Courtesy of the Viper guild

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part 1
Character creation, Training I-III, EC-89, training blaster, basic flight, docking ports, capital ships, universe, nav map
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-Fs5pTS6s

part 2
Basic flight status test, combat drones, chat, the Hive, GTS, strafing, flight modes, configuring controls, guilds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4XabTgxnF8

part 3
Rogue drones, More orun processors needed, centurion, plasma cannon HX, orun collector, thrust vs mass, targeting, cargo, energy, PCC, PVP, grayspace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORulZSXdU80

part 4
Dentek processor cores needed, More dentek processors needed, dentek collector, jettisoning cargo, object occlusion, zoom view, AI wingmen, barrel roll, repairing, cycling targets, ion storms, sector list
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROb1kzrk_L0

part 5
Alternate avenue of inquiry, valent neutron accelerator, artemis collector, aputech guardian, station categories, configuring addons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOFFXpBBsnI

part 6
The gauntlet, vulture, intersystem travel, license curve
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGDG92lN-sw

part 7
The gauntlet, Help! rogue queen detected, autoaim, warp under turbo, avoiding ion storms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx_pysaNdUU

part 8
Help! rogue queen detected, warthog, stingray missile launcher, tycorp assault, weapon groups, energy maintenance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mnJ6ysvl-s

part 9
Death, hive queen, spacing out, shields, nation defenses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew-vF5sfSvY

part 10
Artemis core sweep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RmZwGBTn-8

part 11
Hive skirmish, vulture mkIII, neutron blaster, dynamic hive, corner hopping, gamepad controller, Android, cap ship station, plugins, skins, website
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nrh_t60_uY

In these videos I level up a new character to 4/3/1/-/-, sample some different PCC missions, and demonstrate basic combat strategy versus AI.

Total run time: 2:28
Missions completed: 11
Bot kills: 119
Deaths: 1

Epilogue: Corvus System Reconnaissance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smsnwW3S_ZI

Trade Tutorial I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBkcFqIOSOQ

Trade Tutorial II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o62aYKf5mCQ

Turn up the volume because I tend to speak softly. Feedback welcome.
(edit 1/24/11 - some of these have apparently been volunteered for youtube's closed captioning beta, and the results are pretty hilarious if you listen while reading the captions)
(edit 3/20/11 - the series is now complete with part 11)
(edit 4/30/14 - added CSR, Trade Tutorials I and II to the list)

STICKY! Grats!

Awesome, Phaserlight. Thank you again for putting your time and effort into this project.

Goddamn you sound cool, maybe its the cold or the crappy audio quality.

but yea this should get stickied.

Thanks Phaserlight!

Hope you don't mind if I stea^^^^borrow these for my own devious purposes, and give credit where it's due of course :)

Sweet.

Nice.

Nice. I'll watch them all this weekend. I might suggest though, that if they by chance cover specific topics, a title might make them easier to navigate for new players. Otherwise a great contribution.

Edit: Ie. Since the second video is you completing the Basic Flight test, a title reflecting that would make it more appealing than just 'part 2'

I watched them all... Wish you had a video with targetless :(

/me needs fraps

ok, maybe next videos could be:

11) Empowering VO: Binds, Addons/plugins (TA, targetless, etc)
12) Beyond VO: vo-wiki and guilds sites

No Trade lvl 1? Shame on you. ;)

Looks good, though very long. I didn't watch all of it, though would probably suggest condensing it down more in the future. It helps if you have a well-rehearsed script and cut out the unnecessary video segments or montages.

I've done some video tutorials in the past for Killing Floor, and considered doing some for VO also (though not like this... I planned more to talk about combat strategies and loadouts).

Re: DF

I've added topics to each vid, and some other general info.

Re: CP

I agree there is probably a little unneccesary footage in here, but due to the way I filmed it that's a matter of course. I wasn't expecting to get killed by the Queen in part 9 or to have to warp out in part 7, I just tried to adapt and keep going. I intended this series for VO newbs and for anyone interested in experiencing a couple hours of the opening game before downloading/purchasing. If it can draw a little more attention at all to VO through YouTube, especially with the Android version coming out now, then I will have succeeded.

If anyone wants to do more tutorials in the future, things I haven't touched are trade and mining licenses, plugins, PVP combat strategy and loadouts, conquorable stations, border skirmish and hive skirmish, capture the cargo, tube racing, player run events like the nation war...

There are some rough combat tutorials here that deal with specific topics: http://skv.wwwd.name/

Not very polished, I meant to go back and refine them a bit as well as add some new ones, but never got around to it.

*bump*

Part 11 is now up, finally concluding the series:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nrh_t60_uY

It makes use of the longer video time limit, full version of fraps, and a better microphone.

I think somebody forgot to sticky this...

A good addition and nice work as usual

So lucky I found them.

Parts 6 and 7 are blocked here in Germany but I managed to view them via this proxy. (There seems to be a rat race between Youtube and proxies so this one might not work anymore in the furture.)

Pink Floyd's Money is an awsome song and it works great here, but in further turtorials it would be nice to not use copyrighted music because that bans the video in several countries.

Cracking vids! They were a great help to me when I first started playing.

At the very least this thread should have a link to it from the noob thread by sarahanne.

Re: Bungarus

Yeah, the music choice is hard because there seems to be little rhyme or reason to what tracks will get blocked by YouTube in which countries, and I haven't found a reliable way to test this ahead of time. Sound Tribe Sector 9 seems to be no problem, but Pink Floyd is too psychedelic or something(!?).

Re: Woodlander

Thanks! Hearing positive feedback is always an encouragement. One reason the devs may have avoided sticky-ing this is for the same reason I sometimes wonder if they were even a good idea to begin with: they portray merely one path a new character could take out of dozens of other good ones. Also, the quality is below par. However, I'm glad you got something out of them. They were a pet project of mine and at the time they were made there was nothing else out like them.

Therefore, my take is if people stumble across them, great! However there's no need to shine a spotlight on them. They do not show "the way" to level up a character quickly; they represent one way I had found to level up a new character in Combat / Light / Heavy at the time of their creation.

Phaserlight: Your right, the tutorials give a solid introduction to one possible path a VO pilot could take.
I feel that until something better comes along your videos are all that seems to be available after searching google and youtube both when I first started playing and now, maybe I'm wrong? Are there any other good introductory video tutorials of VO out there somewhere?