DouglasQuilava

saying now, i believe my favorite weapon is the Sange. though that's more because I use it exclusively as my weapon of choice in PSU Clementine. i have one in Ultima but I still have to level up a bit more to get my stats high enough to equip it. I just like katanas, ok?

ok, so I get that i asked a question in the past already, but i'm just wondering... were there more episodes after IV, or did PSO finish up with the 4th episode, and there's just nothing else they could do for the game before starting work on Phantasy Star Universe? just asking out of my own curiosity.

wait- you made the launcher? well, yeah, sure i could message you on Discord about this. but i think you might actually be right about what could be happening.

eh, the game runs fine by just running Ultima PSOBB's executable instead of the standalone launcher. especially since the executable still opens a launcher that actually works. so i might just not use the standalone launcher. i'm just glad I can play the game. PSOBB is pretty interesting but I still haven't found a good way to juggle both PSOBB Ultima and Phantasy Star Universe Clementine.

I think it might be that my computer is just weird. that and it's a pre-2010 laptop running Windows 10. there's bound to be some weird crap that happens when an old as heck machine is running a more modern OS instead of what it was originally intended to use, right?

I do have it. but I got the game working. how? I didn't use the separate launcher program and just on the Ultima PSOBB program itself instead. for some reason that let the game boot properly. had to reset all the things I had set in the separate launcher tho.

if this topic is for requesting lobby music... well, I might as well suggest this. wait- i skipped to the last page actually, did someone already suggest this? and yes, based on the music i picked, I do happen to enjoy the soundtracks of Persona titles.

thanks!

first off, thank you for the welcome. second, thanks for that 10/10 on the pfp, it's kinda old, but guess I just didn't have enough of an interest in changing to what i use these days over on things like Discord. I'm not sure if I'm really READY for the Ultimate rooms yet. i'm still on Normal for rooms i'm playing on.

then again, you said Alt + Q, that shouldn't be hard to reach, so... i mean, i shouldn't have problems with it. unlike how I have to hit an extra key just to trigger F12 on my keyboard instead of it triggering some random thing that's not related to the game.

the whole emote thing... I don't understand it, mainly because I prefer using my controller to play games like this. gaming using a keyboard always leads to my hands cramping up after like, 20-30 minutes.

it does help, i believe. I've actually finally gotten to play the game with someone last night. they gave me some uh.. attachments for my armor, i guess, two katanas that I can't use yet but those armor attachment things make it so I'm almost able to, and a weapon that immediately made me laugh when i realized it was literally an electric guitar that can be used to bash in the faces of monsters.

last night i got to actually take on my whole little... social anxiety thing by playing with someone else, and big surprise, they actually gave me some really nice gear. they helped show me the ropes of this game and i was getting the hang of the combat. I'm still a bit thrown off by the TP not being restored over time like PP on weapons in PSU, but eh, what can ya do there? unless Force-type characters get access to regenerating TP.

Change in plans. i'm gonna call it a night for PSO. I'm just gonna unwind now and try to get some sleep. maybe tomorrow?

uh... okay. well, I'm a bit busy until around 9:15 EST. I just go by Douglas in game, you'll spot my character easily since he wears yellow.

I will admit, that does make sense, though i haven't seen anyone join my rooms when I do play. though I am also only just playing the game in short bursts right now. probably shouldn't be playing the game when I feel like I should take a bit of time to rest and relax. i nearly fell asleep just playing a mission a few minutes ago... though I do also get this vibe that some of the music in the game is capable of making me feel drowsy. i'll likely log in later to play a few more missions once I'm not feeling tired or drowsy.

So... um... I've never played PSOBB with other people, but I have tried doing missions with a party in PSU over on the Clementine server. though there's a reason I haven't gone simply asking someone to join me... I'm highly nervous when it comes to asking others to join in something, on top of being a general shy person. When I DID play PSU in a party, I constantly felt like I was being carried by other players even when I was the highest level player in the party in that. Basically, I'm stuck with this mindset of "play solo, don't bother with forming parties or you'll just slow everyone else down." and I wanna try to get out of that, but I still am being walled from just asking someone to join me in-game because of my own... well, social anxiety. any chance i could get a little advice for trying to overcome my own problems with this stuff? I'm wanting to be able to enjoy an online multiplayer RPG the right way instead of sitting around, doing nothing but playing alone and feeling like a pure loner. I just wanna get rid of this whole social anxiety when playing games online issue.

ok, thank you. it looks like I'm gonna have to put in a lot of effort just to get to use one. but hey, i'd rather get access to them than just sit around and do nothing.

my question is just a very simple one. are there any weapons that look like katanas in this game? I've done absolutely zero research into PSO before i tried the game. I'm just asking because I love katanas and the thought of my character in a game being able to use a weapon that was fit for a samurai.

thanks for the warm welcome. I will admit, I'm very nervous when it comes to actually... y'know... talking to people in online games. most of my life I've only ever played offline games. I would invite my friends but... the problem is none of my friends really play online RPG titles like this. and I'm too nervous to even ask them to try them. On top of that, whenever I AM in a party with other players I start to feel like I'm just slowing the other players down... though that's just in PSU on the Clementine server that I feel that way, but you get the point right? I'm needing to actually try to break out of this mindset of "play solo so you don't make others carry your ass" and I really do want to change that about myself. I did get the game working though, it wasn't resolution though. i don't know what it was but somehow i fixed it just by fiddling around with my laptop.

so... actually it turns out the logs say i'm only having one issue. it says it's failing to open _items.ini, what do i do to fix that, because I don't see _items.ini anywhere in the files.

Hi, uh, my name's Douglas. I'm gonna be honest here, I've never played the original Phantasy Star Online. my first ever Phantasy Star title was Phantasy Star Universe back on the PS2 before i eventually got the xbox 360 release and more recently jumped to the PC version of that game with the PSU Clementine server. I did play a bit of PSO2 and PSO2NGS, but I have really wanted to try for myself the original PSO. and until I can get the game to boot properly instead of getting itself stuck on a black screen and never loading, I'll likely still have issues just trying to log into the game. also uh, is there a Discord for this server or just the forum?

I'm having a similar issue but for me, it's basically like the game opens up to a black screen, but it refuses to load or even close. I haven't even touched the settings because I didn't wanna risk messing something up. and for some reason I had to shut down my computer (an old laptop from before 2010) just to close the damn game. I did look at the settings and saw it was set to about... I think 640x480 was the resolution setting for me.