Skipping the tutorial.

[kenlon]

I played this game during a previous open beta period. I watched some videos on it. I'm familiar with how it works.

The tutorial is so mind-numbingly boring that I quit out, hoping it would let me get to actually playing the game, and now I have to do it all over again? It's a shame, because I might like the game in it's current form, but I have no desire to do that tutorial.

[zzyzx]

The tutorial is mandatory. it was reset during the final game wipe, we've all had to do it again. No exceptions.

You have 1.9 hours on record which means in the best case you've played 3 matches. In the worst you left the game running while you had dinner. If you can't complete a 15 minute tutorial without getting triggered this game is probably not for you.

[[WV] SotS]

Tutorial is madatory indeed. Simply because rhe game is very indepth and new players need to be guided into it. The game also changed alot. Wich means you might not be up to date with stuff.

Please, for your own and our sake. Do endure the tutorial. It will help you catch up with the Games state

[FDNTrinity]

Play it. It's worth it

[Serafine]

We all had to do it. Actually I had to play the (various versions of the) tutorial at least THREE times and I've been playing this game since Dec 2014 (when there wasn't even a tutorial). It didn't kill me, it won't kill you.

The tutorial being mandatory is a good thing. This game isn't a shallow pew-pew "kill anything that moves" arena shooter like Dreadnought, it has actual depth. There are things you NEED to know, like how to upgrade, when to go to Gamma, how to repair, that capping and not killing wins the game, etc.

There was a time when the game didn't have a tutorial and it was horrible. The most frequently asked question was "how do upgrade" and in literally EVERY MATCH there were at least two players (one from each team) that jumped to Gamma right at the start and battled it out there for the entire match, effectively turning it into a 4v4.

Yes, the tutorial can be annoying but on a grand scale it is a very good thing and it takes only 10-15 minutes to complete. Just do it, it really isn't that bad. And you only have to do it once.

[FDNTrinity]

Originally posted by Loa // Serafine:

We all had to do it. Actually I had to play the (various versions of the) tutorial at least THREE times and I've been playing this game since Dec 2014 (when there wasn't even a tutorial). It didn't kill me, it won't kill you.

The tutorial being mandatory is a good thing. This game isn't a shallow pew-pew "kill anything that moves" arena shooter like Dreadnought, it has actual depth. There are things you NEED to know, like how to upgrade, when to go to Gamma, how to repair, that capping and not killing wins the game, etc.

There was a time when the game didn't have a tutorial and it was horrible. The most frequently asked question was "how do upgrade" and in literally EVERY MATCH there were at least two players (one from each team) that jumped to Gamma right at the start and battled it out there for the entire match, effectively turning it into a 4v4.

Yes, the tutorial can be annoying but on a grand scale it is a very good thing and it takes only 10-15 minutes to complete. Just do it, it really isn't that bad. And you only have to do it once.

+1

[Ydyp]

Originally posted by Loa // Serafine:

We all had to do it. Actually I had to play the (various versions of the) tutorial at least THREE times and I've been playing this game since Dec 2014 (when there wasn't even a tutorial). It didn't kill me, it won't kill you.

The tutorial being mandatory is a good thing. This game isn't a shallow pew-pew "kill anything that moves" arena shooter like Dreadnought, it has actual depth. There are things you NEED to know, like how to upgrade, when to go to Gamma, how to repair, that capping and not killing wins the game, etc.

There was a time when the game didn't have a tutorial and it was horrible. The most frequently asked question was "how do upgrade" and in literally EVERY MATCH there were at least two players (one from each team) that jumped to Gamma right at the start and battled it out there for the entire match, effectively turning it into a 4v4.

Yes, the tutorial can be annoying but on a grand scale it is a very good thing and it takes only 10-15 minutes to complete. Just do it, it really isn't that bad. And you only have to do it once.

Problem is that most people just ignore the stuff said in the mandatory tutorial and only learn it the hard way when they keep losing games one after the other. Or they just blame the game and leave. Meaning mandatory tutorial doesn't realy help in this case, just annoys people like the OP.

Even if it didn't kill you or me or everyone else, it could potentialy stop some players from playing the game in the first place because there are a few that just say mandatory tutorial? I'm not stupid and leave without looking any further.

[Serafine]

Believe me, the tutorial helped A LOT.
There is a VERY SIGNIFCANT difference of the situation before and after, and since the tutorial was made mandatory the situation is MUCH better.

And about players who can't make it through the toturial - if someone has such massive ADHD issues that he can't even play through a 15 minute tutorial he doesn't have what is required to play the game anyway. We don't need every hyperactive attention disorder derp in the game, that's entirely okay.

[Swordy]

Did no one mentioned the rewards? Im not sure about it but i think i got some boosters and platinum for completing the Tutorial.

[Ydyp]

Originally posted by Loa // Serafine:

Believe me, the tutorial helped A LOT.
There is a VERY SIGNIFCANT difference of the situation before and after, and since the tutorial was made mandatory the situation is MUCH better.

And about players who can't make it through the toturial - if someone has such massive ADHD issues that he can't even play through a 15 minute tutorial he doesn't have what is required to play the game anyway. We don't need every hyperactive attention disorder derp in the game, that's entirely okay.

To be honest in the lower mmr bracket there is zero difference if not even worse then before the tutorial and server selection instead of matchmaking. And I don't have enough time to focus on the game to long so it is a match here and there. Certainly not enough to get passed the lower brackets.

[Chazer]

Whilst writing this mind blowing stupid comment you could have done the Tutorial by that time.

Can it be that every year the idioticy of players/peoples growing bigger and bigger?

[Serafine]

It's not just the players, it's also the mainstream game industry. Just compare some of the latest shooters and RTS games with early to late 90s games. These games were HARD. They didn't take you by the hand saying "walk to the marked spot and kill everything that moves, you need to plug this into that, don't worry if you get hurt you'll regenerate after standing a few seconds behind cover" like most of today's games do. There were no maps with markers, there were no enemy health bars, there was no regeneration. You had to figure ♥♥♥♥ out by yourself.
Most modern games are so dumbed down that probably even apes could be a good at them. This is just the symptom of a player generation that is mostly used to games that doesn't require them to use their brains.

[J4R]

I would not recommend to skip the tutorials. I had that aswell, it takes like half an hour at maximum and then you get a cool reward...So why skip it mate?

[zzyzx]

Originally posted by Loa // Serafine:

It's not just the players, it's also the mainstream game industry. Just compare some of the latest shooters and RTS games with early to late 90s games. These games were HARD. They didn't take you by the hand saying "walk to the marked spot and kill everything that moves,

Plenty of the 90's games did this, they just hid the fact they were doing it with a campaign mode. The most common technique used was to withhold abilities and units until later missions so that your understanding ramped up over time.

Games from the 90's were not necessarily "harder", but technology was weaker and research in to user interfaces was less progressed making it seem that way. People often don't remember their childhood quite as well as they think they do.

The truly "hard" games all came out in the 70's and 80's. These were mostly hard by design because arcade machines were a hugely profitable enterprise at the time. The harder you made a game the more quarters got pumped in to a machine. Games were often made hard by making them 100% discovery oriented twitch action where timing and speed were often critical to success. Players were usually only given the most rudimentary instruction in playing the game. They were forced to discover many things on their own.

By the 90's a slow shift in design philosophy was starting to occur. It no longer made sense to withold information from the user, because your sales were not based on how often a player failed. They were based on how many people bought your game for their console or PC. When you feel like you can be successful in a game, you tend to enjoy it more.

The TL;DR: Games were once harder because money, but the 90's are a bad example of "hard". Games are now easier because better technology and money.

[Prof. Yafle]

Well i've played more than 10 games or so, and I ran through the tutorial yesterday just to see what it was like, and I thought it was quite cool now with the fly past and being taken to your ship. didnt hurt me any to play it again.