Hi everyone,
With (a bit of) a delay, I have finally uploaded the new tutorial for 0.8 to the experimental branch. I’ll take today to talk about what that includes.
First of all, the size of the tutorial may have gotten a little out of hand. I did mention that I was going to have a longer tutorial with open play after, but I did not expect that it would come out to: 210 tutorial steps, about 1500 lines of explanation, and about 2 hours of actual gameplay. Once again, I feel like this is a good blueprint for any future quests we will implement, so even though it is currently the only “guided task” in the game, there will be more of them in the future.
The tutorial follows along 6 chapters (FPS survival, FPS construction, basic village interaction, advanced village interaction, village expansion, and military command), and you can save any time after finishing chapter 1 (load your game from the singleplayer menu). Chapter 5 (village expansion) is mostly teaching you just how much your logistics are getting bogged down by trying to expand, but you can consider it to be a placeholder for when the pioneer wagon gets added to the game.
As an added change that will affect the regular game, I have re-enabled purchasing for ammo only. This means that you can supply your ranged units at the wood tier with ammo as needed, though it will come at a relatively steep cost.
Now considering how far into the week it has taken me to upload this:
Until... tomorrow!