I've been working through the tutorial, and it has been frustrating. Now I'm realizing there must be a bug. None of the "actions" have anything in the "description" except a repetition of the action. (see attached screen shots) There is no description of any of the steps of the tutorial except in the pop-up that first comes up. Eventually I realized the text was supposed to be listed in the PDA view, at least I believe so. When I manually check off a task, it warns me to "read the action's description at least" because it has hints. But it does not seem to have any description or hints. Here is a screen shot of a task and another of the message that comes up if I try to check it off manually. This is a very serious bug! As a new player I am trying to understand this very complex game, but the tutorial has many bugs. I search forums for help (I'm very grateful to those people who have posted helpful explanations in the past!) but I'm probably going to give up on the game before I even go into space, after spending many hours. At least fix this one so players can get hints from the tutorial instead of just mystifying task assignments. Thanks!
In case you missed a PDA message (which will explain you what to do) > click on PDA Log (button on the top right) What are these "many bugs" in the tutorial you are speaking about? Maybe you can add them as new bug reports then? Thanks in advance!
Each step needs clear instructions especially for the tutorial. Not everyone knows about the pda log (and the log shouldn't be the place to go to for details on a mission objective anyway).
You getting told about that right in the beginning, but I get the point. Although I need to say, the standalone-tutorial is currently waiting for being decided if it is still required or if the newly added RP in the default random will retake its place again.
I still don't see any description. Where is it supposed to be? If I start to manually check an action completed, I get this: Then, if I cancel that, I see a section called "Description" right under the action, but it has nothing in it (except the same text as the action itself-- not hints). If I click PDA Log button, I see a big blank section. Nothing useful If I click on an previous action in the log, sometimes I see some helpful text, but then it gets stuck on that one, and even when I select a different action the text doesn't change. See this screenshot where "Personal Defense" is selected, but most of the text is probably meant for "Large Device Handling". If I look VERY closely, I see some mention of defenses way down in the document. Is this intended behavior? Is all of base management one PDA entry? Where is the "Action description" mentioned in the popup warning? If this is all the intended behavior, then maybe it isn't technically a bug, but that hardly matters. A new player is going to be so confused they won't finish the tutorial. I was very persistent because a few things intrigued me (I like how the constructor works, for example). Now I've put in over 20 hours, yet I'm still confused and not really enjoying the game. Remember also that a new player has no way to tell the difference between a bug and something that is technically working but is so confusing that it can't be used. I did a LOT of searching in discussion forums to get this far into the tutorial. Eventually I concluded the tutorial must be missing something and I took some trouble to report these issues. If you just mark my report as not being a bug, and move on, then I'm a bit disappointed. I think this might be a fun game, if a person could learn to play it without 25 hours of what feels like work. Eric
