well, had a windows 10 update yesterday and today when i went to play pso2...guess what happened? pso2 wont open. whatever...guess i will link my account to steam and see if that finally solves the problem. and to any newcomers to this 'incorrectly named' topic...windows 10 updates will break your pso2 install. that is a FACT.

@ZorokiHanuke this website is what i was using to find certain rewards. the rewards are listed after the first list so just scroll down. i had to unlock all of them so i made sure to complete the story as well as find the npcs who had client orders that would reward you their partner card. there are some on there that are not in NA yet though.

http://srpgp.supersanctuary.net/cirnopedia-test/partner_1.php

@ZorokiHanuke i definitely agree! i always bring them along when i do dailys, alliance quests, and advanced quests...they are perfect for that environment. i have even seen them used in Urgent Quests and as fast as urgents go down i dont really see it as a problem but somebody else might. some npcs even have really good rewards, like Io or Matoi and a few others that are unlocked from story missions.

@ZorokiHanuke correct. their usefulness in ultimate farms is very limited given how much dps and teamwork is needed. using moons, cure spamming, and damage output is something the npc's are severely lacking when compared to a real player.

thanks to @AndrlCh though for pointing out that we can correct that in our own party settings. someone earlier thought the option wasnt up yet in NA but apparently it was so this is good information to have.

i am just happy we have options because i was really beginning to give up on trying to farm due to this issue. i do wonder though, how efficient a farm would be if 3 friends each formed up a group of aux and joined each others farm run?

@AndrlCh woh! i was under the impression we would have to wait a bit longer for the option. this is great to know.

to anyone new to the thread, i have gone ahead and made some edits to reflect the community's points of view on this subject.

@Princesse-Jen sadly, it has been a mix of good and bad. today, for example, during a lillipa ultimate, someone was using a full group of auxilary. i was dreading how it was going to turn out but once the instance filled 12/12, the player telepiped and disbanded the auxiliaries and returned in order to free up the remaining spots, which filled very quickly. needless to say, that is about as perfect as it can get. my frustrations come from seeing how poor these events have gotten because of specific players.

@ZorokiHanuke some other nasty things i have seen in ultimates is players commenting on people using nox weapons. the whole point of ultimates is to farm nemesis or slave weapons so it never really bothered me. i was stuck using my elder rifle for a while until i could afford my nemesis. people have different play styles and most likely cant be grinding 10 hours a day or cant afford to buy one. those weapons are priced around 25 million for the base weapon and go to upwards of 130 million for a nicely augmented +35. some players wont be able to afford that.

@ZorokiHanuke nice post...and its good you had a positive experience when asked about removing your auxiliaries. i had 2 back to back instances in the same day where players left and it got really nasty. the first time, the player using auxiliaries died and the group of aux just stood there and all the real players walked up, did not raise, and spammed nasty symbol arts. i dropped a telepipe and everyone left. the second was also similar...players got angry, exchanged pleasantries in chat, and left.

@Qruis1210 i definitely look forward to that as an option!!!

I had hoped this trend would have stopped by now but an entire 12/12 left an Ultimate run the moment they realized a player was using a full squad of auxiliaries. Disable them from being used in Ultimate Quests ASAP. They do next to nothing during a farm. They also do NOT raise when players go down. I still don't know why players are still bringing them into a farm.

*edit I have made some edits to the thread as some good points of view and settings information has been shared by the community.

it happened again today...which is fine because it gave me a reason to finally delete all those duplicate downloads in the backup folder which amounted up to about 260Gb. now it is redownloading the game but this will most likely be the last time i bother trying to play anymore. perhaps by august when episode 4 hits we will see a better distribution method than this grossly incompetent deal with the microsoft store.

so today i ran into a new issue and tried something different. after running the launcher and hitting start game i noticed the client took longer to load than normal. when i arrived at the opening screen. my user ID was not found and i couldnt play. i exited out completely and reloaded the launcher but instead used the 'check file' button. it took about 40 minutes and it seems to be scanning the game files. once finished it replaced 6 of the files and i logged in. my user id was there and i was able to play. this issue happened out of nowhere. no windows updates, nothing. it just completely failed to load my user id.

i believe so but i would wait and see. i have not done it yet and was waiting to get clarification on this as well.

@FateOfAPhoenix its been a rough launch for sure. my client died on me last week or so after applying a windows 10 update. the game literally deleted itself. then after reinstalling, we had the maintenance and the launcher redownloaded the game again. one thing i will mention is tread lightly on those pinned topics in this forum. they are NOT fixes...if you read thru them you will see that most people are reporting they do not work or have caused even more problems down the line. i have not used any of those suggestion nor do i use tweaker. if the game can ever be freed from the prison of the windows store i am certain it will run way better. that is about all we can hope for at this point.

just logged in and my launcher is downloading the entire game again as well

yeah this is pretty much comfirmed that windows updates are the reason for pso2 launch failures. the title should probably be edited to say 'Warning! Windows 10 updates can possibly cause game launch failures'.