Carnage Blender tutorial, may you use it better than I did. (in General)


AdminShade October 10 2006 9:58 AM EDT

Sorry for the long wait, I once asked Jonathan to take a look at the tutorial but I never got around to the actual acting out of improving it.
I had seen a thread in which people asked to improve things to CB and the tutorial was one of them but they couldn't do anything because they would have to wait for me to upload the pics.
I have taken 19 screenshots of every page of the tutorial as it is now, and I have uploaded them just now.
What I want people (especially veterans) to do, is to look through the screenshots and let me me know what could be improved.

This can either be done in this thread, but to prevent hefty discussions perhaps use E-Mail instead: Dennis.Termeczky@Gmail.com, and use the following in your title: "CB Tutorial improvements", Thanks!

note: they are all around 120kb in file size and are formatted at 1152*960 (why don't ask me, I probably had that screen size back then.)


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QBJohnnywas October 10 2006 10:12 AM EDT

I'd forgotten how basic the tutorial actually is. It's not bad actually, to get you involved in the basics. But, perhaps on the train page an explanation of what those stats are? However simple, it might help some people. For instance a brief mention that mages don't need ST/DX; unless you read that or somebody told you, there is nothing that tells you that you are wasting your time.

I know we all learn this over the course of time, it's a step on our path to CB greatness (lol) but as there isn't a reset button in this game it's not a nice feeling to find you've been wasting your time training archery on that fireball mage.

I think that's my only criticism. If somebody is telling me to do something it can help if they tell me why I'm supposed to do that. There's a bit of that in the tutorial, but perhaps not enough...

smallpau1 - Go Blues [Lower My Fees] October 10 2006 2:40 PM EDT

it goes from not letting you know that you dont need DX or STR for a mage, to hiring another minion when they might not want one.

And when it says after training, that it recentered the fightlist, recentered what? Score, but they have no idea what it did, lol.

It also doesnt say anything about no weapons and Direct Damage spell can be used together, with the exception of Decay and CoC respectively.

And oooo, 100k for getting to 419k score in 24h. lol!

Slashundhack [We Forge Our Own Stuff] October 10 2006 7:03 PM EDT

I never did the tutorial and couldn't do it when I wanted to.I did watch the forging one though.I don't suppose you could ape that one in some way?It seemed to give some of the feel of forging and was amusing to boot.

3D October 11 2006 1:18 AM EDT

Wow um, I dont think any new person will be able to beat 412k score within 24 hours...
I am just saying maybe you should lower it or reset it or something.
That is all =).

bartjan October 11 2006 1:27 AM EDT

3d, someone *did* achieve that score in 24h, or else how could it be the (then?) current record to break?

AdminShade October 11 2006 2:38 AM EDT

Try to stay on topic people...
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