AVWW - First look youtube vid

[lisa107b]

Hey folks,

I just thought I'd share this link with you : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1_fBvcDGI8

Its a first-look video that someone done, without looking at any webpages or guides first, it gives you an idea of how someone sees this game for the first time.... not a lot dissimilar to my own first impressions of it.

Lisa

[snelg]

Reminded me a lot of my own first 30 minutes. The maps (on "," and ".") eluded me until I read about them here on the forum. And they took a while getting used to, but now they feel great.

Something that might be a good idea: Make it possible to leave the starting settlement both left AND right. I also ran all the way to the wrong side when leaving. 

Also, looking at this video from 0.500 I realize how fast the game has developed since the beta started.

[x4000]

There's only so much I can really say -- didn't watch the video, but if someone is going in blind at the moment they're not really in the target audience for an early beta.  There's a lot of stuff planned for getting players up to speed more quickly, but there's only so much we can do in any given span of time, and at the moment the focus has been on refining the actual core game with those players who are not coming in blind, so that we don't have to revise the intro 40 times before it's really ready, etc.

[Hyfrydle]

I watched and it made me laugh. Coming in at the beta stage you need to have an understanding that the game won't hold your hand. You need to figure things out for yourself. I'm really enjoying the process and play every night so it's definately got something right in my opinion.