The calamity tutorial in the tutorial area is completely useless

[Vahnkiljoy]

It does NOTHING to teach the player what the hell it's about or what happens, seriously needs to be redone.

[Vaati]

Yeah, a more structured tutorial would go a way into helping make informed decisions about core mechanics.

[ShadowPain]

True - Calamity hit and tbh I dont know where to go sometimes and Sanity goes down -.-

[Zer0 X]

How exactly am I supposed to figure out what Sanity even does when It comes up out of the blue without any explanation as to what it actually does and I die seemingly before it even does anything?..except a bunch of freaky sound effects were playing so it was doing something???

[I'm cucked]

Originally posted by Zer0 X:

How exactly am I supposed to figure out what Sanity even does when It comes up out of the blue without any explanation as to what it actually does and I die seemingly before it even does anything?..except a bunch of freaky sound effects were playing so it was doing something???

Never did the tutorial. I figured out what Sanity did pretty quick just by paying attention. It's not a complex mechanic.

[Zer0 X]

Originally posted by Cooka Da Pizza:

Originally posted by Zer0 X:

How exactly am I supposed to figure out what Sanity even does when It comes up out of the blue without any explanation as to what it actually does and I die seemingly before it even does anything?..except a bunch of freaky sound effects were playing so it was doing something???

Never did the tutorial. I figured out what Sanity did pretty quick just by paying attention. It's not a complex mechanic.

It clearly is because every explanation I have found of it is wrong, its not about you looking at THEM its about them looking at YOU. Everything I did find when looking around people were mentioning to not look at them, so no it clearly is confusing to people.

[I'm cucked]

Originally posted by Zer0 X:

Originally posted by Cooka Da Pizza:

Never did the tutorial. I figured out what Sanity did pretty quick just by paying attention. It's not a complex mechanic.

It clearly is because every explanation I have found of it is wrong, its not about you looking at THEM its about them looking at YOU. Everything I did find when looking around people were mentioning to not look at them, so no it clearly is confusing to people.

How is that complex.

[w.f.schepel]

Originally posted by Cooka Da Pizza:

Originally posted by Zer0 X:

It clearly is because every explanation I have found of it is wrong, its not about you looking at THEM its about them looking at YOU. Everything I did find when looking around people were mentioning to not look at them, so no it clearly is confusing to people.

How is that complex.

It is complex because you don't have the time to figure it out. There are a lot of things going on (trying to kill you) and in the middle of that you need to figure out a mechanic that kills you close to instantaneously.

[Unlucky Genius]

Sanity drain takes a LONG time to kill you. Unless you're already on the verge of death, you can run around for several minutes before you die to it. I understand being confused by the mechanic, and it could probably be explained better. Let's not be hyperbolic though, you get plenty of time to figure out what to do.

When the calamity triggers, the sky will turn red and a large tornado like swirl will appear, that swirl is the 'catalyst'. You should be able to see the catalyst by looking up at the sky.

You can end the calamity in 2 ways, the first is to run over to the catalyst and destroy the skulls circling it. If these skulls hit you with their projectile attacks your sanity will drain, but they're not hard to dodge.

The second way to end the calamity is to wait for it to finish spawning which takes around 30 seconds, at this point a new objective will appear under you calamity bar, usually something like "kill 15 phantoms" and an enemy type will start to swarm you. If you kill enough to complete the objective, the calamity ends. If the spawned enemies are too hard for you to fight, you can still run to the catalyst to destroy it that way.

The sanity bar itself will drain slowly over time, and will also be drained if you're damaged by calamity enemies. You'll periodically take damage as it drains. You can actually survive the sanity bar hitting 0 if you have healing, it's not a guaranteed death. The first time I got a calamity I couldn't find the catalyst, so I ran around for a good 3 minutes looking for it and my sanity hit 0 once or twice.

Honestly the calamity mechanic is much easier to manage now than it used to be. It was meant to be hard to predict, the witch is trying to catch you off-guard at your weakest. It's much more predictable now and that takes away some of the fear around triggering it.

[Lord Þøopenheimer]

I'ma be honest, without this 345 wordcount explanation on this calamity mechanic, I would've never understood it until I was strong enough to stand still, take my time, and look around during a calamity.

Hope the devs do improve the tutorial on this. I stood around the tutorial glyph of the calamity trying to look for any changes, whatever a calamity was to understand it more, spent about 3 minutes jumping around looking for it cause it sounded pretty important, but gave up cause I couldn't find out what it was. Since then I ran out a portal every time this was triggered for my entire 7.2 hour playtime so far.

Thanks for the explanation! I'll try facing it next time.

[Bärenpower]

I have to say I totally understand the point of OP but on the other hand the first calamity event was chaos for me...the counter the changes in the environment and the weather and then boom! sanity bar. It was tention. Loved it. Early in the process the calamity bar doesnt even existed. Its much better now.

[Shocknfunk]

its partly why id like for it to exist on the first map. had no idea what it was and forgot all about it til i hit the second map and fumbled hard lol

[EmpathyandEntropy]

Originally posted by Shocknfunk:

its partly why id like for it to exist on the first map. had no idea what it was and forgot all about it til i hit the second map and fumbled hard lol

Yea, Im with you there. Its that or have the tutorial about the calamity on the second map, but I feel that having it on the first map makes more sense as it better prepares the player for the game ahead.