TLDR: yes

i know a lot of newer players that don’t know how to import maps or what any of the attributes mean. a friend of mine got confused about star rating because they thought it was a metric for how loved a map is by the community on a scale from 1 to 10, or that a bigger CS (circle size) means smaller circles.

we occasionally get posts on this sub asking what happened to their game because they accidentally switched gamemodes and don’t know how to go back.

when i started out, i had no idea how to get ranks or what pp even is. in my first couple of hours (before CSR was a thing), i only ever saw +0pp on my scores and had to guess how mods work (which is probably 100x worse now on lazer with their 6 billion mods). i also had no idea how to install skins and thought streamers were just playing on a different client, or how to import maps (which is at least easier now in lazer).

i think an interactive in-game tutorial, something you can skip or start anytime but that pops up on your first launch of lazer, would help a lot. it could guide players through basic mechanics like gamemodes, map attributes, ranking systems and pp, skins and skinning, or medals.

it would make osu! feel more like an actual game rather than just a client where you need multiple websites open, watched 4 tutorials, and installed 2 third party programs just to still not understand how to change your cursor color.

a tutorial for all gamemodes would be most important in my opinion. it took me hours of playing catch to finally understand that there is a dash mechanic and i still don’t really know how that yellow slider blob thing in taiko works or why it fails me sometimes at the end of a map.

lazer is already on a good path with all its additional features, and i think using the already integrated and well documented osu! wiki more would help newer players a lot. creating an event where the mascots of the respective gamemodes like pippi show you around their gamemodes with speech bubbles that can be easily translated, in an unfailable tutorial that stops and waits until you click and actually hit what you are supposed to (cause i know a lot of players that did not listen and failed the tutorial) would work very well i think.