[PSO: Blue Burst] Beginner's Guide to Phantasy Star Online

In this extended video, I wanted to take a look back at the original Phantasy Star Online and make a beginner’s guide for anyone who never got chance to experience the game. With PSOGC celebrating its 20th anniversary (which is also my 20th anniversary with the series), I thought I would show newer entrants to the series how to access the game in 2023 and a complete run down of all the basics.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:00 PSO’s different versions
03:55 How to access PSO:BB in 2023
05:09 Character Creation Intro
06:00 PSO’s Character Classes (Overview)
07:22 Hunter
08:05 Explanation of the class naming structure
10:27 Ranger
11:37 Force
13:25 Class recommendations for new players
15:07 Creating a character
15:50 Naming your character / What are Section IDs?
17:06 What Section ID affects
19:35 How Section ID is determined
23:08 Using multiplayer to work around Section IDs
24:35 The online lobby
26:03 Making a party / Where is Episode 3?
28:41 Pioneer 2
34:46 Heading to Ragol (Forest 1)
35:32 Basic Controls
36:38 Interface Basics
38:10 Attacking
39:18 Healing
39:54 Status Effects
41:15 Enemies and mitigating damage
43:24 Mags
44:51 Customising the action palette
45:25 Message capsules
46:28 Rappies!
49:23 Forest 2
50:28 Doorway sniping (or cheese strats)
52:10 Upgrading gear from monster drops
52:51 How to deal with mine traps
54:39 Pillars in each area
55:33 Equip requirements / how this differs to NGS
57:10 Bosses
1:01:14 Don’t get flattened!
1:01:44 Why you should try PSO in 2023
1:03:05 Outro

Ephinea private server: https://ephinea.pioneer2.net/
This video uses material from the /”Section ID/” article on the Phantasy Star wiki at Fandom and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.
https://phantasystar.fandom.com/wiki/Section_ID

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