PSO Blue Burst Info, All your PSOBB goodies here. Options

[donkeybeatz]

Ok ok I'm putting all the info I gather from PSOBB Beta here. Hurray for organization!

-Beta is entirely in Japanese =\
-Server-side Saving! w00t! Keep your stuff even if your comp explodes.
-Minor graphical updates and NPC remodeling.
-Section ID's are now calculated differently.
-Lv30 required for Hard Mode. More on higher difficulty requirements later.
-Actions can now be assigned to the number keys.
-In order to unlock areas, you have to complete the required quests.. in order no less.
Be careful as there are many many enemies spawning.
-Though there is no offline mode, you can still do the "offline" quests online in Quest Mode. It seems that only the 1st tier of quests are available. So it doesn't look like you can convert enemy parts in the Beta.


-Team system: Basically a clan system. Chat with members of the team in a separate chat window to see whats going on. Earn points to purchase items like team flags. Any additional stuff I'm still trying to find out.
Name of the team appears on top of your character in the lobby.


Sonic Team team flag =)


-Looks like they rank teams according to points.

-I recently did caves a few minutes ago and found out something interesting. I encountered a Pan Arms and waited for it to split. As I was hacking away at Hidoom and Migium, one of them casted Resta! WTF? Healed 85HP each time.
-Check this: You can now join a team in a middle of a quest provided that theres an open spot and you're up to that particular area.



Additional NPC pics.

-PSO BB Section ID Calculations & More
Character class now affect your section ID.
-On a team related note: there's this option called "Warehouse" where the team members can add items in. I'm not sure if you could add actual in-game items or team related items (like team flags).
-It seems that you need points to add more members to your team. I think default is 20. I guess that's not really a problem for us =)
-Logs, logs, logs. Chat logs and in-game logs are automatically saved in the PSO BB folder.
Check up on gossip in the lobbies and what areas you visited (with a simple "LOAD_forest" text no less).
Now you can keep track of all the PSO cybering chats. J/K lol.
-Official download from the official site.
http://psobb.jp/freedl.html

I'll add to this as I find out more stuff.
Any related questions you guys have goes in here.

--d-_-b

This post has been edited by DJ_Donkey: Jun 2 2004, 08:08 PM

[Ether]

[Skorpius]

Miginum (blue) was the one that casted techs, and would stab Hidoom and heal them both ;x

On Topic: Thanks DJ ;o

[unitself]

[HC82]

Server side saving must be a boon. What took so damn long? More enemies is a no brainer. Insane enemy spawns is the life blood of PSO and sometimes the game is just too melow in the earlier stages. Give the people what they want, is what I say.

[donkeybeatz]

[unitself]

Yeah, but I have an extra arm and seven fingers on each hand, so....
I think I could make it work.


What I am talking about is mapping things to F Keys or something. Like the way you can do with text balloons now. Or the even the way they combo'd the D-Pad with the triggers or just something...
Speaking of... does any one own one of those combo controllers / keyboard thingies?

[donkeybeatz]

[Dive]

I got PSOBB up and running last night, here are some screens.


umm..what?







It's pretty cool to play pso on the pc, but as far as menus go, I was playing all by memory and reflex. It took me a while to get my PS2 controller set up with the right combination. When I first started the game, I mistakenly set the resolution at 1280x1024, but it ran pretty good at that setting, with minor slowdown in Pioneer 2. I went back and switched it to 1024x768 and it runs perfect. The graphics at this resolution resemble the Dreamcast when utilizing a VGA Converter.

I don't know how much I will play this, but cool to have nonetheless.

[donkeybeatz]

Cool Dive.
Added PSOBB Section ID calculation and other stuff.
Cool site. Check it out.
Character class are now a factor for section ID's

This post has been edited by DJ_Donkey: May 29 2004, 03:32 PM

[Bryn]

[donkeybeatz]

There's this guy at PSOW that compiled a visual guide for this.
D@rK-SuN's PSO BB: Visual Guide
It's a pretty good guide. Though I thought it would be better if he typed the translations IN the pictures (at least for the simplier menus).

And a trouble-shooting guide by Arislan I think. Pretty cool guy.
PSO BB FAQ

[Castoth]

Ick, to unlock new areas you are FORCED to do the quests now? O_o

[donkeybeatz]

[Crushinator]

Ok i'm online with this now. See you guys there!


EDIT: I didn't see any of you guys on, but this is a pretty sweet version of PSO. I really like how you have to do "Missions" to get to the new areas. It adds a neat twist to the old PSO.

My roommate and I were playing till 7 in the morning

[donkeybeatz]

*clank clank*
Official download from the official site.
http://psobb.jp/freedl.html
The file is smaller than the torrent one =T

[kyori]

Whee, so how do you go about doing this? Just dl that and you're good to go? I was too lazy to bother with PSOW's instruction, that mess of msgs

[donkeybeatz]

Well it IS an .exe file sooo... Just double click and install.
To type and such, you have to change your IME settings.

[Sheik]

Okay, I finally got mine downloaded...thanks to GetRight.

Here is some additional info that you might need also.
I did the signup this morning and it took a few minutes to register my username/password with SEGA.

First, download this file from:
http://dl.segaonline.jp/psobb/psobb_ver13_official.exe

This is the installation file.
The download is about 386MB and downloaded at about 6.00k/sec. Slow.

After you get the file you need to register a username.
Go to this web page:
https://ipas.isao.net/signup_pso/psobb/signup_index.htm

Click the button below...the accept button (the lower left button).
On the next page enter your email address two times...to confirm.

You will then receive an email in a few moments.
Open up the email and follow the link provided.

This next part is the fun one. Please see picture below:
(mmm...maximum upload size is 40 K...and my image is 77K in size! that bites..I have to resize the image. I hope it is still readable)
You MUST type Japanese these fields or it will not be accepted.

For a name you can make one up or simply use something like this below.
Copy and paste if you wish.
Use this for both the upper and lower name fields.
Name Last: ドウ
Name First: ジョン
(John Doe)

For the address and phone numbers feel free to type in some numbers there.
For the street/city address line it is a little more complex.
You can just type something like this:
東京都八王子市寺田町

Choose a user name between 6 and 8 characters long.
You can put the same name in for all 3 choices, but they must be filled out.
After this is done and your data is accepted you will get another email from SEGA with your password. Start BlueBurst and choose the second to last option. Enter your userID and password and you are set.

That's it. The rest of PSO you should know. The menus should not be too difficult.
Enjoy~ I will be playing with PSOBB later today.
--Sheik

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[Sheik]

This game plays just like the GameCube version...with a few differences.

I just finished off the forest and the dragon boss at level 5.

Kinda fun. Who else is playing this and where do we meet at usually?
Do we want to set a ship/block to meet at?

[donkeybeatz]

Patches, patches, patches.
Posted by Arislan @ PSOW:

After the maintenance today, there will be a new patch, bringing BB to 1.8.0

Patch changes, from STs site

- Alt+F4 is changed to Alt+Backspace
- Lobby commands have changed from ctrl+key to alt+key (great, so now alt+q screwup s will alt-tab us out...)
- A Dark Belra attacking with an arm shot and being killed at the same time could cause the computer to crash. This should be solved, but any bug reports should be forwarded to ST.
- Pressing the Back (Cancel) button while on the block select screen will now bring you back to the ship select. Pressing back from here will quit the game.
- Pressing back on the Transport menu from the Lobby Desk will now return you to the lobby. However, once ship or block transfer is chosen, cancellation is not possible.
- When viewing information on a party that has 3 or less members at the lobby screen, an indicator will be shown stating that the team is in a quest or when the team was created, as applicable.
- Forces now have their own completion prize weapons for clearing quests 1-3, 2-4, and 3-3.
- All Episode 2 quests may now be cleared by a single player (Episode 1 quests have already been changed to single player completion status)
- 1-1 Now has a timer for completion added to it.

Fixed errors
- Players viewing quest data while another player joins will now not crash out the player viewing the quest data.
- A freeze associated with entering an invalid character (non unicode supported) as a game password has been fixed.
- Speaking to Cal terminals in Episode 2 while the Team Log Window is displayed will no longer crash the client.
- A problem with recieving a message and keyboard operation being disabled has now been fixed.
- A problem with recieving a message and gamepad operation being disabled has now been fixed.

A couple of notes of my own:
It seems that Ah-King has left PSOBB as the RAGOL clan was no more when I logged on.
I made another team called "Apocalypse".

- When viewing information on a party that has 3 or less members at the lobby screen, an indicator will be shown stating that the team is in a quest or when the team was created, as applicable.
I checked this out and it was pretty nifty. =)

Sheik, there aren't many players (at least English speaking ones) playing PSOBB to begin with.
I'm always in Leo Block 3 (PSOW block) in the afternoons. Night time is reserved for GC

[donkeybeatz]

With the way things are going, PSOBB is slowly losing interest (at least for me... I guess playing with the keyboard only has taken its toll).
Anyway, I jumped on today and I was greeted with some more patches.
One of which caught my eye:


PSOBB has nProtect Game Guard!

You can now ignore this topic once again
Oh and I got my new computer by the way hehe.

[Crawurm]

I've seen nProtect before, but wasn't too sure what it protected against, anyone wanna clue me in?

[Skorpius]

[Sheik]

Well, looks like the beta for this is over. It is also quite expensive to buy if you go to the web site to purchase the huner's license. It is either 1,050 yen (about $10.50) for 30 days with automatic credit card billing or 1,250 yen for 30 days without automatic renewal. Looks like I am sticking with the el cheapo GC version...it is only 1,500 yen (about $15.00) for 3 months.

I just got a email today about the trial for PSO BB being over...I think everyone that signed up for it will get this message. If you wish to buy a hunter's license you can at this address I believe. Use your exisiting GAME ID and PASSWORD.

Oh, and it will download a utility called "game protect." It must be something to prevent hacking on the game software and cheating. It installed it into PSO on the last update.

https://ipas.isao.net/signup_pso/psobb/top.cgi

[donkeybeatz]

SUPER BUMP!!
Though no one here plays PSO BB, here's a bit of info that's worth mentioning:



New area eh? New enemy eh? New weapon eh?
New episode eh? There's some speculation that PSO BB occurs after episode III.
So some are calling it Episode IV. Even the image file is named "ep4.jpg".

Sauce page

Interesting no?

--d-_-b

[Dive]

Wow thats really cool, but what really caught my eye on that page was this...



A PSO Credit card? and whats that Soniti thing? I want!

[DarkEpyon]

Looks like a keychain. That weapon looks like some sort of gun.

[donkeybeatz]

Jesus H. Christ, they just keep releasing these kickass images:

If you ask me, these weapons look like the ones in the PSU Flash movie.
According to THE super PSO site, PSOW,
The sword is called, "Daisy Chain",
dagger is called "Daylight Scar",
and the gun is called "Le Onia".


New Dark monster, "Golan"


Oddly named, "Melissa-A" wtf?

The monster in my previous post is called "Astok".

And the new story (roughly) goes...
A meteorite approaches near planet Ragol according to the analysis of pioneer 2
But there is no danger of collision for both Ragol or Pioneer 2
However a strange light appears from Ragol hitting the meteorite, and changes its destination...to Ragol.
The impact causes a huge crater to be left on Ragol's surface.
And even now a strange light is coming from within that crater.
The impact crater on Ragol is now to be investigated to discover what caused the collision, and what that light is...

Man, I'm torn between this game and Monster Hunter...

[Dorian]

What is PSO blue burst?

[DarkEpyon]

[donkeybeatz]

[Guest_Zio_*]

[donkeybeatz]

Well due to financial issues & an unusual amount of bills, I decided to hop back on Blue Burst.
So no Monster Hunter for me for at least a month or two.
The Funky Fresh Hunter is back in action!



I'll keep everyone updated on the new stuff.

EDIT: about that dagger... I concluded that its a slicer type weapon. But whatever.

[Dorian]

[donkeybeatz]

EPISODE 4 HAS BEEN CONFIRMED!!!
At the same time, more weapons were revealed:



Sauce Page
Theres also a teaser clip in the source page.
Nothing much but it sure does look like its from PSU... at least the explosion part.

[Guest_Zio_*]

[DarkEpyon]

That "double saver" is named Vivian, and the mechgun is called Raj De Fe. Looks like a mini Super Soaker to me.

[donkeybeatz]

[unitself]

Yearg!!!
EP.4 on BB only... drag.
PC too.
*strike two!*
We still don't anything about the new PSU, do we? Console? GC or GCNext (or whatever it's called)? PC? Any news at all about the platform?


One thing that makes me sad though is the fact that it looks like all Sega did was just repaint the existing monsters models. There is still a Slime.. there is still a Booma.. and so on. It'd be really nice if they added a lot of new ways to play. Like air combat or something... i dunno... just thinking off the top of my head.

Super Soaker... HAHA! very nice one!

[donkeybeatz]

[AC9breaker]

Man, that looks so cool. I know if they released something similar to this on Camecube I would hop on it ASAP.

Oh, for those that don't know PSO has 2 new quests. Phantismal World 1 & 2. Pretty much like Ep2 version of Endless nightmare. Tons of fun with barrel load of of the mini bosses at the end with cool new fixed Resident Evilish Camera views. omzgwtf 4 gibbles. @_@

[Dorian]

DJ once told me that Blue Burst might tie into PSU. This makes me curious and makes me want to look into BB, is this a purly JP game?

[Crushinator]

Man, what a ripoff that Episode 4 is BB exclusive.

Way to screw over the console fanbase that liked your game in the first place. Can't Sonic Team get anything right?

[donkeybeatz]

[AC9breaker]

I wouldn't be surprised if blue burst was just a form of beta like pso version 1 was for dreamcast.