Now I know from what I’m about to say many are going to despise and hate me as it will at one point or another bring back painful memories of online gaming, but there is a confession I must announce! I am a tyrant, one of those players who make’s the honest gamer of PSO afraid to be felled or exchange items. I am one of those (for want of a better term) “Bastards” who lies patiently under the deceitful cover of honesty looking for any potential rarity from a fallen comrade, succumb by the heat of battle.

A reminder: guild cards first, then items.

It’s twisted but in all truthfulness I find this to be one of the most entertaining unintentional aspects of the PSO experience. You'll be surprised just how trusting some people are, people so devoid of human social behaviour they’re unable to fathom the notion of crime in such a perfect and artificial world.

I once easily deceived a Humar of about the same level, doing what most do, going from lobby to lobby from game to game in search of “that” special weapon, hoping to find someone of enough experience and generosity to provide it for them. (Free of course).

I think his name was, "FEAR", as soon as he entered the game he ran right up to me and asked if I had anything to trade and like always I replied, "what you got?" He then preceded to go through a list of pretty boring items that could with very little effort be found on hard or very hard, I told him I wasn’t interested and instead offered a game.

After a barrage of crying bubbles and begging we finally got to the caves, but as soon as we got there I noticed he had equipped a "DOUBLE SABER" (*now that was an item I’ve been after for quite sometime but never managed to get my hands on one. Up until now*!). Innocently I asked what it was, he told me, and i offered a trade' and being the sarcastic bunch most gamers are he replied "what you got?” Making up a bunch of lies I told him a majority of the rare weapons. It ended up with him wanting to trade my supposed frying pan for the De-vine Double Saber. So adhering to his offer I requested he move a little further away from my position while I ensured a good distance (“putting a little space between us just in-case he found out what was in store for him”!). He understood and complied, dropping his Double Saber he asked me to release mine, so I did, and instead I dropped an ordinary Saber (he had no idea what it was! All he could see was an orange box),' I slowly walked towards his and he did the same toward mine, he picked up the Saber, I picked up the Double Saber and I turned round to watch his reaction.

Most of what he wrote to being with I couldn’t read cause he was swearing so much, and the PSO server was editing most of it. But one thing's for sure, he was typing fast very fast, the bubbles were whizzing up one afer another reminisant of the 5th of november. After about 5 minuets he finally clamed down and asked for it back nicely. I said, 'drop my Saber and I’ll give it back' so he did and I picked that up too, so now I have his weapon and all mine, this made him even worse and again he started swearing and this time running rings around my character. After laughing my arse off and having enough entertainment for one night, I left with a new addition to my inventory. A job well done.

Go on say it…. I know your thinking it......

IM A BASTARED.


And I love it.

God writes, "Out of nowhere HKDreamcast brings us 10 more shots of PSO ver.2. Click Read More to scope them . A big thank you to Phantasm for writing in and letting us know about them."

Phantasm writes, "SpeedofSonic has posted a translation of that Hong Kong web page with the info on the PSO append disk. "

"The popular game -- Phantasy Star Online is going to have an append disc, called:Phantasy Star Online Ver. 2

In this new version, most bugs will be fixed (like duping item, etc...) New features including: Capture the Flag kind of battle mode, so 4 players can compete each other.. Sonic Team is also planning on some kind of soccer game in the lobby too.

Some enhancement of the system, like auto sort of weapons will be included. New enemies, new characters, new costumes, and 2 new areas (Space Ship, and Temple) will be added, there will be even an "ULTIMATE" mode on top of "V-HARD".

MAG type will also add a few: including all the SEGA system, like MasterSystem (shown in the picture) , MEGA Drive, Saturn, and DC.

This append disc could use the privous save and level could be up to 200...

Game will release on May 17 2001, 4800 yen"

This is basically what it says.. no word about the US release date..

You can see his full post here... http://boards.ign.com/message.asp?topic=3507509&replies=30

God writes, "Hot on the heels of the very existence of PSO ver.2 (append disc). We, courtesy of HKDreamcast and RedVento, bring you screenshots from one of the new levels. Click Read More.. for the screens or, you can click here for the translated page and here for the original page."

God writes, "Yes, as everyone notices even with the server upgrade at peak usage times, PSO World slows to speeds only a turtle, and very old people could love . Fear not! We are in the process of yet again searching for a host upgrade. We will be delivering our little site to you at regained speeds within a short time. Stick with us. "

Spectre54 writes, "Still Playing PSO? Yeah? good. But if your done with PSO (not likely but possible) then you're in luck, the Dreamcast Port of Unreal Tournament is coming our way, and dreamcast.ign.com has posted the first review and it's GOOD. According to IGN, UT is actually better then the great Quake III arena that arrived last year, could it be that QIII has finally been de-throned? Featuring graphics and speed that seems light years beyond that jagged PS2 port of last year, UT for Dreamcast features online play of up to 8 players, support for the BBA, and over 60 (yes count 'em) maps. Even though by the time UT arrive you'll still be playing PSO, I think everyone could go for their daily dose of Frag and what-not, don't you?"

I couldn't seem to find the review on IGN, however here is a link to the one on SegaDojo ^_^
http://www.cloudchaser.com/cc/sega/reviews/index.cgi?id=322

spruchy writes, "Well all you little PSO cheaters, bad news for you sega is taking you down! Just look here, http://www.cloudchaser.com/cc/sega/columns/index.cgi?id=368 I almost feel bad for you 0_o"

Good luck Sega... that's a pretty large scale goal. It's kinda sad Sega has to waste their time dealing with cheaters rather than delivering those things we really want, new quests, competitions etc.

Hey everyone!

In the last couple of weeks, I've heard that the BBA wouldnt support PSO. Suppossedly thats what sega said. But ive soon did a research around the internet and found out that you CAN use the BBA with PSO. Its very simple, and its not even hard to do it! People make it seem like its impossible to get it to work. I have DSL through Pacbell. I am running windows 2000 professional. what you need is: windows 98 - windows ME or windows 2000 and up. 2 eithernet cards - 1 for DSL and 1 for your Dreamcast and a CAT 5 crossover cable, also you will need to Download the BroadBand Passport CD for the dreamcast so you can setup the DSL on the dreamcast to make PSO go online. Here is a link ot download the file http://www.daytonsmisc.com/article14_default.htm its a great site!

Wario64 writes, "Sega is teaming with Famitsu to hold a PSO Fan Cup Event taking place from March 23 to April 6. Players will download an online quest to compete for the fastest time to clear all enemies in a quest. The prize will be 1,500,000 yen who will also be recognized with an A class hunter license, and receive a really rare item that can only be obtained by winning the event. The event is for Japan, although there is no indication whether this event is open to the US.

http://www.sega.co.jp/sega/corp/news/nr010309_1.html"