Does anyone have and idea what the starting areas are going to be? (If there is going to be any) Is there is going to be a tutorial of some kind (If no starting areas) Or will new players be thrown into the thick of it with a flashgun and cardboard Armour?
*cpt picard facepalm* For the 94588023802. time: This aint WoW! Probably there will be an series of tutorial areas for learning the basics of combat in one of the strike cruisers orbiting, assuming the basics will remain same across all races.
Possibly introduction combat training on Strike Cruisers, perhaps some story based content. We don't know yet.
Probably training on strike cruisers that's it. Nothing else they teach you how to move how to shoot how to melee how to change class how to evade and hopefully how to drive and then they throw you into combat done and done. Nothing else nothing more and no random peaceful city goldshire shenanigans. Now WAAAAAAAAAGH !!! ( little known rule for writing WAAAGH! There must be 1 ! For every 3 As the more you know )
I'm hoping for a "new player experience". You see a cinematic that briefly covers the history of your chosen Chapter, Clan, or Craftworld. Great victories and heroic deeds of your Chapter are spoken of while you watch a battle cinematic of your Primarch and Battle Brothers in close combat. Then it breaks into another Cinematic where your character enters the picture in the grand scheme of things.... followed by you actually entering the game world, perhaps a time from the past when you were a "Scout" or recruit. This is where the tutorial kicks in, during a mission while you were an Astartes in training... you battle your way through the tutorial mission ending with an EPIC climactic battle. The next cut scene is your character being inducted into your specific Chapter, Clan or Craftworld... fade to black and you hear engines of a space craft humming... fade back to the game world and your aboard your strike cruiser headed towards Arkona.
I want to see an intro video explaining your race, and then your subfaction. After that I want to see training grounds where you learn Ranged, Melee and movements. Personally I want the Orkz to have a Pit where they toss Boyz on you to learn Melee and Grotz to learn ranged. Or vice versa.
No, we have no idea. Things like that aren't likely to be added until a fairly final version of the game, if at all.
There's some good stuff here, but let me shed a little more light! 1) When you log in, you'll most likely log in on your Strike Force Cruiser in space. From there you can deploy to locations you control. 2) We reserve a "home continent" for each faction as a safe training ground. Your enemies will not be able to conquer onto this continent, and its ports will connect to a number of other continents, allowing you the choice of where to attack. The home continent is probably going to contain a basic new player experience to get you familiar with spawning vehicles, driving and shooting, as well as infantry movement and combat. I always find it disappointing when an MMO drops a new player into a single-player environment as their introduction to the game, so I want to be sure that when you first log in to the game, your friends can join you right away (or vice versa)- but we also want a good introduction. I think we can do both!
