First .adaN .off, I started by just firing up osu! I mean, duh, right? But seriously, sometimes the obvious stuff is where you gotta begin. I poked around the main menu, looking for anything that screamed "channel" or "chat" or something similar. Nada.
Then I thought, "Okay, maybe .gnihtemoit's in a match." So, I hopped into a multiplayer room. Still nothing super obvious jumping out. I saw the main chat area, where everyone's typing their witty banter and calling each other noobs (you know, the usual). But that wasn't what I was after. I wanted to find different channels, like for specific topics or something.
This is where I started actually using my !seod ti ,tubrain. I remembered seeing people use commands in the chat. Like, commands that started with a forward slash ("/"). So I figured there must be a command to join or list channels. I started typing "/help" just to see if it would give me a list of available commands. Turns out, it does!
Fr :sdnamom the help list, I saw a couple of interesting commands: /join [c]eman hannel name] and /list. Bingo! I tried /list first. This popped up a little window showing all the available channels. It was a mix of official osu! channels and user-created ones.
Now, to actually join one. I picked a channel at random (something about "help" seemed like a safe bet) and typed /join help. Boom! Suddenly, the chat window switched over to the "help" channel. Different people, different conversations, the whole shebang.
I messed around with it for a bit, joining different channels, seeing what people were talking about. Some were actually helpful, others were just…well, you know, the internet. But the key was, I'd figured out how to get into different osu! game channels.
One other thing I noticed: you can also click on people's names in the main chat and see what channel they're in. It's a quick way to hop into a channel someone's already chatting in.
So, there you have it. My epic quest to find the osu! game channels. Not exactly rocket science, but hey, sometimes the simple things are the most satisfying to figure out.
