them making a tab for it in the first place that didn't count towards inventory space so the player wouldn't have to think twice about running something and worrying about their inventory becoming packed.

>>13803052

The discord is the dwelling place of shitters and people who think they know better than they actually do. Sometimes there are genuinely good players, but that doesn’t make them good company. Use it as a stepping stone to find a team, not as a direct resource. Use the JP wiki for most of your info if you can tolerate google translate.

that being said, I’m sure they will help you out with the basics; I just caution you against asking for build advice. I play a lot of Techer personally and my “off meta” Te/Fi build was frowned upon despite being continuously indirectly buffed. With the recent blanket balance changes, people are just now realizing how good it is. also because the other combinations got gutted but that’s beside the point

>>13794073

This.

>>13802178

Agreed, that first half was awful to sit through, I just started skipping chunks of it after a certain point, most of it wasn't important.

Episode 5 seems to have remembered that the PC is meant to be the protagonist unlike episode 4s pretending another character just solo'd the boss you actually just solo'd.

I'm sure someone has a list of all the annoying shit episode 4 pulled somewhere where it goes over this more in depth.

The bright side is that the characters from the awful anime didn't get forcibly shoved into the main plot and lots of people were dreading about the potential cancer they could do with that.

Pictures just because.

>>13803052

There are two rules of thumb

>don't feed your mag until you're settled on your main build

>settle on your main build

Because resetting mag is expensive for new player, you need 30 or 50 excubes to level down ONCE I think. And skill resets are rare giveaway occurring only during major balance changes, again something new player may struggle to get their hands on.

>>13803481

Is it even possible to be shitter at this game anymore? I mean even if you fuck up your build and mag you're still op.

>>13804699

>deliberately brings shit alt into quests

>complaints about other people's shit alts in quests

You got everything you deserved there matey.

>>13804741

>shit alt

Yeah, I went with the super underpowered class, hero, zenesis weapons, and fully upgraded saiki set. What a shit character for SH.

>>13805782

the castle being defeated should segue into a real boss fight honestly; Omega Hunar has a really roided up moveset and would work perfectly instead of what we got which has him appearing now and then to flex his muscles and die to a light breeze.

>>13806058

Most engliosh people are on ship 2. Second most are on ship 4.

But there are a few hipsters on every shit as well.

>>13806058

>a gundam dedicated to the righteous goal of annihilating all darkies– I mean darkers

RIP intro black guy who always got one shotted by a dagan.

post characters

>>13811014

My support partner is much more interesting than my character.

>>13798833

Nice digits and nice try, my mother died years ago. I wish it was in her sleep though.

>>13799584

Thanks anyway, you're a good boy.

>Masterpiece that is PSO2 is being ignored

PROBABLY BECAUSE OF THE FUCKING JAP CAPTCHA

>>13811014

Collab characters are characters, right? Here, have this titan meat thing man greeting you when you step out from central elevator!

WoW classic will be 100 times more fun than this garbage. 5 years your garbage game goes on, gated field updates garbage, TACO garbage, "XQ" garbage, le "ultimate XD" garbage, earn 300 cubes to get X weapon with 1% better stat garbage. Feels good to have no urge to install this again. 4 years later, and you are only 30 levels above. How much longer to 200 and a true endgame with no more gated progression, 35 years?

>>13811014

Here.

>>13816113

>35 years?

I would actually be ok with it.

I want to keep playing this shit on and off for the rest of my life.

PSO2 a best.

>>13816405

>wow clone

>challenge

Yeah right.

But as far as story goes I agree, time travelling is the worst plot device out there, as you can easily fix and asspull everything you want.

>>13816884

>PSO2 lacks accessibility so there's less discussion. That's all.

you know what's even less accessible? Although it's obvious, FFXI. If the playonline bullshit wouldn't be here and the game was installed and patched quicker, there would probably be some more anons playing togheter

>>13817799

>play it 24/7 and go after 1% stat increases

It boggles my mind is just how many people revolve their entire play time around this concept, racing those crazy affixes, to just start from scratch when sega releases slightly better weapons 2 months later.

And if you aren't huge whale you probably spent those 2 months exactly on getting and affixing previous top weapon.

It's insane.

Also on accessibility - game is filled to the brim with redditors, facebook kids, russians and other normalfag scum, yet here on all places people complain about inaccessibility.

You'd think jap captcha and perpetually unfinished fan translation would filter the scum out, but it appears to have the opposite effect.

>>13818033

Also if you want to shitpost with my Symbol Art, I might be inclined to install the game again to give it out.

>>13823084

>pso2 is mostly fun when you play with others

Like every single other MMORPG in existence? Without the "community" aspect going for it most other MMORPGs simply don't have much of anything holding them together yet I'll never stop hearing an endless tide of shills for WoW and FFXIV. Can't wait for a classic classic server for WoW and for FFXVII to reuse most of the content from FFXIV (and by proxy FFXI) and the subsequent bitching then acceptance from the Blizzard/Squarenix fanboys as they continue to milk them for every penny and while they're being milked will be circlejerking each other off as they sit around and ERP like they would in Secondlife, while trying to convince everyone else it's the best game ever.

I'm not going to go that route, because you're right about PSO2s gated content being ass, and PSO2 definitely has its fair share of flaws like the only thing to do being to grind for a weapon or hope that but I think PSO2s strong suit is its fully active battle system and avatar customization despite this, and it's the reason I am playing it, that and the fact monthly fees aren't forced upon you for the mediocrity that all MMORPGs are.

I imagine a more ideal game would be combining it with the best of what PSO had to offer, but that's not the timeline we live in. Instead Segas idea of adding new content to it is a seasonal map to run through 50 or so times for a weapon that probably looks ugly and you'll cover with a weapon camo anyways. I started using the classic PSO weapon camos as soon as I could get my hands on them because most of the weapons look like what a professional skateboarders skateboard looks like after they're done whoring themselves to sponsors.

Don't even get me started on the Summoner and Force meta era, seems to be a fad where "class who has to go up close to do damage" is doing the lowest and least rewarding damage in games I play as of late, not thrilled about how Hero was handled in general as fucking everyone is using it as it's the only advanced class option. Really should've released more than one so it wasn't the only option, but as stated Sega cannot balance well.

At least Hero being the strongest class is a bit justified because of the effort you must expend in unlocking it and having to avoid getting hit to make the best of it, granted Fighter was already about that playstyle.

>>13823994

Summoner is easily the single worst part of the entire game ever.

>shitpost OP becomes a nearly 200 post thread that is almost productive

Did anyone bother doing the survey on EP4?

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>>13799760

this was ARKS MOD TOOL and the guy who made it made it A) impossible to keep updated for anyone but him and B) quit playing so it doesn't work anymore which really sucks because it also removed the ridiculously short object/creature draw distance limit and allowed full free camera control without having to used the stupid fixed camera…

anyway hi from mofumofu, I hope to see you all in game hehe

>>13823994

>been playing the game for a little while now, level 22 Ranger

>why do I keep getting these eggs as rare drops

>hey maybe they're cute cosmetic pets I can have follow me around that would at least be something

>put them all in storage

>read this thread and find out they were all for one shitty class

Well that was disappointing. Now I hate summoner too.

>>13825685

thanks for the feedback! she's my self-insert, not my waifu, hehe ('ω') I like the way she looks so much that I keep playing PSO2 for 5 years now with no end in sight, simply because no other game lets me make (imo) such a cute character, even though I'm kind of "done" with the game at this point… still working on getting FO/TE to 80 (everything else is 80 including HR) but … eh … it's tiresome…

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>>13825761

👌

something probably a little more to /v/'s taste

>>13825777

>not the mercenary outfit

nigga

>>13825887

>>13825753

I think it's generally unanimous that a sizable chunk of episode 4 was awful. The amount of hate Hitsugi gets because of her godawful story handling is immense and as far as a "main character" goes, ranked awfully in the character polls to the point she's the least popular female character from episode 4, and the least popular in the polls if you don't include characters who had no point in being in the polls in the first place because of their almost non-existence in episode 4, though you could handwave Aika deserving a spot because of being a main character in the shitty anime.

The least popular male being Ardem and the poll taking place conveniently right after he killed Japans newest waifu in Mother so it's kind of obvious what happened there.

While I'm not a fan of the VN style, the rest of episode 5 hasn't been so bad story-wise, at least we're not spending the first half being almost completely uninvolved and watching other characters do generic high school girl anime shit.

>>13827651

MATOI STRONK

She's this game's version of Solid Snake, but nobody seems to realize it

>>13828279

Good. An english version would doom half the content and have far worse microtransactions than costumes and expensive scratch only affixes.

>>13828413

The poll ranks for the most part seem to revolve around "what character shows up the most" and current flavor waifus.

Matoi is probably the only character that's been around since the beginning and has stayed relevant since the first episodes, so no surprise there, she potentially has more scenes for her altogether than Hitsugi, but unlike Hitsugi most of those are spent interacting with your character instead and it's one of the many reasons why she destroyed her in the character polls in her own episode that she barely appeared in. To the average player she's "default waifu."

Sadly it's unlikely many of my favorites will return due to being non-plot relevant side characters or having their character arcs "finished."

>>13830782

>Phaleg, hyper used goods from the dawn of time

>not literally any PSO2 original NPC

>not Io

>>13830052

10* and 11* armors can be turned into photon spheres. You want a lot of photon spheres.

12* armors are considered end-game and you want to wear it.

Also pay attention to affixes, as some affixes can be sold for pretty meseta. Armor itself doesn't matter when you're selling affixes.

>>13830081

PSO2 won't officially be released in the west, it's not realistic.

What can happen is they add english support in the launcher, like grandshit did. But with unofficial translation it's redundant.

>>13831084

You wouldn't fuck a bug would you?

>>13831110

You have no idea.

>>13831103

Class? Too cool for us? Or too cocky? Come here, blyat.

>>13834645

I already bought the better version, 100% worth it.

>tfw actually a slav playing on a slav toaster

>>13834549

It's online dmc with dress up and stats autism.

What do you think?

It's not for the faint of heart.

>>13834687

It's more of DMC1 combat really.

You can't run up walls and shit, but you have more than one weapon.

>>13825881

Where is that from? BQ Shop?

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>>13843811

I just wish PSO2 had 1-on-1 pvp, so I could show scrubs their place.

>>13811014

>>13855183

PSO2 isn't an MMO!