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NeoPSO |OT| Unofficial GAF Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst Server
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Lee Chaolan
Member
Think it's really cool what you're doing man! Fog completely revived the Resident Evil Outbreak scene with their online servers, and it's great to see you doing it for another great game.
Hope it stays populated!
Hope it stays populated!
DarkLegion
Member
We owned it, good game
djplaeskool
Member
It might have to do with the font being used.
I think you can change that in the options
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
Are you playing solo? Like, if you run solo, are you setting the game to single player? Makes the enemies have less HP and easier in genereal.
What font should i use? I have "system" now.
NCR Redslayer
NeoGAF's Vegeta
Beat the first area boss. The dragon is hell with the camera.
I believe most of that is the result of datamining. PSO-World has always had a pretty devoted community for that stuff. I've also always seen it to reaffirm those in my playthroughs. It's very noticeable if you play lots of singleplayer because your id is always in charge of drops.
http://www.pso-world.com/sections.php?op=listarticles&secid=124
Each of the 4 force classes buffs a different grade of spell.
FOmar has 1.3x damage on Gi spells and increased range on Shifta and Deband. They also have a really fast, unique to this class, casting animation when unarmed, which makes them great for spamming Gifoie. Their HP is awful though.
FOmarl has 1.5x damage on Grants and Shifta, Deband, Resta, and Anti get a range increase.
FOnewearl gets 1.3x damage on the basic spells: Foie, Zonde, and Barta. Megid penetrates targets (but it's really not useful until you start hitting the high 20's in spell level), and her Resta and Anti have a bigger range. She also has the highest TP in the game and auto regenerates TP (slowly).
FOnewms have 1.3x damage on Gi and Ra spells, as well as TP recovery.
Kadin
Member
Thanks!I think N.A said you just need to type /bank
Something like that
dragonlife
Member
How big is the client? Just wondering because I'm low on space.
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
808MB unzipped.
xBladeM6x
Member
810MB
Kadin
Member
My folder is approx 795MB.
dragonlife
Member
Oh, perfect. Thanks for the replies!
RoryDropkick
Member
Im so tired today, yet I still want to come home and play
I am, at least now that I'm doing quests.
Also guys, I forgot. Is there a way to bring up that quick menu like on the gamecube version? I'm using a controller.
Also... Anyone else remember a song... burning rangers?
Geminosity
Member
Some Quick Cave tips:
* Take Anti-paralysis, antidotes and sol atomisers with you or you'll hate yourself later
* Caves is the first time you'll come across traps so don't be afraid to take some 'trap vision' items with you (or an android friend as they can passively see traps) and pop it when you find suspicious rooms with no enemies in them.
* Evil sharks recover from hits more quickly so if you're meleeing them don't go for the 3 hit combo or you'll get smacked as you go for the 3rd hit or just after it. Instead just do a normal->heavy.
Elemental weaknesses for Evil sharks are...
- green evil shark = foie/gifoie/rafoie
- pink evil shark = barta/gibarta/rabarta
- yellow evil shark = zonde/gizonde/razonde
* Slimes divide if you hit them with techs (aka magic) or the 3rd hit of a combo. They also divide if hit by an attack from another slime XD You want to smack them with a heavy attack if you can because they become un-hittable after being struck. Alternatively if you can freeze or paralyse them then you can go to town, just be aware that they will split if they survive. If you can kill the original one all the copies it spawned die instantly.
* Nanodragons actually get stronger if they kill other creatures so watch out for that
Luckily you can zap them while they're flying with zonde easily or catch them as they take off / land with a gun. Be aware that they have two ranged attacks as well. The long-range laser is easy to dodge by strafing but at mid to close range they can shoot a seeking shot that's incredibly hard to avoid.* Lillies suck. Everyone hates the lillies. Take them out from as far away as possible as they have a nasty paralysis attack they like to randomly throw out if you get too close and their melee attack, while short-ranged, is surprisingly fast. If you get paralysed you can't wait it out, it lasts forever until you die, go to hospital or take something that cures it like anti-paralysis or a sol atomiser.
* When Pan arms are joined together you'll need to use techs to hurt them as they take very, very little physical damage. Note that you can actually kill them with a death weapon however (I KOed one with my dim saber like this, much to my amusement
) Once they seperate though you can take them on as normal.FOmarl has more balanced stats, whereas the FOnewearl has the highest MST and one of the highest EVPs out of all classes in conjunction with the lowest attack stats and health total of all classes. FOmarl gets a bonus to support techs, whereas FOnewearl gets a bonus to single target attack spells.
FOnewearls are glass cannons. They're very fun to play but it takes a lot of work to get them to be able to solo and they're a real pain in the ass to play without any money -- you will go through fluids at an alarming rate. FOmarls are one of the strongest solo classes in the game but aren't too useful in a party or at really high levels.
Traps can also be avoided entirely by running around with the menu open. You'll run right past them. In fact, you have enough time that if you notice you've sprung a trap, you can open the menu and run away.
Geminosity
Member
Heh, yeah it's not the best. The camera is even worse if you play split screen on the GC :3
One tip that helps is when the dragon is doing the whole underground digging thing, it shows up on the map as a huge dot, so you can use that to see where it's coming from and avoid it instead of wrestling with the camera
Some Quick Cave tips:
* Take Anti-paralysis, antidotes and sol atomisers with you or you'll hate yourself later
* Caves is the first time you'll come across traps so don't be afraid to take some 'trap vision' items with you (or an android friend as they can passively see traps) and pop it when you find suspicious rooms with no enemies in them.
* Evil sharks recover from hits more quickly so if you're meleeing them don't go for the 3 hit combo or you'll get smacked as you go for the 3rd hit or just after it. Instead just do a normal->heavy.
Elemental weaknesses for Evil sharks are...
- green evil shark = foie/gifoie/rafoie
- pink evil shark = barta/gibarta/rabarta
- yellow evil shark = zonde/gizonde/razonde
* Slimes divide if you hit them with techs (aka magic) or the 3rd hit of a combo. They also divide if hit by an attack from another slime XD You want to smack them with a heavy attack if you can because they become un-hittable after being struck. Alternatively if you can freeze or paralyse them then you can go to town, just be aware that they will split if they survive. If you can kill the original one all the copies it spawned die instantly.
* Nanodragons actually get stronger if they kill other creatures so watch out for that
* Lillies suck. Everyone hates the lillies. Take them out from as far away as possible as they have a nasty paralysis attack they like to randomly throw out if you get too close and their melee attack, while short-ranged, is surprisingly fast. If you get paralysed you can't wait it out, it lasts forever until you die, go to hospital or take something that cures it like anti-paralysis or a sol atomiser.
* When Pan arms are joined together you'll need to use techs to hurt them as they take very, very little physical damage. Note that you can actually kill them with a death weapon however (I KOed one with my dim saber like this, much to my amusement
Thanks for the tips, but I remember the cave from the gamecube version.
Wow I have been playing for years and did not know this. Thx
Geminosity
Member
Ah, no worries XD
Probably worth note that the FOnewearl also gets a bonus to anti and resta (double range, same as the FOmarl), not just the single target spells :3
I think I mentioned it earlier but as long as you don't have any active attacks on your current palette and number hotbar then, much like the pause trick, you won't go into a combat stance around mines or enemies. I keep my second palette attack free so I can just hold down the switch palette button and run around enemies or mines without slowing down much like this menu trick :3
natsuyasumi
Member
If you use windowed mode (recommended for proper 4:3 ratio) you can use the app Ghoster to darken the desktop and non-active windows and Windowed Borderless Gaming to eliminate PSO's window border. It can look like this:
And a batch file to run the apps, play PSO, then kill the apps. Change paths as appropriate.
The last time I played Blue Burst there was also a version of ENBSeries that worked with it. Caused graphical errors on some character costume transparencies though. Rad, there's a new and improved ENB mod that seems to work well so far.
Here's my PSO entry from WBG's config file, assuming 1080p desktop and 1280x960 PSO:
Code:
[Title:PHANTASY STAR ONLINE Blue Burst;Class:PHANTASY STAR ONLINE Blue Burst]
Process=PsoBB.exe
Style=348389376
PosX=320
PosY=56
Code:
@echo off
cd "D:\Games\~Window Border Removers\~WindowedBorderlessGaming"
start WindowedBorderlessGaming.exe
cd "D:\PortableApps\Gadgets\Ghoster"
start Ghoster.exe
cd "D:\Games\NeoPSO"
"D:\Games\NeoPSO\online.exe"
pause
taskkill /F /IM WindowedBorderlessGaming.exe
taskkill /F /IM Ghoster.exe
exitHawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
So I was messing around with it yesterday in Forest 1 and had a hard time killing like anything in Forest 1; am I doing it wrong? First I tried force which fared sorta well with the fireball until I ran out of TP, then tried a Ranger which got obliterated...
I wonder what the highest level is. Also, I'm still the only force I've seen so far. How is this possible?
Having your second palate free of attacks is all well and good if you're a hunter!
I didn't know they got an anti bonus. I've been playing FOnewearl for so long that I never noticed. They also get the megid pierce.
Having your second palate free of attacks is all well and good if you're a hunter!
It's tough going at first for rangers and especially forces. Both classes require a lot of running away -- there's no other way around it -- and forces additionally require you to spend basically all of the money you get on monofluids, which will restore your TP.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
The first hour or two of the game is absolutely the worst part. Hell, I was considering quitting just a few hours ago and now I'm at Lv. 14 with a pretty solid character. Just find a party, gain a few levels, get some better equipment, and everything will smooth out soon enough.
Just take your time and keep playing forest over a few time. Soon you will be flying thru it. You should play single player quest at first it will be easier. Plus you will need to complete them for future animal parts you will get.
natsuyasumi
Member
Ranger shouldn't be too bad. Just keep your distance and keep doing the 3-hit attack combos. Weak, weak, strong will keep early enemies away well enough.
When they get too close run away, flick back toward them, and hit the camera button to swing them back into view.
When they get too close run away, flick back toward them, and hit the camera button to swing them back into view.
Tested a little bit, it crashes every time i attack with the handgun (normal OR charged, but apparently the punch attack (normal OR charged) is fine.
Didn't do extensive testing, but i wonder if it has to do with some particle effect causing problems.
EDIT: Never mind, i just get random crashes all over the place. :\
Didn't do extensive testing, but i wonder if it has to do with some particle effect causing problems.
EDIT: Never mind, i just get random crashes all over the place. :\
Geminosity
Member
Can't say for sure without seeing you play to be honest ^.^;
One thing I've noticed is a lot of players coming into this with an MMO mindset that getting hit is just something that happens. PSO isn't that kind of game. Hits here HURT and at the highest difficulty the HUcast (which has the highest combined HP and defence the in game) will die in 8 hits maximum, quite often less. You'll need to herd the creatures to optimise your position and find space to get attacks off. This becomes hugely important above normal difficulty as you'll quickly get swarmed by the faster monsters there and you'll be using weapons that hit multiple enemies instead of the single target stuff at the start of the game)
Some general tips for forest are:
* boomas have a simple ai that makes them walk towards you unless they bump into each other. If they do bump into each other they'll start walking in a circle until they face you again. At first this doesn't look like much but in certain situations it can lead to hilariously evil outcomes like you being fully circled and flinch-locked to death. More positively you can use this behaviour to purposefully steer some into each other to give you some breathing room. Element vulnerabillities are...
Booma = foie spells
Yellow Booma = zonde spells
Big Booma with mohawk = barta spells
* wolves are pain and will circle you. Fun tip is that they only attack when your back is to them. Also note that one of them is coloured differently and that's the leader. If you kill the leader the others will debuff themselves with a howl making them easier to take down. Their hitboxes can be a bit janky at times and good luck hitting them with foie (which is what they're weak to, except the leader which is vulnerable to zonde)
* rappies are cute but surprisingly nasty as their attack speed will beat you if you let them get too close. They play dead rather than dropping an item and when you're a certain distance away or a certain amount of time has passed they'll get up and leg it. While running in this state they turn into a pinata and will drop stuff when you hit them :3 Shooting them from too far away will result in them running early. They're vulnerable to barta spells.
* Hildebears are great fun to fight but hit like a truck. Fun tip for these is that if you run past their right hand side (your left) it triggers their punch which if you do this correctly will go over your head and miss, leaving them open for you to start burrowing into their side with your melee weapon
At range watch out for their leap and fireball. I always forget what they're vulnerable to but I'm pretty sure it's barta.Highest Level for classes is 200, highest level spell is 30
I'm actually a force and I use the quick access menu for a lot of spells. Watching me play is like watching someone play streetfighter ;D
No no no haha, the highest on the server right now. I played this game for many, many years.Highest Level for classes is 200, highest level spell is 30
I'm actually a force and I use the quick access menu for a lot of spells. Watching me play is like watching someone play streetfighter ;D
Geminosity
Member
Ah, fair enough XD
Surprised you've not seen a force as I've seen quite a few. MAGIC for one, me for another and someone was running around with a particularly ronald-mcdonald-looking FOnewearl :3
That said, I'm somewhat tempted to try a HUnewearl for a change of pace, but I don't know if I can really let go of being able to learn the rez spell, the telepipe spell and having ridiculous range on my resta
Thanks god for the x2 XP, though.
Between this, the fact I remember having hard time in the game on Gamecube when I first played it, not only on GC but often alone or with a friend whose character was naturally behind me, and everything offline...
The progression is now much faster and far less tidious than 10-12 years ago.
3 dragons today, lv.12, I think I can go seriously to the caves.
Between this, the fact I remember having hard time in the game on Gamecube when I first played it, not only on GC but often alone or with a friend whose character was naturally behind me, and everything offline...
The progression is now much faster and far less tidious than 10-12 years ago.
3 dragons today, lv.12, I think I can go seriously to the caves.
Kadin
Member
What are you guys choosing to run the game at (resolution, etc.)? I'm running windowed at the recommendation of N.A and no matter which resolutions I choose, the game chugs a bit here an there. My specs should be more than sufficient (i5 4690/8gb/HD6770/SSD).
It's nothing really bad and perfectly playable but maybe there are some tweaks or improvement I can make. My desktop is cable of 1680x1050 so that's what I was running but I've dropped it down to 1280x960 and not much of a difference.
It's nothing really bad and perfectly playable but maybe there are some tweaks or improvement I can make. My desktop is cable of 1680x1050 so that's what I was running but I've dropped it down to 1280x960 and not much of a difference.
Sojiro
Member
I'm running 1920 x 1080 I think (at work atm) and haven't had any sort of slowdown that i've seen. Some pop in from the far away backgrounds, but I somewhat recall the game being like that anyway.
natsuyasumi
Member
Kadin: There is a 30 fps cap, if that is relevant.
Turns out there is a newer ENB package that, at least in 5 minutes' testing, works great so far. The included settings are pretty low-key. Before and after:
Turns out there is a newer ENB package that, at least in 5 minutes' testing, works great so far. The included settings are pretty low-key. Before and after:
Toggle with shift-F12.
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
None of your images load, might have to try a different host.
Geminosity
Member
It just occurred to me now but newer players might not know about the percentage system
If you're new to PSO, there's an important but simple thing to know about weapons and that is that when you're viewing them in the menu there's usually 3 pages of info. The 1st is the page you'll look at by default and has the attack power (atp) and whatnot listed, but the 2nd page is where you'll find the percentages and you should always check this when comparing weapons.
Percentages break down into 5 categories and they're relatively simple (at least in episode I): The first 4 types are damage modifiers against different categories of monsters and are as follows:
Native: All monsters in Forest are native.
A. Beast: All creatures in caves are of this type.
Machine: This covers all enemies in mines
Dark: this covers all enemies in the final level of Episode I.
The types get mixed up more in episode II and IV so it's not as clear cut in those, but you should have a better grasp of the game by then :3
The fifth type is 'hit' which is interesting because unlike the others this doesn't change damage and isn't a real percentage either. Instead this basically boosts your ATA (accuracy) by 1 point for every % (so 3% = +3 ATA) which can very handy if you plan on using the special attack on the weapon in question. For normal weapons, which have no special attack, it's a nice bonus to have but not amazing
If you're new to PSO, there's an important but simple thing to know about weapons and that is that when you're viewing them in the menu there's usually 3 pages of info. The 1st is the page you'll look at by default and has the attack power (atp) and whatnot listed, but the 2nd page is where you'll find the percentages and you should always check this when comparing weapons.
Percentages break down into 5 categories and they're relatively simple (at least in episode I): The first 4 types are damage modifiers against different categories of monsters and are as follows:
Native: All monsters in Forest are native.
A. Beast: All creatures in caves are of this type.
Machine: This covers all enemies in mines
Dark: this covers all enemies in the final level of Episode I.
The types get mixed up more in episode II and IV so it's not as clear cut in those, but you should have a better grasp of the game by then :3
The fifth type is 'hit' which is interesting because unlike the others this doesn't change damage and isn't a real percentage either. Instead this basically boosts your ATA (accuracy) by 1 point for every % (so 3% = +3 ATA) which can very handy if you plan on using the special attack on the weapon in question. For normal weapons, which have no special attack, it's a nice bonus to have but not amazing