/v/ - Video Games

>>15776254

>people actually charging $300+ for a PGF

Ultima's bad, don't have to tell me twice. Poor moderation and unbalanced custom weapons. Doesn't help that only half of the community speaks English either. Even once got a warning from a mod for saying "whore" in chat.

<and they'll defend this

At least the EXP boost makes getting to Ultimate less of a chore.

I've only used Ephinea to test builds in Sandbox Mode, but how's the rest of the server? I haven't been around there in a little over a year.

>>15776331

Sounds pretty rad. I'll give Ephinea a go outside of Sandbox once I'm back at my normal setup.

>>15776331

Ultima has its share of friendly people too. Just send a post on the notice board for help levelling etc. No I don't play at all lately. Other games and life to do. Ultima has a bad rep for 'needing dts' to trade good items, but at least it makes trading easier. Not gunna hunt a tjs 1/25000 drop rate? 50 dts clean. Need dts? Play an event and farm 5dts items easily. Only problem is to hunt good event items you need to solo so you get the drop and highly recommend a FO alt account for 30 S&D. Then it becomes a monotonous "wait for happy hour, spam quest for drop, sell items, find someone selling your desired weapon, then spend dts to add attrib% and hit%."

I've been through it all years ago on Ultima and it takes a lot of neet autism to reach endgame without spending a dollar. Endgame is more 'fun' though since that server has OP weapons.

If you guys will play Ephinea though I might get on, I have a lvl 80 iron man mode there.

>>15776482

>you need to solo so you get the drop

Wew, Ephinea has an individual drop system so nobody can steal your shit.

Just lost interest in playing online when schthack or whatever got wiped, I don't mind the level grind, but hunting all my weapons/mats again seems like a huge pain. Nowadays I just boot up my own personal server whenever I feel like playing for a bit.

Certainly one of my favoritest games of all time though.

I'm on Ephina, but still a really low level. Haven't played in a few weeks, but when I do it's usually really late at night. 12~4am Eastern.

>>15776307

>At least the EXP boost makes getting to Ultimate less of a chore.

It's still not nearly as much of a chore on Ephinea as it was on the official servers since there is no level minimum or stage unlocking requirements. You can take a level one character and just doorway snipe enemies in the ruins to get an autogun or brand - or a lock gun or brand if you're lucky, and then just put a little bit of levels into your mag until you can use the weapons. Those basic bitch weapons will be really good standbys that'll help you breeze through all the way into hard mode. Then just rinse/repeat.

>>15776597

was for

>>15776550

>>15776254

What about Schtack?

PSO was always a boring slugfeast to play.

When schtack went down it was the sweet release i needed to stop playing this trash

>>15776800

If you can't stop yourself from playing a video game, you have issues anon.

>>15776597

Nice to know they have good management, might give it a try sometime.

Any idea how hard it'd be to get an Elenor mag with photon blasts on Ephinea? Honestly that's probably the loss that hurt me the most.

Sorry for doubleposting

>>15776809

http://wiki.pioneer2.net/index.php?title=Heart_of_YN-0117

>>15776857

Thanks

Guessing since it's been on several events it won't be too expensive to buy from other players.

>>15776180

Had a few questions myself, so I might as well ask here. I see that there's apparently private servers for use with the Gamecube, but do they also work played on a Wii, and do they work with both the base and Plus versions, or only the base (considering I don't seem to see places like Sylvarant specifying Plus)? I suppose most people probably just play it from PC or something, but it's something I've been a bit curious about.

>>15778232

The tutorial is for schthack but I guess it should work with any server that supports the GC version.

>>15778575

No, you play PSO2 for that.

>>15778575

TRAP MAFIAAAAA

I'd love to but I haven't played the game since I switched to Linux full time. Can't figure out how to get good fps in Wine.

>>15778575

>>15779113

>>>/suicide/

>>15779122

I Got games without Wine descriptions to work with just finagling long enough. IT will work if you pay attention to what debug says.

>>15776510

Ultima has an individual drop system too. As lobby leader you set the loot to individual before making a room. Though drop rate is cut to roughly 25% so you effectively have to hunt 4 times the amount to find a drop for yourself. Its not worth it.

>>15779492

I have no idea what you mean. Disabling GLSL gives a big frame boost to make lobby interactions tolerable but it's still not quite enough to make action on the planet surface good.

>>15783081

How do I set this up?

>>15784911

https://ephinea.pioneer2.net/

There's twice as many players in the evening by the way.

>>15794856

That's not really the only thing wrong sadly. The biggest thing wrong is that SEGA completely fucked up the analog control support. While you can play Blue Burst with a controller, they did not implement full 360 degree directional movement control. Instead, they simply mapped the digital keyboard inputs for walk, run, and turn to the analog stick with a deadzone between them. Because of this, there are things you can do on the console versions of PSO that are not possible on Blue Burst, such as instantly and precisely shooting at a particular direction behind you from facing forward.

There's also a minor lighting effect missing on Blue Burst.

And if we really wanted to get into the weeds, we could talk about how Blue Burst took a big steamy dump all over the nice balance between rarity and power that Episode 1&2 had managed to achieve while adding an afterthought extra episode with a single cheap boss, but I don't think you were alluding to that sort of thing.

>>15795265

That's a shame but I wouldn't go back to a controller since I'd be missing the the 10 hotkeys you get with a keyboard.