What is keeping novices in novice?

[Steve CZ]

I just want to add that one of the reasons people are so confused and are generally "bad" at the game is the terrible tutorial (more like the absence of one). Not so long ago I started the dev app and the tutorial I was presented with is just so unsufficient.

[Lanliss]

I don't know about the dev app, never used it, but standard tutorial is not "terrible". It is a far cry from sufficient, but most definitely not useless. It does teach how to swing a wrench, how to put out a fire, and the basics of piloting. The only problem with it is the lack of the more advanced things, like chem spray, or there is no reason to use range finder, because any gunner worth his powder can read that info himself.

[Indreams]

Posted on the other thread (of Lanliss).

The current tutorial is pretty bad. It doesn't go much further than either intuitive things or things in manuals, like click mouse to whack or w and s for altitude. It also suggests terrible load outs (which are provided probably for the purpose of a tutorial) like duo-fire tool or no fire tool.

The tutorial is not at all like an actual battle, where everything is on fire or broken. There's a massive gap between training and the real-thing. Smaller we can get that gap to be, the better.

[MidnightWonko]

It's a tutorial in an online game.  They're always subpar.  In any online PvP game, the REAL lesson consists of getting your @&% beat.