Start of game is free falling? Seriously?

[Synnercy]

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Cool idea but ♥♥♥♥ me I played for the first time had to get up come back and I'm dead. Hit respawn costing me my only 25 FP then I see why I am dead.. I'm free falling.. Give us a hint at what button to press for ♥♥♥♥ sakes, died again and died again, am I meant to start with negative FP which I'm guessing is a form of currency. There isn't even enough time to browse through the controls in settings. My first achievement is from dying, that's a first.

The absolute ♥♥♥♥.

[Sid Longwei]

I just started on Sunday, there was definitely a message on the screen indicating which button to press to open the parachute. GF had no problem opening her parachute as well.

[Deathwhisper]

Hello :)

Indeed, normally a popup window should appear explaining the controls for the parachute.

You can control the free fall using the WASD keys, use the mouse wheel to lean forward and back while using the "F" key to open the parachute, the best way to do this is to rotate the mouse wheel backwards and then open the parachute.

[Mollerz]

Reading patch notes on EA games is doing yourself a serious favor.

[Synnercy]

Originally posted by Sid Longwei:

I just started on Sunday, there was definitely a message on the screen indicating which button to press to open the parachute. GF had no problem opening her parachute as well.

I found out why. I'm glad you two didn't have a problem.

Originally posted by Deathwhisper:

Hello :)

Indeed, normally a popup window should appear explaining the controls for the parachute.

You can control the free fall using the WASD keys, use the mouse wheel to lean forward and back while using the "F" key to open the parachute, the best way to do this is to rotate the mouse wheel backwards and then open the parachute.

I know what I said is PG compared to other re actions out there but clearly I lost my cool a bit. Thanks for the in depth response considering...

I've done a recording. However the following is what you'll see.

I loaded up my character I made this morning re spawned..no controls came up at all fell to my death. Deleted character, made a new character and the controls popped up this time. I intentionally fell to my death. Re spawn the controls are not there.

To be clear I had to get up before the game loaded for the first time this morning when I came back I was dead. So I had no way of knowing the controls.

My suggestion is to always have the controls pop up in the corner by default, with an option to toggle it on/off.

Originally posted by Mollerz:

Reading patch notes on EA games is doing yourself a serious favor.

I hear ya, it's not bad advice at all, but not good either. It depends on how long the game has been in EA for..

My favourite game Kenshi was in EA for years and its one of the best games on steam. That is horrible advice for a game like that during those years with older stuff becoming irrelevant.

This has been going since 2018... That is ♥♥♥♥ ton to go through. But still not a bad point.

Just depends on what things are actually shown in said patch notes or developer notes etc IMO.

[xKiCkx]

Hey there OP, there is already a prompt that will appear as soon as you join the server and start free falling, it's made so it's appeared every time you join a new server or make a new character on the server you were already playing on. In your situation, it seems that you missed the prompt because you were away from the PC as you stated in the post.

[Baz]

I agree with OP. The pop-up should be there at every spawn. I only play one server and re-spawned a few times. I didn't know that the mouse-wheel did something.... I learned that in a post I read the other day. I'm still not 100% certain how to control myself in the air as I have no instructions. And I don't want to join a new server or create a new character to get those instructions, that seems silly.

[Nero Chaos]

Originally posted by Synnercy:

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My first achievement is from dying, that's a first.

press "F" to pay respects.
wish you'd "pay respects" before hit the ground ;)

[Synnercy]

Originally posted by Nero Chaos:

Originally posted by Synnercy:

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My first achievement is from dying, that's a first.

press "F" to pay respects.
wish you'd "pay respects" before hit the ground ;)

Haha good one