Built in Tutorials

PikminwarsPikminwars Join Date: 2006-11-07 Member: 58468Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">To help out the newbies</div>If you've ever played Dystopia, then you've probably seen the built in tutorial map that teaches you how to play the game. It's very useful, informative, and keeps stupid questions to a minimum. Also, in Garry's Mod, there are built in tutorial videos that teach you the basics. Both are very good ideas, and should be implemented.

We can have two separate tutorial maps. The first for marines, second for aliens. It can be pretty much like the one somebody made for NS, but with the all the new features and such. Basically you have a single player map where someone does a voice over and instructs you on how to do things, eventually leading you to killing the enemy hive/cc with some back story thrown in.

Tutorial videos can have their uses too. You can have one with an overview of each alien class with functionality, and anything else that would be useful to know. Heck, we could even have people submit usermade tutorial videos that, if good enough, can be downloaded with the newest update for people to see.
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  • scaryfacescaryface Join Date: 2002-11-25 Member: 9918Members
    This is a must, especially in a complex game like ns. newbies are discouraged when they have no idea what they are doing and are yelled at by all the people that have been playing forever. since ns2 will most likely have bots included (for targets), theres no reason to not include one. someone made a tutorial mod for ns a while back (i don't know if it works still in 3.2) which was actually pretty good.
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  • TilkorTilkor Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 8016Members
    agreed, always bad when you have a nub commander in the chair.
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  • jaboojaboo Join Date: 2004-01-05 Member: 25076Members
    I agree! this would help out tons of people who haven't played the old NS :]
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  • Moving_Target0Moving_Target0 Join Date: 2006-12-21 Member: 59174Members
    Agreed again. And perhaps instead of Garry's mod-like videos, they could have the little tip things that pop up and tell what things do for newbies.
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  • schkorpioschkorpio I can mspaint Join Date: 2003-05-23 Member: 16635Members
    perhaps when auto help is switched on the game would ask you to follow a player with a high score this round or previous round if its a new one.
    you can learn a lot from helping out new players
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  • N_3N_3 &#092;o/ Join Date: 2004-03-12 Member: 27291Members, Constellation
    A tutorial movie would be handy, start with one that is just 30 seconds long: marines - kill all hives (respawners) then the aliens to win, aliens - kill all ips (respawners) then all marines to win. marines have an rts like top down comm to drop buildings, aliens have gorges in 1st person. res = money, collect with res tower. comm can buy new buildings and guns for team. aliens can evolve to stronger lifeforms or build things if they evolved into a gorge. Just bam bam bam this is how it all goes down.
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  • devil-firedevil-fire Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7912Members
    omg yes.

    as well as the basic info about the mechanics of the game (such as how victory is declared, what different structures do, how to use equipment and lifeforms) i would also suggest including advanced tutorials about tips and tricks of the game. it would be vary useful if people could be shown how to be pro fades and jet packers without having to go to google video to find the instructional material
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