to reduce confusion, why not put the Wiki link page on abilities and etc inside the game?
so when you press it, it will show the wiki page for the abilities and etc on the steam web browser
also make the choice to buy certain mercs easier for new players
Abilities are already explained in the barracks. You just hover over their ability icon, it’ll explain their abilities. Augments are also explained when you click on a card in the loadout section of the barracks.
Certain mercenaries are also aimed towards newer players because their cost is lowered, such as proxy and sawbonez.
But putting the wiki in-game would be nifty.
I’d love to see melee weapon stats on cards for new players. I’ve seen some just assume all melee weapons do the same thing and then call hax when they get stabbed with a katana.
Maybe even more specific stats too, like damage values rather than just a bar
[quote=“FalseLumpy;c-223435”]Abilities are already explained in the barracks. You just hover over their ability icon, it’ll explain their abilities. Augments are also explained when you click on a card in the loadout section of the barracks.
Certain mercenaries are also aimed towards newer players because their cost is lowered, such as proxy and sawbonez.
But putting the wiki in-game would be nifty.[/quote]
well, they dont put the healing/sec or the amount of max healing
I’d love to see actual numerical stats for weapons and abilities instead of bars and vague explanations.
Maybe the community could put together short 10-15 second videos showing/explaining what certain abilities do?
For example, you could play as Arty/Skyhammer/Kira on an EV map and show what their abilites can do, not only to other players, but also the EV and/or Objective.
Pass them onto one of the SD devs and get them to maybe show that video or link to the video when you hover over X mercs ability to see what it does.
[quote=“Postmann;c-223552”]Maybe the community could put together short 10-15 second videos showing/explaining what certain abilities do?
For example, you could play as Arty/Skyhammer/Kira on an EV map and show what their abilites can do, not only to other players, but also the EV and/or Objective.
Pass them onto one of the SD devs and get them to maybe show that video or link to the video when you hover over X mercs ability to see what it does.[/quote]
I really like this idea. Kinda like in Mass Effect 2 and 3 you had access to training videos in your private terminal.
I think what this game needs is a short tutorial (~3 mins long) for each merc that you can do at any time by clicking on a merc and then hitting “start tutorial” or something. You will be forced to do the normal tutorial before being able to join a multiplayer server. After completing it and the assault course you will also have to do a Skyhammer and Aura tutorial and then the game will ask you to choose which engie tutorial you’d like to do.
Another option would be just making a video where Shoe plays as that merc and explains their abilities