Re: A General Review of CC, and other thoughts. [Big Post]
Good review. I liked reading through it.
Lots of your suggestions sound good, like "Yeah! That's exactly how they should've done it" kind of good. And hearing future CC will have some of those functions I'm overjoyed.
However, the tut needs work. Without the guide of an experienced player, the tutorial serves little help. The tutorial mission does not show you ALL the features of CC. And especially when even walking is so damn hard in this game, people will give up before they realize the best things about this game. The tutorial mission imo should get an expansion, a BIG expansion:
-It should show you basic bunker building, at least let you place a brain.
-It should also show you basic combat, not just target practice. At least place a Dummy turret to kill your dummy to show you deaths(and the fragility) of actors, and get used to the idea of "it ain't you, its just a body". First time players get frustrated with deaths as if in other games.
-Also, show the PROPER way to buy an actor, make indications to call for reinforcements.
-And give a slight darn warning
before the enemy start charging at you, not
simultaneously dammit! I bet many of us lost our first brains to the dummies.
-Or even an extra room to show you the hazards of flying debris as they caused 89.9% of actor deaths(Yea, I made that up
)
This is my main concern for the tutorial mission.