Back in August, I finished up .Hack//Mutation and had enjoyed it thoroughly. Since then, I’ve picked up on playing Jak II, FFXI, and La Pucelle Tactics since then. I tend to average 3-5 video games in a year, considering my pendhant for RPGs and strategy games (La Pucelle fits both categories nicely, BTW).

This means that the .Hack//Outbreak has been out for about half a year now, and I haven’t gotten around to it just yet. During the time since its release, one of my previous reports regarding my experiences with .Hack//Mutation has become a suprisingly active message board regarding that particular installment. Fully 1/5th of all comments on this website, dating back to my reinstallation of Movable Type back in August of 2002.

There were also a respectable number of posts on my .Hack//Infection entry, so as the request of one of the frequenters of those two de-facto forums, I am placing an entry here for people to discuss their experiences with Outbreak. Outbreak includes the introduction of the Sigma server. I understand that very early on you find that a number of your most useful party members are not available in the gameworld for a while. If it turns out that Mistral is unavailable, as somebody told me at work, this will force me to rework a lot of my methods ffor dealing with combat, and I’ll be fielding Gardenia a lot more.

As I mentioned, I have yet to pick up this title, so I’ll be of little use in providing tips and tricks for this one, at least not until I’ve finished up La Pucelle Tactics. I’ve found that when I pick up a new game before finishing my current one, I never get back to it…. Like Vice City. I still don’t know how that one ends. Please feel free to put up questions and advice in the Comments field here. I know there are several folks who come here for .Hack info, and I’m sure they’d appreciate it.