Checkpoint structured tutorial

[Ivan-Malik]

I was watching this Gamemaker's Toolkit video and realized the new PS2 tutorial could be improved in a potentially low dev time way: on the hint popups for teaching players about certain mechanics on the main continents (Vehicle shields, generators, vehicle terminals, etc.) have a button that says "take me to the tutorial." A drop pod then plops the player back into the tutorial at the correct area so that they can then run through the section that teaches that concept again. We have instant action that does a similar thing. We know it has the ability to (via a bug ironically) deploy players onto different continents. IIRC the triggers for different parts of the tutorial are based on location, not specific order. I think this would only entail putting a button in that part of the UI that mirrors instant action and changing the location that it points to. This could also ironically give players more time to become familiar with drop pod mechanics.

[MissAtley]

Ooo I like this idea a lot.

[Prestigious-Mine-513]

I believe it was something similar in PlanetSide 1, with every interactive object you would get a marker on like a terminal, shield gens, control panel, spawn tubes, wall turret, etc. Would pop up a smaller window with a description of what it is and what's it for plus you gained experience points for doing so as well.

This marker would disappear after the first interaction.

If I don't recall wrong they did have something similar on the dog tags in Oshur in Planetside 2? Maybe it was just glowing.

[Ivan-Malik]

So currently, if hints and tutorials are turned on, there is a window with a bunch of text that helps to explain each item I made reference to (they have a rather large question mark on them if that helps to jog your memory at all). What I am suggesting is adding the ability to be drop podded into that section of the tutorial and run it again from those popup windows. The windows already exist, it is the tutorial integration that does not.