The game needs a manual for new players. PDF is fine.

[Nivek Ogre]

I have quite sincerely played 5, maybe 6 minutes of the tutorial, and I hate the game already. I was on board until the game told me, "Attack the enemy ship". Well I tried. I think.

See the game doesn't tell you how. I tried left clicking on it, right clicking on it, boxing it, selecting my ship then left/right clicking on the enemy...then a few banks of icons appeared at the bottom of the screen, greyed out. My ship was rubbing armor with the enemy ship, not firing.

The game didn't give me a hint of what to do. I'm sure it's simple...but the usual control methods in a strategy game aren't working, and the game's not offering a hint. It's abnormal for me to be this annoyed this quickly with a strategy game. Can't decide if I'll refund it.

It's a fine game, I'm sure, but it needs a manual. Critically.

[Jeslis]

ermm, rightclick should do it.. standard RTS controls. Leftclick for select, rightclick for action.

There has been a few issues with the tutorial steps.. eg; if you miss one, or don't do exactly what it says at the right time, it can cause issues.. (The usual suspect is the step where it tells you to select the enemy vessel, assign it a priority and target a specific subsystem... but if you kill the ship before doing those things, you'll never get the next step.)

[Nivek Ogre]

I tried that; my ship basically just slowly plowed forward until it and the enemy were touching noses. Neither ever fired a shot. The game never offered any hints. I've played tons of RTS so that's why this issue just...frigging irked me. Horrible first impression.

[[OG] Brandoid]

well thats not something you read everyday

[Jeslis]

Originally posted by Nivek Ogre:

I tried that; my ship basically just slowly plowed forward until it and the enemy were touching noses. Neither ever fired a shot. The game never offered any hints. I've played tons of RTS so that's why this issue just...frigging irked me. Horrible first impression.

Can you tell me where you are.. eg; is this the first 3 minutes of the prologue campaign? The first of the actual imperium campaign.. or..?

[SimplyAlctaurion]

???

[Nivek Ogre]

Originally posted by Jeslis:

Originally posted by Nivek Ogre:

I tried that; my ship basically just slowly plowed forward until it and the enemy were touching noses. Neither ever fired a shot. The game never offered any hints. I've played tons of RTS so that's why this issue just...frigging irked me. Horrible first impression.

Can you tell me where you are.. eg; is this the first 3 minutes of the prologue campaign? The first of the actual imperium campaign.. or..?

Pretty much, yeah. The mines blew up, everything behind me is dead, and my ship just flew slowly towards the other and kissed it. They never fired a shot. It was almost touching, as if the game wanted me to know that in the end, love would conquer all..

[Nivek Ogre]

Originally posted by Nivek Ogre:

Originally posted by Jeslis:

Can you tell me where you are.. eg; is this the first 3 minutes of the prologue campaign? The first of the actual imperium campaign.. or..?

Pretty much, yeah. The mines blew up, everything behind me is dead, and my ship just flew slowly towards the other and kissed it. They never fired a shot. It was almost touching, as if the game wanted me to know that in the end, love would conquer all..

Heh sorry...I've gotten grumpy and intolerant of little "niggling" quality of life things in my games not working well...like a tutorial for first time players. Not so much a knock on the game as its presentation to newer players.

[Jeslis]

Hmm, at that point, a ship is supposed to have 'survived' the explosion, which you then get to work on killing..

it.. fires a 'bomb' at you first, which you must use high energy turn to avoid.

Did you do the high energy turn? if not, that could be what's blocking your control.

Good luck - going to sleep here.

[kuromi]

never had any of these issues maybe your install is broke

[G-Man]

Yeah this sounds like a serious bug not a control issue. You're supposed to click on your ship then on the enemy, the game handles the rest.

Try restarting the mission. If it still doesn't work post a video, someone is sure to work out what's wrong.

[kuromi]

you should be able to just left click to select and right click to attack like in any other similar game maybe you should check to see if the install was corrupted somehow because this issue is not normal

[bcasner50]

get completely out of the game, restart it and it should work. Something similar happened to me the first time i played...

[Ydyp]

The thing is the first part of the prologue locks you into doing the steps one by one. I was a bit annoyed by that as well at first because I was already trying to issue orders because of my experience with the first game.

But once I figured that out and followed the steps exactly as said at the top right of corner of the UI it worked fine. They even tell you which mouse button to press. But I also saw reports today that the UI can bug out on screenratios that are not 16:9, so could be that the right side is cut of and you don't see the tips.

And it could also be another rare bug where you ran into because of the locking system. So as bcasner50 said restart and see if that have solved it.

[discoplumber]

I think this is the part where you have to target a specific part of the enemy ship, I think here it's the engines. You have to select the enemy shipt, set the target level (1, 2 or 3) and then target the specific location it tells you to. There is a little target icon in the bottom left hand corner of the screen when you select the enemy ship but this is explained to you quite clearly