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Albatross18 - Main

07-03-2008 02:46 AM



It's a little early to post this, but happy Independence Day everyone.

I'm still on my vacation over at Florida now.  I'm sitting here at Barnes & Noble bookstore with only a few battery life left on this laptop.  I think I'll be back around Sunday.  It's about 11-12 hour drive from here to home.  It's a good thing I have something to do on the road.  I think I'm getting close to finishing up Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core now for the PSP.  I don't own the system, but my friend was nice enough to let me borrow it for the trip.  I also play a little bit of Hot Shots Golf Open Tee as well.  I must say, that golf game is very random, and it wants you to suck at it a lot.  I suppose I don't understand the mechanic of that game compared to Pangya I guess.

To be exact, I'm in Clearwater, Florida.  We are staying at my step grandma's condo.  So if you live in that area, and see some Korean dude with glasses and wearing sandals, it might be me : D

Well I better head out.  Like I said, my battery is very low right now, and I think they are about to close the bookstore.  Just thought I take some time to visit my zoints page here for a bit.  Oh yeah, my guild (CRUX) is opening applications to any potential players out there if you want to give it a shot.  You need to post your application on the forum here.

Ciao.

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06-25-2008 10:14 PM


Here's a sneakpeek preview from Japan Pangya.  More PP x1.5 bonuses on every "Wiz" course for a limited time.  Army gears for all characters will be available in the shop permanently just like in A18.

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I present you the insider's blog from Albatross18:

"It's a little late but I wanted to let you all know about the insiders' blog. Well here it goes we are filling out a few more swimsuits for the other characters. Scout, Hana, Uncle Bob, Kaz and Cecillia will be getting the new suits. While Max will be getting a couple of new hats for him. For the Papel shop we are bringing out gold prince crown and the gold princess crown. Be ready and check out the update tomorrow and enjoy all the swimsuits and other items."



*stares at the image*
All I can say is, nice cropping skills!

Albatross18 is going to bring even more new S3 swimsuits that some characters did not receive yet.  As for Hana and Cecilia, they will receive the same kind of swimsuit that they already have, but just in a different color.  Max will receive two hats.  The picture shows Scout wearing those googles so maybe he will get them as well that the insider's blog did not mention. 



Another thing I want to point out is that the insider's blog picture shows Scout wearing his S2 swimsuit.  Is this an error on their part or are they going to release Scout's S3 swimsuit a little later?  The picture I presented above is what Scout's S3 swimsuit looks like.  There's no word or hint if they are going to bring the old swimsuits back in the shop for a limited time. 



Both prince and princess crowns will make its way to the Papel shop.  You may change the color from gold to silver, or silver to gold in Brie's cauldron.  The colors will not change the effects.  After the crowns are done, you can expect a downgradeable elf ear item to come out next, the feathers.  So if you don't own a single elf ear, then you will have another chance to win one!  Well kinda.

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06-23-2008 01:00 PM

Server maintenance from 4:00~11:00 AM (7 hours).  Clothes update for Max, Arin, and Lucia.  New missions added to approach mode system.  Players who signed up on the Paran site (aka allstar) will be ending shortly, and accounts will be transfered to the main site.  Modification and addition added to Lucia.  The GM event that is going on in the lola server will discontinue due to it crashing recently when it gets too overpopulated.  This has happened to me before when I was particpating this event once, but I never knew it happened multiple of times.  They said they are doing some server stabilizating test, and would like to reopen the event whenever they find the problem that causes the server to collapse.

Clothing & Gear updates


Max only receives headgear updates.  Four helmets for a variety of choices to choose from.  All cost cookies.  There are no new clothing update for him, just the helmets.


Lucia is getting full of attention today.  Three different colors for both the dresses and... panties.  I'll even provide a picture example of what I'm talking about.  Sorry female readers.  Then she has another headgear that changes her hairstyle.  As usual, all of them cost cookies. 


Arin gets a smexy shirt with her cleavage presented very... clearly!  There's also a nice blue jeans to go with it.  This update also includes new black boots, and hair ribbon to widen her hair.  There's already a hair ribbon in the shop just like today's update, but just in a different color.  Did I forget to mention that these cost cookies as well?

New Lucia animations


Lucia receives some new revamped animations. 



Video demo on new animations

Record bug?


There seems to be a bug on almost all of the accounts on Korea.  Your Season 3 records are all gone except a very random White Wiz record.  Then your Season 2 records are gone as well except the random Ice Spa record.  It's funny that both score, and pang are the same for every other accounts out there.  I'm sure the staff teams are aware of this, and plan to fix this shortly. 

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06-20-2008 01:55 AM

My numero10 blog journal!



Good evening, I'm currently watching Unbeatable Banzuke on G4TV now.  I always like to watch Japanese game shows.  They always come up with the wackiest ideas for entertainment, and it works.  I get bored with generic American shows.  It's mostly stuff where a group of people gather up for some drama show.  These people will end up getting jealous of each other, dropping F bombs, and all these melodramatic scenes that I guess people in American think that's entertainment.  I hate that stuff.  I wish America's game shows would have something that's both relaxing, and enjoyable to watch.  Unless there's one out there that I'm unaware of.


I was watching Unbeatable Banzuke one day, and my parents were wondering what I was watching.  They kept hearing a bunch of foreign language from the annoucer, and was curious to see what it's about.  Suddenly, we ended up all on the couch watching it till the end.  My parents ended up liking it.  They were laughing and screaming, especially my Mom.  You know whenever the crowd would scream outloud when something dramatic happens?  Well my Mom does exactly like that, and I usually have to cover my ears from time to time before I become deaf.


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I finished Metal Gear Soild 4 awhile back.  The visuals are absoultely amazing.  This game really does show the power of the Playstation 3.  I do plan to replay the entire game again due to extra easter eggs, and stuff that I didn't explore all the way through.  This game has plenty of replay value if you really want to get in depth with the extras.  Kojima-sama still shows his humor by placing the most "wtf" moments in the game just like the previous MGS series.  There are so many secerts in this game that you just want to see for yourselves.



The story took me about 16 hours to complete, but I basically rushed through it.  Cutscenes just like every other MGS series are long, so maybe prepare your popcorn.  I don't want to spoil too much if any of you haven't played or finished this game yet, but I can say, it is a must own game for every Playstation 3 owner.  Whether you dislike the MGS series, or not familiar with it, you'll still get your money's worth with the experience this game has to offer.  The story does get too complex for your brain to wonder what the hell is going on at times, but at least if you enjoy the gameplay, that's good enough.


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I thought there was another event coming up when I saw it this morning.  Oh wait, it's just the bonus scratch card event that I already mentioned earlier.  Actually, they just released this promotion not too long ago so I don't think many players knew about this.  So they must have decided to bring it up publicly to attract more attention to get these players to buy more cookies.  It's a good time too, especially for the current scratch rares going on right now with the fairy wings.  These babies are so hardcore, that you probably won't find anyone selling them in PSquare.  These wings may end up being sold in real korean money.  I wouldn't be surprised since Elf Ears is almost like that as well.


Around 2 in the morning (my time) on KR Pangya, there was an annoucement in the game talking about the GM event that was about to commence shortly.  I haven't participated in this event yet, so I figured I would give it a try.  It would be located on the Lola server.  At first, there was so many people crowding in that server that it ended up crashing the server, and caused a delay on the event.  Finally severs got stabled, and the event will continue on.


The course was set on random, so this was going to get interesting.  The course that got selected is, Lost Seaway.  I haven't played that course in a long time, so I wasn't expecting any good results for that round.





Surprisely, I was nailing those floating gates with ease to get green-in-one easily for easy eagle putts.  I've made several stupid miss putts, but lucky I made a handful of chip-ins to compensate.  Hole 8 screwed me up yet again.  My ball got stuck inside the ship, and made it unplayable.  So I ended up getting an awesome 71 yard roll-in chip with my trusty 7I skillz for a measly par.  I think I'm going to practice that hole until I get it right.  I usually don't have problems on that hole, but usually it just goes completely random at times.  It's all about hitting the right power inside that gate to get that ball over the ship safely for green-in-one.


I am a bit of surprised.  I managed to stay strong in this 200 player room.  I was shocked to be playing fairly well when it was two in the morning hitting pangya at a 100% rate in that round.  When I finished, I ended up placing 1st place for a short while until the rest finished up their holes.  At the end, I got placed 5th.  Not bad.  Well I didn't get 1st place, but anyone who has participated in the event gets a full scratch ticket sent in their gift section automatically.


But looking back, if I had taken my time to make those eagle putts that I've missed, I really would have gotten 1st place.  Oh well.

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Japan gets an update today.  New gachapon lotto, and another event. Kampai~



Players in Japan are really excited about the new fairy wings.  You can only get the rainbow wing in the lotto system, but you can change the colors to the dark one at any time using Brie's Magic Box.  To the A18 players, be sure you save your money on this rare.

An event that will last now till the 17th of July.  It's the 2 million player celebration event.  Are they saying they have over 2 million players registered in Japan Pangya?  Wow.  Everyone must work together to reach a certain number of yards that has traveled during this event.  So be sure you drive the ball long to speed up the process.  Ice Spa ftw?

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06-18-2008 02:30 PM

I was playing a couple of VS game on KR Pangya.  Right when I was about to make a short putt, I noticed Hana performed that animation a little bit different than before.  So I recorded both Korea, and Albatross18 short putt footage to see the difference.  It's not much an impact in the game, but it's just this little something that I found out.


Hana's short-putt animation
First clip is from Albatross18, and second from KR Pangya.

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