Talk:Tutorial:How to play/WIP

Autosave interval at 2 minutes? Are we just trolling new players here?

More generally this seems overly prescriptive. We shouldn't be telling people where to start or how to bind their keys, just a general description of the phases. Evil Tim (talk) 16:49, 31 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for suggestion. This 2 min save interval is due to new players often killed aliens easily, especially if this they are unfamiliar with first-person shooting. There is a fairly amount of people who doesn't like alien at all, and 2 mins provide a roll-back save reliably. I would probably add in a remark at HUB upgrade 4 to change back the interval to 5 min.


 * This guide serves how to spoon feed new players. It will be up to readers to follow or not to.Kwjcool321 (talk) 17:30, 31 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Eh, the game tends to chug a bit around autosaves and ten minutes is generally a good balance of annoyance from lost progress versus annoyance from the game turning into a slideshow for a few seconds.


 * And I'd say at very least a "how to play" outline shouldn't be area-specific: we're trying to give them a guide to starting out, not playing the game for them. It would probably be better with a bulleted list when you're telling them to find a given resource (eg "now you are expanding to coal you will need a location with both coal deposits and water in close proximity. This can be found..." and then give rough directions to the Coal Hole in Grassy Plains, the ramp up to Crater Lakes, etc). Evil Tim (talk) 17:45, 31 October 2022 (UTC)