PDF or WEB Manual (controls + tactics)?

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Where can I find PDF or WEB manual (controls + tactics) for this game like in FIFA?
We only have ingame manual, but I don't want to spend my 2 hours for manual.
During these 2 hours I want to understand is this game ok or should I refund it.
The game seems to be good but I really need manual. Otherwise I had to refund it((

P.S.: I personaly need xbox gamepad controls manual.

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+++ It would be really great!

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LoL! No response for several days?! Are devs still here?? I haven't seen message from them since November...

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Originally posted by Vlad the Bad:

The game is super easy to get the hang of. Don't worry about "wasting 2 hrs." with a manual in game. The tutorial takes about 5 minutes to get through to show you all you need to know. I think it has one for mouse/keyboard but since I use a controller, I don't remember. I did the short in-game tutorial 217 hrs of playtime ago :)
Great game.

The game is seems to be good but it takes time to understand controls and tactics cause I'm noob in baseeball. I'm rather good in English, but I'm bad in baseball. Anyway I like sports games and baseball seems to be rather interesting game. But when I spend this 2 hours, I will lost my possibility to refund (if the game appeared not good for me). And for me it will take 2 hours only for manual. But I want to understand is the game for me via season or custom games not via manual. This game really needs "offline" manual or free demo for noobs in baseball (like me) to attract them and to wide the game audience!

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Ok! I will try! But what about multiplayer? Devs seem to forget about all discussions... No pathces since October. And no activity since th beggining of December ((

[popoki]

We've been on a much needed break for the holidays - our office just re-opened today!

If you just start playing the game, it will start teaching you things as you need to know them - we don't want anyone to have to spend time reading a manual before playing. You learn as you go!

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Originally posted by popoki:

We've been on a much needed break for the holidays - our office just re-opened today!

If you just start playing the game, it will start teaching you things as you need to know them - we don't want anyone to have to spend time reading a manual before playing. You learn as you go!

Ok, np! But, why is there no demo?? Why should I spend my 2 "free" demo hours for learning? Adding readable manual doesn't mean that every player have to read it. It will help to learn faster and for free. Even FIFA series has Demo version and readable manual... And EA Sports don't force their customers read manual and download demo...

Game seems to be really good but it's rather difficult for baseball noobs. It will be difficult for you to attract additional audience which is very important for future multiplayer (if it come finally)...

[popoki]

I just took some quick screenshots of the basic controls for you: http://imgur.com/mvpv61w

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Thank you!

[Paul]

I made a pdf for myself that's made up of screens of each page of the "How to Play". Sorting through it in-game just isn't as convenient as having it open on a phone or tablet. (The "hold start button" or whatever to view context help is not really even as good, IMO.)

I used a quick Photoshop action to crop these, so it's not 100% perfect, but it's good enough. There are also content bookmarks to quickly find what you want.

I guess Steam doesn't allow file attachments anymore? Here's a Drive link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19evDqmCa39GsxVo98NM5xiZyF0GkqJRJ/view?usp=sharing

(Link updated Oct 19 2023)

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Originally posted by Jarno Zurev:

I made a pdf for myself that's made up of screens of each page of the "How to Play". Sorting through it in-game just isn't as convenient as having it open on a phone or tablet. (The "hold start button" or whatever to view context help is not really even as good, IMO.)

I used a quick Photoshop action to crop these, so it's not 100% perfect, but it's good enough. There are also content bookmarks to quickly find what you want.

I guess Steam doesn't allow file attachments anymore? Here's a Drive link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6hD_OLNs-ezVzFNQXRWRlZ6eEk/view?usp=sharing

Man, you are the best!!! Thanks a lot!!! Really great job!!!

[Paul]

No problem! Maybe others will find it handy, too.

[Sandy Russell]

Originally posted by popoki:

We've been on a much needed break for the holidays - our office just re-opened today!

If you just start ... it will start teaching you things as you need to know them - we don't want anyone to have to spend time reading ... before playing. You learn as you go!

I am very pleased that my attorney, my physician, and the attending physician who delivered our daughter never studied law and medicine, respectively, with you or earned their degrees via your preferred mechanism & system of "learning / teaching". And I am very, very glad that the pilots who fly us on airliners to visit our loved ones never learned to fly with this method- Captain: "Oh look, there's a couple of really nice, big, metal pedals on the floor, I wonder what they might do?!" First Officer: "Oh, me too, I'm really not sure, but the chief pilot told me not to worry about such things and that I will 'learn by doing.' So, let's just start pressing buttons, flipping switches, and pressing things and we will, um, 'learn as we go'... yaayyy!"

Nonsense. Not producing even a rudimentary .pdf, as Paul presented herein, is inexcusable, and using the current approach of "Hey, just start doing it, you'll figure it out!" is a cop-out to save the *very modest* expense of producing [even rudimentary and brief] documentation. Even if I purchase a $16 toaster at Walmart, it is accompanied by instructional documentation.

[Paul]

Google changed the sharing on that file. Here's a new link:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19evDqmCa39GsxVo98NM5xiZyF0GkqJRJ/view?usp=sharing

The one in Helldiver's quote above doesn't work anymore, but this one does.