Best thing is not to be too much of a dick with people in chat, set your expectations low and only offer up advice on the game at hand. People will learn or they won't. If they want to learn, they'll also be the sort of person who wants to get going and play (xp doesn't earn itself!). Learning is best done by watching good players and reading. Who decides which vets are skilled enough to teach - are they teaching people the right things or just spreading misinformation!? Plenty of vets on the forums who don't know the basics (plenty of guilds giving out bad advice in game - just defend the last point, after losing the first 2 points in a minute, is my absolute favourite!). Best that people learn themselves before we wind up with a bunch of Wind Blows (we trained him wrong for a joke!)
You should just get them in guilds as quickly as possible so they can learn the ropes. through TS or Discord.
"I don't have to git gud, I yam gud!" I had a K/D of 5.9 in "Yolo KillRace 2020" I yam da best. Marines are da best. Get my RTC swag on and blat blat, xenos gonna drop! What? Defend A point, nah bruv, the fights at C innit? Don't tell Man what to do. Is a Spess Marine! Trans-human mate! What do you mean Cap the point? What's a point?!! Kill em! Killemalllll! I completed Space Marine on top difficulty and this is the sequel yeah? Don't need a team, that was single player. Gonna be ez. Gonna rush in there and get mad kills. Call me Titus, bitch! Eh?!! What?!! They killed me?!! But there was one of me and twelve of them!! That ain't right!! {insert faction here} is OP, this game ain't balanced, thank god I didn't pay for it!" (Just want to point out there are people like this, playing right now, on all factions but the poster boys are the poster boys so it seemed apt to make it about LSM.) What this game needs is an enforced single player tutorial that gives you a chance to play everything important and then drops you in the Garrison. No battle now or PVE, makes you play the tutorial before you can do anything else. And I hate enforced stuff in games BTW, it should be about player agency but this is a game that just plain needs to hand hold you through the basics.
I'm a new player. Aside from a misleading weapon description making me think painboys healed by meleeing at first I'm finding the game pretty easy to learn on my own. If this was Eve Online I'd vote yes, but Eternal Crusade isn't exactly rocket surgery. It's basically just Battlefield with a Warhammer 40k skin.
While this is true, there are definitely some peculiar quirks to the game. For instance, you can "disarm" a melta bomb by shooting it. Defensive bash also isn't the most obvious thing until you read up on it.
If you're particularly good, you can run into a group of enemies, drop a melta, run past, turn around and shoot it. Boom! Multi-kill! I did that earlier. Though I will admit, it was entirely luck.
I'm regularly shocked by how so many players still don't mark points. You can shout at them in chat, tell them in voice chat and they still don't do it. I seriously TK'd my squad leader like 3 times just to get his fucking attention and they STILL wouldn't do it. I can't figure out if it's veterans who just don't give a shit about XP anymore, and by extension the rest of their squad, or if that many players still don't know/forget/get overwhelmed and don't do it. Or are just total scrub lords. Teach the seals how to do that and I'll be happy. There is zero excuse for not marking points for XP, forget squad cohesion and orders.
meh and here i thought there would be intresting things to learn like positioning cover mechanic's where to set up heavy weapon nests and how to properly support your team. Positioning advancing using the terrain . alternative ways to scale walls on fortress , sneaky paths etc etc Instead ya all come with basic bull like blowing up your own bombs ..
Is it really basic if people don't know it? But yes, stuff like flanking routes, positioning, etc would be covered as well.
