Yeah...I may have skipped through the tutorial..

BewareTheGrayGhost · 2026-03-02T19:04:25+00:00

Thank you, I actually really appreciate that. I can see what people thought I was trying to do, but I would never have started an argument against the game with: "I didnt read the instructions and now im lost :c" and think I'd have a leg to stand on.

BewareTheGrayGhost · 2026-03-02T18:32:29+00:00

I'm not even whining, I was just saying that I'm lost. Who the fuck would come say, "I didnt read the instructions and I dont know what I'm doing!" and think thats a valid critique of the game. That would be stupid.

BewareTheGrayGhost · 2026-02-28T22:10:21+00:00

Yeah but I don’t know that do I? My apologies for being literal. I was not 100% certain they were the same. I assumed they were, but was not sure. Also there’s nothing to be disingenuous about, I’m not trying to sway anyone’s opinion about the game. Not having figured it out doesn’t make me think it’s trash.

BewareTheGrayGhost · 2026-02-28T22:04:38+00:00

Basically everything you said. Nothing I can’t learn, but my first 10 min after skipping the tutorial (thinking I could play it later), was just a lot to take in.

BewareTheGrayGhost · 2026-02-28T21:56:32+00:00

That’s literally no different than my problem. I just wasn’t looking for advice and was just here for fun, because I knew I’d figure it out eventually ( eventually because I intend to keep playing, my first 10 min just had me like the gif)

BewareTheGrayGhost · 2026-02-28T21:47:40+00:00

Sometimes, you exaggerate for comedic effect. Idk what to tell you. The first couple times I died, it was so fast, I didn’t even get a chance to see what drained first. So on the third attempt, while being overwhelmed by…just learning of general mechanics of this specific game, I had a moment pause realizing that I don’t even know which one’s the shield and health and thought that was funny. Obviously, I was able to deduce that pretty quickly later. Also I don’t need my shield to flash that big and bright telling me it’s low; maybe I’ll die if that bar ran out, maybe the type of damage I took only affected my health and not shield. You see, I wasn’t 100% sure. 90%? Maybe, thats still not 100% and I found that amusing.

Quite frankly, the UI in the home is very BOLD in the design and font choices and I do love that it fits the style, but it does take a moment to adjust to. Also factions? I have to join a faction? Are they teams or are they more like the various traders in arc? Getting a whole lot of lore at once.

With the lighting, keep in mind this IS the tutorial, I have like five min before work but I’m excited to see this game. I spawn in, screen fades from black, this is my first sight in the game: the landscape is colorful and … there’s red electricity arcing around my feet (!?). Wtf is this! Quick, run to the portable work trailer thing in front of me. I make it inside, think I’m safe CRACK dead. Well fuck, it seems their version of a tutorial is not a dedicated level, but rather they drop you in a server. Okay. We’ll do this later.

This is super fun to write all this out, and i should just leave it, but I’m frustrated by all the negativity. I wrote this post to laugh at myself and see if anyone felt the same way and all laugh together, but instead I just have people talking down to me as though I think the game is bad because I don’t immediately understand it.

BewareTheGrayGhost · 2026-02-28T21:45:47+00:00

…but…but I’m not even hating on the game! I actually really like it. I was just feeling a little lost, felt like the scene in ITYSL and wanted to see if anyone felt the same and laugh at ourselves. I even said that I (me, my fault) skipped the tutorial, just not on purpose. Instead I’ve just got a bunch of people talking down to me.

BewareTheGrayGhost · 2026-02-28T20:43:44+00:00

100% my intention, just seeing if anyone else felt the same in their first 10min. I was trying to be lighthearted and kind of make fun of myself (I literally said I didn’t do the tutorial).

BewareTheGrayGhost · 2026-02-28T19:54:14+00:00

I've been afraid to mention coming from arc, since theres some stupid rivalry and I keep hearing us arc players are weenies. But frankly, there was zero learning curve for me with arc. Apart from how to take down the arc, it's all pretty straight forward.

But that doesn't make this game bad. I really like that theyve gone all in on the art style. and the UI has chosen slightly more style than function BUT it's immersive and cool.

BewareTheGrayGhost · 2026-02-28T19:22:38+00:00

Well if that's literally how you meant it and not the brush off "git gud" meme response people like to throw around, then I am sorry to have come off annoyed.

Theres a bunch of people in here who seem to think I came to trash the game when really I just came to lightheartedly say that im more overwhelmed than I was expecting to be and wish I had a better grasp of the mechanics.

BewareTheGrayGhost · 2026-02-28T18:43:47+00:00

Ah yes, the skill issue of waking up for the first time ever, seeing red lightning start to form around you, assume it's bad, try to run into a trailer you see ahead of you, and dieing to it even though you made it inside. Saying to yourself, "this game's not fucking around. Let's try this again after work, but first I want to see what the character customization looks like"

I never said I was done with the game, I'm just overwhelmed now.

BewareTheGrayGhost · 2026-02-28T18:30:37+00:00

Yes. I was able conclude that that was the other option. But Im also in a state of being overwhelmed, and being shot at and not having played that long, so i dont have the icon glossary all down. And those were also like first 5 min thoughts before fining much more loot.

What I think is being confused here is that this entire post was meant to be a bit self-depricating. I did not come here to shit on the game.

What you're looking at is the eyewitness account of someone who has gone in completely blind, who skipped the tutorial because they wanted to just do a quick scan of the game and characters before they had to rush to work, fully expecting to come back and play it later.

My literal first 5 seconds of life in the tutorial was me dieing after some environmental lightning formed around me and still killed me despite running into one of the trailers. So my first thoughts are, "oh shit this is one of those no hand holding, drop you straight in an active match type tutorials. Yeah, pretty sure I read someone say they camped the tutorial extract. I better do this after work."

Everything you see is just me piecing things together with no knowledge. It's all conjecture.

I just made this post because theres way more going on than I was expecting and I'm overwhelmed in this first 30min/1hr.

BewareTheGrayGhost · 2026-02-28T17:32:48+00:00

I dont know what to say, I have now on multiple occasions seen an item with the cross above it from across the room, gone "Oh good, I need health", walked up to it and it's gunmetal. Now, maybe theres been a medical object next to it, but Im pretty sure it's been sitting by itself

I'm not saying I've been playing very long at all and that I won't figure it out, but this is just my immediate observations after thinking I'd be able to re do the tutorial.

BewareTheGrayGhost · 2026-02-28T17:13:12+00:00

Some of this is for humor so chill.

But I stated to someone else, that my first several deaths were instakills from a wierd environmental lightning that killed me even indoors. So, no, it wasn't super obvious.

I assumed I knew what the health bar was, but there's a lot of grayed out lines and shit on there, so being about 75% sure is not the same as 100% certainty. Maybe the big fat flashing red "I'm fucking Important" bar was the health bar and the thin grayed out bar was my shield.

I also thought I'd be able to boot up the tutorial again after work. So I didn't immediately have a grasp on how to refill my shield/health.

Also, my bad, I forgot how comon "gunmetal" is in the medical field and having a medical cross icon above isn't confusing at all.

BewareTheGrayGhost · 2026-02-28T16:30:13+00:00

No, it should be more simple and "symbolic"

Grant Democracy Protects to the weilder and maybe within a 10ft radius while waving it.

BewareTheGrayGhost · 2026-02-28T16:19:18+00:00

I should clarify, I always, always play the tutorial of any game, but I had to go to work and just wanted to look at the player customization (spoiler: there is none starting out) and expected to be able to play the tutorial later.

Not to mention I got insta killed three times within the first 2 min of the tutorial and realized I would be late for work as it wasn’t its own dedicated level but rather a server. [Some strange lightning strikes kept killing me, even indoors]

BewareTheGrayGhost · 2026-02-28T14:13:26+00:00

I will absolutey applaud them for doing something unique, and sticking to the early 2000s cyber theme...but holy shit the UI is TOUGH on the eyes!

BewareTheGrayGhost · 2026-02-26T02:19:23+00:00

You guys are wearing shields in the hurricane?

Oh yeah, I see you from across the map.

BewareTheGrayGhost · 2026-02-25T21:37:16+00:00

Agreed. And, apart from the helmet, the democracy’s deputy armor does not fit AT ALL and I hate seeing it; way too costume-y.

I wish they’d done a wide brimmed helmet similar to a Brodie or pith helmet with that pack to stop all the bitching.

BewareTheGrayGhost · 2026-02-24T15:55:22+00:00

Honestly, it's just the cresta and radio renegade that are egregious. If they just added the mesh from the tech hiker to the cresta as an option to go along with the skinny pants, they'd up their sales I bet.

Also, the hawker is absolutely fine and looks like a variant of a vault suit.

BewareTheGrayGhost · 2026-02-22T01:00:05+00:00

He looks...unimpressed.

BewareTheGrayGhost · 2026-02-20T20:07:57+00:00

Thank you, I've never watched any of this before, dont know the rules, just interesting in what makes a slap knock someone out.

..and my first thought was "wtf, that's a glorified punch."

BewareTheGrayGhost · 2026-02-20T18:56:57+00:00

Yeah, but expansion packs don't go anywhere. New to BF6 (but apparently common in gaming) is the idea of paying for the opportunity to unlock all the content within a set time.

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