No Tutorial? How do you access it?

[Lieutenant_Pats]

I just bought the game , started playing as it looked fun, but I was given 0 tutorial or tips on how to start out. Why is that? Its pretty hard to start a game this complex when you know nothing....

[admiral awesome]

there should be notifications popping up. you could also watch videos or ask in the forum if you need help

[Lieutenant_Pats]

I never got a single notification though i know you are supposed to

[Red Dragon]

They appear as small lines of text in the upper left corner. But yeah there is not much of an in-game tutorial, I strongly recommend you watch a complete beginner video on youtube which covers how to properly construct outhouses, secure oxygen supply, how to set up research and power, and how to set up farms plus cooking.

This should keep you going for a good while and once you've reached that level of mastery you can continue your learning experience with more tutorials on liquid management, gas management, and then thermal management.

Edit: Not a super pro video but it covers all basics in the first video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj5d1VUnal4

[SamuraiJones]

Funny... tutorial messages are still popping up on mine even though I've an obscene number of hours on the game.

The game is hard to figure out. I think it's more fun to play it like an RL... try to build a base and restart if it gets destroyed. It'd take a few tries. But otherwise you'll probably need a video. It may not be realistic to expect to figure everything out yourself and still be successful on your first try.

[Red Dragon]

Originally posted by SamuraiJones:

The game is hard to figure out. I think it's more fun to play it like an RL... try to build a base and restart if it gets destroyed.

I think it's a lot about the attitude a player approaches this game with: Some may love the trial by error of a completely blind run while others may get discouraged by failure. If you are of a roguelike mindset and happy with your base imploding when suddenly everyone gets sick and dies because you forgot that toilets are supposed to have sinks, then by all means a player should fo for it and just figure stuff out on their own - but if you go this route be aware that your colony is guaranteed to fails sooner or later.

That being said, even if you look up videos on how to play your first handful of bases are going to be complete crab and at some point you'll realize this and then you'll probably want to restart them anyway. So just running face first into the knife may indeed be the more fun experience if you can stomach it. In a sense you are robbing yourself of that possible experience if you learn by let's plays so I guess you should consider which way to play suits you more.

[Lieutenant_Pats]

to be clear I couldn't even figure out how to build the outhouse as I got no notifications of any kind and I am apparently not the brightest crayon in the box lol. It wouldn't let me place anything. All i could do was dig. THank you for the suggestions everyone!

[Penguin]

Watch ''Great Stalin'' on Youtube

[Moro]

Originally posted by SamuraiJones:

Funny... tutorial messages are still popping up on mine even though I've an obscene number of hours on the game.

The game is hard to figure out. I think it's more fun to play it like an RL... try to build a base and restart if it gets destroyed. It'd take a few tries. But otherwise you'll probably need a video. It may not be realistic to expect to figure everything out yourself and still be successful on your first try.

i wish i could turn them off still. every single new game there they are...

just need an option box in the settings for 'turn off tutorial messages' or something.

[Lieutenant_Pats]

I actually believe there is a reset button for it. I tried clicking it so I could get tips but still got nothing. It seems they aren't acting properly as it looks to me like they aren't supposed to repeat unless you click the option.

[Dan Niton]

Originally posted by Lieutenant_Pats:

I just bought the game , started playing as it looked fun, but I was given 0 tutorial or tips on how to start out. Why is that? Its pretty hard to start a game this complex when you know nothing....

There is some sort of a "tutorial" but in a form of brief text. Unfortunately you have to learn the rest through trail and error.

[berandro]

Originally posted by Lieutenant_Pats:

to be clear I couldn't even figure out how to build the outhouse as I got no notifications of any kind and I am apparently not the brightest crayon in the box lol. It wouldn't let me place anything. All i could do was dig. THank you for the suggestions everyone!

Once you start digging you'll be able to build. Before that you have no resources, so that's why it was all greyed out

[Red Dragon]

Originally posted by btonasse:

Originally posted by Lieutenant_Pats:

to be clear I couldn't even figure out how to build the outhouse as I got no notifications of any kind and I am apparently not the brightest crayon in the box lol. It wouldn't let me place anything. All i could do was dig. THank you for the suggestions everyone!

Once you start digging you'll be able to build. Before that you have no resources, so that's why it was all greyed out

Or he hit the one in a million jackpot and all three Dupes had the can't build trait.

[Moro]

Originally posted by Red Dragon:

Originally posted by btonasse:

Once you start digging you'll be able to build. Before that you have no resources, so that's why it was all greyed out

Or he hit the one in a million jackpot and all three Dupes had the can't build trait.

considering he would have had the chance to reroll it that would be quite an accomplishment if it was an accident.

[Joman]

Originally posted by Lieutenant_Pats:

to be clear I couldn't even figure out how to build the outhouse as I got no notifications of any kind and I am apparently not the brightest crayon in the box lol. It wouldn't let me place anything. All i could do was dig. THank you for the suggestions everyone!

So you found the tools on right bottom of the screen.
The tools on the left bottom of the screen are all building menus. Just go through them and you will find, what you need.

[Doombunny]

your Tutorial is your base reaching a fail state of no return. Then you start a new colony with the lessons you learned form the old one.

You keep building your knowledge that way, on the corpses of your failed bases. Before you know it, you've got 700 hours in the game and wondered where the time went :)