PLAY PHANTASY STAR UNIVERSE NOW!

Once online, exploring the activities below will help you get the most out of the open beta period:

• Create Your Character - Construct the perfect avatar with the robust Character Creation tool that enables players to change their character’s body shape and dimensions, hairstyle and colour, facial structure and features, and more! Play as an all-new race known as Beasts and transform using your powerful Nanoblast ability!
• Meet New People - Head out to the lobby and meet new people, visit the various weapons, items, clothing shops, and join or create squads, then embark on missions together.
• Explore the Universe - With three expansive planets to explore, discover the adventures that lie ahead on Parum, Neudaiz, and Moatoob.
• My Room - Create your personal online space by adding items and elements from your adventures, and decorating your My Room with various themes and wallpaper. In here, your Partner Machinery is able to create new weapons and items for you to use in battle, trade with friends, or sell for a profit. Players can also exchange Partner Cards and visit friends in their My Room!
• Customise Your Look - Head to one of the various Clothing or Parts shops located across the Universe and outfit your character with the newest styles.
• Try Different Job Types - Speak to the Guardian Representative located on the fifth floor of the Guardian’s Colony to freely change between the three class types: Hunter, Ranger, and Force.
• Create and Sell Items - Craft items from the base materials you find during your adventures using your Partner Machinery. You can even sell these items within player-run Shops!

NETWORK MODE KEY FEATURES

At any time, players can choose to enter Phantasy Star Universe’s robust and highly customisable multiplayer online Network Mode and meet hundreds of other players, create or join squads of up to six players, and continue their epic journey exploring the universe of Phantasy Star.

The events of Network Mode take place in the same era and universe following our hero Ethan Waber’s adventure in Story Mode. In order to help bring peace to the Gurhal System, the interplanetary security force known as the GUARDIANS is looking for new recruits. That's where you come in... along with countless other players you'll encounter on the network. Here, you'll find brand new quests, missions, and stories. You might even see a few familiar faces.

The fully customisable character you create in Network Mode is a member of the GUARDIANS and stationed in the Gurhal System. After creating a character, every player is given their own personal space, called My Room, and their own Partner Machinery, a robot that can synthesize new weapons and items, and even evolve into different form to be taken on quests. In the lobbies, players can find friends, meet new people, chat, dance, shop, join or create squads, and begin a story that's all your own!

Character Creation: After selecting a race and gender, you can determine features like appearance and body type. With the smooth morphing of faces and body dimensions, as well as a diverse selection of facial features, hairstyles, voices, and clothing, you can create a character as unique as yourself!

Customise your CAST Character: CAST character creation is even more unique with playful and customisable robot body parts. You select the base shape and colour of the face and artificial skin, and then choose from helmets and clothes, as well as body, arm, and leg parts. You can create anything from a humanoid form to a completely mech-style form. It's your call!

LOBBIES

After leaving your room, you will find the lobby where you can interact with other players, and embark on missions and explore fields where a party of up to six players can participate in battles.

Interact With More People Than Ever Before: In Phantasy Star Universe, each server is its own universe. However, you are not restricted to one universe, and can travel to different universes to interact with numerous players, chat, trade items, buy things, or embark on quests and missions. You can even create two characters with the same name. The lobbies in the Network Mode are the central hub where the Phantasy Star community interacts.

Shop in the Cities to Choose Your Attire: After you reach a certain point in Story Mode, you'll be able to change the clothing that Ethan, the main character, wears. In both Story and Network Mode, if you talk to a clerk at a clothing shop, you can try on different clothes and purchase any that you like. You can also purchase various weapons, items for battle, Photon Arts, and items to decorate your My Room.

Taking a Break in the Transfer Lobbies: Once you finish a mission, you will move to a Transfer Lobby. There are usually many players in the Transfer Lobby, and there you can form parties, adjust your equipment, or restock your supplies. Ready to undertake missions further out in the field? Then visit the mission counter in the Transfer Lobby and check in with the clerk there.

Get to the Goal Lobbies: When you clear an entire mission, you can move to a Goal Lobby. Only players who have cleared their mission can enjoy the gorgeous surroundings of the Goal Lobby, a relaxing place where the battle-weary can rest.

Each planet has multiple areas to explore, and each area has branching and hidden paths for unending adventures.

MISSIONS AND QUESTS

Creating a Party and Starting Out on an Adventure: You can join parties at the GUARDIANS Colony and on the various planets. First, look for partners who are ready for a mission. When you find others to join you, invite them into your party. If you trade Partner Cards, you can easily invite them at anytime.

When you enter the Flyer Base facility, the mission counter is opened. On this screen, the leader can select a mission and begin an adventure.

Play with More Friends: Network Mode enables you to form a party with up to six players. With the help of your partners, you can take down even stronger enemies.

COMMUNICATION EVOLVED

Fun with Voice Chat: Popular in Phantasy Star Online, Voice Chat has evolved. Optional "shouting" and "thinking" modifications can be applied to your voice while chatting. Also, if two or more players say the same thing at the same time, their chat bubbles will merge to create a "louder" bubble.

Bring Conversations to Life with Cut-in Chat: It's no fun having a well-constructed character, but only being able to see his or her back all the time. Cut-in Chat was created with that in mind. The camera cuts in on your character and their matching expressions as you speak. No longer limited to speech, you can now relay your emotions visually to others!

Interact with Party Chat and Simple Mail: In response to the larger number of people interacting in the lobby, and for those worried that chatting with just a few people will be difficult, there's Party Chat. Even when in different areas, your voice will be carried to the other members of your party.

Also, using Simple Mail you can send mail to a particular individual. The lobby actions popular in the PSO days are back with even more variations than before.

With these new abilities, you can experience communication possibilities not found in any other game!

YOUR OWN ROOM

Evolution and Synthesis in the Player's Room: The player's room is the character's own room, whether it's Ethan’s in Story Mode, or your character’s in Network and Extra Modes. Rooms hold very important functions for your adventures. You can contact other players, invite them over, relax, and chat. You can also decorate your room with various items or remodel it completely to make it truly your own.

If you open up a shop, you can sell items directly from your room that were made by your Partner Machinery or received on missions. Even when you're offline, your room will exist on the network and other players can visit and purchase items.

A Guardian's Best Friend: In your room, you’ll find your own Partner Machinery. Every Guardian who graduates from training school is given their own personal Partner Machinery. The Partner Machinery can keep items and will provide information for missions. When you give them particular ingredients that you’ve gathered, they are also able to manufacture items.

Vision Phone: In the player's room, there's an information terminal called the "Photon Wave Communication Device," or more commonly known as the "Vision Phone." In Story Mode, the Vision Phone is used to confirm mail from the GUARDIANS’ headquarters and to receive free mission information. In Network Mode the Vision Phone is used to transport to other player's rooms, search for shops and check to see who has visited your room.

Changing Clothes: By changing clothes, your character will be able to display its individuality. You can change clothes at the clothing shop in each city, as well as in the dressing room inside your room. (In your room, you can only put on clothes that you've already purchased.) Changing clothes is possible in all modes, but Story Mode requires that you reach a certain point in the story.

Decorating your My Room: Your room starts out somewhat plain, but you can accent it with decorations, or you can remodel it to make it your own personalised room. In Story Mode, Ethan can place three things in his room, but in Network Mode, there's even more space. In Network Mode, you can also use a remodelling ticket to change the entire look and feel of your room.

Common Storage: In Phantasy Star Universe, a single online account can store up to four created characters. In each room, there will be a common storage box, and by placing an item in the Common Box, all characters on that account will be able to access that item. (Network Mode only.)

PARTNER MACHINERY

Evolution of Your Partner Machinery: As you feed your Partner Machinery with weapons and items, it will grow and develop different functions, and change into new forms. As it evolves, it will improve its ability to produce items and develop certain abilities for which it is especially skilled.

When it evolves into a humanoid form, you'll be able to trade Partner Cards, and it can be called to fight alongside you on your missions.

Item Synthesis: As you progress in Story Mode, you'll receive a synthesis kit and your Partner Machinery will be able to synthesise items for you. As your Partner Machinery evolves, its specialties will change. Once in a while, an item synthesis may fail, yielding surprising results... There are subtle differences in synthesis between Network Mode and Story Mode, so be sure to try out various combinations in both modes!