At the moment, they aren't very helpful.
Let me quote:
Nimitz: watch the tutoriak
Nimitz: tutorial
*: I watched
*: it didnt help jack shit
*: "use all ur resourses"
*: oh rly sherlock
*: didnt explain shit
Maybe there should be more ingame footage displayed?
I've played more than one game where a new guy didn't call his guys out before the 60 second mark simply because he didn't understand what to do...
I'm sorry to criticize whoever made it since they didn't get anything in return for it, but it really needs to be done again in a more thorough way.
At the end of the "playing the game" guide there is a big bolded link that goes to the tutorial video that computer made. It shows absolutely everything and is very self explanitory.
We literally cannot make this any easier for new players other than by holding their hand and doing it ourselves.
actually the guides dont explain shit about tactics.
not like they should, but an extra video that focusses on basic tactics only would be most helpful.
Also, a tactics video would be absolutely useless for new players. You cannot teach someone how to micro, or proper support weapon facing/timing, flanking, battlefield awareness or how to reduce tunnel vision.
For one, this is not verbally explainable in an efficient fashion, secondly, they cannot see my fingers, or the buttons I press, or how my mouse interacts with the game, nor would they understand it.
Also, since every EIRR game is different we cant show them a proper tech tree to follow like in vCoH.
Ex.)What do you do when fighting T2 Wehr defensive medicbunker/gren spam. You go US infantry RHS, get howies and snipers.
We cant do that here. The best we can say is something like, "when the enemy has alot of tanks out, you need to call in AT"
Telling them what to call out is useless because that is entirely reliant on their own judegment/situation/popcap/team assets, etc. all of which must be factored in before a decision can be made.
We can show them how to use abilities correctly, and maybe how to countersnipe/jeep push/ etc., little things, but those videos can only be done in a sterile setting and would not help a player in a real game.
Until a new player learns how to do these things, tactics videos might as well be gibberish.
