Tutorials super borked

[BrandonBP]

I have been trying for hours to even get through the beginning of this game. I am only on the second tutorial and am stuck at "Place APC in highlighted position with correct orientation."

I am placing the APC exactly how the mini video shows. I have tried flipping it around. Nothing will get me past this part of the tutorial.

Is the entire game this broken? I was very excited to try this game. I am too far in to get a refund. :(

[Whiplash]

No, the game itself is not really broken. The tutorials are very old, and changes to the game over time have broken some of them. And they may not offer up to date information.

I'm not sure what is their priority on fixing or replacing the tutorials. It should be a higher priority IMO. It's understandable a new player would go straight to them, and expect them to be useful.

Meanwhile, I recommend Youtube. There are a lot of channels that do tutorials and let's plays that teach the game very well. Two of my Favorites are Cows are Evil and Autom8it. Both have up to date series from this year. Also Saddamo De Beers has some interesting videos.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLf6QC1f9HWJ8CagyLMmXOg
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCh9WoaqqGGRClP86bBBdkA
https://www.youtube.com/c/SaddamoDeBeers

[DocRabbit]

yeah, sadly, after couple years away, I thought I could take a look at the water/hydroponics tut to see what changed and well, its broken too. I can't imagine what poor new players experience thinking the tutorials are useful and functional.

[BrandonBP]

Originally posted by Whiplash:

No, the game itself is not really broken. The tutorials are very old, and changes to the game over time have broken some of them. And they may not offer up to date information.

I'm not sure what is their priority on fixing or replacing the tutorials. It should be a higher priority IMO. It's understandable a new player would go straight to them, and expect them to be useful.

Meanwhile, I recommend Youtube. There are a lot of channels that do tutorials and let's plays that teach the game very well. Two of my Favorites are Cows are Evil and Autom8it. Both have up to date series from this year. Also Saddamo De Beers has some interesting videos.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLf6QC1f9HWJ8CagyLMmXOg
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCh9WoaqqGGRClP86bBBdkA
https://www.youtube.com/c/SaddamoDeBeers

I appreciate the links. But I work on a research vessel and we barely have workable internet on the ocean. So I play games offline and try to figure them out by reading if I encounter a problem.

I don't understand why these days, everything has to be explajned by video. Even something easy to resolve has a youtube video when they could have just typed "Press the green button behind the mossy rock by the old house."

But nooooo.... I have to watch a 20 minute youtube instead where the first five minutes are the youtuber saying, "Heeyyy guuuuys! And welcome back to DirtySocks Channel where last week we had such an excellent time at our LAN party! If you want a chance to win a ticket to our next event then subscribe to my channel and don't forget to smash that Like button!"

😂 Lol

I am going to try the game some more today but I don't know how I will ever figure out what does what if I can't watch videos and the tutorials are broken. I wish I had bought a different game

[PolygnomX]

Don't rotate the APC with "C" or Page up/down. That will work to make the power flow, but it is not the "correct" solution for the tutorial. The correct solution is to use middle mouse button/wheel to swap from 1/2 build alternatives to 2/2. This also swaps the power flow into the correct direction. Took me 20 minutes to figure that one out...

[Ralendil]

I am stuck at first tutorial... I enter in the base and nothing happen. Worst is that I had done it in the past and asked for a refund. Now I wanted to learn to play it seriously and bought it again... but I cannot follow the tutorials...

[i have coffee]

@PolygnomX Thank you! I think I also had to use Insert to rotate the APC to be right-side-up again. When it was lined up correctly there were no stripes on the blueprint.

[Eightball]

I am one who thinks they should remove the tutorials until they can be updated. It seems they cause more frustration than good and I have no doubt many new players have been turned sour on the game just because of what they encounter in the tutorials in their current state.

I learned the basics of the game through trial-and-error (I tend to not use tutorials) so I know it can be done. Tutorials are nice, but not needed and broken tutorials are not needed at all.

[A-mak]

Originally posted by BrandonBP:

I appreciate the links. But I work on a research vessel and we barely have workable internet on the ocean. So I play games offline and try to figure them out by reading if I encounter a problem.

I don't understand why these days, everything has to be explajned by video. Even something easy to resolve has a youtube video when they could have just typed "Press the green button behind the mossy rock by the old house."

I would recommend you join the stationeers discord, there is a game-help channel where you can ask any question with responses being given within like 10mins (for me anyways).

The tutorials are still being worked on, I noticed a lot of it you must follow everything to a T exactly how they describe it, if it says rotate using mouse; you must do it that way. Even picking up things in certain orders at certain times.

Personally, I suggest jumping into an actual game and just reading through Stationpedia (f1 key) and when you eventually get stuck, posting on the discord.

[Bullett]

Don't give up! The game is the absolute best once you get past the steep learning curve.

[Bainrow Kicks]

Originally posted by PolygnomX:

Don't rotate the APC with "C" or Page up/down. That will work to make the power flow, but it is not the "correct" solution for the tutorial. The correct solution is to use middle mouse button/wheel to swap from 1/2 build alternatives to 2/2. This also swaps the power flow into the correct direction. Took me 20 minutes to figure that one out...

Thank you, this solved my issue!

[Cassian]

Originally posted by BrandonBP:

Originally posted by Whiplash:

No, the game itself is not really broken. The tutorials are very old, and changes to the game over time have broken some of them. And they may not offer up to date information.

I'm not sure what is their priority on fixing or replacing the tutorials. It should be a higher priority IMO. It's understandable a new player would go straight to them, and expect them to be useful.

Meanwhile, I recommend Youtube. There are a lot of channels that do tutorials and let's plays that teach the game very well. Two of my Favorites are Cows are Evil and Autom8it. Both have up to date series from this year. Also Saddamo De Beers has some interesting videos.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLf6QC1f9HWJ8CagyLMmXOg
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCh9WoaqqGGRClP86bBBdkA
https://www.youtube.com/c/SaddamoDeBeers

I appreciate the links. But I work on a research vessel and we barely have workable internet on the ocean. So I play games offline and try to figure them out by reading if I encounter a problem.

I don't understand why these days, everything has to be explajned by video. Even something easy to resolve has a youtube video when they could have just typed "Press the green button behind the mossy rock by the old house."

But nooooo.... I have to watch a 20 minute youtube instead where the first five minutes are the youtuber saying, "Heeyyy guuuuys! And welcome back to DirtySocks Channel where last week we had such an excellent time at our LAN party! If you want a chance to win a ticket to our next event then subscribe to my channel and don't forget to smash that Like button!"

😂 Lol

I am going to try the game some more today but I don't know how I will ever figure out what does what if I can't watch videos and the tutorials are broken. I wish I had bought a different game

I 100% agree with you, even worse with this game is most of the videos on youtube are no longer accurate after all the changes.