Why I hate the new Tutorial

Re: teleporters... maybe it's a "wide beam" are teleporter? It just sucks everything in a certain area up, friend or foe. So "blocking" may be a poor choice of words, but Officer Daniels is just a cop, not a teleportation expert.

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Originally Posted by nytflyr This^^^ the new tutorial doesn't teach a whole lot, but at the same time, when I was a new player on a trial account a bit over a year ago, I almost didn't give the game a chance because of the old tutorial... there needs to be something inbetween...

What was wrong with the old tutorial? Just curious.

Wouldn't it had been better to raise all these points during beta testing?

I really liked the new "tutorial". It felt very epic -- unlike the mind-numbing original (hero) tutorial.

I really like the new Atlas. The new contacts are a lot of fun as well. I find it hard to believe that people are lamenting the loss of the old contacts -- were any of those really worth playing through in 2011? What I think is not more than 1% of the gaming populace even ran those contacts -- instead they joined a sewer team to level up quickly, or an AE team to level up even more quickly. Because, frankly, the first dozen levels or so were a terrible introduction to the game if you tried to run through the ten-year-old contact system, and people have been complaining about that fact for years.

The new contacts are fun. Sure, it'd be nice if there were more of them, but if I get bored with them I can skip straight to the Sewer Trial. The major problem with Mercy (for most people at least) wasn't the limited amount of contacts, but the lack of a "sewer run" alternative such as existed blueside.

1. I outleveled at least two contacts just running through the new contact solo.

2. I find the later game more interesting. I'd much rather they invest their time in designing more content for later levels than in supplying people with more options for levels 1-6.

I would like to chip in here (as a completely new player who's never experienced this "old" tutorial)

I found the freedom tutorial overly rushed with no real sense of "teaching" you anything except how to move and (quite shamelessly) how to buy things from the store. I work out most from similarities with other MMO's (ie, hotkey bar placement, how to set up skills to be triggered, tab targeting, etc). I am now 26 and I think I have missed a hell of a lot of these training missions (The developers should consider making them mandatory if you have no other character below above x level). Almost everything I know about the game so far has been taught to me either from friends or from the wiki/forums, including a VERY CRUCIAL game feature of combining inspirations(because you never know when you'll need to do that to get an arise).

I only found out about task forces through a friend, about the sewer trial by an accidental misclick and I still don't have the faintest idea about certain (pretty important to some) aspects of the game such as PvP, badge accolades, what the fire alarm in x area thing means, or what a "bank raid" is.

All in all, the current system is very ineffective, in my view (ie, that of a totally new VIP player)

Meh. I don't like the new tutorials. I'm just going to skip the intro tutorial, then street sweep to level 5, then head to Kings Row. Pretty much what I did before the change.

I made a Praetorian last week, I like the stuff they did last year for Going Rogue better than the stuff this year.

To be honest, even under the *old* tutorial, inspiration combining was never mentioned either.

The new tutorial i have ran through on all my new characters, the old one i did a few times in total because i found it *overly* long and annoying to spend to long in.

I tried the hero tutorial on beta and I don't just mean that tiny little stretch of time in what used to be Galaxy City. Now I am not going to say the new tutorial is perfect, every can always be improved, but compared to what we used to get the new one definately teaches new players more. If you keep doing arcs up to and through Trickshots you are shown how to do quite a bit including how to read andr use your mini map.

Now in all honesty.. do I want to run arcs that include missions that a Rsk me to find the tram station and take a ride on the train to Kings Row.. No but thats why will I be using the new sewer trials to quickly level any new character, get them some very nice buffs, and head off to other zones.

To a seasoned vet is it boring.. Of course it is some of us have been around for 6, 7 even going on 8 years.. any arc that says.. Look we have a hospital! is going to put us to sleep. But to a brand new player that doesn't have a clue... It gives them some basics they need to survive.. or have we all forgotten the AE babies that made level 50 in 2 hours but couldn't find their way across Atlas to the train station... I don't I can still remember the leader of a Manticore TF I was on finally just kicking the player who couldn't find Brickstown with 7 other players trying to help him. The conversation went something like this..

Just get on the train and when the menu comes up click brickstown.

Where is the train

Look on your mini map and your see a crircle with a T in it head for that

What is a mini map

And I AM NOT JOKING he was THAT bad!

The new stuff could use some work but it hands out more info than I got when I first started over 5 years ago.

I'm a big fan of the new tutorial, but it really doesn't teach more than the old one. It teaches far less. I played through it a few times in beta and I could just tell, compared to Outbreak and Breakout, it was lacking a lot of fairly important functions.

Compared to Outbreak though, this tutorial is so much more entertaining for me. No needless wandering around, no hopping back and forth to old contacts, no wandering a long street for a randomly picked door which could be a needlessly long distance from Coyote, etc. Breakout on the other hand somewhat remedied those issues while still keeping the informative state of things, and I ran Breakout on almost every character, and not just for the badge. Outbreak, I ran once every few months, and usually only by accident.

Something I think the OP is missing is you were not dropped in (look at the last page of the comic) you happened to be in the building that Statesman was thrown into by Recluse the point is not that you are to help save Galaxy City but you need to get the heck out of there (and choose your role)

One thing I noticed is that because the tutorial now has the character as part of a storyline I put fewer characters through it because it just doesn't fit. With the old one I could see heroes being shown the ropes and then sent on a multitude of boring missions until they proved their worth. So it didn't matter what the character background was, it looked plausible that they were there. Similarly the villains being broken out of jail made enough sense for most characters.

The current tutorial places the characters at Galaxy City at a particular time, and that won't be a fit for many. IMO it's in particular a bad fit for villains.