Blue Protocol: Star Resonance

Blue Protocol: Star Resonance

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Help me! A Guide to Blue Protocol UIs. (WIP)
By Powermover
You're here for several reasons. Maybe the translation is so bad, you're actually lost. Or maybe you just need a clear direction in your sunless life. Or you're bored. Maybe you need someone who've played games with translation so bad, so bad that anyone almost thought that their co-worker speaks like Shakespeare.
   
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Introduction
When you play too many games that originate from China, you'll start seeing a pattern like poor translation or literal mis-translation of a word. Because of these errors, you end up getting thrown off the saddle and lose track and suddenly you wake up wondering where you put your car key after drinking thirty beer cans because tolerating this game sober would be a difficult challenge. Okay maybe that's an exaggeration. If we just pretend there's no words..

Well the game's better that way.

Alas. Words exist. And as such, confusion arises. We'll not focus on the story but rather the UI and how to navigate this heckscape. As well as more hidden UIs (Yes there is in fact UI in your UI.)

Either way. This will be important indicator as the date posted will give you immediate awareness of when this guide was last up to date.
The Main Menu (Pressing the ESC key)




Introducing the main menu.

We'll try to speed-run this entire section, so you can find respective section you need to find information on as quickly as possible.

Top left to bottom right.

Season Hub

Comes with it's own achievements. Season Pass progress. Season Titles. As well Season Exchange. It also will probably be where you will get your Emblem upgrades from. Treat this as your most frequently-visited tab. This is where you will find your SEASON DAILIES.

Trading Center

This game's own form of limited marketplace. Only trade in unbound Lunos, which is obtained from Season pass, Guild Cargo, and really the Trading Center. Generally used as medium between players to player trading. This is also where you can buy Bound Rose orbs from players selling their unbound rose orbs. Why you'd want to sell your unbound rose orb is beyond me, but you go king. (DO NOT SELL YOUR UNBOUND ROSE ORBS. I WILL FIND YOU.) Seriously don't bother selling your unbound rose orbs. It'll just become bound when someone else buy it, and it's just a really long middle-finger.

Store

This annoying UI that house even more UIs. You will come here pretty often. Majority of cosmetics require UNBOUND Rose orbs while very select cosmetics that you'd obtain from doing the story (except the clothing set) can be brought with bound rose orbs.

Overall. This is where you will go to exchange for your HONOR COINS. ASTERIA REPUTATION. FRIENDSHIP POINTS. As well finding Meow substore in the store which is where you will exchange for your MEOW COINS, MEOWLUX VAULT CARD, and MEOWLUX PREMIUM CARD.

Wish

Also known as most useless thing. Because this is NOT where you get your WILL WISHES. You have to go to a PHYSICAL LOCATION in ASTERLEEDS to do WILL WISHES. DO NOT bother with this button EVER unless you want COSMETICS. You'll be introduced to Mason by the tutorial albeit his appearance is very quickly moved on from.

Location provided:

Events

They will have their OWN STORE as well that you cannot access to from the main store (WHY?). To access these event-exclusive store, you have to go to this tab. It also tell you what events are going on.

Handbook

A checkbook for every new players to do as well preview, and so goes on. Usually the guideline for lot of players. Tend to be poorly translated, unfortunately. We'll go over the content day-by-day together. You're not alone.

Features

Also properly known as dailies. Press K on your keyboard to bring it up instead of going through the menu. This will show you what dailies you can do as well checking out what your reward table look like in Pioneer Awards.

Season Pass

A redundant button that you'll never press. Seriously. All it does is take you to buy a season pass. You already got (albeit free version) season pass in your season hub. Check it there instead. Use this only if you want to buy the paid version.

Profile

Accessible by pressing C. This is where most of information regarding to your character will be. Straightforward. Hopefully.

Inventory

Accessible by pressing B. Allow you to see what stuff you got in your bag, what you've looted, etc-etc-etc. Not where you equip gears from unfortunately.

Talent
Skips the Profile by going straight to talent tree.

Skills
Skips the profile by going straight to skill readout. This is WHERE you will find your Resonance abilities like Float, and Dash in the tab. We'll go through this together.

Gear
Skips the profile by going straight to equipment loadout. Important.

Wardrobe
Hide helm. Wear different shirt. Cosmetic stuff goes here.

Beauty
Fix up your character's face with currency required from the store. Simple.

Mount Imagine
Your selection of mounts to use out in open world. To mount is to press G on your keyboard.

Personal Space
Not to be confused with Profile. This is basically your fancy character sheet that anyone else can see. We'll go over this together.

Party
Accessible by pressing I (uppercase i basically) on your keyboard. Allow you to join, leave, and form raids here.

Guild
Accessible by pressing U. This contain guild dailies. Teleport to Guild Center. As well finding out where your guildies are.

Trial Paths
Useless button that just show you where to go. Redundant.

Monster Hunt
Show you how many keys you have for the day as well how many monsters slain and Milestone. Accessible via map.

Lifeskill
Important for finding out what you can do, masteries as well how much focus you have to keep spending it otherwise.

Fishing
The only thing you play this game for. Uses it's own store. Level up your fishes, and so goes on.

Achievements
Permanent Achievements can be found here. Not to be confused with Season Hub's achievement which is seasonal and will reset.

Archive
Lore-nerds that can decipher the bad translation can find solace here.

Album
This is where you'll find your guild's album as well your personal.

Guide
Well you're here so it's useless!





CONTINUING THE MAIN MENU!
On the right-hand side on that side-bar, are other buttons with their OWN UIs as well.

We'll go over them Of course.

Top right to bottom right.

Exit
For closing the menu. That's it.

Setting
For when you want to turn off image ghosting. By the way. Super Display -> Close (Mistranslated wrong, it is None.) -> Turn the button left. Your welcome. Ghost imagine gone, forever!

Friends
I need some. No I won't give you my UID. Also where you'll find Friendship milestone. Friendship levels. And also mail. For some reason? This is Social Mode. You can access it by pressing J.

Mail
Send you into your social mode where mail would be. Why? Why. Accessible by pressing J and clicking on Mail tab.

Camera
Important button to remember. V is snapping a picture. Seriously the camera controls (and any other controls) would be at very bottom of your screen on bottom-right. You'll thank me when you realize it.

Emotes
Also take you into Social mode. Accessible by pressing J and looking bottom-right as well!

Notice
An entirely different button that could be afforded to be merged with Event. But instead insists that it must be it's own button. Why? Because.

Support
Will not save you. From me. I am approaching your location. Also it's AI chatbot.

Unstuck
For when you somehow end up getting stuck. How?

Exit
For when you decide Blue Protocol got enough. Or you can just alt+f4. That works.
Season Hub
This is where I will aura-farm.
Okay but no seriously. Season Hub is your most common activity-tracker. You'll come here wherever you're indecisive on your goal, as this will provide you them.


Season Hud is somewhat inituitive.

Somewhat. If you can stomach the bad translation sometimes. This is where you will go to get your new Season Title (after doing enough season achievement), doing your dailies. And so goes on. It's important UI to come back to.

There's really nothing hidden, and if you're smart enough. You'll find everything just fine.
Trading Post

Trading post isn't hard to navigate.

There are mini-category that you can scroll over (as shown in screenshot) to find other type of items you're looking for.

Purchase
Instantly buy any items that are available RIGHT now and are not on hold.

Notice
An indicator that this item will become available to be purchased within that time.

Selling
To sell the items that you have.

Transaction
Simply tell you your receipt.

Consign

Consignment vs Purchase

Consignment requires you to sell unbound ROSE orbs. You cannot sell your bound rose orbs here. Purchase will alllow you to buy unbound rose orbs which then become bound.

What this mean is that you cannot get unbound rose orbs by player-trading, unfortunately.
Store

The store is your main place-of-visits. For people who don't care about fashion, they can skip all of the category except Mystery Store and Colorful Store as these are two category they will be visiting the most.

Themed Bundle
The first category players'll see wherever they open up the store.

Style vault
Cosmetics that aren't bundled nor expensive. Or just normal mundane clothing.

Monthly Card
The game's one of two subscription system alongside Season Pass. The benefits are:
+2 additional selling slot on Trading post. No taxes from trading post, nor a deposit for it either. Bigger shared storage deposit and bigger shared storage withdrawal. As well bigger storage in your homestead.

Fashion Store
If Style vault is the bargain bin of the clothing store, then Fashion store is the real deal. You'll find majority of games' cosmetic here.

Mystery Store
This is where you will be going to every day to check the stock. Here you can buy stuff here with bound luno or bound rose orbs. They'll sometimes have item you'll actually care about to get.

Colorful store

Colorful store have four tabs: Orb Store which is mix of bound and unbound rose orb-brought items. Friendship store which only accept friendship point currency, and tend to be cosmetic in most scope. Honor coin focuses more on gearing and progression and something you easily accumulate in your journey. Finally, Reputation is tricky currency that you'll have challenge piling up right now.

Rose Orb
Buy unbound rose orbs with real money here.

Meow store

This is for the high-end or generally much harder-to-obtain cosmetic.

Premium Store
Accepts only Meowlux Prem. Card here for any of the item exchange related to this list. It is acquired by getting Legendary roll in Wish, but no cosmetic.

Member Store
Will only accept Meow coins, which are currency completely obfuscated and difficult to find information in normal fashion. We'll go over this specific UI together later.

Vault Store
Will only accept Meowlux Vault Card. This currency is acquired from Wish, OR the Mysterious Store. This currency allow you to buy limited amount of cosmetics. Lower bar of entry than other two tabs.
Wish

Gambling for Fashion.

On the upper-left are themes that have their own loot-pool. Top-right demonstrates what you can get as rarest choice with video accompanying it. Then two buttons that ask for 1 or 10 currency to roll for that.

Finally three other buttons.

Clock
First button will be clock-shaped icon. This shows you ALL the attempt history. Every item recorded will be found here.

Informational
This tell you the statistic chance, and what is actually contained within this theme pack.

Meow Store
The Meow store button can be found here to take you back to Store UI.
Event

Also known as second store.

It gives you flashier flashcard for every events that are currently ongoing in Blue Protocol. The issue is that this UI doesn't tell you much other than finding the alternative store for these event's currency. As shown here:


Thankfully it's straightforward.
Nothing fancy here.
Handbook

Also known as Daily logins

Or so that what I think. It's where you will go to after every reset cycle, to get your login done. On addition, there are also Manual tab and preview. We'll not cover Preview as that is self-explainatory and there are tiny little reward box you can click on in there. And overall not something we'll care about here.


However the main reason why you'd be here is to understand what the manual actually ask you to do.

So as such. We'll go through every steps together. Or so steps I can do right now! (Sorry! I'm only human!)

Day One.

Story
Complete the story quest, completely unmissable as you'll have to do this.

Objective
Complete 8 tasks corresponding to this Day.

Gear
Obtain and wear 4 blue-colored gears.

Activity
Do enough dailies to accumulate 200 Fire-point in Season Hub.

Skills
Level any class skill to 5.

Talents
Activate at least 6 different talents.

Dungeon
Clear boss-fight arena dungeon (Not the top of Unit X, but on the side.)

Lifeskill
Use any actions that are Focused such as gathering or crafting. Do Mining Botany or Gemology to actually achieve this reasonably. Do this 10 time.

Trial
Go into Pioneer building, go to left and talk to Anna. Then complete 3 trials to complete this challenge.

Combat
Defeat any world boss not inside a dungeon.

Guild
Join any guild.

Culinary
Consume 5 Level 1 Healing Aromatic given to you by quests.

Take Photos
Go into ESC menu, go on right-hand side and look at Camera icon. Enter it. press V. Then ESC out. You're done here.

Settings
Hold down T, then press Q to edit the wheel. Add any emotes you want.

Shop
Buy any item from Honor coin shop. Will require you to do elite-farming and boss-fighting to achieve this.



Day Two

Story
Again, unmissable. Do this.

Daily Tasks
Complete any of 8 objectives on this Day.

Activity
Double the amount of dailies you've done on previous day. Doing more actions than usual.

Title
This will confuse a lot of people. But it is specifically asking you to level up your SEASONAL LEVEL. Go into Seasonal Hub, find the Trophy Icon, and see the promotion requirement. Then do the achievements found SPECIFICALLY in Seasonal Hub (Not to be confused with other achievement which is permanent.) Do these achievement to level up.

Adventurer
Reach level 18. Unmissable.

Ability Score
Increase your ability score by leveling up your class skills, reforging your gears, and activating talents.

Gear
Wear 2 piece of epic gear (Purple) which is obtained from doing actual dungeons on top of X unit.

Trial
Talk to Anna again and complete up to 6th Class trial.

Stimen Vault
This one is difficult to do without a good party, and your damage output might not be enough. The tank need to pull the entire room and you'll have to burst everything down to complete this challenge.

Dungeon
Clear two piece of dungeon contents.

Combat
Defeat 2 world-bosses.

Guild
Enter a guild's Guild center (If any exists) and talk to NPC within.

Benefits
Open 8 Basic Star Chest (Gray Boxes. You've been opening them, I hope?)

Take Photo
Press B to open up character selection (This is open by default either way), go to bottom left of that box and add your friend or party-member to the list (if they're nearby). Then simply press V and you're done.

Shop
Buy any item from the Seasonal Hub Store (Not to be confused with regular store).




Day Three

Daily Tasks
Complete 8 objectives.

Story
Unmissable.

Gear
Reforge any of your Epic gears two times /twice/ to achieve this.

Side Quest
Complete a lengthy side-quest that starts in the Artisan's Guild.

Skills
Advance your skills with skillbook (I think?)

Talents
Activate 15 talents.

Dungeon
Clear 3 Boss-fight arenas (Side of X-unit).

Life Skill
Use up 600 Focus (30 actions).

Trials
Complete up to 9th Trial, talk to Anna.

Dungeon
Complete normal mode of ANY actual dungeon (on top of X-unit entry-point).

Guild
Donate materials to Douglas (The guy on right-hand side when you enter guild-hall) and deliver.

Challenge
Beat a world boss. Again.

Trading
Sell any item that you've obtained via Focused action.

Social
Befriend 3 players. Good luck. You'll need it.
TO BE CONTINUED...