Gameplay: Getting Tutorials right on Day1

[CutterJohn]

Never much saw the point of VR training. Its a game with little or no death penalty. Go play.

[Big J Money]

Originally Posted by Dark Atlantis

2. Why would you want to cause all the new guys that needs the tutorial accidently get drawn into the "real fight"? Send all these in some kind of training ground for new players. Something like the VR but with all newbs having some kind of "VR shooting".

I'm going to agree with Crator. The point of using the real game as the tutorial is so that the player learns..... the real game. I'm not against other options, but this is how I saw things when I wrote the OP:

Either:

1) There is no tutorial and players will be immersed straight into the battles and have to figure everything out.

or

2) The players are still immersed straight into the battles, but they have missions which tell them how to do it, and guide them.

I'm sure other alternatives are feasible to. I prefer this since it allows a new player to get into the action right away AND learn the game at the same time. You're not cutting your teeth on something that is completely unlike the real thing. That reminds me of those PS1 Outfits that would run training missions all the time with no enemies around and then they'd suck when they hit contact with the enemy...

[Crator]

Originally Posted by Dark Atlantis

I didnt say against bots. I said to just let them test out in some kind of "extra continent".
PvP without affecting (or causing) any wins or looses on the "real" battlefield.

Ah, gotcha. Yeah, perhaps. However if there aren't enough new people in that area it wouldn't help much.

[Big J Money]

Since this was posted, I dug up a little tidbit that seems to imply the devs are thinking along these lines already (referring to the OP)

[Talek Krell]

You know how they've been talking about having hooks to social media and such? I think we can safely presume that there will be a Planetside 2 wiki. It would nice if SOE created an official one and made it so that you could access it from in the game. Not a tutorial per say but a really useful reference document that can probably answer most questions people will have.

[Crator]

PS2 on the web with real in-game data and such!? Yes, plz!