r/PSO

I played pso2 religiously on jp servers, then again with the na release. I tried to enjoy new Genesis but it just felt mediocre at best. I put probably around a thousand hours into ephinea over time.

Is there really just nothing left? No popular clones of pso's essence, no same but different that people love now days? I've tried to find anything and the space is just empty. The closest thing I've found was terminal brigade which was pretty fun, didn't even mind the stutter but it was well and truly dead and no one to play with really killed that for me.

So what am I missing? Or is pso and it's kind just.. dead?

While in the Seabed during The West tower quest there is a console that cannot be interacted with just sitting in a room on its own. According to Blue Burst this and 2 other locked rooms (which apparently also contain a console each) are part of a quest line to allow you to add the HIT attribute to weapons, but since this is not Blue Burst this quest line does not exist, so do they serve any other purpose?

I have completed this quest with multiple characters now and if I am skipping something it is better for me to do, I would rather know now, especially if it is tied to an item like Soul Eater which is hidden.

Gamecube documentation is all gone it appears. I try the wayback machine with PSO World to learn more, but not always successful when doing that.

Edit: Big thanks to u/One-Technology-9050

These only work in the online version of the quests not the offline versions available in PSO Plus. I already have them, but if anyone needs them you can find them here: https://github.com/eleriaqueen/psogc-codes-backup/tree/master/PSO%20Ep.1%262/USA/Download%20Quests

East and West Tower are located in file pack 6

You will need the AR codes to be able to get the quests to work.

Hi all, I'm just trying to gauge the level of interest in PSO-like games. (not that there really are many). Obviously, we all know, nothing beats the original (and variously modified) versions of PSO. But my love for PSO has had me tinkering with a passion project for me and one other person to play, which it's fair to call a PSO-like.

A Cyberpunk aesthetic, gamecube graphics but with the modern lighting/particles, the triple hit combo, slow stupid enemies in the early game. Stuff like that.

I'm literally making it for myself and my best friend to play together, but maybe it's worth putting a build out in future for free somewhere if other people want to have a go?

The main "core" difference in this is that it's also a "siralim"-like which is a game many of you probably havent even heard of, but to me is the only game to hold a torch to PSO but in a very different way. And I don't necessarily think this crowd and that crowd would have a huge overlap either. So this game might be incredibly niche.

But overall, the question stands as, are people just happy with the PSO options out there and don't feel the need for something heavily inspired by it? Or would people want to have a play if i put it on itch or something for free?

EDIT: It's come up in the comments and I was dumb not to address it up front. I am heavily leaning into using AI to create this game. I am historically a business applications developer, currently a cloud systems engineer with a small amount of "pre-AI" game-dev experience.
I am using Creative Commons Zero assets (which, if released on a website, would be fully credited) for meshes etc. But yes AI is helping me create this. It's an after work passion project for a couple of friends ultimately. No lofty goals, happy to share with people, and I respect and understand the bias against AI in games. So full disclosure, yes I am aided by AI here.

I installed PSO Ephinea onto my newly acquired Xbox Ally X, but the game won't open after I select "start game." Any idea what setting I need to enable/disable to get the game to open?

Title. I don't know what settings I have to enable/disable in order for the keyboard to show up so I can enter my user ID. The controls seem to be working fine; when I select "Enter User ID" the keyboard doesn't pop up so I can put it in. I'm stuck on the title screen.

I checked and I don't have IME enabled.

Any ideas??

I got onto Ephenia after having a nostalgic chat with my cousin. We used to play together on the dreamcast. We never really got past the forest and the first boss. That's about my total exposure to the game.

Anyway, I'm on now and enjoying it in a similar fashion, but I know that there's a gap between a brand new player and the target audience of a lot of the wiki guides out there. I have no idea what a berserk special is, i have no idea how to speed up the MAG process, etc.

Is there a new player guide for what missions/quests to do and in what order to experience the game for the first time? How does one go from normal as a HUcast to the harder difficulties to start attaining gear to make the leveling process more fun? I'm 14 atm and it's slow.

Thanks in advance for any advice!