th_Pion 's playthrough of the Tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPhkA2CfP_sPublished today, probably played before the latest patch.
th_Pion regularly plays puzzle games, and has dipped into the Programmer-puzzle genre a few times (e.g. Screeps). In other words, he's certainly capable of paying attention to detail. Nevertheless, I think there was a lot of things that kept him from following the tutorial:
- he liked that some tutorial segments "reversed" back to the previous segment if he got to the wrong spot
- WASD controls very slow (probably helped by latest patch)
- some tutorial segments advanced before he finished reading them, leading to confusion as he followed the steps WHILE reading, rather than reading the entire pane THEN following the steps
** this seems a common problem from other play throughs
- was confused whether he needed to take down shield posts on the second planet -- mentioned it takes a VERY long time, wondered if he didn't need to do that part???
- couldn't find the wormhole (text says "swirly green on right side of gravity well" - we don't define what a gravity well is; wormholes aren't green.
- didn't rally his starship to group-1 because the tutorial doesn't make it clear that EACH dock / starship dock has its own rally / group / pause buttons
- can't send colony ship through to third wormhole because tutorial obscures it -- he can't zoom out any more (
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- confused while building during pause -- took him a few seconds to notice that he was paused and thats why nothing was building (maybe make a prominent -- paused -- somewhere top-middle of screen. Make it obvious, but not obscuring too much the "work area" of a screen (center)
- decided at the end that the "best" way to play was permanent 10x speed with pausing, as taking down shield outposts take too much time otherwise
- Confused at end of tutorial because he missed the text "tutorial will end when third planet defeated" text; spent some time messing about because the tutorial just stops advancing at the end.
"I guess this completes the Tutorial Maybe? It's not a great tutorial .... it doesn't sell the game well in my opinion. Not challenging, very slow if you don't speed up time"
