https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj3qK4JY-7I

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Things to be improved:

1. Hot tips that pop up indicating that you should take cover. (should probably keep the message up until 50% hp is recovered.

2. Menu driven commands for support. This guy on a few occasions wanted a ride, or to offer a ride to his team mates. No one understood what he was doing. (perhaps WP's could be given to fulfilling a request, such as providing ammo, healing, scans, or transportation for those requesting it)

3. Free LAVs that are already spawned in at home spawn. This little guys wants a car, and does not know how to summon one.

4. it's possible that if shared tacnet was still available, this guy might have not died as much lol

5. maybe add a minimum age requirement and aptitude test upon character creation, so that guys like this kid are never allowed to even play. (i sure dont want him on my team lmao)

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GOOD JOB CCP on such a wonderful New Player Experience

5. maybe add a minimum age requirement and aptitude test upon character creation, so that guys like this kid are never allowed to even play. (i sure dont want him on my team lmao)

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GOOD JOB CCP on such a wonderful New Player Experience

......, but this kid should be playing minecraft, not dust.

This game is really not intended for children, they are not its target audience. But this little guy displays prettymuch all the bad behaviour available to blues.

1) he derps around in the redline and never attempts to play the objective
2) MUST BE IN THE VEHICLE BECAUSE VEHICLE
3) Zero awareness of what's going on around him
4) In his second match he gets murdered by someone in a straight fight and starts shouting "BUT I HAD THE BETTER GUN" (Something he couldn't possibly know)
5) He randomly latches on to other blues while spouting "THATS MY SPOT, YOU LEAVE" it's not really here nor there, but this kid is more of a hinderance to his team than a help.
6) He doesn't understand the stamina system and gets very upset that he cant sprint everywhere all the time
7) The amount of time he spends standing still I'm surprised he didn't die 17 times to snipers.
8) Never stops to deal with hostile turrets then gets mad when they wreck him.

Yes there's insights that can be taken away from this video, but this kid should be playing minecraft, not dust.

Yes, he did all those things, but he's a kid, probably 10 years old, what more did you expect?
I think he had good instincts. He knew how to run and melee, figured out how to switch weapons, he had no problem asserting himself over other players, he didn't hide in the redline, he LOVED jumping out the MCC, he was ready and willing to get into action. I believe had he someone knowledgeable in DUST lore there to coach him (I nominate you Mina) he would have had a much better go of it.

I started playing dust and knew nothing of what to do. But this kid is no exception to whatever they say. Now I say this because he is messing around, and probably started pressing random buttons in hoping of something good. Probably was smart and looked in the menu. But no there should be no pre-academy. That would be a waste of their time. He is to young to understand that he needs to move around in order not to be shot, he needs to mature a little more. (Actually a lot.)

It's clear the kid isn't the target market for this game, but we can learn a lot about usability/how to improve the NPE even from kids like this. I think a tutorial is important.

Bruh that kid is like 8 and its probably his first fps game EVER!

One thing I see lots of new players get hung-up on is calling in vehicles. There should be a tooltip that pops up telling them to press the -> on their d-pad to call in vehicles. This mechanism is different from other similar games in the industry (where they just spawn on the map) and people don't realize they can call in their own vehicles. I'd also like to see a MIL dropship and a MIL HAV added to new players inventories (1 copy of each, not a BPO starter fit), just so they can experience that gameplay right away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj3qK4JY-7I

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Things to be improved:

1. Hot tips that pop up indicating that you should take cover. (should probably keep the message up until 50% hp is recovered.

2. Menu driven commands for support. This guy on a few occasions wanted a ride, or to offer a ride to his team mates. No one understood what he was doing. (perhaps WP's could be given to fulfilling a request, such as providing ammo, healing, scans, or transportation for those requesting it)

3. Free LAVs that are already spawned in at home spawn. This little guys wants a car, and does not know how to summon one.

4. it's possible that if shared tacnet was still available, this guy might have not died as much lol

5. maybe add a minimum age requirement and aptitude test upon character creation, so that guys like this kid are never allowed to even play. (i sure dont want him on my team lmao)

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GOOD JOB CCP on such a wonderful New Player Experience

The kid in the video...his negative experience is his fault. He had a one-track mind that had nothing to do with the objective of that match. Also, he raged quit after 2 matches of a game he had never played before. He clearly didn't bother to try to figure this game out. Heaven forbid he has to try. When I first started playing this game I was brutally slaughtered by the enemies. I didn't rage quit though; instead, I focused on trying to figure out how other people were getting kills and I wasn't.

As for the things that can be improved I am all for suggestion 2. The ability to give out commands to the entire team and not just to squadmates will definitely help new player experience.

I am against suggestion 1 because I don't feel like we should be babying people in this game. If you are being shot at you shouldn't need a "tip" to pop up on the screen telling you to get to cover; common sense should tell you to get to cover.

Tip 3: No free vehicles - earn your vehicles if you want to use them.

Tip 4: A shared tacnet would not have helped this kid. Shared tacnet would simply be one more factor this kid would have to focus on when he couldn't even fully focus on the factors already presented to him in the matches he was playing.

Tip 5: I thought about this but not as a means to stop someone from playing the game. I have always wanted a skill ranking to pop up for my teammates around me that way I can get an idea of how much I can rely on them.

One thing I see lots of new players get hung-up on is calling in vehicles. There should be a tooltip that pops up telling them to press the -> on their d-pad to call in vehicles. This mechanism is different from other similar games in the industry (where they just spawn on the map) and people don't realize they can call in their own vehicles. I'd also like to see a MIL dropship and a MIL HAV added to new players inventories (1 copy of each, not a BPO starter fit), just so they can experience that gameplay right away.