Weird Video

[Flamingo99]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UFBuFRtJmvM

Hey just that video, and about half way through it... you'll notice that a human with an afro, and the fat newman girl turn into a "blankish" frame of a character. Whats up with that? Is the server trying to load their character models... or is it an emote?

[Flamingo99]

And i just saw this too.... theres nothing crazy about it. Its just really weird.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DW_OicXteNc&mode=related&search=

[SephYuyX]

Theyre being datadrained.

Edit.. That is one large girl..

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: SephirothYuyX on 2006-08-30 11:31 ]</font>

[A2K]

On 2006-08-30 11:28, SephirothYuyX wrote:
Theyre being datadrained.



I don't see them losing a bunch of levels transforming into chibi versions of themselves, so, no, I don't think it can be that. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

[Frezzo]

i thought these ghost npc were only in the offline mode as a decoration but these showed on the vid are real player ......weird

[Kers]

On 2006-08-30 11:21, Flamingo99 wrote:
And i just saw this too.... theres nothing crazy about it. Its just really weird.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DW_OicXteNc&mode=related&search=



It looks like the character & PM were much stronger than the monster levels, but still, that PM looked pretty cool lugging around that sword/saber and doing PAs with it!

[XredX]

The ppl look like Statues turnd to stone =' Need (Soft,Remedy)
and thePM video he could of at least used a bigger tv ='

[StratixEVO]

Those are place holders for the characters. Could be lag, could be the PS2, could be programming. I hope that with we'll see less of that on the PC and 360 versions, its just a simple model of the char to help reduce processing strain. You see that on other MMORPGs, but usually only for characters far away or during lag. FFXI has a "fade-in" thing too.

[PrinceBrightstar]

the ghost characters are there in online too. Confirmed from Closed Beta.

[Shadow_Wing]

You can notice those in other vids when there's heavy traffic, so instead of having everyone detailed and be essencially "missing" from your screen the game instead replaces them as gray characters. This is prolly to make sure everyone is on the screen while not overloading the system.

[StratixEVO]

Yup yup, I'd rather know someone is there than have em be invisible.

PS: Jonathan_F, can't say I dig the sig... I haven't gotten around to playing the old school Phantasy Stars, but I could have gone without that spoiler. -_-

[Foxix]

you phail jonathan.

anyway I believe that the the person that uploaded the video wasn't from japan so we can assume he's no where near their servers. In the final version the loading will probably be faster along with the fact that the US servers will be closer for less delay.