Tutorial/Manual

[tgb]

Having been burned by the crappy manual and lack of tutorial for SSG's last release, now noob-friendly is this? Is there an extensive tutorial, and is the manual clearly laid out and helpful?

[Gregor_SSG]

There is an extensive tutorial on a range of topics, plus comprehensive help text in tooltips. The manual has been through many edits and many pairs of eyes so it should do the job for you.

Gregor

[Adam Parker]

TGB I'm a total noob at this - glad I never bought the original way back (I was stuck in Steel Panther land).
 
The in game tut is pretty robust with 19 sections running from "click the map to move - go to next tutorial", right through combat, the interface, air searches etc.
 
This game seems to pack quite a bit into its interface (that's where I am right now in the tut). But thankfully the UI is full of tool tips. SSG was wise there.
 
The impression I'm getting is that there is quite a bit of tactical micromanaging chrome in here for people who want that. The UI does look indeed polished and there seems to be a stack of user-settings to tweak how the game is managed.
 
SSG's Decisive Battles games always crashed with me when I tried to change screen resolution. No probs here at all.
 
So far, as Chris pointed out on another thread, I love the fact that I can slow the game speed to a crawl. Sh*t that scared me when I first fired the game up and planes started flying everywhere! This can be accomplished too by wheel-scrolling in the time compression box. Nice touch.
 
I also like the 2d transformations to the tactical naval and air-surface combat routines.
 
SSG's work here, has a lot of thought put into it that the Talonsoft Grigsby-Brors/Matrix 2by3 games could learn from.
 
Yeah, I feel that there is quite a bit of game in here and we noobs have been thought of. Give it a whirl.
 
Cheers,
Adam.