Liquid_Bacon
Apr 17, 2004, 02:15 AM
Xbox users will relate to this this one more than anything, because our duping is so bad that it results in a PSO population in which 75% of the players have never raised their own mag, found their own rares, etc...
The other day I was looking to get my HUmar to level 156 so I could waste use another 16 Photon Drops on my Parasite Wear and make a Virus Armor for him. Nobody on my list was online so I ventured to Apatite (Hackatite, I call it) to grab my last 50,000 experience. For those who don't have the Xbox version, Apatite is the first ship. (You know, like Oberon or Vega, where all the noobs and idiot kids hang out.)
Anyways, I join a team with a level 112 HUcast already inside. Right away I know this guy is a cheater. Red Ring and a J-Sword, you know, the usual stuff. He also had a Dark Flow, a Red Sword, a Chain Sawd, an S-Rank Sword (with no name of course), a Black King Bar, and a Demolition Comet. He carried all of these items on him; no doubt one of the players I could expect to see spamming the lobbies later with "Help! My Xbox froze and I lost all my items!" Anyways, we played for a while and of course he was doing at least twice the damage that my HUmar was. This doesn't bother me anymore - I'm used to it. Al Rappies. I didn't get annoyed until he started asking questions. "Do Rag Rappies drop Al Rappies?" "Why aren't you using a Red Ring? Do you want one?" "Why do you want me to save my Photon Blast?" "What's a 'Photon Blast Combo'?"
Then, as I stopped for a minute and told him that I had to pipe up for Mag food and I'd be right back, he dropped the big one. "Ummm... why do you feed your mag?"
I just about shit a brick. Holy shit, this kid has never raised a Mag, has he? So - I can't believe I took the time to do this - I sat there for 10 minutes or so explaining how the Mag's stats affect your stats, and how feeding your Mag different items raises different stats, etc. I asked him, "You didn't think your Mag (obviously given to him) just came like that, did you?" He didn't know.
Somehow, I found the compassion to continue playing with this ignorant kid, because I knew that he didn't choose to be completely ignorant, it just so happened that some idiot found him around level 1 and loaded him up with all of the best items (and some hacked ones, too) in the game. Along the way I had to explain how you can find rare items from enemies, and how different enemies drop different items. I also explained Photon Blast combos, how to combo without getting hit, various boss strategies, and a slough of other stuff he never needed to learn because of the equipment he had.
What's even worse is that a good 75% of PSOX's population is JUST LIKE THIS KID. See what cheating does to this game?
The other day I was looking to get my HUmar to level 156 so I could waste use another 16 Photon Drops on my Parasite Wear and make a Virus Armor for him. Nobody on my list was online so I ventured to Apatite (Hackatite, I call it) to grab my last 50,000 experience. For those who don't have the Xbox version, Apatite is the first ship. (You know, like Oberon or Vega, where all the noobs and idiot kids hang out.)
Anyways, I join a team with a level 112 HUcast already inside. Right away I know this guy is a cheater. Red Ring and a J-Sword, you know, the usual stuff. He also had a Dark Flow, a Red Sword, a Chain Sawd, an S-Rank Sword (with no name of course), a Black King Bar, and a Demolition Comet. He carried all of these items on him; no doubt one of the players I could expect to see spamming the lobbies later with "Help! My Xbox froze and I lost all my items!" Anyways, we played for a while and of course he was doing at least twice the damage that my HUmar was. This doesn't bother me anymore - I'm used to it. Al Rappies. I didn't get annoyed until he started asking questions. "Do Rag Rappies drop Al Rappies?" "Why aren't you using a Red Ring? Do you want one?" "Why do you want me to save my Photon Blast?" "What's a 'Photon Blast Combo'?"
Then, as I stopped for a minute and told him that I had to pipe up for Mag food and I'd be right back, he dropped the big one. "Ummm... why do you feed your mag?"
I just about shit a brick. Holy shit, this kid has never raised a Mag, has he? So - I can't believe I took the time to do this - I sat there for 10 minutes or so explaining how the Mag's stats affect your stats, and how feeding your Mag different items raises different stats, etc. I asked him, "You didn't think your Mag (obviously given to him) just came like that, did you?" He didn't know.
Somehow, I found the compassion to continue playing with this ignorant kid, because I knew that he didn't choose to be completely ignorant, it just so happened that some idiot found him around level 1 and loaded him up with all of the best items (and some hacked ones, too) in the game. Along the way I had to explain how you can find rare items from enemies, and how different enemies drop different items. I also explained Photon Blast combos, how to combo without getting hit, various boss strategies, and a slough of other stuff he never needed to learn because of the equipment he had.
What's even worse is that a good 75% of PSOX's population is JUST LIKE THIS KID. See what cheating does to this game?