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ok.so.

where do i begin.

i don't know.
to be blunt: your tutorial sucks.

i genuienly do not understand SHIT from what it's trying to say, AND I DIDN'T EVEN GET PAST POLARITY.

i WOULD give critique on the game,
BUT IT'S KINDA FUCKING HARD TO DO THAT WHEN I CAN'T PLAY THE FUCKING GAME.

i already made a post about this.
i'm not putting everything here again.
oh wait i am

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...
i'm gonna be blunt here. mainly because i'm mad.
i literally have not gotten to the game yet.
the tutorial for the signals is genuine ass.
what does ANYTHING mean?
how does polarity work?
what does a successful signal look like?
genuinely how do i do ANYTHING without relying on the internet and bullshit explenations on reddit to function in THE FUCKING TUTORIAL?!
pleasei beg of you

FIX. THIS.
i barely understand THE THING MEANT TO EXPLAIN THE GAME TO ME.

i got this game for free and i still want a refund.

i suck at explaining things
but god i am mad.

that's all i can say.
that, and that i'm really fucking dissapointed.
i understand making a game is difficult. really, genuinely, i do. that shit harder than mount everest sometimes.

BUT CAN IT BE THAT DIFFICULT TO MAKE A FUNCTIONING TUTORIAL.
IT'S A TUTORIAL
EVEN EA DOES IT BETTER.

but, if you want me without frustrations...
i'll put that below.
not above. below.like my expectations for this game after the tutorial hit me with a crowbar over the head.


the tutorial for signals and polarity is barely passable. i can't click "next" anywhere to go to the next instructions. i have trouble understanding literally anything it's telling me.

i can't even give feedback on the rest of it because i haven't gotten past polarity yet.
and i refuse to cotninue trying at this point. i feel like i've wasted an evening trying to understand something rather than playing a game.
and i really hate that feeling.
i get you work hard on this game.
so let me give an example.
a parkour game.
as the game's creator, you know where all the jumps are, how the mechanics work, where the secrets are.
new players do not know any of this.
trial and error is not always a valid teacher in a game like a platformer, espescially not if the player just got here.
nor it is always a valid teacher in a game that requires precision, like VoTV.
that is what i think.
and i refuse to keep playing untill it's adressed, because i CANNOT keep playing until it is.
and if you need at least one suggestion?
try adding pictures.
they tend to help.
sometimes.

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I agree.

The most ridiculous thing is that on YouTube, after the release of the latest version, there are just fucking guides on how to complete the tutorial. GUIDES ON HOW TO COMPLETE THE FUCKING TUTORIAL. Even more annoying is that the tutorial can't be skipped - so what the fuck is the point in it if people go looking for guides anyway?

It's so STUPID. I played really challenging games and learning the mechanics and gameplay was much easier than here, it takes a lot of fucking PATIENCE hardskill not to turn off the game. And that's without considering that management is a complete ass.

AND a separate kind of shit is the dudes who resort to whining under every such post " OH WHAT NOW, what did you not understand there, the game is fucking awesome, the tutorial is super, everything is super, everything is done simply and clearly, it's just you're stupid!" I hope by the next update they'll have Google banned so they can figure out for themselves what was deeply in shit made in the new tutorial again.

Sorry, the tutorial really pain in the ass. Like, you know, half of the fuckin game which I loved.

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I genuinely think a very quick way mrdrnose could fix this is by letting you play without doing the Tutorial, but giving you like two prompts like "This is your first time playing, are you sure you want to skip it? This game has a lot of complex mechanics that you may want training in first.", then is says after you click "Yes", " ...Are you really, really sure? Gleep Glorp might abduct you if you don't :) Press "Yes to Gleep Glorp" to continue". You press "Yes to Gleep Glorp". No but to be honest, there maybe should be even just a standalone tutorial on the machine, nothing else, maybe it goes more in depth, only focusing on that, floppy disks, and so on, just stuff related to the Signal Machine. An option for a long and short tutorial if you really don't want people to skip it? I personaly think they should be, just give them some warnings that, that may not be a good idea for your first time playing. I can see most of the smaller stuff like picking things up being figured out through game-play alone by many, or quickly reading about it in the help menu. I know why there is guides to completing the tutorial, I won't spoil anything, but there is more to it then meets the eye *wink, I don't want to get in trouble... but genuinely a "Long" and "Short" tutorial maybe just focusing on the Signal Machine more in depth with a way to skip them entirely with a warning if skipped, I think would at least help get people in faster. Just genuine thoughts. Edit: just thinking about it too, for a first playthrough, maybe even some tooltips can be activated during your first play-through if you skip the tutorial. Maybe it shows you how to transfer your info from your floppy to your zip while your playing if it's your first time an you selected maybe a prompt to in-game tool-tips instead of the Geep Glorp prompt lol. -arcade_portal32.... Hehe, maybe if you skip the tutorial, something unique happens at a certain point? Unique gleeby if you don't figure out the Signal Machine it knocks on your base door and watches you till you do lol?

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It's actually really easy once you understand it. The polarity and frequency are just spinning the antenna in a circle, and + and - are going clock and counter clockwise, you're just trying to align both with the signal.

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Just an idea, could be helpful if their was a more automatic tutorial maybe with the Signal Machine? Showing how it is done first on each panel by itself, finding the signal, locking in the polarity, playback & enhancing, then letting you try it for yourself. Just thinking of ways it could be improved. -arcade_portal32